April 10, 2024 • 26 mins
Is Bruce Bochy really that great?? The Mavs won last night and clinched a playoff spot! Kyrie is a blessing to Luka! The Rangers lost in less than ideal fashion by giving up three home runs to Shea Langeliers?! The Stars won last night and are just a point away from being first place overall!! Then we find out what day it is!
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Fine partying going down in here,man, fine at the very very early
hour of two thirty three. Noless, this is the speakeasy, and
we're here for you. Right hereon the little frek ninety seven to one
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is where you will find It's whereyou are and where you will find us.
We'll have the bucket of Crab comingup with a little Hollywood swinging in
the next hour or so. Butbefore we do that, I mean well,
before we do that, we gotto set the table for all that
stuff. And I can scarcely thinkof a better way to set the table
for that than with this journal littlesports dosk. Thank you, monk man.
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This is Julie at the sports desk. We touched on the Rangers and
opening segment. We'll get back tothem a little bit too, but let's
start with the Dallas Mavericks because theyplayed last night. Will man, I
want to have something right here?Is Bochie really that great? That's what
I'm talking about, Mike Boachi onpressure all time? Really that great?
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Angry baseball man is back. Isee yeah, I'm sorry, go ahead,
that's okay, okay, angry baseballman. How do you feel about
Luka Doncic? Kick ass. Yeah, kick gass. They got it going
on, Man, they got itgoing on. He should be the MVP.
I don't think he will be,but he should. Did you see
that Pat Mahomes said? So yeah. Pat Mahomes said he's the MVP,
and I don't want to argue withPat Mahomes. I don't either, and
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I think he will. If nothim, who they say is gonna win
it again, I think lucas theMVP. I think Luca's the MVP two.
And I love the Joker. Ilove the Joker more than any player
in the league. But and Iknow I don't see him playing night in
night out like I do Luca.But man, as great as he is,
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I can't imagine him having the kindof impact on games that Luca has.
Daniel Gafford is going to lead theleague and field goal percentage by a
mile. Dante ExHAM hits over fiftypercent of his threes. Why Luca,
Because Luca gets the ball to him. He's the league MVP, and I
don't think he'll win it, butI think he's the league MVP. What
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else does he have to do?My goodness, I mean, you'll have
people say, well, the Denverhas a better record, and blah blah,
Denver won last year and everything,and then that's all well and good.
That was last year. It wasalso supposed to be an element of
voters getting bored to this thing,like Lebron doesn't have twelve MVPs, Jordan
doesn't have ten MVPs. Eventually youvote for someone else. Yeah, moving,
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vote for Luca, Vote for Luca. Well yeah, MVP guys need
to keep it moving. It's tobe determined what he's able to help the
maver do this season. And we'llsee, of course how they finished the
season. But right now it's lookingreally good. They're the hottest team in
the league because they've won fifteen oftheir last seventeen games. People who vote
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on the MVP, Ye, didyou know that? And there'll be no
play in for the Dallas Mavericks fifteenof their last seventeen. Yeah. They
clinched a playoff spot with their victorylast night over the Hornets on the road,
and they will not be in thatplay in game. That is all
those are all facts now that weknow because of this wine one oh four
over Charlotte, and it was itwas a game where I guess the MAVs
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could have relaxed a little bit becausethey are in a pretty good position right
now, and they could have arrestedpeople. We talked about that yesterday.
They didn't. Kyrie played, Lucaplayed, and they played with their food.
Because it was a really fun game. Like just watching back some of
the highlights of it, it waslike it looked like it was the Globetrotters
out there, just like trying newthings and All Star Game feel too.
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Shots. There was an All StarGame kind of vibe to this one because
they jumped out to a big leadreally early. They did, and they
had a lot of wiggle room.I know it's not Maverick related, but
did you guys see what the Clippersdid to the Suns last night? No,
that gave me a little bit ofpause about how excited we are to
play the Clippers. I wasn't excited. They played the Sun records not being
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excited Clippers. Clippers were up thirtyseven to ten after one quarter against Phoenix
and my math says fifty nine andseven sixty six to thirty three at halftime.
Oh, the Clippers destroyed the Suns. That's okay, just trying,
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Uh, that's a good question.I wasn't watching it. I was just
seeing the score on my phone,and I was just like, what in
the hell is happening. Yeah,well, Mike, the Mavericks did get
out to a huge lead in thisone, and that was because of Luca.
He had nineteen of the Mavs' firsttwenty nine points in this game.
He personally outscored the Hornets in thefirst quarter twenty one to eighteen, So
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Luca got out hot out of thegates. He finished the game with thirty
nine points, twelve rebounds, tenassists, another triple double. He was
eight of seventeen from three, andhe's obviously feeling pretty good about his three
ball right now. I think thatthere was a point, like when he
got to twenty one points, Ithink Lucas started wondering if he could get
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to like sixty or seventy or eightybecause a couple of time vibe too,
a couple of times down, Iwas like, he's not running the offense
anymore, like he's just going down, step back, And then he went
down and did a contestitute he missedthem both, and at that point I
think he went, Okay, we'lljust kick their ass, like I'm not
going to score sixty. It's gotto be a really fun little game that
you can play in your head,like what am I going to do with
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this game here today? What doI feel like doing? And he did
all that he needed to do tohelp this team to a win, and
then he also did all that heneeded to do to break another Mavericks record.
