May 15, 2023 • 40 mins
Big Ben talks about the 76ers getting blown out in Game 7 against the Celtics, Ja Morant posting yet another gun flash video, Maller to the Third Degree, Insta-Advice Line, and much more!
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you saw the game on Sunday, it was an island game,
the Island life. The Island life now an Island Games.
There's nothing else to compete with that game. It's standalone,
only game on the board in that sport. And that
was what happened. Eastern Conference Semifinals, Game seven, Game seven.
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Some things in life are very hard to predict. Other
things are obvious obvious, like this, the Celtics playing host
to the Sixers Philadelphia at Boston, the winner getting a
playdate with Jimmy Buckets and the Miami Heat in the
Eastern Conference Finals.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Didn't you watch?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Were you checking this game out? Did you observe the
afternoon hoop action? Maybe not so as far as the
game itself. Jason Tatum scored fifty one points.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Fifty one. He was balanced.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
He had twenty five in the first half, twenty six
in the second half, but the game was decided in
the third quarter. Jalen Brown added twenty five, but it
was a evisceration situation for Boston taking down Philly in
the third courter.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
He saw the game. You know exactly what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Wow wow wow wow wow wow. One twelve to eighty
eight would be the final that counts as a rat
kill situation. So the Celtics take the series in seven games.
Boston led by as many as thirty points in this game,
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and they were tied up early in the second half,
but they would lead by thirty at.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
One point later on. There.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
The better story, though, is in the losing locker room,
and boy is it good? Boy is just right in
my wheelhouse right a batting hack, batting practice, high fastball,
right down the middle. Doc Rivers, Holly Kenobi, he's done
it yet again.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
The man is a machine.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
He is a factory, and the factory of sadness, of course,
would be what he is here. But the Philadelphia had
multiple chances to win this series. They had a home
game in Philly, they blew it. And here in Game
seven on the road, they were within reasonable distance, they
were down by a few points at halftime, and we're
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tied up early in the second half and they end
up losing the game. So let us discuss the question,
and the question here is rather obvious.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
How much of.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
The blame does Doc Rivers get for this loss? For
the Sixers, keeping in mind he didn't actually play in
the game, but he was on the sidelines calling up
the x's and o's in theory. So I've got McDonald's
samurai and superpower, and we will combine all of these
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things together and we are going to make a nice
relocation situation, is what Doc Rivers has. He will be
relocating out of the Delaware Valley somewhere else on the
NBA circuit as he will not be invited back to
coach the Sixers. But we'll start with this. Doc Rivers
has done it again. The man has done it again.
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And for that, rather than rip him, I think we
should celebrate Doc Rivers seriously. In my tire life, this
is Doc Rivers right here right. There are few things
in life as dependable, as reliable as a Doc Rivers
coaching job in a playoff series. Rivers has cornered the
market on playoff flops. I don't know how he does it.
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He's got the proprietary blade. Whatever combination he puts together,
they're very impressive. Now, some people said, and I heard idiots,
morons saying, well, it's because of the Clippers, that's why
he's got this reputation. Once he gets away from the
Clippers and goes somewhere else again, he'll be fine. Okay,
he's been in Philadelphia for several years.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
How is that working out? Let me know, let me
know how that's working out. Now.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
He's not the Clipper problem. He's the Philadelphia problem. Okay,
there's there's there's a case here. This is this is
the We mentioned this in a previous episode of the show.
When you talk about Doc Rivers blowing playoff series from
a coaching perspective, he is the common denominator, is the
consistent thing in all of these stories here and the
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trustworthiness of Glenn Rivers in playoff series. He is now
seventeen and thirty three in his career, straight up with
a chance to clinch a playoff series. The thirty three
losses are the most by any coach in the history
of that sport. No one has sucked more at a time.
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You cannot suck than Doc Rivers on the sideline. But yeah,
but yeah, but yeah, what about the championship? Okay, okay,
what about it? It's a pimple on an elephant's ass.
When you look at what Doc Rivers has done in
his career, his teams. Now, the teams that he has
guided have now lost ten game seven ten of them.
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That is more than any other coach in NBA history.
And Doc Rivers also has the record for the most
series blown up three games to one. That does not apply,
but Doc over his career, has four times in his
career blown a three to one series lead.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
And you know what he is.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Doc Rivers is like McDonald's McDonald's, whether you like it
or not, there's a consistency to McDonald's that I've been
to Mickey D's all over the country, and anytime I
go into McDonald's and I want a big mac, I
know what I'm gonna get is consistent. Whether I'm in
California or in Maine, or in Florida or in Hawaii,
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I know what I'm gonna get. I know the quality
is gonna be there, the ingredients are gonna be the same.
And that's Doc Rivers, right, Doc Rivers, He's creating his
own sandwich, the mcchoke, that's the Doc Rivers sam which
it's on the menu can get supersized if you want, and.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
You can be you know, you know, you can be within.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Reasonable distance of tremendous success and then you take a
bite out of them choke and you need help, You
need the Heimlich maneuver. It is a familiar experience. It
is something that we have come to appreciate this time
of the year. It is a rite of passage if
you will man man alive. And keep in mind, the
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NBA does not think that coaches matter that much. And
my position has been similar to that, say.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Well, why are you blaming doc Rivers? Let me explain.
All right, coaches can get in the way.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
They're not gonna push you over the top, per se
Like if you don't you don't have what it takes,
they're not gonna push you over the top. But an
incompetent stooge as a coach can be your undoing And
that appears to be doctors easily replaceable. Bad coach can really,
as Al Michaels would say, cock caugh it up as manure.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Manure.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Now page two, here what happened to Joel Andbiid and
James Harden And we're gonna talk more about these guys
as we go through the overnight. But if you saw
the game on Sunday, it was a three point game
at halftime, it was a toss up game up for grabs.
Joel Embiid had thirteen points. Midway through the game. The
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key stats were relatively even across the board. It was
anyone's game was tied up. The Sixers scored early in
the second half in the third quarter there, and they
had tied it up. And then that's when Doc Rivers
worked his magic. And it's almost like the players had
been drugged there as he passed out tranquilizers in the
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team huddle on the Sixers sidelines, as a clandestine, demonic
wormhole opened up right there on the court at the garden,
swallowing up the seventy six ers.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
The third quarter was a horror move.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
It was the dawn of the dead. Third quarter of
this game. Philly took twenty one shots from the floor.
They made three of them, and from three point range
they were two of thirteen. And wow, that's impressive. That
wasn't because the Celtics were playing amazing defense. They were
missing shots that were there for them. And Joel Embiid
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scored as many points in that game deciding third quarter
as you had and I had combined. He had a
grand total of zero. He pitched a shutout, zero for
four from the floor. Jason Tatum meanwhile, scored seventeen points
outscored the entire Sixers team seventeen to ten. As side
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by side comparisons, go next level of suckage for the
Sixers and Doc Rivers team there and strike up the
band da da da da da da da da Hey
hey good bye?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Yeah, they're out again there.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
And remember Reggie Miller over there on team We talked
about this at the time it happened, but Reggie Miller
had said after Philly won Game five in Boston that
that was a signature career defining game for Joel Embiid,
And then Joel Embiid said.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Hold my beer, Hold my beer? Who goofed?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
I've got to know Embiid why he got the MVP
because he whined, he complained, and Nicole Jokish, the real
MVP of the NBA is in the Final four and
Joel Embiid is making excuses. More on that coming up later,
but he did not back it up. Embiid in the playoffs. Right,
last word here, all right, final word? So what does
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the future hold for Doc Rivers? Glenn Rivers is his name,
and coaching playoff basketball is not his game. So Philadelphia
will fire his as I will garag Tait that he
is going to lose his job. He's got a couple
years left on his contract. He can't bring him. There's
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no way you can bring him back. It's only money.
