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Speaker 1 (01:03):
And away we go on this Wednesday morning. It is
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taking you all the way up until nine am Eastern times,
six o'clock Pacific. And congratulations on a game one performance
that didn't appear to be like it was going in
their direction, but the Oklahoma City Thunder get it done
and they take a one nothing series lead in the
Western Conference Finals of the NBA. Good morning, tell.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
That Good morning to everyone. Well, why you say it
didn't look like it was going in their direction.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
They were terrible in the first half.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
I mean, so was Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yeah, Oklahoma City was trailing and it was only by four,
and people were shocked that that is the deficit. They
looked awful.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
My god, they were down by four.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah, they looked they looked awful.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Broo.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I thought the shot selections were I just it's just
hard to accept that they're okay. It's like shooter shoot,
Like when it's one shooter, it's okay. In my mind
to comprehend one shooter saying like having that thought process
like if you miss a shot, keep shooting. You know
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it's the next shot you get on a roll boom
and now the shooter is on. But it's like everybody,
it's like shot selections to me seem so poor anymore.
Like I felt like if Minnesota would have worked from
the inside out and instead of just like this whole
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embracing of the outside and sometimes in I think they,
I mean, they would have been in a better position
to be able to win that game. And and I
ultimately would say that same thing for for Okac. It
was just a lot of poor shooting. But the one
thing that I think set Okay see apart from from
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Minnesota is their defense. Yeah, and you know, I know
we've talked about their defense. That's been the staple of
this team. Uh, their defense has is what carried them
through that game last evening. I still think it's going
to be a really good series. I just felt like
that was a a tad bit of a letdown of
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a game one. It was so non like to me,
I felt no excitement from it, I felt no electricity
from it.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
It's just seemed actually, and I hate to say it
because two really good teams. I was bored watching it.
It was like a struggle to watch it.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
So like just watching it was like I assumed, like
I can understand. Hey, listen, you know Denver just plaited
a seven game series. I kind of get them. Maybe
starting off in Minnesota looked like they just played a
seventy game series. At times. It just it was not
the prettiest basketball game of the world last night. So
(04:18):
for those who were able to stick around and watch
to the end and go through it all, and for
our friends listening on the Yalla Horn of the Twin
Cities AK fan, it's just one game. It is just
one game. I am a big fan though, and I'll
I love Nasriet. I love him because it's he just
(04:39):
has this approach where it's like I'm gonna shoot threes.
I'm gonna shoot threes constantly. I'm going to have a
disinterested look in my body language while I'm shooting the three.
If it goes in sweet, if not, whatever, we'll get
him next time. And I'm just gonna keep shooting. Like
his feet don't leave the ground, and he just he
just chucks it up. He doesn't make one last night.
(05:01):
He was. He was also shot poorly. But it's just
like the whole idea that hey, listen, man, shoot your
way out of it. Okay, if you're struggling to find
your shot, just keep shooting your way out of it,
and eventually one of.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
These Even shoot your way out of it doesn't mean
shoot your way out of bad shooting, shoot you out
of winning the game.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Just keep going. It's great, you know what.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
What else I took away from yesterday's game is Hartenstein
and home Grin are like playing a series without ankle
weights and a weighted vest. Right, you go through an
entire series where you gotta deal with with Jokic, and
you're dealing with the best in the business, and now
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you gotta deal with Nasried and Rudy Gobert. Like I
saw Hartenstein out there looking like a dude in a
candy store, just happy as hell.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
I saw homegron out there. They just there's no I think.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
About Okac or excuse me, there's nothing about the the
the bigs of the Minnesota Timberwolves that scare the Okac thunder.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
So I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
I had I had, I had the Timberwolves, I had
the Timberwolves being way more competitive than this. I hope
it gets better. You know, this is those those moments
in time where you establish yourself. Like everybody is so
high on Anthony Edwards, you know, there's so much fanfare
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surrounding him, electric personality, an electric game.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
But he wasn't good yesterday, and he.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Wasn't He certainly was far from good enough for the
Timberwolves to be a more competitive team. I didn't feel
like it was a competitive game, honestly. I thought it
was close at times, it just didn't feel competitive. It's
like they couldn't crack the code of Okac's defense. They
weren't quick enough to get to the room, but yet
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they weren't making the long balls either. It was close,
but just never felt close. So it kind of know,
and it's got to step up.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
It kind of looked like, was it the elimination game.
I think it might have been the closeout game against
the Lakers where the Lakers did not look good. Minnesota
had every opportunity to just run them off the court.
They ended up beating them and advancing and everything was fine,
but you looked at it, You're like, God, this game
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shouldn't be that close, and it kind of felt like
that through the first half of that game last night,
to where it was like, man, if Minnesota could just
hit a couple of more shots, if they could hit
you know, this is this lead, would would you know?
I'm not going to say it's out of reach, but
they could have extended the lead and felt a lot
more comfortable about things. And then you go to the half,
you're only up four, and then the second half the
defensive Okac kicked in, they still couldn't hit shots. SGA
(07:57):
found his rhythm and then they were off and running.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Now.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
You mentioned SGA talking or the Denver Nuggets and the
difference between them and the Minnesota Timberwolves for the thunder,
and SGA spoke about that difference with the media afterwards.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
Did you feel that at all during the game that
you have to remind yourself, Oh, this this isn't Denver anymore.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
It felt different from jump They're more like pressure oriented.
It feels like a little more physical. But at the
end of the night, it's basketball. They throw you a
problem and you have to solve it whatever it looks like.
And that's what it is every night, and that's that's
what it was tonight. They had different coverages, different personnel
out there, and we have to attack it and and
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work together as a unit to solve the problems out there.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
And we did that. So that was cerebral.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Yeah, very so. I mean, listen, you know, it's an
exhaust it's an exhausting game. He has where he uh,
you know, if his shot doesn't go, he throws himself
on the floor and hopes for a foulcohol. I mean,
that's that's got to be exhausting. That's what you're going
hitting with me. Come on, man, at something.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
I think for SGA, that's one hundred percent the logic,
and it's a proper logic. I think for Hartenstein and
home Grin and Williams, I think it's very different. It's
a very different series for them. Rudy Gobert is not
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going to present the same problems in the same issues
that they dealt with with Denver and with Jokic. No,
there's no team where they're going to deal with that
down low and the physicality of what Jokic brings I
think is maybe understated sometimes. I mean he will shoulder you,
(09:44):
he will body you to get positioned to make the
plays that he's able to make so consistently, whether it's
scoring points, whether it's rebounding, whether it's getting you know,
a good pass off. Jokic does a tremendously amazing job
of how he positions himself to create spacing to have
(10:04):
a triple threat, you know, which is to be able
to shoot, you know, drive to go shoot, shoot from
where he's at, or to be able to pass it.