The single season scoring record set byMark McGuire is now held by Luka
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doncic. Aguire scored two three hundredand thirty points back in the nineteen eighty
three eighty four season, and rightnow, Luca has two three hundred and
thirty two points on this season withthree games remaining. Yeah, that was
like year three or maybe year fourfor the Mavericks. Yeah, in't it
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wild that that record wasn't Dirk's atany point it was Mark acguire. It's
kind of crazy. Well, thatjust shows you what a score he was
during his time in the game.Yeah, Luca leading the way for this
one. That's obviously a huge recordto break. And he talked after the
game. He was asked about youknow, anytime he's asked about himself,
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he deflects like a lot of people, these really great athletes do. And
he was also asked about just whatKyrie has meant to him this season,
and I like this answer. Hesaid he was hashtag blessed twice. I
believe in this response. Oh yeah, parn Carrie here has been a blessing
man. Just I always say onthe court, everybody knows what kind of
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player it is, just solve theKorey else a lot, not just me,
the whole team. So he knowshow to win the championship. He's
a very humble guy, great guy, and on the court, out of
the court, it's just been ablessing to move him. He's blessed by
Kyrie. Just tag blessed. Justone more reason why this thing is going
to be a load. Yeah forthe Clippers or whoever they run into in
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the playoffs. Clippers beat the Brakesoff the Suns last night, and the
Clippers in that game did not haveJames Harden or Kawhi Leonard. And the
Son's played everybody, Well, ourfirst round series is the fn NBA Finals,
is what it is. We canhandle it, right, Yeah,
yeah, yeah, So yeah,it's not just Luca and it's not just
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Kyrie. Bring it on, man. Everybody on this team's playing really well
right now. Like you said,Jeff Gafford, a great game for him,
twenty six points. My shots didGafford miss quick a zero? Well
for twelve, well for twelve ninedunks as well for Gafford. Tim Hardaway
Junior at fifteen points, he wasthree of seven from three cleaver ten points.
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Hey, Maxie making shots. Ineed that. Yeah, let's get
a week of the shots falling andhim thinking he can make shots, and
then we'll go play playoff basketball.Yeah. Six rebounds for him, two
for those offensive rebounds. PJ.Washington was a big game for him returning
to Charlotte after the trade, andhe didn't have a huge games show,
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didn't do much. And I thinkJason Kidd after the game said he was
obviously, like you know, hewas in his field, a bit like
going home, and I didn't realizehis whole family is still there, like
his kids and everything. They gotto see him make one point. He
got to go well. I'm surehis kids have seen him play plenty of
times and his family has seen himplay plenty of times. But I guess
he did get to go home beforethe game when they got in town to
Charlotte and see his family, Likethat's just one of the things in sports
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that you don't think about how hardit is for these people, like when
they get traded. He literally justleft his kids and his wife who's like,
all right, I'm gonna go playfor the Mavericks and they're all just
chilling in Charlotte. Still. Oh, now we know that his family can't
come to the playoffs. It's nottheir fault. He's better without them.
It's not their fault. He's betterwithout them. I think he'll probably be
at the playoffs, and I'm surehe'll do just fine. So a really
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good game all around for the DallasMavericks, and things do not slow down.
They play again tonight and you gotto think they're going to be pretty
tired at this point. But theywill be in Miami against the Heat.
It's the finale of this two gameroad trip, and then they come home
and host Detroit on Friday. Theregular season finale for the Mavericks is in
Oklahoma City on Sunday, So thisthing is winding down. And then on
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the twentieth we are going to haveplayoff basketball. Yes, so that is
going down to night six point thirtyhere on the Freak. If we could
manage to lose that last game onpurpose and rest guys, that could help
Oklahoma City get the one seed overDenver, which would set us up to
play Oklahoma City in the second round. We're gonna be great. Yeah,
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we'd like that. Yeah, thiswould be good. Yeah, we'd like
that. So fun things right now. For the Dallas Mavericks, who got
yet another victory, we'll take aquick buzzer here, goooby. Oh yeah.
The Rangers loss, falling to Oaklandfour to three last night to open
up their three game series with themnot good. This coming after they were
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able to split with Houston. Butthat loss to Houston a couple of nights
ago was one that didn't feel verygood, and you kind of think,
all right, well, let's starta new series and kind of just start
rolling right. Just felt worse.Yeah, this felt worse because they gave
up a three home run game toa guy on the swinging A's. Yeah.
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Now, this guy maybe turned outto be a really nice player and
have a real nice career. Idon't know, but right now he is
in baseball. Hell, nobody knowswho he is. Nobody knows who they
are, and they come in hereand beat the Texas Baseball Rangers last night
because the Rangers have a closer.Who's who's scared out there on the mound.
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Come on, man, yep,say, langlears three home runs off
the Rangers last night, and theywere able to write the ship after the
first two and get the lead back. And then that third one off of
our boy Jose Laclerk late in thegame. Happens to the best of them,
sealed the deal for Oakland. Justone of one six two. Mike,
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no big deal. We just moveon to the next day. But
I'll tell you this, if itdidn't, if it was not emblematic of
something worse that's wrong with this thing, I would agree with that. But
I think it does. No bigdeal, Mike, it's fine. It's
fine. No, it's not fine. It's no big deal. Not fine.
Look, we're gonna get smever finewith the Rangers lose, because you
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know what, I love the Rangers. Yeah, I didn't. We just
move on to the next game,and then we get to the ninth inning,
and if we have a one runlead, we'll put our closer in
and he'll Okay, let's make thatcloser. David Robertson, how about that?
Oh well, love a lamp gota home run off him too,
I know, I did. Youknow, nobody's perfect, but David Robertson's
the best thing they have. Andoff Evaldi, so maybe it was just
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a really great night for him.And you know, we did it to
three different pitchers last night. It'sunfortunate. But yeah, it hasn't been
a great start for jose La clerkIn. All of those hitters doing anyway,
havn't tried. He got us thelead again. M yeah, I
know he did. He had abumps. He had a nice game.
