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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Seattle and pnw's favorite team pulled off a upset to
take a two to one series lead. And listen, I've
been wrong many a time, and I'll be wrong many
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more times going forward. Pacers got a chance. They have
a chance, man, And it to me, it's like I
didn't think they had this in them.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
But you can see how this team with.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Chad Buchanan and obviously the front office and what they've
done to put this team in a position with Benedict
Mather and Kevin Pritchard obviously is the top guy there
in Indiana and they are Oh they are Okase sing Okase,
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And I never thought that would happen. I thought this
series was a formality. That's why ok C was a
minus seven fifty to minus eight hundred favorite. Doesn't matter,
It doesn't matter. Haliburton showed up last night. He knew
he did what he had to do. He had to
get twenty and ten. He got it, twenty two and
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eleven turnovers. He did have four, he did have four.
Oh uh oh, what do we got kid? What's going on?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Wan Higgins? She came through out of isequass. He just
called and secured her three hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
And I appreciate you, lou Anne, and I appreciate all
of you. We want to go three for three in
today's show, so we're starting off one for one.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Lou Ann. Look at that.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
You see the previous two hours people weren't paying attention
and the streak has been snapped. Congratulations, lou Ann Higgins.
You came up like Benedict matherin last night. Luanne, you
came up clutch. I see what you did there. You
were plus sixteen and you got three hundred bones now
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to do whatever you want with. And I'm not convincing you.
It's your money. Now, you do what you want, thanks
to the fine folks at Emerald Queen Casino, the entertainment
capital of the north West, Luanne. But nay, if I
was you, Luyne, maybe you go traveling. I gotta tell you.
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I'm starting to think now, kid, the Pacers have a
chance to win this thing.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Well, I think everyone's feeling that way the way they
played last night. Defensively, Bennict matherin stepping up, there's no telling.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
So what about TJ McConnell.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
The guys off the bench really played really well, and
you can argue, well, what about Pascal All Star. This
dude is more than cable having a game where he
puts up thirty plus he hasn't had that yet. Not
saying that he can or won't, right, but in the
back of your mind you gotta be thinking, we haven't
even had our best players play their best games yet.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
But Halliburton did last night. He's finally stepped up. He
did fine, he did, But Pascal is another dollar twenty
one that was you know, Dcascal.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Was capable of putting up thirty and taking over a
game and dominating on both ends. So to see what
they're doing. If they can go up three to one,
oh my goodness, one win Mark one, one victory away
from winning it all. Right, now they're two and the
pressure is gonna be on them to have that same
performance at home.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
I'm excited. I can't wait till Friday.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
It's tomorrow, but Friday night is really should be looked
at his game seven If you're okay, see, because if
you go down three to one, like you're gonna win
three in a row.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Really, I mean that's so.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
I wouldn't say yeah, just because of what the Internet
of payers have done. Thought the playoffs of making great comebacks.
You don't want to put yourself in that position where
you're like, yeah, we can come back three one.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
No, no, I think I'm with you. If they go
down three to one, forget seven games. Well, and here
here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Even though Chet started off hot last night he had
but listen, the big three for OKC combined for seventy points.
So it wasn't like when they had ninety five in
a game against Denver. But they like SGA twenty four,
Jylen Williams twenty six, Chet Holmgren twenty but they got
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no help from their bench last night. Nobody, like, no
one in their their bench last night had to combine
eighteen points. Matherin himself had twenty seven. And listen, he
might not be but next to the Yaron Fox is
TJ McConnell, the fastest, the second fastest.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Player in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
That dude, he gets the ball and it's like he's
like Xavier Worthy re killed Kansas City. He's so fast
with that ball and and he's so good, Oh my lord.
And TJ McConnell comes from some pretty good stock. His
sister Megan, the teammate to Caitlin Clark on the Indiana fever.