And they're not going to experience that against Minnesota. There's
no bigs that present the issues that Jokic presented, not
(10:25):
to mention what you had to deal with with Aaron
Gordon and leading up until he you know, was too
sore to be more effective than what he was. I
think I think Denver was probably the biggest, which I
felt like would be maybe a drawback, but now that
the way I saw they played last night could be
a tremendous catalyst for them. They looked like a championship
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team last night, even though I didn't like their shots selections.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
You know, if if the.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Shots aren't going down for you the way that you
need them to go down, and you got to have
something that that even and balances everything out. And their
defense did their defense kept them close, kept them in
the game until they were able to make some plays,
make some shots, and pull themselves into the to the
lead of the game. So, you know, I like WHATSGA
(11:16):
is saying. But I also would say that, you know what,
it might not have been as physical in the Denver
series as it was in this one for for SGA,
but I will certainly say it was a hell of
a road, a hell of a hill to take over,
a mountain to climb if you were big in that
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Denver game playing for the Oklahoma Thunder.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
You know what I've wondered. So, if you drive, you know,
like NASCAR, or if you're an indie car eracer and
you're used to driving fast when you drive on the
streets in your car, do you just have this habit
of you just resort to driving fast constantly because that's
what you do for a living. And I wonder the
same thing about SGA, Like when he goes home, if
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he bumps into the coffee table, did he just throw
himself on the ground because that's what he doesn't work? Like,
how does that?
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Like?
Speaker 1 (12:09):
How does that happen? If he drops his toothbrush? Is
he looking around for a whistle? Like Hey, can I
get a call here? Like, how does that work? Because
it's a bit much and it feels like Anthony Edwards.
Anthony Edwards. It feels like Anthony Edwards is at some
point in this series going.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
To get fed up with it, flopping that home.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Like Anthony Edwards strikes me as an old school type player.
It's why we love him, and I just wonder at
some point if there's going to be some sort of
an Internet I think he threw the ball at him
at one point last night, and I just want I
just wonder who's going to get fed up with it
to the point to where there's a scene and some
sort of I don't know if retaliation would be in order,
but if there's something that's not about it, cause it is,
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it is.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Pretty, there's a it doesn't come across as like what
we're going to see with Indiana and New York. I
think that could have the potential of being chippy, just
because of the history between the two franchises. But I
don't see there being malice between these guys. I think
they're just there's a bunch of young dudes out there
trying to get it in few few sprinkled in older dudes,
(13:16):
but not crazy old. I don't see that being an issue,
to be honest. I mean, guys flop. It's just just
a normal thing, man. And listen, they they played the Lakers.
They played the flopper of all floppers man, and oh
Lebron flops. Oh God Jesus, he's a flopper. How couldn't you. No,
(13:37):
it's not it's not me insulting him. I mean, it's
just a part of his game that's in his toolboxes
to flop and and it. You know, sometimes it works
out into your favor because you get calls and different
things like that could impact the game, could slow the
pace down, the tempo down, could any any given thing.
When you're flopping, you're trying, you're trying to get a call,
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you're trying to get a competitive advantage. You know, some
people hate it. I don't like it per se particularly,
but I understand what flopping represents.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Remember how much heat Mahomes got for it done during.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
That A quarterback flopping is different. Why Because I played
football and I hit quarterbacks for a living. So it's
a little different when quarterbacks flop.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
If you're really going to go down violently, can I
hit you violently, so I can get my money's worth
out of this. If I'm gonna if we're gonna get
fifteen yards, can I at least get my money's worth
out of this? I get it.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
I think every most charges jonas or flops. If we're
being honest, if you're taking a charge. I remember in
high school I was I was so strong, and I
played basketball. I was so strong that when I would
be in position to take a charge, cover myself up
with my hands, brace myself for the blow, and the
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dudes would would drive and run into me, but they
would fall and I was still standing there like it
was a pick and I would get the foul. I
just didn't. I was too afraid to just let myself flop.
You're supposed to. You're taught in practice when somebody runs
into you or bumps into you, when you're set up,
(15:19):
like you have your feet set and everything is set
playing defense, to flop down. That's what you're That's what
coaches teach you in practice, is to flop down onto
the ground. That's most charges. If you were to really
identify or to study most charges, they're flops. So and
(15:42):
for what it's worth, when you're getting charging fouls. More
often than not, the guy is flopping. So it is
what it is. I'm not offended by it. I think
it's more entertaining more than anything else. When you see
a blatant flop, I don't like it, but I don't
have a problem with it. So sang and to that point,
(16:03):
just give. I'm giving, okay, see their their credit. They
played a game where both teams, again I felt shot
poorly or had very very poor shot selection. And yet
it was their defense, which I'm a defensive guy. It
was their defense that I made the difference, and I
(16:24):
just I'm curious, will it be the defense that ultimately
is the undoing of the Timberwolves, or can they get
hot or will they be more aggressive trying to get
to the hole. Maybe they weren't able to get to
the whole Jonas. Maybe I'm sitting here thinking to myself, like, man,
they you gotta again, you gotta, you gotta access the key.
(16:45):
You gotta show them that you can make ball, you
can make plays and score points. Slashing and getting to
the whole easy mid range jump shots too, to closer
jump shots in and work your way. You know, you
get a couple of threes here and there. If you miss,
it's not a big deal because it's only a couple.
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But if you're if your shots are all from from outside,
if you're shooting from around the perimeter, just inside the
perimeter is you know, you're going to live and die
by that ball. And that's what happened with Minnesota last night.
So it'd be interesting to see what game two looks like.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Like if they're at a at a restaurant in Oklahoma
City and on the other side of the restaurant a
waiter drops a tray. Does SGA throw himself on the
ground as well too?
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Do you think? Well?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
I think if the waiter is going through the tables
and SGA were happening to get up to go to
like the restroom or to the bar or something like that,
and he like kind of you know, like brushed brushed
up on him, I think he would flop back into
the booth or or to the floor.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Like like like you know, like there and get a call.
Bah the way I would agree it is two pros
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Speaker 4 (19:47):
All right, So, hey.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Jones, can I ask you a question? I know you're
about to transition into another conversation, but can I throw
something out at you? I was, you know, I'm dealing
with little headache going on right now, like in a
Migraine season. Haven't had it in quite some time, but
you know, Lorena said, you know, I should get some
fries and what else?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Lorena a coke, a large diet coke from McDonald's.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
There's the caffeine and the coke, and then I guess
you said the sugar.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
In the salts, the salt from the fries, and the carbohydrates,
and that would cure. It's a migraine cure.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Yeah, well I don't.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
I don't buy it, but it's certainly I thought it
was a kind gesture on your part, Lorena, But it
made me start thinking because I saw it's weird. I
feel like phones like can hear your voice or hear
your thoughts, because the minute you think something or say
something like something pops up on your on your your
social or whatever. That is exactly that I just saw.
