April 29, 2024 • 40 mins
Stacy rambles about the NBA (Playoffs!) as her team takes a 3-0 lead. Also Planet of the Apes is a great franchise
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Hey, welcome to the Morning Stand-Up. I'm Stacey Kaye and the Thunder are up 3-0.
I took off the last two weeks of this podcast because I've been real sick and
traveling, but hey, the NBA is still happening. This is fun.
I guess at this point I'm an NBA podcaster because that's all I ever talk about.
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Apologies to you people who hate basketball, but it's the best sport.
So if you don't like not knowing about it, watch the games.
Yeah, Adam Silver's paying me. All right, I'm getting sponsored for this shit.
So a lot has happened over the last few weeks. I was in New York.
I was doing a script reading for a pilot, like a comedy show pilot.
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And it was a Y'all Comedy Festival. It was pretty cool. Me and Fifi Dosh,
I can't remember. I can't remember.
And Jay McBride did a, like a, it was like a pit, like a reading at a, at a festival.
I'd never done anything like that before. Went really well. It was, I had a great time.
And I think, I think I got sick when I was, I don't know. I've been,
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I've been sick the last, like whatever.
I can't even remember like whenever I was like fully, fully ready to go.
I feel like a lot of people are, are sick. And it's not COVID.
The COVID levels are, are like lower than
they've ever been and I don't even I don't know if it's
a flu flu to look too high either don't know
what the deal is maybe my body just hates me I'm watching
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the New York Knicks versus the Philadelphia 76ers and
this series has been has been pretty close I thought that it was not going to
go so well well I mean the Knicks are better than the 76ers at least according
to regular season at least without Embiid and Embiid so Embiid is this like
seven foot tall player, very skilled. He's one of the best players in the league.
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He's hurt a lot. He's, and you can visibly see this dude, he's so injured.
He like limps basically up and
down the court, but he still keeps them in competition with the Knicks.
Philadelphia down three points, six minutes left in the fourth quarter. So here we are.
So my life has been a little little hectic lately.
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Random things break, like my garage door broke for a while.
My AC in my car hasn't worked for the last two years.
I've just been driving back and forth to work with no air conditioning.
And you guys have no idea how hard that is. As someone who's as skinny and gorgeous
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as I am, it messes my hair up.
Because I have to drive with the windows down and it blows all in my hair and my hair is terrible.
And then I just go to work with bad hair. Do you understand?
Do you understand how painful that is for me? It is terrible. But then so,
I went to a funeral in Tucson for a cop.
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He was actually, this dude was actually a communist. He became a cop because
he couldn't do well in school.
And this dude, he was two months away from, he was going to quit and become a park ranger.
And he got killed in
a car wreck on the way to responding to
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a call and it was like a huge deal Tucson
police force it was like everybody in
the whole police force was there they had like a
bunch of bagpipes and a procession it was
like this huge deal and it was so weird seeing his
face put on like all
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these like cop things like blue lives
matter type type stuff like just
paste it everywhere and it's like that dude that dude
was not that dude was
not like these cops you know like that that was a communist that
dude was progressive if he knew that's how they were using his face after he
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died but you know you gotta you gotta have your propaganda and everything but
like his wife she's beautiful she's a great person and seeing like what they
had they're young they're young.
And it kind of makes me want to be straight.
Like, I don't want a relationship like that. It seemed like a good thing. It sucks.
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Of all the cops, of all the cops to die, it had to be that one, you know?
Like, this was a good dude. He never shot anybody.
And it was a freak accident. It wasn't like he got killed by crime or anything
like that. It happens whenever you're driving a lot on the road, as a lot of cops do.
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And it was weird seeing people try to politicize the death.
I mean, the way to prevent the death is to improve traffic, improve transit,
not have such dangerous intersections, that kind of stuff.
So, yeah, I was in Tucson, Arizona for a while.
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Which there's a lot of cactuses there. I don't know if you guys have ever been
to Arizona or any of the desert areas, but cactuses are very real.
Like those are not like movie props. They're everywhere.
There's a lot less actual trees. There's a lot less grass because it's kind
of a cursed part of the world.
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Like it's like you're there and you're there in like Phoenix.
Phoenix Knicks is worse than Tucson, but you're there and you're like,
I don't feel like God wants us to live here.
You know, like this is not right, but there's something beautiful about it too.
So anyways, that's where I was. And yeah, back to the game.
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The Knicks are up three points, five minutes left to go.
Philadelphia's got the ball, taking the ball up. Max, he's got the ball, throws it to Embiid.
Embiid's got an isolation. You get double team, pass it off and then pass, Pass, pass, dunk.
One-point game with five minutes left to go. This is a good one.
You hear a lot about the Knicks.
You hear a lot about the Knicks in media, even when they're not good,
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because they're New York, right?
And they're the team in New York that people like.
The Nets are not considered the same. The Nets haven't been there all the time.
The Nets used to be in New Jersey.
Now we're the New Jersey Nets, and then they moved to Brooklyn.
Yeah, Brooklyn. They have a beautiful arena, Barclays Arena.
I love it. But that's also where the New York Liberty plays, which is the WNBA team.
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I went to one of their playoff games, and that was fun.
I had some thoughts on the whole production of the event.
And it's very noticeable when you go to a WNBA game, if you've gone to NBA games.
Just like, this is a lower budget production, like substantially.
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And I went in the merch store. Sure. I tried to buy cute Liberty stuff because I like their branding.
I like their local. I don't like the Knicks stuff. I think it's gross.
It's too similar to the Thunder. Thunder is better than the Knicks, honestly.
They need to upgrade. You know why they're called the Knicks? Okay.
K-N-I-C-K. They're called the Knicks because back in the day,
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they called shorts knickerbockers, right?
That's seriously why they call them that. And they haven't upgraded the team name.
I feel like they should have changed it 100 years ago, but they're just still,
they're still doing the Knicks.
And Knicks fans are still believing that they're going to have a good basketball
team that wins championships.
But they're struggling in the first round versus 76ers with a wounded Embiid.
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People are mad at Embiid because he's a little bit of a dirty player.
He was on the ground and he was mad and he grabbed the player's leg and injured
him. It was a foul. It was like a flagrant. You're not supposed to do that.
But the guys like actually hurt not playing this game. You know,
You don't usually see intentional fouls turn into injuries that way very often.
He's going to be a villain in New York forever. They're never going to let that go.
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That dude could cure cancer and New York would still be mad at him.
Oh, the Lakers finally won one. They were playing the Nuggets.
They were getting destroyed.
Well, they weren't even getting destroyed. They were blowing it in the last seconds of the game.
And Lakers fans are like, you know, they're the Knicks of the West Coast.
They're bigger than the Knicks, probably, nationwide, because,
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you know, they've actually been good.