He'll get a job somewhere else. And the relationship has
grown stale. The novelty, if there ever was a novelty,
has worn off. Doc Rivers has now coached four teams, Orlando, Boston,
the Clippers, and the Sixers. And you have to think
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that mister personality. Doc Rivers moves back to the makeup
chair and he will be doing television, whether it's TNT
or ESPN. That is in his future. Now that's it.
I would not put it back. He's such a charlatan,
Doc Rivers. I would not put it past Doc Rivers
to leave Philadelphia and then get an interview for the
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Phoenix job or the the job in Milwaukee. And I'll
tell you why. Doc Rivers has a lot of friends.
People love Doc Rivers, people who work in that business.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
I've talked to him. He keep getting job. They love him.
He's wonderfult at cocktail parties.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
You want to have him at your party. It's great, wonderful,
all right. And that's the issue here. And his superpower
is that he is a butterfly, a social butterfly. And
you know, it's like Superman. It's a bird, it's a plane. No,
it's a butterfly. It's a social butterfly. That is Doc Rivers.
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He can schmooze your shorts off, and he's very chummy
with some powerful people, many of them own teams, and
he's got an excuse for everything. Doc Rivers is very charming.
He is debonair and that helps him dominate. It's really
not whether you can do the job, it's can you
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get the job? And Doc Rivers has proven he can
get the job, and he'll get his tentacles. If he
can get an interview, doc Rivers will get his tentacles.
And I wouldn't put it past him to get on
the coaching up. He should be doing television. He shouldn't
have got another job after the Clippers experience, but they
gave him one in Philadelphia, the idiots. And that said,
his kryptonite obviously the playoffs, which makes the eight Celtics
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the eight Celtics title the most improbable championship in this
last generation, outside of course, the Fake Bubble, which doesn't
count because that was at a resort in Orlando, but
of legitimate championship runs, the Doc Rivers Celtics the single
most amazing championship in recent NBA history, and so kudos
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to Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce and Ray Allen that
they were able to overcome the deadweight on the sidelines
coaching malpractice, and that Celtic team was able to win
two game sevens on that championship run, as they went
on to win the title that year despite Doc Rivers.
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All right, let's hear from Doc Rivers have some sound
bites here, we'll hear from do Let's see here. Here
is Doc. You're the question and the answers. He's asked
about his employment future in Philadelphi.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Are you planning to be the coach of the team
next year? Yeah? Yeah, I got two years left?
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Yeah right, given the tenor of what you've seen happen
in the last two or three days, where coaches of
the year guys with titles.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
Yeah, no one's safe in our business, you know, And
I get that.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Yeah, I remember when Doc was on the sidelines choking
on a chicken wing while the Clippers lost to the Nuggets.
I guess he was a nugget he was joking on
and right after the game, they said Doc's going to
be back as the coach of the Clippers, and.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
We saw how that worked out.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Here's more one more from Doc Rivers and he is
selling the positives in Philadelphia.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
I'm disappointed. I thought we had the right group. I
really did, and I knew. You know, it's funny I
look out and I you know, you talk about keeping
receipts sometimes, you know what I mean. I don't think
a person in this room picked the sixers.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
You know that one.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
But we did, and we chose to believe that we
could win anyway, and we almost pulled it off. You know,
Game six will be someone will think about. You know,
Game seven will be something we think about. But as
far as our guys fight against everybody who picked against us,
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they didn't care.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
They thought they could still win this series.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
And you know that's something good about our team.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
I thought, overall, we're fighters.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Doc, you didn't win the fight. The people that said
you were gonna lose were right. Your losers where the
l where the l?
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Doc?
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the Knucklehead Department, and it I was debating whether to
begin with this, but Doc Rivers was such low hanging fruit.
I had to start with Doc Rivers. But we've got
a doozy out of Memphis. Now, the Memphis area home
to the basketball team known as the Grizzlies. You'll be
hard pressed to find a Grizzly bear in Memphis. But
you will find a jaw Morant. You will find a
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jaw Morant. And this involves the life and times of
the Grizzlies Guard. If you have not heard, it took
place over the weekend. Jah Morant, a man who has
got a max contract in the NBA, is in the
crosshairs again. What did he doubt? Did he go back
to Shotgun Willies in Denver? No, he did not, but
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he did do a similar actor. Were no strippers involved
this time, but he did flash a gun. He flashed
a gun in a lase fair attitude situation there with
a bunch of buddies of his. On Instagram Live, the
video was posted with some friends. They were rocking out
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in a car over the weekend. The video actually was
posted on Saturday, and it came out just two months after.
Two months after almost to the day, two months after
the initial Instagram video that was filmed near the Jiggle
Joint in Denver. You might remember that Ja Morant famously
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expressed remorse and said that the gun did not belong
to him, that he would be better, He would be better.
And then on Sunday, once the video started bouncing around
the pinball machine started going viral. The Grizzlies issued a
prepared statement saying that they had suspended Jah Morant from
all team activities pending the league's review of the new video,
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which of course is comical because it is the off season.
That is like suspending a teacher during the summer. What
exactly does that accomplish? But they have done it now.
Mike bass I don't know who that is. I'm told
he is a spokes hack for the NBA said that
the the NBA was quote aware of the situation, and
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we're gathering more information, which is the standard default response
in these situations. So let us discuss the question what
is the verdict? What is the verdict on Ja Morant's
latest gun video? So I've got Thanksgiving, Bingo and Midway,
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and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a nice, nice lengthy vacation,
nice lengthy vacation for Jamrant. So but as far as
the verdict, the verdict on Ja Morant and latest gun video,
the verdict is number WHA. He's a buffoone. Jama Rant
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is a buffoone. That is the verdict, period.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Stop.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Now, keep in mind having a gun is not illegal.
And some people are like, ah, there should be no
guns in America and all, it's not illegal.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
I have a gun.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
That's not really the issue here. He didn't break the
law per se having a gun, but he did break
a golden rule. When you have escaped trouble, right, when
you've escaped trouble, you probably shouldn't do the same thing
or a very similar thing again.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Hello, and yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
And that's besides the point, right, But here's the deal.
This is an optics problem for the NBA. You are
a superstar. If you're a superstar in sports, you're not
the one carrying the gun. You pay people to carry
the gun to protect you. That's the way that it works.
Ja Morant breaking the golden rule, if you will. And
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he is the definition of the old trope of a
dumb jock Jamarant, right. I mean, the guy's got a
two hundred million dollar contract. I know, here's young, here's
young Ard. So I guess every activity as long as
you're young, you get a pass on that.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
But he got warning.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
He was given a warning, and he has gone back
down the same avenue again, the avenue of Sodom and Gomorrah.