(20:48):
I just saw this person doing a review on a
burger and fries from McDonald's, and I was I was thinking,
to myself, Am I wrong for? Because you know, old
people are totally guilty for thinking that there's so many
things that were better when they were younger than what
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it is now for people.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
And today, I.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Just I think fast food has gotten so lazy with
how they do things.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
It is nothing like what it used to be. Am
I wrong for that? Like? I used to have a really, really.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Hard time weaning myself off of fast food when I was.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
A player, because it was so good.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Like I see it it taping hot, the fries would
be the it almost was is close to what it
looked like in the commercials. Like if you compare what
your food looks like in an ad now versus what
it looks like to you in person, Man, it is
some trash bro.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
And also, and what makes it worse is that it's
not even cheap anymore. Like that used to be one
of the praise. It used to be one of the
berks because I remember growing up we had a big
family and there there wasn't a lot of money. So
what we would do is McDonald's had this thing for
a while where it was well, they had the dollar menu,
but they did this special on Tuesdays and Thursdays. We're
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on Tuesdays it was twenty nine cent hamburgers and on
Thursdays it was thirty nine cent cheeseburger.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
You could get two whoppers. You could get a whopper
for ninety nine silver. I remember I used to get
two whoppers every time I went to.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Burger Yeah, and the famous star at Carl's was ninety
nine cents and I remember my mom would send us
in in shifts because you could only order ten of
those McDonald's burgers at a time. I swear to God
on this, and if my brothers are listening, they know
this is the truth. She would send us in and
we'd have to go in different lines, and nobody saw
that we were walking back to the same car together.
It was like the movie heat. Like we didn't want
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to acknowledge it each other with burg and so like
we're literally like we're going to rop a bank. So
we're in there and we're buying ten burgers each. And
what we would do is we would eat a few
that night and then we'd put them in the freezer
and then we'd heat them up the next day of
the day after. But we did that because it was affordable.
It wasn't the healthiest in the world, but it was affordable. Bro,
(23:11):
you can't get a number one it at pick your
fast food place for under like twelve dollars.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Now, bruh.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
If you took the if you took the patty off
and threw it at somebody and hit them upside.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Of it, you'll catch a case.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Oh yeah, you'll catch a case cap.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Yes, it just makes no It makes no sense to me, man,
Like I understand the health values of everything going on,
But my whole thing is, where did the quality go?
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Man?
Speaker 4 (23:40):
Where did the quality go?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
These dry ass burgers, these these fries is like like
freaking soggy as hell. What happened to like crispy salty fries?
Speaker 6 (23:51):
Like and we were talking about it yesterday, var Like
now you get franchise owned places and the quality is
way different and the prices go up, go up. I
remember the only place I could find an actual value
menu was if you were on a college campus. Like
the burger king on a college campus is different than say,
the burger king across the street from the college campus,
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which would be more than twice as much.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Yeah, I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
That's too bad, man, I don't know. I don't. I
wouldn't trust today is fast food to fix a migraine, though,
I'll tell you that well, I'm not.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
By the way, the late great Anthony Bourdain recommends coca
cola aspirin spicy food, and if you're inclined, you know,
a little uh smokeage that might help as well.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
But Coca cola, Coca cola aspirin spicy food. Yeah, Coca
cola and aspirin had I mean, I have prescription medicine.
I just I don't like to always take it. So
I haven't been taking my preventative medicine for like maybe
a month because I've been feeling really, really good.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Now.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
I don't like to become dependent on like medicine and
I'm paying for it now, so I started back on it,
you know what I mean. But man, I'm playing hurt today.
My rights side of my face feels like somebody is
inside of They're.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Just going to work damn like with a hammer.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Well, uh, hammers. Well, I do know, I do know.
I'm not sure exactly what the fast food is like overseas,
but I do know what the football is like. And apparently,
according to the NFL and Roger Goodell, the football will
be plentiful moving forward because they'd like eve more international games.
Let's take a listen to the commission.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
I think the potential for us to grow is there.
It's it's the greatest opportunity for growth. I mean, we
already have two hundred plus million fans here in the States,
so we're not giving up on the States and continuing
to expand here. But the international is just it's an
open market force. We're introducing the game, we're sharing our game,
(25:58):
and the fans are reacting to it in an extraordinary way.
So we're excited about our potential. Yes, I do see
sixteen regular season games. I think that will happen sometime
in the very near future.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Sixteen regular season games international in the course of a
season is the plan, and they think it's going to
happen sooner rather than later.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Bruh, Why does Roger Goodell sound like the Emperor from
Star Wars Man?
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Like? Why does he sound like that? Man? Plays voice
one more time?
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Like we got to listen to the whole sound bite,
but plays voice one more Do we have the Emperor front?
Speaker 1 (26:37):
We'll look for the Emperor while we listened to Roger
to get down.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
But listen to Rogers.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
It's like it's like the evil like oh like almost
like Paul Bearer ish a little bit.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Listen again.
Speaker 7 (26:49):
I think the potential for us to grow is there.
It's the greatest opportunity for growth. I mean, we already
have two hundred plus million fans here in the States.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
It's it's that you know what It is it's that
pool pick call for TV evangelist.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
It's that that it's offering time.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Can you guys make sure when the plate comes through
your pew that you're willing to put money into. I mean,
his voice has a little bit more base in it.
Now play Roger Goodell.
Speaker 7 (27:24):
To growers, Sarah. It's the greatest opportunity for growth. I mean,
we already have two hundred plus million fans here in
the States.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
It's the background, uh sort of buzzing that kind of
adds to the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
I mean, obviously the Emperor is more sinister. He's more
sinister and has a little bit more of base in
his voice. But Roger Goodell has an evil Emperor voice. Man,
I'm telling you, he's got.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
He's got one. He's got one of them voices.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Bruh. And I bang with Roger Goodell. By the way,
I'm a fan. I'm not I'm not trying to throw
shade at him. I just I feel like, when you're
talking to the masses, you have to have one of
those voices that resonates with the masses. Like I don't
I don't know, but Roger Goodell has it and it's
always the same, like it has very few variations in
(28:26):
terms of decibel level, you know, inflection and stuff like that.
You yeah, he definitely has a seller product voice. You know,
it's one of those believable voices. Anyway, it's just an observation.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Yeah, sixteen sixteen games, that's internationally. So here's here's my question,
just logistically, So what are we looking at here? You're
gonna get what a game every week internationally?
Speaker 4 (29:00):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Is that how this is going to go? I mean,
because I'm trying to figure out the schedule.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
I mean that would be sixteen weeks.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Yeah, and so it's every single so basically the bulk
of the season outside of a couple you're gonna get
an international game.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
There's eighteen games. Now how many games?
Speaker 1 (29:17):
So it's eighteen games, but it's eighteen weeks and you
get seventeen games, but seventeen games. And then my other
thought on this is, Okay, if that's the case, let's
just map out what a Sunday looks like. If this
is the plan moving forward, So sixteen weeks out of
a year, if this is the plan, again, this is
who knows how.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
It is doing Jackson by eight of them.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Oh easy, yeah, come on please, I mean at this
point Jacksonville should just move like Jacksonville should just like,
don't even build a new stadium. Just pick your stadium up,
put it on wheels and just send it over there.