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I highly recommend fellows you to google her. It's not
bad looking on the eyes, I'll say that much. McConnell's
good looking family and that guy is holy. And you talk,
I mean Indiana, I gotta tell you. And last night
I cannot say enough OKC, excuse me. Pacers were playing chess.
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Ok SEE was playing checkers, and Rick Carlyle completely out
coach Mark Dagnall last night. That was Rick Carlyle. He
made adjustments, He did what he had to do. He said, Okay,
we're not gonna stop SGA, We're not gonna stop Jalen Williams,
but let them get their points. Let's make sure everybody
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else does not. And that's what they did. And that
to me was a uh oh. Seattle, y'all better be
watching these NBA finals. The third highest market and it's
been the lowest rated NBA Finals in twenty plus years
so far, but the third highest rated market for television
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ratings from this moment forward, after Indiana and OKC should
be Seattle, because it could this be the Sonics curse,
perhaps completely messing with OKC. You know what they say
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when you screw someone over karma always comes back on you,
and maybe that karma has finally it now in twenty twelve, Yeah,
you could say Listen.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Didn't really have karma. They were playing the Heatles.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
You had Lebron James, Dwayne Wade, and Chris Bosch, three
of the top twelve players in the prime of their career,
and you had the young pups like Durant Harden, Westbrook.
They they just weren't on that level at that moment.
They weren't ready for it. But I, you know what,
I'm just kicking myself. I should have put two hundred
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dollars before the series began, just on the Pacers, and
if I lost, I still would have had would have
made more money on the thunder. You knowiced, I didn't
give out any pick yesterday. I didn't know my guy,
who's an actuary and if he's actually was the youngest
actuary of all time. He picked h He had the
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under last night and the under was two twenty nine
to twenty eight and a half. And I text him
last night during the third corps, I said, there's no
way this is staying under. And after as soon as
the game goes, oh yeah, it's it. Hit under. Because
OKAC missed seven free throws and that I just I'm
not an underguy. I'm more of an over guy. But Seattle,
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you need to be watching now. I know you hate
Oklahoma City Thunder. You need to be hate watching now
because this I thought after the first game, all right,
fluke whatever thunder and five?
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Uh uh oh.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
No no no, can they move Tombo finger wag No no, no,
no no, this thing could happen. I would lose money,
but you know what, I would be so happy for Seattle.
I've lost money in gambling before, and I'm gonna lose
a lot more during football season, but I'll hopefully win
more than I lose. I would be so ecstatic for
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Seattle if Indiana wins this series. Now, I'm rooting for
my money. You know I'm not gonna lie to you.
I'm still rooting for my money, and my money's on OKAC.
But I will say this if OKC loses Game four.
As they say in Bristol, Connecticut, it almost happened to
me on June tenth, two thousand and seven, when my car,
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my parents' car, went down a hill that I was
driving when I fell asleep at the wheel and flipped over,
not once, but twice. As they say at the end
of the highlight in Bristol at ESPN, wipe score. It
was almost wipe score for me. If the Pacers win
Friday night Tomorrow night and it go up three to one,
it's wipe score for the OKC thunder They are done
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if they lose tomorrow night.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
If they win tomorrow night.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Two out of three, they have home court advantage OKC
and seven maybe six, but they've got to win tomorrow night.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
If they don't win tomorrow night, it's a rap. It's over.
So are you into these NBA Finals?
Speaker 1 (09:54):
And I understand at first you're like, but just on
the hate watching, you should be into this right now. Wow,
it's just unbelievable. Want to get your thoughts on that.