And he's gone back down that road again. Good luck
living the life of a baller demands.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Up, no rules. Right, I'm the headliner and I'll throw
it all away all the way on Instagram Live.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
And this guy can give a course on how not
to use social media, right, he can use a idiots
guide to Instagram Live starring Ja Morant as yet again,
was he ratted out by someone? No, did somebody who
had an ax to grind with Jah Morant embarrass him?
Speaker 3 (22:50):
No, not at all, not at all.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
He turned the video on himself a candid camera moment
for Jahn Morant, while right, I mean, you can't make
this up.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
You cannot make this up.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
And you think about all the people that put their
neck out because they are writing the code tails of Jamrant.
People that Nike who had signed him to a massive
contract before the first video.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Came out, the NBA.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
They all formed Voltron to make his problems vanish. Back
in March when he was at Shotguns Willie Shotgun will
He's there in Denver, in the Denver area.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
And he made a mistake. The stress of being an
athlete for Jamarant.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Two months later, Saren dipity, we are back at it again.
The level of stupidity. The level of stupidity for Jamorant
is breathtaking. Okay, breathtaking is the word for what Ja
Morant has been able to pull off here. And I'm
convinced that he loves Thanksgiving. He's a big fan of Thanksgiving.
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He is the star of the show. He's the turkey.
He's the turkey at Thanksgiving. He's the dim witted bird
in an internal state of confusion, Ja Morant, That is
him at this particular point in the story.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Oozing dumbness.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Oozing dumbness, Ja Morant now page two in hindsight, which
is always fun. How silly do the NBA big shots
look for the original punishment of Jah Morant letting him
off the hook?
Speaker 3 (24:26):
So forget hindsight. We don't even need to use hindsight.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
If you go back and everything's archived on the podcast
page for this show, and we'll pat ourselves on the back.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Why not? No one else will.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
But at the time this all went down, we had
pointed out in a previous episode of the show that
the NBA was full of crap ole, that they had
clearly shown the world they think their customers are a
bunch of Mamlukes, and there are people who follow that
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sport that are easily bamboos and they were going to
bamboozle everyone.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
And they you know, they were right, They were absolutely right.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
The NBA saw they know their customers, morons, and they
saw it and it was all staged punishment. Manhattan crisis
management teams were brought together and they tossed together a
script and Ja Morant remember he met with Adam Silver
in Manhattan. He had to just sit down interview with
They're very sympathetic Jalen Rose, and they hugged it out.
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It was wonderful. No hard questions were asked. It was
Softball City by Jalen Rose. It was the theatrical is
what it was. It was a theoretical shoulder to roll
your head on and get a massage, you know, a
little head rub and all that stuff. And we had
mentioned at the time apology bingo, which is what Jamarant did.
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And if you had played apology Bingo, you would have won.
So if you go back and look at the statement
from Josh at the time, he said, and I'll I'm
not John Morant. We don't have the audio, but I'll
give you the statement here Josh said, honestly, I feel
like we put ourselves in that situation with our past mistakes,
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and now it's only right that we focus in and
lock in on being smarter and more responsible, holding each
other accountable for everything. Moran said in a statement, he
was repeating the talking points, and then he went on
to say, but wait, there's more. John Moran said, I
feel like in the past we didn't know what was
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at stake, but now finally me having that time to
realize everything, have that time alone.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
I realize that. No, he said, dope. Oh it's so good.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
He said, oh, man, I go on and there's a
bunch of other study but it's all buzzwords and catchphrases.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
It's I made a terrible mistake.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
He was holding back a smile while he said that
you played the family card, brought up his daughter. You'll
tug at the heartstrings. That's what you gotta do. Be smarter,
more responsible, accountability, all those things. Bad decision and it
was all for the cameras. It was all bullshoy. It
was all bullshoy, is what it was.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Now.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Final point, So what kind of punishment is Jahn Morant
facing this time?
Speaker 3 (27:24):
So it's a good news bad news.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
The good news is he's going to get a lifetime
contract with the NRA, so he will be a spokesperson
for the NRA, because he is losing millions in this
transaction millions.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
He was already off the All.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
NBA team, which he likely would have been on if
he had not gone to Shotgun Willies and turned on
Instagram Live. So he cost himself thirty nine million with
that over the course of his contract in extra earnings.
So you take thirty nine million there. Now the bad news,
other than the NRA thing is is the good news.
The bad news is that Jah Morant is all also
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going to lose a lot more money because it is
not that complex. A Jaw has visited the Midway and
Midway is a fun place to go have a good time.
A lot of games there at the Midway and the
boardwalk games are out there at the Midway. And he
has decided to play the stupidest game you can play.
And as they say at the Midway, you play stupid games,
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you win stupid prizes. So Jah Morant's prize will be
an indefinite suspension. We imagine indefinite suspension is coming down
the Pike for Jahn Morant that that will happen there
and Morant that will be suspended for an indefinite amount
of time. And there's one thing I know from my
years around big time sports. The people in big time
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sports and just in life in general, but we're talking
in the context of sports, they do not like to
be made the fool. And Ja Morant, through his own actions,
has made them the full. The NBA pulled out all
the stops, as we mentioned, they came up with all
this bull craft. They pulled out Jalen Rose to massage
the shoulders of Jah Morant, and they gave him the
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talking points to say, and he used all the big
talking points and all that, and he went back and said,
let's do it again. Let's play it back one more time,
and we'll put the video up on Instagram.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
Live.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
So good, so good, No more get out of jail
free cards from Adam Silver, mister softy there, who also
looks like a dope with a capital D, the commissioner
of the NBA, as he should now Silver at the time,
he issued a statement calling Moran's conduct irresponsible, reckless, and
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potentially very dangerous. That was a prepared statement by the
Commissioner of the NBA. Morant, remember he went to get treatment.
We talked about how ridiculous this was. Nobody else For
some reason, the media brought this up. But if you
remember what John Morant's treatment was, he visited therapists doing
anxiety breathing exercises and something called right key treatment. You
(30:02):
probably don't know what that is. It's not mainstream a
right key a treatment. What on God's green Earth is
that you ask? I recommend doing your own due diligence
and looking it up. It's pseudo science, is what it is.
And it's also been called a scam. The NBA signed
off on a scam for Ja Morant. A ride key
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is a Japanese form of energy healing. It is alternative medicine. Now,
not all alternative medicine is bad. This is something that
I would put, in my opinion, in the bad category.
It's supposed to promote relaxation and reduce stress and anxiety.
Right key treatment. What is it exactly? It uses a
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technique it's called palm healing. The hands of the therapist
are on the body of the patient and hands on
healing through they say. Universal energy is said to be
transferred to the palms of the healer, to your palm,
the palm of the healer to the patient to encourage
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emotional and physical healing. Yes, it's a palm job is Oh,
it's I.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Look at these websites medical quackery website, quack quack, quack quack.