What about the rest of those guysjust hanging out, just hanging out.
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They forgot two hits. Yeah,they'll remember soon that the pitching's not going
to help them and they have toscore all the runs. The World Series
is over? What, oh,yeah, it is. Well, it
was a good night until then.Pretty decent night for for Nathany Balbi.
I mean he did well, fiveand two thirds innings of one run ball
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for him, he's been wonderful.So those were some positives. He was
good. Simeon was good. EvanCarter was good, and then the Rangers
ended up blowing it again, whichjust makes everybody, like both of you
feel very stressed out because we hadto deal with this all season long last
year and the Rangers downplayed it saideverything was me fine, and then everything
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was fine. But it seems likethat problem might still be lingering. We
don't have a closer right now.The bullpen is very sketchy. It's probably
my fault. I mean, I'mthe one who said the other day,
like, hey, the Rangers bullpen'sbeen pretty good. Yeah, they've got
a good era. Reality's back.Yeah. And the clerk, remember he
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began last year as the closer andthen late April he got that demotion from
the closer role and now they're tryingto again the closer role. And this
season he's allowed and earned run infour of his five appearances to start the
season. This is dejavoo all over. Devin runs total in five innings.
That's not good. That's now areof fourteen point four. He's walked more
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batters than he's struck out, sixto four walks to strikeouts, and he's
got a whip of two forty.That's not good. What if he's left
handed. I think he needs totry with the other hand. Yeah,
just flipping around. He was onthe whole. He was really good last
year. He was good the yearbefore. But I don't shout out to
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Boach. I guess I would notbe a patient man with that particular position.
No, I wouldn't. I wouldnot be a patient man with that
particular guy, because we've seen thisever since he's been here. Yeah,
he'll be good for a while,and you'll think, Okay, we trust
this guy. We can use himin more big pressure situations, more significant
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situations, and you try him outthere, and sooner or later he defines
the Peter principle right in front ofour face. What's the Peter principal?
He rises to his level of incompetence. That's tough. It's tough to be
petered like that. Force de Scienswould be careful talking about about the bullpen.
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Emily will cuss out Jeff again.Five o'clock today, Mike and I
have decided we're going right at her. We're tearing Emily all right. This
is her fault, this is thisis unfair, this, this team has
not been held accountable. Wait untno games today, Well, Bouchie after
the game was downplaying it like hewill do. When asked about the clerk,
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he got a little defensive. Iwas actually watching the post game and
he was getting defensive to a coupleof people's questions. Full Emily on it.
Yeah, when it came to theclerk, he said, he's healthy,
he's fine. He's probably not quiteas locked in, that's all.
Oh, that's good. I don'tknow what you make of that. He
said. He's looked really good attimes, really good on some hitters.
You saw the strikeouts, Yeah,right after you see the strike I will
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say, right after he gave upthe bomb. Yeah, he threw the
ball right. Yeah. I sawthe strikeouts too, and I also saw
the home run. He says,he just let that pitch get away from
him. He's walking a few more, similar to last year. Early Bochi
said the walks hurt him. Andso it gets back to just not being
quite as sharp with the command.And we'll see if they take away some
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of his responsibilities. They should,they should. Yeah, it hurts not
having spores, Yeah, that makesit a little bit more glaring, and
maybe uh uranus, but it's urusuranus. Uranus has been pretty good for
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this thing. Maybe we could bringhim into the Tree of trust after a
while. I guarantee you they willtry it. Mm hmm. Currently,
I think my Rangers trust tree ofrelievers is literally just the super old new
guys. It's Robertson and it's KirbyYates. I have two people in my
trust tree. That's about the sizeof it. It's not good. We
need to put more people in thosetrees. I mean, they got they
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won a World Series with two guysin the trust tree. They just put
nine starters in the bullpen. Yeah, it's not good Rangers. Right now
six and five on the season,we have Game two with Oakland to night
and it is going to be aBradford start. So he's been really good,
really good. It's Mike's guy,man. He was great, not
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just good great Briday Night. Yeah, you had people talking two guys that
if I hear their name, Ionly think of Mike, Kirky Cousins and
Cody Bradford. Those are the twoguys When I hear their name, I
just see Mike's face. I'll takequick buzzer here, Grooby. When you
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look at their careers, they're reallythe very picture of mediocrity. Oh no,
we don't know yet about Bradford.No, we don't, we don't,
but I'm right right now. Hey, Kirk's a legend at the Banks
super Rich and I'm I know,I'm on record as saying that Bradford has
something. Yeah, and I dobelieve that. Yeah. And he gave
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me no reason not to the othernight. Yeah, So we'll see how
it goes down tonight. The DallasStars resting tonight after they beat Buffalo three
to two, the final score athome. For Dallas. This was a
good win for them because it's easyafter a tough road trip where they had
back to back games with Chicago andColorado to come home and might maybe say,
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okay, we can kind of coasthere to the end of the regular
season. And they had to comefrom behind in this one as well,
and they did. They battled andthey got the victory. This was the
first of four home games that they'regoing to have to finish the regular season.
They hit the fifty win mark.Not really there's average as you could
possibly be. Yeah, okay,yeah, so it would have been just
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one of those losses that you kindof want to throw out and be like
oh, well, they were comingoff of this high emotional game and Colorado
or whatever, but they won.They have a really cool logo, Yeah
they did. Yeah, because Buffalois cheating. I think it's your city
name. But they can include abuffalo in their logo, but also two
swords because they're the Sabers. Yeah, White Johnston, Joe Pavelski, Jason
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Robertson. All saw in the cafeteriawas open. Huh why why? It's
just killing it for this team rightnow, and they just have layers of
offense. Their third goal so Iwas half watching while I was watching other
things because as in a bar setting, I think it was their third goal
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was a redirected puck, So I'massuming the third one was Pavelski. Yeah.
