March 6, 2026 • 40 mins
Jason Smith: I would be the Sean McVay taking over for Jeff Fisher if Wendy's made me their Chief Tasting Officer. I'd have Wendy's in the Fast-Food Super Bowl in 3 years.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
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He is the way tire buying should be. Well, we
got big trades in the National Football League, we got
teams making moves. We have seismic NBA news, seismic seismic.
I always thought they could get seismic to rhyme with thisman.
I would call eminem and say, hey, here's a wrap
for you. Here, here's seismic and thigsman. But if you
(00:59):
swallow the end, it works all right. Yeah, you can
make any almost with the proper beat that kind of
comes over that second syllable, you can. You can make
that happen. Yeah, but we are and I keep my
fingers scrawled, you know. I always like to say I
say this out loud and and we make it happen.
You know, the last couple of nights you said, hey, look,
you know it's a it's a good night in the NBA.
(01:19):
When there's ten games. If we get one of them,
that's close, right, Because this is the air of the
NBA we're in right now, right, we don't get close games.
It just doesn't happen. Hey, we got some close games.
About that. Yeah, we got the Warriors and the Rockets
at one on one a piece with one tenth of
a second left in the fourth quarter. Piston Spurs third quarter,
eight point games. Still a good game. So okay, we're
(01:40):
all right with that magic beat the Mavericks one fifteen
one fourteen. Alright, we got some close guys. I say it,
I make it, make it happen, Mike car and maybe
put it out there in the universe. This is why
when Frostburg says stuff like good a jitsu, good Derek
Carr like, I'm worried that's actually going as we're getting
getting too, we're getting to a and Derek Carr Hackenberg.
That's the problem. The level of success means that some
(02:02):
of the inane things that we shout out just to
get under your skin or you guys do to get
under mind. Some of those are gonna come true. Just
the track record has just been so good. Now, there
was a foul call that was being reviewed in the
final seconds of that Rockets Warriors game where Kevin Durant
challenged and got ball, but as he did the follow through,
(02:27):
you got some some contact and instead, well, now we
get our end game where we've got point three left
and an inbounds play to try to win it. But yeah, chaos,
we got close games. Man. The over under we hope
for on a full slate is one and a half
outam dude. You go right to the betting so fast.
(02:48):
I know something is up with you. That's the bet
that you're gambling. I know you're gambling. I know you're
like an out of control gambling Now you must be
because you go it's no longer like hey, you know
I want to be up on this, because gambling is
a big your deal now and we talk about you
go straight to it, man, like it's your first thing.
It's like me, what used to wake up in the
morning going what do I want something? Chocolate? It's eight thirty. Yeah, yeah,
(03:09):
I have something chocolate right now, I gotta wake up.
Like that hasn't changed. You go right, you go right
to the gambling now, I mean, chocolate is going it's
not even clo. No, I wait, I wait till chocolate.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
No.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah, you did usually the right side of ten, you know, yeah, right,
so because you're normally not getting up till about ten.
So no straight out of bed. But let's not let
let's not conflate this, and you go. You go right
to the gambling so fast. Now it's almost like I
feel like any conversation that you might have off the
air goes right to gambling. How you doing tonight? I
put day well, you know, you know it was it was,
(03:43):
it was, you know it was uh it was eight
to one. The sun was going to be out by
ten o'clock this morning, and now you know we had it.
We had the sun at seven thirty. So uh, I'm
feeling pretty happy. You know, tomorrow next couple of days
is going to be kind of a gloomy day, so
I wouldn't go sun tomorrow, but you know, SUN today
was a right call.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Do you have the odds on Jason leaving us for
Wendy's in the next week. Oh that's that's even money
right now. Okay, Wendy's might actually be a slight favorite.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Let's talk about this for a second. Okay, before we
get this a big deal. This is the big story
developing after a week of chaos in the fast casual
kind of dining experience. I always say, there is very
little jobs that would be open to me that I
would leave doing this for right, very little. Like if
you said to me, you could be the play by
(04:28):
play voice of the match. You have to travel to
the pesky away games. Okay, I do all the home games. Yeah,
I would do it. If I could just make me
my you know, my my big what I do every
off season where I invite NFL coaches and we go
over time management two minutes of games coaches that need that,
and make a lot of money at that. But it's
kind of a side hustle. But if I could turn
into a full time gig, absolutely hundred percent certain gigs,
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and now I found one that maybe now here. This
is the best part is I could still do this
because it's an at home thing and I already put
out on social media for it. I'm just waiting for
the paperwork. Wendy's is looking for someone. They want to
pay one hundred thousand dollars a year or two. Yeah,
one hundred grand. Yeah, yes, they want someone to become
(05:10):
their chief tasting officer. Okay, they're offering one hundred grand.
Is a way to apply and everything else. It's a
remote position. Don't have to move, Just have to wherever
you are. Just let them know where you live. We'll
miss you, ja, and you will be well. I can
still do it. I can still both get yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
They would love it. You kidding because would say I
talk about it on the air full time. Can I
do that? I don't know if I can. Uh. But
(05:35):
for one hundred grand, you will get a contract with
Wendy's and you will be hired to create promotional content
for Wendy's, such as taste testing videos. So basically, they're
gonna pay you to taste test food and talk about it.
I'd have to pay for it. I might have to
fight you for this job. Did come on, man, cause
(05:56):
I get to promote the Frosty. Now you'd have to
promote the frost You remember that you hate it? I
could say you up and say, hey, you know what,
No Frosty, here's my thing. No, Frosty's are terrible. Take
component of the Wendy's menu. Dude, you want it is
is perhaps as iconic as anything like that. Not iconic
except for Dave Thomas himself. It's frozen. It's frozen ice
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cream that they put in a cup that's impossible to eat.
You have to get a drink in addition to getting
a frost That's it. It's a it's a dessert treat.
It is not as i'd say. You want to pass
McDonald's to get rid of the frosty, give me something
to your application on the national radio. They're looking the
iHeartRadio app. They want something. You heard the phrase telling
truth to power. They want someone that's going to tell
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them that. Say listen, whatever Thomas person is here in
this room, get rid of the frosty. But I'm going
to tell you nuts one hundred grand a year to
be a taste tester for Wendy's. I don't even go
to Wendy's that much. I would what if you have
to taste test Frosty's. Oh I could still do it? No, No,
I mean I just justgive my honest opinion. I would say, yeah,
(06:58):
not a fan, but you want me to taste taste it.
They're not gonna want everybody to tell me what they
don't want a rebody just tell them, hey, your food
is great. Obviously you're looking for something outside the box.
I'll tell you the truth about your food. Man. Again,
I'm not gonna steer you wrong. But they've just had
a giant promotion about their new Fusion Frosty. It's a
fusion menu, ye, really a fusion I mean basically it's
(07:21):
taking uh it's some version of a blizzard or whatever
else you insert whatever fast food chain, fast casual uh
that you have and you know, say with girl Scout
cookies are part of what they do. Remember when I
brought those in that the Taste Estine that night. They
have brownie chunks. Fusion Chief tasting officer, Like I would
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want to wear like some kind of cool jacket, like
I'm actually in some sort of you'd have to look
at you, like captain's jacket or smoking jack with bars
on it and stuff like I look like, well, this
guy looks legit, something a little fancy. This guy looks
half the something. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah, gad, that'd be
something that. Yeah, this is this hassles coming off the
shoulders or something. Yeah, I mean this this has made
for me. I mean this is I mean, I don't
(08:08):
even need to accept you hate there they want you
to put doesn't matter. I'll I'll make you do something better.
That's what it is. Man. Look, Wendy's this is like
an NFL team saying we just want a head coach
or a GM to come in and do exactly what
we're doing because we think we're doing it right. That's
not how you do it. You want somebody to come
in telling you. I'll tell you what you do right.
I'll tell you what you do wrong, right or wrong.
(08:28):
I will always tell you the truth. The truth is
always the best thing. No matter what you say in life,
the truth is always the best thing. You always know
where you stand, You always know what people think about you,
You always know what you think about them. The truth
is always the best. I will tell you what I like,
I will tell you what I don't like it. The
first thing I will tell you is get rid of
the frosty and improve the fries. And I love the
square burgers. Burgers are good. Improve the fries. You gotta
(08:49):
improve the fries. Fries are such a huge deal and
they're not that great. Improve the fries. There, he has
your two first things. I will tell you right this.
Q two of twenty twenty five, Frosty sales rose by
thirty percent over a year. They sell over three hundred
million Frosty dessert treats every year. You know why because
because the the that's one of human No, because the
coffee machine is never working at McDonald's. That's the only reason.
(09:12):
Why can I get a moke up? Our machine's not
working right now? I just want to Okay, never mind
just big macmeil diet coke, al right that anything else?
You'd be using the app today? No, No, I'm not
using the app, Okay, just to pull around in front, Okay.
That's the only reason why people buy Frosty's is because
the McDonald's shake machine, and the and the and the
and the frappuccino machine is never working. The only reason.
(09:33):
So why don't you go work for them and get
and fix those issues because they don't have a job opening, Well,
why don't you go and try to create a job.