So whenever you go on the media, all you ever hear about is the Knicks and the
Lakers, even when they're not any good.
The Lakers are terrible this year. They won one game. They're down, is it 2-1?
Yeah, so it's like, or 3-1? I don't know.
Theoretically, they could come back, but they're not going to.
The Nuggets could sleep their way through this series and still beat them, I'm pretty sure.
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Lakers just, they don't have the, LeBron can't do it all on his own.
Anthony Davis does great too, but they don't have like the consistent three-point
shooters surrounding them that they need.
Unlike the Thunder, the Thunder have like, they got all a bunch of 21-year-old
dudes fresh out of college.
All of them got long arms for their position. They're all skinny.
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They can all hit threes at a high rate.
And it's like positionless basketball. And a lot of people have been sleeping on us.
We're the number one seed in the West, but people have been sleeping on us just
because we're young and because we play a way that a lot of people haven't.
I mean, the Warriors did the high-volume three-point shooting thing.
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They really pioneered that.
And they did the small ball stuff, but we're even smaller, or at least lighter.
We're tall. We have some tall players. We've got Chet Holmgren.
I think he's 7'2". he's a tall lanky white boy but he weighs not very much because
he hasn't had time to accumulate mass as players do as they get older so he
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going up against Jokic who's six foot ten so he's like four and he's got like four inches on Jokic.
Nikola Jokic, he's a Serbian basketball player who plays for the Nuggets,
and he's arguably the best player in the league.
He won the championship last year, and we'll go up against him later in the
playoffs, probably, if we're going to win a championship.
We'll have to go through them, but we'll have to go up against Jokic, right?
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And he's 6'10", 4 inches shorter than Chet, but he weighs 80 more pounds.
So it's like, I think Chet is 220 or 200.
Jokic is like 280. 80 so like you imagine that
when you're down in the paint and you gotta like move that guy you
gotta like bump against each other and
and try to you know create space to to clear
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out the lane and all that kind of stuff i will see how it goes if we shoot if.
We shoot our threes like we usually do i'm confident we'll beat the nuggets
in the seven game series but that can get difficult because in the playoffs
you're playing a lot of games and also defense improves in the playoffs so you're
less likely to get as many open shots.
So who knows? But I'm pumped. We're up 3-0. Nobody can touch me.
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We're the only team taking care of business in the first round.
Everybody else, the Celtics dropped the game to the heat without Jimmy Butler.
Jimmy Butler's one of the best players in the league. He's injured and the Celtics
still lost to the heat. I don't know how...
Eric Spolstra, the coach of the Heat. I don't know how he does it.
Every year, he has these rosters that aren't great. They didn't do great during the regular season.
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They barely got in the playoffs, and they just start winning games that they
were not supposed to win. I don't know. The dude's a fucking genius.
I'm pretty sure he's the best coach in the NBA.
I would say of all time, because I mean, look, listen, you had like Phil Jackson.
You remember Phil Jackson.
He coached the Lakers, the Shaq and Kobe Lakers, and he also coached the Bulls
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back whenever Jordan was playing. He had great rosters, okay?
Listen, an idiot, an idiot could have won championships with Shaq and Kobe back
in the day. Like, I could have done that.
Like, let's, okay, pass the ball to Shaq, let him dunk, right?
Also, I would have taught Shaq how to chew Fritos, because if that dude could
have learned how to chew Fritos, they couldn't have fouled him on purpose like they did.
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He would have been the most dominant offensive player of all time
but he never he didn't have the discipline to
shoot free throws and honestly honestly if he had shot underhanded
which is like it's a mechanically a better shot to shoot
underhanded on a free throw nobody does it because it you look like a bitch
while you're doing it and you can't do it in a regular on the floor because
when you shoot when you shoot from down here it's very easy to block it so on
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defense but on free throw you got no defense so you can just you just throw
it up like that and And that's what Shaq should have done.
If he could have gotten over himself and gotten past his toxic masculinity,
he could have been the best basketball player of all time, in my opinion.
But he's kind of a little bit of a bitch. So that didn't happen.
We got the Knicks are up three points with two minutes left to go.
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It's going to be a tight one.
These 76ers-Knicks games have all come down to the wire lately.
Been good stuff. Everybody in New York talks about it. You always hear about
stuff that's happened in New York.
If you're on Twitter, at least, or on social media, because there's so many people who live there.
They have a really outsized media footprint on the internet because they're so big.
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It's the media center of the world. You hear about everything that happens in New York.
But every single game, it's been like a big event. The end of the 76ers-Knicks game.
And honestly, the Knicks got away with it. The Sixers should have won,
and the Knicks fouled the shit out of them.
And the refs didn't call it, and the Knicks got the ball back and scored and
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barely won at the last second.
But part of me wants to keep the Knicks in the playoffs, like all the way to
the finals, because that gets New York to pay attention to sports.
And when New York's paying attention to sports, you hear about it more because
they're in the media and stuff. So it's kind of fun to hear opinions out of these people.
But also, sometimes I feel like Knicks fans forget that they're Knicks fans,
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and they don't understand what they are going through.
The Knicks ownership sucks, okay? okay, these people aren't,
they're not good people.
They have a long history of making bad teams and making decisions that weren't
great for the organization.
Whereas over here in Oklahoma City Thunder, we make good decisions all the fucking time.
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Our ownership and general manager, they do what they need to do to win in every scenario.
They're really good at drafting, bringing in new talent, and they're great at
shipping out players whenever it's It's time to accumulate stuff.
And they work with the players too as well.
A lot of players like to go to, like veteran players will go to Oklahoma City.
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Because they know that we'll rehabilitate their careers a little bit and then
we'll ship them off to whatever team they basically want to go to.
Not whatever team, but we'll shop around and be like, does anybody want to trade for this dude?
And we'll make sure that they get put in a spot where they want to go
that's mutually beneficial to both parties we got
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a reputation for that and we just been we started in
2008 and moved the ownership bottom out
from seattle and moved into oklahoma city which is not a popular
move to seattle or anybody on the pacific northwest they hate the thunder up
there but it was a big benefit for me who was in arkansas and i didn't have
a decent team to cheer for within a six hour radius until the thunder showed
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up because i had the grizzlies in memphis which is two hours away.
But who the fuck wants to go see a Memphis Grizzlies game? Nobody in Memphis
even wants to go see a Memphis Grizzlies game. At least not for a long time. They were bad.
Recently, they got Ja Morant, which is cool, but he keeps pulling guns out on Instagram Live.
So he gets banned. He got banned for, I think it was like 50 games because he
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got photographed or videoed. One of his friends was shooting an Instagram Live
in the thing, and they were dancing to music in the car.
