June 28, 2025 • 42 mins
Big Ben talks about the Oklahoma City Thunder winning the Championship, why the Clippers should have no regrets about trading SGA, Aaron Rodgers retirement comments, another edition of the Maller Militia Feud, & more!
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And if you had the NBA Finals having a classic
Game seven, you are a loser.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Much of the chatter that people are excited about is
not Game seven. It's the Kevin Durant trade. Durant every
three years is traded. This time he goes to Houston.
More buzz on that. We'll talk about it as we
go through the overnight. But it was the end of
the road for pro bouncy ball. That's all she wrote.
The NBA regular season. I went back and I looked
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begin two hundred and forty four days prior to Sunday,
two hundred and forty four days. It began with the
Knickerbockers playing the then reigning champion Boston Celtics back in
October October twenty second before Halloween of last year, and
it ended exactly eight months later to the day. Eight
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months later. The thunder and Pacers brought the curtain down.
They didn't bring the house down, they brought the curtain
down there in the NBA Finals Game seven, small market,
small markets. Were you watching? Were you no? You were
not watching. I've seen the ratings. No one was watching.
There were seven people watching.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
But we watched. It's our good mits for the day.
We checked it out so you would not have to.
And what happened well in Game seven. The thing everyone's
talking about is not the game itself, something that happened
early in the game. But in the end, Shade jogis Alexander.
He was inefficient, but he had twenty nine points and
ends up winning the Finals MVP Award as OKC pulls
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away in the third quarter and cements the lead in
the fourth quarter, and they zoom passed a short handed
Pacer team one to three to ninety one turn out
the last the parties over for Indiana and for Oklahoma
for that matter. Game seven of the NBA Finals in
the books now SGA he needed twenty seven shots to
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get to twenty nine points in game seven. I'm told
that is not particularly good, but it didn't matter. He
still won the MVP eight of twenty seven. That's my computer,
like brain tells me. Twenty nine point six percent from
the floor, nineteen misshots in game seven, and he still
ends up winning the finals MVP.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Which is the full body of work.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
But the story here is the injury and how it
impacts the outcome of this game. So let us discuss
yay or nay? The Oklahoma City Thunder Championship for Schee
jogas Alexander downgraded, downgraded because of the Tyrese haliburt and
achilles injury in the first quarter of the close out
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final game of this series. So I've got tears for Fears, spreadsheet,
and prison camp and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to make a nice
banana cream pie that you can throw in someone's face
if you want.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
So a to answer the question, the Championship for Oklahoma
City yay or nay? The shay jogis Alexander Championship for
the Thunder downgraded because of the injury to Tyrese Halliburton,
pop goes the Achilles.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Is it yay or nay?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
So the error on this one's pointing the direction of
yay as in yes, as in absolutely sorry, not sorry.
I know how these things work. We understand how these
things work. It is not invalid.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I am not.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Saying that the championship of Oklahoma City is invalid. That
is not what I am saying. Do not misquote me.
What I am merely saying is that it is diminished.
That is my point, okay, And you can't fight me
on that.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
That's the reality. Right, every man, woman and child.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Knows that was paying any attention to the NBA Finals
that the moment Tyrese Haliburton went down, that's it. It's
like taking the engine out of a car and expecting
you to win the Indy five hundred right now. Maybe
once in a while it'll happen, but normally you need
the engine to win the race. And that was the moment,
by the way, we went and looked. That's the moment
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Steven A. Smith started playing Solitaire that he knew the
game was all. He picked up the solitaire right there,
he said, that's it. That's a solitaire moment. Halliburton is
the playmaker. We know that he's the head of the
snake and all those things, and so you take him
out of the equation, the arithmetic as much different. Is
obviously much to You're not facing the real Indiana Pacers
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at that particular mallmt and so that's the reality. That's
not the same test. It's like the questions are easier
at that particular moment. And even with that, Indiana still
had a very slim lead midway through the game. So
twenty four minutes to go, Indiana had a slight lead.
But don't tell me that this is the same battle
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tested Blood Soak Championship Game seven, iron willed win without
Halliburton on the court.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
It's just not. It's simply not true by any way
you look at it. It's not true right now.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
That being said, I know from doing this show over
the years, and we've been here when this similar situation
has happened, maybe not an achilles injury, but a major
injury in the NBA Finals in my watch here at
Fox Sports Radio behind these microphones.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
So we've been here a while.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
And the thing that I know about this is it's
like the old tears for fear song, memories fade, meaning
like right now, in this moment, we will bring this up,
we will mention this, we will say, hey, listen, that's downgraded.
But over time it gets talked about less and less
and it just goes to the back of history and
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he just kind of fades away and you'd have to
like type it into chat GPT to kind of get
the right answer and that. But just like Kevin Durant
injured his achilles and Klay Thompson messed up his knee.
In twenty nineteen, Toronto won the championship. It's been six
years since that happened. Do people still bring that up?
Don't bring it up. But the moment it happened, people
brought it up. They're like, well, that's not legit.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
You know, way back twenty some years ago, the Pistons,
the Four Pistons with Rashid Wallace and those Cats playing
the Lakers, and Karl Malone was playing for the Laker.
He got hurt, he messed up his knee, if I
remember he was injured. They at the time around, well,
there you go, that's why the Pistons were able to win.
But now twenty some years later, people forget about that.
They don't even know about it. Now, the other part
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of this page two which blows me away, like shiver
me timbers, right, uh, there are those out there morning
after quarterbacks, if you will, the morning after this was
moments after the injury, who were going on and on
and on by well Tyree's Halliburton should have never been
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allowed to play, should have never been allowed to play
for the Pacers. It's malfeasance by the Indiana basketball team.
They should never have allowed him on the court. He
had a pre existing condition. Bad job by them. Oh no, right,
oh no, he popped his achilles in the first quarter.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
So where are you at on this one?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Where are you at on those that are screaming this
is on the Pacers. They should not have allowed him
to play. Haliburton should not have been out there. This
is one of those things that blows me away. And
I think some of this is actually just people just
busting balls and just probably Boughty counts on those social
media channels because it's the freaking finals, Like, what do
you even having that coming? It's a chance to win
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a championship. No one, No one misses that game. And
if you miss that game. You might as well retire.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
If Halliburton had said I'm not gonna play, I might
pop my achilles. You might as well go get a
real job.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
You can't show your face in any gymnasium anywhere from
Maine to Maui.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
It's over.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
You have to play in that game, game seven of
the finals.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
You've got to do it.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
And Halliburton did it, and he made some shots early,
had nine points. He made three three point shots early.
He got hurt. That sucks, and that's part of the game.
And all these morons, I can't I really hope this
is not legit.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
All.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
This is just like people trolling and things like that.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
I mean, come on, if there's anyone who actually believes
that you have the greatest loser mentality of all time,
science should study you.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
You are such a loser.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
That people should study how big a giant loser you
are and how you got to that particular point where
you wear the giant l on your forehead because you're
a loser. Right again, no IF's ants or but you
got to play. If you're Haliburton, you cannot not play.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
You can't. They have to amputate you. Let you gotta
play like there's no no, you can't even in this
soft modern world we live, and you've got to play
in Game seven.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
And for those that are, you know, grumbling and again,
I'd like to think this is all nonsense. You should
have played in the game. Why he wasn't one hundred percent,
I would argue, I don't think I'm wrong on this.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
What do I know, though?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
I do the overnight show that nobody is one hundred percent.
By the time you get the Game seven of the Finals,
you've been playing for eight months of basketball, although many
of the players take a lot of time off, etc.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
It's one of those things.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
You patch it up, You rub some dirt on it,
get some dirt, get some mud, rub it on there,
and you go. And that's what you're supposed to do.