Put Trevor Bank on wheels and send it over there,
and have Pete Prisco cover the games from London, you know,
sixteen times WI. So, but here's how here's how it
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would look like. And you didn't, and you tell me
if this is too much. This is how the schedule
would look like. Sixteen weeks out of the year, you
would you would have a game start at nine thirty
Eastern time. You'd have your one pm window games, your
four pm windows, your eight pm windows. So sixteen Sundays
out of a season, you've got eleven hours of almost
(30:22):
NonStop football every week. That's a lot.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
It's a good idea, it's a good idea.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Yeah, I love it, but that's a lot.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
It's exciting to be able to get up to a game.
I do not know why, and it just it is exciting,
even for college I feel like there's a lot of
waiting that goes on for the games to start like
that first wave of games.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
I've said it, but man, I think the East Coast
star times at one o'clock.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
That's horrible.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Like once once people who have who have lived with
that get a taste of it when they get these
international games and start at nine thirty their time, then
they start to see, oh yeah, this is awesome.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Bro.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
When I moved to Cali and was living on the
West Coast and that first game came on at what
ten o'clock?
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Ten am? The first one comes on, right, that's crazy
to me?
Speaker 3 (31:20):
That is so crazy, Like, bro, you were able to
literally get up and go to Sunday school, go to church,
and you make it home if the if the you know,
not for you, of course, I mean if you're a Catholic,
you're probably home in time. But us, you know, if
I was, I was, you know, Church of God Christ.
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We were there until like close to one point thirty
two o'clock. But I go to my nana's house right
down the street, no more than six minutes down the
street from where we went to church, kick my shoes off,
get me some chicken from from nana, sit with my
own goals, and watch watch the games.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
And it'd be like one o'clock. You know the games
would be starting.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
You had a whole day before you saw the first game,
you know. So I think having.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
Early early game and not early.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Games where you have to choose. I think having one
game slated that gets you going, especially a team like
a Jacksonville not a big market team. You know, you're
not it less you a Jacksonville fan, and it kind
of serves its purpose. You know, it's like it's a
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it's an odd derv It's it's a it's a it's
a starter. You know, it's it's just your it's not
the main course. And it's okay because it's just as
important as every other meal when you get that appetizer.
So I think it's a good idea. You know, it's
you go early, then you go to first games, then
you go the the later games, and then you go
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the Sunday night football game. I mean, I think it's
a great idea, to be honest.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Because I mean it basically would turn into what college
football is for those just for those of you like
myself who wait around and watch Hawaii late at night.
Like that's basically what college football is turned into. You're
looking at twelve hours of NonStop football all day, and
so if you add that on to Saturday and Sunday.
The other option would be if this is the plan
they're looking at, you know, sixteen international games a year.
(33:26):
We talked about Netflix wanting to have an event of
their own and wanting more games. Maybe this is the
avenue they pick. Maybe Netflix gets Tuesday and it gets
to be from an international location. I mean, these are
all just ideas. But the fact that there you.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Don't have CBS or you know, Fox. You don't have
that in Europe, do you. I don't feel like you.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Yeah. Well, and I think that it would benefit them
to have it streaming anyways. Like when the ww assigned
up for their billion dollar deal with Netflix, one of
the perks was is man, if you're overseas, you get
it too. Like, it's not one of these things to
where you've got to wait, you've got to there's a delay.
If you have Netflix, you're gonna be able to watch
it as well too.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
So I mean that's why I Direct TV getting the
package was so interesting to me, is because of that,
and this is what would be a fun you know,
I'm you know, obviously Q would have had a conversation
like this. But that's why I felt like, you know,
satellite television was so important to the NFL. It's because
(34:33):
you can do satellite anywhere in the world, you know
what I mean, so versus it being like local cable,
like your local cable provider DA DA DA, this, that
and the other, like what are the rights? What are
the TV rights to it? In Europe? Jonas? Like, you know,
how does that work? Because to me, if you're doing
it by streaming service now with the way technology is,
(34:56):
and you're using a YouTube or you're using a Netflix
to do it or a Prime, then I feel like
it makes it way easier to be able to market, advertise,
and deliver a product to an international audience, which I
would ultimately believe that.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
That gives you the ability to be able to grow your.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Audience and create more scheduled television for the events that
you're doing.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
You know.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
That's I mean, I feel like that's what this would
represent or represents as it applies to an international audience
and market.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
It's just wild how fast it's grown. Man Like it
just like I meant a few years ago, this would
never even been a thought, like you're gonna gambling sponsors. Wait,
what like you're gonna go sixteen Internet? It's crazy, man,
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Speaker 6 (37:28):
Good morning everybody, Good morning, Jonah's good morning LeVar guys.
In case you missed it, a much needed update from
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he was twenty years old, and that his friend Ethan Kirkwood,
twenty one, has now been charged with purchasing him two beers,
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if you might say.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
So, guy has a couple of icy lights and then
season invisible swimming pool, and now his buddy's gonna get
in trouble.
Speaker 6 (38:23):
Yeah, okay, they found footage of him buying two twenty
four ounce Miller lights, probably cost him at least fifty
to eighty dollars footage. Yeah, and so two counts for
each beer, for each.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Twenty four and so light. So those two twenty four
ounce Miller lights are the reason that guy took a
swan dive over the railing. Okay, but it's this guy's fault. Now,
what is that? What's the punishment going to be like
for this guy?
Speaker 6 (38:54):
I mean, it will probably you know, probably be a
kind of a fine slap on the wrist, maybe some
kind of.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Teaching lesson what do they do? What do they do
they do?
Speaker 3 (39:04):
He's going just it'll be a fine that's it. He's
going to get fine for it. That's that's about it.
They're not going to send him to no therapy or
anything like that counseling. I mean, he brought the drinks.
He bought the drinks for him illegally, like he's you know,
I don't think that they would ban him from P
and C or what is it still PNC part.
Speaker 4 (39:23):
Yeah, I don't think they would ban him.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Yeah, I don't think PNC would.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
But that sucks though, talk about it. Insult the injury
is your buddy. Yeah, he gets all jacked up and
then you get a call like, yeah, you're in trouble,
come come.
Speaker 4 (39:35):
See us at the courthouse. It's you get a fine. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
And and I don't think he's going to get banned
for live because they need whatever fans they can get
in that place. So geez, anybody come on in to
let you, let you do hey, buy somebody else a
drink while you're at it.
Speaker 6 (39:52):
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Speaker 3 (39:54):
I thought what y'all sent in the text message would
have been better, but that is what it is.
