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Speaker 2 (00:23):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Hello, welcome inside. Happy Thursday,
The Jason Smith Show with my.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Bes friend Mike Harmon. Well dressed, another night, another night,
jumping right into the NBA playoffs. Nos, just for me tonight,
God just get Yeah, I just can enjoy the games
for what they are. They may just sweat a little
bit though yesterday, Yeah, but that was Yesterbucker a bit.

(00:57):
Yeah but that was yesterday. But it's good. Got your
heart elevated that heart rate and you know, the flow
and everything good and then you can have that natural release.
Yeah to zip, good to road night.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Knicks fans are buying tickets in Philadelphia. Oh well, I
didn't need some coffee. Just always good when the guy says, hey,
don't sell your tickets, buy the tickets and then doesn't
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to go. Early in the first quarter, Oklahoma City with
a sixteen to thirteen lead over the Lakers. Lebron James
has four Austin Reeves already has two points. I mean, yeah,

(01:53):
I have to say that he already has to have
to say that Lebron James did a good stalking of
a referee after a foul was called on DeAndre Eyton. Uh.
Maybe a little bit of a flailing from good old
Chen uh, but Lebron none too happy about it. So
that was fun. Even's activated. Even though a one nothing
lead for Oklahoma City, it feels like a must win
for the Lakers. You know, you know the stats of

(02:15):
getting down to zip, especially team to a team like
Oklahoma City, And I mean I am stunned that Luka
Doncic has not been cleared to play. He's not ready
to didn't seem like we got the He finally spoke
yesterday and we learned how far behind he really was.
I got one thing to say that that this may
be a shocker, but I firmly believe this. I am
never going to Spain for any sort of medical help. Ever.

(02:38):
Why would I go then? But that's what I mean.
A lot of we've talked about last couple of weeks,
the hand on it to Spain, not going to Spain
because so many people in the past have gone to
Germany and other is Germany Spain? Why go to Spain?

Speaker 3 (02:54):
Spain?

Speaker 1 (02:55):
What help? I'm getting my elevated voice already. What do
you mean? I mean? Lucas like, why would you bother?
It's a four to eight week injury. He went, got
the PRP injections once every four days, went there. Hey,
we're five weeks in and it doesn't look like we're
gonna see Luca Like, Okay, I'm never going to Spain.
Why would I try? I can go to Spain. No,
Spain didn't help. Apparently Spain is not helping. Spain is

(03:17):
not mean, maybe cross off that place. Is to go
what do you need to go? There? I don't need.
But here's here's slim, good body. Now come on, dud.
But here here's the thing with it, though, is maybe
he was just that bad off that it's just taking longer. Okay, right,
So he was so injured and decrepit that he went

(03:38):
to Spain, and even if they helped him, it can
only accelerate it so fast. When you're a finally tuned
athlete in your mid twenties, I think that's your sweet
spot forgetting whatever injections. But he told me he was fat,
not a shame. But still, when you're in your twenties,
like everything, it doesn't matter what shape you were in.
I could go out, get absolutely blasted, fall asleep at
four o'clock in the morning, wake up and having thirty

(04:00):
big time headache, and go work at the supermarket and
I give you a good eight hours. I mean, I
need aspirin, I need I need to relax, I need water,
and I need diet coke. But I could give you
an eight hour shift. Machinery. But yeah, I could give
you that. Man, I'd be the opposite of whatever Luca is.
When when I was in college, I mean, that's one
thing I think that my boss should have understood. More. Boy,
this guy comes to play. He's a gamer, But can

(04:21):
you figure out how to pass that along when I've
got my twenty year old trip, my year off, nobody
wants to work. Well, you know he's twenty. I mean,
come on, all I know is all I know is
that I think I was really underrated as a produce
clerk and everything else I did. Yeah, I could go
out and I with the best man. I had no sleep,
come out and I'll give you a day where you
would go, wow, I can't believe he actually came to work.

(04:43):
Well he Nobody drilled small holes in produce like you. Nobody, No,
but I was imperative. You know how many Michael Jordan
flu games I had when I was working part time
in high school and college? How many flu games I had,
like hundreds hundred, back to back flu games I would happen.
How many people touched me? I would have backed that.

(05:04):
It's not ten o'clock yet, I can't say, but it
was all about boot around eight is showing up. And
even if you you don't really end up in a
net positives, as long as you haven't taken the the
operation down. It's a win, I mean, but really, I
mean there's certain things that will help. Now apparently Spain
is not one of them. Do not go to Spain

(05:24):
for whatever non United States approved medical treatment you might need. Well,
it's tough because I was hoping to keep it, you know,
arms wide open on this. If I decided I wanted
some nice paea and if in country someone was to
recommend some sort of medical procedure. But now I have
to categorically rule that out, and it might keep me

(05:44):
from going in and exploring the country. Are there places
in Spain that that will serve you pa and perform
whatever medical procedure they need. Well, sure you have the
medical procedure, then in recovery you get a nice paea.
Oh I want the paia first. Yeah, but you're not
supposed to have a surgery on Oh that is true,
Well it doesn't if it's surgery. Am I getting an injection?

(06:05):
PRP and jadgets today we're kind of all over them.
Does that make you hungry if you get a p
RP injection? Was that suddenly I'm really famished. I need something.
I need a bunch of protein. I mean, there's certain
places now and I'm crossing. I got my big map out,
and I'm map map with big macout. Big Mac is Friday,
McDonald's Friday. That's what we call it. By the way,
it's before ten o'clock. I can't say I got my

(06:27):
big Mac out. We can. It's Mac. No, Jason, this
is probably a conversation you should have after game three.
Uh no, Well, Lucas still not back after game two.

Speaker 4 (06:40):
He was never back game He's not even running. Man
was game three the whole time?