You gut it out Game seven NBA Finals. That's what
you want Halliburton to do.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
What he did it. Now, there is a dimension in.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
The multiverse where Halliburton goes out there and he doesn't
pop his achilles, same scenario leading into the game. He
goes out there and plays and plays well, and the
Pacers end up winning Game seven, and rah rah, And
there's a parade in Indianapolis in a couple of days
and all that. So when you dig a little deeper, though,
I had an epiphany as I was cruising over here
to the hallowed hallways of Fox Sports Radio where legends
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like Rich Horrera and others James Washington to work back
in the old days here and I was walking in
from the parking lot and I walked by the trash
which hasn't been picked up since Friday.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
It's a nice smell, nice aroma. So I walked in there,
and you know what this is?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
This is the spreadsheet warriors that have taken over yet again,
another example, another example. It's been about fifteen years or
so since this has become prevalent in modern sports. That is,
the spreadsheet warriors have led to the brain rot among
a segment of sports fans, the analytical Nerd Society of
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North America that have said, hey, I've got a graph
that shows injury assessment, injury risk assessment, and this guy
I cannot play out of an abundance of caution? Can
I do it right? And they're all up in arms
and it's not right. He didn't follow the probability model.
Tyrese Holli Merton I'll bear him.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
And to that, I say five. Wait, fright is what
I say.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Again, Haliburton. If he hadn't played, he'd be healthy right now,
he wouldn't have a pop achilles and he would have
been haunted by the Kulda woulda should have for the rest.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Of the man's life. Indiana, He's not getting back here.
It's not like the Pacers.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
It'll be another generation before the Pacers get back to
the NBA finals. And you're telling me he shouldn't have played,
all right, tell me you dumb without telling me you're
dumb right now. Last word, So let's address the Komodo
dragon in the room. Now, what is the Komodo dragon
in the room? Well, the Oklahoma City Thunder have just
won their first championship as the Oklahoma City Thunder. Now
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some will say, well, I'll go back to the Sonic Tis.
I don't count the ghosts of Seattle because I believe
it in the next couple of years, the Sonics will
be born again. They will have the SuperSonics back in Seattle,
and all the championships and all the glory will go
back to Seattle and all that. So those ghosts I
leave behind the team unceremoniously hijacked out of the Pacific
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Northwest and they abandoned Seattle because of the oil tyrant
that bought the team from the Starbucks dopes and then
moved it to Oklahoma City. But now we're hearing the
whispers and we're seeing the comments on social media and
the gas bag gasps. Well, they've already been labeled dynasty.
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It's they won one championship.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Dynasty. Here we go, dynasty in the making.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Is that how you see it? So I'll go first here.
I look at this like a prison camp. Okay, team
wins title and everyone and their mother becomes hypnotized and mesmerized.
Prisoners of the moment, prison camp, prisoners of the moment.
Slow down, have your little champagne there, have you a
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little parade, knock yourself out. Let the confetti hit you,
and then let it hit the ground. At least it
can hit you and then hit the ground and all stuff.
And you can probably hold off on building a statue
for SGA at least not yet. It's a classic recency bias.
We heard the same things last year with the Boston
Celtics winning the championship. They're on their way now, the
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Celtics are going to control the NBA for years to
come because they have Tatum and Brown and oh my
god and all that stuff. Now, one ring does not
become the forecast for three or four or five and
one finals, MVP Award, you don't become the face of
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the NBA. You're not catapulted up to that level. And
Sam Presty, my god, he's got the cleanest ass in
the NBA. Every TV guy, every media guy in the
NBA has been kissing Sam Presty's ass, going on and
on the executive for Oklahoma City. But they suddenly the
new gold standard and all that stuff makes me want
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to puke in my mouth. The dynasty stuff is rather ridiculous.
Those require something called repetition, which is the problem. Relevance
over the period of time more than I don't know,
one year, and they are earned because of overcoming injury
like surgeries, and players get, you know, getting unhappy. They're
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in a small town. They want to go somewhere else.
You also have the salarycap. You've got to juggle because
everyone's gonna get a lot more money and all that.
So I just don't see it for the thunder, I don't.
I don't see it. I maybe I'm wrong. I don't
see them as a dynasty. They can prove me wrong
if they want, you know, run it back, do it again.
But even that's not a dynasty. You gotta do it
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at least a couple more times. And do it when
guys get hurt, go out and win again with injuries, right,
and when contracts expire and players demand, hey, I want
more money.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
The disease of me.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Pat Riley used to talk about that egos getting the way,
all that stuff, and do it when you're being targeted
and you're not the fresh faced underdog start team and
you have nothing to lose in all that. Now, as
for the building of the roster, I would like to
address that. Have the Thunder crack the code? Have they
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given us the blueprint that all the other NBA teams
are gonna copy? That would be a no, no way.
The Thunder. I look at them like in baseball, the
Tampa Bay Race. These are two teams that can do
what they have done because of where they are. The
Thunder are like the Tampa Bay Rays in baseball. It's
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Frankenstein's lab, is what it is. You've got no media pressure.
It's a po dunk town Oklahoma City. You've got that
small town fan base that's just happy they have pro
sports there.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
You've got zero pressure, and you can trade away and
just play the lottery game, lottery ball for years to come.
I can do that.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
That playbook will not work in a big league city.
Right in a big league city, there will be pressure
to have star players. There will be pressured to have success,
and you will become irrelevant because the word apathy will apply.
If you try to do that, people will come apoplectic,
they will not watch your product. You will become irrelevant.
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You can't do it, you can't get away with it.
But in time like Olahoma City, you can do it.
Just like the Tampa Bay Race. They don't nobody cares.
They just they have a good team every year, but
they don't have stars. And they get stars, they get
rid of them and that's it.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
That's that.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Now, what about the dopes And I'm getting some of
this crap. They're like cockroaches. They come out here and
they're like, oh man, this gotta be a tough day
for the Clippers, you know, ripping like somehow, I'm the
spokesman for the Clippers, which I'm not. I don't trust man.
I don't go to those games much anymore. I used
to back in the day. I hope the Clippers do well,
but the idea and we'll just address it like this.
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The dopes that are out there, what do you make
of this? Wow, the Clippers, this should have been their championship.
They traded away SGA. This is embarrassing for the Clippers.
My god, Now I understand where this is coming from. Listen,
I love busting balls as much as the next person.
I know that's all you're doing.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
I get it. You know, who Miller, you should feel
so bad.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
You know, it's low information trolling at its finest, and
that's really what social media is all about.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
You know you're just busting chop. You know you couldn't
name two guys on the Clippers or the Thunder. It's
revisionist history. And to say that the Clippers shouldn't have
made that trade. I would have made that trade one
hundred out of one hundred times. Even after Oklahoma said
he just won the championship, right as Emin m crooned
no regrets, right, Kawhi Leonard was the player everyone won
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every single team in the NBA won and Kawhi Leonard
the price of admission.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
It was a claw game to get the claw.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
He said, I want Paul George, which is a dumb decision,
but that's his choice. That's his choice. Kawhi Lenners says,
I want Paul George, Paul George Blouse. But that's who
Kawhi Leonard wants. So you trade Sga.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
That's the price of admission fresh off of title in Toronto.
That's what you had to do. You do it every
single time. You don't look back.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
And you make that trade, and you know the Clippers
they're still relevant and they'll be a contender for the
foreseeable future. They have a legit owner and all that.
But of course you'd make that trade. And Sga hasn't
become what he became with the Clippers. He would never
become that with the Clippers, so it's ridiculous.
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This hour is from the life and times of Aaron Rogers.
We continue to have content on a daily basis from
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want it or not, So our lead. This hour is
from the Burg From the burg Seelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers
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saying that he's pretty sure, pretty sure that twenty twenty
five will be his last season in the NFL. I
don't know if you saw this or heard about it,
or maybe in a play for pay play for pay
appearance the BFF there that pays him. Pat McAfee and
Rogers were playing grab ass and Rogers opined on the future.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
And the possibility that this is it this next season.