And Ja Morant, he pans the camera over to Ja Morant, and he's got a gun and dancing like this.
And the friend realized it immediately. oh shit like
he didn't even know that jaw had a gun because he was not supposed
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to and the reason this is is because the players union
which is you know the the union of players they
have very strict rules against players being photographed with guns because
gun violence is not great it's particularly really bad for the black community
and they feel very strongly about being photographed with guns that way for
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like you know people who are supposed to be nba stars ours.
So he gets punished pretty hard. And I mean, not like he deserved it because,
I mean, there's players, there's players in the NBA who have done some bad stuff.
And just because they didn't get caught on camera on it, they usually keep their careers in general.
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Oh, speaking of unfair punishments. Oh, I can't even remember who it was. Some Raptors player.
He bet on him. He bet against himself.
He's using the fan duel or something like that to he would bet the under on his own performance.
And then he would perform bad.
And so they banned him for life. He's done. He was a young player and now he's
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not allowed to play in the NBA anymore. And I get it.
Honestly, if you're going to bet, like if you bet on yourself,
that's one thing, but betting against yourself, that's a conflict of interest
and kind of ruins the game a little bit.
But in his defense, the NBA and sports in general has been really pushing this
gambling stuff, which I don't agree with at all.
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Like I think the gambling, fine, it should be legal, but they should not be
able to advertise all over the TV.
It's crazy. I mean, gambling, listen, all right, gambling should be legal, but it's not good. Okay.
It's not good. It's like, it's like tattoos. Do you honestly think that getting tattoos is good?
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No, it's not good. I don't care about it, but it's not good behavior.
Okay. I don't actually believe that. That's a quote from, I think you should
leave a sketch where they they're interviewing Santa Claus for an upcoming movie he's in.
And then they discover that he doesn't give presents to people if they got tattoos that year.
Check it out. It's a good show. I think you should leave with Tim Robinson,
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a little-known comedian that has been popping off lately.
All right, I think the Knicks got this one wrapped up. They're out five points
with 50 seconds left to go and the ball. There's no way the Sixers are coming back from this.
Knicks take a 3-1 lead in the series, which makes the series a little bit boring.
I'm sure I think Philadelphia's got a good chance to win the next game.
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No, like, they're probably still not favorites, but at least they pulled off.
But there's no way I think Philadelphia wins three games against this Knicks team.
As much of a Knicks hater as I am, I don't think that they'll be able to pull it off.
And they're definitely not pulling off this game. Also, I'm not really a Knicks hater.
I just think that they're funny, and Knicks fans are a little arrogant because,
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I don't know, people think, people in New York think that because they're in
New York, they got the best stuff, you know, and it's the same way in LA.
LA, the Lakers fans are much worse than Knicks fans.
Lakers fans think that every free agent, every NBA player wants to go play for
the LA Lakers, and it's just not true. Most of the time, they never get the
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players that they say is going to end up in L.A.
They got LeBron. They got Anthony Davis. Great players.
But you don't just get everybody you want, you know?
And they got LeBron as he's older. He's not quite as good as he was,
but he's still really good.
And it's a little sad that he's in the NBA as he is now. He's not with that great of a team.
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Anthony Davis is good. good the white kid Austin
Reeves is good D'Angelo Russell sometimes he's
streaky he has he has his games but then
I feel like the rest of the lineup is is pretty weak and
I mean coming from the Thunder like the
Thunder like I said they just have a bunch of fresh out of college kids and
they have a bunch like they have like I think we have like a nine person ten
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we're deep we got a bunch of players to plug in and you'll be like if you're
if you're not a big fan of the Thunder or you'll be seeing this player that
you've never heard of score 30 points on you. It happens here and there.
Our points come from all over the place, and it's really tough to stop us because
we're just so anybody, anybody on our team can burn you from the three-point line.
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So you've got to play out there. You've got to guard them all,
which leaves the inside open, and then we can go in.
We're terrible at rebounding. We're really bad at rebounding.
It's kind of remarkable how far we've come while being this bad at rebounding.
We're just not a traditional team because we're so skinny we're so skinny and
young we get pushed around in the paint,
Like we're nothing. All right, that's enough. That's enough basketball.
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If you have been listening to this and you're not a basketball fan and you've
made it 20 minutes into this podcast, you must really like me and I appreciate
you for making it this far.
Anyway, let's talk about other stuff. Oh, I've been watching,
I'm pumped for the new Planet of the Apes movie, okay?
That, I feel like people don't talk about the Planet of the Apes,
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the new ones, the trilogy.
Well, I mean, this one's like a start of a new trilogy. or
something i don't know it's it's not gonna it's not the
same arc as the trilogy but the
the ones the first one you had jame franco in it and then the apes and they
got smart and also released the simian flu which kills a bunch of people which
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kills humans but it makes apes very smart so a bunch of humans die it's just
apes well i mean there's still human there's still.
Some humans but it's like you you guys live through
covid you know how it is when even like i mean it
was like one percent of the population died and it was like
we were losing our shit and like things broke down
all over the world and our supply chains and in.
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Our in our retail or or anything like
any sort of business was like heavily hit by.
Covid and and simian flu i think kills like.
90 percent of people i don't know
it was a high percent so there's still like a lot of of people left
kind of a decent amount of people left but most of
them die so that so the apes are off building their
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own society away from the humans and then and
then the humans run into the apes because they need they
need something that's around they're trying
to like power a dam right in the second movie they're
trying to get back electricity and there's a dam outside of
san francisco that they want to get power
off of and that's where the apes live so the humans need
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to going to the apes thing and the apes aren't too fond of the
humans because humans shoot apes and stuff
so that's the conflict of the second movie and
there are such great movies like the
first one was like a pretty good movie but the
second one is like that's like peak cinema
like that that you you can't really ask for much
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more from from a movie going experience it's
such a spectacle cool and the flipping it
you know like having us like apes
it's kind of surreal it's weird seeing like apes
like riding on horses or like holding guns or all
this kind of stuff because apes are a lot stronger than humans they're hardier
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and they would rip our arms out if they if they wanted to and having that up
against humans and humans aren't like completely helpless humans have They have arms.
Like they got their guns and stuff like that.
But it allows you to ponder humanitarian issues, but without actual humans versus
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humans, because that's a little too real,
because we see a lot of that just in the news, right?
But you have it where we're actually different species, but it's still like,
I mean, they're just as intelligent as humans are.
And like just the the moral
situation and like how wars happen
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basically how it's a
it's a race war really and it's
not like all the apes are evil want to kill humans but they get it's how it
goes they get dragged into it they they got to defend themselves from humans
and then the question is it's like how far do they go how how much should they
how lenient should they be to to the crimes of humanity.