Speaker 1 (06:45):
He's not even That was a wish and hope, I
meanes the game happened. Yet, would you hear Luca's not running?
Get you said? How much? Does he really three? You know,
I'm not going to I'm sure tonight Spain should have worked, yes,
but he was never supposed to play tonight. Spain should
have worked faster than this. It should have worked. If

(07:05):
you have a questionable medical treatment that you have to
leave the United States to get, you can't just go anywhere.
You gotta go someplace. Okay, Well that's gonna give it
to me, whatever's gonna happen. I don't want to go
to someplace get a questionable treatment. Have it not helped me,
because now not only do I have it not help me,
I don't know what the after effects are on it.
Tay Shirt's preparing a huge treatise right now on what
the after effects of getting questionable medical help in other

(07:26):
countries is from. It's got like fifteen pages on Spain.
Think about starting a class last lawsuit too? Really? Yeah,
how can you start a class lawsuit? Easy? I just
start a class and tell me we want to do
a lawsuit. Oh oh, that's that's pretty good. Thank you.
You have to get people, yes, that would be in
the lawsuit. Okay, that works. I think that works. My
name is Klaus. Might be able to fill that up

(07:47):
at your local community center pretty fast. I went to
Spain and all I got was a lousy injection. You
have the T shirt? How does that not on a
billboard here in southern California at this point, Harball buy
Chargers tickets maybe every once in a while, buy some
Rams tickets, and it's a bunch of injury and accident attorneys.
How have they not capitalized on the Hey, did you

(08:09):
get a faulty procedure somewhere? Now? If it worked, it
would be more of the billboards would be more Luca proposed,
you know, as as opponent and a a person who
is you know, representing trips to Spain, like he would be, Hey,
visit Spain. It'd be Luca's picture visit Spain. Hypodermic needle. Uh,
you know whatever looks like plasma and whatever the uh what'say?

(08:30):
Sub not the substrfuge, but the centrifuge centrifuge. You had
a centrifuge there and then you had a picture payea
and you know, and that's what Spain's gonna be like that,
Hey visit Spain now, not visiting Spain. I can't believe
anybody from southern California and anybody in the southern California
area is gonna visit Spain after this.

Speaker 4 (08:46):
Why.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
I mean, look, you screwed Luca. If you you feel
like you're gonna be able to go in three to
five seven days unscathed, then not need medical assistance, then yeah,
you still make your trail. People are gonna hate visit
Spain just to find that doctor that can cure Luca. Well,
if he plays game three they did, I don't know. Well,
if he plays Game three and they're down to zip
like I still have a chance. No, I don't think

(09:08):
you do. With Luca. You do not, because Luca needed
a game to get back, to get his wind under him,
his stamina. He needed. Okay, when he comes back for
game if he comes if if, if, if he comes
back for game three, and that happens and he's terrible
and you go down three nothing, I'm gonna say, Hey,
I told you justin you're already Game three happen. I'm
telling you, I'm telling you we're in the early parts

(09:29):
of game two, and I'm telling you Spain Spain is.
You watch and see what the tourism industry of Spain is.
If Luca doesn't come back and the Lakers losing, make
it you watch it. Yeah, but I need all the
surveys of how what percentage of people that were visiting
the country were actually going for medical procedures. We don't
get nobody going there for me. No admitted that in
the past survey, right, going to travel, what are you

(09:50):
going for for business, for pleasure, for medical assistance on condition?
No one's going absolutely no one. Maybe maybe the guy's
on the land that he went, so I don't know.
Ten point lead for Oklahoma City. Right now, about a
minute and a half to go in the first quarter,
twenty six sixteen. JJ Reddick has just picked up a
technical foul. He held, hey, Jason Blanke, you man, you

(10:10):
know he actually he upset the official by demonstrating what
a foul he wanted called. Then he put his hand
on the official still didn't get a tee, and then
screamed at him. As the official was walking away from him.
The official said, that's enough technical on JJ Reddick. So
a chance for Oklahoma City to increase their lead now again,
ten point lead, minute and a half to go on.

(10:32):
He seems very happy about it. I'm just saying, hey, hey,
JJ Reddick doesn't like me, man, he doesn't like that
I speak. Try I speak truth. Don't go to Spain.
That's my day. It don't got him go Spain, Go
to Germany. Kobe went to Germany. He came back here
to drop sixty points in a game. I mean, come on, man,
that's I mean, that's how it works. Go to the
place where Okay, I'm gonna go to a place where
I know this is gonna work. Whatever blood they gave him,

(10:52):
whatever they in Germany, that's better than what happened in Spain. Again,
we go back to just the larger conversation of can't
get the treatment to get you back on the court
state side, but you can go abroad for whatever you
need to do. That still doesn't quite sit well with me. Yeah,
well no, I mean I want my stars on the court.
Well no, no, I mean so be it. But no, listen,

(11:13):
nothing sits well when you say, Okay, I'm injured, and
we have some of the greatest doctors, and especially in
cities like Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, and
you want you want to get to other places that
have big specialty uh, you know, Sloan Kettering. You want
to go to Minnesota, you want to go to Johns Hopkins, Like,
we have the best doctors in the world are here,
and I gotta go to Spain to get a medical

(11:36):
treatment because it's not quote super legal, pesky laws. How
do I get around? How do I get one of
these treatments? It's like the one of those commercials late
on late at night. Oh no, you can't find all
these great songs in one place. Oh, you can't get
something like this United States. Here's a brochure book your
ticket to Spain, go to Spain not not great for Spain.

(12:00):
Pain look out, you end up to like the Polka
king and a Ponzi scheme. People are gonna go to Portugal,
They're gonna go to Austria, They're gonna go to Germany,
They're gonna go to the UK. Not gonna go to Spain.
I mean Germany, just were they booked. They well, I
don't want the full up. I mean they won't not
want to follow fully in the laker footsteps of Kobe.
I mean I worked. If I need, Yeah, if I

(12:21):
need something that I know is questionable, and I know
where a guy went and it was very successful for him.
I'm gonna go there right like, I'm gonna do that. Yeah.
And again we throw the term questionable in just from
the way things are adjudicated and the policies and procedures
both of the United States and the NBA are being
questioned here in terms of what's allowed, what they turn

(12:42):
a blind I do. And obviously Adam Silver, as we've
talked about at nauseam on this show, Hey, if it's
good for I mean, you got guys win a Pulitzer prizes. Sure, Sure,
And nothing has come of it. I mean so, I
mean just to say what the Commissioner's office, Hey, is
he gonna be able to get back? I don't care
what he does? No, whatever he needs, whatever he needs,
however far he needs to fly outside of the United

(13:04):
States to get whatever medical treatment is okay in Europe
but isn't okay here. I mean, just think about that.
The plot of Anacondas too Uh you watched Anaconda too? Sure,
anacondas and the conda's anaconda and then to the blood
Orchid right, No, but was it called anaconda or Anaconda's No,

(13:25):
they added the s so kind of like alien so
alien aliens? So it was anaconda and anacon? Do does?