Take a listen.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
Yeah, I'm pretty sure this is it.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
You know.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
That's why we just did a one year deal. You know,
this was really about finishing with a lot of love
and fun and peace for the career that I've had.
I mean, I've played twenty freaking years, you know, like
it's been a long, long run, and I've enjoyed it.
And what better place to finish than in one of
the cornerstone franchises of the NFL with Mike Tomlin and
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a great group of leadership and great guys in the
city that you know expects expects.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
You to win.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Okay, So there you go.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
That's a lot of generic stuff there at the end
of Cornerstone franchise. He did give us the butt, which
means everything you said before that's a lie.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
So he did say that. So let us discuss the
question as you just heard, Steelers.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Quarterback Aaron Rogers says he's pretty sure that twenty twenty
five will be the final NFL season.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Do you buy it? Do you buy it?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
So my take on this, I've got Doctor Drew, Pokemon
and Eskimo Pie and we will That's why I got canceled.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
We'll combine all of these things together and we are going.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
To make the Gabba Ghul for our buddy in Florida,
the Goabba gool all right, So to kick off here,
after a minutes long Mallard deliberation, Aaron Rodgers by saying
he's pretty sure, do we buy that we are jaded wheelists.
I attempt to live my life as a jaded realist,
and I take this with a with a little pinch,
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that's a little pinch of kosher salt, Assume nothing and
question everything, especially.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
With Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
So I would like to use the Mallard Rosetta stone
to translate what Rogers actually to the good people who
like the Pittsburgh football team. So Aaron Rodgers at this
point he needs, like doctor Drew to come in. And
because he's battling addiction, he's got an addiction problem. He's
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addicted to attention. Loves the attention there. It's like iohwask
out there in the jungle somewhere.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
It's skin. Get enough of it.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
And his favorite pastime, based on doing a daily talk show,
is that Aaron rodgers favorite pastime, next to spending hours
talking about pyramids, UFOs and darkness retreats, is talking about
Aaron Rodgers. And when he says he's pretty sure the
twenty twenty five is it, well, that's a bold declaration.
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He's forty one years old. He turns forty two during
the NFL season. That means, using the probability meter, that
there's still at least a five percent chance, at least
five percent chance that he has.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
One of those.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
I feel great. I didn't think my body would feel
this good. But I found some drugs somewhere out in
the in the Amazon, and holy crap, I'm I might
be forty one forty two, but I feel like I'm twenty.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Six years old.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
I feel great, I feel amazing, and you think I
Am going to walk away. Like, let's say the Steelers
end up just a wee bit short that they actually
win a playoff game. They get past wildcard weekend and
they win a playoff game, and they make a little
bit of noise and then Rogers, you got retire at
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that point.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
No way.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
So even though he says, probably this is it, not
so fast, not so fast Rogers. Over the last several years,
going back to his last days in Green Bay, Rodgers
has turned this will Heat or Won't He into a
mellow drama.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
It's like a.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Docu series, if you will. He knows a thing or
two about that. It's an art form. Aaron Rodgers has
turned this into an art form, and he learned it
from Brett Farv and others that have done this in
the past, and so Aaron dipping his toe, just the
toe into the waters of adoration. By saying this, by
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saying what Rogers said with his bff Pat McAfee, he's
essentially setting himself up for a love tour, one of
those dopey retirement tours where you get the golf collapse
and they have.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
The pregame tribute.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Let's go down memory lane the time that Aaron Rodgers
shoved it down our throats and you get the Jumbo
Tron sizzle reel. You get that going and all that. Now,
did Mike tom a serious question? Did Mike Tomlin bring
Aaron Rodgers in and friends Mike Tomlin France? Did they
bring Aaron Rodgers in on a one year therapy session?
(27:56):
Is this like, all right, Rogers, the Jets poisoned you.
They poisoned the soup, so we are gonna give you
good soup and then you can leave on a positive note.
I thought, maybe I'm wrong it was I thought they
brought Rogers in to chase the Lombardy right, to chase
the little right. Training camp has not started. We're still
(28:16):
about a month away. A little less than that for
some teams. And already Rogers he's half out the door
before the door even opens, like the door is not
really open. He's like, a might not play now, before
you hand Aaron Rodgers, before you hand Aaron Rodgers the
gold watch?
Speaker 3 (28:34):
What do you get? Gold watched? You get the retirement plaque?
That boy and all that. The drama is not over right,
file that away.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
The drama is not over because even if Rogers said
I'm gonna retire a week later, he'll pop up somewhere.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Maybe I'll play I don't know, maybe all right now.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Furthermore so, during the grab ass session Aaron Rodgers there
with his buddy there McAfee, Rogers claimed that he doesn't
like being in the public eye.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
He said this, yeah, I like being the public eye.
He says, he plans to disappear. Do you see this?
Speaker 1 (29:12):
He saw it right, So he plans to disappear once
his NFL career is over, he said, quote, I don't
want the attention. Rogers said, I know that's a narrative
out there. Well, this is all done. When this is
all done, it's then he names some character from the
usual suspects. You won't see me, Roger said, you will
(29:34):
not see me. I won't be public.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
I don't want life.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
A public life, he said, I want to live a
public life. All right, So this is Rogers at age
forty one. Let's break that down. Let's chop that up
with a knife. Here, let's chop that up.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
So Aaron Rodgers saying he does not like the spotlight.
That's what he said.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
He does not plan to, you know, to be in
the spotlight. He doesn't want a public life. He doesn't
want that. When he said, and on this one, are
you buying or selling that? Are you buying or selling that?
So this is rather obvious, Like even Marcella and Brooklyn
can figure this out, Like the idea that Rogers after
(30:14):
the football season ends is going to go abra cadabra,
hocus pocus poof, I'm out, see you.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Later, goodbye.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
I'm gone, like a magician that runs out of those
little bunny rabbits and has no more magic hats or magic.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Wands, and I'm like, I'm out, I'm done, and.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Like no camera all right, Roger's gonna go somewhere where
there's no cameras and there's no Papa Razzo.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
We're not gonna get that.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
No more headlines, no more clips of him in the
Daily Mail, walking alone on the beaches of Malibu. We're
not gonna get that. And people trying to find his
mystery wife, they still haven't found this person. Do you
think there's a real person there?
Speaker 3 (30:57):
What if Ai?
Speaker 1 (30:58):
What if he married Ai Rogers like married an AI
bot and that's his wife. But they he got a ring,
and then the AI bot has a ring, but they
can't wear it because they're not a real person and
all that. It's what, you know, how much money they're offering.
I have some people that work in that world, in
the paparazzo world, and there's a lot of money out
(31:19):
there to be the first group that gets whether it's
the Daily Mail or TMZ or page six of the
New York Post or whatever, all the usual suspects, radar online,
all those type places, to get that first.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Glimpse of the woman Rogers married.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
But what if there is no woman? What if she
doesn't exist? What if it's all make believe? Now, that
would be even better. Oh well, situation, yeah, that be
that'd be wild. What if it's like a psyop by
Aaron Rodgers he just he just decided to f around.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
He's bored.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
He's like, all right, I'm just gonna make up that
I have a way I get. I find it hard
to believe that he could get married. There's no They've
checked every court house in America that they can, the databasis,
because when you get married, it's a business contract, or
you get married it's an agreement.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
You have to file paperwork with the court and all
that for tax reasons.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
But nowhere, nowhere, have they found any evidence that Rogers
got married wild So is it one of those things
why I got married? But we didn't want to go
through you know, we didn't want to We don't want
to go to courthouse. We want to sully the marriage.
You know, we don't want to sully the marriage anyway.
So back to the point at hand. So Rogers again
(32:32):
plans to leave you know, leave me alone is what
he's going to say, and all this stuff, and he's
going to play that card from the bottom of the deck.
Yet he has been headlining his own personal circus as
the ring master for twenty years. In fact, he actually
built the Big Top. Aaron Rodgers built the Big Top.