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And then in the third one, set a few years later after this incident,
and the humans haven't, they haven't seen him in a while.
And then the military from the north, like they, they got, after the second
movie, they got, they called the military. The military had,
like, showed up by the thing. They sent out a radio signal because they got electricity.
And then apparently there's a, there's a military, like.
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Set up in, excuse me, like Portland or
seattle or something like that that's where like the american military went
and they just had like a junta up there right of
all the people who survived the simian flu and
they got all the all the military shit and they're
they sent like a people down there to dispatch to to kill caesar who is the
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he's the original smart ape because he got the he got the serum first that made
him smart and then he's the one who like freed all the other apes and he leads
the civilization but he was.
Raised by humans so he has he's seen the good
side of humans and he doesn't want to
exterminate but there's a lot of apes who are like caesar
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you're weak you know you you love humans more
than apes and he's got to deal with those
with descent in the ranks of his
thing but he still he's still got to fight humans and it
was it was so good the third one i i
hadn't seen it actually until recently because i was gearing up to watch
the movie that's coming up next in may
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and in may this one's set 20 years in the future
and ape society's starting to like tag off starting
to get off the ground i don't really know what interaction they
have with humans at this point but they're like building like civilization now
they're not just a small tribe they're like they're there was more bigger and
more like a human civilizations from history and i'm really pumped to see all
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that. So I think it's May 10th.
I'm going to go see it as soon as possible. It looks really good.
The trailers look really good.
And I love apes. I love their faces and the way they do things.
And they're so close to human and so expressive.
And it's really well done in the movie.
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At least Caesar is played by Andy Serkis, you know, the guy who did Gollum in Lord of the Rings.
He does all the motion capture and all that kind of stuff. Good movie.
Good movies. You should, y'all should check them out if you have not seen them.
They're highly slept on.
People talk about how movies these days are bad.
I've never seen Planet of the Apes because you want to shy away from it because
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it's franchise, right? Because they've got sequels and sequels, but they're all good.
They're all bangers. This isn't like a Marvel movie where there's like half
of them are total trash and the rest of them are kind of a little too focused
groups to sell action figures, right?
But like this is, they're just making good movies, banger after banger.
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And I'm excited for the next one. I think it's going to be really good.
I've been watching the new Knuckles show. I'm a sucker for Sonic the Hedgehog.
I love Knuckles in particular. The red guy. I like Knuckles and Tails.
Are my two favorite characters.
So I was a big fan of Sonic 2, not because it was a good movie.
If it was up to me, I would have edited out all of the human parts and just
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had about 30 minutes of the movie where it's basically just the animals and Dr.
Robotnik, who's played by Jim Carey, which I think he did a good job on,
but the Knuckles show, right, on Paramount+.
It's not a good show. It's bad. The optimal way to watch it is to just fast
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forward through all the people scenes until you get to Knuckles.
And for some reason, I don't know why I like this guy so much.
I love Knuckles, but he's voiced by Idris Elba, okay?
Idris Elba, like the kingpin from, I was going to say Baltimore, from The Wire.
It's hard to forget that the events in The Wire aren't literally real.
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I've been in Baltimore a few times and people talk about the wire a decent amount there.
But yeah, like he's voicing this very cute, but he's like a very serious and like angry animal.
He's an echidna, which his whole like race had been wiped out by a bunch of owl people.
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So he's like the last survivor. He's like this very grizzled warrior figure,
but he's so cute and he's voiced
by Idris Elba who's like got one of the most badass voices
in the world and just the lines they have him
say basically every word he
every every sentence he says is like oh my god that's adorable like it just
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melts my heart and I'll be sitting sitting through this terrible show that with
these human characters that I just don't give a fuck about and then I'm wondering
why I'm even watching it and then Knuckles comes on screen and says something, and I'm like, okay,
that was good, I love this guy, more of that, please,
and it sucks, because he's, like, on, he's on Earth, and he's just doing,
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like, he's doing, like, basic TV show shit, like, it's, I want to see, like, Knuckles,
because in the games, Knuckles is trying to get, at least in the newer,
he's trying to get the Master Emerald, right, he's trying to get,
like, pieces of the Emerald shards all together,
so he can, like, bring his island back or something like that.
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His like floating island.
And whenever you play Knuckles in the video games, these are like hot and cold.
Or how do you, what's the name of that game?
Whenever like someone hides something and then they tell you hotter,
colder, whenever you're getting further away from it.
And you've got to find three shards.
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And when you get close to them, it starts to beep.
And you know you're getting closer and closer. and you just have to explore,
and Knuckles can dig, and he can fly around a little bit, and he can climb walls,
and it's very fun, and he's not doing any of that shit in the show,
he should be looking for emeralds, and, and like, and in weird places, and fun scenarios,
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and like, in, and like fighting stuff, and like punching things,
I don't want to see him, I don't want to see him like fighting like basically
cops, and, or like secret agents, or whatever, that's not as I don't want to see them fight humans.
I want to see them fight these like cartoonish things.
It's such a, such a strange production.
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There's a scene in it where he talks
about he's with a Jewish family and they talk about Krav Maga and the old Jewish
lady is relating to him because his people got wiped out and she's like talking
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about the Holocaust with fucking knuckles.
Knuckles like it's not exactly phrased that
way like he doesn't explicitly say a holocaust
but you know that's what she's talking about so there's like a fucking holocaust
mentioned in this kid's tv show of sonic the hedgehog and knuckles classic love
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that what else we got to talk about do i have anything anything interesting
to say i think that's about it uh what do y'all i I recorded this.
If you aren't watching the video, I recorded this on a new video setup.
I got like a new lighting setup.
Is it like professional equipment? I don't know if I set it up all right,
but I'm trying to do three-point lighting with different in the background.
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And I got this nice chair. Do you like my chair? I got it from Ikea.
I'm supposed to get another one that I haven't gotten yet because Ikea sucks.
And FedEx was going to deliver it. And then they delivered it to the wrong house.
And then they called me and was like, hey, we got the wrong address.
And I was like, okay, well, my address is actually right next to that. Can you come to that?
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And I'm like, no, we can't. And then they hung up.
And then a week later, I call Ikea and I'm like, what the fuck?
And they're like, all right, FedEx canceled your order.
So I had to remake it. And I'll get a second chair soon.
And I'll have guests on the podcast. And the goal is I want to make my guests look good, right?
If you're going to do this, I want to have like serious guests that want to,
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they want content, they want clips of themselves and they want to look good.
And I don't want to be wasting their time. So I was trying to set this all up
and I should have, hopefully next week I can have, can have a guest on it.
Someone who's interesting around Kansas City and is good at talking.
Don't know who it is yet. We'll figure it out. So anyways, I want to play a
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song on the outro from Lorelai Kay.