Speaker 3 (13:31):
No?

Speaker 1 (13:31):
I didn't see that second Blood Orchids, but same idea.
Wasn't that sex movie with Mickey Rourke? And wasn't that one?
Just like, guys, this is a premature take. I don't
know if Frostberg, you're JJ Redder's getting teas, you're gonna
be down to zip like you needed Luca tonight, not tomorrow,

(13:51):
and Jason's finished, not after breakfast. He needed Luca tonight.
You need him tonight, man and and Spain don't be
mad at me, be mad at Spain. I'm actually happy
that you're now banned from Spain. I'm not going. I'm
not going to Spain anyway. Why would I go to Spain.
It's more sun for everybody. I like the way he
said that, you're not going Pegs like I've ever been.
I've never I'm not going now. If you banned me
from Italy from everywhere I want. I want to go

(14:13):
there and have pasta at some point, but I mean
I'm not gonna go there and watch enough. The World
Cup teams are terrible. Uh No. Did go to Italy
for pasta is like me going to McDonald's for a
burger Like it is not cause they make a table
side like they do with a Caesar salad. I could
have a guy his hand hand with the eggs and
the and the the flour and everything and make it work.
I think it might take a little bit long because

(14:34):
you yeah, I mean it's supposed to be a leisurely dinner,
so we can just sit there if you've got the
hand crank out there. He's I'm making pasta for me.
I mean, yeah, No, I think there's a reason why
they only make stuff like wuakam only table side, something
that's just going to take a minute or two where
you're gonna enjoy it, and then you see it and
go out to you not like, oh was it pasta ready? No,
another three is going to rise a little bit. We

(14:55):
gotta let it sit here. Just hang on the on
the pasta hangar for three hours. What am I gonna
do until?

Speaker 4 (15:00):
Well?

Speaker 1 (15:00):
Then just have this conversation. Oh, good wine, lots of wine.
I'm Jason. How about Bosta? So yeah, I'm telling you man,
you see the tourism of Spain. They hit that's gonna
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(15:20):
couple of big buckets at the end, ruey hotcha Mora
is your Lakers leading scorer right now with eight twenty
seven to twenty three, Oklahoma City with the lead over
the Lakers. Will have more on this game coming up,
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the vehement, vehement Lee arguing with the officials. Uh, it
is in Oklahoma City. Thirty four to twenty eight, lead,
nine and a half to go in the second quarter. Yes,

(17:57):
the officials have been atrocious. Yeah, it's it's they're key.
Luca out of the game. He's trying to come into
the game. Jason, you're funny. He keeps saying, no, no, no,
you can't get it. Funny. You can't commit, you can't commit.
So we'll have more on this game coming up again.
Thirty four to thirty one now the Lakers, and even
though it's one zip, basically in a must win type

(18:17):
situation because of the caliber team you're facing going home,
and I get to a series doesn't begin until a
team loses on their home FO. I understand that if
this is a four to five matchup, if this is
a three six matchup, I get it. But when you're
playing the defending champs, who've been playing better than anybody
in the playoffs so far, and you go down to zip, yeah,
that's kind of it. So tonight about as much of

(18:38):
a must win as possible for the Lake. He takes
some solads that you played hard, you played strong in
the first half, particularly of Game one, and here hanging
early on. But to Justin's point, to neither side terribly
excited about the officiating thus far. A lot of would
be if they had fifteen challenges each, they might have
exhausted them, that's how bad. Yeah, poorly or at least

(19:02):
side to side. Like the Lebron James file that was
called when he ran through Caruso, a known agitator, so
you have that. There've been a couple of plays at
the Rim that have been called files, one where Lebron
was driving and Chet may have gotten a little bit
of body, but he certainly got a full handful of
basketball and just kind of looked at the referee to say,
what do we do here? And both sides kind of

(19:23):
laughing it off, knowing well what the rules of engagement
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Both teams in a playoff game. Miller for three and
he got it. Reggie Miller with a clutch tray and
it's one O five, one O two and a steel
Miller retreats to the three point line. Tied game.

Speaker 4 (20:15):
Milt Dark's missus okay for the Pacers.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
Dark's missus spat it around.

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You ain't half it is shot, No God, Reggie Miller
rebounded a file with seven point five.

Speaker 5 (20:32):
Seconds for only the second points they won the other time.

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Maybe this will be the math year Milner hits two.
Don't Anthony stumbles and falls, time runs out. NBC on
the call third player thirty one years ago to know that,

(21:03):
all the way back to nineteen ninety five, Reggie Miller's
eight points and nine seconds that turned a big deficit
into a one oh seven to one oh five winning
game one of the Eastern Conference semifinals. Yay, happy anniversary,
Reggie Miller.

Speaker 3 (21:18):
Yay.

Speaker 1 (21:19):
Hope you're enjoying the lottery. Hope the Pacers enjoyed the
lottery this year. Yeah, yeah, I'm worried about the Eastern
Conference semis and Manuel, I hope you're enjoying the lottery. There.
I feel better about that now, I feel much. That
really made you feel better? Better feel much? I mean,
because he's just going to point to last year and
the because you haven't won anything yet. Reggie Miller owes
his entire career. What is isn't the entire fame he

(21:40):
is dominating the due at eight points and nine seconds
with the Knicks. He owes the Knicks for everything, everything,
and maybe he'll keep him in his home in He's
made tens of billions of dollars off of that. He
should pay James Dolton talker career. But know, just give
money to James. Just give money to Dolan, because you

(22:01):
owe your entire career that eight points and nine seconds
against the Knicks. Yes, Spike Lee, whatever you do, give
money to Spike Lee and the Knicks. That's who you owe. Well, no,
but he's also helped Spike Lee's career because if he
didn't have someone to jaw with. Yeah, he was a
great director at all. But I mean, you know, Spike
Lee still went did Inside Man after and that's but