And so I give this whole thing SIDEI I just
give it Saday Rogers. Yeah he could. He moved to
(32:54):
the woods somewhere. Absolutely, he can go out and become
the unibomber. That's a dated reference, but get it. Get
a shack somewhere in Montana, knock yourself out right, live
off the grid. Just sip kombucha tea and contemplate the
time space continuum, the meaning of life and what happens
when you die, like all the rest of us.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
But I will garan effitty you if he does that.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
He will have a sound guy, He'll have a lighting guy,
he'll have a camera guy. There'll be a whole crew
for the upcoming.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Netflix docu series Rogers Off the Grid.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Now Now, Rogers says he does not like attention. Again,
you don't like the attention and all that stuff. And
it's kind of like a peacock saying I'm a little
down on feathers. I don't enjoy the feathers. But you're
a peacock. You're all about the feathers and all that stuff.
And this is the guy who's strutting through the NFL
(33:53):
for now multiple decades, twenty years, a generation, collecting controversy
and like Ferg Dog collects Pokemon cards. I mean, it's
out of control, right, It's out of even during the
off season, Rogers, he says one thing and he does
something else, which is classic passive aggressive behavior. But let's
(34:16):
just look at what Rogers has done. So a guy
that doesn't want the public life. Here's some of the
things Rogers has done in the off season. Okay, Rogers,
I believe, and I don't think I'm wrong on this.
Aaron Rodgers has appeared three times in the off season
on the only podcast that most you know that gets
(34:38):
actually legitimate numbers, that Joe Rogan podcast. So he's popped
up on that three times. And he's hosted Jeopardy. Remember
that a couple of years he hosted Jeopardy for a
couple of weeks Jeopardy. He also considered a run for
a third party vice president of the United States. Now
somebody that does not want the spotlight considering a run politically, Okay,
(35:03):
all right, now, last thing quickly. The new Browns wide
receiver Deontay Johnson gave a quote that I thought, here's
another one of these stories. I said, Babylon B. I said,
that's sat tire, that's like the NFL's version of NBA Sentel.
(35:24):
It's sports My Guy's sports Talk Barry who I had
on the podcast I do a couple of years back. Well,
the Browns wide receiver Deontay Johnson recently admitted that he
refused to enter him Now, this had been a rumor,
but he's now confirmed it. He refused to enter a game.
Why was he a upset with the coach? Was he
(35:47):
be hurt and he didn't want to play because he
couldn't play because he was hurt? C Was it a
contract situation? He was upisode with a contract or? D
because he was chili.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Yeap, The answer is D. Yeah, the answers D.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
He said he refused to enter game in forty one
degree weather last year in Baltimore because he felt ice cold,
ice cold. Now, I live in LA. I'm soft, right.
It's warm in LA most of the time, but in
the winner, every once in a while we'll have a
week where it gets down.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Into the thirties. I don't think it's that cold. I
don't think it's that bad.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Hey, forty one degree weather last year in Baltimore, he
said it felt ice cold. Deontay Johnson didn't want to
go out there and put some bad stuff on film,
is what he said. So will wide receiver Deontay Johnson
be haunted?
Speaker 3 (36:47):
Woo?
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Will he be haunted by admitting he refused to enter
an NFL game because it was too cold. So if
there is an any kind of cosmic justice, you would say,
absolutely this, you cannot do that, Just like Anthony Richardson
taking himself out of the game for the Colts last year.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
It wasn't cold that day in Houston.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Things you can't do for a thousand Alex the the
jeopardy line there, because you gotta think this is gonna
haunt him like an Eskimo pie, you know, Poltergeist eating
an Eskimo pire.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
So you can't do it.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
He did the thing you can't do. And of all
the things that you confess to, like, why would you
think that would go over well seriously, Like, oh, so
it was colder than a polar bear's nose.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
No, it wasn't. It was not he said it was
ice cold.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
It was forty one degrees. For now, He's gonna play
for the Cleveland Browns. And I got some friends, you know,
we're on in Cleveland. We got friends are from Cleveland.
Forty one degrees in Cleveland, and let's get out and
grill some burgers and some hot dogs. It's it's grilling season.
Let's go play some golf. It's forty one degrees right Well, in.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
Fact, we'll have an outdoor barbecue on the lake front.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
That's what we're gonna do. In Baltimore, they consider that
a heatwave. My guy sports with Coleman, who lives in Baltimore.
When it's forty one degrees, he gets the suntan locean
and he goes outside. He's like, I'm gonna put on
the banana hammock and I'm gonna go out there and
I'm gonna enjoy the weather. But thanks for oversharing by
the in otherlands, and I'm good as a talk show host.
(38:38):
I'm glad that Deontay Johnson chose to let the world
know that he is unable to handle forty one degree weather.
And the kicker of all things here is that the
player says he didn't want to go back into the
game because he didn't want.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
To put out bad film. Is what he said, bad film.
Didn't want to look bad on the tape.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Yeah, okay, newsflash, news flash, This just into the Fox
Sports radio studios. Here from my man. Uh, you just
announced to the world in your own voice. Here on
your in your own voice, you have now been immortalized
as a guy that couldn't handle essentially a McDonald's soft
(39:26):
serf cone that that's too much for you.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
You're talking about self inflicted blooper. Is winning so important?
Speaker 4 (39:36):
Listen?
Speaker 3 (39:36):
Winning isn't Everything's the only thing. It's time for another
Mallard game show.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
We surveyed one hundred people named sports teams associated with losing.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
Dcurs.
Speaker 5 (39:52):
I believe the answer is to Clippers.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
That is the top answer forty points. It's Mallard militia hute.
Let's play the if you come on down.
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Speaker 3 (40:22):
Hello, Steve, Welcome, you do a bad an accounting for You.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Are present and accounted for and ready to play the game.
You were gonna go and hold on a second, you're
going to go against eenie meenie miney mooe.
Speaker 3 (40:34):
Let's go Mick.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
Mick is in Maine and he is going to play
and me puns the right line up. Hello Mick, welcome
you doing? Bill?
Speaker 6 (40:43):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (40:43):
I just hung up on him?
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Who goofed? I've got there, all right. Mike is in
New Hand. I'm sorry, Mick, butterfingers.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
Mike.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
Are you there, Mike New Hampshire. Oh, look at you?
You drive in your truck. All right, very nice. You're
gonna play the game. Let's get to the game, so
we don't screw this up. I gonna punch you in.
We've got Steve and San Francisco. Gentlemen. Here we go,
let's play the feud. Come on down, here we go.
The category the top five answers on the board. One
(41:16):
hundred people surveyed. Name something people postpone doing for as
long as possible. The top five answers on the board.
Speaker 3 (41:25):
We got buzzing in.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
Steve is going with colman Oska Beede. Well that is
very specific, but I think you mean going to the doctor.
Speaker 3 (41:33):
And that is on there. So we'll give you that sure,
why not? Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (41:38):
And you get to go again. There, Steve, something people
postpone doing for as long as possible. Four answers left? Five?
What all right? That's all right Mike in New Hampshire.
(41:59):
You're name something people postpone doing for as long as possible.
There are four answers left on the board.
Speaker 3 (42:06):
Going to church, going to church? That is not on
the board. Back to Steve. Just think about it. You
go ahead, Steve Laws No, no, all right, Mike. I
thought this would be easy. I got like five on
(42:27):
the top of my tongue. Go ahead, Lorena, what do
you have laundry?
Speaker 5 (42:30):
No?
Speaker 3 (42:31):
Oh, I have your cleaning. Yeah, that's on that. Yeah,
it is on. The other ones are paying the bills,
getting married and going to the dentist. Well, Steve, you
technically won, but I mean, come on, that's a That's
not a great game. That's not a great game.
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And if you had the NBA Finals having a classic
Game seven, you are a loser.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Much of the chatter that people are excited about is
not Game seven. It's the Kevin Durant trade. Durant every
three years is traded. This time he goes to Houston.