So listen to that and I hope you tune in next week.
Music.
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My body.
Music.
Hey, welcome to the Morning Stand-Up. I'm Stacey Kaye and the Thunder are up 3-0.
I took off the last two weeks of this podcast because I've been real sick and
traveling, but hey, the NBA is still happening. This is fun.
I guess at this point I'm an NBA podcaster because that's all I ever talk about.
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Apologies to you people who hate basketball, but it's the best sport.
So if you don't like not knowing about it, watch the games.
Yeah, Adam Silver's paying me. All right, I'm getting sponsored for this shit.
So a lot has happened over the last few weeks. I was in New York.
I was doing a script reading for a pilot, like a comedy show pilot.
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And it was a Y'all Comedy Festival. It was pretty cool. Me and Fifi Dosh,
I can't remember. I can't remember.
And Jay McBride did a, like a, it was like a pit, like a reading at a, at a festival.
I'd never done anything like that before. Went really well. It was, I had a great time.
And I think, I think I got sick when I was, I don't know. I've been,
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I've been sick the last, like whatever.
I can't even remember like whenever I was like fully, fully ready to go.
I feel like a lot of people are, are sick. And it's not COVID.
The COVID levels are, are like lower than
they've ever been and I don't even I don't know if it's
a flu flu to look too high either don't know
what the deal is maybe my body just hates me I'm watching
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the New York Knicks versus the Philadelphia 76ers and
this series has been has been pretty close I thought that it was not going to
go so well well I mean the Knicks are better than the 76ers at least according
to regular season at least without Embiid and Embiid so Embiid is this like
seven foot tall player, very skilled. He's one of the best players in the league.
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He's hurt a lot. He's, and you can visibly see this dude, he's so injured.
He like limps basically up and
down the court, but he still keeps them in competition with the Knicks.
Philadelphia down three points, six minutes left in the fourth quarter. So here we are.
So my life has been a little little hectic lately.
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Random things break, like my garage door broke for a while.
My AC in my car hasn't worked for the last two years.
I've just been driving back and forth to work with no air conditioning.
And you guys have no idea how hard that is. As someone who's as skinny and gorgeous
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as I am, it messes my hair up.
Because I have to drive with the windows down and it blows all in my hair and my hair is terrible.
And then I just go to work with bad hair. Do you understand?
Do you understand how painful that is for me? It is terrible. But then so,
I went to a funeral in Tucson for a cop.
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He was actually, this dude was actually a communist. He became a cop because
he couldn't do well in school.
And this dude, he was two months away from, he was going to quit and become a park ranger.
And he got killed in
a car wreck on the way to responding to
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a call and it was like a huge deal Tucson
police force it was like everybody in
the whole police force was there they had like a
bunch of bagpipes and a procession it was
like this huge deal and it was so weird seeing his
face put on like all
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these like cop things like blue lives
matter type type stuff like just
paste it everywhere and it's like that dude that dude
was not that dude was
not like these cops you know like that that was a communist that
dude was progressive if he knew that's how they were using his face after he
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died but you know you gotta you gotta have your propaganda and everything but
like his wife she's beautiful she's a great person and seeing like what they
had they're young they're young.
And it kind of makes me want to be straight.
Like, I don't want a relationship like that. It seemed like a good thing. It sucks.
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Of all the cops, of all the cops to die, it had to be that one, you know?
Like, this was a good dude. He never shot anybody.
And it was a freak accident. It wasn't like he got killed by crime or anything
like that. It happens whenever you're driving a lot on the road, as a lot of cops do.
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And it was weird seeing people try to politicize the death.
I mean, the way to prevent the death is to improve traffic, improve transit,
not have such dangerous intersections, that kind of stuff.
So, yeah, I was in Tucson, Arizona for a while.
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Which there's a lot of cactuses there. I don't know if you guys have ever been
to Arizona or any of the desert areas, but cactuses are very real.
Like those are not like movie props. They're everywhere.
There's a lot less actual trees. There's a lot less grass because it's kind
of a cursed part of the world.
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Like it's like you're there and you're there in like Phoenix.
Phoenix Knicks is worse than Tucson, but you're there and you're like,
I don't feel like God wants us to live here.
You know, like this is not right, but there's something beautiful about it too.
So anyways, that's where I was. And yeah, back to the game.
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The Knicks are up three points, five minutes left to go.
Philadelphia's got the ball, taking the ball up. Max, he's got the ball, throws it to Embiid.
Embiid's got an isolation. You get double team, pass it off and then pass, Pass, pass, dunk.
One-point game with five minutes left to go. This is a good one.
You hear a lot about the Knicks.
You hear a lot about the Knicks in media, even when they're not good,
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because they're New York, right?
And they're the team in New York that people like.
The Nets are not considered the same. The Nets haven't been there all the time.
The Nets used to be in New Jersey.
Now we're the New Jersey Nets, and then they moved to Brooklyn.
Yeah, Brooklyn. They have a beautiful arena, Barclays Arena.
I love it. But that's also where the New York Liberty plays, which is the WNBA team.
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I went to one of their playoff games, and that was fun.
I had some thoughts on the whole production of the event.
And it's very noticeable when you go to a WNBA game, if you've gone to NBA games.
Just like, this is a lower budget production, like substantially.
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And I went in the merch store. Sure. I tried to buy cute Liberty stuff because I like their branding.
I like their local. I don't like the Knicks stuff. I think it's gross.
It's too similar to the Thunder. Thunder is better than the Knicks, honestly.
They need to upgrade. You know why they're called the Knicks? Okay.
K-N-I-C-K. They're called the Knicks because back in the day,
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they called shorts knickerbockers, right?
That's seriously why they call them that. And they haven't upgraded the team name.
I feel like they should have changed it 100 years ago, but they're just still,
they're still doing the Knicks.
And Knicks fans are still believing that they're going to have a good basketball
team that wins championships.
But they're struggling in the first round versus 76ers with a wounded Embiid.
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People are mad at Embiid because he's a little bit of a dirty player.
He was on the ground and he was mad and he grabbed the player's leg and injured
him. It was a foul. It was like a flagrant. You're not supposed to do that.
But the guys like actually hurt not playing this game. You know,
You don't usually see intentional fouls turn into injuries that way very often.
He's going to be a villain in New York forever. They're never going to let that go.
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That dude could cure cancer and New York would still be mad at him.
Oh, the Lakers finally won one. They were playing the Nuggets.
They were getting destroyed.
Well, they weren't even getting destroyed. They were blowing it in the last seconds of the game.
And Lakers fans are like, you know, they're the Knicks of the West Coast.
They're bigger than the Knicks, probably, nationwide, because,
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you know, they've actually been good.
So whenever you go on the media, all you ever hear about is the Knicks and the
Lakers, even when they're not any good.
