April 8, 2024 • 24 mins
Yesterday was a GREAT day for Mavs, Rangers, and Stars fans despite the Rangers loss!!! Josh Sborz is on the IL. The Mavs won in overtime and it was awesome! The Stars kicked the Avs butts and have won nine of ten! Then we find out what day it is!
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Hi, four, it is.We're out here at Clyde Warren Park.
Let's get right to content because we'regoing to lose everybody if we don't.
I really Sports says, Yeah,So yesterday was a really good day here
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in DFW for the Dallas sports teams, mostly because everybody played, and those
are I can't say everybody. Iguess fd Dallas would be one of those
teams. But we had the Rangers, we had the Mavericks, and we
had the Stars. How tuned intoall of these things? Was everybody?
Kind of? I did other thingsand I drank, but I watched some
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Rangers. I watched the Mavericks.I didn't watch the Star. I just
tuned into one and only one becauseI was added being Rangers. Oh yes,
you were at the Ranger game.Well, the Rangers are the only
ones that lost yesterday, so I'msorry. I'm sorry for you, man.
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I swear this. Yeah, yeah, I'm excited to move on to
whatever's next. Have they ever doneanything? Nope, No they haven't.
I swear training camp can't get herequick loss. I think they're six and
three in their first place. Men. Yeah, no, he's not after
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a good question. No, he'snot, but my god, the game
so far this year. He threwa no hitter in his first game and
had one from about six innings orso last night. Forty four outs last
night before allowing a hit. RonelleBlanco is who you're talking about. Yes,
Yeah, the best start to hisseason since at least nineteen sixty one
is what we're seeing from him,but probably over Do you think they're three
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and seven? I know I don'tthink that they're staying power behind that,
but I think it's a lot offun for him. Yeah, yeah,
for sure. Didn't feel that fluky. It felt like he's had a mix
of pitches that was baffling this.I looked at what I saw from last
night or yesterday, was that interms of swinging misses, like Dunning got
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more than he did, and soit's like, I don't know if this
stuff is like watch out now hearcome this dude is as much as it's
all. It pitched really well fora couple of games. Dunning was really
good. Last night. He madeone mistake to the most fearsome hitter for
me anyway, and the Astros lineupand it got hit and that was pretty
much the game. The other membersof Ranger Buddies were pretty fixated on the
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stripe zone I heard. I sawa lot of people saying that that ulp
sucked. I think I was readingNewberg's deal this morning. He was like
home plate umpire sucked. He wasgiven a lot of latitude from side to
side, especially the pitches on theoutside that and against that picture. I
thought early on that the Rangers weregoing to get him because they were doing
so good and laying off stuff outof his zone. And if you can
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do that, you're probably going toscore some runs. But unless they make
this zone bigger, yeah, thenthey just started calling it strikes and they
didn't score any wrong. We gotto get to robo ump. It's if
you're a hitter with a really goodeye, the idea that the ump can
just tell you you're wrong even thoughyou're right. We have the ability to
fix that. We need to fixthat. And the way that that UMP
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was setting up, it was hardfor him to see stuff on the outside.
But I don't I don't think thathe knew that those were the job.
It's like the full time and youknow, there's only so many people
who can get that job. Now, I agree with you entirely. That's
on planet Earth. Yeah, andhe's lined up roll. I don't know
that's wrong. I think you justhave to make choices about what you're not
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gonna see. Yeah. Uh,well it was a quality start for Dane
Dunning despite the loss. He wentseven strikeouts over six and two thirds innings.
The Rangers only able to put uptwo hits, though, and that's
going to be a problem. Likewe were talking about, they were facing
some really good pitching, but forDunning, that out in the play anytime.
Yeah, that's really good. Imean as far as the Rangers pitching
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that we've seen so far, Imean I was gone all last week when
I sort of was catching up,and it seems like there's not too much
to be real worried about. Andthen you remember that they have the reinforcements
coming. When some of the bigguys start getting healthy, Well I got,
oh, what's his butt coming likethis week? Uh? The last
cherser that no, the last startingpitcher that they signed, that he's done
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his rehab starts and I think he'sready to go. So you're gonna Lorenza,
Yeah, you're gonna add that tothe mix. But the thought was
kind of like, are they goingto throw them throw him into the rotation
immediately? And if so, whosespot would before? I think Boach said
something along the lines of it's notnecessarily somebody's spot so much as he's just
gonna go in where it's like they'rejust gonna kind of randomly. Yeah,
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which is a real big rotation.And I wouldn't imagine you're gonna always run
a six man rotation because you wantto Valdi to get the ball every fifth
day. But they'll figure it out, and if I know baseball, it'll
sort itself out. Because Josh Sporesis going to be on the fifteen day.
I l not the d L theil that looks very worrisome. The
other night when he walked off themountain with his shoulder, fortune, Yeah,
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you don't like to hear his shoulderlike you can tell me ten days
as much as you want. Youalso said shoulder. Yeah, rotator cuff
is not a fun body part.As somebody who has a bad one.
It's never healed. It's not fun. Can I just say one thing about
these hopes for guys who are comingback, Sure I'd have the breaks off
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this a little bit. Yeah,they're both of them. Which one are
you hating on? More Here you'resaying Matt Sherzer sucks. Probably, Okay,
Schuger was not very good for thisteam last year. Now, maybe
he was out there trying to pitchher. That could account for some of
it. But I wouldn't be thinkinghe's going to be an instant cure all
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and de Grom, well, ifhe comes back, great, but it's
just a matter of time until he'sgone again. I just don't. I
don't have much trust for the guy'sability to stay out there. I thinks
even at the level he was lastyear, he's better than whoever he's replacing.