More buzz on that. We'll talk about it as we
go through the overnight. But it was the end of
the road for pro bouncy ball. That's all she wrote.
The NBA regular season. I went back and I looked
(02:26):
begin two hundred and forty four days prior to Sunday,
two hundred and forty four days. It began with the
Knickerbockers playing the then reigning champion Boston Celtics back in
October October twenty second before Halloween of last year, and
it ended exactly eight months later to the day. Eight
(02:49):
months later. The thunder and Pacers brought the curtain down.
They didn't bring the house down, they brought the curtain
down there in the NBA Finals Game seven, small market,
small markets. Were you watching? Were you no? You were
not watching. I've seen the ratings. No one was watching.
There were seven people watching.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
But we watched. It's our good mits for the day.
We checked it out so you would not have to.
And what happened well in Game seven. The thing everyone's
talking about is not the game itself, something that happened
early in the game. But in the end, Shade jogis Alexander.
He was inefficient, but he had twenty nine points and
ends up winning the Finals MVP Award as OKC pulls
(03:35):
away in the third quarter and cements the lead in
the fourth quarter, and they zoom passed a short handed
Pacer team one to three to ninety one turn out
the last the parties over for Indiana and for Oklahoma
for that matter. Game seven of the NBA Finals in
the books now SGA he needed twenty seven shots to
(03:59):
get to twenty nine points in game seven. I'm told
that is not particularly good, but it didn't matter. He
still won the MVP eight of twenty seven. That's my computer,
like brain tells me. Twenty nine point six percent from
the floor, nineteen misshots in game seven, and he still
ends up winning the finals MVP.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Which is the full body of work.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
But the story here is the injury and how it
impacts the outcome of this game. So let us discuss
yay or nay? The Oklahoma City Thunder Championship for Schee
jogas Alexander downgraded, downgraded because of the Tyrese haliburt and
achilles injury in the first quarter of the close out
(04:43):
final game of this series. So I've got tears for Fears, spreadsheet,
and prison camp and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to make a nice
banana cream pie that you can throw in someone's face
if you want.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
So a to answer the question, the Championship for Oklahoma
City yay or nay? The shay jogis Alexander Championship for
the Thunder downgraded because of the injury to Tyrese Halliburton,
pop goes the Achilles.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Is it yay or nay?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
So the error on this one's pointing the direction of
yay as in yes, as in absolutely sorry, not sorry.
I know how these things work. We understand how these
things work. It is not invalid.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I am not.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Saying that the championship of Oklahoma City is invalid. That
is not what I am saying. Do not misquote me.
What I am merely saying is that it is diminished.
That is my point, okay, And you can't fight me
on that.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
That's the reality. Right, every man, woman and child.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Knows that was paying any attention to the NBA Finals
that the moment Tyrese Haliburton went down, that's it. It's
like taking the engine out of a car and expecting
you to win the Indy five hundred right now. Maybe
once in a while it'll happen, but normally you need
the engine to win the race. And that was the moment,
by the way, we went and looked. That's the moment
(06:11):
Steven A. Smith started playing Solitaire that he knew the
game was all. He picked up the solitaire right there,
he said, that's it. That's a solitaire moment. Halliburton is
the playmaker. We know that he's the head of the
snake and all those things, and so you take him
out of the equation, the arithmetic as much different. Is
obviously much to You're not facing the real Indiana Pacers
(06:33):
at that particular mallmt and so that's the reality. That's
not the same test. It's like the questions are easier
at that particular moment. And even with that, Indiana still
had a very slim lead midway through the game. So
twenty four minutes to go, Indiana had a slight lead.
But don't tell me that this is the same battle
(06:55):
tested Blood Soak Championship Game seven, iron willed win without
Halliburton on the court.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
It's just not. It's simply not true by any way
you look at it. It's not true right now.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
That being said, I know from doing this show over
the years, and we've been here when this similar situation
has happened, maybe not an achilles injury, but a major
injury in the NBA Finals in my watch here at
Fox Sports Radio behind these microphones.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
So we've been here a while.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
And the thing that I know about this is it's
like the old tears for fear song, memories fade, meaning
like right now, in this moment, we will bring this up,
we will mention this, we will say, hey, listen, that's downgraded.
But over time it gets talked about less and less
and it just goes to the back of history and
(07:43):
he just kind of fades away and you'd have to
like type it into chat GPT to kind of get
the right answer and that. But just like Kevin Durant
injured his achilles and Klay Thompson messed up his knee.
In twenty nineteen, Toronto won the championship. It's been six
years since that happened. Do people still bring that up?
Don't bring it up. But the moment it happened, people
brought it up. They're like, well, that's not legit.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
You know, way back twenty some years ago, the Pistons,
the Four Pistons with Rashid Wallace and those Cats playing
the Lakers, and Karl Malone was playing for the Laker.
He got hurt, he messed up his knee, if I
remember he was injured. They at the time around, well,
there you go, that's why the Pistons were able to win.
But now twenty some years later, people forget about that.
They don't even know about it. Now, the other part
(08:28):
of this page two which blows me away, like shiver
me timbers, right, uh, there are those out there morning
after quarterbacks, if you will, the morning after this was
moments after the injury, who were going on and on
and on by well Tyree's Halliburton should have never been
(08:49):
allowed to play, should have never been allowed to play
for the Pacers. It's malfeasance by the Indiana basketball team.
They should never have allowed him on the court. He
had a pre existing condition. Bad job by them. Oh no, right,
oh no, he popped his achilles in the first quarter.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
So where are you at on this one?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Where are you at on those that are screaming this
is on the Pacers. They should not have allowed him
to play. Haliburton should not have been out there. This
is one of those things that blows me away. And
I think some of this is actually just people just
busting balls and just probably Boughty counts on those social
media channels because it's the freaking finals, Like, what do
you even having that coming? It's a chance to win
(09:33):
a championship. No one, No one misses that game. And
if you miss that game. You might as well retire.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
If Halliburton had said I'm not gonna play, I might
pop my achilles. You might as well go get a
real job.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
You can't show your face in any gymnasium anywhere from
Maine to Maui.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
It's over.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
You have to play in that game, game seven of
the finals.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
You've got to do it.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
And Halliburton did it, and he made some shots early,
had nine points. He made three three point shots early.
He got hurt. That sucks, and that's part of the game.
And all these morons, I can't I really hope this
is not legit.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
All.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
This is just like people trolling and things like that.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
I mean, come on, if there's anyone who actually believes
that you have the greatest loser mentality of all time,
science should study you.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
You are such a loser.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
That people should study how big a giant loser you
are and how you got to that particular point where
you wear the giant l on your forehead because you're
a loser. Right again, no IF's ants or but you
got to play. If you're Haliburton, you cannot not play.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
You can't. They have to amputate you. Let you gotta
play like there's no no, you can't even in this
soft modern world we live, and you've got to play
in Game seven.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
And for those that are, you know, grumbling and again,
I'd like to think this is all nonsense. You should
have played in the game. Why he wasn't one hundred percent,
I would argue, I don't think I'm wrong on this.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
What do I know, though?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
I do the overnight show that nobody is one hundred percent.
By the time you get the Game seven of the Finals,
you've been playing for eight months of basketball, although many
of the players take a lot of time off, etc.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
It's one of those things.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
You patch it up, You rub some dirt on it,
get some dirt, get some mud, rub it on there,
and you go. And that's what you're supposed to do.