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taking you all the way up until nine am Eastern times,
six o'clock Pacific. And congratulations on a game one performance
that didn't appear to be like it was going in
their direction, but the Oklahoma City Thunder get it done
and they take a one nothing series lead in the
Western Conference Finals of the NBA. Good morning, tell.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
That Good morning to everyone. Well, why you say it
didn't look like it was going in their direction.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
They were terrible in the first half.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
I mean, so was Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yeah, Oklahoma City was trailing and it was only by four,
and people were shocked that that is the deficit. They
looked awful.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
My god, they were down by four.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah, they looked they looked awful.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Broo.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I thought the shot selections were I just it's just
hard to accept that they're okay. It's like shooter shoot,
Like when it's one shooter, it's okay. In my mind
to comprehend one shooter saying like having that thought process
like if you miss a shot, keep shooting. You know
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it's the next shot you get on a roll boom
and now the shooter is on. But it's like everybody,
it's like shot selections to me seem so poor anymore.
Like I felt like if Minnesota would have worked from
the inside out and instead of just like this whole
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embracing of the outside and sometimes in I think they,
I mean, they would have been in a better position
to be able to win that game. And and I
ultimately would say that same thing for for Okac. It
was just a lot of poor shooting. But the one
thing that I think set Okay see apart from from
(03:17):
Minnesota is their defense. Yeah, and you know, I know
we've talked about their defense. That's been the staple of
this team. Uh, their defense has is what carried them
through that game last evening. I still think it's going
to be a really good series. I just felt like
that was a a tad bit of a letdown of
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a game one. It was so non like to me,
I felt no excitement from it, I felt no electricity
from it.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
It's just seemed actually, and I hate to say it
because two really good teams. I was bored watching it.
It was like a struggle to watch it.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
So like just watching it was like I assumed, like
I can understand. Hey, listen, you know Denver just plaited
a seven game series. I kind of get them. Maybe
starting off in Minnesota looked like they just played a
seventy game series. At times. It just it was not
the prettiest basketball game of the world last night. So
(04:18):
for those who were able to stick around and watch
to the end and go through it all, and for
our friends listening on the Yalla Horn of the Twin
Cities AK fan, it's just one game. It is just
one game. I am a big fan though, and I'll
I love Nasriet. I love him because it's he just
(04:39):
has this approach where it's like I'm gonna shoot threes.
I'm gonna shoot threes constantly. I'm going to have a
disinterested look in my body language while I'm shooting the three.
If it goes in sweet, if not, whatever, we'll get
him next time. And I'm just gonna keep shooting. Like
his feet don't leave the ground, and he just he
just chucks it up. He doesn't make one last night.
(05:01):
He was. He was also shot poorly. But it's just
like the whole idea that hey, listen, man, shoot your
way out of it. Okay, if you're struggling to find
your shot, just keep shooting your way out of it,
and eventually one of.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
These Even shoot your way out of it doesn't mean
shoot your way out of bad shooting, shoot you out
of winning the game.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Just keep going. It's great, you know what.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
What else I took away from yesterday's game is Hartenstein
and home Grin are like playing a series without ankle
weights and a weighted vest. Right, you go through an
entire series where you gotta deal with with Jokic, and
you're dealing with the best in the business, and now
(05:45):
you gotta deal with Nasried and Rudy Gobert. Like I
saw Hartenstein out there looking like a dude in a
candy store, just happy as hell.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
I saw homegron out there. They just there's no I think.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
About Okac or excuse me, there's nothing about the the
the bigs of the Minnesota Timberwolves that scare the Okac thunder.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
So I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
I had I had, I had the Timberwolves, I had
the Timberwolves being way more competitive than this. I hope
it gets better. You know, this is those those moments
in time where you establish yourself. Like everybody is so
high on Anthony Edwards, you know, there's so much fanfare
(06:35):
surrounding him, electric personality, an electric game.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
But he wasn't good yesterday, and he.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Wasn't He certainly was far from good enough for the
Timberwolves to be a more competitive team. I didn't feel
like it was a competitive game, honestly. I thought it
was close at times, it just didn't feel competitive. It's
like they couldn't crack the code of Okac's defense. They
weren't quick enough to get to the room, but yet
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they weren't making the long balls either. It was close,
but just never felt close. So it kind of know,
and it's got to step up.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
It kind of looked like, was it the elimination game.
I think it might have been the closeout game against
the Lakers where the Lakers did not look good. Minnesota
had every opportunity to just run them off the court.
They ended up beating them and advancing and everything was fine,
but you looked at it, You're like, God, this game
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shouldn't be that close, and it kind of felt like
that through the first half of that game last night,
to where it was like, man, if Minnesota could just
hit a couple of more shots, if they could hit
you know, this is this lead, would would you know?
I'm not going to say it's out of reach, but
they could have extended the lead and felt a lot
more comfortable about things. And then you go to the half,
you're only up four, and then the second half the
defensive Okac kicked in, they still couldn't hit shots. SGA
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found his rhythm and then they were off and running.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Now.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
You mentioned SGA talking or the Denver Nuggets and the
difference between them and the Minnesota Timberwolves for the thunder,
and SGA spoke about that difference with the media afterwards.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
Did you feel that at all during the game that
you have to remind yourself, Oh, this this isn't Denver anymore.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
It felt different from jump They're more like pressure oriented.
It feels like a little more physical. But at the
end of the night, it's basketball. They throw you a
problem and you have to solve it whatever it looks like.
And that's what it is every night, and that's that's
what it was tonight. They had different coverages, different personnel
out there, and we have to attack it and and
(08:40):
work together as a unit to solve the problems out there.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
And we did that. So that was cerebral.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Yeah, very so. I mean, listen, you know, it's an
exhaust it's an exhausting game. He has where he uh,
you know, if his shot doesn't go, he throws himself
on the floor and hopes for a foulcohol. I mean,
that's that's got to be exhausting. That's what you're going
hitting with me. Come on, man, at something.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
I think for SGA, that's one hundred percent the logic,
and it's a proper logic. I think for Hartenstein and
home Grin and Williams, I think it's very different. It's
a very different series for them. Rudy Gobert is not
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going to present the same problems in the same issues
that they dealt with with Denver and with Jokic. No,
there's no team where they're going to deal with that
down low and the physicality of what Jokic brings I
think is maybe understated sometimes. I mean he will shoulder you,
(09:44):
he will body you to get positioned to make the
plays that he's able to make so consistently, whether it's
scoring points, whether it's rebounding, whether it's getting you know,
a good pass off. Jokic does a tremendously amazing job
of how he positions himself to create spacing to have
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a triple threat, you know, which is to be able
to shoot, you know, drive to go shoot, shoot from
where he's at, or to be able to pass it.