(22:22):
he needed Reggie Miller to keep propelling. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Spike Lee. You might know him from this film. Spike
doesn't have another villain. That's the whole thing, Like Spiked
you know, Reggie was his last villain. Yeah, you know,
it's kind of like what Unbreakable right where you know,
you know Bruce Willis and and right now the Owen Jackson, Yeah,
Jackson said every suit heroes got to have a villain. Yeah,
the only villain. He's got his fashion. Yeah. No, it's okay,

(22:45):
it's not as good. I really, I hope the pacers enjoys.
It was actually eight point nine seconds, so please don't
say nine. Sorry. I always just say, you know, making
it seem like it wasn't as great as it was
eight points and nine was eight points and eight point
nine seconds. Whoa, okay, six minute abs Are you crazy? Yeah? Oka,

(23:05):
are you crazy? Nobody? No, no, it's seven. Seven's the number, right,
He's done this since Yeah, no, no, no, no, nobody
will ever know. You know why, because the probably will
do it against the Knicks unless it's the next because
it's been on teaching film for thirty one years. Here,
don't do this. If you turn the ball over after
call a time out. Okay, if we turn the ball over,

(23:26):
the ball in the air, call a time out. Don't
don't throw it so high that it hits a beam
to stop play, but get it up in the air.
A couple of seconds will run off. Let's let's just
get a time out and we'll be all good. Now,
I'm glad we talked to you. Want to bring up
the topic of playoff failures because we go from nineteen
ninety five to James Harden. That's made that big fast
forward twenty one years uh earlier. Tonight, Pistons take a

(23:49):
two to nothing lead over the CASM. At this point
it looks like a sweep. One oh seven ninety seven.
Bad first half of the Pistons doesn't matter. They take
control late and James Harden again. I feel bad saying that.
Look how right we are every year we talk about
playoff James Harden. But that's kind of what happens. At
some point teams are gonna understand, Okay, we're not James

(24:11):
Harden away from winning anything, but we keep saying it
because he keeps proving it true. It's like going to
a slot machine in Vegas. I'm gonna player and I won.
I'm gonna go back to the same one. Why because
I won year Up night, I win again. Up, I
win again, I win again. Harden tonight three of thirteen
from the floor, four turnovers, the worst one with about
twenty seconds left when he dribbled. And this is the thing. Now,

(24:32):
Harden dribbles into traffic and he can't get out of
it like this. This is James Harden your mid thirties
versus James Harden his mid twenties. Harden dribbles into traffic
and now he can't get out of it, and he
looks bad. It's not like he's just turning the ball over.
He looks bad. He's stumbling, he's falling, and it just
looks even worse than just hey, I made a bad
pass or I got it stripped from me, right, It
makes it look even worse. That turnover clinched the game

(24:55):
for the Pistons and for Harden. In twenty five of
his career playoff games, he's got more turnovers than made
field goals. That's twenty five, one out of every four
James Harden playoff games more turnovers than made field goals.
Four turnovers tonight, three field goals tonight in the game,
like Harden, is just the the optic and image of

(25:18):
Harden again, the back of his basketball card is bigger
than the impact you have. You have asked him to
come to Cleveland, where at the trade deadline it was, oh, hey, okay,
he can come in and maybe take some pressure off.
No no, now, no ball, dominant guy again playing all
the minutes. Hey guess what happens when you're a thirty
five thirty six year old guy playing all the minutes
at a guard position in the playoffs. Yeah, this is

(25:39):
what's gonna happen to you. And this is playoff Harden
every single year, I don't know. Instead of look at
the back of the guy's basketball cards, got let's just
go back and look at some video of some last year,
the last five, six, seven, eight nine. Well, but the
best part of the basketball batter is the only put
on the stats for the regular season, So you're gonna
look that much better. That's true. That is true where

(26:00):
they still put statistics on the basket, and that's just
the top's base base card that you'll get that roll
through and whatever parallels thereof. But otherwise it's you know,
a couple of sentences about how great or what they
did or some great factoid of their hobbies. But to
that point, like the video as we watch this game unfold,

(26:21):
and certainly the twitterverse and other social media not doing
him any favors because you're seeing a bunch of players,
even in the first and second quarter, where he's got
what seems like an open lane to the basket, he
can't get there because he can't accelerate anymore, and he's
pulling the ball back out on the possession. Fourth quarter,
only one field goal attempt. Again, that's not why you

(26:43):
brought him in. A bunch of zeros in every other
category except turnovers, and he's minus nine for the quarter.
He looks like he's running in quick saying he's minus
fifteen for the game, by far and away the worst
plus minus of anybody on the Cavs. Like, I don't
I don't get this fascination with James. I I guess
there's people like that everywhere, at all walks of life,

(27:03):
whatever you do for a living, there's always that one
guy at work where it's like, how is this person
this high? I don't understand how they're this high at work?
I mean I don't mean like they went out and
got high. I mean like how are they moving? How
are they reason or excuse? Then? How are they failing
upward like this? Like how is this person my boss?
How is this? They make bad decisions after bed and
still they keep the job. And I don't understand, Like

(27:23):
everybody knows that person the NBA, that's James Harden, That's
absolutely James Harden. Reputation of what he wants might have been.
But we watched it for years of playoffs. Look, and
you still got to get to the playoffs. So that's
that's where you have the hard part, right, because he
can get you there. Problem is once you're there, the
drop off in his play and output per minute is

(27:44):
just unbelievable. But even even at the even when he
was in his prime, Harden, the same thing would happen.
He'd get to he was never in great shape. He'd
get to the end of a playoff game, he would
get tired, there'd be a big turnover, a couple of misses,
and and Harden's team would lose. Like even when he
was in his heyday, that would happen. Now it's gonna
get better now. No, But the thing watching him all

(28:06):
these years, right, the number of long, weary minutes. We've
talked about it for as long as you and I've
been doing the show. It seems because what he's seeing
we year sixteen, seventeen of his career at this point
that you've watched it, and he's playing forty plus a night,
Like physically, that's he's not that guy. He's certainly not
that guy now and you could argue he never was.

