June 1, 2022 • 34 mins
Welcome into The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon! Jason and Mike celebrate the 4 year anniversary of JR Smith making a huge air head play and forgetting how much time was left in the game, Jason helps Producer Alex Teichert prepare for a date heading to watch Tears for Fears, and a NBA Finals preview with their official picks!
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And then it's gonna be good. Fourth hour of the show.
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Braves fans learning what sweating Jansen is all about. Kennedy
Jansen blows the save in the bottom of the ninth,
but the Braves have just taken a seven six lead
over the Diamondbacks. The Diamondbacks still will bat here in
the bottom of the ten Finningdale for and are on
second base, but the Braves do have the lead right
now seven to six. The Braves, hoping to win and
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not fall to ten and a half games back of
the Newts, don't have a runner thrown out at third
on that play. But yeah, sweating Jansen. And it was
funny because you were just checking box scores and you
had to have the TV changed immediately upon finding out
that we were sweating Jans, I said, Hey, the sweating
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Jans and let's turn on sweating Jans. And we turned
on sweating Jans. We're moving games around on their monitors
here back in the Fox Sports Radio studios. The cacophony
of voices and all of the backslap because it's been
a while since we've all been uh in the studio
together and it's like nothing's changed. Where the Mets, where
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the Mets. Foe is about to be vanquished? And how
can I celebrate it? That's what you're all about. Look,
it's a big night for us here at Fox Sports Radio,
our show, because it's the first time in two years
that our core, the four of us, have all been
together in the same couple of rooms. Starting on fran Ride, Ye,
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Mike and I can be Pestilence and Famine. Uh. You
know you and I in together. You and I have
done some shows together in the same room the court
over the course past couple of years. You know, Ty
Shirt went to the movies with us last week, and
you know you have I both come up here, you
do your show out of here Sunday. I've come up
a few times a couple of nights when you're not here,
but Frostburg hasn't been here. And now that's the first
night the four of us are all back in studio.
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We all got the the all clear to come in
and work together. We're gonna do this a couple of
nights a week, or you all get to come in
studio again. And it's pretty cool, I gotta say. I mean,
I didn't know how I was going to feel because
our lives have all changed so much in the last
two years. You know, doing the show from home, there's
there's not as much not commute, there's no road rage
you gotta worry about coming in, and you know the
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stress of you know, if you do have an accident
on the freeway, that's suddenly all your plans of all right,
I got a few minutes to look up this and
get an assessment of what games going on, right and update,
and all of a sudden that goes out the window. Right,
that's saying the variability of commutes and and everybody can
relate to this no matter what town or city you're
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in listening to us here in the stage or global,
I mean, because we are global, there's no question about
And that's your The part of it is that you know,
you have to everybody's gotta worry about getting into work
on time. Of course, everybody's gotta worry abou getting to
work on time. But if but for most you know,
for most jobs, if you get to work, it's supposed
to be at work at nine o'clock, and you get
in at nine oh four, Okay, that's okay. Um, the
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show starts, you know, at seven o'clock West Coast, whether
we're here or not, you know where, whether we're here
or not, the show starts at seven, right, it doesn't matter.
So there's all that going in and what the world
changing and everything, and but you know, I knew coming back,
I said, you know, yeah, coming in a couple to
three nights a week, it's gonna be a lot of
fun because you always do a better show when you're
in the studio with with other people. But at the
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same time, uh is the happiness you have of as
as a host if you're if you don't have to
worry about a commute. You know, there's that that goes
that goes along with it. So I don't know they
will ever go back to five days a week like
it used to, because, like I said, the world change.
But you know, coming in two three nights week, getting
to see everybody, it's nice. It's kind of like it's
kind of getting out. You know, really, I'm getting out,
I'm going to work, I'm getting out. I'm gonna see everybody. Yeah,
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it's a big night out. I almost dressed that for
the occasion. You wore shorts like you're dressing the exact
same for the leg nothing's changed, and nothing's changed for me.
I'm wearing sweats and a T shirt. No, that's it.
And the more things change, the more they stay there.
I thought about it today. I debated bringing in some
of the the electronics and doing a grand Hey let's
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tape some of this and then put out some video clips. No,
just just say hey, welcome back and all that. I mean,
you wanted to tape some segments and playing back later
on from my own entertainment. That was gonna get frost
from my own entertainment now. But the idea of hey,
d it a little bit and push it out. And
then I said, we're pretty enough. People know what we
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look like. Uh, and the sound of our voices is
enough to carry it that and I didn't want to
do the extra work. I gotta be honest. I gotta
get back into well. I can only edit with one hand.
I know you got one paw now, because you're broken,
and I gotta say you're looking. I don't want to,
I don't want, but dude, it looks like a five
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year old. Put that cast on you. You have your
you a cast. It's not a cast, whatever it is.
It's a brace under here. Okay, it's a brace that's
got like gauze around it. It's got also got it's
got white tape strips. So there is because you know,
out of a medicine cap. But wait, but wait, it's
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also you also have sell of Fame tape on it.
I don't know, and I don't know what professionals, but
they didn't. That's the thing. What it was. It was
bandaged nicely. And then you're pulling shirts, jackets on off,
and if you go out late enough, it still relatively
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in California. So I put a jacket on. So when
I took it off. I kind of unwound a little
of the end of the tape of the why not
why not put medical tape? Because I didn't have any
at my house time. I didn't have any medical So
I took the tape that I had for my shipping
of you know, stuff to friends, families a lot of
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birthdays in June and the Harmar family. So I said,
to hell with it. I'm time this thing, you know,
kind of becoming uncoiled. So all I did was I
took my tape going and I wrapped it around my
hand a couple of times. And you know what, it worked.
It doesn't look great, No, no, no, it doesn't. But
you know what, the aesthetics are already lost. I'm already
wearing a damn brace on my arm. Here's the other thing.
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You don't wear a jacket in tonight. Jacket. The point
was it happened before, right but right, but okay, So
you put on a jacket at your house, took it
off today yesterday, had a whole day to go get tape,
and you didn't. You know what I didn't do. I
was slept. Okay, I'm trying to be better to myself.
And I decided, harmon, you are not going to the store.
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You're gonna make sure you get this together. And you
know what, it held together went pretty well this morning
when I put it together. So that's it. Okay. Wait, well,
so while we're sweating, Jansen, I just want I just
want you are I just want? No? No, it's sweating.
It's good sweating, frostbergeting. We're sweating like the like the
pilots and top Gun when they're getting their final assignments.
Just the beads of seas right now, Frostberg sweating the
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fact that you gotta runner on for the pirates and
they're looking to add an insurance around here. Up four
three and the team in the league. So yeah, luckily
you will avoid them in the playoffs. I think it's
mathematically impossible for you to get them. I don't know
that division stinks though. So you so yesterday you put
on a jacket. You took off your jacket yesterday and
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you found that some of the tape on wound. So
all day yesterday you had a chance to go get tape,
didn't do it. So I went to sleep, woke up today,
had chances to go out today to get tape. Didn't
do it, my best friend to do it. You could
have said, beat it. You know here here, this is
where you gotta look in the mirror. You know who
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wouldn't even do that is Walt. My dad wouldn't even
do that. And my dad is like, we got Staples.