Four nine to four, five to one on the text
Line Big Show Today. Brian Danielson from AEW, former WWE
(10:16):
World Champion AEW, is going to be in town for
a couple shows in Kent at the show Where Center
coming up in the next couple weeks. He will join
us live in studio coming up and we will talk
to him. I'm looking forward to that. Scherene Williams will
(10:41):
join us from NBC Sports. She covers the NFL. We'll
talk to her at the top of next hour. Also
at the top of next hour, you get a chance
to win one hundred dollars. So we've gone nearly seventeen
and a half minutes. I mean, I led with the
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fact that everybody in Seattle can possibly get their wish,
which is the Thunder getting upset and the NBA Finals,
And you've got to be right now. There is a
legitimate chance. And I thought last night if I were
to bet, I wouldn't have bet. I would even have
bet OKC on the money line because I felt like, Okay,
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they took control of the series in Game two, they
took them out. Look what they did to Halliburton. But Halliburton, man,
this team, they do not say die. They're starting to
remind me kid. And there's a correlation here of the
twenty nineteen Toronto Raptors, which will go down as one
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of the most underrated teams to win a title in
NBA history, that if Kawhi Leonard didn't leave, could have
started a potential dynasty in Toronto. Look at that team,
Kawhi Leonard, Fred Van Vliet, my guy Og Andnobi Pascal Siakam.
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That team was loaded, loaded, and they ended the Warriors
dynasty with Kevin Durant. Now, Durant got hurt in the
first game, and I think if kd didn't get hurt,
okay See probably would have won three in a row,
but Kawhi took him out. They had no answer for Kawhi.
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This team is starting to remind me a little bit.
And the one common denominator, Pascal Siakam, he was on
both teams. He was He's the one common denominator. I'll
tell you, man, they got a chance. So you gotta
be feeling good. If you hate the thunder like everybody,
you gotta be feeling good about this.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Uh coming up next. I'm so proud of myself.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
I went an entire segment maltalk because they don't they're
not even worthd ith. The baseball team in this town
who will go unnamed, got swept by the Diamondbacks.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
How low can they go?
Speaker 1 (13:09):
The ms have fallen and they can't get up.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Oh we'll get to that coming up next.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
But first, an update on the US Open in Oakmont
on MJ in the midday Sports Radio ninety three to
three kJ r FM aka Daniel Bryan born and raised
in Aberdeen, Washington, the hometown of Kurt Cobain, future Hall
of Famer, one of the greatest wrestlers of all time
in town. Well, promoting for AW shows coming up, so
(13:41):
we'll have him in studio. And this guy is a shooter, man,
I mean he is. He's a badass, one of the
best wrestlers of all time. And you know, born and
raised here in Washington State and looking forward to meeting
him for the first time as he promotes for ae W.
The owners got swept and you know what was almost
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sort of fitting in a way. Although Eugenio Suarez go
ahead Grand Slam to help e rod at Wardo Rodriguez
pitch into the seventh inning. It was Suarez his third
Grand Slam of the season, nineteenth home run of the year.
(14:31):
I'm okay, memory serves me correct. Where was Eugenio Suarez
before he was with the Arizona Diamondbacks, kid, where was
he at s m okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, traded him
for Carlos Vargas, which, okay, I could see it. But
boy'd be nice to have Eugenio Suarez back in Seattle
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as a Mariner. Now, wouldn't it been nice to have
Josh Naylor instead of Rowdy Telez and Donovan Solano as
a Mariner? Now, wouldn't it you had those two guys,
this team could possibly be competing with the Tigers and
Mets for the best record in baseball. I'm dead serious, Vargas. Hey,
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he's a heater, triple digits on the gun, but also
the guy that gave up the Grand Slam in this
series to Josh Naylor. I what can I say? Here
we go. The Mariners have now lost eight out of
nine games, thirteen of their last seventeen. In those thirteen losses,
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you ready for this? How many runners were left on base?
You ready for this? Ninety three? Seven point one five
runners a game left on base? And those thirteen losses
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ninety three they can't hit?
Speaker 2 (16:10):
You know what?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Eventually as time and okay, you can come at with well,
there's still ninety five games to go. Okay, fair enough,
you want to play that game, fine, but this team
now is under five hundred for the first time since
April twelfth. They have fallen and they can't get up.