(28:28):
I mean, how many jokes would be made, even even
before the would be fat suit thing and the calling
out of Daryl Morey and everybody else. Even before that,
it was the I this guy should be running thirty minutes,
go to optimization and maybe get him in the right
right team. That's going through all the analytics of where

(28:49):
the breaking point is in terms of his production versus well,
he's the best option we have. Well, what's that win
above replacement at that position? Because defensively it couldn't have
been much yeah, at any point in his career. But
offensively yeah, I mean you would have had a bit
of a drop off, but if you're gonna get a
more consistent effort on the other end of the court,
the overall effect wouldn't have been as great. So I

(29:11):
was wonder, you know, from your analytics people, did they
not see that there was you know, the breaking point?
All right? Admitted thirty three, that's it, We're done. You
put Jonahill in charge of that, and he would have
James Harden like, yeah, yeah, I think I think I
think it's an imperfect What does he say about Johnny
Damon to the to the Yankees. I think the Yankees
have an imperfect idea of where runs come from. I

(29:32):
think the teams that trade for James Harden have an
imperfect idea of where playoff wins come from. Like that's
really what it is. No, And it's tough because he
was a guy that we celebrated because of the fact
that he at least showed up every game, right because
even in as load management started to started to hit,
when he was legitimately able and available to play, he
showed up. Just you didn't have the same results at

(29:55):
the end of the game. Billy, this is James Harden.
He's a great player. His only drawback is in the
playof he stinks any help get us to the playoffs,
because depending on your franchise, that might be a real
big selling point. Wait, you said in the playoffs, he's
gona get what about the regular season? Just stop there,
and then they hand you his twenty six twenty seven

(30:16):
basketball card as you're filling out your roster exit out
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Live Bet Breemuro, who has the over in goals between
Carolina and Philadelphia, and she might be catching that ticket
thanks to the Hurricanes.

Speaker 7 (30:36):
It's six and a half, so I don't think so.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
We got Philadelphi's gonna There's gonna be another goal. Carolina
Philadlhis have an empty net. There's gonna be another goal.
Just trust me, Trust me.

Speaker 7 (30:47):
I'm trusting you. I put a lot of money down
all right, way more money than I put yesterday.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
I like that you knew what the over under for
the goals were right away off the top of your head.
That's impressive.

Speaker 7 (30:57):
If I'm live bet Bree, aren't I supposed.

Speaker 1 (30:59):
To know you are out harmoning Harmon with right to
the bets like that's pretty good. Well, yeah, I mean Harmon.
But you didn't know what the old runner for the
goals in the game was. I thought it was five
and a half. Okay, okay, I bet b got it.
So a little bit here you go. How little more
work for you? Then? This is impressive?

Speaker 7 (31:16):
Thank you so much. I have like so much confidence
right now.

Speaker 3 (31:19):
All right, guys at the Lakers have a little bit
of confidence. They're on top of the thunder fifty two
to forty nine, two and a half minutes left to
go in the second quarter. Austin Reeves is carrying the Lakers.
He has thirteen points. DeAndre Ayton has six rebounds. Lebron
James not doing so hot. He has a turnover and
just about like eight points or so. Earlier. The Pistons
have won five straight games. After being down to the

(31:40):
Thunder three to one, they took a two zero series lead.
They took down the Cavaliers one O seven to ninety seven.
Kateunningham twenty five points and tennis is Tobias Harris added
twenty one points. He's had seven straight twenty plus point
playoff games, so that's exciting for him. Donovan Mitchell had
thirty one points and six assists in the loss. And
how you guys were talking about James Harden. He struggled.

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He was three of thirteen from the fields. He only
had ten points and for turnovers. Bj Tucker announced his
retirement from the NBA after twenty years, fourteen of those
years in the league and then the NFL. The Vikings
are signing former forty nine ers wide receiver Jawan Jennings
to a one year deal worth up to eight million
dollars and in the NHL playoffs right now, the Hurricanes
are beating the Flyers four to one, four and a

(32:22):
half minutes left to go in the third period.

Speaker 7 (32:24):
So fingers crossed, Thanks a bunch, you're.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
So hide it, you know, hey, just really quick, sneaky
good signing there. Juwan Jennings one year, thirteen million. He's
been out there for a long time. You thought, hey,
the Niners are going to get lucky because he's going
to wind up having to go back and I just
clearly don't want to invest in him. But for one
year thirteen million, you're talking about a top three wide
receivers now that you eventually you think you're gonna throw

(32:47):
the ball to Justin Jefferson again. But with Jefferson and
Addison and now Jennings, that's a pretty good that's a
pretty good three guys for Kyler Murray because you know
he's going to be the guy's a that's a sneaky
good signing by the Bishoka. That is incentive based as well,
So that's good. You got a lower base and he
doesn't have to be the number one, and that's the
huge unless Justin Jefferson by hanging out with Joe Burrow

(33:08):
finds his way out of town. I don't know. They
were at the metdall and everything together, hanging out together.
I don't know all right, suchrafuge exit out about a
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big story out of the NFL. What quarterback is now

(33:48):
officially the New York Jets of quarterbacks? That's next right here.
The ANSWER's gonna surprise you, Jason and Mike Fox.

Speaker 5 (34:02):
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Speaker 1 (34:11):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. The Carolina Hurricanes are a minute away
from going up three zip over the Philadelphia Flyers. Jason
Smith two Philadelphia zero. I got the Knicks up two zip.
I'm gonna have the Hurricanes up three zip. I am
crushing Philadelphia right now. That means something swinging the other

(34:34):
way on that pendulum. Crushing. Yeah, you're gonna be wreck No,
it don't matter anymore. That was April. But I'm getting them.
It's just terrible.

Speaker 4 (34:43):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (34:44):
Now, big NFL story, something we've told you for a while.
But it looks like Aaron Rodgers is returning to the
Steelers for this season. According to sources earlier today talking
to the Steelers, turn seems imminent. He's gonna visit. I'm
sure they're gonna figure out a contract situation for him.