Anytime I see a puck get redirected, I'm like, oh, Pavelski's
out there. There was a lotof redirecting in this game. Though.
He's been teaching his friends. That'sgood. Yeah, that's the thing I
would not want to practice if Iplayed hockey, Like, hey, I'm
a stand in front of the net, you fire pucks at me, I'm
just going to try to perfectly tipit in. Yeah, isn't he non
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some kind of pretty serious all timegoal scorer list. Oh yeah, I'm
sure i'd have to pull up exactlywhere he is on that, But yeah,
he's ridiculous and still scoring like hasn'tslowed down at all, and as
one of the leaders for this teamas he continues to be, and he'll
probably start scoring even more in theplayoffs because that's what he does. Fifty
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wins for the Dallas Stars this season. They hit that mark for just the
fifth time in franchise history with theirwin last night. They have twenty five
comeback wins too, which is hugebecause this team will often like to spot
the others a goal early and yougot to be able to come back from
that, and we've seen seasons wherethey weren't, and this season they are.
Everything's coming together for the Stars rightnow. Jay Gottinger got eight straight
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victories, his eighth last night ina row, and he's feeling good.
The Stars just one point away fromthe Rangers for first place overall in the
whole league. Do it. So, let's go Stars, let's go Mavsers
really found for him again, hehas, and I'm glad because people were
kind of worried about him there fora bit, and the head coach was
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thrown him under the bus a littlebit. And you never know how a
goaltender, especially a young ish goaltender, will handle something like that. And
it seems like he has re rackedand he's got his head in the right
place and he's ready for the postseason. Right that way, boach, that's
right, that's right. Let's checkout with Oh, oh, guess what
day it is? Guess what dayit is? Huh? Anybody, coach?
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Would you think of a Clark tonight? Oh? Pitches like that one
more time? He's asked, I'llbe pitching in round Rock? Wait?
Is that where for play? Teamis first of double? Yeah, we're
round Rock. We used to beOklahoma City right round Rock now? Uh,
today, I don't know how tosay this, so I would like
to apologize to all of our Muslimbrethren, all of our Muslim listeners.
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It's the end of ramadant mm hmmI Al's feet, that's what the end
of it is called. Like thelast day is yes, so, which
means I think tomorrow Kyrie's I wantto know what Kyrie has for lunch tomorrow?
What about corn beef? Because itcould be that could be corn beef
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because for a month he hasn't beenable to eat with the sun up.
So when he is allowed and hedoesn't have to fast, he's I don't
know, but he's played good basketball. Kyrie might should keep fasting. Yeah,
somebody needs to ask that in apost game. Tim McMahon, if
you're listening, ask Kyrie in thepost game, have you considered fasting until
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you're not playing? Well? Maybehe's light on his feet and he's he's
healthy. I thought food was topower us. Maybe whatever he was eating
was causing his toe to hurt.Yeah, maybe food hurts us. Answer
ask him what about corn beef?Into the Mavericks locker room and ask Kyrie
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about corn beef? See what happensToday is National Farm Animal's Day. Favorite
farm Animals. We're not doing Ijust want to know your favorite farm animals.
We don't have to play me thatwas on purpose? That doesn't count.
What animal was that? Thought?Little sheep? That doesn't count?
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My favorite farm animal is the EU? Really? Yes? A rare one.
I want Doug when I retire aftertomorrow's show, I am going to
start an EMU farm in Heath reallytomorrow? Okay, well can we go,
Yeah, you broadcast from there?Can we do your last show from
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out there? To put it togetheron the fly? Why Heath, Alex
Tran, if you're listening, Iwas just thinking about I was just thinking
about Heath. Noboddy mentioned the cityof Heath this morning. Try across that
bridge on thirty, get over thewater. Heath is over the whole nother
city over there. Yeah it's byrock. Heat. Yeah, heat's over
there. Yeah, growing do.It's pricey, but you can get a
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good plot. Go exploring. Youcan get a good plot of land for
about three hundred k Okay, thenwe can. Then we can build a
house and bring in the emuse anda piggy. None of these other days
matter. O National Hug your dogDay. That's a good day. If
you'd like to do that. That'severy day, should be every day.
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I Uh, my dog's been havingan ear thing for a few days and
I like to just see if it'llpass, which is very irresponsible. But
it wasn't passing. So I didwhat anybody would do, and I rectified
the aeration twenty four hours later.Because I wasn't going to go to a
store and buy anything, so Iordered off Amazon something for dog ear cleaning.
But my dog is an effing spazlike I have to take him somewhere
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and drop him off to have himbay, because he'll break my hand if
I try to hold him by thecollar. You can't. You can't make
this dog do anything. You musthave a big dog. He's about eighty
five pounds, My giant dog.The story my dog. So I tried
to spray the stuff. I triedto spray the stuff in his ear,
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and before I could even finish squeezingthe bottle, he is doing a violent
shake that sent the liquid that wasmeant for his ear directly in my eyes.
Oh no, you're already burned.Eclipseize, Yes, did it make
your eclip size worse or better?Maybe that's their solution. They don't feel
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good. Maybe that's the solution wecan package to fix people's eyes after the
eclipse. We could buy dog earstuff for your eyes. I mean eclipse
aid. They're working, They hurt, but they're working. Coming up next
to side for Jeff's bucket of crap, we do have to put a little
bow on the eclipse. Plus theslander I will not tolerate. That is next
Fine partying going down in here,man, fine at the very very early
hour of two thirty three. Noless, this is the speakeasy, and
we're here for you. Right hereon the little frek ninety seven to one
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is where you will find It's whereyou are and where you will find us.