He's better than your worst pitcher.I think that you're right that he's
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not going to win the cy Youngit's not going to be a career year
for Max Schurzer. But half ofSchurzer is really, really, really good.
Yeah, And he rushed himself backlast year for the for the playoffs,
right like late in the playoff wasit? And that just before the
World Series when he got back andhe was trying really hard to pretend like
he was healthy and he obviously wasn't. And now he's had the whole offseason.
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You know, he's been through alot obviously, but it'll be interesting.
You're right, though, Mike,it's not the Maxus or the yeah
people are expecting. Is just becausethese guys are coming back. Don't think
that punches anybody's take it to theWorld Series. No, And isn't it
a like best case scenario though,best case scenario that you can kind of
fill the gaps without them and findout that what you have might be better
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than what you thought it was.And then they do come back and you're
not relying on them as heavily asyou might have even thought that has happened
to say, they get hard,hurt again, or you know whatever,
max suers are just as actually done. Then we're like, okay, well
how about Bradford, Like apparently youknow, he's blowing everybody away. He
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was fantastic the other night. Yeah, well, I think they're living their
best case scenario right now, becauseit's not just that in my mind,
you're tread and water and hoping you'rein the mix when you get starting pitchers
back, and to go on topof that and say, by the way,
we're going to take your first andyour third basement away and to be
two weeks into it and you haven'thad a weakness at starting pitching or in
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the bullpen so far, and you'rewinning two games for every game that you
lose. They're living their best casescenario right now. Just about five hundred
is wonderful. I know, I'mkind of we we on the start of
the season, and I really don'tmean to do that. We we on
the Rangers because there has been nothingwrong with this thing so far all told.
Yeah, six and three a prettygood start to the season so far
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for the Rangers, and they haveone more game with the Astros going down
tonight, going to be a heinystart against Framberg Valdez. We got to
win this one, ChEls. Yeah, yeah, you can win the series.
We haven't won the damn boot likenine or ten years or something.
I don't know. They were puttingup the Astros versus Ranger records during one
of the games over the weekend.I was just like, really, we
haven't had the boot. I wantthe boot. Show me the boot off
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your world series this series, right, Yeah, yeah, we all want
the foot Yeah, because scary thoughthe first two games of the series,
the Rangers like We're just blowing themout essentially, and it's like, huh,
you can't even compete with us anymore, look at US World Series champs.
And then we lost game three.Well, if you can win game
four, then you forget about gamethree. But if game four is all
lost, then you're kind of like, well, shoot, well in Houston's
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three and seven. But to yourpoint, after the first two games,
I was like, man, ifI really existed in a world where the
Astros suck, I will be sohappy. Yeah, and it's so early,
but if I can exist in thatworld, it'll make me really happy.
And the boot and the boat andthe boot, the boot could help.
Okay, moving on to the DallasMavericks, because thank you, Groovy,
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I'm out of practice, but youknow, Windo buzzz. Dallas Mavericks
a huge win again last night,an overtime victory over Houston. The final
score ended up being one forty sixto one thirty six, and the Mavericks
in this game trailed by as muchas sixty one to thirty nine, so
over twenty points. They were downin this one halfway through the second quarter,
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and then Luca and Kyrie went nuts. Kyrie had a Maverick career high
forty eight points. Luke add atthirty seven. The Mavericks win their fourteenth
game in their last sixteen. Iwas watching some bad sports show this morning,
but one of the NBA analysts,I was wondering what they would answer,
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because I think it was whatever MikeGreenberg show is, and he asked
the two analysts like, if there'sanybody in the West that can beat Denver,
who is it? And maybe it'sTim Legler and it was no hesitation
with conviction. He's like Stell's Mavericks. And I was wondering as he's asked
the question, like, in mymind, I think it's the Mavericks.
They are so different and then whatthey were pre trade deadline and the difference,
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Yeah, yeah, Like I watcheda team that had one way to
win and that was score one hundredand forty points, and now they win
one oh four to one hundred,and then just to mix it up against
Houston, it's like, yeah,bad news. Gafferck's in foul trouble.
We've been talking so much about Gaffordand Lively and how now they're huge and
they're dunking on everybody and it's like, well, you're gonna have to outscore
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these guys and you're behind. Whatare you gonna do? And it's like,
well, we've done that before,We'll do that again. It's like
they win in different ways at whateverthey need to do, they've been able
to do. They're the hottest teamin the NBA. And I don't want
to get my hopes up too high, but at this moment, I think
Boston, Denver Dallas are playing aslike the three best teams in the NBA.
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And I did not see that cominga few weeks ago, and it
is awesome. I mean, probablythe two best defenders of the guys they
traded for, right, yeah,Washington and Gaffert, Yeah yeah, I
mean Washing Washington has been so goodfor them now. And when they first
got him, it was kind ofawkward. He hadn't really found a shot,
and I was like, Okay,you told me this guy was gonna
be good. What it is,And now I'm watching him like, okay,
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I see like he makes such adifference defending and rebounding and being a
scorer when he needs to. Theydid a really good job with the guys
that they added, and they're they'regonna be a problem for people. I
was a tiny bit annoyed at thecoverage of the deadline on the station,
just because everyone here was telling methat he's a pretty much two all stars,
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maybe they'll be in the MVP race, and these two guys I'd never
heard of him. My entire liningabout skin freaking out. Yeah, works
for the team, says they're goingto be good. Oh right, yeah,
uh and he was right. Iwas right. That's good that you
can admit. Defeats very TC.I feel like he was exactly right.
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And Jeff to your point. Okay, So Dallas has been fourteen and two
since Jason Kidd inserted Derek Jones Juniorand Daniel Gafford into the starting line up.