(35:05):
As we heard the last couple of days, the Steelers
says say, hey, listen, it's gonna happen. We're gonna get
it done. We're gonna have something sooner rather than later.
Blah blah lah. Look, we told you all the way
through Rogers coming back. He's not gonna go start out
somewhere else, gonna have one more year with Mike McCarthy.
It's gonna make Mike McCarthy wait and beg for him
to come back. He's gonna go through the entire draft
so they don't draft a quarterback that's gonna come and

(35:25):
potentially play instead of him. This year they went developmental
for the quarterbacks with Drew Aller and everything is fine.
So he's gonna come back. But just think about this
for Aaron Rodger. Okay, just to take Aaron rodd and
put him in the proper perspective of where he is
now as far as pantheon of quarterbacks going to the Jets, right,
Aaron Rodgers owned the off season and the regular season

(35:48):
comes in. It's a huge story. The Jets sign him,
he gets hurt, he comes back, the Jets stink. He
has an Okay, last part of the year. Is he
gonna keep playing? He decides to keep playing, goes back
to the Steelers. Last year, what's he gonna do. He's
gonna decide to keep playing or not. Goes back to
the Steelers this year. Aaron Rodgers is the New York
Jets of quarterbacks because we spend way more time and

(36:11):
attention on them in the off season than we do
in the regular season when their play is not quite
up to snuff. Right, Because Aaron Rodgers had a fine
year last year, still at best, what is he is?
He barely in the top third of quarterbacks or the
top two thirds rather of quarterbacks, around the twentieth best
quarterback of the NFL. It's about where Rodgers is now.
Not that he's terrible and not that he suddenly can't

(36:33):
do it. But really, how much did we talk about
Aaron Rodgers during the season, right, Not nearly as much
as the offseason. He owns the off season. He finds
a way every single year to make the offseason about him.
But when the regular season comes, yead a lot less
again with the with the Jets injured, not good. The
Jets were terrible last year with the Steelers, yeah, he
was okay, they went out in the first round of

(36:54):
the playoffs. It's the same thing, Aaron Rodgers the off
The Jets own the off season. They always have the
draft picks, they always pick very high in the draft.
They spend a lot of money in free agency. They
find some way to have embarrassing stories come true, like
we're bringing back Geno Smith. The offseason, the Jets own
the pesky games were a little bit too much of them.
Aaron Rodgers is the Jets of quarterbacks. The off season

(37:16):
is great, spend a lot of time talking about him,
but the game show up and it's like, oh, there's
like seventeen or eighteen better stories out there. Yeah. I
mean I pitched a lot of Road to WrestleMania stories
that you opted out of in favor of Aaron Rodgers coverage.
But it's the idea that you always want to remember
what was right we played. The play of the day
was Reggie Miller from thirty one years ago. Yeah. Part

(37:37):
of that is to stick needle. I mean, we could
have done Jordan nov Elo was done on this day
to vanquish the calf of the years, all of those
kind of things, But it's you know that bridge and
remembering Aaron Rodgers at his peak. And let's face it,
a lot of the quarterbacks that rank higher than him
right now are still a giant question marks of Yeah,

(37:57):
they're higher than him because he doesn't really throw the
ball any efficiency downfield, the intended air yards at six
yards per throw, all of those things, but he still wins,
and he's still more interesting than most of these other guys,
and I think that that's the thing the NFL needs
to start pushing. You don't have a lot of personalities
because you're trading a lot still on the Kelsey brothers

(38:19):
once retired. The other is slinking his way that way.
Min hell Sam Smith showed up for the met gallon
some giant outfit and people go, boy, Travis Kelsey really
let himself go. Yeah, so yeah, things. Yeah, I did
put that disclaimer on there. This is not Travis Kelsey.
But the fact that you had to, I mean, the
people were looking for anything, because otherwise it's been it's

(38:42):
been pretty quiet. Like today, I got an email on Hey,
are you ready for the schedule release? Yeah? When is it?
Look to understand that this is when Aaron Rodgers does
his best work being that guy. Well, what I'm having
you wait on me to see what I want? My whims,
my ayahuasca, all this stuff is great. They're great, colorful

(39:05):
stories in the offseason, but when the games come, it's like, Okay,
well now we're talking about Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes
and Justin Herbert and the Cowboys, and we're into there's
seventeen other things that are bigger. It's like the Ausa. Hey,
this is all great, but we're not talking about Ayahuasca
and Aaron Rodgers in the regular season. In the end,
how much would we talk about the Steels? Yeah, Steelers there,
they win a couple of games, they lose a couple
of games. Who are the Steelers? Who have they been?

(39:26):
They're gonna win nine or ten games, squeak in the
playoffs maybe and lose the first game. That's the Steelers.
But that's it. It hasn't changed. And now the formula
just includes a future Hall of Famer And how does
he pat his stats and add to the end of
his career in the win loss total if you use
quarterback wins as a stat or not. But I mean,

(39:47):
his touchdown interception ratio was exceptional last year. But did
you think he had a lot of meaningful throws?

Speaker 3 (39:55):
No? No?

Speaker 1 (39:57):
Right, did you really remember an any big moment?

Speaker 4 (40:00):
No?

Speaker 1 (40:00):
I remember, I remember all the throws where I watch
where I go? He really just took two steps back
and threw the ball away, Like really, the play the
play is not. The play is dead from the from
the from the snap, you're giving a free down to
the defense, where hey, I can't throw the ball more
than five yards, So if DK Metcalf doesn't have a
step on the dB in the first three steps, I'm
just throwing it away because I'm not gonna get hit.
Like That's that's Aaron Rodgers the last three years. When

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you say to me, Aaron Rodgers, that's what comes to mind.
Those two steps and I throw the ball over. Everybody's
had out of bunds. But it also comes back to
we're talking you and I, two guys who's franchises have
just a litany of really bad quarterback play for many,
many years. And if Caleb Williams hadn't shown up, I
would have been clamoring for this version of Aaron Rodgers

(40:44):
to show up in the place that he already owns
Exit out bout a Fresca exit swollen Dome. Congratulate you
played for them. Now you are the Knicks. Sorry, you
are the Jets. Next show. I can't get away from
the Knicks, man, You're the Jets of NFL QBS, big
developing story out of the NFL. Next Fox Sports R
team gets to one time during the playoff, Hey we