Why are you trying to get rid of me? I'm
telling you why I want this job. You can go
work for MacDonald now all of a sudden, you want MacDonald,
I'd work for McDowell's. Hey, the Golden Arcs was a
great idea, man, And putting the toppies on the toppings
on the bottom, that was genius. Man. Yeah, I'm gonna.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Side with Jason here, which I never do because if
there's anybody that can do this job of bad food
tast taste testing, it's it's the King right there.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I mean, come on, man, this is like now he's
walking around with the crowd. That's the other place that
hasn't been mentioned. They're gonna make one just for him.
I do the lebron like I put my hands yeah
King every time they would clap when I'm walking in
out Yeah yeah, King, King right here, King right here,
Yeah Yeah. This is the greatest mashup. That's me. That's me.
Fast food places is past casual dining experiences in the
(10:25):
history of man. I want you want to get an
animal fry in while.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
We're There's never been in the history of qualification, nobody's
ever been more qualified for this job.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
There, I would. I would be the Sean McVay of
food tasting officers where I would walk in and all
of a sudden, whoa. We didn't realize how bad it
was under Jeff Fisher. Look at us now we've won
a super Bowl where a yearly threat I would be
the Sean McVay of this job. By the way, RAM
still always a ring that still needs to happen. Here's
your application. It's just a picture of you with two
(10:55):
thumbs pointing at yourself. What has two thumbs are gonna
increase your sales as long as you feed them. This
guy right here.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
I mean some people have a calling to be a doctor. No,
this is your calling.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
You've got a lifetime of education in this department. I
wouldn't want to be a doctor simply because I wouldn't
have to worry about fighting through all the red tape
to get paid, all the different all the different different
companies and all of that. Oh this, no, oh my god, No,
I mean being a doctor pay then like I want that? No, No,
I couldn't do that. They're already said they're paying me.
I don't have to put that out there, paying me
a hundred grand? Now, would I say, hey, if you
(11:27):
choose me and you want to pay me, say seventy
five grand. I'd be okay with that, But if they
said yes, I would realize, Wow, Wendy's needs to save
twenty five grand. Wendy's. No, I need the four hundred
grand because I need to uh to uh do a
little sublet opportunity, because I'm gonna need someone to help
me make some kick ass videos. Yeah this, I've got
(11:49):
a couple of guys that I know that can help
me out in that regret it. I think they can
slough them off a couple of hours. I think they
just wanted them to create a second job. No, I
don't think they need like the big bells and whistles
I need. It's all you need. I've seen these videos
this week. All you need is a CEO of a
company looking like he's taking a really big bite out
of something and not just a tiny ass nibble. Oh
(12:10):
so good, dude, Come on, man, take a bite. Now
we have an undisputed winner. And it's not because of
what he ate. It's how he described the product that
was the Taco bell guy when he talked about the
meat gun and the price point, the meat that went
into the taco at the price. I like how he said,
now it is a meat gun, but it's high quality
(12:32):
out of the price point. The price point, like we
have really high quality meat gun meat Like that's that's
like me saying, hey, the meat out of that uh
A vending machine is really good. It's fred you want,
you want to have that meat out of the vendor.
But the meat gun a meat meat gun. Meake me gun.
(12:53):
How has no band done a song called meat gun?
I don't know. How has a heavy metal band not
done a sabbath do one of the meet Gune one
of those guys terrified looking dudes with the uh Ronald
McDonald on lead voke. I mean, meat gun is like
made for a song, and that's like made for a
song that like the kiss not licensed. I don't know.
(13:14):
Well they well they had love Gun, and they'd probably
should have come back to meet gun, you know, years later.
It would have been seems like they would have. I
mean they licensed everything else for a while. You can
get the casket, I mean probably got one meat gun.
All right, Yeah, I'm now writing this song. Hey, yeah,
I write that song for you. Write me a song
(13:36):
called meat gun. Yeah, meets and Roses. She's got it okay,
so uh Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the Fox
Sports Radio Meat Gun Studios, meat Gun, meat Gun. It
also could be all moviegal movie and that it could
It could be both. It could cracked elbows and meat guns.
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Speaker 2 (15:09):
I really thought we'd get love gun by kiss, but
we didn't. I would still like maloney now and now
and again. I thought Tyser would hit upchat GPT and
would have a love gun meat gun version of kiss,
which I'm glad you didn't. We save saving water, save
the water, save the water. We don't need chat GPT. Oh,
forget the water, save the water. Forget the water, save it.
We'll use all the water, all right, Jason, no way,
(15:30):
are here guaranteed human? All right? All right, little Alan
Jackson for you Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Harmon. You what you are? Jason?
What's that? What am I tell you? Shit that gets
a PS five and crimes he didn't get a computer.
That's what you are? Right now? What do you mean
talking about? This song is great about meat potatoes and everything,
(15:51):
and you're like, where's love gun? Where's love gun? Okay?
You know who you are? Who are you? Who you are?
You are? You are the dad that here's his kid? Say?
Hey dad, you know what I'd love for Christmas is
a PS five I'd love that for ps. Five And
he tells you that, and you understand, boy, that's what
you want. That would make him happy. Why wouldn't I
do that? I should do that for my kid. And
Christmas Day comes and go, oh yeah, I got your
(16:12):
cassette of a band from the eighties and nineties. I
got your rock set greatest hits, but I wanted to
PlayStation like yeah, but you were expecting that. I'm just
gonna give you something little bit different. So here's a
cassette can't play anything. And I don't know if you
even know rock set. Marie Frederickson lead singer. She had
great voice, all this stuff. Oh yeah, yeah, No, that's
you're getting instead, that's who you are, not at all.
I'm giving an applications. Say work for the crap you want, Jason,
(16:34):
Yeah for free da was not even real. Wake up kid.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Whoa whoa, whoa whoa whoa crossed the line.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
The line. This is where the referee turns around and goes, no,
that's it, You're gone. I'm you get the double whistle
and boom out quick double whistle, whoa whoa, whoa wow,
And you can't take it back either. Just kidding. No,
you can't to do that, man, No, you kidding, dude,
(17:07):
you are do me a favor. What how old are
you now? Twenty six, twenty four, twenty four? Don't have
kids for a while. Oh I don't have kids for okay? Good,
good good. No off on a shelf, no lying to
my kids. No Elf on the shell. Well, the Elf
on the shelf is a menace that all households should
have at the period. See but I think tys. It's
also the kind of guy that would tell you Elf
(17:28):
on a shelf moves for real, Why wouldn't you? That's
actually a great horror movie. Like Elf on a Shell sure, like,
but it's bloody and like the s and the s
are like made to look like a knife, like Elf
on the Shelf moves. And then like you know, one
one morning, you know, a kid wakes up. You know,
they show like a montage to start a movie. You
hear like some kind of happy Christmas song, and like
(17:48):
you see, the the kid goes to bed. Every night
the elf moves, and then slowly the elf gets a
little more menacing, little more menacing, and then one one
night the kid goes to bed, wakes up, and then
the elf is standing over with a big knife and
here ah match cut the titles. Elf on a shelf
have to have his favorite stuffed animal lose its head.
What about man on a bench? That's the sex Well
(18:11):
they battle for supremacy. And what's the snoop one a throne?
That's that's that's that's smoke on a shelf. Smoke up,
Johnny hay Man. The elf hasn't moved in like months. Man,
That elf is just kind of sitting there, happy man,
eating Doritos the whole time, just getting heavy. Boy, that
(18:32):
helf is fat. Now look at that he just sitting around.
Man just keeps eating food every day. The bad changes. Man,
it's hot cheetos the other day. Then it was a
Takey's and man's snoop on man? All right, all right,
he comes a little throne that's now being co opted
as we're making a horror movie out of it. So
I'm making a horror of Elf on the shelf. Snoop
(18:54):
was in a horror movie, wasn't he? Uh? Maybe maybe
us seems like he's been in everything. I mean, why not?
I mean probably sure. She was in the Hood of
Horror back in two thousand and six. Yeah, I didn't
see that. How about Bones, the TV show with David
borianas Okay, Bones, Oh yeah, yeah, there's he's like a
(19:15):
vampire something something. Yeah, okay, all right, yeah, all right, nought.
I would rather watch the sav Show. Emily de Chanelle. Sure, sure,
it was on like eleven years run. Uh. So, big
news out of the NBA. Jason Tatum is coming back.
Not only is he coming back, he's coming back likely
on Friday night at TV Garden when the Celtics welcome
(19:39):
the always difficult Dallas Mavericks. Uh. This is like the
equivalent of firing a manager, like before you have a
series against the worst team in Major League Baseball. Hey,
the Pirates are coming to town. We're gonna make that move. Yeah,
fire the manager. We got the Pirates coming in and
we're missing schemes, so don't have to worry about it.
We're all good. But it's pretty good to come back, right,
this group of Flags back. You can get a couple
of Marquee guys getting after that. We lost by a
point record with Cooper Flag this year. So Tatum's coming back.