The Lakers are terrible this year. They won one game. They're down, is it 2-1?
Yeah, so it's like, or 3-1? I don't know.
Theoretically, they could come back, but they're not going to.
The Nuggets could sleep their way through this series and still beat them, I'm pretty sure.
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Lakers just, they don't have the, LeBron can't do it all on his own.
Anthony Davis does great too, but they don't have like the consistent three-point
shooters surrounding them that they need.
Unlike the Thunder, the Thunder have like, they got all a bunch of 21-year-old
dudes fresh out of college.
All of them got long arms for their position. They're all skinny.
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They can all hit threes at a high rate.
And it's like positionless basketball. And a lot of people have been sleeping on us.
We're the number one seed in the West, but people have been sleeping on us just
because we're young and because we play a way that a lot of people haven't.
I mean, the Warriors did the high-volume three-point shooting thing.
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They really pioneered that.
And they did the small ball stuff, but we're even smaller, or at least lighter.
We're tall. We have some tall players. We've got Chet Holmgren.
I think he's 7'2". he's a tall lanky white boy but he weighs not very much because
he hasn't had time to accumulate mass as players do as they get older so he
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going up against Jokic who's six foot ten so he's like four and he's got like four inches on Jokic.
Nikola Jokic, he's a Serbian basketball player who plays for the Nuggets,
and he's arguably the best player in the league.
He won the championship last year, and we'll go up against him later in the
playoffs, probably, if we're going to win a championship.
We'll have to go through them, but we'll have to go up against Jokic, right?
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And he's 6'10", 4 inches shorter than Chet, but he weighs 80 more pounds.
So it's like, I think Chet is 220 or 200.
Jokic is like 280. 80 so like you imagine that
when you're down in the paint and you gotta like move that guy you
gotta like bump against each other and
and try to you know create space to to clear
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out the lane and all that kind of stuff i will see how it goes if we shoot if.
We shoot our threes like we usually do i'm confident we'll beat the nuggets
in the seven game series but that can get difficult because in the playoffs
you're playing a lot of games and also defense improves in the playoffs so you're
less likely to get as many open shots.
So who knows? But I'm pumped. We're up 3-0. Nobody can touch me.
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We're the only team taking care of business in the first round.
Everybody else, the Celtics dropped the game to the heat without Jimmy Butler.
Jimmy Butler's one of the best players in the league. He's injured and the Celtics
still lost to the heat. I don't know how...
Eric Spolstra, the coach of the Heat. I don't know how he does it.
Every year, he has these rosters that aren't great. They didn't do great during the regular season.
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They barely got in the playoffs, and they just start winning games that they
were not supposed to win. I don't know. The dude's a fucking genius.
I'm pretty sure he's the best coach in the NBA.
I would say of all time, because I mean, look, listen, you had like Phil Jackson.
You remember Phil Jackson.
He coached the Lakers, the Shaq and Kobe Lakers, and he also coached the Bulls
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back whenever Jordan was playing. He had great rosters, okay?
Listen, an idiot, an idiot could have won championships with Shaq and Kobe back
in the day. Like, I could have done that.
Like, let's, okay, pass the ball to Shaq, let him dunk, right?
Also, I would have taught Shaq how to chew Fritos, because if that dude could
have learned how to chew Fritos, they couldn't have fouled him on purpose like they did.
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He would have been the most dominant offensive player of all time
but he never he didn't have the discipline to
shoot free throws and honestly honestly if he had shot underhanded
which is like it's a mechanically a better shot to shoot
underhanded on a free throw nobody does it because it you look like a bitch
while you're doing it and you can't do it in a regular on the floor because
when you shoot when you shoot from down here it's very easy to block it so on
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defense but on free throw you got no defense so you can just you just throw
it up like that and And that's what Shaq should have done.
If he could have gotten over himself and gotten past his toxic masculinity,
he could have been the best basketball player of all time, in my opinion.
But he's kind of a little bit of a bitch. So that didn't happen.
We got the Knicks are up three points with two minutes left to go.
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It's going to be a tight one.
These 76ers-Knicks games have all come down to the wire lately.
Been good stuff. Everybody in New York talks about it. You always hear about
stuff that's happened in New York.
If you're on Twitter, at least, or on social media, because there's so many people who live there.
They have a really outsized media footprint on the internet because they're so big.
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It's the media center of the world. You hear about everything that happens in New York.
But every single game, it's been like a big event. The end of the 76ers-Knicks game.
And honestly, the Knicks got away with it. The Sixers should have won,
and the Knicks fouled the shit out of them.
And the refs didn't call it, and the Knicks got the ball back and scored and
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barely won at the last second.
But part of me wants to keep the Knicks in the playoffs, like all the way to
the finals, because that gets New York to pay attention to sports.
And when New York's paying attention to sports, you hear about it more because
they're in the media and stuff. So it's kind of fun to hear opinions out of these people.
But also, sometimes I feel like Knicks fans forget that they're Knicks fans,
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and they don't understand what they are going through.
The Knicks ownership sucks, okay? okay, these people aren't,
they're not good people.
They have a long history of making bad teams and making decisions that weren't
great for the organization.
Whereas over here in Oklahoma City Thunder, we make good decisions all the fucking time.
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Our ownership and general manager, they do what they need to do to win in every scenario.
They're really good at drafting, bringing in new talent, and they're great at
shipping out players whenever it's It's time to accumulate stuff.
And they work with the players too as well.
A lot of players like to go to, like veteran players will go to Oklahoma City.
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Because they know that we'll rehabilitate their careers a little bit and then
we'll ship them off to whatever team they basically want to go to.
Not whatever team, but we'll shop around and be like, does anybody want to trade for this dude?
And we'll make sure that they get put in a spot where they want to go
that's mutually beneficial to both parties we got
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a reputation for that and we just been we started in
2008 and moved the ownership bottom out
from seattle and moved into oklahoma city which is not a popular
move to seattle or anybody on the pacific northwest they hate the thunder up
there but it was a big benefit for me who was in arkansas and i didn't have
a decent team to cheer for within a six hour radius until the thunder showed
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up because i had the grizzlies in memphis which is two hours away.
But who the fuck wants to go see a Memphis Grizzlies game? Nobody in Memphis
even wants to go see a Memphis Grizzlies game. At least not for a long time. They were bad.
Recently, they got Ja Morant, which is cool, but he keeps pulling guns out on Instagram Live.
So he gets banned. He got banned for, I think it was like 50 games because he
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got photographed or videoed. One of his friends was shooting an Instagram Live
in the thing, and they were dancing to music in the car.
And Ja Morant, he pans the camera over to Ja Morant, and he's got a gun and dancing like this.