And they're not going to experience that against Minnesota. There's
no bigs that present the issues that Jokic presented, not
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to mention what you had to deal with with Aaron
Gordon and leading up until he you know, was too
sore to be more effective than what he was. I
think I think Denver was probably the biggest, which I
felt like would be maybe a drawback, but now that
the way I saw they played last night could be
a tremendous catalyst for them. They looked like a championship
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team last night, even though I didn't like their shots selections.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
You know, if if the.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Shots aren't going down for you the way that you
need them to go down, and you got to have
something that that even and balances everything out. And their
defense did their defense kept them close, kept them in
the game until they were able to make some plays,
make some shots, and pull themselves into the to the
lead of the game. So, you know, I like WHATSGA
(11:16):
is saying. But I also would say that, you know what,
it might not have been as physical in the Denver
series as it was in this one for for SGA,
but I will certainly say it was a hell of
a road, a hell of a hill to take over,
a mountain to climb if you were big in that
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Denver game playing for the Oklahoma Thunder.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
You know what I've wondered. So, if you drive, you know,
like NASCAR, or if you're an indie car eracer and
you're used to driving fast when you drive on the
streets in your car, do you just have this habit
of you just resort to driving fast constantly because that's
what you do for a living. And I wonder the
same thing about SGA, Like when he goes home, if
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he bumps into the coffee table, did he just throw
himself on the ground because that's what he doesn't work? Like,
how does that?
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Like?
Speaker 1 (12:09):
How does that happen? If he drops his toothbrush? Is
he looking around for a whistle? Like Hey, can I
get a call here? Like, how does that work? Because
it's a bit much and it feels like Anthony Edwards.
Anthony Edwards. It feels like Anthony Edwards is at some
point in this series going.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
To get fed up with it, flopping that home.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Like Anthony Edwards strikes me as an old school type player.
It's why we love him, and I just wonder at
some point if there's going to be some sort of
an Internet I think he threw the ball at him
at one point last night, and I just want I
just wonder who's going to get fed up with it
to the point to where there's a scene and some
sort of I don't know if retaliation would be in order,
but if there's something that's not about it, cause it is,
(12:53):
it is.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Pretty, there's a it doesn't come across as like what
we're going to see with Indiana and New York. I
think that could have the potential of being chippy, just
because of the history between the two franchises. But I
don't see there being malice between these guys. I think
they're just there's a bunch of young dudes out there
trying to get it in few few sprinkled in older dudes,
(13:16):
but not crazy old. I don't see that being an issue,
to be honest. I mean, guys flop. It's just just
a normal thing, man. And listen, they they played the Lakers.
They played the flopper of all floppers man, and oh
Lebron flops. Oh God Jesus, he's a flopper. How couldn't you. No,
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it's not it's not me insulting him. I mean, it's
just a part of his game that's in his toolboxes
to flop and and it. You know, sometimes it works
out into your favor because you get calls and different
things like that could impact the game, could slow the
pace down, the tempo down, could any any given thing.
When you're flopping, you're trying, you're trying to get a call,
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you're trying to get a competitive advantage. You know, some
people hate it. I don't like it per se particularly,
but I understand what flopping represents.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Remember how much heat Mahomes got for it done during.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
That A quarterback flopping is different. Why Because I played
football and I hit quarterbacks for a living. So it's
a little different when quarterbacks flop.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
If you're really going to go down violently, can I
hit you violently, so I can get my money's worth
out of this. If I'm gonna if we're gonna get
fifteen yards, can I at least get my money's worth
out of this? I get it.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
I think every most charges jonas or flops. If we're
being honest, if you're taking a charge. I remember in
high school I was I was so strong, and I
played basketball. I was so strong that when I would
be in position to take a charge, cover myself up
with my hands, brace myself for the blow, and the
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dudes would would drive and run into me, but they
would fall and I was still standing there like it
was a pick and I would get the foul. I
just didn't. I was too afraid to just let myself flop.
You're supposed to. You're taught in practice when somebody runs
into you or bumps into you, when you're set up,
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like you have your feet set and everything is set
playing defense, to flop down. That's what you're That's what
coaches teach you in practice, is to flop down onto
the ground. That's most charges. If you were to really
identify or to study most charges, they're flops. So and
(15:42):
for what it's worth, when you're getting charging fouls. More
often than not, the guy is flopping. So it is
what it is. I'm not offended by it. I think
it's more entertaining more than anything else. When you see
a blatant flop, I don't like it, but I don't
have a problem with it. So sang and to that point,
(16:03):
just give. I'm giving, okay, see their their credit. They
played a game where both teams, again I felt shot
poorly or had very very poor shot selection. And yet
it was their defense, which I'm a defensive guy. It
was their defense that I made the difference, and I
(16:24):
just I'm curious, will it be the defense that ultimately
is the undoing of the Timberwolves, or can they get
hot or will they be more aggressive trying to get
to the hole. Maybe they weren't able to get to
the whole Jonas. Maybe I'm sitting here thinking to myself, like, man,
they you gotta again, you gotta, you gotta access the key.
(16:45):
You gotta show them that you can make ball, you
can make plays and score points. Slashing and getting to
the whole easy mid range jump shots too, to closer
jump shots in and work your way. You know, you
get a couple of threes here and there. If you miss,
it's not a big deal because it's only a couple.
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But if you're if your shots are all from from outside,
if you're shooting from around the perimeter, just inside the
perimeter is you know, you're going to live and die
by that ball. And that's what happened with Minnesota last night.
So it'd be interesting to see what game two looks like.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Like if they're at a at a restaurant in Oklahoma
City and on the other side of the restaurant a
waiter drops a tray. Does SGA throw himself on the
ground as well too?
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Do you think? Well?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
I think if the waiter is going through the tables
and SGA were happening to get up to go to
like the restroom or to the bar or something like that,
and he like kind of you know, like brushed brushed
up on him, I think he would flop back into
the booth or or to the floor.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Like like like you know, like there and get a call.
Bah the way I would agree it is two pros
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Speaker 4 (19:47):
All right, So, hey.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Jones, can I ask you a question? I know you're
about to transition into another conversation, but can I throw
something out at you? I was, you know, I'm dealing
with little headache going on right now, like in a
Migraine season. Haven't had it in quite some time, but
you know, Lorena said, you know, I should get some
fries and what else?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Lorena a coke, a large diet coke from McDonald's.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
There's the caffeine and the coke, and then I guess
you said the sugar.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
In the salts, the salt from the fries, and the carbohydrates,
and that would cure. It's a migraine cure.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Yeah, well I don't.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
I don't buy it, but it's certainly I thought it
was a kind gesture on your part, Lorena, But it
made me start thinking because I saw it's weird. I
feel like phones like can hear your voice or hear
your thoughts, because the minute you think something or say
something like something pops up on your on your your
social or whatever. That is exactly that I just saw.