I put stop with Staples, and I don't care. My
dad wouldn't even do that. You know what? In this case,
I'm gonna own it. I went for the cheap, easy solution.
Will I buy medical tape? But did I do it today?
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I literally had my tape gun like you would buy
if you were moving. That's literally what I used. Like
he was out a rentald n Yeah, the cellivan I
used for something else. You literally taped it on for
fun and I'm out of suran rap. To suran wrap
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would have been great. That is I gonna cut. I
gonna cut that put it it would have been great. Yes,
So this is this is, this is what we're dealing
with our first night. You know what, I'll see you
all in hell. Okay, I'm happy to be back here.
And all I'm getting is you're mocking and your derision.
Not hey, you look good, No, dude, you look good.
That cast whatever that is, looks you know what. I'm
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doing my best to protect my hand because the way
they had to do the incision. All right, now we're
going deep down the medical t there's a very large
scar right there, had a ton of stitches and take out.
So I'm doing my best to not expose that as
best I can, as it heals pretty darly. I've got
some pictures if you want to say, but were you
out of rubber bands? No? You know what. I did
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not have rubber bands large enough em use those up.
No Elmer's glue that could have You could have put
it on there and done it. No, No, I didn't
have any owners stick. No, you just used to use
the Beny the Bull sticky tape from Dora Sticky Dave?
Did you forget about the sticky tape? Sticky tape? Stick?
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Don't forget this now. You sound like you're really in
in the weeds. This is where you club. I'm harming
with the Yeah, but you know what, I would, but
I fear that the pins went into his head and
then I got problems. I'm picturing that Dora cartoon when
Betty the Bull is in the is in the hot
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air balloons, going, give me some sticky tape, and it's
hard and going. I did. Now I'm hanging out with
Betty the Bull, and not even Betty the Bull from
the Chicago Bulls, No, it's Betty the Bull from Door
of the Explorer. To forget about my sticky tape? Do
you forget about that? You know what free agency, no
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problems signing trades are are being and you forget it
about the White Sox not being good shot. Yeah, I'm
trying to forget about where the white socks are right now.
But yeah, I will go buy some medical grade tape
tomorrow and then I'll clean it up because I also
didn't want to unwrap all the bandage and everything. It's
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really it hurts like hell. I'm two weeks out from
the surgery and it is still awful. Well, I'm sorry
about that, so I'm rallying. Unfortunately I'm left handed, so
I can still flip you off without any kind of
you just did that? Well, it is the fourth hour, man,
I'll tell you you had it coming to be sure
to catch live editions of The Jason Smith Show with
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Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven pm Pacific.
So jealous. You're gonna go see a band that came
out like before two and fifteen. Yeah, but he's got
a he's got a reason too. Okay, why are you
going to see Tears for Fears day night and you're
going to a concert? She's a big eighties fan? How
about that? How old is she? She's you said that? Like,
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that's wrong. I am not making the argument that this
is like one of the five best songs of all time.
What do you mean, your most special lady friend, you
cannot make Hey, you're burying the lead though a couple
of our Wait a minute, he just said that that
that everybody wants to rule the world the top five
all time song. It might not even be a top
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five Tears for Fear song. You're full of it. We
get us. Now rank them, rank them? If I rule
the world by nas number one? All right, Well you
look up Tears for Fears. I wanted to do this
because we've had a couple of people respond. New conversation
of our one where Alex used the term button later
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to picking up a really good looking goose T shirt
in commemoration of top Gun Maverick and Well our love
of goose here on the show button through the American
Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, fifth Edition, commercially made,
purchased as opposed to handmade and homemade artificial false used
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related to teeth, purchase, not obtained or produced at home, etcetera, etcetera,
and then verbs past participle of bye, I told you
long like, use it incorrectly long enough, and critical mass.
We're going to get that in a dictionary, and boom
there it is all right. First of all, let me
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just double, let me just go over a couple of things.
It's still not a word, and too fierce for fears
is due. It's okay. Mad World is probably a top
five tiers for fear songs. The song shout is probably
shout let it all up, terrible taste. That may be
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one of the five worst songs ever. Head over Heels,
something happens and I'm head over and sowing. The seeds
of Love were specially in We're in the middle of
the Beatles classic I'm them there, so you barely make
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it the top five tiers for fear songs. Where is
this that you're at looking this up? I'm looking at
the best of tears for Fears album. Okay, I'm on Spotify,
which is one of the number one platforms for music downloads.
Everybody Wants to Rule the World, I'm on I'm on
the I'm on the list of their best of albums.
So I'm getting all the titles and I'm looking at numbers. Okay,
so they have eight hundred million plays for Everybody Wants
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to Rule the World is shout at a hundred and eighties.
So yeah, okay, everybody. That was Joe Rogan's podcast. Hey,
Dr Joe Rogan, let's put put some respect on that day. Okay,
Dr Joe Rogan, all right, uh uh not not one
of the top five songs of all time. If it
helps you on your date with with you know whoever
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this is with your special lady friend, I will say yes,
it's something that's funny. What's that? Just say yes, sure
it is. What's what's her name? What's your name? What's
what's your name? Amanda, Amanda Aman, Amanda, hug and kiss.
Hey everyone, I'm looking for Amanda. Uh that's Amanda, Pete
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am It's Amanda ci Fred Okay, it's uh lit Amanda,
dream Ti shirts a good Let me, let me, let
me just let me talk. Let me tell Amanda something
right here? Can we get a little bit of a
slide over baby music? No, no, no, give me Boston's Amanda.
Give me that's a top five. Oh it's Mandy. I
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remember you went on a date with Alex tight Shirt. Okay, Amanda,
let me tell you this. Tie Shirts a good dude,
one of the best dudes I know. Yes, he's gonna
spend some time telling you about his anom a podcast.
Nod your head like you're interested. Just listen and say
yep h. He's gonna start saying things that you don't
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even understand. Is nod your head knowing that it makes
sense in the autom world. He's gonna talk to you
about healthy food. Some of the conversation is gonna be good.
Some of it is just gonna be so mind numbing
you're gonna want to pass out. But it comes from
a good place. He knows a lot about things, not sports,
but he knows a lot about things. He's talented, he's fun,
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he is a catch, and he's got to get out
of his parents house. So hopefully this helped you. Alex
Ti Shirt. As I'm listening to this play in the background.
I now need the chronog chronology did this come before?
Someone saved my life tonight by Like the cadence is
the same little bit, a little bit until you get
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to the course and then wow, it's power. Uh you
know what. I just realized to think about this really quick,
so so good good luck TI shirt. Uh now you
know being on the top gun overload like in the
last couple of days. Now, I was watching the original,
you know, a couple of times, and um, we won't
give damn. That's a kilt. That's a kilt. I realized
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the first scene when he meets ice Man okay for
the first time in the bar when they're going back
and forth. We got Cougar's old spot. That was our spot.
And you haven't trouble figuring out who the best pilot is. No,
I can figure that out all on my own. The
whole line and he says, I help yet, and he goes,
what figuring out who's the best pilot? Thanks chewing his gum,
he goes, no, I can figure that all on my own.