And the friend realized it immediately. oh shit like
he didn't even know that jaw had a gun because he was not supposed
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to and the reason this is is because the players union
which is you know the the union of players they
have very strict rules against players being photographed with guns because
gun violence is not great it's particularly really bad for the black community
and they feel very strongly about being photographed with guns that way for
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like you know people who are supposed to be nba stars ours.
So he gets punished pretty hard. And I mean, not like he deserved it because,
I mean, there's players, there's players in the NBA who have done some bad stuff.
And just because they didn't get caught on camera on it, they usually keep their careers in general.
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Oh, speaking of unfair punishments. Oh, I can't even remember who it was. Some Raptors player.
He bet on him. He bet against himself.
He's using the fan duel or something like that to he would bet the under on his own performance.
And then he would perform bad.
And so they banned him for life. He's done. He was a young player and now he's
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not allowed to play in the NBA anymore. And I get it.
Honestly, if you're going to bet, like if you bet on yourself,
that's one thing, but betting against yourself, that's a conflict of interest
and kind of ruins the game a little bit.
But in his defense, the NBA and sports in general has been really pushing this
gambling stuff, which I don't agree with at all.
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Like I think the gambling, fine, it should be legal, but they should not be
able to advertise all over the TV.
It's crazy. I mean, gambling, listen, all right, gambling should be legal, but it's not good. Okay.
It's not good. It's like, it's like tattoos. Do you honestly think that getting tattoos is good?
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No, it's not good. I don't care about it, but it's not good behavior.
Okay. I don't actually believe that. That's a quote from, I think you should
leave a sketch where they they're interviewing Santa Claus for an upcoming movie he's in.
And then they discover that he doesn't give presents to people if they got tattoos that year.
Check it out. It's a good show. I think you should leave with Tim Robinson,
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a little-known comedian that has been popping off lately.
All right, I think the Knicks got this one wrapped up. They're out five points
with 50 seconds left to go and the ball. There's no way the Sixers are coming back from this.
Knicks take a 3-1 lead in the series, which makes the series a little bit boring.
I'm sure I think Philadelphia's got a good chance to win the next game.
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No, like, they're probably still not favorites, but at least they pulled off.
But there's no way I think Philadelphia wins three games against this Knicks team.
As much of a Knicks hater as I am, I don't think that they'll be able to pull it off.
And they're definitely not pulling off this game. Also, I'm not really a Knicks hater.
I just think that they're funny, and Knicks fans are a little arrogant because,
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I don't know, people think, people in New York think that because they're in
New York, they got the best stuff, you know, and it's the same way in LA.
LA, the Lakers fans are much worse than Knicks fans.
Lakers fans think that every free agent, every NBA player wants to go play for
the LA Lakers, and it's just not true. Most of the time, they never get the
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players that they say is going to end up in L.A.
They got LeBron. They got Anthony Davis. Great players.
But you don't just get everybody you want, you know?
And they got LeBron as he's older. He's not quite as good as he was,
but he's still really good.
And it's a little sad that he's in the NBA as he is now. He's not with that great of a team.
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Anthony Davis is good. good the white kid Austin
Reeves is good D'Angelo Russell sometimes he's
streaky he has he has his games but then
I feel like the rest of the lineup is is pretty weak and
I mean coming from the Thunder like the
Thunder like I said they just have a bunch of fresh out of college kids and
they have a bunch like they have like I think we have like a nine person ten
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we're deep we got a bunch of players to plug in and you'll be like if you're
if you're not a big fan of the Thunder or you'll be seeing this player that
you've never heard of score 30 points on you. It happens here and there.
Our points come from all over the place, and it's really tough to stop us because
we're just so anybody, anybody on our team can burn you from the three-point line.
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So you've got to play out there. You've got to guard them all,
which leaves the inside open, and then we can go in.
We're terrible at rebounding. We're really bad at rebounding.
It's kind of remarkable how far we've come while being this bad at rebounding.
We're just not a traditional team because we're so skinny we're so skinny and
young we get pushed around in the paint,
Like we're nothing. All right, that's enough. That's enough basketball.
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If you have been listening to this and you're not a basketball fan and you've
made it 20 minutes into this podcast, you must really like me and I appreciate
you for making it this far.
Anyway, let's talk about other stuff. Oh, I've been watching,
I'm pumped for the new Planet of the Apes movie, okay?
That, I feel like people don't talk about the Planet of the Apes,
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the new ones, the trilogy.
Well, I mean, this one's like a start of a new trilogy. or
something i don't know it's it's not gonna it's not the
same arc as the trilogy but the
the ones the first one you had jame franco in it and then the apes and they
got smart and also released the simian flu which kills a bunch of people which
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kills humans but it makes apes very smart so a bunch of humans die it's just
apes well i mean there's still human there's still.
Some humans but it's like you you guys live through
covid you know how it is when even like i mean it
was like one percent of the population died and it was like
we were losing our shit and like things broke down
all over the world and our supply chains and in.
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Our in our retail or or anything like
any sort of business was like heavily hit by.
Covid and and simian flu i think kills like.
90 percent of people i don't know
it was a high percent so there's still like a lot of of people left
kind of a decent amount of people left but most of
them die so that so the apes are off building their
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own society away from the humans and then and
then the humans run into the apes because they need they
need something that's around they're trying
to like power a dam right in the second movie they're
trying to get back electricity and there's a dam outside of
san francisco that they want to get power
off of and that's where the apes live so the humans need
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to going to the apes thing and the apes aren't too fond of the
humans because humans shoot apes and stuff
so that's the conflict of the second movie and
there are such great movies like the
first one was like a pretty good movie but the
second one is like that's like peak cinema
like that that you you can't really ask for much
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more from from a movie going experience it's
such a spectacle cool and the flipping it
you know like having us like apes
it's kind of surreal it's weird seeing like apes
like riding on horses or like holding guns or all
this kind of stuff because apes are a lot stronger than humans they're hardier
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and they would rip our arms out if they if they wanted to and having that up
against humans and humans aren't like completely helpless humans have They have arms.
Like they got their guns and stuff like that.
But it allows you to ponder humanitarian issues, but without actual humans versus
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humans, because that's a little too real,
because we see a lot of that just in the news, right?
But you have it where we're actually different species, but it's still like,
I mean, they're just as intelligent as humans are.
And like just the the moral
situation and like how wars happen
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basically how it's a
it's a race war really and it's
not like all the apes are evil want to kill humans but they get it's how it
goes they get dragged into it they they got to defend themselves from humans
and then the question is it's like how far do they go how how much should they
how lenient should they be to to the crimes of humanity.
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And then in the third one, set a few years later after this incident,
and the humans haven't, they haven't seen him in a while.