Hope for to take Derek Jones Juniorback out of it, but I
mean, yeah, I mean theyhave been good. Well. That fourteen
and two record is the most victoriesin any sixteen games stretch since Jason Kidd's
team helped lead the Mavericks to thattitle in twenty eleven. And shout out
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to Maxie because for a guy who'sgreat stats, oh yeah, look for
a guy who's terrified to touch thebasketball as he should be. He still
locks in and does the rest ofhis job really really well. That's why
they were keeping him in the lineupwhen you know, people were saying,
what is he doing there? Hecan't make a shot? Like, well,
he's a really good defender. There'sstill a weakness for the team.
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Still. We gat to watch wherethey fired to him for a wide open
three, He's like, eh,who else wants the ball? Is Lively
coming back helpfully for the playoffs?Yeah, like Josh Green exists too,
by the way, but yeah,they're hoping to get him and Lively back
before the postseason. That's the lastthing I've heard. Yeah to the stat
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you were saying, Juliet, Yeah, it feels like I mean, I
guess the team that made the WesternConference Finals that was really special, but
I don't know that really going intoGame seven with the Suns, I wasn't
sure how good that team was orwhat their legacy would be. This this
feels like as far as like asensing the team's potential, wondering how high
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we can go. This feels likethe nicest point we've been at since two
thousand and one. This feels likea team that has a chance to do
something. Yeah, And how rareis that in mavericks Land that you're going
into the playoffs being like, Ithink we're gonna win the first round,
and I'd like to see what happensin the second. I think we're gonna
win the second round. Just don'twant to be done for It's amazing and
hearing like Skin talk about it earlier, and of course everybody was talking about
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Luca and Kyrie going off with theirarms around each other after the game last
night, and it's just like everybody'sgetting along really well. Everybody's kind of
found their role on the team.They're able to balance each other out.
They really like each other. Itseems they're playing for each other. And
if you want to go on agood run in the playoffs, like you
need all of that. This isreal tough. This is what happens when
you got good chemistry. Yeah,And chemistry will get you through times of
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no talent. Better than talent willget you through times of no chemistry.
And Kyrie is the closest thing toan actual and one mixtape player I've ever
seen actually play NBA basketball. It'sso fun to watch, so fun to
watch twenty five points Kyrie had fromthe end of the third quarter on like
he just waits. They do theydo, and it's like, this is
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what they do. Luca starts,Yeah, he starts it. And then
Kyrie in the usually to open thethird, and then in the fourth he's
like, Okay, I'll go now. And that's pretty damn sustainable to have
dudes who can do that. Andyeah, I expect them if they have
a I expect him to play inthe Western Conference finals, unless they match
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up with Denver in the second round, and then I'll say, let's see
what happens, because I think theycould beat them. I fear them,
but anybody else I feel good.Yeah. I think that's probably who how
people feel if they've been watching thesegames closely and seeing themis that's the way
I see it too. I don'tfear anybody else except in them. They're
in fifth place right now at fortyeight and thirty on the season, and
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so they are all but mathematically assuredof avoiding that play in, which is
all we really wanted. You're prettylocked in where you are, like you're
two games behind who's in front ofyou, and I think they have the
tiebreaker. The team's behind. Youare two games back, and you have
the tiebreaker. They're gonna be thefive scene. They're going to play the
Clippers, and we're gonna have fun. I remember when that's what our goal
was though, it was like justavoid the play in. Just figure it
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out and avoid the play in.Yes, and now we've changed our goals
as fans. Literally the deadline thatwas my goal. My goal with the
trade deadline was they need to finishsixth. They're better and I expect them
to. And now it's they've doneit. They have moved beyond that and
now Paul George and Kawhi Leonard comeget some yep. Four games left on
the regular season for the Dallas Mavericksand I will pick a quick buzzer here,
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Ruby, thank you very much.We do need to point out that
the Dallas Stars are rolling to Theyhad a huge game last night. This
went down a little bit late afterthe Mavericks game had already ended. The
Stars were in Colorado on the secondnight of a back to back. They
had lost in Chicago the day before, and Chicago's not a good team,
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but it kind of just felt likeone of those losses on Saturday where everybody's
tired, and they you just kindof throw one out it right, And
they might have been anticipating the hugegame the next day with the Colorado Avalanche.
And they actually did have some travelissues too leaving Chicago, and they
didn't get to fly out from Chicagothat night the night after the game,
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they flew to Colorado the next day, so they flew in and played the
game in the same day, whichis something they never do, never do
it this weather. I don't knowexactly what caused it. We could be
weather could be playing stuff. Ido kind of think I remember hearing weather
though, So you know, theyhad every reason going in on the second
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night of a back to back againsta team that they're trying to battle for
the division, against a rival,a team that has so many good weapons
at home, and the Dallas Starsable to get it done last night seven
to four. Tyler Sagan, whowas just back from taking like a maintenance
day to nurse some of his injuries, had two goals. He now I
was twenty five on the season.Jamie Ben, Matt duchhe Robe Hens White
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Johnson, Mason marchmant All also scoredfor Dallas last night. They've won nine
of their last ten games, andthey are just cruising in a battle now
to win the division. Are wegonna win everything? That's what's like so
cool with the Mavericks and the Starsright now. And of course the Rangers
were still feeling really good about wherethey're at. And then the Chiefs are
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going to move back home and we'regonna win in the NFL. That might
happen, and then we could wina super Bowl. It'll be great.
But yeah, I mean, theDallas Stars have a legit. They're one
of the also one of the topteams in the league, one of the
top teams in the Western Conference,have a legit chance to win a Stanley
Cup this season. Jay Gottinger's back. Whatever he was working through, he
seems to have his confidence back,and that's huge. As we know in
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the playoffs is you got to haveyour goaltender rolling, and you gotta hope
you don't. He's another guy anotherteam that has their goaltender rolling. I
think I saw him in the gamebefore last like early last week, and
he played his asshole. Yeah,I mean, he looked like a completely
made over player. He's in agood way right now. The Stars have
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one hundred and seven points, fivepoints ahead of the Avalanche, who they
beat last night. They also havefour games less left in the season.