This is right there. It's on the medical quackery websites.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
And nobody in the NBA media, all these dopes in
the media that followed the NBA and whatever the NBA says,
nobody said, wait a minute, you know that's not really legit.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Nobody brought that up.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
If you go to quack watch dot org, it's a
great website if you want to know about quackery. Quack
watch dot org. They have studied rei key therapy. It
is fertilizer, is what it is. A rei key has
no uh substantiated health value and lacks a scientifically plausible rationale.
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It is science based healthcare. It says should not be
tolerated blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
And so there you go.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Jahn Morant in the NBA, maybe you can go back
and get some more of that net therapy. All right,
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that is just wonderful. I would I have a problem.
Just go down and we'll rub our poms on you
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That'll work, helps me, could possibly work. What depends how
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It might actually be a stress reliever, depending how attractive
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Well, it's Maller. How about that to the third degree.
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Ben, real quick, I want to throw out an rip
to the godfather of poker, Doyle Brunson, Texas. Dolly passed
away on to eight. I think he was Yes, that
was correct, all right, Ben? It was reported over the
weekend that the preseason fight between Draymond Green and Jordan
Poole quote hung over the team all season long. Ben,
how much of an impact do you think that actually
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had on the Warrior success.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
It was a factor for the regular season and all that,
but one of those things that would not have come
out at the Warriors beating the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
This story does not come out.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
And I'm pretty confident that Klay Thompson missing wide open
three point shots was not because of Pool and Draymond
Green having.
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An issue in training camp.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
So and the officiating was affected, but it's ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (34:17):
Next, after Montie Williams was fired by the Suns, there
was a report that said the team could go after
Tyl Lou as his replacement. Ben, could you see the
Clippers and Lou parning ways.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Yes, there's a lot of noise around Tylo that he's
not happy the Clippers aren't happy with him, and the
proof is always in the putting on these things.
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If TYLERU leaves.
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That'll validate all of those rumors that are bouncing around.
But he could go to the Bucks or the Suns.
Tylo I could see either one of those scenarios. So
it is absolutely on the table.
Speaker 5 (34:45):
Next after the release of the schedule, Kyle Shanahan said
during an interview that his wife refuses to travel to
Philadelphia after her previous experience there. Ben, Is there anywhere
that you've been that you would refuse to go back to?
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Yes, Afghanistan. I will not know. I've never known. I've
never been anywhere.
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I don't want to go back through Cooper Loop. I mean,
I wouldn't go places the first time. I don't want
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He passes? Is what you play on the bard? I
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You're live on the air when you hear my voice.
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This week, for the second time in a couple of months,
Jahn Morant of the Memphis Grizzlies has been dinged by
his own Instagram live hosting a video holding a gun
after that whole Dog and Pony show where he apologize
and he got some pseudo science therapy in Florida. So
(36:20):
your advice, jackass to Jah Morant of the Memphis Grizzlies
on how to stop posting gun videos on Instagram live again,
you're live on the air when you hear my voice.
We'll go to the phones in eight seven, seven ninety
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Speaker 3 (36:36):
Hello, line one, you're on the Airline one, go, Josh
should shoot everyone who talked in the bathroom.
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That's not good advice. Hello, line two, Line two, you're
on the air. Advice to Jahn Morant, line two.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
You tell them stout.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
Putting out their guns and then be a man a
stop being.
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A Okay, thank you for that. Eight seven, seven ninety
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we are not. Hello, you're on the air. Advice to
Jah Moran. Line three. Hello, line three, a.
Speaker 6 (37:03):
New social media app with people gonna gun.
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D okay, thank you for that, Yes, line, Let's go
to you your next line for Hello, line four.
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Tell those creeps you don't talk to other men when
your hands on your dick and Dayton. All right, he said,
dick and Dayton.
Speaker 6 (37:18):
There.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
He said that.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
That's a caller. That's the caller of the year. So
we're good on that. Let's go to you online six. Hello,
line six. It's the instant advice line for Ja Morant.
Advice for him to stop posting gun videos on Instagram
shoot showing the hood guy. All right, that's angry Bill,
a loser calling in Hello line one.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
Hello, line one.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
You know this guy is a new fool.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
There you go as opposed to an old fool. Ironically,
Sean the hood guy calling in right there?
Speaker 3 (37:49):
What are the odds? Hello?
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Your next line too, You're on the airline too. It's
the instant advice line for Ja Morant. Advice for him
to stop posting gun videos on Instagram.
Speaker 6 (38:01):
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You're mumbling, sir, you don't mumble, okay, there's no need
to mumble.
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Hello. Line three, you're on the airline three.
Speaker 6 (38:11):
Two hands, twenty dollars, two hands, twenty dollars.
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Okay, thank you for that, sir. We know what you're doing.
Line four, you're on the airline four.
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Go.
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Yes, the NBA players ought to stop taking pictures of
the nasty porn star strippers.
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Well, that's a non secutor. This is about all right.
Line six, you're on the airline six. Hello. Listen to
Ted Mugen Oh, Ted Nugent. Okay, very nice.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
We're giving advice to John Moran eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox. He's got a two hundred million dollar
contract with the Grizzlies, and for the second time in
a couple months, he has randomly self incriminated himself posting
a video flashing a gun, and he famously said after
the shotgun Willie's thing.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
It was not his gun. So I guess his friends
just love sharing their guns. Line one, you're on the
airline one. Go get a little hard liquor drug.
Speaker 6 (39:03):
Plant your line out.
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Okay, thank you for that. Yes. Line two, you're on
the airline too. Hello, he like blow Wayne, stay trapped? Okay,
thank you. Yes, let's go to line three. You're on
the air listen advice line for Ja Moran.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
Hello, Line three, Yeah, I go to Facebook. That's much
cooler over there on Facebook. Eight seven seven ninety nine
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We are giving back to Ja Morant. We're trying to
help him out. He's having he has an issue. He's
got a little bit of a hiccup. He likes flashing
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his guns. He loves showing his guns. And the NBA
does not appreciate that. He's been dinged a couple of times.
Speaker 4 (39:45):
Now.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Hello, Line five, you're on the airline five. Bah bah
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Line six, you're on the airline six.
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Go very crippled stuff.
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Make some Mexican prince all right, get out. He's not
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How dare you?
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Line one, you're on the airline one. Okay, calm down
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Speaker 3 (40:13):
Hello.
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Line two, Yeah, god the hell? Okay, thank you. Line three,
you're on the airline three.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
Ja Moran is the guns like Shaun Watson is two women.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
Hello. Okay, well, thank you for that. Some solid advice there.
We'll hang up on you. Hello. Line five, you're on
the airline five.
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All right, thank you?
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With you one more and only one more? Coop, hurry up,
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line three. Go all right. That was Jed too much?
Shed too much, Jed. We have our Jed quota. We're
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you saw the game on Sunday, it was an island game,
the Island life. The Island life now an Island Games.
There's nothing else to compete with that game. It's standalone,
only game on the board in that sport. And that
was what happened. Eastern Conference Semifinals, Game seven, Game seven.