We'll have the bucket of Crab comingup with a little Hollywood swinging in
the next hour or so. Butbefore we do that, I mean well,
before we do that, we gotto set the table for all that
stuff. And I can scarcely thinkof a better way to set the table
for that than with this journal littlesports dosk. Thank you, monk man.
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This is Julie at the sports desk. We touched on the Rangers and
opening segment. We'll get back tothem a little bit too, but let's
start with the Dallas Mavericks because theyplayed last night. Will man, I
want to have something right here?Is Bochie really that great? That's what
I'm talking about, Mike Boachi onpressure all time? Really that great?
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Angry baseball man is back. Isee yeah, I'm sorry, go ahead,
that's okay, okay, angry baseballman. How do you feel about
Luka Doncic? Kick ass. Yeah, kick gass. They got it going
on, Man, they got itgoing on. He should be the MVP.
I don't think he will be,but he should. Did you see
that Pat Mahomes said? So yeah. Pat Mahomes said he's the MVP,
and I don't want to argue withPat Mahomes. I don't either, and
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I think he will. If nothim, who they say is gonna win
it again, I think lucas theMVP. I think Luca's the MVP two.
And I love the Joker. Ilove the Joker more than any player
in the league. But and Iknow I don't see him playing night in
night out like I do Luca.But man, as great as he is,
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I can't imagine him having the kindof impact on games that Luca has.
Daniel Gafford is going to lead theleague and field goal percentage by a
mile. Dante ExHAM hits over fiftypercent of his threes. Why Luca,
Because Luca gets the ball to him. He's the league MVP, and I
don't think he'll win it, butI think he's the league MVP. What
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else does he have to do?My goodness, I mean, you'll have
people say, well, the Denverhas a better record, and blah blah,
Denver won last year and everything,and then that's all well and good.
That was last year. It wasalso supposed to be an element of
voters getting bored to this thing,like Lebron doesn't have twelve MVPs, Jordan
doesn't have ten MVPs. Eventually youvote for someone else. Yeah, moving,
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vote for Luca, Vote for Luca. Well yeah, MVP guys need
to keep it moving. It's tobe determined what he's able to help the
maver do this season. And we'llsee, of course how they finished the
season. But right now it's lookingreally good. They're the hottest team in
the league because they've won fifteen oftheir last seventeen games. People who vote
(03:13):
on the MVP, Ye, didyou know that? And there'll be no
play in for the Dallas Mavericks fifteenof their last seventeen. Yeah. They
clinched a playoff spot with their victorylast night over the Hornets on the road,
and they will not be in thatplay in game. That is all
those are all facts now that weknow because of this wine one oh four
over Charlotte, and it was itwas a game where I guess the MAVs
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could have relaxed a little bit becausethey are in a pretty good position right
now, and they could have arrestedpeople. We talked about that yesterday.
They didn't. Kyrie played, Lucaplayed, and they played with their food.
Because it was a really fun game. Like just watching back some of
the highlights of it, it waslike it looked like it was the Globetrotters
out there, just like trying newthings and All Star Game feel too.
(04:00):
Shots. There was an All StarGame kind of vibe to this one because
they jumped out to a big leadreally early. They did, and they
had a lot of wiggle room.I know it's not Maverick related, but
did you guys see what the Clippersdid to the Suns last night? No,
that gave me a little bit ofpause about how excited we are to
play the Clippers. I wasn't excited. They played the Sun records not being
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excited Clippers. Clippers were up thirtyseven to ten after one quarter against Phoenix
and my math says fifty nine andseven sixty six to thirty three at halftime.
Oh, the Clippers destroyed the Suns. That's okay, just trying,
(04:42):
Uh, that's a good question.I wasn't watching it. I was just
seeing the score on my phone,and I was just like, what in
the hell is happening. Yeah,well, Mike, the Mavericks did get
out to a huge lead in thisone, and that was because of Luca.
He had nineteen of the Mavs' firsttwenty nine points in this game.
He personally outscored the Hornets in thefirst quarter twenty one to eighteen, So
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Luca got out hot out of thegates. He finished the game with thirty
nine points, twelve rebounds, tenassists, another triple double. He was
eight of seventeen from three, andhe's obviously feeling pretty good about his three
ball right now. I think thatthere was a point, like when he
got to twenty one points, Ithink Lucas started wondering if he could get
(05:26):
to like sixty or seventy or eightybecause a couple of time vibe too,
a couple of times down, Iwas like, he's not running the offense
anymore, like he's just going down, step back, And then he went
down and did a contestitute he missedthem both, and at that point I
think he went, Okay, we'lljust kick their ass, like I'm not
going to score sixty. It's gotto be a really fun little game that
you can play in your head,like what am I going to do with
(05:46):
this game here today? What doI feel like doing? And he did
all that he needed to do tohelp this team to a win, and
then he also did all that heneeded to do to break another Mavericks record.