So it's just a really fun timeof year for the Stars and the Mavericks
because they could both do some reallybig things in the playoffs. And I
love that. Let's check out withdirt. Oh oh, guess what dead
is? Guess what Dad is?Huh? Anybody? Yeah, I don't
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know why this is a holiday,but today, on April the eighth,
it is Dog Farting Awareness Day,So yeah, do what you will.
You know, has anybody ever hada problem with a flatulent canine? Absolutely?
And I have two dogs that Ihave never heard one of my dogs
fart, but I have smelt it. Yeah, And it's very disappointing because
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when a human is in your presenceand does that, you kind of get
them the side eyes and it's likewhat the hell, bro or sis.
But there's also a redeeming quality aboutthe human because they might then make you
dinner or you might make love,whereas the dog is just like doing that
if somebody's part and I ain't doingthat a giant dog. I mean,
like it could be eight hours later, but like there is a redeeming quality
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about it. Oh really, youhear one and you're out for good about
for a while. Yeah? Isthat what led you becoming single? Was
a fart? No, it wasn'tbad, but that the fart knocks things
back a good play, you know. It's a real fart knocker. The
fart knocks things back. I lovethat you can just put it out there.
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You're honest with your fart opinions whenit comes to ladies, and there's
nothing wrong with that. Yeah,you're real creeped out because I feel like
we can't say that about men,like y'all are just accepted. We're supposed
to just accept that. Y'all fartall the time. You know. I
think people might play that up,but I think most of us it takes
a long time before you're comfortable actuallyfarted it. Then it's like and it's
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like, okay, can you stop. I don't think I've ever gotten there.
That's crazy. I know women don'tpart anyway, so it's yeah,
I mean, women don't, theydon't, they don't. It's not crazy
TC. I don't think you youcan live your life and hide it.
For the most part. You mightslip up occasionally. It's it's kind of
when you're in bed that it canthing. You still try though, right,
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you try to try, but everynow and then you wake up your
partner, right, but your mindout in the morning, you grab,
you put a hand on a cheek, your pull, and you try to
just create the upmost situation for you. Just reveal your techniques to when you're
with Walman. Yeah, if youwant opening, you want opened up to
try to have clean airflows so thatthere's not the friction and sound. All
right, what if it's more thanair though, well, that is way
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more embarrassing. Yeah, we gotto change the sheets real quick. Is
it time for diapers? Yeah,that's that's different. I just uh,
I wouldn't stop the therapy yet.There's one big hurdle to clear. If
you can't fart in front of alady, I don't want to because I
don't want them to fart in frontof me. I don't have a problem
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either way, no no issue.Like, don't get me wrong, there's
levels to this. You're clearly ona scale of one to ten of being
creeped out by it. You're atthe one Mike is at fifteen. Yeah,
and I'm at like five, youknow, I'm just in the middle.
I just I remember having jobs whereI felt like I couldn't fart.
Yeah, it was like, uh, whenever you have one, just like
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building that like it hurts. I'mnot You're need to get dominal pain like
on behalf of you. Like wecould just get used to it. You
liked that ticket room you couldn't yeah, yeah, yeah, rip all you
want you up into the studio,you couldn't get up and excuse yourself from
the room and you can go somewhereand do it. No, I was
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I was watching the phone. Whatif? It rang? Very important,
very important. But we sorted throughall that. Yeah. Today's also National
Fart Awareness Day and not a dayand cards. What is that? It's
like a it's meat that's covered inlike a pastry shell kind of thing.
I bought one at a farmer's marketin San Jose last week. I bet
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that made you fart. I actuallybought it for my daughter. Today is
trading cards for grown up to day. If you're out there and you've got
a nice bulbo sore, her Charizared let me know. And today is
Zoo Lover's day. Did you seethe Jamila stuff, Julie, No,
is there a Jamila update? Theytook her, They took her the gorilla.
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Her mom loves her. Yes,Oh my gosh, are you serious?
Yes? Okay, I guess it'sall worth it. It's so good
those girls like, oh they gotsomebody loves me. I'm already damaged.
Are you guys going to go toCleveland? Yeah? I'm going now all
right? Yeah, so coming upnext, somebody else handled the segment.
Yeah, to Cleveland. By theway, if ybody's got a nineteen sixty
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Johnny Podrace hit me, yeah,that would be good. Uh. Actually
there were two birthdays. Who wantto mention? Are you adult who collects
trading cards? No? Okay,you just want that one? Yeah,
I'm being facetious. I have oneEvan Carter Rookie card still, so I
guess I technically am. Happy birthdayto Robin Wright. You know, it's
pretty badass to play Princess Buttercup andJenny. That's pretty sweet. That's pretty
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huge. And uh, there wasone other one, but I forgot who
I thought you were talking about.That star order the tickets sales crew was
green. I wasn't o is ithis birthday? He's fifty two today.
All right, fix your song?Yeah, what's going on there? We
need to dive into all that.And Dean Norris is sixty one from Breaking
Bad to You Go Oh Yeah.Coming up there in the bucket of crap.
There is something that we've been tryingso hard to cover for the last
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week and the time is upon us. Huge news for all of you,
and it's next
Hi, four, it is.We're out here at Clyde Warren Park.
Let's get right to content because we'regoing to lose everybody if we don't.