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Some things in life are very hard to predict. Other
things are obvious obvious, like this, the Celtics playing host
to the Sixers Philadelphia at Boston, the winner getting a
playdate with Jimmy Buckets and the Miami Heat in the
Eastern Conference Finals.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Didn't you watch?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Were you checking this game out? Did you observe the
afternoon hoop action? Maybe not so as far as the
game itself. Jason Tatum scored fifty one points.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Fifty one. He was balanced.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
He had twenty five in the first half, twenty six
in the second half, but the game was decided in
the third quarter. Jalen Brown added twenty five, but it
was a evisceration situation for Boston taking down Philly in
the third courter.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
He saw the game. You know exactly what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Wow wow wow wow wow wow. One twelve to eighty
eight would be the final that counts as a rat
kill situation. So the Celtics take the series in seven games.
Boston led by as many as thirty points in this game,
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and they were tied up early in the second half,
but they would lead by thirty at.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
One point later on. There.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
The better story, though, is in the losing locker room,
and boy is it good? Boy is just right in
my wheelhouse right a batting hack, batting practice, high fastball,
right down the middle. Doc Rivers, Holly Kenobi, he's done
it yet again.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
The man is a machine.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
He is a factory, and the factory of sadness, of course,
would be what he is here. But the Philadelphia had
multiple chances to win this series. They had a home
game in Philly, they blew it. And here in Game
seven on the road, they were within reasonable distance, they
were down by a few points at halftime, and we're
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tied up early in the second half and they end
up losing the game. So let us discuss the question,
and the question here is rather obvious.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
How much of.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
The blame does Doc Rivers get for this loss? For
the Sixers, keeping in mind he didn't actually play in
the game, but he was on the sidelines calling up
the x's and o's in theory. So I've got McDonald's
samurai and superpower, and we will combine all of these
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things together and we are going to make a nice
relocation situation, is what Doc Rivers has. He will be
relocating out of the Delaware Valley somewhere else on the
NBA circuit as he will not be invited back to
coach the Sixers. But we'll start with this. Doc Rivers
has done it again. The man has done it again.
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And for that, rather than rip him, I think we
should celebrate Doc Rivers seriously. In my tire life, this
is Doc Rivers right here right. There are few things
in life as dependable, as reliable as a Doc Rivers
coaching job in a playoff series. Rivers has cornered the
market on playoff flops. I don't know how he does it.
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He's got the proprietary blade. Whatever combination he puts together,
they're very impressive. Now, some people said, and I heard idiots,
morons saying, well, it's because of the Clippers, that's why
he's got this reputation. Once he gets away from the
Clippers and goes somewhere else again, he'll be fine. Okay,
he's been in Philadelphia for several years.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
How is that working out? Let me know, let me
know how that's working out. Now.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
He's not the Clipper problem. He's the Philadelphia problem. Okay,
there's there's there's a case here. This is this is
the We mentioned this in a previous episode of the show.
When you talk about Doc Rivers blowing playoff series from
a coaching perspective, he is the common denominator, is the
consistent thing in all of these stories here and the
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trustworthiness of Glenn Rivers in playoff series. He is now
seventeen and thirty three in his career, straight up with
a chance to clinch a playoff series. The thirty three
losses are the most by any coach in the history
of that sport. No one has sucked more at a time.
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You cannot suck than Doc Rivers on the sideline. But yeah,
but yeah, but yeah, what about the championship? Okay, okay,
what about it? It's a pimple on an elephant's ass.
When you look at what Doc Rivers has done in
his career, his teams. Now, the teams that he has
guided have now lost ten game seven ten of them.
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That is more than any other coach in NBA history.
And Doc Rivers also has the record for the most
series blown up three games to one. That does not apply,
but Doc over his career, has four times in his
career blown a three to one series lead.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
And you know what he is.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Doc Rivers is like McDonald's McDonald's, whether you like it
or not, there's a consistency to McDonald's that I've been
to Mickey D's all over the country, and anytime I
go into McDonald's and I want a big mac, I
know what I'm gonna get is consistent. Whether I'm in
California or in Maine, or in Florida or in Hawaii,
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I know what I'm gonna get. I know the quality
is gonna be there, the ingredients are gonna be the same.
And that's Doc Rivers, right, Doc Rivers, He's creating his
own sandwich, the mcchoke, that's the Doc Rivers sam which
it's on the menu can get supersized if you want, and.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
You can be you know, you know, you can be within.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Reasonable distance of tremendous success and then you take a
bite out of them choke and you need help, You
need the Heimlich maneuver. It is a familiar experience. It
is something that we have come to appreciate this time
of the year. It is a rite of passage if
you will man man alive. And keep in mind, the
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NBA does not think that coaches matter that much. And
my position has been similar to that, say.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Well, why are you blaming doc Rivers? Let me explain.
All right, coaches can get in the way.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
They're not gonna push you over the top, per se
Like if you don't you don't have what it takes,
they're not gonna push you over the top. But an
incompetent stooge as a coach can be your undoing And
that appears to be doctors easily replaceable. Bad coach can really,
as Al Michaels would say, cock caugh it up as manure.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Manure.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Now page two, here what happened to Joel Andbiid and
James Harden And we're gonna talk more about these guys
as we go through the overnight. But if you saw
the game on Sunday, it was a three point game
at halftime, it was a toss up game up for grabs.
Joel Embiid had thirteen points. Midway through the game. The
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key stats were relatively even across the board. It was
anyone's game was tied up. The Sixers scored early in
the second half in the third quarter there, and they
had tied it up. And then that's when Doc Rivers
worked his magic. And it's almost like the players had
been drugged there as he passed out tranquilizers in the
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team huddle on the Sixers sidelines, as a clandestine, demonic
wormhole opened up right there on the court at the garden,
swallowing up the seventy six ers.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
The third quarter was a horror move.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
It was the dawn of the dead. Third quarter of
this game. Philly took twenty one shots from the floor.
They made three of them, and from three point range
they were two of thirteen. And wow, that's impressive. That
wasn't because the Celtics were playing amazing defense. They were
missing shots that were there for them. And Joel Embiid
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scored as many points in that game deciding third quarter
as you had and I had combined. He had a
grand total of zero. He pitched a shutout, zero for
four from the floor. Jason Tatum meanwhile, scored seventeen points
outscored the entire Sixers team seventeen to ten. As side
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by side comparisons, go next level of suckage for the
Sixers and Doc Rivers team there and strike up the
band da da da da da da da da Hey
hey good bye?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Yeah, they're out again there.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
And remember Reggie Miller over there on team We talked
about this at the time it happened, but Reggie Miller
had said after Philly won Game five in Boston that
that was a signature career defining game for Joel Embiid,
And then Joel Embiid said.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Hold my beer, Hold my beer? Who goofed?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
I've got to know Embiid why he got the MVP
because he whined, he complained, and Nicole Jokish, the real
MVP of the NBA is in the Final four and
Joel Embiid is making excuses. More on that coming up later,
but he did not back it up. Embiid in the playoffs. Right,
last word here, all right, final word? So what does
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the future hold for Doc Rivers? Glenn Rivers is his name,
and coaching playoff basketball is not his game. So Philadelphia
will fire his as I will garag Tait that he
is going to lose his job. He's got a couple
years left on his contract. He can't bring him. There's
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no way you can bring him back. It's only money.