How similar that is to the first time that Harry
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meets Draco when Drake goes up to shake his hand
and he says, you want to be able to be
around the right. No, I can figure that all from
my own I'm like, wow, that's I wonder if they
stole from them, stole from Top gun Man. Well, we
already know she stole from all other sources. She stole
from Top gun. I mean, I'm sorry, inspiring, she stole
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that line from Top gun. Hey, you know what I
like when Iceman and Maverick met for the first time.
Let's make that Draco and Harry. Seriously, it's the same scene.
It is very much the same thing that that's like
a doctoral Yeah, I mean, and and you know, like, well, okay,
well you can have your doctor like Joe Rogan. I'm
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a movie doctor. A movie doctor, I like Dr Joe Rogan. Hello,
and I just shipped my wrist. It's like, So that
means we have to do a podcast about a topic
that we think is real but turns out to be
completely fake. We have to do that. Okay, very this
might be true. The Jets are great, alright, a movie
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history podcast might be and o boy. So the odds
for NBA Finals m v P came out today, and
to no one's surprised, Steph Curry is at the top
because of course the media and powers of it. They
want Steph Curry to be the NBA Finals m v P.
It's the only thing missing off his resume. And oh,
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how sad is that we can't really call him one
of the best ever because he doesn't have an NBA
Finals MVP. Yeah, but he has a magic Johnson Western Conference.
He's got a Finals mv the inaugural, Yes, and Tatum's
got the Larry Bird and NBA Eastern. That's not a tweet, No,
it's not. No, but the trophy came with tweets. It does,
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it does. It does with someone who will tweet for you.
That that's how it comes. Uh. So, look, there's just
the same number of people that want Mac Jones to
be Tom Brady, want Steph Curry to win NBA Finals MVP.
Just let's let's give it to him. He's a nice guy.
So it's such a great two. Let's give it too.
Let's give it to him. We can do one retroactively.
Don't take Durrance because you'll be really say no, no,
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no, no no, I can't take He's still fight with Draymond
Green and like as stupid as for them, Kevin Durant
will get Kyrie Irving traded, will get so mad. That's
probably that's probably already in the works. You know, that
would be a great prank show telling NBA stars things
that aren't true and just see how they react, because
you know they just go through the roof. Tell k D, hey,
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they gave one of your m v p s to
Steph Curry retroactively, and then you play a fake segment
from a show where they're discussing it, like you got
skipping shap and discussing it. How do you take it
away from k D? How do you do that? I
don't understand. Yeah, you get a man that doesn't sound
like people involved. Now, then you get stephen A involved
on it. By this ridiculousness, I'm taking this away from
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Kevin Duran who earned it. He doesn't work with us.
Where is Skip? I keep looking for Skip? Thank you?
This has been his eight theory of vacation. No one
has that much vacation that's totaled up here. I can't
be on the show with me, all right, So that
would be a great show, though, But I get why
Steff is at the top and Jayson Tatum is number two. Fine,
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I get. They're gonna want to give this award to
Steph Curry even if the Warriors lose. Oh they got
swept and he averaged eight points of Give it to him.
I mean, look how far they got. Let's give it
to give it to him. Give it to him, Give
it to him. But if you want odds on a
guy my pick for NBA Finals MVP, you think I'm
gonna give you Jayson Tatum? Mean, you're wrong. As great
of a player as he is, I told you his
superstar H was on the way. I loved he said.
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I've told you how good he is for years. I've
told you Jayson Tatum is going to be this guy,
and he has been. But I'm gonna go with a
guy who's got the storyline and we'll have the attention
as a series unfold. You know, both you and I
picked the Celtics. I'm taking the Celtics and six. You
got the Celtics and seven. I love the fact that defensively,
Boston's going to be more than a match for the Warriors,
and the Warriors are gonna wind up looking old as
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the series goes on. How is this going to happen?
I I it's gonna kind of look like the oh
four sorry Frostburg the Lakers Pistons NBA Finals, where over
the course of those seven games, the Lakers went from
boy there dominant too, Oh my goodness, the Lakers can't
do anything against this this Pistons defense. Uh, that's kind
of how I see it happening. And the guy who's
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gonna have the ship, his biggest chance to get in
the spotlight is Marcus Smart because he's the guy that's
going to be on Steph Curry. And you've seen the
metrics of what happens when Marcus Smart is on Steph Curry.
It doesn't go well for the Warriors. It's gonna be
Steve Kerk coaching his ass off to try to get Steph.
Are you away from Marcus Smart? Now, he's the big
key because he's got to stay healthy because Smart's been
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in and out of the lineup, and he's also got
to be able to produce offensively in addition to what
he does defensively, because he's had some games where he's
just not been there on offense and you can't do
that and win the m v P. He's got to
have a Drew Holiday type NBA Finals like he had
last year. This year, and he does that, he's your
NBA Finals MVP because he's got the storyline of shutting
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down Steph Curry, which is a sexy storyline, because if
Steph Curry can't win the m v P, shutting down
Steph Curry is gonna be a big sexy story. Well,
shut down Steph Curry. We gotta give it to him.
So he's got that chance, and he's plus thirty five
hundred to win NBA Finals m v P. So give
me Marcus Smart for NBA Finals. Like, if you're gonna
go a little bit on the longer side, that that
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is certainly odds there. If you're you know, a Warriors
backer and you you don't think it's just gonna be
handed to Steph Curry no matter what happens. Uh. Wiggins
at forty one is interesting just from an impactful standpoint. Curry,
as as you mentioned, he's plus one ten. So the expectation,
not only the victory, UH, is that it's a foregone conclusion.
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They've already engraved the name plate along the way. Uh.
Since you went with Marcus Smart, he took the long shot. UH,
and I have the Celtics winning. As much as I'd
like to go with Derek White at a hundred fifty one,
that would mean Marcus Smart got hurt and Derek White
came in and took over. That would be a whole
other and I'd have to wish for bad things to
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happen for my bet to cash. You're not that guy, No,
you're not. But I do believe White has a huge
impact here and he's gonna help UH keep the scoring
totals for Steph Curry UH and that guard combination down
the triple threats UH to help the case for the
Celtics win the series. But I gotta go all the
way back up to Jalen Brown UH looking at ten
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to one odds UH and him getting the offense moving
that that will be enough that the secondary parts to
a box score are what pushes him over the top.
Jason Tatum has a magnificent series, and now it becomes
a question of storyline legacy, all those things, right, we
all all know, as much as folks may deny it,
voters like storylines. In some cases, voters have too much power.
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As we've talked about often and for many years with
the All NBA teams. How that doesn't remain a massive
topic that gets talked about and fought for in terms
of changes to c bas is beyond me. I know
it only affects a handful of people, but that's fine.
But when I look at it, I'll take Jalen Brown
and the ten to one just to give us a
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Slash rewards limitations they do apply. So there is our
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pick are there are our picks for nb A Finals
M v P. Now, before we get to Brian Finley
and what's trending, let me just say that right now
in Major League Baseball, we are just just shy of
June one, and we have a team with a ten
game lead in the division because the Diamondbacks just walked
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off against the Braves. The Braves were sweating Jams in
the ninth He gave up a run to tie it,
Braves got to run in the top of the tenth
and the Diamondbacks walk it off in the bottom of
the tenth inning. Diamondbacks playing much better baseball now they
are only one game under five, but the Mets lead
over the Braves now ten and a half games. The
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Mets magic number is in the twenties. I think, I
think it's in the high twenties, and maybe it's nine.