(41:07):
need an extra day. You get to shoot that guy? Hey,
you know what I need to move that meeting to tomorrow.
I mean, can you do it for your top in
any organization? I'm with you there for you your boot
and rally kind of thing you were talking about last
hour when you were working at the grocery store. But
if you're you know, big meeting and a big presentation,
that's worth you know, it's it's the salvation of one

(41:27):
or more companies or or divisions or whatever. It's like,
you know what I need another day, You're probably gonna
get that other day. Likewise, here, baby, that becomes a
new thing. Hey, television partners, you're burying us anyway, So
let's figure out a new angle. A three from ruiy
Hachamora has given the Lakers a sixty one to fifty
nine lead. Again, we just tipped off the third quarter,

(41:48):
just over eleven minutes left to go. Why is this
game so close? It felt like it was gonna be
in Oklahoma City runaway. Welcome to the NBA playoffs. Austin Reeves.
Austin Reeves in the first half thirteen points, five out
of nine from the floor, one out of two from
three point range. He's got four assists. This is why
look Lebron is playing well. Like across the board, he's

(42:09):
playing pretty well. Hotchin Moore is hitting a few shots now,
he's now four for five from three point range. But
here's Austin Reeves who they needed to be Austin Reeves,
and now that's why this game is close. Congratulations, welcome
to the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (42:21):
No.

Speaker 1 (42:21):
I mean it'd be nice if they had Jalen Williams
back to the other Jalen Williams. Sure, sure, you know,
the really good one. Yeah, would help, But you know
you mentioned Austin Reeves. I mean, look, we've also got
an appearance of Lukenard. Yeah right, JOI, We've talked about
him a bunch. Thirteen minutes. Again, he's three of four
from the field, couple of three point shots, eight points.
Jackson Hayes given him some minutes off the bench, so

(42:43):
little bit of bench and extending that rotation for JJ
Reddick here early success in the second game of the series.
So we'll keep you updated on this. Of course, this
is a huge basically again a winner, go home game
for the Lakers. They can continue this series and hope
and pray that Luca comes back at some point. But

(43:04):
this a big, big, game right now again early in
the third quarter, plenty of time left to go. But
I did see that there was an imbalance in the
force in terms of the betting market, that there were
more bets right on the Lakers, right to the bets,
right to the bets. You went, we plus fifteen and
a half where the money is right, where the money
is to be made. Fifty bet on the Lakers, straight
to the bets. Okay, I'm informing and educating America, trying

(43:29):
to tell them where the consensus is that if you
play it, but if you play it in your mind
of plus fifteen and a half, the Lakers are killing Okay, Hey,
there you go. No, I'm glad. It depends on which
perspective you're looking from. It depends. It depends on where
you put the money. Well, I mean losses or does
the plus fifteen and a half have some extra special

(43:52):
meaning to you? You're happy or you're now Jason started
talking about Austin Reeves and now he's hurt. Yeah, all
I did way to go. Austin Reeves was playing great.
He's on holding his arm. We've seen this though from
Reeves in the playoffs. Get it. He's down for last.
Then he's okay, getting back up again. He is on
the floor right now, holding his arm. The officials are

(44:13):
going back to look at this to see if it's
gonna be a flagrant foul. He's sixty three sixty one lead.
Reeves is up walking around and it looks like he
is okay. He gets tangled up.

Speaker 4 (44:24):
Absolutely dirty play by Shade, got a dirty play, They
get tag a dirty player.

Speaker 1 (44:31):
Yeah, I think that's one of those where I think,
if you're Austin Reason, he's going to be kicked out
of the NBA. Did you just see what he did?
They're gonna strip him to that second d Tell me
what did you see sg A do on that play?
What did you see him do? I can't even tell
the public. If two guys got tangled up and Austin

(44:53):
Reeves went down, it's being reviewed. We just went down. Yeah,
it was in a hostile act. That's all I need
to He went down, he went No, I know the
thunder or Chad actually the thunder or challenging this right
now for a foul call. So we'll see. They went
to a commercial break. Uh, we'll see what I was.
But boy, I'll tell you whatever it was, whatever it
wasn't happened, which was hard to see anything. But Austin

(45:14):
Reeves he sold the hell out of it.

Speaker 4 (45:16):
Man.

Speaker 1 (45:16):
Yeah, I think he's sold just through the energy at
him like Dan House and then collapsed down. He went
for that guy wrestling like Jesus. So he just kind
of flips the guy around by pointing at him. Foul.
I'm no, I'm saying there was probably a foul. I
I don't believe. I think Austin Reeves is gonna be okay.
I doesn't rise to the level he's gonna be okay. Well,

(45:36):
does not have to do with the dirtiest play I've
ever seen. This happen, absolutely filthy in the eyes again
in mind of Justin Frosty. If you could tell me
what it was, it was so dirty. But I get it,
you can't. You don't. You don't want to put it on.
I understand you're looking out for the kids. You're looking
out for the kids that are listening adult and I
think that I think that's good. Yeah, but well, yeah,
my dad would want to hear something like that. Though

(45:58):
my dad he would just say, no, give me the detail,
see you give me the details on it. Of course,
my dad sometimes he said. He'll say to me, Hey,
you talked about this video the other night, and I
was trying to find that. I go, why didn't you
say it? Like, well, Dad, it's a video, it's a
you know, it's a video that we just allude to
that you go find it if you want to. Yeah,
but I couldn't find it. I'm like, Dad, Dad, I'm
not gonna I can't tell you where to find videos
like that. You gotta go find it on your own

(46:19):
if you want it. Then I get a little upset, going,
my dad really wants to see that video, Okay, you know,
I'm just just gonna think about and then he ends up.
Now you have no money? My lad went for the
will if my dad, my dad could make money on
only fans, because everybody can, because you know, I'm watching
uh what's her name? Needs a lot of money. Margot
has money troubles, and apparently show right, anybody can, Like

(46:41):
my dad could just be barefoot on only fans talking
about the Yankees, and he'd make so much money. Might
he'd make so much money? I really do think that,
you know, for the show, we should test that hypothesis. No,
you know what I'm gonna doing for you guys once,
I'll find a way to do it. My dad, I
don't know if you know my dad has the biggest
thumb and and big in the world. Yes, you know,