(20:06):
This is this is a seismic move in the NBA
because I will tell you this, there are five teams
that can win the NBA title. Now there are five
teams that can win. You've reduced it to five. There
are five teams that can win. The Pistons, the Knicks, now,
the Celtics, the Spurs, and the thunder. Those five teams
(20:27):
are the only teams that can win the NBA title.
Boston was never gonna make it through a playoff without
Jason Tatum, but now they have him back, and now
Boston is a legit title contender. They would know it
would be too difficult. Now, whether they could beat the
teams of the West, I don't know, but they could
be the It's a marathon for them to get through.
(20:48):
They would they would run up against a Pistons team
that is rolling four guys off the bench that are
playing just as well as their starters. They they wouldn't
be deep enough. But now Jason Tatum is back, I'll
put them in a five teams can win and while
then Steward might take one of those guys out. So yeah,
I mean that's the wildcard and look for teams like
oh what about the Nuggets and the Rockets. Yeah, I
(21:08):
could potentially see one of those teams beating the Spurs
or the Thunder, but you're not getting by both of them.
And those are your one two teams in the West,
so the Nuggets without Aaron, so you'd have to get
by both of them, and you're not doing it right.
That's two rounds of playoffs. That that's the only reason
why these why you don't think those teams are good. No,
it's because about getting there. Nobody is getting through both
of those teams. Five teams can win the NBA title
(21:30):
now and it was four up until today. But Tatum
coming back and this is such great news for them
because mentally this works for everybody the rest of the year. Now,
we talked about how awkward it is now there's great
drama coming. But with Tatum coming back, we've mentioned this,
he's coming back to a different situation. Right, world is
different than it was thirty seconds ago. World was different
(21:51):
when he got hurt. It was his team. Jalen Brown
was the one. A Hey, we won a title. Yes,
I didn't win NBA MVP, but Jason Tatum's team. Now
what's happened since he's been out. We don't need Jason Tatum.
Look at the success we're having second in the Eastern Conference.
Jalen Brown, I would have him number one on my
ballot for MVP, and his odds changed pretty much every day,
(22:13):
but I would have him number one. The Celtics have
been able to have a great regular season. They have
lost Jason Tatum, not replaced him, and all they've gotten
is more out of Jalen Brown. So now Tatum's coming
back to a team, and he has always been very
cognizant of his standing, of the respect he has. He's
somebody that here's what is said and written about him
all the time. But coming back in this situation where
(22:35):
coming back from the serious injury, he's gonna have his
minutes maintained, it's going to be, Hey, we're going to
work you back in. And it's an ego thing that works, because, Hey,
the only reason maybe you're not playing more minutes now
is because we want to make sure you're healthy. And
he's gonna be okay with that, and Jalen Brown will
be okay. It's still my team. Yeah, we got to
work Jason back in because we're better with him, clearly
we are. But it's a mental thing, and it's a
(22:57):
big ego thing for Jason Tate to come back and
not be the guy. It's like, hey, you're coming back, man,
have been gone for a long time. Yeah, uh just
you know, kind of rock and roll fit in somewhere.
We'll get to you. So for the short term, it's
great a short term for the Celtics. They can figure
it out the rest of this year because ego wise, Hey,
Tatum's like, I'm just coming back. I gotta play twenty games.
(23:18):
I'll be ready for the playoffs and then then let's
go right then the playoffs here that it doesn't matter.
The real drama is in the offseason when Tatum's got
to decide, Okay, is this where want to play the
rest of my career? Where now I'm no longer the
one and I'm the one a maybe the two because
of what the Celtics have shown in my absence not
(23:42):
really needing me and I'm a boost. Do I want
to spend the rest of my career being that guy?
No superstar wants to play on a team where he
goes from I'm the one to now I'm the two.
It's very special. A guy like Dwayne Wade that was
okay welcoming Lebron in and Lebron commence that thank you,
I'm taking over the heat. Dwayne Wade had a great
(24:02):
and that's why it worked because Dwayne Wade was okay
with that. He was okay with stepping to the side
and letting it become Lebron's team, just like Steph Curry
was okay kind of stepping aside when Kevin Durant came in.
There's very few athletes that have that kind of ego
that are that comfortable where I can do this, it's
better for the team, and still I know what my
image is going to be and what the optics are.
(24:25):
Jason Tatum's not that kind of guy. So the drama
is gonna be in the off season when he decides, yeah,
it's been a great run, but I want to be
the one somewhere. I'm not gonna sit here and be
the one A and have it be built around Jalen Brown. No,
I'm not that guy. That's where the real drama comes from.
For now, it's great. For now, it's awesome. And this,
like I said, so five teams can win the title,
(24:45):
Celtics and one of them. But in the off season, oh,
that's when the drama gets see you're trying to sow
the seeds of malcontendedness again. Yeah, you guys make it
a total level. How much is it like six hundred
and fifty million between them? I think that's the bigger
question for the celt six roster wise, is what do
you put around him in the in future seasons when
Pritchard and these other guys UH need to get their
(25:07):
deals reworked. But short term it's it works. I don't
know how Jason Tatum, if he's that guy that just
is a get along, or whether he'd go the Yannis
route and start planting that stuff through the media and
then be like, I can't be the bad guy. Like
(25:27):
that's that's the question at all. Yeah, Jalen Brown certainly
has shown he'll say whatever to whomever. So if he's
got to be the bad guy in the situation because
it's untenable, then I would see that coming up and
and potentially being a sticking point. But if Seann the
can co exists, they won together, and I don't know
(25:48):
if if you're winning, it cures most of the IELs
because nobody's calling it Jalen Brown's team. Jason Tatum's not
back yet, but I mean, but now that Tatum's back,
I tried to call, but that's me. They're not gonna
go in for any controversy in Boston. They're just gonna
come back and love their players. Oh this is awesome.
Jason tenn is back. Now, Hey, we don't need that
(26:10):
guy anymore, tho Quimby. I mean really, I mean it's good.
It's a thing. Jason Tatum has always been a player
that yeah, I'm great, right right, it's my team right right,
And now it's not and it's really awkward. And once
he comes back again, this season's a dream because you
can do it for a short period of time. When
someone gets hurt, comes back, loses their job, loses their status.
(26:31):
I'm working my way back. Whatever's good for the team.
I gotta get back and make sure I'm that player.
But then you get long term, do I really want
to be here? What tell me a star that, Hey,
I'm here, I'm great, I'm great, I'm great. Yeah. Now,
because you're out, we got somebody else now, and it's
the other guy who's gonna be the number one. Oh okay,
because with Wade and Steph it was bringing somebody in.
This is you watch the guy who was you were
(26:53):
standing next to is your one A then you go away,
come back, and now he has surpassed you. It's like,
how did this happen? I don't have the one. It
was also the go to guy in paffs and finals
to win a finals MVP. So it's not like this
is a new invention. You've watched him ride up and
win as many games or more than you did while
(27:13):
you were there. Again, not gonna like it, doesn't have
to like it. Everybody deals with their work circumstances as
they need to. Just just wait till the offseason. When
we're talking about Giannis. Oh, maybe you can't get Yannis.
Jason Tatum might be the guy. And if the report
is true that Doc Rivers is stepping aside, maybe he
doesn't have to leave. I don't know. I think maybe
(27:33):
Jannis is still the Milwaukee and when he got introduced
to Tacos, I think Doc Rivers is good. If he
retires at the end of this year, then Austin Rivers
will take over and he's definitely leaving. Yeah, that would
be tough. I'm just gonna step aside and my son's
gonna take over. Might be one of the most controversial
handing off of a job we've ever seen. It's not
gonna be like me, but it won't be my faultymore.
(27:55):
It's not gonna be my fault. No, I mean, it's
good theater for us, no question, It'll always be his fault.
You get you get to the off season, and you wait,
you tell me how happy Jason Tatum is gonna be
when it's like, hey, oh yeah, hey, Bruce and pr
what's going on this week? Yeah? I don't have anything
on here for you? Uh yeah, uh hey, can we
meet on Wednesday and talk about opportunities? Well, listen, I'm
(28:15):
at that big Taco Bell photo shoot with Jalen on Wednesday,
and then I got a meeting with Jalen on Thursday.
We have some new sponsors coming in Froy. You know what,
Let's get together next week. Yeah, Jason Tatum's gonna love that. Well.
This also presumes and I and I hope that your
best or worst case scenario, depending on whether you want
the drama in the heat and chaos or are for
things to go smoothly, is that Jason Tatum is able
(28:38):
to come in and ball out at the highest level.
Because if he's not, then there's not a whole lot
of room for him to complain. That's why great, it's
gonna be great. This He's gonna be fine. That's I mean.
The Celtics now can win the title. They are now
a team that can win the title. But just wait,
I already thought they could could fight the other teams
in the West. Because they're beating the Knicks. We already
(28:58):
know that. Yeah, they're not getting power. They're not a
great matchup for the Nick. There they're not a matchup
for the Knicks. Look, it's all We'll get to the matchups.
Because we saw tonight what could be an NBA Finals matchup.