And then the military from the north, like they, they got, after the second
movie, they got, they called the military. The military had,
like, showed up by the thing. They sent out a radio signal because they got electricity.
And then apparently there's a, there's a military, like.
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Set up in, excuse me, like Portland or
seattle or something like that that's where like the american military went
and they just had like a junta up there right of
all the people who survived the simian flu and
they got all the all the military shit and they're
they sent like a people down there to dispatch to to kill caesar who is the
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he's the original smart ape because he got the he got the serum first that made
him smart and then he's the one who like freed all the other apes and he leads
the civilization but he was.
Raised by humans so he has he's seen the good
side of humans and he doesn't want to
exterminate but there's a lot of apes who are like caesar
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you're weak you know you you love humans more
than apes and he's got to deal with those
with descent in the ranks of his
thing but he still he's still got to fight humans and it
was it was so good the third one i i
hadn't seen it actually until recently because i was gearing up to watch
the movie that's coming up next in may
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and in may this one's set 20 years in the future
and ape society's starting to like tag off starting
to get off the ground i don't really know what interaction they
have with humans at this point but they're like building like civilization now
they're not just a small tribe they're like they're there was more bigger and
more like a human civilizations from history and i'm really pumped to see all
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that. So I think it's May 10th.
I'm going to go see it as soon as possible. It looks really good.
The trailers look really good.
And I love apes. I love their faces and the way they do things.
And they're so close to human and so expressive.
And it's really well done in the movie.
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At least Caesar is played by Andy Serkis, you know, the guy who did Gollum in Lord of the Rings.
He does all the motion capture and all that kind of stuff. Good movie.
Good movies. You should, y'all should check them out if you have not seen them.
They're highly slept on.
People talk about how movies these days are bad.
I've never seen Planet of the Apes because you want to shy away from it because
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it's franchise, right? Because they've got sequels and sequels, but they're all good.
They're all bangers. This isn't like a Marvel movie where there's like half
of them are total trash and the rest of them are kind of a little too focused
groups to sell action figures, right?
But like this is, they're just making good movies, banger after banger.
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And I'm excited for the next one. I think it's going to be really good.
I've been watching the new Knuckles show. I'm a sucker for Sonic the Hedgehog.
I love Knuckles in particular. The red guy. I like Knuckles and Tails.
Are my two favorite characters.
So I was a big fan of Sonic 2, not because it was a good movie.
If it was up to me, I would have edited out all of the human parts and just
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had about 30 minutes of the movie where it's basically just the animals and Dr.
Robotnik, who's played by Jim Carey, which I think he did a good job on,
but the Knuckles show, right, on Paramount+.
It's not a good show. It's bad. The optimal way to watch it is to just fast
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forward through all the people scenes until you get to Knuckles.
And for some reason, I don't know why I like this guy so much.
I love Knuckles, but he's voiced by Idris Elba, okay?
Idris Elba, like the kingpin from, I was going to say Baltimore, from The Wire.
It's hard to forget that the events in The Wire aren't literally real.
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I've been in Baltimore a few times and people talk about the wire a decent amount there.
But yeah, like he's voicing this very cute, but he's like a very serious and like angry animal.
He's an echidna, which his whole like race had been wiped out by a bunch of owl people.
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So he's like the last survivor. He's like this very grizzled warrior figure,
but he's so cute and he's voiced
by Idris Elba who's like got one of the most badass voices
in the world and just the lines they have him
say basically every word he
every every sentence he says is like oh my god that's adorable like it just
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melts my heart and I'll be sitting sitting through this terrible show that with
these human characters that I just don't give a fuck about and then I'm wondering
why I'm even watching it and then Knuckles comes on screen and says something, and I'm like, okay,
that was good, I love this guy, more of that, please,
and it sucks, because he's, like, on, he's on Earth, and he's just doing,
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like, he's doing, like, basic TV show shit, like, it's, I want to see, like, Knuckles,
because in the games, Knuckles is trying to get, at least in the newer,
he's trying to get the Master Emerald, right, he's trying to get,
like, pieces of the Emerald shards all together,
so he can, like, bring his island back or something like that.
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His like floating island.
And whenever you play Knuckles in the video games, these are like hot and cold.
Or how do you, what's the name of that game?
Whenever like someone hides something and then they tell you hotter,
colder, whenever you're getting further away from it.
And you've got to find three shards.
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And when you get close to them, it starts to beep.
And you know you're getting closer and closer. and you just have to explore,
and Knuckles can dig, and he can fly around a little bit, and he can climb walls,
and it's very fun, and he's not doing any of that shit in the show,
he should be looking for emeralds, and, and like, and in weird places, and fun scenarios,
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and like, in, and like fighting stuff, and like punching things,
I don't want to see him, I don't want to see him like fighting like basically
cops, and, or like secret agents, or whatever, that's not as I don't want to see them fight humans.
I want to see them fight these like cartoonish things.
It's such a, such a strange production.
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There's a scene in it where he talks
about he's with a Jewish family and they talk about Krav Maga and the old Jewish
lady is relating to him because his people got wiped out and she's like talking
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about the Holocaust with fucking knuckles.
Knuckles like it's not exactly phrased that
way like he doesn't explicitly say a holocaust
but you know that's what she's talking about so there's like a fucking holocaust
mentioned in this kid's tv show of sonic the hedgehog and knuckles classic love
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that what else we got to talk about do i have anything anything interesting
to say i think that's about it uh what do y'all i I recorded this.
If you aren't watching the video, I recorded this on a new video setup.
I got like a new lighting setup.
Is it like professional equipment? I don't know if I set it up all right,
but I'm trying to do three-point lighting with different in the background.
(32:58):
And I got this nice chair. Do you like my chair? I got it from Ikea.
I'm supposed to get another one that I haven't gotten yet because Ikea sucks.
And FedEx was going to deliver it. And then they delivered it to the wrong house.
And then they called me and was like, hey, we got the wrong address.
And I was like, okay, well, my address is actually right next to that. Can you come to that?
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And I'm like, no, we can't. And then they hung up.
And then a week later, I call Ikea and I'm like, what the fuck?
And they're like, all right, FedEx canceled your order.
So I had to remake it. And I'll get a second chair soon.
And I'll have guests on the podcast. And the goal is I want to make my guests look good, right?
If you're going to do this, I want to have like serious guests that want to,
(33:45):
they want content, they want clips of themselves and they want to look good.
And I don't want to be wasting their time. So I was trying to set this all up
and I should have, hopefully next week I can have, can have a guest on it.
Someone who's interesting around Kansas City and is good at talking.
Don't know who it is yet. We'll figure it out. So anyways, I want to play a
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song on the outro from Lorelai Kay.
So listen to that and I hope you tune in next week.
Music.
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My body.
Music.
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