I really Sports says, Yeah,So yesterday was a really good day here
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in DFW for the Dallas sports teams, mostly because everybody played, and those
are I can't say everybody. Iguess fd Dallas would be one of those
teams. But we had the Rangers, we had the Mavericks, and we
had the Stars. How tuned intoall of these things? Was everybody?
Kind of? I did other thingsand I drank, but I watched some
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Rangers. I watched the Mavericks.I didn't watch the Star. I just
tuned into one and only one becauseI was added being Rangers. Oh yes,
you were at the Ranger game.Well, the Rangers are the only
ones that lost yesterday, so I'msorry. I'm sorry for you, man.
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I swear this. Yeah, yeah, I'm excited to move on to
whatever's next. Have they ever doneanything? Nope, No they haven't.
I swear training camp can't get herequick loss. I think they're six and
three in their first place. Men. Yeah, no, he's not after
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a good question. No, he'snot, but my god, the game
so far this year. He threwa no hitter in his first game and
had one from about six innings orso last night. Forty four outs last
night before allowing a hit. RonelleBlanco is who you're talking about. Yes,
Yeah, the best start to hisseason since at least nineteen sixty one
is what we're seeing from him,but probably over Do you think they're three
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and seven? I know I don'tthink that they're staying power behind that,
but I think it's a lot offun for him. Yeah, yeah,
for sure. Didn't feel that fluky. It felt like he's had a mix
of pitches that was baffling this.I looked at what I saw from last
night or yesterday, was that interms of swinging misses, like Dunning got
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more than he did, and soit's like, I don't know if this
stuff is like watch out now hearcome this dude is as much as it's
all. It pitched really well fora couple of games. Dunning was really
good. Last night. He madeone mistake to the most fearsome hitter for
me anyway, and the Astros lineupand it got hit and that was pretty
much the game. The other membersof Ranger Buddies were pretty fixated on the
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stripe zone I heard. I sawa lot of people saying that that ulp
sucked. I think I was readingNewberg's deal this morning. He was like
home plate umpire sucked. He wasgiven a lot of latitude from side to
side, especially the pitches on theoutside that and against that picture. I
thought early on that the Rangers weregoing to get him because they were doing
so good and laying off stuff outof his zone. And if you can
(03:19):
do that, you're probably going toscore some runs. But unless they make
this zone bigger, yeah, thenthey just started calling it strikes and they
didn't score any wrong. We gotto get to robo ump. It's if
you're a hitter with a really goodeye, the idea that the ump can
just tell you you're wrong even thoughyou're right. We have the ability to
fix that. We need to fixthat. And the way that that UMP
(03:40):
was setting up, it was hardfor him to see stuff on the outside.
But I don't I don't think thathe knew that those were the job.
It's like the full time and youknow, there's only so many people
who can get that job. Now, I agree with you entirely. That's
on planet Earth. Yeah, andhe's lined up roll. I don't know
that's wrong. I think you justhave to make choices about what you're not
(04:01):
gonna see. Yeah. Uh,well it was a quality start for Dane
Dunning despite the loss. He wentseven strikeouts over six and two thirds innings.
The Rangers only able to put uptwo hits, though, and that's
going to be a problem. Likewe were talking about, they were facing
some really good pitching, but forDunning, that out in the play anytime.
Yeah, that's really good. Imean as far as the Rangers pitching
(04:26):
that we've seen so far, Imean I was gone all last week when
I sort of was catching up,and it seems like there's not too much
to be real worried about. Andthen you remember that they have the reinforcements
coming. When some of the bigguys start getting healthy, Well I got,
oh, what's his butt coming likethis week? Uh? The last
cherser that no, the last startingpitcher that they signed, that he's done
(04:46):
his rehab starts and I think he'sready to go. So you're gonna Lorenza,
Yeah, you're gonna add that tothe mix. But the thought was
kind of like, are they goingto throw them throw him into the rotation
immediately? And if so, whosespot would before? I think Boach said
something along the lines of it's notnecessarily somebody's spot so much as he's just
gonna go in where it's like they'rejust gonna kind of randomly. Yeah,
(05:08):
which is a real big rotation.And I wouldn't imagine you're gonna always run
a six man rotation because you wantto Valdi to get the ball every fifth
day. But they'll figure it out, and if I know baseball, it'll
sort itself out. Because Josh Sporesis going to be on the fifteen day.
I l not the d L theil that looks very worrisome. The
other night when he walked off themountain with his shoulder, fortune, Yeah,
(05:30):
you don't like to hear his shoulderlike you can tell me ten days
as much as you want. Youalso said shoulder. Yeah, rotator cuff
is not a fun body part.As somebody who has a bad one.
It's never healed. It's not fun. Can I just say one thing about
these hopes for guys who are comingback, Sure I'd have the breaks off
(05:51):
this a little bit. Yeah,they're both of them. Which one are
you hating on? More Here you'resaying Matt Sherzer sucks. Probably, Okay,
Schuger was not very good for thisteam last year. Now, maybe
he was out there trying to pitchher. That could account for some of
it. But I wouldn't be thinkinghe's going to be an instant cure all
(06:12):
and de Grom, well, ifhe comes back, great, but it's
just a matter of time until he'sgone again. I just don't. I
don't have much trust for the guy'sability to stay out there. I thinks
even at the level he was lastyear, he's better than whoever he's replacing.
He's better than your worst pitcher.I think that you're right that he's
(06:36):
not going to win the cy Youngit's not going to be a career year
for Max Schurzer. But half ofSchurzer is really, really, really good.
Yeah, And he rushed himself backlast year for the for the playoffs,
right like late in the playoff wasit? And that just before the
World Series when he got back andhe was trying really hard to pretend like
he was healthy and he obviously wasn't. And now he's had the whole offseason.