Really show you that if this is the NBA Finals matchup,
it's going to be a sweep. But it's all about matchups.
I don't like the Knicks with the Pistons. I love
the Knicks and the Celtics. The Celtics and the Pistons,
(29:20):
I like it. So it's all about who who winds
up surviving those first couple of rounds and who gets there.
It's all about the matchups. Time now to find out
what's trending in the wide world of sports. With someone
who's been called the Detroit Pistons of Fox Sports Radio
because tonight they're both wearing things on their shirts that
have an L on them. It's Martin Weiss.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
There's an L one here somewhere, I'm sure, but I
hope I'm not the Pistons because they got smacked tonight.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Well that's why you got an L. The Pistons got an.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
L one twenty one to one oh six as the
San Antonio Spurs dispatch of the Detroit Pistons Kate cunning
In with twenty six points, so twenty six shots that
is a lot of those are the fourth quarter of
the Fists. Try to make this thing kind of respectable
twenty point game for most of it. Victor Woman Yama
put on a show, thirty eight points on twelve to
twenty four from the floor. He was ten for eleven
(30:08):
with the free throw line, but sixteen rebounds and five blocks,
so plus twenty on the night.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
And just saw Detroit.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Just running away from the rim as victim Minyama was
underneath it.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
All night and us what in the NBA thist's year.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
We got the Chicago Bulls and the Phoenix Suns. Chicago
leading seventy two to sixty five, Collin Sexton with twenty
points the Lakers and the Nuggets thirty to twenty, Denver
in the lead about ninety.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Seconds left in the first quarter.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
There Nicole Jochic and Luca Dodgers woke with the six.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
First quarter points, but the Nuggets with a ten point lead.
How many arguments between Reddick and Lucas so far have
you been keeping track of that? I have it, but
I did just put it.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
I was watching the end of the Spurs want to
see if kid could do something, but I am tracking
it now.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Okay, all right, make sure even just way wait away,
he said, if Kate could do something since they were
down twenty, was there a bet and over under in
one of his statistical category?
Speaker 5 (31:03):
There was not, But I am I am in that
MVP conversation.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
You know.
Speaker 5 (31:08):
I like guys who play, so all right, I'm in
the Jalen Brown, Kde Cunningham.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Who's gonna win it? I'm sorry, so got to get
to sixty five right exactly, first one to sixty five wins.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
And to the first quarter of the Kings lead the
Pelicans thirty to twenty six in the game, both teams
trying to lose In the NHL, the Predators and the Bruins.
Nashville leads five to two by six minutes left in
the third quarter, Jets four to one over the Lightning,
wrapping up the third period. There started the third period
Senators and Flames one apiece. Kings lead the Islanders one
(31:40):
to nothing at the start of the second period.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
In the NFL, the.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
Colts trying to trade how You're Franklin to a salary
cap move reported by Adam Schefter. The Bills did trade
dj More to the Chicago Bears, along with a fifth
round pick in exchange for a second Cam Jordan's gonna
hit free agency for the first time in his fifteen
year career at the Sky, and the Ain'ts unable to
come up with a contract extension. The Pittsburgh Steelers released
(32:04):
veteran tighten John new Smith. Seahawks and Drake Thomas agree
to a two year, eight million dollars deal, and Jason
Tatum questionable for Friday's game in Dallas or against Dallas.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
I should say back to you guys, thank you very much, Martin.
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and I think if we get this NBA Finals, it's
gonna be a sweep. Why would you say that, because
the NBA doesn't need more of that, so.
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On one, Devin com pallion flies Spurs TV on the
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Wi've heard five blocks tonight. Uh. The Spurs beat the
Pistons one one, one oh six. This is the second
(34:49):
time in the past two and a half weeks the
Spurs have played the Pistons, and the Pistons make most
teams in the East look bad. Most teams in the
NBA look bad, our depth, our youth. Kay Cunningham's the MVP.
They can't sniff the San Antonio Spurs this year more
than any in the NBA. The playoffs are gonna be
about matchups, and and you can I can already see
(35:12):
how things are going to go when you get to
the conference finals, right if you're going off, I talked
about five teams that can win the NBA title this
year if you go to certain matchups, I know how
it's gonna go. If the Knicks have to play the
Pistons in the Eastern Conference Finals, the Pistons are gonna win.
If the Knicks have to play the Celtics in the
Eastern Conference Finals, the Knicks are gonna win. If the
Pistons have to play the Celtics in the Eastern Conference Finals,
(35:33):
the Pistons are gonna win. If the Pistons somehow get
out of the East and play the Spurs, guess what.
Spurs are gonna win that one easy in a sweep.
Pistons can't come close to San Antonio. It's all gonna be.
NBA playoffs generally is about matchups, but that's usually early rounds.
Why do we see some seven seeds giving two seeds
trouble over the course of the time is because hey,
(35:53):
the matchup doesn't work out, or some series get more
once you get down to the But now, once you
get down to the end, it's okay. The best teams
wind up win. But this is a matchup year more
than any other in the NBA. And if we get
Piston Spurs, man, forget this Spur. They're banging the drum
after the game. It's like, man, everybody loves this Detroit
Pistons team and everything is great. Kate Cunningham again, second
(36:13):
time in a row. The Spurs defensively and Steph Castle
had him in a blender. He was ten for twenty
six on the floor. I think the last two games
Kate Cunningham is like seventeen for fifty from the floor,
Like it's not gonna it's not gonna happen for him
against the Spur. It's a bad matchup for him. Meanwhile,
Wemby is like, you're gonna win you dfs every single
(36:34):
day with if he plays the Pistons. Frostburgy got his stats.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
Thirty a game, sixteen and a half rebounds a game,
four assists, and almost six blocks a game.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
I mean that it's if this is the NBA Finals,
a four game they made, maybe they'd only play three
because they go, hey, Pistons want you want to take it?
If you go out here, you're gonna be uh, they're
gonna be three in a well, the assumption that either
of them makes it, I like that, unless I don't.
I just want to battle it out for the Pistons
have been a fun story. I think the Eastern Conference
(37:03):
you're talking about a little more potential for chaos. As
good as they've been, and we've certainly talked about them
a lot on the show, no question about it. Kate
Cunningham one of the few remaining. Hey, that guy's going
to be in the MVP consideration. Why because the other
guys are gonna miss an extra game or two and
slough off. And that's the way it goes. Right now,
the prohibited favorite with a little bit of cushion is
(37:26):
SGA's up to minus three p twenty. I believe in
the latest offerings. But for the matchups, the presumption that
the Knicks are just gonna walk through the Celtics, I
mean they're one and one on the year. I mean,
come on, you're gonna still battle it out and Tatum's bad.
I watched them beat him last year. I watch him
beat them last year. Okay, last year. I'm okay. I'm
okay with that. I'm okay with that. I'm a right
(37:47):
with that. All right, you're still playing no defense, although
you might be more well rested because Tims isn't there.
But we'll watch that play out and maybe it goes
the same way. I'm not quite so sure that that's
the and some of the other matchups and teams that
are still in the mix. While I don't love Denver
(38:08):
over overall, and you know, you're still missing some component
parts that jokic guy finds a way to make things happen.
So you know they're no easy walk in the park
over the course of the series, but it is fun
to see new Blood engaged and represented, and certainly the
Spurs one of the great stories we talked about him
coming into the year. You know, with Wemby, if he's
(38:30):
healthy and he's able to go, and clearly he's been
everything as advertised and then some, and you're looking at
the depth of what they bring in some nights where
he's only got to play twenty five minutes and score
ten points. That's the depth they've been able to bring.
So that'll be fun on the Western Conference side of things.
But you know, night to night they'll get challenged. They'll
(38:51):
they'll find some others that come up and at least,
you know, try to step up and weight class. Yeah,
but you bring up a great point about the Spurs
is that we have seen them continue to go on
this big win streak and win games. And it's not
like every night Wenby's video game numbers. It's some nights
like tonight, but some nights it's yeah, he was sixteen
eleven and they still won by fifteen. But you know
(39:11):
what's great about it, and this was a challenging team
of Detroit, is since we've cast off so much of
the NBA, a lot of the winning streaks, we go,
all right, we can't wait to see you in the playoffs.
That's the unfortunate part of where we're at in the
regular season. As much as we want to say, hey,
these five teams are title contenders. Okay, eventually they have
to play each other in series, the good teams, because
(39:34):
in the interim, you can run off fourteen wins against
crap teams that aren't trying to play for anything. Particularly, man,
how many guys are now on the end of year
list for the Kings Hey season engine surgery for that
guy and over in Utah that guy. I mean, they're
going to resemble the teams they started the year with.
They're all done because that's the easiest way to tank.
(39:56):
It's well, I say, NBA, how great would be just
going to the playoffs right now? Of these meaningless, mostly
meaningless last twenty some odd games. Once in a while,
you get a game like tonight, We go, oh, that's
a big spotlight into the future. Here we get this
in the NBA finals. Good luck Man, good luck, good
luck Detroit. That's it. They still have to get through
another twenty games before we can get there. Plus playoffs
(40:16):
come on, Exit Out about a Fresca exit swollen Dome.