But look at that ten and a half game lead
and we're not even into June. We can hang that banner.
We can hang it. We can hang it. I mean
we're in We're in June in like, you know, an
hour and a half. But I can still say we're
not even into June yet and it's a dead and
a half game lead. Mets met met met met, Mets.
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I'm in hell, I started four more months of this.
Well maybe not, because June is usually when it falls
apart for the Mets, So starting that's just regular season. Yeah, well,
but if it falls apart in June, don't have to
worry about stuff in October. You're like Mike Trout. But
then we'll get to your Jets. You're like Mike Trout's
commissioner in the Tommy Fan Fantasy Football League. He's he
doesn't do anything. That one opener he's open in October.
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And that one liner I dropped on Trout before is
about as good as a game. I mean, if you
were paying attention, if you weren't, then maybe you were
you know what's he talking about? Yeah, but because if
you were distracted by the NL standings and so, oh
my god, the Mets have none of that lead. That's
that's a big number. That's a big job hearing that
Braves Clubhouse. I mean you're looking around and you're a
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little bit salty. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, And uh, the
Mets and Dodgers virtually tied for the best four game
series this weekend. It's exciting. It's exciting. Be sure to
catch live editions of The Ason Smith Show with Mike
Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific. Hey,
what's up everybody? It's me three time pro bowler La Barrington,
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and I couldn't be more excited to announce a new
podcast called Up on Game? What is up on Game?
You asked? Along with my fellow pro bowler t J.
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You can only name a show with that type of
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dogs into the stands. Who doesn't That is a celebratory
kind of thing for our first game. It is uh.
It was four years ago tonight we got one of
the most famous plays in NBA history. Game one of
the NBA Finals. Game is tied at one oh seven
between the Warriors and the Calves, and George Hill is
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at the line shooting a free throw for Cleveland with
seven seconds left. He misses the free throw and this happens. Jr.
Smith picks a pack out. He'll shut clock, We'll go
to overtime. I guess the purely Jr. Ill thought they
have to leave. They don't know the store watch. James
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now wanted to time out but too late to get it,
and five minutes go up on the clock over time
here in game one. ABC Sports on the call. The
Warriors would win that game and the next three and
sweep the series. But j R. Smith, not knowing the
score of the game, and the meme that followed of
Lebron screaming at him and pointing uh will live forever
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one of the most famous plays in NBA history. It's
kind of the NBA's version of the butt fumble, except
instead of a regular season Thanksgiving game, this just came
one of the NBA YEA, yeah, a little more gravitas
to it, shall we say not? It's funny, no, well
from the call, from the call perspective, yeah, well, because
there's a lot of statement, but the collins Worth call
(29:24):
just kind of a all right, game, we are through
with regulation and for j R. Smith, now the speculation begins.
Uh So, the meme lives forever and the memory of
the play lives forever. But now I got a hot
take for you after viewing this play again with fresh eyes, right,
(29:46):
because I haven't seen the play in a in a
you know, a year or two. Probably you just see
that you see the meme and look it's four years ago,
because the only part of the meme you see like
you don't get the rest of the No, you just
get and then he's photos shopped into all sorts of
scenarios going, what do you mean? Yes, clearly he did
not know what the score of the game was, but
(30:08):
looking at all his answers after the game, went back
and looked at all the different things, Jared Smith said,
he as well, I thought we were going to call
a time out. Why didn't you call a time out there?
When you got the ball? You had the ball a
foot from the hoop, Why didn't you go up for
a shot? I didn't want to go up for a
shot because I thought Kevin Durant would block it. Meanwhile,
you're afoot from the hoop. But why would you think
about going up for a shot if you didn't think
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you needed you needed Kevin Durant's turned in completely differently,
why you even think Why did you even say you
were thinking about that? If you thought you need a
time out? So what were you thinking of? Right, He
didn't want to give any of the real answers, which
was I didn't know the score of the game, but
I'm going to give you something else, because now once
I say this and you see it this way, you're
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not gonna be able to unsee it. Is that looking
at this with fresh eyes today, for the first time
I saw it was four year anniversary. I go. He
forgot which direction the Cavs were going. He for got
for a second and was rebounding the ball and was
going to try to get it up court going the
other way. He forgot that his team was shooting. He
forgot whatever it was, the pressure of the situation. He forgot,
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because why are you trying to dribble out of of
of the lane if you think there's gonna be a
time out and you would just call it. Somebody would
call it if you if why would you dribble out?
Why would you do that unless you were trying to
get the ball out to go up court, right, Because
if you get that rebound and you don't want to
take a shot, you're looking to pass the ball out
to somebody. He thought they were going the other way.
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He was mistaken. He was wrong way, j R. Smith.
He thought, for some reason, I got confused and I
got the rebound, and I'm gonna try to set up
and go the other way for one more shot. But
then he pulls out and sees, oh, Lebron is standing
there and not going down court, and what's happening? And
then he realized he made a mistake and then it
was too late. He didn't know which direct what you're
saying is Lebron. James at his ZZ top motion was
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telling us, Hey, Jr. You know we need to shoot it. Hey,
stop going this way, you're going back. No, Lebron didn't know.
He was like, give me the ball calling first. No, No,
Daddy did the signal off. You're going the wrong You're
going the wrong goggles Pisono is going the wrong way.
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That's a pull. I went Flintstones on, you know, because
now you watch it and you can't unsee that because
all the other things that j R. Smith said none
of them really makes So it does look like and
after you've said this to me and we've watched the
video a couple of times, he looked like he's sprinting
out on the fast break, like he snatched the rebound
(32:37):
away from Durant. Here's my Yeah. I can't go straight
up because there's people there. I don't want to lose
the ball, but I'm gonna try to go, but he
looks up like I'm looking up down court for where
to go. If if he others gonna be a time out,
he'd look over at the bench, but he's not. He's
looking up court. I'm telling you he forgot which way
they were going. He forgot I'm rebounding offensively and thought
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he was rebounding defensively. It's an interesting theory. I'd like
to propose that to him, maybe over nine holes. Maybe
if I pay for a round of golf with it,
he'll tell us the truth. Did you forget where you're
going to forget? We should? We should do that. Let
you forget, you would go fund yourself and then it'll
go to charity. And if we can get Jack and
(33:21):
we can get the honest answer of what happened, you
forgot because he talks about it because it's the anniversary.
He was on the Up and Smoke podcast and it's like, no,
I forget about that stuff. It's so long ago. I
don't want to talk about it. I know, no, No, hey,
you know what next year's five years? Twitter it out
about a Fresco. Mike gets swollen done the Jason Smith
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show with my best friend Mike Harmon as Alex Tisher
plays one of the most overrated songs of all time.
Our Best Of podcast goes up in a few minutes
from now on iTunes. Check it out. My buddy Ben
Mallor in studio is next. This is Fox Sears for
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And then it's gonna be good. Fourth hour of the show.