(20:48):
I just saw this person doing a review on a
burger and fries from McDonald's, and I was I was thinking,
to myself, Am I wrong for? Because you know, old
people are totally guilty for thinking that there's so many
things that were better when they were younger than what
(21:09):
it is now for people.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
And today, I.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Just I think fast food has gotten so lazy with
how they do things.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
It is nothing like what it used to be. Am
I wrong for that? Like? I used to have a really, really.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Hard time weaning myself off of fast food when I was.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
A player, because it was so good.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Like I see it it taping hot, the fries would
be the it almost was is close to what it
looked like in the commercials. Like if you compare what
your food looks like in an ad now versus what
it looks like to you in person, Man, it is
some trash bro.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
And also, and what makes it worse is that it's
not even cheap anymore. Like that used to be one
of the praise. It used to be one of the
berks because I remember growing up we had a big
family and there there wasn't a lot of money. So
what we would do is McDonald's had this thing for
a while where it was well, they had the dollar menu,
but they did this special on Tuesdays and Thursdays. We're
(22:17):
on Tuesdays it was twenty nine cent hamburgers and on
Thursdays it was thirty nine cent cheeseburger.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
You could get two whoppers. You could get a whopper
for ninety nine silver. I remember I used to get
two whoppers every time I went to.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Burger Yeah, and the famous star at Carl's was ninety
nine cents and I remember my mom would send us
in in shifts because you could only order ten of
those McDonald's burgers at a time. I swear to God
on this, and if my brothers are listening, they know
this is the truth. She would send us in and
we'd have to go in different lines, and nobody saw
that we were walking back to the same car together.
It was like the movie heat. Like we didn't want
(22:50):
to acknowledge it each other with burg and so like
we're literally like we're going to rop a bank. So
we're in there and we're buying ten burgers each. And
what we would do is we would eat a few
that night and then we'd put them in the freezer
and then we'd heat them up the next day of
the day after. But we did that because it was affordable.
It wasn't the healthiest in the world, but it was affordable. Bro,
(23:11):
you can't get a number one it at pick your
fast food place for under like twelve dollars.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Now, bruh.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
If you took the if you took the patty off
and threw it at somebody and hit them upside.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Of it, you'll catch a case.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Oh yeah, you'll catch a case cap.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Yes, it just makes no It makes no sense to me, man,
Like I understand the health values of everything going on,
But my whole thing is, where did the quality go?
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Man?
Speaker 4 (23:40):
Where did the quality go?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
These dry ass burgers, these these fries is like like
freaking soggy as hell. What happened to like crispy salty fries?
Speaker 6 (23:51):
Like and we were talking about it yesterday, var Like
now you get franchise owned places and the quality is
way different and the prices go up, go up. I
remember the only place I could find an actual value
menu was if you were on a college campus. Like
the burger king on a college campus is different than say,
the burger king across the street from the college campus,
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which would be more than twice as much.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Yeah, I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
That's too bad, man, I don't know. I don't. I
wouldn't trust today is fast food to fix a migraine, though,
I'll tell you that well, I'm not.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
By the way, the late great Anthony Bourdain recommends coca
cola aspirin spicy food, and if you're inclined, you know,
a little uh smokeage that might help as well.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
But Coca cola, Coca cola aspirin spicy food. Yeah, Coca
cola and aspirin had I mean, I have prescription medicine.
I just I don't like to always take it. So
I haven't been taking my preventative medicine for like maybe
a month because I've been feeling really, really good.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Now.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
I don't like to become dependent on like medicine and
I'm paying for it now, so I started back on it,
you know what I mean. But man, I'm playing hurt today.
My rights side of my face feels like somebody is
inside of They're.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Just going to work damn like with a hammer.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Well, uh, hammers. Well, I do know, I do know.
I'm not sure exactly what the fast food is like overseas,
but I do know what the football is like. And apparently,
according to the NFL and Roger Goodell, the football will
be plentiful moving forward because they'd like eve more international games.
Let's take a listen to the commission.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
I think the potential for us to grow is there.
It's it's the greatest opportunity for growth. I mean, we
already have two hundred plus million fans here in the States,
so we're not giving up on the States and continuing
to expand here. But the international is just it's an
open market force. We're introducing the game, we're sharing our game,
(25:58):
and the fans are reacting to it in an extraordinary way.
So we're excited about our potential. Yes, I do see
sixteen regular season games. I think that will happen sometime
in the very near future.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Sixteen regular season games international in the course of a
season is the plan, and they think it's going to
happen sooner rather than later.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Bruh, Why does Roger Goodell sound like the Emperor from
Star Wars Man?
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Like? Why does he sound like that? Man? Plays voice
one more time?
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Like we got to listen to the whole sound bite,
but plays voice one more Do we have the Emperor front?
Speaker 1 (26:37):
We'll look for the Emperor while we listened to Roger
to get down.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
But listen to Rogers.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
It's like it's like the evil like oh like almost
like Paul Bearer ish a little bit.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Listen again.
Speaker 7 (26:49):
I think the potential for us to grow is there.
It's the greatest opportunity for growth. I mean, we already
have two hundred plus million fans here in the States.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
It's it's that you know what It is it's that
pool pick call for TV evangelist.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
It's that that it's offering time.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Can you guys make sure when the plate comes through
your pew that you're willing to put money into. I mean,
his voice has a little bit more base in it.
Now play Roger Goodell.
Speaker 7 (27:24):
To growers, Sarah. It's the greatest opportunity for growth. I mean,
we already have two hundred plus million fans here in
the States.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
It's the background, uh sort of buzzing that kind of
adds to the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
I mean, obviously the Emperor is more sinister. He's more
sinister and has a little bit more of base in
his voice. But Roger Goodell has an evil Emperor voice. Man,
I'm telling you, he's got.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
He's got one. He's got one of them voices.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Bruh. And I bang with Roger Goodell. By the way,
I'm a fan. I'm not I'm not trying to throw
shade at him. I just I feel like, when you're
talking to the masses, you have to have one of
those voices that resonates with the masses. Like I don't
I don't know, but Roger Goodell has it and it's
always the same, like it has very few variations in
(28:26):
terms of decibel level, you know, inflection and stuff like that.
You yeah, he definitely has a seller product voice. You know,
it's one of those believable voices. Anyway, it's just an observation.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Yeah, sixteen sixteen games, that's internationally. So here's here's my question,
just logistically, So what are we looking at here? You're
gonna get what a game every week internationally?
Speaker 4 (29:00):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Is that how this is going to go? I mean,
because I'm trying to figure out the schedule.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
I mean that would be sixteen weeks.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Yeah, and so it's every single so basically the bulk
of the season outside of a couple you're gonna get
an international game.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
There's eighteen games. Now how many games?
Speaker 1 (29:17):
So it's eighteen games, but it's eighteen weeks and you
get seventeen games, but seventeen games. And then my other
thought on this is, Okay, if that's the case, let's
just map out what a Sunday looks like. If this
is the plan moving forward, So sixteen weeks out of
a year, if this is the plan, again, this is
who knows how.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
It is doing Jackson by eight of them.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Oh easy, yeah, come on please, I mean at this
point Jacksonville should just move like Jacksonville should just like,
don't even build a new stadium. Just pick your stadium up,
put it on wheels and just send it over there.