(47:04):
if you saw my dad's thumb, my dad's thumbnail from
one side to the other is like three inches. That's
how big, that's how wide? How big my dad's thumbnail.
So what you're saying is you never a percentage out there.
The thing is, I could get on board Walt w
O F Walt only fans, but like to But then

(47:26):
you look at his toenails, his his big tone. You go,
that's like four inches from from side to side. And
it's not like he's got overly large hands or feet.
It's just the width of his thumbnail and his and
his big toe is like you see orange. My goodness, man,
it might be you know, I was gonna ask if
he was in some kind of experimentation m CU or

(47:50):
you know the I mean, you could you the other
DC comics if you were running out and you had
to leave somebody your note, like you know, now you
send people a text, but if like you know, hey
I got to run, you leave your wife a note,
and you have to write a piece of paper and
I'll post it, like you could write a note on
my dad's thumbnail and toenail and people would be able
to read it. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (48:08):
Watch this play, by the way, Watch it real quick
and you think it's not dirty. Watch him wrench his
arm that it's already been hurt.

Speaker 1 (48:14):
Last round, Austin Reeves reason flag, Austin Reeves has this.
Austin Reeves Sga is looking for the basketball. He's looking
for the basketball at the top of the key, and
Austin Reeves puts his arm in like he's got his
arm around him like Leo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet at

(48:36):
the front of the Titan sort of, yes, or the
mic vable Diana Rossini pictures that from fishing. From fishing. Yeah, uh,
so he does have his arm around him to hold him.
Sga makes a move to get the arm out, and
the arm wrenches a little bit. They'll build back, Jason,
he completely wrenched his kay okay, and Austin Reeves is

(48:57):
now shooting technical free throw, so I think he's okay,
got it. He's shooting the teas right now that are
giving the Lakers a five point lead. So I think
he's okay. I think he's a reason it's a flagrant one.
I think he drew that dirty pretty good. It's not
look well they said they assessed the technical file to
Alex Crusoe. It would be really dirty if he didn't

(49:20):
put his arm in you know. He put his arm
in there to try to deny the ball and then
the move for for SGA. So it's not like, you know,
completely Austin Reeves is blamelessness. But he did what he
wanted supposed to do, got the foul. He's shooting free
throws wherever you want. That's a five point lead. Now
you're good man, How are you not? Should have been
kicked out? Kick him out of the league, not even

(49:43):
out of the game. That's a dirty play. Out of
the league. Kick him out of the league again, he's okay.
Austin reasons overrated player of all time. Wow, there's a
hot take right there. Is the most overrated player ever, shait.
I don't know about that. I mean maybe the most
he's Canadian. Maybe he's a bit well you know, hey,
that means he's gonna win a silver medal in something.

(50:03):
Oh too soon for that, Canada too soon soon, I
got I have to admit I am surprised the Lakers
have kept it this much of a game so far.
But again, Austin Reeves has played really well. You want
to look at the difference between Game one and Game two.
The Lakers stayed close, but they faded in the third

(50:26):
quarter into the fourth quarter because Austin Reeves couldn't hit
anything at one point one out of ten from the floor.
Why isest Now we're in getting to the middle part
of the third quarter and the Lakers have the lead.
Austin Reeves is playing well. Your stars have to play
like stars. That I mean, that's it's really that simple.
In the NBA playoffs, Yes, you win championships and you
find ways because your role players, your your support guys

(50:47):
have a couple of big games that that were unexpected
over the course of a seven game series. That's how
you win. But you don't win if your stars aren't
playing big, right, nobody wins. No, No one says, boy,
you won that title despite the fact that Jalen Brunson
was terrible. He won that title, despite the fact Kay
Cunningham was bad won the time. No, you don't win
that way. Your stars. It's almost like a given they
have to play big or you're not going to win, right,

(51:08):
you can't. You can't win a championship if it's just
your stars playing well. But you can lose it very easily.
And Austin Reeves tonight having a big night, looks much
more confident, looks the best he's been so far since
he's come back from his injury. And the Lakers have
a two point lead getting the midway part of the
third quarter, and Reeves has eighteen points to lead the Lakers. Well,
he's hot or cold? Right, So the three games back,

(51:30):
the last between last series and this bad game, solid game,
terrible game. Now we get Tonight six of ten from
the field in his twenty three minutes, giving you twenty
one points, Canard and Hayes with their fourteen off the bench.
But look, if you want Max Money, you you can't
emulate James Harden at this point. Max Money somewhere like

(51:53):
like is that there's a lot of Max months there
because there are multiple there's four MAXs in Major League Baseball. No,
but I mean there was Max Power, Homer was Max power,
and Max power money. Max money has to be somebody's
name somewhere like either someone giving stock advice or if not,
I will become Max Money starting tomorrow, an adult film
actor or something like. There's got to be somebody named

(52:15):
Max Money right like this, there is uh one two
X or three xes, doesn't matter. Well, you're then you're
the adult film actor if you have three xes. But
like Max with one x two X is like Max Crosby,
you're Max Money. Okay, I wrestler got to have that. Yeah,
Max Money is a great wrestler name too. You do anything.

(52:35):
I wonder Guys that don't have a great name like
that can't do all three of those things. I'm an
adult film actor, I am giving financial advice, and I'm
a wrestler. Valvenus, right, Valvenus, Valvenus, val Venus, there's a
different there's a space between val not Valvenus, like it's

(52:56):
a part of the bodynus. What happened? But was the
something music and the towel around the waist? Someone kicked
me when I wasn't looking. I hurt my Valvenus. No,
I mean, I don't think that's the case. Pretty good though.
I walked into the control room. Fruckberg said, here's your
stuff about the Lakers, and he kicked me in the Valvenus. No,
I don't think that we can make that trend hashtag Valvenus, Valvenus, Valvenus.

(53:20):
All right, So that's where we are right now, sixty
nine to sixty eight lead for the Lakers, seven forty
five left to go in the third. Again, Austin reeves, Okay,
after the foul, the thunder challenged it, thunder loose, Lakers
hit free throws, and we have a game right now,
midway through the third quarter. So more NBA on the way.

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