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Braves fans learning what sweating Jansen is all about. Kennedy
Jansen blows the save in the bottom of the ninth,
but the Braves have just taken a seven six lead
over the Diamondbacks. The Diamondbacks still will bat here in
the bottom of the ten Finningdale for and are on
second base, but the Braves do have the lead right
now seven to six. The Braves, hoping to win and
(01:07):
not fall to ten and a half games back of
the Newts, don't have a runner thrown out at third
on that play. But yeah, sweating Jansen. And it was
funny because you were just checking box scores and you
had to have the TV changed immediately upon finding out
that we were sweating Jans, I said, Hey, the sweating
(01:27):
Jans and let's turn on sweating Jans. And we turned
on sweating Jans. We're moving games around on their monitors
here back in the Fox Sports Radio studios. The cacophony
of voices and all of the backslap because it's been
a while since we've all been uh in the studio
together and it's like nothing's changed. Where the Mets, where
(01:47):
the Mets. Foe is about to be vanquished? And how
can I celebrate it? That's what you're all about. Look,
it's a big night for us here at Fox Sports Radio,
our show, because it's the first time in two years
that our core, the four of us, have all been
together in the same couple of rooms. Starting on fran Ride, Ye,
(02:11):
Mike and I can be Pestilence and Famine. Uh. You
know you and I in together. You and I have
done some shows together in the same room the court
over the course past couple of years. You know, Ty
Shirt went to the movies with us last week, and
you know you have I both come up here, you
do your show out of here Sunday. I've come up
a few times a couple of nights when you're not here,
but Frostburg hasn't been here. And now that's the first
night the four of us are all back in studio.
(02:32):
We all got the the all clear to come in
and work together. We're gonna do this a couple of
nights a week, or you all get to come in
studio again. And it's pretty cool, I gotta say. I mean,
I didn't know how I was going to feel because
our lives have all changed so much in the last
two years. You know, doing the show from home, there's
there's not as much not commute, there's no road rage
you gotta worry about coming in, and you know the
(02:54):
stress of you know, if you do have an accident
on the freeway, that's suddenly all your plans of all right,
I got a few minutes to look up this and
get an assessment of what games going on, right and update,
and all of a sudden that goes out the window. Right,
that's saying the variability of commutes and and everybody can
relate to this no matter what town or city you're
(03:15):
in listening to us here in the stage or global,
I mean, because we are global, there's no question about
And that's your The part of it is that you know,
you have to everybody's gotta worry about getting into work
on time. Of course, everybody's gotta worry abou getting to
work on time. But if but for most you know,
for most jobs, if you get to work, it's supposed
to be at work at nine o'clock, and you get
in at nine oh four, Okay, that's okay. Um, the
(03:35):
show starts, you know, at seven o'clock West Coast, whether
we're here or not, you know where, whether we're here
or not, the show starts at seven, right, it doesn't matter.
So there's all that going in and what the world
changing and everything, and but you know, I knew coming back,
I said, you know, yeah, coming in a couple to
three nights a week, it's gonna be a lot of
fun because you always do a better show when you're
in the studio with with other people. But at the
(03:57):
same time, uh is the happiness you have of as
as a host if you're if you don't have to
worry about a commute. You know, there's that that goes
that goes along with it. So I don't know they
will ever go back to five days a week like
it used to, because, like I said, the world change.
But you know, coming in two three nights week, getting
to see everybody, it's nice. It's kind of like it's
kind of getting out. You know, really, I'm getting out,
I'm going to work, I'm getting out. I'm gonna see everybody. Yeah,
(04:19):
it's a big night out. I almost dressed that for
the occasion. You wore shorts like you're dressing the exact
same for the leg nothing's changed, and nothing's changed for me.
I'm wearing sweats and a T shirt. No, that's it.
And the more things change, the more they stay there.
I thought about it today. I debated bringing in some
of the the electronics and doing a grand Hey let's
(04:39):
tape some of this and then put out some video clips. No,
just just say hey, welcome back and all that. I mean,
you wanted to tape some segments and playing back later
on from my own entertainment. That was gonna get frost
from my own entertainment now. But the idea of hey,
d it a little bit and push it out. And
then I said, we're pretty enough. People know what we
(05:02):
look like. Uh, and the sound of our voices is
enough to carry it that and I didn't want to
do the extra work. I gotta be honest. I gotta
get back into well. I can only edit with one hand.
I know you got one paw now, because you're broken,
and I gotta say you're looking. I don't want to,
I don't want, but dude, it looks like a five
(05:22):
year old. Put that cast on you. You have your
you a cast. It's not a cast, whatever it is.
It's a brace under here. Okay, it's a brace that's
got like gauze around it. It's got also got it's
got white tape strips. So there is because you know,
out of a medicine cap. But wait, but wait, it's
(05:43):
also you also have sell of Fame tape on it.
I don't know, and I don't know what professionals, but
they didn't. That's the thing. What it was. It was
bandaged nicely. And then you're pulling shirts, jackets on off,
and if you go out late enough, it still relatively
(06:03):
in California. So I put a jacket on. So when
I took it off. I kind of unwound a little
of the end of the tape of the why not
why not put medical tape? Because I didn't have any
at my house time. I didn't have any medical So
I took the tape that I had for my shipping
of you know, stuff to friends, families a lot of
(06:25):
birthdays in June and the Harmar family. So I said,
to hell with it. I'm time this thing, you know,
kind of becoming uncoiled. So all I did was I
took my tape going and I wrapped it around my
hand a couple of times. And you know what, it worked.
It doesn't look great, No, no, no, it doesn't. But
you know what, the aesthetics are already lost. I'm already
wearing a damn brace on my arm. Here's the other thing.
(06:46):
You don't wear a jacket in tonight. Jacket. The point
was it happened before, right but right, but okay, So
you put on a jacket at your house, took it
off today yesterday, had a whole day to go get tape,
and you didn't. You know what I didn't do. I
was slept. Okay, I'm trying to be better to myself.
And I decided, harmon, you are not going to the store.
(07:10):
You're gonna make sure you get this together. And you
know what, it held together went pretty well this morning
when I put it together. So that's it. Okay. Wait, well,
so while we're sweating, Jansen, I just want I just
want you are I just want? No? No, it's sweating.
It's good sweating, frostbergeting. We're sweating like the like the
pilots and top Gun when they're getting their final assignments.
Just the beads of seas right now, Frostberg sweating the
(07:30):
fact that you gotta runner on for the pirates and
they're looking to add an insurance around here. Up four
three and the team in the league. So yeah, luckily
you will avoid them in the playoffs. I think it's
mathematically impossible for you to get them. I don't know
that division stinks though. So you so yesterday you put
on a jacket. You took off your jacket yesterday and
(07:51):
you found that some of the tape on wound. So
all day yesterday you had a chance to go get tape,
didn't do it. So I went to sleep, woke up today,
had chances to go out today to get tape. Didn't
do it, my best friend to do it. You could
have said, beat it. You know here here, this is
where you gotta look in the mirror. You know who
(08:12):
wouldn't even do that is Walt. My dad wouldn't even
do that. And my dad is like, we got Staples.