(06:58):
You know, he's been through alot obviously, but it'll be interesting.
You're right, though, Mike,it's not the Maxus or the yeah
people are expecting. Is just becausethese guys are coming back. Don't think
that punches anybody's take it to theWorld Series. No, And isn't it
a like best case scenario though,best case scenario that you can kind of
fill the gaps without them and findout that what you have might be better
(07:19):
than what you thought it was.And then they do come back and you're
not relying on them as heavily asyou might have even thought that has happened
to say, they get hard,hurt again, or you know whatever,
max suers are just as actually done. Then we're like, okay, well
how about Bradford, Like apparently youknow, he's blowing everybody away. He
(07:40):
was fantastic the other night. Yeah, well, I think they're living their
best case scenario right now, becauseit's not just that in my mind,
you're tread and water and hoping you'rein the mix when you get starting pitchers
back, and to go on topof that and say, by the way,
we're going to take your first andyour third basement away and to be
two weeks into it and you haven'thad a weakness at starting pitching or in
(08:01):
the bullpen so far, and you'rewinning two games for every game that you
lose. They're living their best casescenario right now. Just about five hundred
is wonderful. I know, I'mkind of we we on the start of
the season, and I really don'tmean to do that. We we on
the Rangers because there has been nothingwrong with this thing so far all told.
Yeah, six and three a prettygood start to the season so far
(08:24):
for the Rangers, and they haveone more game with the Astros going down
tonight, going to be a heinystart against Framberg Valdez. We got to
win this one, ChEls. Yeah, yeah, you can win the series.
We haven't won the damn boot likenine or ten years or something.
I don't know. They were puttingup the Astros versus Ranger records during one
of the games over the weekend.I was just like, really, we
haven't had the boot. I wantthe boot. Show me the boot off
(08:46):
your world series this series, right, Yeah, yeah, we all want
the foot Yeah, because scary thoughthe first two games of the series,
the Rangers like We're just blowing themout essentially, and it's like, huh,
you can't even compete with us anymore, look at US World Series champs.
And then we lost game three.Well, if you can win game
four, then you forget about gamethree. But if game four is all
lost, then you're kind of like, well, shoot, well in Houston's
(09:09):
three and seven. But to yourpoint, after the first two games,
I was like, man, ifI really existed in a world where the
Astros suck, I will be sohappy. Yeah, and it's so early,
but if I can exist in thatworld, it'll make me really happy.
And the boot and the boat andthe boot, the boot could help.
Okay, moving on to the DallasMavericks, because thank you, Groovy,
(09:30):
I'm out of practice, but youknow, Windo buzzz. Dallas Mavericks
a huge win again last night,an overtime victory over Houston. The final
score ended up being one forty sixto one thirty six, and the Mavericks
in this game trailed by as muchas sixty one to thirty nine, so
over twenty points. They were downin this one halfway through the second quarter,
(09:54):
and then Luca and Kyrie went nuts. Kyrie had a Maverick career high
forty eight points. Luke add atthirty seven. The Mavericks win their fourteenth
game in their last sixteen. Iwas watching some bad sports show this morning,
but one of the NBA analysts,I was wondering what they would answer,
(10:16):
because I think it was whatever MikeGreenberg show is, and he asked
the two analysts like, if there'sanybody in the West that can beat Denver,
who is it? And maybe it'sTim Legler and it was no hesitation
with conviction. He's like Stell's Mavericks. And I was wondering as he's asked
the question, like, in mymind, I think it's the Mavericks.
They are so different and then whatthey were pre trade deadline and the difference,
(10:39):
Yeah, yeah, Like I watcheda team that had one way to
win and that was score one hundredand forty points, and now they win
one oh four to one hundred,and then just to mix it up against
Houston, it's like, yeah,bad news. Gafferck's in foul trouble.
We've been talking so much about Gaffordand Lively and how now they're huge and
they're dunking on everybody and it's like, well, you're gonna have to outscore
(11:00):
these guys and you're behind. Whatare you gonna do? And it's like,
well, we've done that before,We'll do that again. It's like
they win in different ways at whateverthey need to do, they've been able
to do. They're the hottest teamin the NBA. And I don't want
to get my hopes up too high, but at this moment, I think
Boston, Denver Dallas are playing aslike the three best teams in the NBA.
(11:20):
And I did not see that cominga few weeks ago, and it
is awesome. I mean, probablythe two best defenders of the guys they
traded for, right, yeah,Washington and Gaffert, Yeah yeah, I
mean Washing Washington has been so goodfor them now. And when they first
got him, it was kind ofawkward. He hadn't really found a shot,
and I was like, Okay,you told me this guy was gonna
be good. What it is,And now I'm watching him like, okay,
(11:41):
I see like he makes such adifference defending and rebounding and being a
scorer when he needs to. Theydid a really good job with the guys
that they added, and they're they'regonna be a problem for people. I
was a tiny bit annoyed at thecoverage of the deadline on the station,
just because everyone here was telling methat he's a pretty much two all stars,
(12:01):
maybe they'll be in the MVP race, and these two guys I'd never
heard of him. My entire liningabout skin freaking out. Yeah, works
for the team, says they're goingto be good. Oh right, yeah,
uh and he was right. Iwas right. That's good that you
can admit. Defeats very TC.I feel like he was exactly right.
(12:22):
And Jeff to your point. Okay, So Dallas has been fourteen and two
since Jason Kidd inserted Derek Jones Juniorand Daniel Gafford into the starting line up.