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got big trades in the National Football League, we got
teams making moves. We have seismic NBA news, seismic seismic.
I always thought they could get seismic to rhyme with thisman.
I would call eminem and say, hey, here's a wrap
for you. Here, here's seismic and thigsman. But if you
(00:59):
swallow the end, it works all right. Yeah, you can
make any almost with the proper beat that kind of
comes over that second syllable, you can. You can make
that happen. Yeah, but we are and I keep my
fingers scrawled, you know. I always like to say I
say this out loud and and we make it happen.
You know, the last couple of nights you said, hey, look,
you know it's a it's a good night in the NBA.
(01:19):
When there's ten games. If we get one of them,
that's close, right, Because this is the air of the
NBA we're in right now, right, we don't get close games.
It just doesn't happen. Hey, we got some close games.
About that. Yeah, we got the Warriors and the Rockets
at one on one a piece with one tenth of
a second left in the fourth quarter. Piston Spurs third quarter,
eight point games. Still a good game. So okay, we're
(01:40):
all right with that magic beat the Mavericks one fifteen
one fourteen. Alright, we got some close guys. I say it,
I make it, make it happen, Mike car and maybe
put it out there in the universe. This is why
when Frostburg says stuff like good a jitsu, good Derek
Carr like, I'm worried that's actually going as we're getting
getting too, we're getting to a and Derek Carr Hackenberg.
That's the problem. The level of success means that some
(02:02):
of the inane things that we shout out just to
get under your skin or you guys do to get
under mind. Some of those are gonna come true. Just
the track record has just been so good. Now, there
was a foul call that was being reviewed in the
final seconds of that Rockets Warriors game where Kevin Durant
challenged and got ball, but as he did the follow through,
(02:27):
you got some some contact and instead, well, now we
get our end game where we've got point three left
and an inbounds play to try to win it. But yeah, chaos,
we got close games. Man. The over under we hope
for on a full slate is one and a half
outam dude. You go right to the betting so fast.
(02:48):
I know something is up with you. That's the bet
that you're gambling. I know you're gambling. I know you're
like an out of control gambling Now you must be
because you go it's no longer like hey, you know
I want to be up on this, because gambling is
a big your deal now and we talk about you
go straight to it, man, like it's your first thing.
It's like me, what used to wake up in the
morning going what do I want something? Chocolate? It's eight thirty. Yeah, yeah,
(03:09):
I have something chocolate right now, I gotta wake up.
Like that hasn't changed. You go right, you go right
to the gambling now, I mean, chocolate is going it's
not even clo. No, I wait, I wait till chocolate.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
No.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah, you did usually the right side of ten, you know, yeah, right,
so because you're normally not getting up till about ten.
So no straight out of bed. But let's not let
let's not conflate this, and you go. You go right
to the gambling so fast. Now it's almost like I
feel like any conversation that you might have off the
air goes right to gambling. How you doing tonight? I
put day well, you know, you know it was it was,
(03:43):
it was, you know it was uh it was eight
to one. The sun was going to be out by
ten o'clock this morning, and now you know we had it.
We had the sun at seven thirty. So uh, I'm
feeling pretty happy. You know, tomorrow next couple of days
is going to be kind of a gloomy day, so
I wouldn't go sun tomorrow, but you know, SUN today
was a right call.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Do you have the odds on Jason leaving us for
Wendy's in the next week. Oh that's that's even money
right now. Okay, Wendy's might actually be a slight favorite.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Let's talk about this for a second. Okay, before we
get this a big deal. This is the big story
developing after a week of chaos in the fast casual
kind of dining experience. I always say, there is very
little jobs that would be open to me that I
would leave doing this for right, very little. Like if
you said to me, you could be the play by
(04:28):
play voice of the match. You have to travel to
the pesky away games. Okay, I do all the home games. Yeah,
I would do it. If I could just make me
my you know, my my big what I do every
off season where I invite NFL coaches and we go
over time management two minutes of games coaches that need that,
and make a lot of money at that. But it's
kind of a side hustle. But if I could turn
into a full time gig, absolutely hundred percent certain gigs,
(04:50):
and now I found one that maybe now here. This
is the best part is I could still do this
because it's an at home thing and I already put
out on social media for it. I'm just waiting for
the paperwork. Wendy's is looking for someone. They want to
pay one hundred thousand dollars a year or two. Yeah,
one hundred grand. Yeah, yes, they want someone to become
(05:10):
their chief tasting officer. Okay, they're offering one hundred grand.
Is a way to apply and everything else. It's a
remote position. Don't have to move, Just have to wherever
you are. Just let them know where you live. We'll
miss you, ja, and you will be well. I can
still do it. I can still both get yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
They would love it. You kidding because would say I
talk about it on the air full time. Can I
do that? I don't know if I can. Uh. But
(05:35):
for one hundred grand, you will get a contract with
Wendy's and you will be hired to create promotional content
for Wendy's, such as taste testing videos. So basically, they're
gonna pay you to taste test food and talk about it.
I'd have to pay for it. I might have to
fight you for this job. Did come on, man, cause
(05:56):
I get to promote the Frosty. Now you'd have to
promote the frost You remember that you hate it? I
could say you up and say, hey, you know what,
No Frosty, here's my thing. No, Frosty's are terrible. Take
component of the Wendy's menu. Dude, you want it is
is perhaps as iconic as anything like that. Not iconic
except for Dave Thomas himself. It's frozen. It's frozen ice
(06:16):
cream that they put in a cup that's impossible to eat.
You have to get a drink in addition to getting
a frost That's it. It's a it's a dessert treat.
It is not as i'd say. You want to pass
McDonald's to get rid of the frosty, give me something
to your application on the national radio. They're looking the
iHeartRadio app. They want something. You heard the phrase telling
truth to power. They want someone that's going to tell
(06:38):
them that. Say listen, whatever Thomas person is here in
this room, get rid of the frosty. But I'm going
to tell you nuts one hundred grand a year to
be a taste tester for Wendy's. I don't even go
to Wendy's that much. I would what if you have
to taste test Frosty's. Oh I could still do it? No, No,
I mean I just justgive my honest opinion. I would say, yeah,
(06:58):
not a fan, but you want me to taste taste it.
They're not gonna want everybody to tell me what they
don't want a rebody just tell them, hey, your food
is great. Obviously you're looking for something outside the box.
I'll tell you the truth about your food. Man. Again,
I'm not gonna steer you wrong. But they've just had
a giant promotion about their new Fusion Frosty. It's a
fusion menu, ye, really a fusion I mean basically it's
(07:21):
taking uh it's some version of a blizzard or whatever
else you insert whatever fast food chain, fast casual uh
that you have and you know, say with girl Scout
cookies are part of what they do. Remember when I
brought those in that the Taste Estine that night. They
have brownie chunks. Fusion Chief tasting officer, Like I would
(07:47):
want to wear like some kind of cool jacket, like
I'm actually in some sort of you'd have to look
at you, like captain's jacket or smoking jack with bars
on it and stuff like I look like, well, this
guy looks legit, something a little fancy. This guy looks
half the something. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah, gad, that'd be
something that. Yeah, this is this hassles coming off the
shoulders or something. Yeah, I mean this this has made
for me. I mean this is I mean, I don't
(08:08):
even need to accept you hate there they want you
to put doesn't matter. I'll I'll make you do something better.
That's what it is. Man. Look, Wendy's this is like
an NFL team saying we just want a head coach
or a GM to come in and do exactly what
we're doing because we think we're doing it right. That's
not how you do it. You want somebody to come
in telling you. I'll tell you what you do right.
I'll tell you what you do wrong, right or wrong.
(08:28):
I will always tell you the truth. The truth is
always the best thing. No matter what you say in life,
the truth is always the best thing. You always know
where you stand, You always know what people think about you,
You always know what you think about them. The truth
is always the best. I will tell you what I like,
I will tell you what I don't like it. The
first thing I will tell you is get rid of
the frosty and improve the fries. And I love the
square burgers. Burgers are good. Improve the fries. You gotta
(08:49):
improve the fries. Fries are such a huge deal and
they're not that great. Improve the fries. There, he has
your two first things. I will tell you right this.
Q two of twenty twenty five, Frosty sales rose by
thirty percent over a year. They sell over three hundred
million Frosty dessert treats every year. You know why because
because the the that's one of human No, because the
coffee machine is never working at McDonald's. That's the only reason.
(09:12):
Why can I get a moke up? Our machine's not
working right now? I just want to Okay, never mind
just big macmeil diet coke, al right that anything else?
You'd be using the app today? No, No, I'm not
using the app, Okay, just to pull around in front, Okay.
That's the only reason why people buy Frosty's is because
the McDonald's shake machine, and the and the and the
and the frappuccino machine is never working. The only reason.
(09:33):
So why don't you go work for them and get
and fix those issues because they don't have a job opening, Well,
why don't you go and try to create a job.