I put stop with Staples, and I don't care. My
dad wouldn't even do that. You know what? In this case,
I'm gonna own it. I went for the cheap, easy solution.
Will I buy medical tape? But did I do it today?
(08:35):
I literally had my tape gun like you would buy
if you were moving. That's literally what I used. Like
he was out a rentald n Yeah, the cellivan I
used for something else. You literally taped it on for
fun and I'm out of suran rap. To suran wrap
(08:55):
would have been great. That is I gonna cut. I
gonna cut that put it it would have been great. Yes,
So this is this is, this is what we're dealing
with our first night. You know what, I'll see you
all in hell. Okay, I'm happy to be back here.
And all I'm getting is you're mocking and your derision.
Not hey, you look good, No, dude, you look good.
That cast whatever that is, looks you know what. I'm
(09:18):
doing my best to protect my hand because the way
they had to do the incision. All right, now we're
going deep down the medical t there's a very large
scar right there, had a ton of stitches and take out.
So I'm doing my best to not expose that as
best I can, as it heals pretty darly. I've got
some pictures if you want to say, but were you
out of rubber bands? No? You know what. I did
(09:40):
not have rubber bands large enough em use those up.
No Elmer's glue that could have You could have put
it on there and done it. No, No, I didn't
have any owners stick. No, you just used to use
the Beny the Bull sticky tape from Dora Sticky Dave?
Did you forget about the sticky tape? Sticky tape? Stick?
(10:00):
Don't forget this now. You sound like you're really in
in the weeds. This is where you club. I'm harming
with the Yeah, but you know what, I would, but
I fear that the pins went into his head and
then I got problems. I'm picturing that Dora cartoon when
Betty the Bull is in the is in the hot
(10:22):
air balloons, going, give me some sticky tape, and it's
hard and going. I did. Now I'm hanging out with
Betty the Bull, and not even Betty the Bull from
the Chicago Bulls, No, it's Betty the Bull from Door
of the Explorer. To forget about my sticky tape? Do
you forget about that? You know what free agency, no
(10:46):
problems signing trades are are being and you forget it
about the White Sox not being good shot. Yeah, I'm
trying to forget about where the white socks are right now.
But yeah, I will go buy some medical grade tape
tomorrow and then I'll clean it up because I also
didn't want to unwrap all the bandage and everything. It's
(11:08):
really it hurts like hell. I'm two weeks out from
the surgery and it is still awful. Well, I'm sorry
about that, so I'm rallying. Unfortunately I'm left handed, so
I can still flip you off without any kind of
you just did that? Well, it is the fourth hour, man,
I'll tell you you had it coming to be sure
to catch live editions of The Jason Smith Show with
(11:30):
Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven pm Pacific.
So jealous. You're gonna go see a band that came
out like before two and fifteen. Yeah, but he's got
a he's got a reason too. Okay, why are you
going to see Tears for Fears day night and you're
going to a concert? She's a big eighties fan? How
about that? How old is she? She's you said that? Like,
(11:56):
that's wrong. I am not making the argument that this
is like one of the five best songs of all time.
What do you mean, your most special lady friend, you
cannot make Hey, you're burying the lead though a couple
of our Wait a minute, he just said that that
that everybody wants to rule the world the top five
all time song. It might not even be a top
(12:17):
five Tears for Fear song. You're full of it. We
get us. Now rank them, rank them? If I rule
the world by nas number one? All right, Well you
look up Tears for Fears. I wanted to do this
because we've had a couple of people respond. New conversation
of our one where Alex used the term button later
(12:40):
to picking up a really good looking goose T shirt
in commemoration of top Gun Maverick and Well our love
of goose here on the show button through the American
Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, fifth Edition, commercially made,
purchased as opposed to handmade and homemade artificial false used
(13:04):
related to teeth, purchase, not obtained or produced at home, etcetera, etcetera,
and then verbs past participle of bye, I told you
long like, use it incorrectly long enough, and critical mass.
We're going to get that in a dictionary, and boom
there it is all right. First of all, let me
(13:25):
just double, let me just go over a couple of things.
It's still not a word, and too fierce for fears
is due. It's okay. Mad World is probably a top
five tiers for fear songs. The song shout is probably
shout let it all up, terrible taste. That may be
(13:46):
one of the five worst songs ever. Head over Heels,
something happens and I'm head over and sowing. The seeds
of Love were specially in We're in the middle of
the Beatles classic I'm them there, so you barely make
(14:08):
it the top five tiers for fear songs. Where is
this that you're at looking this up? I'm looking at
the best of tears for Fears album. Okay, I'm on Spotify,
which is one of the number one platforms for music downloads.
Everybody Wants to Rule the World, I'm on I'm on
the I'm on the list of their best of albums.
So I'm getting all the titles and I'm looking at numbers. Okay,
so they have eight hundred million plays for Everybody Wants
(14:29):
to Rule the World is shout at a hundred and eighties.
So yeah, okay, everybody. That was Joe Rogan's podcast. Hey,
Dr Joe Rogan, let's put put some respect on that day. Okay,
Dr Joe Rogan, all right, uh uh not not one
of the top five songs of all time. If it
helps you on your date with with you know whoever
(14:51):
this is with your special lady friend, I will say yes,
it's something that's funny. What's that? Just say yes, sure
it is. What's what's her name? What's your name? What's
what's your name? Amanda, Amanda Aman, Amanda, hug and kiss.
Hey everyone, I'm looking for Amanda. Uh that's Amanda, Pete
(15:12):
am It's Amanda ci Fred Okay, it's uh lit Amanda,
dream Ti shirts a good Let me, let me, let
me just let me talk. Let me tell Amanda something
right here? Can we get a little bit of a
slide over baby music? No, no, no, give me Boston's Amanda.
Give me that's a top five. Oh it's Mandy. I
(15:38):
remember you went on a date with Alex tight Shirt. Okay, Amanda,
let me tell you this. Tie Shirts a good dude,
one of the best dudes I know. Yes, he's gonna
spend some time telling you about his anom a podcast.
Nod your head like you're interested. Just listen and say
yep h. He's gonna start saying things that you don't
(15:58):
even understand. Is nod your head knowing that it makes
sense in the autom world. He's gonna talk to you
about healthy food. Some of the conversation is gonna be good.
Some of it is just gonna be so mind numbing
you're gonna want to pass out. But it comes from
a good place. He knows a lot about things, not sports,
but he knows a lot about things. He's talented, he's fun,
(16:22):
he is a catch, and he's got to get out
of his parents house. So hopefully this helped you. Alex
Ti Shirt. As I'm listening to this play in the background.
I now need the chronog chronology did this come before?
Someone saved my life tonight by Like the cadence is
the same little bit, a little bit until you get
(16:43):
to the course and then wow, it's power. Uh you
know what. I just realized to think about this really quick,
so so good good luck TI shirt. Uh now you
know being on the top gun overload like in the
last couple of days. Now, I was watching the original,
you know, a couple of times, and um, we won't
give damn. That's a kilt. That's a kilt. I realized
(17:03):
the first scene when he meets ice Man okay for
the first time in the bar when they're going back
and forth. We got Cougar's old spot. That was our spot.