He'll get a job somewhere else. And the relationship has
grown stale. The novelty, if there ever was a novelty,
has worn off. Doc Rivers has now coached four teams, Orlando, Boston,
the Clippers, and the Sixers. And you have to think
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that mister personality. Doc Rivers moves back to the makeup
chair and he will be doing television, whether it's TNT
or ESPN. That is in his future. Now that's it.
I would not put it back. He's such a charlatan,
Doc Rivers. I would not put it past Doc Rivers
to leave Philadelphia and then get an interview for the
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Phoenix job or the the job in Milwaukee. And I'll
tell you why. Doc Rivers has a lot of friends.
People love Doc Rivers, people who work in that business.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
I've talked to him. He keep getting job. They love him.
He's wonderfult at cocktail parties.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
You want to have him at your party. It's great, wonderful,
all right. And that's the issue here. And his superpower
is that he is a butterfly, a social butterfly. And
you know, it's like Superman. It's a bird, it's a plane. No,
it's a butterfly. It's a social butterfly. That is Doc Rivers.
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He can schmooze your shorts off, and he's very chummy
with some powerful people, many of them own teams, and
he's got an excuse for everything. Doc Rivers is very charming.
He is debonair and that helps him dominate. It's really
not whether you can do the job, it's can you
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get the job? And Doc Rivers has proven he can
get the job, and he'll get his tentacles. If he
can get an interview, doc Rivers will get his tentacles.
And I wouldn't put it past him to get on
the coaching up. He should be doing television. He shouldn't
have got another job after the Clippers experience, but they
gave him one in Philadelphia, the idiots. And that said,
his kryptonite obviously the playoffs, which makes the eight Celtics
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the eight Celtics title the most improbable championship in this
last generation, outside of course, the Fake Bubble, which doesn't
count because that was at a resort in Orlando, but
of legitimate championship runs, the Doc Rivers Celtics the single
most amazing championship in recent NBA history, and so kudos
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to Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce and Ray Allen that
they were able to overcome the deadweight on the sidelines
coaching malpractice, and that Celtic team was able to win
two game sevens on that championship run, as they went
on to win the title that year despite Doc Rivers.
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All right, let's hear from Doc Rivers have some sound
bites here, we'll hear from do Let's see here. Here
is Doc. You're the question and the answers. He's asked
about his employment future in Philadelphi.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Are you planning to be the coach of the team
next year? Yeah? Yeah, I got two years left?
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Yeah right, given the tenor of what you've seen happen
in the last two or three days, where coaches of
the year guys with titles.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
Yeah, no one's safe in our business, you know, And
I get that.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Yeah, I remember when Doc was on the sidelines choking
on a chicken wing while the Clippers lost to the Nuggets.
I guess he was a nugget he was joking on
and right after the game, they said Doc's going to
be back as the coach of the Clippers, and.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
We saw how that worked out.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Here's more one more from Doc Rivers and he is
selling the positives in Philadelphia.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
I'm disappointed. I thought we had the right group. I
really did, and I knew. You know, it's funny I
look out and I you know, you talk about keeping
receipts sometimes, you know what I mean. I don't think
a person in this room picked the sixers.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
You know that one.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
But we did, and we chose to believe that we
could win anyway, and we almost pulled it off. You know,
Game six will be someone will think about. You know,
Game seven will be something we think about. But as
far as our guys fight against everybody who picked against us,
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they didn't care.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
They thought they could still win this series.
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And you know that's something good about our team.
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I thought, overall, we're fighters.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
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you were gonna lose were right. Your losers where the
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begin with this, but Doc Rivers was such low hanging fruit.
I had to start with Doc Rivers. But we've got
a doozy out of Memphis. Now, the Memphis area home
to the basketball team known as the Grizzlies. You'll be
hard pressed to find a Grizzly bear in Memphis. But
you will find a jaw Morant. You will find a
(18:12):
jaw Morant. And this involves the life and times of
the Grizzlies Guard. If you have not heard, it took
place over the weekend. Jah Morant, a man who has
got a max contract in the NBA, is in the
crosshairs again. What did he doubt? Did he go back
to Shotgun Willies in Denver? No, he did not, but
(18:35):
he did do a similar actor. Were no strippers involved
this time, but he did flash a gun. He flashed
a gun in a lase fair attitude situation there with
a bunch of buddies of his. On Instagram Live, the
video was posted with some friends. They were rocking out
(18:55):
in a car over the weekend. The video actually was
posted on Saturday, and it came out just two months after.
Two months after almost to the day, two months after
the initial Instagram video that was filmed near the Jiggle
Joint in Denver. You might remember that Ja Morant famously
(19:17):
expressed remorse and said that the gun did not belong
to him, that he would be better, He would be better.
And then on Sunday, once the video started bouncing around
the pinball machine started going viral. The Grizzlies issued a
prepared statement saying that they had suspended Jah Morant from
all team activities pending the league's review of the new video,
(19:41):
which of course is comical because it is the off season.
That is like suspending a teacher during the summer. What
exactly does that accomplish? But they have done it now.
Mike bass I don't know who that is. I'm told
he is a spokes hack for the NBA said that
the the NBA was quote aware of the situation, and
(20:04):
we're gathering more information, which is the standard default response
in these situations. So let us discuss the question what
is the verdict? What is the verdict on Ja Morant's
latest gun video? So I've got Thanksgiving, Bingo and Midway,
(20:26):
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a nice, nice lengthy vacation,
nice lengthy vacation for Jamrant. So but as far as
the verdict, the verdict on Ja Morant and latest gun video,
the verdict is number WHA. He's a buffoone. Jama Rant
(20:47):
is a buffoone. That is the verdict, period.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Stop.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Now, keep in mind having a gun is not illegal.
And some people are like, ah, there should be no
guns in America and all, it's not illegal.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
I have a gun.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
That's not really the issue here. He didn't break the
law per se having a gun, but he did break
a golden rule. When you have escaped trouble, right, when
you've escaped trouble, you probably shouldn't do the same thing
or a very similar thing again.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Hello, and yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
And that's besides the point, right, But here's the deal.
This is an optics problem for the NBA. You are
a superstar. If you're a superstar in sports, you're not
the one carrying the gun. You pay people to carry
the gun to protect you. That's the way that it works.
Ja Morant breaking the golden rule, if you will. And
(21:48):
he is the definition of the old trope of a
dumb jock Jamarant, right. I mean, the guy's got a
two hundred million dollar contract. I know, here's young, here's
young Ard. So I guess every activity as long as
you're young, you get a pass on that.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
But he got warning.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
He was given a warning, and he has gone back
down the same avenue again, the avenue of Sodom and Gomorrah.
And he's gone back down that road again. Good luck
living the life of a baller demands.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Up, no rules. Right, I'm the headliner and I'll throw
it all away all the way on Instagram Live.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
And this guy can give a course on how not
to use social media, right, he can use a idiots
guide to Instagram Live starring Ja Morant as yet again,
was he ratted out by someone? No, did somebody who
had an ax to grind with Jah Morant embarrass him?
Speaker 3 (22:50):
No, not at all, not at all.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
He turned the video on himself a candid camera moment
for Jahn Morant, while right, I mean, you can't make
this up.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
You cannot make this up.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
And you think about all the people that put their
neck out because they are writing the code tails of Jamrant.