Why are you trying to get rid of me? I'm
telling you why I want this job. You can go
work for MacDonald now all of a sudden, you want MacDonald,
I'd work for McDowell's. Hey, the Golden Arcs was a
great idea, man, And putting the toppies on the toppings
on the bottom, that was genius. Man. Yeah, I'm gonna.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Side with Jason here, which I never do because if
there's anybody that can do this job of bad food
tast taste testing, it's it's the King right there.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I mean, come on, man, this is like now he's
walking around with the crowd. That's the other place that
hasn't been mentioned. They're gonna make one just for him.
I do the lebron like I put my hands yeah
King every time they would clap when I'm walking in
out Yeah yeah, King, King right here, King right here,
Yeah Yeah. This is the greatest mashup. That's me. That's me.
Fast food places is past casual dining experiences in the
(10:25):
history of man. I want you want to get an
animal fry in while.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
We're There's never been in the history of qualification, nobody's
ever been more qualified for this job.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
There, I would. I would be the Sean McVay of
food tasting officers where I would walk in and all
of a sudden, whoa. We didn't realize how bad it
was under Jeff Fisher. Look at us now we've won
a super Bowl where a yearly threat I would be
the Sean McVay of this job. By the way, RAM
still always a ring that still needs to happen. Here's
your application. It's just a picture of you with two
(10:55):
thumbs pointing at yourself. What has two thumbs are gonna
increase your sales as long as you feed them. This
guy right here.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
I mean some people have a calling to be a doctor. No,
this is your calling.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
You've got a lifetime of education in this department. I
wouldn't want to be a doctor simply because I wouldn't
have to worry about fighting through all the red tape
to get paid, all the different all the different different
companies and all of that. Oh this, no, oh my god, No,
I mean being a doctor pay then like I want that? No, No,
I couldn't do that. They're already said they're paying me.
I don't have to put that out there, paying me
a hundred grand? Now, would I say, hey, if you
(11:27):
choose me and you want to pay me, say seventy
five grand. I'd be okay with that, But if they
said yes, I would realize, Wow, Wendy's needs to save
twenty five grand. Wendy's. No, I need the four hundred
grand because I need to uh to uh do a
little sublet opportunity, because I'm gonna need someone to help
me make some kick ass videos. Yeah this, I've got
(11:49):
a couple of guys that I know that can help
me out in that regret it. I think they can
slough them off a couple of hours. I think they
just wanted them to create a second job. No, I
don't think they need like the big bells and whistles
I need. It's all you need. I've seen these videos
this week. All you need is a CEO of a
company looking like he's taking a really big bite out
of something and not just a tiny ass nibble. Oh
(12:10):
so good, dude, Come on, man, take a bite. Now
we have an undisputed winner. And it's not because of
what he ate. It's how he described the product that
was the Taco bell guy when he talked about the
meat gun and the price point, the meat that went
into the taco at the price. I like how he said,
now it is a meat gun, but it's high quality
(12:32):
out of the price point. The price point, like we
have really high quality meat gun meat Like that's that's
like me saying, hey, the meat out of that uh
A vending machine is really good. It's fred you want,
you want to have that meat out of the vendor.
But the meat gun a meat meat gun. Meake me gun.
(12:53):
How has no band done a song called meat gun?
I don't know. How has a heavy metal band not
done a sabbath do one of the meet Gune one
of those guys terrified looking dudes with the uh Ronald
McDonald on lead voke. I mean, meat gun is like
made for a song, and that's like made for a
song that like the kiss not licensed. I don't know.
(13:14):
Well they well they had love Gun, and they'd probably
should have come back to meet gun, you know, years later.
It would have been seems like they would have. I
mean they licensed everything else for a while. You can
get the casket, I mean probably got one meat gun.
All right, Yeah, I'm now writing this song. Hey, yeah,
I write that song for you. Write me a song
(13:36):
called meat gun. Yeah, meets and Roses. She's got it okay,
so uh Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the Fox
Sports Radio Meat Gun Studios, meat Gun, meat Gun. It
also could be all moviegal movie and that it could
It could be both. It could cracked elbows and meat guns.
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Speaker 2 (15:09):
I really thought we'd get love gun by kiss, but
we didn't. I would still like maloney now and now
and again. I thought Tyser would hit upchat GPT and
would have a love gun meat gun version of kiss,
which I'm glad you didn't. We save saving water, save
the water, save the water. We don't need chat GPT. Oh,
forget the water, save the water. Forget the water, save it.
We'll use all the water, all right, Jason, no way,
(15:30):
are here guaranteed human? All right? All right, little Alan
Jackson for you Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Harmon. You what you are? Jason?
What's that? What am I tell you? Shit that gets
a PS five and crimes he didn't get a computer.
That's what you are? Right now? What do you mean
talking about? This song is great about meat potatoes and everything,
(15:51):
and you're like, where's love gun? Where's love gun? Okay?
You know who you are? Who are you? Who you are?
You are? You are the dad that here's his kid? Say?
Hey dad, you know what I'd love for Christmas is
a PS five I'd love that for ps. Five And
he tells you that, and you understand, boy, that's what
you want. That would make him happy. Why wouldn't I
do that? I should do that for my kid. And
Christmas Day comes and go, oh yeah, I got your
(16:12):
cassette of a band from the eighties and nineties. I
got your rock set greatest hits, but I wanted to
PlayStation like yeah, but you were expecting that. I'm just
gonna give you something little bit different. So here's a
cassette can't play anything. And I don't know if you
even know rock set. Marie Frederickson lead singer. She had
great voice, all this stuff. Oh yeah, yeah, No, that's
you're getting instead, that's who you are, not at all.
I'm giving an applications. Say work for the crap you want, Jason,
(16:34):
Yeah for free da was not even real. Wake up kid.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Whoa whoa, whoa whoa whoa crossed the line.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
The line. This is where the referee turns around and goes, no,
that's it, You're gone. I'm you get the double whistle
and boom out quick double whistle, whoa whoa, whoa wow,
And you can't take it back either. Just kidding. No,
you can't to do that, man, No, you kidding, dude,
(17:07):
you are do me a favor. What how old are
you now? Twenty six, twenty four, twenty four? Don't have
kids for a while. Oh I don't have kids for okay? Good,
good good. No off on a shelf, no lying to
my kids. No Elf on the shell. Well, the Elf
on the shelf is a menace that all households should
have at the period. See but I think tys. It's
also the kind of guy that would tell you Elf
(17:28):
on a shelf moves for real, Why wouldn't you? That's
actually a great horror movie. Like Elf on a Shell sure, like,
but it's bloody and like the s and the s
are like made to look like a knife, like Elf
on the Shelf moves. And then like you know, one
one morning, you know, a kid wakes up. You know,
they show like a montage to start a movie. You
hear like some kind of happy Christmas song, and like
(17:48):
you see, the the kid goes to bed. Every night
the elf moves, and then slowly the elf gets a
little more menacing, little more menacing, and then one one
night the kid goes to bed, wakes up, and then
the elf is standing over with a big knife and
here ah match cut the titles. Elf on a shelf
have to have his favorite stuffed animal lose its head.
What about man on a bench? That's the sex Well
(18:11):
they battle for supremacy. And what's the snoop one a throne?
That's that's that's that's smoke on a shelf. Smoke up,
Johnny hay Man. The elf hasn't moved in like months. Man,
That elf is just kind of sitting there, happy man,
eating Doritos the whole time, just getting heavy. Boy, that
(18:32):
helf is fat. Now look at that he just sitting around.
Man just keeps eating food every day. The bad changes. Man,
it's hot cheetos the other day. Then it was a
Takey's and man's snoop on man? All right, all right,
he comes a little throne that's now being co opted
as we're making a horror movie out of it. So
I'm making a horror of Elf on the shelf. Snoop
(18:54):
was in a horror movie, wasn't he? Uh? Maybe maybe
us seems like he's been in everything. I mean, why not?
I mean probably sure. She was in the Hood of
Horror back in two thousand and six. Yeah, I didn't
see that. How about Bones, the TV show with David
borianas Okay, Bones, Oh yeah, yeah, there's he's like a
(19:15):
vampire something something. Yeah, okay, all right, yeah, all right, nought.
I would rather watch the sav Show. Emily de Chanelle. Sure, sure,
it was on like eleven years run. Uh. So, big
news out of the NBA. Jason Tatum is coming back.
Not only is he coming back, he's coming back likely
on Friday night at TV Garden when the Celtics welcome
(19:39):
the always difficult Dallas Mavericks. Uh. This is like the
equivalent of firing a manager, like before you have a
series against the worst team in Major League Baseball. Hey,
the Pirates are coming to town. We're gonna make that move. Yeah,
fire the manager. We got the Pirates coming in and
we're missing schemes, so don't have to worry about it.
We're all good. But it's pretty good to come back, right,
this group of Flags back. You can get a couple
of Marquee guys getting after that. We lost by a
point record with Cooper Flag this year. So Tatum's coming back.
(20:06):
This is this is a seismic move in the NBA
because I will tell you this, there are five teams
that can win the NBA title. Now there are five
teams that can win. You've reduced it to five. There
are five teams that can win. The Pistons, the Knicks, now,
the Celtics, the Spurs, and the thunder. Those five teams
(20:27):
are the only teams that can win the NBA title.