The single season scoring record set byMark McGuire is now held by Luka
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doncic. Aguire scored two three hundredand thirty points back in the nineteen eighty
three eighty four season, and rightnow, Luca has two three hundred and
thirty two points on this season withthree games remaining. Yeah, that was
like year three or maybe year fourfor the Mavericks. Yeah, in't it
(06:26):
wild that that record wasn't Dirk's atany point it was Mark acguire. It's
kind of crazy. Well, thatjust shows you what a score he was
during his time in the game.Yeah, Luca leading the way for this
one. That's obviously a huge recordto break. And he talked after the
game. He was asked about youknow, anytime he's asked about himself,
(06:49):
he deflects like a lot of people, these really great athletes do. And
he was also asked about just whatKyrie has meant to him this season,
and I like this answer. Hesaid he was hashtag blessed twice. I
believe in this response. Oh yeah, parn Carrie here has been a blessing
man. Just I always say onthe court, everybody knows what kind of
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player it is, just solve theKorey else a lot, not just me,
the whole team. So he knowshow to win the championship. He's
a very humble guy, great guy, and on the court, out of
the court, it's just been ablessing to move him. He's blessed by
Kyrie. Just tag blessed. Justone more reason why this thing is going
to be a load. Yeah forthe Clippers or whoever they run into in
(07:33):
the playoffs. Clippers beat the Brakesoff the Suns last night, and the
Clippers in that game did not haveJames Harden or Kawhi Leonard. And the
Son's played everybody, Well, ourfirst round series is the fn NBA Finals,
is what it is. We canhandle it, right, Yeah,
yeah, yeah, So yeah,it's not just Luca and it's not just
(07:56):
Kyrie. Bring it on, man. Everybody on this team's playing really well
right now. Like you said,Jeff Gafford, a great game for him,
twenty six points. My shots didGafford miss quick a zero? Well
for twelve, well for twelve ninedunks as well for Gafford. Tim Hardaway
Junior at fifteen points, he wasthree of seven from three cleaver ten points.
(08:20):
Hey, Maxie making shots. Ineed that. Yeah, let's get
a week of the shots falling andhim thinking he can make shots, and
then we'll go play playoff basketball.Yeah. Six rebounds for him, two
for those offensive rebounds. PJ.Washington was a big game for him returning
to Charlotte after the trade, andhe didn't have a huge games show,
(08:41):
didn't do much. And I thinkJason Kidd after the game said he was
obviously, like you know, hewas in his field, a bit like
going home, and I didn't realizehis whole family is still there, like
his kids and everything. They gotto see him make one point. He
got to go well. I'm surehis kids have seen him play plenty of
times and his family has seen himplay plenty of times. But I guess
he did get to go home beforethe game when they got in town to
Charlotte and see his family, Likethat's just one of the things in sports
(09:05):
that you don't think about how hardit is for these people, like when
they get traded. He literally justleft his kids and his wife who's like,
all right, I'm gonna go playfor the Mavericks and they're all just
chilling in Charlotte. Still. Oh, now we know that his family can't
come to the playoffs. It's nottheir fault. He's better without them.
It's not their fault. He's betterwithout them. I think he'll probably be
at the playoffs, and I'm surehe'll do just fine. So a really
(09:28):
good game all around for the DallasMavericks, and things do not slow down.
They play again tonight and you gotto think they're going to be pretty
tired at this point. But theywill be in Miami against the Heat.
It's the finale of this two gameroad trip, and then they come home
and host Detroit on Friday. Theregular season finale for the Mavericks is in
Oklahoma City on Sunday, So thisthing is winding down. And then on
(09:52):
the twentieth we are going to haveplayoff basketball. Yes, so that is
going down to night six point thirtyhere on the Freak. If we could
manage to lose that last game onpurpose and rest guys, that could help
Oklahoma City get the one seed overDenver, which would set us up to
play Oklahoma City in the second round. We're gonna be great. Yeah,
(10:13):
we'd like that. Yeah, thiswould be good. Yeah, we'd like
that. So fun things right now. For the Dallas Mavericks, who got
yet another victory, we'll take aquick buzzer here, goooby. Oh yeah.
The Rangers loss, falling to Oaklandfour to three last night to open
up their three game series with themnot good. This coming after they were
(10:35):
able to split with Houston. Butthat loss to Houston a couple of nights
ago was one that didn't feel verygood, and you kind of think,
all right, well, let's starta new series and kind of just start
rolling right. Just felt worse.Yeah, this felt worse because they gave
up a three home run game toa guy on the swinging A's. Yeah.
(10:56):
Now, this guy maybe turned outto be a really nice player and
have a real nice career. Idon't know, but right now he is
in baseball. Hell, nobody knowswho he is. Nobody knows who they
are, and they come in hereand beat the Texas Baseball Rangers last night
because the Rangers have a closer.Who's who's scared out there on the mound.
(11:18):
Come on, man, yep,say, langlears three home runs off
the Rangers last night, and theywere able to write the ship after the
first two and get the lead back. And then that third one off of
our boy Jose Laclerk late in thegame. Happens to the best of them,
sealed the deal for Oakland. Justone of one six two. Mike,
(11:39):
no big deal. We just moveon to the next day. But
I'll tell you this, if itdidn't, if it was not emblematic of
something worse that's wrong with this thing, I would agree with that. But
I think it does. No bigdeal, Mike, it's fine. It's
fine. No, it's not fine. It's no big deal. Not fine.
Look, we're gonna get smever finewith the Rangers lose, because you
(12:01):
know what, I love the Rangers. Yeah, I didn't. We just
move on to the next game,and then we get to the ninth inning,
and if we have a one runlead, we'll put our closer in
and he'll Okay, let's make thatcloser. David Robertson, how about that?
Oh well, love a lamp gota home run off him too,
I know, I did. Youknow, nobody's perfect, but David Robertson's
the best thing they have. Andoff Evaldi, so maybe it was just
(12:22):
a really great night for him.And you know, we did it to
three different pitchers last night. It'sunfortunate. But yeah, it hasn't been
a great start for jose La clerkIn. All of those hitters doing anyway,
havn't tried. He got us thelead again. M yeah, I
know he did. He had abumps. He had a nice game.
What about the rest of those guysjust hanging out, just hanging out.
(12:43):
They forgot two hits. Yeah,they'll remember soon that the pitching's not going
to help them and they have toscore all the runs. The World Series
is over? What, oh,yeah, it is. Well, it
was a good night until then.Pretty decent night for for Nathany Balbi.