People that Nike who had signed him to a massive
contract before the first video.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Came out, the NBA.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
They all formed Voltron to make his problems vanish. Back
in March when he was at Shotguns Willie Shotgun will
He's there in Denver, in the Denver area.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
And he made a mistake. The stress of being an
athlete for Jamarant.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Two months later, Saren dipity, we are back at it again.
The level of stupidity. The level of stupidity for Jamorant
is breathtaking. Okay, breathtaking is the word for what Ja
Morant has been able to pull off here. And I'm
convinced that he loves Thanksgiving. He's a big fan of Thanksgiving.
(23:52):
He is the star of the show. He's the turkey.
He's the turkey at Thanksgiving. He's the dim witted bird
in an internal state of confusion, Ja Morant, That is
him at this particular point in the story.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Oozing dumbness.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Oozing dumbness, Ja Morant now page two in hindsight, which
is always fun. How silly do the NBA big shots
look for the original punishment of Jah Morant letting him
off the hook?
Speaker 3 (24:26):
So forget hindsight. We don't even need to use hindsight.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
If you go back and everything's archived on the podcast
page for this show, and we'll pat ourselves on the back.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Why not? No one else will.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
But at the time this all went down, we had
pointed out in a previous episode of the show that
the NBA was full of crap ole, that they had
clearly shown the world they think their customers are a
bunch of Mamlukes, and there are people who follow that
(24:57):
sport that are easily bamboos and they were going to
bamboozle everyone.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
And they you know, they were right, They were absolutely right.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
The NBA saw they know their customers, morons, and they
saw it and it was all staged punishment. Manhattan crisis
management teams were brought together and they tossed together a
script and Ja Morant remember he met with Adam Silver
in Manhattan. He had to just sit down interview with
They're very sympathetic Jalen Rose, and they hugged it out.
(25:29):
It was wonderful. No hard questions were asked. It was
Softball City by Jalen Rose. It was the theatrical is
what it was. It was a theoretical shoulder to roll
your head on and get a massage, you know, a
little head rub and all that stuff. And we had
mentioned at the time apology bingo, which is what Jamarant did.
(25:53):
And if you had played apology Bingo, you would have won.
So if you go back and look at the statement
from Josh at the time, he said, and I'll I'm
not John Morant. We don't have the audio, but I'll
give you the statement here Josh said, honestly, I feel
like we put ourselves in that situation with our past mistakes,
(26:14):
and now it's only right that we focus in and
lock in on being smarter and more responsible, holding each
other accountable for everything. Moran said in a statement, he
was repeating the talking points, and then he went on
to say, but wait, there's more. John Moran said, I
feel like in the past we didn't know what was
(26:35):
at stake, but now finally me having that time to
realize everything, have that time alone.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
I realize that. No, he said, dope. Oh it's so good.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
He said, oh, man, I go on and there's a
bunch of other study but it's all buzzwords and catchphrases.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
It's I made a terrible mistake.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
He was holding back a smile while he said that
you played the family card, brought up his daughter. You'll
tug at the heartstrings. That's what you gotta do. Be smarter,
more responsible, accountability, all those things. Bad decision and it
was all for the cameras. It was all bullshoy. It
was all bullshoy, is what it was.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Now.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Final point, So what kind of punishment is Jahn Morant
facing this time?
Speaker 3 (27:24):
So it's a good news bad news.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
The good news is he's going to get a lifetime
contract with the NRA, so he will be a spokesperson
for the NRA, because he is losing millions in this
transaction millions.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
He was already off the All.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
NBA team, which he likely would have been on if
he had not gone to Shotgun Willies and turned on
Instagram Live. So he cost himself thirty nine million with
that over the course of his contract in extra earnings.
So you take thirty nine million there. Now the bad news,
other than the NRA thing is is the good news.
The bad news is that Jah Morant is all also
(28:00):
going to lose a lot more money because it is
not that complex. A Jaw has visited the Midway and
Midway is a fun place to go have a good time.
A lot of games there at the Midway and the
boardwalk games are out there at the Midway. And he
has decided to play the stupidest game you can play.
And as they say at the Midway, you play stupid games,
(28:21):
you win stupid prizes. So Jah Morant's prize will be
an indefinite suspension. We imagine indefinite suspension is coming down
the Pike for Jahn Morant that that will happen there
and Morant that will be suspended for an indefinite amount
of time. And there's one thing I know from my
years around big time sports. The people in big time
(28:44):
sports and just in life in general, but we're talking
in the context of sports, they do not like to
be made the fool. And Ja Morant, through his own actions,
has made them the full. The NBA pulled out all
the stops, as we mentioned, they came up with all
this bull craft. They pulled out Jalen Rose to massage
the shoulders of Jah Morant, and they gave him the
(29:06):
talking points to say, and he used all the big
talking points and all that, and he went back and said,
let's do it again. Let's play it back one more time,
and we'll put the video up on Instagram.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
Live.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
So good, so good, No more get out of jail
free cards from Adam Silver, mister softy there, who also
looks like a dope with a capital D, the commissioner
of the NBA, as he should now Silver at the time,
he issued a statement calling Moran's conduct irresponsible, reckless, and
(29:40):
potentially very dangerous. That was a prepared statement by the
Commissioner of the NBA. Morant, remember he went to get treatment.
We talked about how ridiculous this was. Nobody else For
some reason, the media brought this up. But if you
remember what John Morant's treatment was, he visited therapists doing
anxiety breathing exercises and something called right key treatment. You
(30:02):
probably don't know what that is. It's not mainstream a
right key a treatment. What on God's green Earth is
that you ask? I recommend doing your own due diligence
and looking it up. It's pseudo science, is what it is.
And it's also been called a scam. The NBA signed
off on a scam for Ja Morant. A ride key
(30:26):
is a Japanese form of energy healing. It is alternative medicine. Now,
not all alternative medicine is bad. This is something that
I would put, in my opinion, in the bad category.
It's supposed to promote relaxation and reduce stress and anxiety.
Right key treatment. What is it exactly? It uses a
(30:46):
technique it's called palm healing. The hands of the therapist
are on the body of the patient and hands on
healing through they say. Universal energy is said to be
transferred to the palms of the healer, to your palm,
the palm of the healer to the patient to encourage
(31:07):
emotional and physical healing. Yes, it's a palm job is Oh,
it's I.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Look at these websites medical quackery website, quack quack, quack quack.
This is right there. It's on the medical quackery websites.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
And nobody in the NBA media, all these dopes in
the media that followed the NBA and whatever the NBA says,
nobody said, wait a minute, you know that's not really legit.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Nobody brought that up.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
If you go to quack watch dot org, it's a
great website if you want to know about quackery. Quack
watch dot org. They have studied rei key therapy. It
is fertilizer, is what it is. A rei key has
no uh substantiated health value and lacks a scientifically plausible rationale.
(32:00):
It is science based healthcare. It says should not be
tolerated blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
And so there you go.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Jahn Morant in the NBA, maybe you can go back
and get some more of that net therapy. All right,
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(32:29):
that is just wonderful. I would I have a problem.