And you haven't trouble figuring out who the best pilot is. No,
I can figure that out all on my own. The
whole line and he says, I help yet, and he goes,
what figuring out who's the best pilot? Thanks chewing his gum,
he goes, no, I can figure that all on my own.
How similar that is to the first time that Harry
(17:26):
meets Draco when Drake goes up to shake his hand
and he says, you want to be able to be
around the right. No, I can figure that all from
my own I'm like, wow, that's I wonder if they
stole from them, stole from Top gun Man. Well, we
already know she stole from all other sources. She stole
from Top gun. I mean, I'm sorry, inspiring, she stole
(17:48):
that line from Top gun. Hey, you know what I
like when Iceman and Maverick met for the first time.
Let's make that Draco and Harry. Seriously, it's the same scene.
It is very much the same thing that that's like
a doctoral Yeah, I mean, and and you know, like, well, okay,
well you can have your doctor like Joe Rogan. I'm
(18:09):
a movie doctor. A movie doctor, I like Dr Joe Rogan. Hello,
and I just shipped my wrist. It's like, So that
means we have to do a podcast about a topic
that we think is real but turns out to be
completely fake. We have to do that. Okay, very this
might be true. The Jets are great, alright, a movie
(18:29):
history podcast might be and o boy. So the odds
for NBA Finals m v P came out today, and
to no one's surprised, Steph Curry is at the top
because of course the media and powers of it. They
want Steph Curry to be the NBA Finals m v P.
It's the only thing missing off his resume. And oh,
(18:50):
how sad is that we can't really call him one
of the best ever because he doesn't have an NBA
Finals MVP. Yeah, but he has a magic Johnson Western Conference.
He's got a Finals mv the inaugural, Yes, and Tatum's
got the Larry Bird and NBA Eastern. That's not a tweet, No,
it's not. No, but the trophy came with tweets. It does,
(19:11):
it does. It does with someone who will tweet for you.
That that's how it comes. Uh. So, look, there's just
the same number of people that want Mac Jones to
be Tom Brady, want Steph Curry to win NBA Finals MVP.
Just let's let's give it to him. He's a nice guy.
So it's such a great two. Let's give it too.
Let's give it to him. We can do one retroactively.
Don't take Durrance because you'll be really say no, no,
(19:32):
no, no no, I can't take He's still fight with Draymond
Green and like as stupid as for them, Kevin Durant
will get Kyrie Irving traded, will get so mad. That's
probably that's probably already in the works. You know, that
would be a great prank show telling NBA stars things
that aren't true and just see how they react, because
you know they just go through the roof. Tell k D, hey,
(19:52):
they gave one of your m v p s to
Steph Curry retroactively, and then you play a fake segment
from a show where they're discussing it, like you got
skipping shap and discussing it. How do you take it
away from k D? How do you do that? I
don't understand. Yeah, you get a man that doesn't sound
like people involved. Now, then you get stephen A involved
on it. By this ridiculousness, I'm taking this away from
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Kevin Duran who earned it. He doesn't work with us.
Where is Skip? I keep looking for Skip? Thank you?
This has been his eight theory of vacation. No one
has that much vacation that's totaled up here. I can't
be on the show with me, all right, So that
would be a great show, though, But I get why
Steff is at the top and Jayson Tatum is number two. Fine,
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I get. They're gonna want to give this award to
Steph Curry even if the Warriors lose. Oh they got
swept and he averaged eight points of Give it to him.
I mean, look how far they got. Let's give it
to give it to him. Give it to him, Give
it to him. But if you want odds on a
guy my pick for NBA Finals MVP, you think I'm
gonna give you Jayson Tatum? Mean, you're wrong. As great
of a player as he is, I told you his
superstar H was on the way. I loved he said.
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I've told you how good he is for years. I've
told you Jayson Tatum is going to be this guy,
and he has been. But I'm gonna go with a
guy who's got the storyline and we'll have the attention
as a series unfold. You know, both you and I
picked the Celtics. I'm taking the Celtics and six. You
got the Celtics and seven. I love the fact that defensively,
Boston's going to be more than a match for the Warriors,
and the Warriors are gonna wind up looking old as
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the series goes on. How is this going to happen?
I I it's gonna kind of look like the oh
four sorry Frostburg the Lakers Pistons NBA Finals, where over
the course of those seven games, the Lakers went from
boy there dominant too, Oh my goodness, the Lakers can't
do anything against this this Pistons defense. Uh, that's kind
of how I see it happening. And the guy who's
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gonna have the ship, his biggest chance to get in
the spotlight is Marcus Smart because he's the guy that's
going to be on Steph Curry. And you've seen the
metrics of what happens when Marcus Smart is on Steph Curry.
It doesn't go well for the Warriors. It's gonna be
Steve Kerk coaching his ass off to try to get Steph.
Are you away from Marcus Smart? Now, he's the big
key because he's got to stay healthy because Smart's been
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in and out of the lineup, and he's also got
to be able to produce offensively in addition to what
he does defensively, because he's had some games where he's
just not been there on offense and you can't do
that and win the m v P. He's got to
have a Drew Holiday type NBA Finals like he had
last year. This year, and he does that, he's your
NBA Finals MVP because he's got the storyline of shutting
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down Steph Curry, which is a sexy storyline, because if
Steph Curry can't win the m v P, shutting down
Steph Curry is gonna be a big sexy story. Well,
shut down Steph Curry. We gotta give it to him.
So he's got that chance, and he's plus thirty five
hundred to win NBA Finals m v P. So give
me Marcus Smart for NBA Finals. Like, if you're gonna
go a little bit on the longer side, that that
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is certainly odds there. If you're you know, a Warriors
backer and you you don't think it's just gonna be
handed to Steph Curry no matter what happens. Uh. Wiggins
at forty one is interesting just from an impactful standpoint. Curry,
as as you mentioned, he's plus one ten. So the expectation,
not only the victory, UH, is that it's a foregone conclusion.
(23:08):
They've already engraved the name plate along the way. Uh.
Since you went with Marcus Smart, he took the long shot. UH,
and I have the Celtics winning. As much as I'd
like to go with Derek White at a hundred fifty one,
that would mean Marcus Smart got hurt and Derek White
came in and took over. That would be a whole
other and I'd have to wish for bad things to
(23:29):
happen for my bet to cash. You're not that guy, No,
you're not. But I do believe White has a huge
impact here and he's gonna help UH keep the scoring
totals for Steph Curry UH and that guard combination down
the triple threats UH to help the case for the
Celtics win the series. But I gotta go all the
way back up to Jalen Brown UH looking at ten
(23:50):
to one odds UH and him getting the offense moving
that that will be enough that the secondary parts to
a box score are what pushes him over the top.
Jason Tatum has a magnificent series, and now it becomes
a question of storyline legacy, all those things, right, we
all all know, as much as folks may deny it,
voters like storylines. In some cases, voters have too much power.
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As we've talked about often and for many years with
the All NBA teams. How that doesn't remain a massive
topic that gets talked about and fought for in terms
of changes to c bas is beyond me. I know
it only affects a handful of people, but that's fine.