You gut it out Game seven NBA Finals. That's what
you want Halliburton to do.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
What he did it. Now, there is a dimension in.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
The multiverse where Halliburton goes out there and he doesn't
pop his achilles, same scenario leading into the game. He
goes out there and plays and plays well, and the
Pacers end up winning Game seven, and rah rah, And
there's a parade in Indianapolis in a couple of days
and all that. So when you dig a little deeper, though,
I had an epiphany as I was cruising over here
to the hallowed hallways of Fox Sports Radio where legends
(11:56):
like Rich Horrera and others James Washington to work back
in the old days here and I was walking in
from the parking lot and I walked by the trash
which hasn't been picked up since Friday.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
It's a nice smell, nice aroma. So I walked in there,
and you know what this is?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
This is the spreadsheet warriors that have taken over yet again,
another example, another example. It's been about fifteen years or
so since this has become prevalent in modern sports. That is,
the spreadsheet warriors have led to the brain rot among
a segment of sports fans, the analytical Nerd Society of
(12:39):
North America that have said, hey, I've got a graph
that shows injury assessment, injury risk assessment, and this guy
I cannot play out of an abundance of caution? Can
I do it right? And they're all up in arms
and it's not right. He didn't follow the probability model.
Tyrese Holli Merton I'll bear him.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
And to that, I say five. Wait, fright is what
I say.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Again, Haliburton. If he hadn't played, he'd be healthy right now,
he wouldn't have a pop achilles and he would have
been haunted by the Kulda woulda should have for the rest.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Of the man's life. Indiana, He's not getting back here.
It's not like the Pacers.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
It'll be another generation before the Pacers get back to
the NBA finals. And you're telling me he shouldn't have played,
all right, tell me you dumb without telling me you're
dumb right now. Last word, So let's address the Komodo
dragon in the room. Now, what is the Komodo dragon
in the room? Well, the Oklahoma City Thunder have just
won their first championship as the Oklahoma City Thunder. Now
(13:43):
some will say, well, I'll go back to the Sonic Tis.
I don't count the ghosts of Seattle because I believe
it in the next couple of years, the Sonics will
be born again. They will have the SuperSonics back in Seattle,
and all the championships and all the glory will go
back to Seattle and all that. So those ghosts I
leave behind the team unceremoniously hijacked out of the Pacific
(14:03):
Northwest and they abandoned Seattle because of the oil tyrant
that bought the team from the Starbucks dopes and then
moved it to Oklahoma City. But now we're hearing the
whispers and we're seeing the comments on social media and
the gas bag gasps. Well, they've already been labeled dynasty.
(14:23):
It's they won one championship.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Dynasty. Here we go, dynasty in the making.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Is that how you see it? So I'll go first here.
I look at this like a prison camp. Okay, team
wins title and everyone and their mother becomes hypnotized and mesmerized.
Prisoners of the moment, prison camp, prisoners of the moment.
Slow down, have your little champagne there, have you a
(14:53):
little parade, knock yourself out. Let the confetti hit you,
and then let it hit the ground. At least it
can hit you and then hit the ground and all stuff.
And you can probably hold off on building a statue
for SGA at least not yet. It's a classic recency bias.
We heard the same things last year with the Boston
Celtics winning the championship. They're on their way now, the
(15:13):
Celtics are going to control the NBA for years to
come because they have Tatum and Brown and oh my
god and all that stuff. Now, one ring does not
become the forecast for three or four or five and
one finals, MVP Award, you don't become the face of
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the NBA. You're not catapulted up to that level. And
Sam Presty, my god, he's got the cleanest ass in
the NBA. Every TV guy, every media guy in the
NBA has been kissing Sam Presty's ass, going on and
on the executive for Oklahoma City. But they suddenly the
new gold standard and all that stuff makes me want
(15:55):
to puke in my mouth. The dynasty stuff is rather ridiculous.
Those require something called repetition, which is the problem. Relevance
over the period of time more than I don't know,
one year, and they are earned because of overcoming injury
like surgeries, and players get, you know, getting unhappy. They're
(16:19):
in a small town. They want to go somewhere else.
You also have the salarycap. You've got to juggle because
everyone's gonna get a lot more money and all that.
So I just don't see it for the thunder, I don't.
I don't see it. I maybe I'm wrong. I don't
see them as a dynasty. They can prove me wrong
if they want, you know, run it back, do it again.
But even that's not a dynasty. You gotta do it
(16:39):
at least a couple more times. And do it when
guys get hurt, go out and win again with injuries, right,
and when contracts expire and players demand, hey, I want
more money.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
The disease of me.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Pat Riley used to talk about that egos getting the way,
all that stuff, and do it when you're being targeted
and you're not the fresh faced underdog start team and
you have nothing to lose in all that. Now, as
for the building of the roster, I would like to
address that. Have the Thunder crack the code? Have they
(17:11):
given us the blueprint that all the other NBA teams
are gonna copy? That would be a no, no way.
The Thunder. I look at them like in baseball, the
Tampa Bay Race. These are two teams that can do
what they have done because of where they are. The
Thunder are like the Tampa Bay Rays in baseball. It's
(17:33):
Frankenstein's lab, is what it is. You've got no media pressure.
It's a po dunk town Oklahoma City. You've got that
small town fan base that's just happy they have pro
sports there.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
You've got zero pressure, and you can trade away and
just play the lottery game, lottery ball for years to come.
I can do that.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
That playbook will not work in a big league city.
Right in a big league city, there will be pressure
to have star players. There will be pressured to have success,
and you will become irrelevant because the word apathy will apply.
If you try to do that, people will come apoplectic,
they will not watch your product. You will become irrelevant.
(18:18):
You can't do it, you can't get away with it.
But in time like Olahoma City, you can do it.
Just like the Tampa Bay Race. They don't nobody cares.
They just they have a good team every year, but
they don't have stars. And they get stars, they get
rid of them and that's it.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
That's that.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Now, what about the dopes And I'm getting some of
this crap. They're like cockroaches. They come out here and
they're like, oh man, this gotta be a tough day
for the Clippers, you know, ripping like somehow, I'm the
spokesman for the Clippers, which I'm not. I don't trust man.
I don't go to those games much anymore. I used
to back in the day. I hope the Clippers do well,
but the idea and we'll just address it like this.
(18:51):
The dopes that are out there, what do you make
of this? Wow, the Clippers, this should have been their championship.
They traded away SGA. This is embarrassing for the Clippers.
My god, Now I understand where this is coming from. Listen,
I love busting balls as much as the next person.
I know that's all you're doing.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
I get it. You know, who Miller, you should feel
so bad.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
You know, it's low information trolling at its finest, and
that's really what social media is all about.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
You know you're just busting chop. You know you couldn't
name two guys on the Clippers or the Thunder. It's
revisionist history. And to say that the Clippers shouldn't have
made that trade. I would have made that trade one
hundred out of one hundred times. Even after Oklahoma said
he just won the championship, right as Emin m crooned
no regrets, right, Kawhi Leonard was the player everyone won
(19:41):
every single team in the NBA won and Kawhi Leonard
the price of admission.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
It was a claw game to get the claw.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
He said, I want Paul George, which is a dumb decision,
but that's his choice. That's his choice. Kawhi Lenners says,
I want Paul George, Paul George Blouse. But that's who
Kawhi Leonard wants. So you trade Sga.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
That's the price of admission fresh off of title in Toronto.
That's what you had to do. You do it every
single time. You don't look back.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
And you make that trade, and you know the Clippers
they're still relevant and they'll be a contender for the
foreseeable future. They have a legit owner and all that.
But of course you'd make that trade. And Sga hasn't
become what he became with the Clippers. He would never
become that with the Clippers, so it's ridiculous.
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Speaker 1 (22:29):
This hour is from the life and times of Aaron Rogers.
We continue to have content on a daily basis from
Aaron Rodgers, whether we want it or not, whether we
want it or not, So our lead. This hour is
from the Burg From the burg Seelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers
(22:50):
saying that he's pretty sure, pretty sure that twenty twenty
five will be his last season in the NFL. I
don't know if you saw this or heard about it,
or maybe in a play for pay play for pay
appearance the BFF there that pays him. Pat McAfee and
Rogers were playing grab ass and Rogers opined on the future.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
And the possibility that this is it this next season.