I mean he did well, fiveand two thirds innings of one run ball
(13:07):
for him, he's been wonderful.So those were some positives. He was
good. Simeon was good. EvanCarter was good, and then the Rangers
ended up blowing it again, whichjust makes everybody, like both of you
feel very stressed out because we hadto deal with this all season long last
year and the Rangers downplayed it saideverything was me fine, and then everything
(13:28):
was fine. But it seems likethat problem might still be lingering. We
don't have a closer right now.The bullpen is very sketchy. It's probably
my fault. I mean, I'mthe one who said the other day,
like, hey, the Rangers bullpen'sbeen pretty good. Yeah, they've got
a good era. Reality's back.Yeah. And the clerk, remember he
(13:52):
began last year as the closer andthen late April he got that demotion from
the closer role and now they're tryingto again the closer role. And this
season he's allowed and earned run infour of his five appearances to start the
season. This is dejavoo all over. Devin runs total in five innings.
That's not good. That's now areof fourteen point four. He's walked more
(14:13):
batters than he's struck out, sixto four walks to strikeouts, and he's
got a whip of two forty.That's not good. What if he's left
handed. I think he needs totry with the other hand. Yeah,
just flipping around. He was onthe whole. He was really good last
year. He was good the yearbefore. But I don't shout out to
(14:35):
Boach. I guess I would notbe a patient man with that particular position.
No, I wouldn't. I wouldnot be a patient man with that
particular guy, because we've seen thisever since he's been here. Yeah,
he'll be good for a while,and you'll think, Okay, we trust
this guy. We can use himin more big pressure situations, more significant
(14:56):
situations, and you try him outthere, and sooner or later he defines
the Peter principle right in front ofour face. What's the Peter principal?
He rises to his level of incompetence. That's tough. It's tough to be
petered like that. Force de Scienswould be careful talking about about the bullpen.
(15:16):
Emily will cuss out Jeff again.Five o'clock today, Mike and I
have decided we're going right at her. We're tearing Emily all right. This
is her fault, this is thisis unfair, this, this team has
not been held accountable. Wait untno games today, Well, Bouchie after
the game was downplaying it like hewill do. When asked about the clerk,
(15:37):
he got a little defensive. Iwas actually watching the post game and
he was getting defensive to a coupleof people's questions. Full Emily on it.
Yeah, when it came to theclerk, he said, he's healthy,
he's fine. He's probably not quiteas locked in, that's all.
Oh, that's good. I don'tknow what you make of that. He
said. He's looked really good attimes, really good on some hitters.
You saw the strikeouts, Yeah,right after you see the strike I will
(16:00):
say, right after he gave upthe bomb. Yeah, he threw the
ball right. Yeah. I sawthe strikeouts too, and I also saw
the home run. He says,he just let that pitch get away from
him. He's walking a few more, similar to last year. Early Bochi
said the walks hurt him. Andso it gets back to just not being
quite as sharp with the command.And we'll see if they take away some
(16:25):
of his responsibilities. They should,they should. Yeah, it hurts not
having spores, Yeah, that makesit a little bit more glaring, and
maybe uh uranus, but it's urusuranus. Uranus has been pretty good for
(16:48):
this thing. Maybe we could bringhim into the Tree of trust after a
while. I guarantee you they willtry it. Mm hmm. Currently,
I think my Rangers trust tree ofrelievers is literally just the super old new
guys. It's Robertson and it's KirbyYates. I have two people in my
trust tree. That's about the sizeof it. It's not good. We
need to put more people in thosetrees. I mean, they got they
(17:08):
won a World Series with two guysin the trust tree. They just put
nine starters in the bullpen. Yeah, it's not good Rangers. Right now
six and five on the season,we have Game two with Oakland to night
and it is going to be aBradford start. So he's been really good,
really good. It's Mike's guy,man. He was great, not
(17:30):
just good great Briday Night. Yeah, you had people talking two guys that
if I hear their name, Ionly think of Mike, Kirky Cousins and
Cody Bradford. Those are the twoguys When I hear their name, I
just see Mike's face. I'll takequick buzzer here, Grooby. When you
(17:52):
look at their careers, they're reallythe very picture of mediocrity. Oh no,
we don't know yet about Bradford.No, we don't, we don't,
but I'm right right now. Hey, Kirk's a legend at the Banks
super Rich and I'm I know,I'm on record as saying that Bradford has
something. Yeah, and I dobelieve that. Yeah. And he gave
(18:12):
me no reason not to the othernight. Yeah, So we'll see how
it goes down tonight. The DallasStars resting tonight after they beat Buffalo three
to two, the final score athome. For Dallas. This was a
good win for them because it's easyafter a tough road trip where they had
back to back games with Chicago andColorado to come home and might maybe say,
(18:34):
okay, we can kind of coasthere to the end of the regular
season. And they had to comefrom behind in this one as well,
and they did. They battled andthey got the victory. This was the
first of four home games that they'regoing to have to finish the regular season.
They hit the fifty win mark.Not really there's average as you could
possibly be. Yeah, okay,yeah, so it would have been just
(18:56):
one of those losses that you kindof want to throw out and be like
oh, well, they were comingoff of this high emotional game and Colorado
or whatever, but they won.They have a really cool logo, Yeah
they did. Yeah, because Buffalois cheating. I think it's your city
name. But they can include abuffalo in their logo, but also two
swords because they're the Sabers. Yeah, White Johnston, Joe Pavelski, Jason
(19:18):
Robertson. All saw in the cafeteriawas open. Huh why why? It's
just killing it for this team rightnow, and they just have layers of
offense. Their third goal so Iwas half watching while I was watching other
things because as in a bar setting, I think it was their third goal
(19:38):
was a redirected puck, So I'massuming the third one was Pavelski. Yeah.