Hope for to take Derek Jones Juniorback out of it, but I
mean, yeah, I mean theyhave been good. Well. That fourteen
and two record is the most victoriesin any sixteen games stretch since Jason Kidd's
team helped lead the Mavericks to thattitle in twenty eleven. And shout out
(12:45):
to Maxie because for a guy who'sgreat stats, oh yeah, look for
a guy who's terrified to touch thebasketball as he should be. He still
locks in and does the rest ofhis job really really well. That's why
they were keeping him in the lineupwhen you know, people were saying,
what is he doing there? Hecan't make a shot? Like, well,
he's a really good defender. There'sstill a weakness for the team.
(13:05):
Still. We gat to watch wherethey fired to him for a wide open
three, He's like, eh,who else wants the ball? Is Lively
coming back helpfully for the playoffs?Yeah, like Josh Green exists too,
by the way, but yeah,they're hoping to get him and Lively back
before the postseason. That's the lastthing I've heard. Yeah to the stat
(13:28):
you were saying, Juliet, Yeah, it feels like I mean, I
guess the team that made the WesternConference Finals that was really special, but
I don't know that really going intoGame seven with the Suns, I wasn't
sure how good that team was orwhat their legacy would be. This this
feels like as far as like asensing the team's potential, wondering how high
(13:48):
we can go. This feels likethe nicest point we've been at since two
thousand and one. This feels likea team that has a chance to do
something. Yeah, And how rareis that in mavericks Land that you're going
into the playoffs being like, Ithink we're gonna win the first round,
and I'd like to see what happensin the second. I think we're gonna
win the second round. Just don'twant to be done for It's amazing and
hearing like Skin talk about it earlier, and of course everybody was talking about
(14:11):
Luca and Kyrie going off with theirarms around each other after the game last
night, and it's just like everybody'sgetting along really well. Everybody's kind of
found their role on the team.They're able to balance each other out.
They really like each other. Itseems they're playing for each other. And
if you want to go on agood run in the playoffs, like you
need all of that. This isreal tough. This is what happens when
you got good chemistry. Yeah,And chemistry will get you through times of
(14:37):
no talent. Better than talent willget you through times of no chemistry.
And Kyrie is the closest thing toan actual and one mixtape player I've ever
seen actually play NBA basketball. It'sso fun to watch, so fun to
watch twenty five points Kyrie had fromthe end of the third quarter on like
he just waits. They do theydo, and it's like, this is
(14:58):
what they do. Luca starts,Yeah, he starts it. And then
Kyrie in the usually to open thethird, and then in the fourth he's
like, Okay, I'll go now. And that's pretty damn sustainable to have
dudes who can do that. Andyeah, I expect them if they have
a I expect him to play inthe Western Conference finals, unless they match
(15:22):
up with Denver in the second round, and then I'll say, let's see
what happens, because I think theycould beat them. I fear them,
but anybody else I feel good.Yeah. I think that's probably who how
people feel if they've been watching thesegames closely and seeing themis that's the way
I see it too. I don'tfear anybody else except in them. They're
in fifth place right now at fortyeight and thirty on the season, and
(15:45):
so they are all but mathematically assuredof avoiding that play in, which is
all we really wanted. You're prettylocked in where you are, like you're
two games behind who's in front ofyou, and I think they have the
tiebreaker. The team's behind. Youare two games back, and you have
the tiebreaker. They're gonna be thefive scene. They're going to play the
Clippers, and we're gonna have fun. I remember when that's what our goal
was though, it was like justavoid the play in. Just figure it
(16:06):
out and avoid the play in.Yes, and now we've changed our goals
as fans. Literally the deadline thatwas my goal. My goal with the
trade deadline was they need to finishsixth. They're better and I expect them
to. And now it's they've doneit. They have moved beyond that and
now Paul George and Kawhi Leonard comeget some yep. Four games left on
the regular season for the Dallas Mavericksand I will pick a quick buzzer here,
(16:30):
Ruby, thank you very much.We do need to point out that
the Dallas Stars are rolling to Theyhad a huge game last night. This
went down a little bit late afterthe Mavericks game had already ended. The
Stars were in Colorado on the secondnight of a back to back. They
had lost in Chicago the day before, and Chicago's not a good team,
(16:52):
but it kind of just felt likeone of those losses on Saturday where everybody's
tired, and they you just kindof throw one out it right, And
they might have been anticipating the hugegame the next day with the Colorado Avalanche.
And they actually did have some travelissues too leaving Chicago, and they
didn't get to fly out from Chicagothat night the night after the game,
(17:14):
they flew to Colorado the next day, so they flew in and played the
game in the same day, whichis something they never do, never do
it this weather. I don't knowexactly what caused it. We could be
weather could be playing stuff. Ido kind of think I remember hearing weather
though, So you know, theyhad every reason going in on the second
(17:37):
night of a back to back againsta team that they're trying to battle for
the division, against a rival,a team that has so many good weapons
at home, and the Dallas Starsable to get it done last night seven
to four. Tyler Sagan, whowas just back from taking like a maintenance
day to nurse some of his injuries, had two goals. He now I
was twenty five on the season.Jamie Ben, Matt duchhe Robe Hens White
(18:00):
Johnson, Mason marchmant All also scoredfor Dallas last night. They've won nine
of their last ten games, andthey are just cruising in a battle now
to win the division. Are wegonna win everything? That's what's like so
cool with the Mavericks and the Starsright now. And of course the Rangers
were still feeling really good about wherethey're at. And then the Chiefs are
(18:21):
going to move back home and we'regonna win in the NFL. That might
happen, and then we could wina super Bowl. It'll be great.