Take a listen.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
Yeah, I'm pretty sure this is it.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
You know.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
That's why we just did a one year deal. You know,
this was really about finishing with a lot of love
and fun and peace for the career that I've had.
I mean, I've played twenty freaking years, you know, like
it's been a long, long run, and I've enjoyed it.
And what better place to finish than in one of
the cornerstone franchises of the NFL with Mike Tomlin and
(23:42):
a great group of leadership and great guys in the
city that you know expects expects.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
You to win.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Okay, So there you go.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
That's a lot of generic stuff there at the end
of Cornerstone franchise. He did give us the butt, which
means everything you said before that's a lie.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
So he did say that. So let us discuss the
question as you just heard, Steelers.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Quarterback Aaron Rogers says he's pretty sure that twenty twenty
five will be the final NFL season.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Do you buy it? Do you buy it?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
So my take on this, I've got Doctor Drew, Pokemon
and Eskimo Pie and we will That's why I got canceled.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
We'll combine all of these things together and we are going.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
To make the Gabba Ghul for our buddy in Florida,
the Goabba gool all right, So to kick off here,
after a minutes long Mallard deliberation, Aaron Rodgers by saying
he's pretty sure, do we buy that we are jaded wheelists.
I attempt to live my life as a jaded realist,
and I take this with a with a little pinch,
(24:48):
that's a little pinch of kosher salt, Assume nothing and
question everything, especially.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
With Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
So I would like to use the Mallard Rosetta stone
to translate what Rogers actually to the good people who
like the Pittsburgh football team. So Aaron Rodgers at this
point he needs, like doctor Drew to come in. And
because he's battling addiction, he's got an addiction problem. He's
(25:16):
addicted to attention. Loves the attention there. It's like iohwask
out there in the jungle somewhere.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
It's skin. Get enough of it.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
And his favorite pastime, based on doing a daily talk show,
is that Aaron rodgers favorite pastime, next to spending hours
talking about pyramids, UFOs and darkness retreats, is talking about
Aaron Rodgers. And when he says he's pretty sure the
twenty twenty five is it, well, that's a bold declaration.
(25:46):
He's forty one years old. He turns forty two during
the NFL season. That means, using the probability meter, that
there's still at least a five percent chance, at least
five percent chance that he has.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
One of those.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
I feel great. I didn't think my body would feel
this good. But I found some drugs somewhere out in
the in the Amazon, and holy crap, I'm I might
be forty one forty two, but I feel like I'm twenty.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Six years old.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
I feel great, I feel amazing, and you think I
Am going to walk away. Like, let's say the Steelers
end up just a wee bit short that they actually
win a playoff game. They get past wildcard weekend and
they win a playoff game, and they make a little
bit of noise and then Rogers, you got retire at
(26:38):
that point.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
No way.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
So even though he says, probably this is it, not
so fast, not so fast Rogers. Over the last several years,
going back to his last days in Green Bay, Rodgers
has turned this will Heat or Won't He into a
mellow drama.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
It's like a.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Docu series, if you will. He knows a thing or
two about that. It's an art form. Aaron Rodgers has
turned this into an art form, and he learned it
from Brett Farv and others that have done this in
the past, and so Aaron dipping his toe, just the
toe into the waters of adoration. By saying this, by
(27:19):
saying what Rogers said with his bff Pat McAfee, he's
essentially setting himself up for a love tour, one of
those dopey retirement tours where you get the golf collapse
and they have.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
The pregame tribute.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Let's go down memory lane the time that Aaron Rodgers
shoved it down our throats and you get the Jumbo
Tron sizzle reel. You get that going and all that. Now,
did Mike tom a serious question? Did Mike Tomlin bring
Aaron Rodgers in and friends Mike Tomlin France? Did they
bring Aaron Rodgers in on a one year therapy session?
(27:56):
Is this like, all right, Rogers, the Jets poisoned you.
They poisoned the soup, so we are gonna give you
good soup and then you can leave on a positive note.
I thought, maybe I'm wrong it was I thought they
brought Rogers in to chase the Lombardy right, to chase
the little right. Training camp has not started. We're still
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about a month away. A little less than that for
some teams. And already Rogers he's half out the door
before the door even opens, like the door is not
really open. He's like, a might not play now, before
you hand Aaron Rodgers, before you hand Aaron Rodgers the
gold watch?
Speaker 3 (28:34):
What do you get? Gold watched? You get the retirement plaque?
That boy and all that. The drama is not over right,
file that away.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
The drama is not over because even if Rogers said
I'm gonna retire a week later, he'll pop up somewhere.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Maybe I'll play I don't know, maybe all right now.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Furthermore so, during the grab ass session Aaron Rodgers there
with his buddy there McAfee, Rogers claimed that he doesn't
like being in the public eye.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
He said this, yeah, I like being the public eye.
He says, he plans to disappear. Do you see this?
Speaker 1 (29:12):
He saw it right, So he plans to disappear once
his NFL career is over, he said, quote, I don't
want the attention. Rogers said, I know that's a narrative
out there. Well, this is all done. When this is
all done, it's then he names some character from the
usual suspects. You won't see me, Roger said, you will
(29:34):
not see me. I won't be public.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
I don't want life.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
A public life, he said, I want to live a
public life. All right, So this is Rogers at age
forty one. Let's break that down. Let's chop that up
with a knife. Here, let's chop that up.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
So Aaron Rodgers saying he does not like the spotlight.
That's what he said.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
He does not plan to, you know, to be in
the spotlight. He doesn't want a public life. He doesn't
want that. When he said, and on this one, are
you buying or selling that? Are you buying or selling that?
So this is rather obvious, Like even Marcella and Brooklyn
can figure this out, Like the idea that Rogers after
(30:14):
the football season ends is going to go abra cadabra,
hocus pocus poof, I'm out, see you.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Later, goodbye.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
I'm gone, like a magician that runs out of those
little bunny rabbits and has no more magic hats or magic.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Wands, and I'm like, I'm out, I'm done, and.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Like no camera all right, Roger's gonna go somewhere where
there's no cameras and there's no Papa Razzo.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
We're not gonna get that.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
No more headlines, no more clips of him in the
Daily Mail, walking alone on the beaches of Malibu. We're
not gonna get that. And people trying to find his
mystery wife, they still haven't found this person. Do you
think there's a real person there?
Speaker 3 (30:57):
What if Ai?
Speaker 1 (30:58):
What if he married Ai Rogers like married an AI
bot and that's his wife. But they he got a ring,
and then the AI bot has a ring, but they
can't wear it because they're not a real person and
all that. It's what, you know, how much money they're offering.
I have some people that work in that world, in
the paparazzo world, and there's a lot of money out
(31:19):
there to be the first group that gets whether it's
the Daily Mail or TMZ or page six of the
New York Post or whatever, all the usual suspects, radar online,
all those type places, to get that first.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Glimpse of the woman Rogers married.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
But what if there is no woman? What if she
doesn't exist? What if it's all make believe? Now, that
would be even better. Oh well, situation, yeah, that be
that'd be wild. What if it's like a psyop by
Aaron Rodgers he just he just decided to f around.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
He's bored.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
He's like, all right, I'm just gonna make up that
I have a way I get. I find it hard
to believe that he could get married. There's no They've
checked every court house in America that they can, the databasis,
because when you get married, it's a business contract, or
you get married it's an agreement.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
You have to file paperwork with the court and all
that for tax reasons.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
But nowhere, nowhere, have they found any evidence that Rogers
got married wild So is it one of those things
why I got married? But we didn't want to go
through you know, we didn't want to We don't want
to go to courthouse. We want to sully the marriage.
You know, we don't want to sully the marriage anyway.
So back to the point at hand. So Rogers again
(32:32):
plans to leave you know, leave me alone is what
he's going to say, and all this stuff, and he's
going to play that card from the bottom of the deck.