Anytime I see a puck get redirected, I'm like, oh, Pavelski's
out there. There was a lotof redirecting in this game. Though.
He's been teaching his friends. That'sgood. Yeah, that's the thing I
would not want to practice if Iplayed hockey, Like, hey, I'm
a stand in front of the net, you fire pucks at me, I'm
just going to try to perfectly tipit in. Yeah, isn't he non
(20:00):
some kind of pretty serious all timegoal scorer list. Oh yeah, I'm
sure i'd have to pull up exactlywhere he is on that, But yeah,
he's ridiculous and still scoring like hasn'tslowed down at all, and as
one of the leaders for this teamas he continues to be, and he'll
probably start scoring even more in theplayoffs because that's what he does. Fifty
(20:23):
wins for the Dallas Stars this season. They hit that mark for just the
fifth time in franchise history with theirwin last night. They have twenty five
comeback wins too, which is hugebecause this team will often like to spot
the others a goal early and yougot to be able to come back from
that, and we've seen seasons wherethey weren't, and this season they are.
Everything's coming together for the Stars rightnow. Jay Gottinger got eight straight
(20:47):
victories, his eighth last night ina row, and he's feeling good.
The Stars just one point away fromthe Rangers for first place overall in the
whole league. Do it. So, let's go Stars, let's go Mavsers
really found for him again, hehas, and I'm glad because people were
kind of worried about him there fora bit, and the head coach was
(21:08):
thrown him under the bus a littlebit. And you never know how a
goaltender, especially a young ish goaltender, will handle something like that. And
it seems like he has re rackedand he's got his head in the right
place and he's ready for the postseason. Right that way, boach, that's
right, that's right. Let's checkout with Oh, oh, guess what
day it is? Guess what dayit is? Huh? Anybody, coach?
(21:32):
Would you think of a Clark tonight? Oh? Pitches like that one
more time? He's asked, I'llbe pitching in round Rock? Wait?
Is that where for play? Teamis first of double? Yeah, we're
round Rock. We used to beOklahoma City right round Rock now? Uh,
today, I don't know how tosay this, so I would like
to apologize to all of our Muslimbrethren, all of our Muslim listeners.
(21:56):
It's the end of ramadant mm hmmI Al's feet, that's what the end
of it is called. Like thelast day is yes, so, which
means I think tomorrow Kyrie's I wantto know what Kyrie has for lunch tomorrow?
What about corn beef? Because itcould be that could be corn beef
(22:19):
because for a month he hasn't beenable to eat with the sun up.
So when he is allowed and hedoesn't have to fast, he's I don't
know, but he's played good basketball. Kyrie might should keep fasting. Yeah,
somebody needs to ask that in apost game. Tim McMahon, if
you're listening, ask Kyrie in thepost game, have you considered fasting until
(22:41):
you're not playing? Well? Maybehe's light on his feet and he's he's
healthy. I thought food was topower us. Maybe whatever he was eating
was causing his toe to hurt.Yeah, maybe food hurts us. Answer
ask him what about corn beef?Into the Mavericks locker room and ask Kyrie
(23:02):
about corn beef? See what happensToday is National Farm Animal's Day. Favorite
farm Animals. We're not doing Ijust want to know your favorite farm animals.
We don't have to play me thatwas on purpose? That doesn't count.
What animal was that? Thought?Little sheep? That doesn't count?
(23:26):
My favorite farm animal is the EU? Really? Yes? A rare one.
I want Doug when I retire aftertomorrow's show, I am going to
start an EMU farm in Heath reallytomorrow? Okay, well can we go,
Yeah, you broadcast from there?Can we do your last show from
(23:48):
out there? To put it togetheron the fly? Why Heath, Alex
Tran, if you're listening, Iwas just thinking about I was just thinking
about Heath. Noboddy mentioned the cityof Heath this morning. Try across that
bridge on thirty, get over thewater. Heath is over the whole nother
city over there. Yeah it's byrock. Heat. Yeah, heat's over
there. Yeah, growing do.It's pricey, but you can get a
(24:10):
good plot. Go exploring. Youcan get a good plot of land for
about three hundred k Okay, thenwe can. Then we can build a
house and bring in the emuse anda piggy. None of these other days
matter. O National Hug your dogDay. That's a good day. If
you'd like to do that. That'severy day, should be every day.
(24:32):
I Uh, my dog's been havingan ear thing for a few days and
I like to just see if it'llpass, which is very irresponsible. But
it wasn't passing. So I didwhat anybody would do, and I rectified
the aeration twenty four hours later.Because I wasn't going to go to a
store and buy anything, so Iordered off Amazon something for dog ear cleaning.
But my dog is an effing spazlike I have to take him somewhere
(24:57):
and drop him off to have himbay, because he'll break my hand if
I try to hold him by thecollar. You can't. You can't make
this dog do anything. You musthave a big dog. He's about eighty
five pounds, My giant dog.The story my dog. So I tried
to spray the stuff. I triedto spray the stuff in his ear,
(25:21):
and before I could even finish squeezingthe bottle, he is doing a violent
shake that sent the liquid that wasmeant for his ear directly in my eyes.
Oh no, you're already burned.Eclipseize, Yes, did it make
your eclip size worse or better?Maybe that's their solution. They don't feel
(25:41):
good. Maybe that's the solution wecan package to fix people's eyes after the
eclipse. We could buy dog earstuff for your eyes. I mean eclipse
aid. They're working, They hurt, but they're working. Coming up next
to side for Jeff's bucket of crap, we do have to put a little
bow on the eclipse. Plus theslander I will not tolerate. That is next
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