Boston was never gonna make it through a playoff without
Jason Tatum, but now they have him back, and now
Boston is a legit title contender. They would know it
would be too difficult. Now, whether they could beat the
teams of the West, I don't know, but they could
be the It's a marathon for them to get through.
(20:48):
They would they would run up against a Pistons team
that is rolling four guys off the bench that are
playing just as well as their starters. They they wouldn't
be deep enough. But now Jason Tatum is back, I'll
put them in a five teams can win and while
then Steward might take one of those guys out. So yeah,
I mean that's the wildcard and look for teams like
oh what about the Nuggets and the Rockets. Yeah, I
(21:08):
could potentially see one of those teams beating the Spurs
or the Thunder, but you're not getting by both of them.
And those are your one two teams in the West,
so the Nuggets without Aaron, so you'd have to get
by both of them, and you're not doing it right.
That's two rounds of playoffs. That that's the only reason
why these why you don't think those teams are good. No,
it's because about getting there. Nobody is getting through both
of those teams. Five teams can win the NBA title
(21:30):
now and it was four up until today. But Tatum
coming back and this is such great news for them
because mentally this works for everybody the rest of the year. Now,
we talked about how awkward it is now there's great
drama coming. But with Tatum coming back, we've mentioned this,
he's coming back to a different situation. Right, world is
different than it was thirty seconds ago. World was different
(21:51):
when he got hurt. It was his team. Jalen Brown
was the one. A Hey, we won a title. Yes,
I didn't win NBA MVP, but Jason Tatum's team. Now
what's happened since he's been out. We don't need Jason Tatum.
Look at the success we're having second in the Eastern Conference.
Jalen Brown, I would have him number one on my
ballot for MVP, and his odds changed pretty much every day,
(22:13):
but I would have him number one. The Celtics have
been able to have a great regular season. They have
lost Jason Tatum, not replaced him, and all they've gotten
is more out of Jalen Brown. So now Tatum's coming
back to a team, and he has always been very
cognizant of his standing, of the respect he has. He's
somebody that here's what is said and written about him
all the time. But coming back in this situation where
(22:35):
coming back from the serious injury, he's gonna have his
minutes maintained, it's going to be, Hey, we're going to
work you back in. And it's an ego thing that works, because, Hey,
the only reason maybe you're not playing more minutes now
is because we want to make sure you're healthy. And
he's gonna be okay with that, and Jalen Brown will
be okay. It's still my team. Yeah, we got to
work Jason back in because we're better with him, clearly
we are. But it's a mental thing, and it's a
(22:57):
big ego thing for Jason Tate to come back and
not be the guy. It's like, hey, you're coming back, man,
have been gone for a long time. Yeah, uh just
you know, kind of rock and roll fit in somewhere.
We'll get to you. So for the short term, it's
great a short term for the Celtics. They can figure
it out the rest of this year because ego wise, Hey,
Tatum's like, I'm just coming back. I gotta play twenty games.
(23:18):
I'll be ready for the playoffs and then then let's
go right then the playoffs here that it doesn't matter.
The real drama is in the offseason when Tatum's got
to decide, Okay, is this where want to play the
rest of my career? Where now I'm no longer the
one and I'm the one a maybe the two because
of what the Celtics have shown in my absence not
(23:42):
really needing me and I'm a boost. Do I want
to spend the rest of my career being that guy?
No superstar wants to play on a team where he
goes from I'm the one to now I'm the two.
It's very special. A guy like Dwayne Wade that was
okay welcoming Lebron in and Lebron commence that thank you,
I'm taking over the heat. Dwayne Wade had a great
(24:02):
and that's why it worked because Dwayne Wade was okay
with that. He was okay with stepping to the side
and letting it become Lebron's team, just like Steph Curry
was okay kind of stepping aside when Kevin Durant came in.
There's very few athletes that have that kind of ego
that are that comfortable where I can do this, it's
better for the team, and still I know what my
image is going to be and what the optics are.
(24:25):
Jason Tatum's not that kind of guy. So the drama
is gonna be in the off season when he decides, yeah,
it's been a great run, but I want to be
the one somewhere. I'm not gonna sit here and be
the one A and have it be built around Jalen Brown. No,
I'm not that guy. That's where the real drama comes from.
For now, it's great. For now, it's awesome. And this,
like I said, so five teams can win the title,
(24:45):
Celtics and one of them. But in the off season, oh,
that's when the drama gets see you're trying to sow
the seeds of malcontendedness again. Yeah, you guys make it
a total level. How much is it like six hundred
and fifty million between them? I think that's the bigger
question for the celt six roster wise, is what do
you put around him in the in future seasons when
Pritchard and these other guys UH need to get their
(25:07):
deals reworked. But short term it's it works. I don't
know how Jason Tatum, if he's that guy that just
is a get along, or whether he'd go the Yannis
route and start planting that stuff through the media and
then be like, I can't be the bad guy. Like
(25:27):
that's that's the question at all. Yeah, Jalen Brown certainly
has shown he'll say whatever to whomever. So if he's
got to be the bad guy in the situation because
it's untenable, then I would see that coming up and
and potentially being a sticking point. But if Seann the
can co exists, they won together, and I don't know
(25:48):
if if you're winning, it cures most of the IELs
because nobody's calling it Jalen Brown's team. Jason Tatum's not
back yet, but I mean, but now that Tatum's back,
I tried to call, but that's me. They're not gonna
go in for any controversy in Boston. They're just gonna
come back and love their players. Oh this is awesome.
Jason tenn is back. Now, Hey, we don't need that
(26:10):
guy anymore, tho Quimby. I mean really, I mean it's good.
It's a thing. Jason Tatum has always been a player
that yeah, I'm great, right right, it's my team right right,
And now it's not and it's really awkward. And once
he comes back again, this season's a dream because you
can do it for a short period of time. When
someone gets hurt, comes back, loses their job, loses their status.
(26:31):
I'm working my way back. Whatever's good for the team.
I gotta get back and make sure I'm that player.
But then you get long term, do I really want
to be here? What tell me a star that, Hey,
I'm here, I'm great, I'm great, I'm great. Yeah. Now,
because you're out, we got somebody else now, and it's
the other guy who's gonna be the number one. Oh okay,
because with Wade and Steph it was bringing somebody in.
This is you watch the guy who was you were
(26:53):
standing next to is your one A then you go away,
come back, and now he has surpassed you. It's like,
how did this happen? I don't have the one. It
was also the go to guy in paffs and finals
to win a finals MVP. So it's not like this
is a new invention. You've watched him ride up and
win as many games or more than you did while
(27:13):
you were there. Again, not gonna like it, doesn't have
to like it. Everybody deals with their work circumstances as
they need to. Just just wait till the offseason. When
we're talking about Giannis. Oh, maybe you can't get Yannis.
Jason Tatum might be the guy. And if the report
is true that Doc Rivers is stepping aside, maybe he
doesn't have to leave. I don't know. I think maybe
(27:33):
Jannis is still the Milwaukee and when he got introduced
to Tacos, I think Doc Rivers is good. If he
retires at the end of this year, then Austin Rivers
will take over and he's definitely leaving. Yeah, that would
be tough. I'm just gonna step aside and my son's
gonna take over. Might be one of the most controversial
handing off of a job we've ever seen. It's not
gonna be like me, but it won't be my faultymore.
(27:55):
It's not gonna be my fault. No, I mean, it's
good theater for us, no question, It'll always be his fault.
You get you get to the off season, and you wait,
you tell me how happy Jason Tatum is gonna be
when it's like, hey, oh yeah, hey, Bruce and pr
what's going on this week? Yeah? I don't have anything
on here for you? Uh yeah, uh hey, can we
meet on Wednesday and talk about opportunities? Well, listen, I'm
(28:15):
at that big Taco Bell photo shoot with Jalen on Wednesday,
and then I got a meeting with Jalen on Thursday.
We have some new sponsors coming in Froy. You know what,
Let's get together next week. Yeah, Jason Tatum's gonna love that. Well.
This also presumes and I and I hope that your
best or worst case scenario, depending on whether you want
the drama in the heat and chaos or are for
things to go smoothly, is that Jason Tatum is able
(28:38):
to come in and ball out at the highest level.
Because if he's not, then there's not a whole lot
of room for him to complain. That's why great, it's
gonna be great. This He's gonna be fine. That's I mean.
The Celtics now can win the title. They are now
a team that can win the title. But just wait,
I already thought they could could fight the other teams
in the West. Because they're beating the Knicks. We already
(28:58):
know that. Yeah, they're not getting power. They're not a
great matchup for the Nick. There they're not a matchup
for the Knicks. Look, it's all We'll get to the matchups.
Because we saw tonight what could be an NBA Finals matchup.
Really show you that if this is the NBA Finals matchup,
it's going to be a sweep. But it's all about matchups.