Just go down and we'll rub our poms on you
and you'll be good.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
That'll work, helps me, could possibly work. What depends how
good looking the person is rubbing the palms on you.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
It might actually be a stress reliever, depending how attractive
the person is.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
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Speaker 3 (33:23):
Well, it's Maller. How about that to the third degree.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
This is one big Ben gets great.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
Ben, real quick, I want to throw out an rip
to the godfather of poker, Doyle Brunson, Texas. Dolly passed
away on to eight. I think he was Yes, that
was correct, all right, Ben? It was reported over the
weekend that the preseason fight between Draymond Green and Jordan
Poole quote hung over the team all season long. Ben,
how much of an impact do you think that actually
(33:54):
had on the Warrior success.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
It was a factor for the regular season and all that,
but one of those things that would not have come
out at the Warriors beating the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
This story does not come out.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
And I'm pretty confident that Klay Thompson missing wide open
three point shots was not because of Pool and Draymond
Green having.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
An issue in training camp.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
So and the officiating was affected, but it's ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (34:17):
Next, after Montie Williams was fired by the Suns, there
was a report that said the team could go after
Tyl Lou as his replacement. Ben, could you see the
Clippers and Lou parning ways.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Yes, there's a lot of noise around Tylo that he's
not happy the Clippers aren't happy with him, and the
proof is always in the putting on these things.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
If TYLERU leaves.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
That'll validate all of those rumors that are bouncing around.
But he could go to the Bucks or the Suns.
Tylo I could see either one of those scenarios. So
it is absolutely on the table.
Speaker 5 (34:45):
Next after the release of the schedule, Kyle Shanahan said
during an interview that his wife refuses to travel to
Philadelphia after her previous experience there. Ben, Is there anywhere
that you've been that you would refuse to go back to?
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Yes, Afghanistan. I will not know. I've never known. I've
never been anywhere.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
I don't want to go back through Cooper Loop. I mean,
I wouldn't go places the first time. I don't want
to go back to How do we do?
Speaker 3 (35:05):
He passes? Is what you play on the bard? I
won the game.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
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Speaker 4 (35:26):
Were you talking to sons?
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Here?
Speaker 4 (35:28):
Some instant advice hold that thought.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
No one's paid attention to me for ten whole seconds.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
And if you don't like it, you in a way
week go It's the insta advice line onscreen radio and
who needs the wisdom, the knowledge, the advice of the
malord militia as we go to the phones early and often,
no safety net, no safety net.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
You're live on the air when you hear my voice.
And this is rather obvious.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
This week, for the second time in a couple of months,
Jahn Morant of the Memphis Grizzlies has been dinged by
his own Instagram live hosting a video holding a gun
after that whole Dog and Pony show where he apologize
and he got some pseudo science therapy in Florida. So
(36:20):
your advice, jackass to Jah Morant of the Memphis Grizzlies
on how to stop posting gun videos on Instagram live again,
you're live on the air when you hear my voice.
We'll go to the phones in eight seven, seven ninety
nine on Fox call early and often.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
Hello, line one, you're on the Airline one, go, Josh
should shoot everyone who talked in the bathroom.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
That's not good advice. Hello, line two, Line two, you're
on the air. Advice to Jahn Morant, line two.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
You tell them stout.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
Putting out their guns and then be a man a
stop being.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
A Okay, thank you for that. Eight seven, seven ninety
nine on Fox. We're off to a great start, unless
we are not. Hello, you're on the air. Advice to
Jah Moran. Line three. Hello, line three, a.
Speaker 6 (37:03):
New social media app with people gonna gun.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
D okay, thank you for that, Yes, line, Let's go
to you your next line for Hello, line four.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
Tell those creeps you don't talk to other men when
your hands on your dick and Dayton. All right, he said,
dick and Dayton.
Speaker 6 (37:18):
There.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
He said that.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
That's a caller. That's the caller of the year. So
we're good on that. Let's go to you online six. Hello,
line six. It's the instant advice line for Ja Morant.
Advice for him to stop posting gun videos on Instagram
shoot showing the hood guy. All right, that's angry Bill,
a loser calling in Hello line one.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
Hello, line one.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
You know this guy is a new fool.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
There you go as opposed to an old fool. Ironically,
Sean the hood guy calling in right there?
Speaker 3 (37:49):
What are the odds? Hello?
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Your next line too, You're on the airline too. It's
the instant advice line for Ja Morant. Advice for him
to stop posting gun videos on Instagram.
Speaker 6 (38:01):
Yeah, thrust the pizzas Jack even Coop's former TV.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
You're mumbling, sir, you don't mumble, okay, there's no need
to mumble.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
Hello. Line three, you're on the airline three.
Speaker 6 (38:11):
Two hands, twenty dollars, two hands, twenty dollars.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Okay, thank you for that, sir. We know what you're doing.
Line four, you're on the airline four.
Speaker 6 (38:17):
Go.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
Yes, the NBA players ought to stop taking pictures of
the nasty porn star strippers.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
Well, that's a non secutor. This is about all right.
Line six, you're on the airline six. Hello. Listen to
Ted Mugen Oh, Ted Nugent. Okay, very nice.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
We're giving advice to John Moran eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox. He's got a two hundred million dollar
contract with the Grizzlies, and for the second time in
a couple months, he has randomly self incriminated himself posting
a video flashing a gun, and he famously said after
the shotgun Willie's thing.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
It was not his gun. So I guess his friends
just love sharing their guns. Line one, you're on the
airline one. Go get a little hard liquor drug.
Speaker 6 (39:03):
Plant your line out.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
Okay, thank you for that. Yes. Line two, you're on
the airline too. Hello, he like blow Wayne, stay trapped? Okay,
thank you. Yes, let's go to line three. You're on
the air listen advice line for Ja Moran.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
Hello, Line three, Yeah, I go to Facebook. That's much
cooler over there on Facebook. Eight seven seven ninety nine
on Fox is the number. It is our public service.
We are giving back to Ja Morant. We're trying to
help him out. He's having he has an issue. He's
got a little bit of a hiccup. He likes flashing
(39:37):
his guns. He loves showing his guns. And the NBA
does not appreciate that. He's been dinged a couple of times.
Speaker 4 (39:45):
Now.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Hello, Line five, you're on the airline five. Bah bah
bah bah booie.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
Line six, you're on the airline six.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Go very crippled stuff.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Make some Mexican prince all right, get out. He's not
even he's not even here, you schmuck. He's not even here.
How dare you?
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Line one, you're on the airline one. Okay, calm down
over there, Jed who fled? Line two, you're on the
air we're giving advice to Jahn Moran.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
Line two, Yeah, god the hell? Okay, thank you. Line three,
you're on the airline three.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
Ja Moran is the guns like Shaun Watson is two women.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
Hello. Okay, well, thank you for that. Some solid advice there.
We'll hang up on you. Hello. Line five, you're on
the airline five.
Speaker 4 (40:36):
All right, thank you?
Speaker 3 (40:39):
With you one more and only one more? Coop, hurry up,
peck ed and three. Line three you're on the air
line three. Go all right. That was Jed too much?
Shed too much, Jed. We have our Jed quota. We're
good on Jed. We don't need Jed
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