But when I look at it, I'll take Jalen Brown
and the ten to one just to give us a
(24:36):
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Slash rewards limitations they do apply. So there is our
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pick are there are our picks for nb A Finals
M v P. Now, before we get to Brian Finley
and what's trending, let me just say that right now
in Major League Baseball, we are just just shy of
June one, and we have a team with a ten
game lead in the division because the Diamondbacks just walked
(25:21):
off against the Braves. The Braves were sweating Jams in
the ninth He gave up a run to tie it,
Braves got to run in the top of the tenth
and the Diamondbacks walk it off in the bottom of
the tenth inning. Diamondbacks playing much better baseball now they
are only one game under five, but the Mets lead
over the Braves now ten and a half games. The
(25:42):
Mets magic number is in the twenties. I think, I
think it's in the high twenties, and maybe it's nine.
But look at that ten and a half game lead
and we're not even into June. We can hang that banner.
We can hang it. We can hang it. I mean
we're in We're in June in like, you know, an
hour and a half. But I can still say we're
not even into June yet and it's a dead and
a half game lead. Mets met met met met, Mets.
(26:05):
I'm in hell, I started four more months of this.
Well maybe not, because June is usually when it falls
apart for the Mets, So starting that's just regular season. Yeah, well,
but if it falls apart in June, don't have to
worry about stuff in October. You're like Mike Trout. But
then we'll get to your Jets. You're like Mike Trout's
commissioner in the Tommy Fan Fantasy Football League. He's he
doesn't do anything. That one opener he's open in October.
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And that one liner I dropped on Trout before is
about as good as a game. I mean, if you
were paying attention, if you weren't, then maybe you were
you know what's he talking about? Yeah, but because if
you were distracted by the NL standings and so, oh
my god, the Mets have none of that lead. That's
that's a big number. That's a big job hearing that
Braves Clubhouse. I mean you're looking around and you're a
(26:46):
little bit salty. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, And uh, the
Mets and Dodgers virtually tied for the best four game
series this weekend. It's exciting. It's exciting. Be sure to
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dogs into the stands. Who doesn't That is a celebratory
kind of thing for our first game. It is uh.
It was four years ago tonight we got one of
the most famous plays in NBA history. Game one of
the NBA Finals. Game is tied at one oh seven
between the Warriors and the Calves, and George Hill is
(28:16):
at the line shooting a free throw for Cleveland with
seven seconds left. He misses the free throw and this happens. Jr.
Smith picks a pack out. He'll shut clock, We'll go
to overtime. I guess the purely Jr. Ill thought they
have to leave. They don't know the store watch. James
(28:39):
now wanted to time out but too late to get it,
and five minutes go up on the clock over time
here in game one. ABC Sports on the call. The
Warriors would win that game and the next three and
sweep the series. But j R. Smith, not knowing the
score of the game, and the meme that followed of
Lebron screaming at him and pointing uh will live forever
(29:00):
one of the most famous plays in NBA history. It's
kind of the NBA's version of the butt fumble, except
instead of a regular season Thanksgiving game, this just came
one of the NBA YEA, yeah, a little more gravitas
to it, shall we say not? It's funny, no, well
from the call, from the call perspective, yeah, well, because
there's a lot of statement, but the collins Worth call
(29:24):
just kind of a all right, game, we are through
with regulation and for j R. Smith, now the speculation begins.
Uh So, the meme lives forever and the memory of
the play lives forever. But now I got a hot
take for you after viewing this play again with fresh eyes, right,
(29:46):
because I haven't seen the play in a in a
you know, a year or two. Probably you just see
that you see the meme and look it's four years ago,
because the only part of the meme you see like
you don't get the rest of the No, you just
get and then he's photos shopped into all sorts of
scenarios going, what do you mean? Yes, clearly he did
not know what the score of the game was, but
(30:08):
looking at all his answers after the game, went back
and looked at all the different things, Jared Smith said,
he as well, I thought we were going to call
a time out. Why didn't you call a time out there?
When you got the ball? You had the ball a
foot from the hoop, Why didn't you go up for
a shot? I didn't want to go up for a
shot because I thought Kevin Durant would block it. Meanwhile,
you're afoot from the hoop. But why would you think
about going up for a shot if you didn't think
(30:29):
you needed you needed Kevin Durant's turned in completely differently,
why you even think Why did you even say you
were thinking about that? If you thought you need a
time out? So what were you thinking of? Right, He
didn't want to give any of the real answers, which
was I didn't know the score of the game, but
I'm going to give you something else, because now once
I say this and you see it this way, you're
(30:49):
not gonna be able to unsee it. Is that looking
at this with fresh eyes today, for the first time
I saw it was four year anniversary. I go. He
forgot which direction the Cavs were going. He for got
for a second and was rebounding the ball and was
going to try to get it up court going the
other way. He forgot that his team was shooting. He
forgot whatever it was, the pressure of the situation. He forgot,
(31:10):
because why are you trying to dribble out of of
of the lane if you think there's gonna be a
time out and you would just call it. Somebody would
call it if you if why would you dribble out?
Why would you do that unless you were trying to
get the ball out to go up court, right, Because
if you get that rebound and you don't want to
take a shot, you're looking to pass the ball out
to somebody. He thought they were going the other way.
(31:31):
He was mistaken. He was wrong way, j R. Smith.
He thought, for some reason, I got confused and I
got the rebound, and I'm gonna try to set up
and go the other way for one more shot. But
then he pulls out and sees, oh, Lebron is standing
there and not going down court, and what's happening? And
then he realized he made a mistake and then it
was too late. He didn't know which direct what you're
saying is Lebron. James at his ZZ top motion was
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telling us, Hey, Jr. You know we need to shoot it. Hey,
stop going this way, you're going back. No, Lebron didn't know.
He was like, give me the ball calling first. No, No,
Daddy did the signal off. You're going the wrong You're
going the wrong goggles Pisono is going the wrong way.
(32:17):
That's a pull. I went Flintstones on, you know, because
now you watch it and you can't unsee that because
all the other things that j R. Smith said none
of them really makes So it does look like and
after you've said this to me and we've watched the
video a couple of times, he looked like he's sprinting
out on the fast break, like he snatched the rebound
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away from Durant. Here's my Yeah. I can't go straight
up because there's people there. I don't want to lose
the ball, but I'm gonna try to go, but he
looks up like I'm looking up down court for where
to go. If if he others gonna be a time out,
he'd look over at the bench, but he's not. He's
looking up court. I'm telling you he forgot which way
they were going. He forgot I'm rebounding offensively and thought
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he was rebounding defensively. It's an interesting theory. I'd like
to propose that to him, maybe over nine holes. Maybe
if I pay for a round of golf with it,
he'll tell us the truth. Did you forget where you're
going to forget? We should? We should do that. Let
you forget, you would go fund yourself and then it'll
go to charity. And if we can get Jack and
(33:21):
we can get the honest answer of what happened, you
forgot because he talks about it because it's the anniversary.
He was on the Up and Smoke podcast and it's like, no,
I forget about that stuff. It's so long ago. I
don't want to talk about it. I know, no, No, hey,
you know what next year's five years? Twitter it out
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