I don't like the Knicks with the Pistons. I love
the Knicks and the Celtics. The Celtics and the Pistons,
(29:20):
I like it. So it's all about who who winds
up surviving those first couple of rounds and who gets there.
It's all about the matchups. Time now to find out
what's trending in the wide world of sports. With someone
who's been called the Detroit Pistons of Fox Sports Radio
because tonight they're both wearing things on their shirts that
have an L on them. It's Martin Weiss.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
There's an L one here somewhere, I'm sure, but I
hope I'm not the Pistons because they got smacked tonight.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Well that's why you got an L. The Pistons got an.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
L one twenty one to one oh six as the
San Antonio Spurs dispatch of the Detroit Pistons Kate cunning
In with twenty six points, so twenty six shots that
is a lot of those are the fourth quarter of
the Fists. Try to make this thing kind of respectable
twenty point game for most of it. Victor Woman Yama
put on a show, thirty eight points on twelve to
twenty four from the floor. He was ten for eleven
(30:08):
with the free throw line, but sixteen rebounds and five blocks,
so plus twenty on the night.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
And just saw Detroit.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Just running away from the rim as victim Minyama was
underneath it.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
All night and us what in the NBA thist's year.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
We got the Chicago Bulls and the Phoenix Suns. Chicago
leading seventy two to sixty five, Collin Sexton with twenty
points the Lakers and the Nuggets thirty to twenty, Denver
in the lead about ninety.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Seconds left in the first quarter.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
There Nicole Jochic and Luca Dodgers woke with the six.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
First quarter points, but the Nuggets with a ten point lead.
How many arguments between Reddick and Lucas so far have
you been keeping track of that? I have it, but
I did just put it.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
I was watching the end of the Spurs want to
see if kid could do something, but I am tracking
it now.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Okay, all right, make sure even just way wait away,
he said, if Kate could do something since they were
down twenty, was there a bet and over under in
one of his statistical category?
Speaker 5 (31:03):
There was not, But I am I am in that
MVP conversation.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
You know.
Speaker 5 (31:08):
I like guys who play, so all right, I'm in
the Jalen Brown, Kde Cunningham.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Who's gonna win it? I'm sorry, so got to get
to sixty five right exactly, first one to sixty five wins.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
And to the first quarter of the Kings lead the
Pelicans thirty to twenty six in the game, both teams
trying to lose In the NHL, the Predators and the Bruins.
Nashville leads five to two by six minutes left in
the third quarter, Jets four to one over the Lightning,
wrapping up the third period. There started the third period
Senators and Flames one apiece. Kings lead the Islanders one
(31:40):
to nothing at the start of the second period.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
In the NFL, the.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
Colts trying to trade how You're Franklin to a salary
cap move reported by Adam Schefter. The Bills did trade
dj More to the Chicago Bears, along with a fifth
round pick in exchange for a second Cam Jordan's gonna
hit free agency for the first time in his fifteen
year career at the Sky, and the Ain'ts unable to
come up with a contract extension. The Pittsburgh Steelers released
(32:04):
veteran tighten John new Smith. Seahawks and Drake Thomas agree
to a two year, eight million dollars deal, and Jason
Tatum questionable for Friday's game in Dallas or against Dallas.
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Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. Well, we had an NBA Finals preview tonight,
and I think if we get this NBA Finals, it's
gonna be a sweep. Why would you say that, because
the NBA doesn't need more of that, so.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
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Cunningham silent.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
On one, Devin com pallion flies Spurs TV on the
call the block the jam again thirty eight sixteen five blocks.
Wi've heard five blocks tonight. Uh. The Spurs beat the
Pistons one one, one oh six. This is the second
(34:49):
time in the past two and a half weeks the
Spurs have played the Pistons, and the Pistons make most
teams in the East look bad. Most teams in the
NBA look bad, our depth, our youth. Kay Cunningham's the MVP.
They can't sniff the San Antonio Spurs this year more
than any in the NBA. The playoffs are gonna be
about matchups, and and you can I can already see
(35:12):
how things are going to go when you get to
the conference finals, right if you're going off, I talked
about five teams that can win the NBA title this
year if you go to certain matchups, I know how
it's gonna go. If the Knicks have to play the
Pistons in the Eastern Conference Finals, the Pistons are gonna win.
If the Knicks have to play the Celtics in the
Eastern Conference Finals, the Knicks are gonna win. If the
Pistons have to play the Celtics in the Eastern Conference Finals,
(35:33):
the Pistons are gonna win. If the Pistons somehow get
out of the East and play the Spurs, guess what.
Spurs are gonna win that one easy in a sweep.
Pistons can't come close to San Antonio. It's all gonna be.
NBA playoffs generally is about matchups, but that's usually early rounds.
Why do we see some seven seeds giving two seeds
trouble over the course of the time is because hey,
(35:53):
the matchup doesn't work out, or some series get more
once you get down to the But now, once you
get down to the end, it's okay. The best teams
wind up win. But this is a matchup year more
than any other in the NBA. And if we get
Piston Spurs, man, forget this Spur. They're banging the drum
after the game. It's like, man, everybody loves this Detroit
Pistons team and everything is great. Kate Cunningham again, second
(36:13):
time in a row. The Spurs defensively and Steph Castle
had him in a blender. He was ten for twenty
six on the floor. I think the last two games
Kate Cunningham is like seventeen for fifty from the floor,
Like it's not gonna it's not gonna happen for him
against the Spur. It's a bad matchup for him. Meanwhile,
Wemby is like, you're gonna win you dfs every single
(36:34):
day with if he plays the Pistons. Frostburgy got his stats.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
Thirty a game, sixteen and a half rebounds a game,
four assists, and almost six blocks a game.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
I mean that it's if this is the NBA Finals,
a four game they made, maybe they'd only play three
because they go, hey, Pistons want you want to take it?
If you go out here, you're gonna be uh, they're
gonna be three in a well, the assumption that either
of them makes it, I like that, unless I don't.
I just want to battle it out for the Pistons
have been a fun story. I think the Eastern Conference
(37:03):
you're talking about a little more potential for chaos. As
good as they've been, and we've certainly talked about them
a lot on the show, no question about it. Kate
Cunningham one of the few remaining. Hey, that guy's going
to be in the MVP consideration. Why because the other
guys are gonna miss an extra game or two and
slough off. And that's the way it goes. Right now,
the prohibited favorite with a little bit of cushion is
(37:26):
SGA's up to minus three p twenty. I believe in
the latest offerings. But for the matchups, the presumption that
the Knicks are just gonna walk through the Celtics, I
mean they're one and one on the year. I mean,
come on, you're gonna still battle it out and Tatum's bad.
I watched them beat him last year. I watch him
beat them last year. Okay, last year. I'm okay. I'm
okay with that. I'm okay with that. I'm a right
(37:47):
with that. All right, you're still playing no defense, although
you might be more well rested because Tims isn't there.
But we'll watch that play out and maybe it goes
the same way. I'm not quite so sure that that's
the and some of the other matchups and teams that
are still in the mix. While I don't love Denver
(38:08):
over overall, and you know, you're still missing some component
parts that jokic guy finds a way to make things happen.
So you know they're no easy walk in the park
over the course of the series, but it is fun
to see new Blood engaged and represented, and certainly the
Spurs one of the great stories we talked about him
coming into the year. You know, with Wemby, if he's
(38:30):
healthy and he's able to go, and clearly he's been
everything as advertised and then some, and you're looking at
the depth of what they bring in some nights where
he's only got to play twenty five minutes and score
ten points. That's the depth they've been able to bring.
So that'll be fun on the Western Conference side of things.
But you know, night to night they'll get challenged. They'll
(38:51):
they'll find some others that come up and at least,
you know, try to step up and weight class. Yeah,
but you bring up a great point about the Spurs
is that we have seen them continue to go on
this big win streak and win games. And it's not
like every night Wenby's video game numbers. It's some nights
like tonight, but some nights it's yeah, he was sixteen
eleven and they still won by fifteen. But you know
(39:11):
what's great about it, and this was a challenging team
of Detroit, is since we've cast off so much of
the NBA, a lot of the winning streaks, we go,
all right, we can't wait to see you in the playoffs.
That's the unfortunate part of where we're at in the
regular season. As much as we want to say, hey,
these five teams are title contenders. Okay, eventually they have
to play each other in series, the good teams, because
(39:34):
in the interim, you can run off fourteen wins against
crap teams that aren't trying to play for anything. Particularly, man,
how many guys are now on the end of year
list for the Kings Hey season engine surgery for that
guy and over in Utah that guy. I mean, they're
going to resemble the teams they started the year with.
They're all done because that's the easiest way to tank.
(39:56):
It's well, I say, NBA, how great would be just
going to the playoffs right now? Of these meaningless, mostly
meaningless last twenty some odd games. Once in a while,
you get a game like tonight, We go, oh, that's
a big spotlight into the future. Here we get this
in the NBA finals. Good luck Man, good luck, good
luck Detroit. That's it. They still have to get through
another twenty games before we can get there. Plus playoffs
(40:16):
come on, Exit Out about a Fresca exit swollen Dome.
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