Put Trevor Bank on wheels and send it over there,
and have Pete Prisco cover the games from London, you know,
sixteen times WI. So, but here's how here's how it
(29:59):
would look like. And you didn't, and you tell me
if this is too much. This is how the schedule
would look like. Sixteen weeks out of the year, you
would you would have a game start at nine thirty
Eastern time. You'd have your one pm window games, your
four pm windows, your eight pm windows. So sixteen Sundays
out of a season, you've got eleven hours of almost
(30:22):
NonStop football every week. That's a lot.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
It's a good idea, it's a good idea.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Yeah, I love it, but that's a lot.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
It's exciting to be able to get up to a game.
I do not know why, and it just it is exciting,
even for college I feel like there's a lot of
waiting that goes on for the games to start like
that first wave of games.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
I've said it, but man, I think the East Coast
star times at one o'clock.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
That's horrible.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Like once once people who have who have lived with
that get a taste of it when they get these
international games and start at nine thirty their time, then
they start to see, oh yeah, this is awesome.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Bro.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
When I moved to Cali and was living on the
West Coast and that first game came on at what
ten o'clock?
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Ten am? The first one comes on, right, that's crazy
to me?
Speaker 3 (31:20):
That is so crazy, Like, bro, you were able to
literally get up and go to Sunday school, go to church,
and you make it home if the if the you know,
not for you, of course, I mean if you're a Catholic,
you're probably home in time. But us, you know, if
I was, I was, you know, Church of God Christ.
(31:42):
We were there until like close to one point thirty
two o'clock. But I go to my nana's house right
down the street, no more than six minutes down the
street from where we went to church, kick my shoes off,
get me some chicken from from nana, sit with my
own goals, and watch watch the games.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
And it'd be like one o'clock. You know the games
would be starting.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
You had a whole day before you saw the first game,
you know. So I think having.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
Early early game and not early.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Games where you have to choose. I think having one
game slated that gets you going, especially a team like
a Jacksonville not a big market team. You know, you're
not it less you a Jacksonville fan, and it kind
of serves its purpose. You know, it's like it's a
(32:37):
it's an odd derv It's it's a it's a it's
a starter. You know, it's it's just your it's not
the main course. And it's okay because it's just as
important as every other meal when you get that appetizer.
So I think it's a good idea. You know, it's
you go early, then you go to first games, then
you go the the later games, and then you go
(33:00):
the Sunday night football game. I mean, I think it's
a great idea, to be honest.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Because I mean it basically would turn into what college
football is for those just for those of you like
myself who wait around and watch Hawaii late at night.
Like that's basically what college football is turned into. You're
looking at twelve hours of NonStop football all day, and
so if you add that on to Saturday and Sunday.
The other option would be if this is the plan
they're looking at, you know, sixteen international games a year.
(33:26):
We talked about Netflix wanting to have an event of
their own and wanting more games. Maybe this is the
avenue they pick. Maybe Netflix gets Tuesday and it gets
to be from an international location. I mean, these are
all just ideas. But the fact that there you.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Don't have CBS or you know, Fox. You don't have
that in Europe, do you. I don't feel like you.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Yeah. Well, and I think that it would benefit them
to have it streaming anyways. Like when the ww assigned
up for their billion dollar deal with Netflix, one of
the perks was is man, if you're overseas, you get
it too. Like, it's not one of these things to
where you've got to wait, you've got to there's a delay.
If you have Netflix, you're gonna be able to watch
it as well too.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
So I mean that's why I Direct TV getting the
package was so interesting to me, is because of that,
and this is what would be a fun you know,
I'm you know, obviously Q would have had a conversation
like this. But that's why I felt like, you know,
satellite television was so important to the NFL. It's because
(34:33):
you can do satellite anywhere in the world, you know
what I mean, so versus it being like local cable,
like your local cable provider DA DA DA, this, that
and the other, like what are the rights? What are
the TV rights to it? In Europe? Jonas? Like, you know,
how does that work? Because to me, if you're doing
it by streaming service now with the way technology is,
(34:56):
and you're using a YouTube or you're using a Netflix
to do it or a Prime, then I feel like
it makes it way easier to be able to market, advertise,
and deliver a product to an international audience, which I
would ultimately believe that.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
That gives you the ability to be able to grow your.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Audience and create more scheduled television for the events that
you're doing.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
You know.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
That's I mean, I feel like that's what this would
represent or represents as it applies to an international audience
and market.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
It's just wild how fast it's grown. Man Like it
just like I meant a few years ago, this would
never even been a thought, like you're gonna gambling sponsors. Wait,
what like you're gonna go sixteen Internet? It's crazy, man,
it is crazy. Two Pros and a Cup of Joe.
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Speaker 6 (37:28):
Good morning everybody, Good morning, Jonah's good morning LeVar guys.
In case you missed it, a much needed update from
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(37:51):
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he was twenty years old, and that his friend Ethan Kirkwood,
twenty one, has now been charged with purchasing him two beers,
so therefore facing two misimeter counts of furnishing alcohol to
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(38:15):
if you might say.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
So, guy has a couple of icy lights and then
season invisible swimming pool, and now his buddy's gonna get
in trouble.
Speaker 6 (38:23):
Yeah, okay, they found footage of him buying two twenty
four ounce Miller lights, probably cost him at least fifty
to eighty dollars footage. Yeah, and so two counts for
each beer, for each.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Twenty four and so light. So those two twenty four
ounce Miller lights are the reason that guy took a
swan dive over the railing. Okay, but it's this guy's fault. Now,
what is that? What's the punishment going to be like
for this guy?
Speaker 6 (38:54):
I mean, it will probably you know, probably be a
kind of a fine slap on the wrist, maybe some
kind of.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Teaching lesson what do they do? What do they do
they do?
Speaker 3 (39:04):
He's going just it'll be a fine that's it. He's
going to get fine for it. That's that's about it.
They're not going to send him to no therapy or
anything like that counseling. I mean, he brought the drinks.
He bought the drinks for him illegally, like he's you know,
I don't think that they would ban him from P
and C or what is it still PNC part.
Speaker 4 (39:23):
Yeah, I don't think they would ban him.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Yeah, I don't think PNC would.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
But that sucks though, talk about it. Insult the injury
is your buddy. Yeah, he gets all jacked up and
then you get a call like, yeah, you're in trouble,
come come.
Speaker 4 (39:35):
See us at the courthouse. It's you get a fine. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
And and I don't think he's going to get banned
for live because they need whatever fans they can get
in that place. So geez, anybody come on in to
let you, let you do hey, buy somebody else a
drink while you're at it.
Speaker 6 (39:52):
Why you gotta sneak in your own fleask.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
I thought what y'all sent in the text message would
have been better, but that is what it is.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
You wiped ou
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