But yeah, I mean, theDallas Stars have a legit. They're one
of the also one of the topteams in the league, one of the
top teams in the Western Conference,have a legit chance to win a Stanley
Cup this season. Jay Gottinger's back. Whatever he was working through, he
seems to have his confidence back,and that's huge. As we know in
(18:44):
the playoffs is you got to haveyour goaltender rolling, and you gotta hope
you don't. He's another guy anotherteam that has their goaltender rolling. I
think I saw him in the gamebefore last like early last week, and
he played his asshole. Yeah,I mean, he looked like a completely
made over player. He's in agood way right now. The Stars have
(19:04):
one hundred and seven points, fivepoints ahead of the Avalanche, who they
beat last night. They also havefour games less left in the season.
So it's just a really fun timeof year for the Stars and the Mavericks
because they could both do some reallybig things in the playoffs. And I
love that. Let's check out withdirt. Oh oh, guess what dead
is? Guess what Dad is?Huh? Anybody? Yeah, I don't
(19:26):
know why this is a holiday,but today, on April the eighth,
it is Dog Farting Awareness Day,So yeah, do what you will.
You know, has anybody ever hada problem with a flatulent canine? Absolutely?
And I have two dogs that Ihave never heard one of my dogs
fart, but I have smelt it. Yeah, And it's very disappointing because
(19:49):
when a human is in your presenceand does that, you kind of get
them the side eyes and it's likewhat the hell, bro or sis.
But there's also a redeeming quality aboutthe human because they might then make you
dinner or you might make love,whereas the dog is just like doing that
if somebody's part and I ain't doingthat a giant dog. I mean,
like it could be eight hours later, but like there is a redeeming quality
(20:11):
about it. Oh really, youhear one and you're out for good about
for a while. Yeah? Isthat what led you becoming single? Was
a fart? No, it wasn'tbad, but that the fart knocks things
back a good play, you know. It's a real fart knocker. The
fart knocks things back. I lovethat you can just put it out there.
(20:34):
You're honest with your fart opinions whenit comes to ladies, and there's
nothing wrong with that. Yeah,you're real creeped out because I feel like
we can't say that about men,like y'all are just accepted. We're supposed
to just accept that. Y'all fartall the time. You know. I
think people might play that up,but I think most of us it takes
a long time before you're comfortable actuallyfarted it. Then it's like and it's
(20:56):
like, okay, can you stop. I don't think I've ever gotten there.
That's crazy. I know women don'tpart anyway, so it's yeah,
I mean, women don't, theydon't, they don't. It's not crazy
TC. I don't think you youcan live your life and hide it.
For the most part. You mightslip up occasionally. It's it's kind of
when you're in bed that it canthing. You still try though, right,
(21:17):
you try to try, but everynow and then you wake up your
partner, right, but your mindout in the morning, you grab,
you put a hand on a cheek, your pull, and you try to
just create the upmost situation for you. Just reveal your techniques to when you're
with Walman. Yeah, if youwant opening, you want opened up to
try to have clean airflows so thatthere's not the friction and sound. All
right, what if it's more thanair though, well, that is way
(21:41):
more embarrassing. Yeah, we gotto change the sheets real quick. Is
it time for diapers? Yeah,that's that's different. I just uh,
I wouldn't stop the therapy yet.There's one big hurdle to clear. If
you can't fart in front of alady, I don't want to because I
don't want them to fart in frontof me. I don't have a problem
(22:02):
either way, no no issue.Like, don't get me wrong, there's
levels to this. You're clearly ona scale of one to ten of being
creeped out by it. You're atthe one Mike is at fifteen. Yeah,
and I'm at like five, youknow, I'm just in the middle.
I just I remember having jobs whereI felt like I couldn't fart.
Yeah, it was like, uh, whenever you have one, just like
(22:26):
building that like it hurts. I'mnot You're need to get dominal pain like
on behalf of you. Like wecould just get used to it. You
liked that ticket room you couldn't yeah, yeah, yeah, rip all you
want you up into the studio,you couldn't get up and excuse yourself from
the room and you can go somewhereand do it. No, I was
(22:48):
I was watching the phone. Whatif? It rang? Very important,
very important. But we sorted throughall that. Yeah. Today's also National
Fart Awareness Day and not a dayand cards. What is that? It's
like a it's meat that's covered inlike a pastry shell kind of thing.
I bought one at a farmer's marketin San Jose last week. I bet
(23:11):
that made you fart. I actuallybought it for my daughter. Today is
trading cards for grown up to day. If you're out there and you've got
a nice bulbo sore, her Charizared let me know. And today is
Zoo Lover's day. Did you seethe Jamila stuff, Julie, No,
is there a Jamila update? Theytook her, They took her the gorilla.
(23:33):
Her mom loves her. Yes,Oh my gosh, are you serious?
Yes? Okay, I guess it'sall worth it. It's so good
those girls like, oh they gotsomebody loves me. I'm already damaged.
Are you guys going to go toCleveland? Yeah? I'm going now all
right? Yeah, so coming upnext, somebody else handled the segment.
Yeah, to Cleveland. By theway, if ybody's got a nineteen sixty
(23:53):
Johnny Podrace hit me, yeah,that would be good. Uh. Actually
there were two birthdays. Who wantto mention? Are you adult who collects
trading cards? No? Okay,you just want that one? Yeah,
I'm being facetious. I have oneEvan Carter Rookie card still, so I
guess I technically am. Happy birthdayto Robin Wright. You know, it's
pretty badass to play Princess Buttercup andJenny. That's pretty sweet. That's pretty
(24:18):
huge. And uh, there wasone other one, but I forgot who
I thought you were talking about.That star order the tickets sales crew was
green. I wasn't o is ithis birthday? He's fifty two today.
All right, fix your song?Yeah, what's going on there? We
need to dive into all that.And Dean Norris is sixty one from Breaking
Bad to You Go Oh Yeah.Coming up there in the bucket of crap.
There is something that we've been tryingso hard to cover for the last
(24:44):
week and the time is upon us. Huge news for all of you,
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