Yet he has been headlining his own personal circus as
the ring master for twenty years. In fact, he actually
built the Big Top. Aaron Rodgers built the Big Top.
And so I give this whole thing SIDEI I just
give it Saday Rogers. Yeah he could. He moved to
(32:54):
the woods somewhere. Absolutely, he can go out and become
the unibomber. That's a dated reference, but get it. Get
a shack somewhere in Montana, knock yourself out right, live
off the grid. Just sip kombucha tea and contemplate the
time space continuum, the meaning of life and what happens
when you die, like all the rest of us.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
But I will garan effitty you if he does that.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
He will have a sound guy, He'll have a lighting guy,
he'll have a camera guy. There'll be a whole crew
for the upcoming.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Netflix docu series Rogers Off the Grid.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Now Now, Rogers says he does not like attention. Again,
you don't like the attention and all that stuff. And
it's kind of like a peacock saying I'm a little
down on feathers. I don't enjoy the feathers. But you're
a peacock. You're all about the feathers and all that stuff.
And this is the guy who's strutting through the NFL
(33:53):
for now multiple decades, twenty years, a generation, collecting controversy
and like Ferg Dog collects Pokemon cards. I mean, it's
out of control, right, It's out of even during the
off season, Rogers, he says one thing and he does
something else, which is classic passive aggressive behavior. But let's
(34:16):
just look at what Rogers has done. So a guy
that doesn't want the public life. Here's some of the
things Rogers has done in the off season. Okay, Rogers,
I believe, and I don't think I'm wrong on this.
Aaron Rodgers has appeared three times in the off season
on the only podcast that most you know that gets
(34:38):
actually legitimate numbers, that Joe Rogan podcast. So he's popped
up on that three times. And he's hosted Jeopardy. Remember
that a couple of years he hosted Jeopardy for a
couple of weeks Jeopardy. He also considered a run for
a third party vice president of the United States. Now
somebody that does not want the spotlight considering a run politically, Okay,
(35:03):
all right, now, last thing quickly. The new Browns wide
receiver Deontay Johnson gave a quote that I thought, here's
another one of these stories. I said, Babylon B. I said,
that's sat tire, that's like the NFL's version of NBA Sentel.
(35:24):
It's sports My Guy's sports Talk Barry who I had
on the podcast I do a couple of years back. Well,
the Browns wide receiver Deontay Johnson recently admitted that he
refused to enter him Now, this had been a rumor,
but he's now confirmed it. He refused to enter a game.
Why was he a upset with the coach? Was he
(35:47):
be hurt and he didn't want to play because he
couldn't play because he was hurt? C Was it a
contract situation? He was upisode with a contract or? D
because he was chili.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Yeap, The answer is D. Yeah, the answers D.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
He said he refused to enter game in forty one
degree weather last year in Baltimore because he felt ice cold,
ice cold. Now, I live in LA. I'm soft, right.
It's warm in LA most of the time, but in
the winner, every once in a while we'll have a
week where it gets down.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Into the thirties. I don't think it's that cold. I
don't think it's that bad.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Hey, forty one degree weather last year in Baltimore, he
said it felt ice cold. Deontay Johnson didn't want to
go out there and put some bad stuff on film,
is what he said. So will wide receiver Deontay Johnson
be haunted?
Speaker 3 (36:47):
Woo?
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Will he be haunted by admitting he refused to enter
an NFL game because it was too cold. So if
there is an any kind of cosmic justice, you would say,
absolutely this, you cannot do that, Just like Anthony Richardson
taking himself out of the game for the Colts last year.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
It wasn't cold that day in Houston.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Things you can't do for a thousand Alex the the
jeopardy line there, because you gotta think this is gonna
haunt him like an Eskimo pie, you know, Poltergeist eating
an Eskimo pire.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
So you can't do it.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
He did the thing you can't do. And of all
the things that you confess to, like, why would you
think that would go over well seriously, Like, oh, so
it was colder than a polar bear's nose.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
No, it wasn't. It was not he said it was
ice cold.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
It was forty one degrees. For now, He's gonna play
for the Cleveland Browns. And I got some friends, you know,
we're on in Cleveland. We got friends are from Cleveland.
Forty one degrees in Cleveland, and let's get out and
grill some burgers and some hot dogs. It's it's grilling season.
Let's go play some golf. It's forty one degrees right Well, in.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
Fact, we'll have an outdoor barbecue on the lake front.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
That's what we're gonna do. In Baltimore, they consider that
a heatwave. My guy sports with Coleman, who lives in Baltimore.
When it's forty one degrees, he gets the suntan locean
and he goes outside. He's like, I'm gonna put on
the banana hammock and I'm gonna go out there and
I'm gonna enjoy the weather. But thanks for oversharing by
the in otherlands, and I'm good as a talk show host.
(38:38):
I'm glad that Deontay Johnson chose to let the world
know that he is unable to handle forty one degree weather.
And the kicker of all things here is that the
player says he didn't want to go back into the
game because he didn't want.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
To put out bad film. Is what he said, bad film.
Didn't want to look bad on the tape.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Yeah, okay, newsflash, news flash, This just into the Fox
Sports radio studios. Here from my man. Uh, you just
announced to the world in your own voice. Here on
your in your own voice, you have now been immortalized
as a guy that couldn't handle essentially a McDonald's soft
(39:26):
serf cone that that's too much for you.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
You're talking about self inflicted blooper. Is winning so important?
Speaker 4 (39:36):
Listen?
Speaker 3 (39:36):
Winning isn't Everything's the only thing. It's time for another
Mallard game show.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
We surveyed one hundred people named sports teams associated with losing.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
Dcurs.
Speaker 5 (39:52):
I believe the answer is to Clippers.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
That is the top answer forty points. It's Mallard militia hute.
Let's play the if you come on down.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
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welcome in our contestants. We have Steve and San Francisco.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
Hello, Steve, Welcome, you do a bad an accounting for You.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Are present and accounted for and ready to play the game.
You were gonna go and hold on a second, you're
going to go against eenie meenie miney mooe.
Speaker 3 (40:34):
Let's go Mick.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
Mick is in Maine and he is going to play
and me puns the right line up. Hello Mick, welcome
you doing? Bill?
Speaker 6 (40:43):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (40:43):
I just hung up on him?
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Who goofed? I've got there, all right. Mike is in
New Hand. I'm sorry, Mick, butterfingers.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
Mike.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
Are you there, Mike New Hampshire. Oh, look at you?
You drive in your truck. All right, very nice. You're
gonna play the game. Let's get to the game, so
we don't screw this up. I gonna punch you in.
We've got Steve and San Francisco. Gentlemen. Here we go,
let's play the feud. Come on down, here we go.
The category the top five answers on the board. One
(41:16):
hundred people surveyed. Name something people postpone doing for as
long as possible. The top five answers on the board.
Speaker 3 (41:25):
We got buzzing in.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
Steve is going with colman Oska Beede. Well that is
very specific, but I think you mean going to the doctor.
Speaker 3 (41:33):
And that is on there. So we'll give you that sure,
why not? Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (41:38):
And you get to go again. There, Steve, something people
postpone doing for as long as possible. Four answers left? Five?
What all right? That's all right Mike in New Hampshire.
(41:59):
You're name something people postpone doing for as long as possible.
There are four answers left on the board.
Speaker 3 (42:06):
Going to church, going to church? That is not on
the board. Back to Steve. Just think about it. You
go ahead, Steve Laws No, no, all right, Mike. I
thought this would be easy. I got like five on
(42:27):
the top of my tongue. Go ahead, Lorena, what do
you have laundry?
Speaker 5 (42:30):
No?
Speaker 3 (42:31):
Oh, I have your cleaning. Yeah, that's on that. Yeah,
it is on. The other ones are paying the bills,
getting married and going to the dentist. Well, Steve, you
technically won, but I mean, come on, that's a That's
not a great game. That's not a great game.
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