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But there is good news, the real good news. There's
a couple things Logan Gilbert's on his way back after
the start for Tacoma in Sacramento the other night. That's
the good news. But here's better news. You've got a
couple things. Hello, Kitty Night promotion, k Pop Fireworks promotion night,
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and don't forget and I appreciate. I think it was
Justin who texted in yesterday. If if I got your
name wrong, Justin and I didn't get your text yesterday,
I'm gonna give it to you now. They say, here's
the difference between ownership of the Diamondbacks and the Mariners.
On Father's Day coming up on Sunday, at Chase Field
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in Phoenix, they're giving.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Away polo shirts. Polo shirts.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Do you know what they're giving away at T Mobile
Park on Father's Day?
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Socks? Socks.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Yeah. I don't know how many times I can say this,
but you get what you pay for. And if you
pay for sh like Rowdy t Les and Donovan Solano,
then you get crap results. That's it. It pretty much
is now. Fangraf have the Mariners right now, they still
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have a chance to poss blee make the playoffs. Now
it's they're still close to one hundred and ninety five
games left, I get it. But if they don't turn
it around with the Guardians in Red Sox come into town,
and then their schedule they go to Chicago to face
one of the best teams in baseball, the Cubs. It's
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gonna get late pretty early here in Seattle, and pretty
soon everybody's attention is going to turn towards the Hawks,
the Dogs, and the Koogs. Twenty five point three percent
chance to win the division, forty five point four percent
chance to make the playoffs, and a two point eight
percent chance to win the World Series. How about I'll
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go with zero point zero percent chance to win the
World Series. I'll just I'll that's the the MJ realistic
winning the World Series. Number zero percent on that. So
they have less than fifty percent chance to make the playoffs.
So that ticket that I bought before the season began
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at a casino here in Seattle on over eighty six
and a half wins. Not looking so good right now? Now,
not looking so good right now? What are you gonna do?
There's nothing you can do, man, It's just I don't
know what to say. I mean, and if I was
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a Mariners fan and I want the team to do well,
I do. But if I was one of you, would
I waste my money to go support this team? If
they're not gonna put money into the product on the field,
why am I gonna put money into the product? Why
if the owners don't care, which we know they don't,
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why should the fans care? Asking for a friend, I'll wait,
I'll wait. Why should the fans care? Why should anyone care?
Ownership doesn't care. You could have got Josh Naylor for
eleven million dollars. Instead, you wanted to go the family
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dollar version of Rowdy Tules and Donovan Solano. You get
what you pay for in life, you get what you deserve.
You pay for crap, you get crap, period.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
It's sick.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
You want a suit at Men's Warehouse, you can look
like crap. You want a suit from Kanali or Zania
or Armani, you can look like a billion dollars, so
clean and so nice on a red carpet.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
You get what you pay for.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
And let me just tell you this, Donovan Solano and
Rowdy Telez they are nowhere near as good as Men's Warehouse.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
No they're not.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
They're the dumpster house that you find if you're dumpster diving,
and you find some suits that were thrown away with
oil stained and blood stains and other stains on them.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Baseball season's about to it could be over here pretty soon.
Better not have I mean, one in five on the
road trip against two losing teams and the Angels and
d Backs. You weren't. You weren't on the road playing
the Dodgers and Giants or the Cubs and Nets. You
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were playing the Angels and d Backs. And the poll
that we put up. Let's check the final results here,
shall we. The poll we put up about how much
if the ms don't turn around, how much longer are
you going to last to stay in there? And I
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gave you options, Okay, I gave you options and basically, yeah,
I think the final poll number was Yep, there it was.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Oh it ended up at fifty four percent.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Yes, yes, yes, for Brian Danielson, Yes, we did it.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Fifty four percent.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Sixteen percent sat all Star break, sixty percent say trade deadline,
fourteen percent said Seahawks preseason and already given.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Up fifty four percent.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
There you go, Gerard, Yes, yes, yes, they've already given up.
And I don't blame you. I'm surprised it wasn't eighty
four percent. I'll tell you right now, as of I
do not see this team making the playoffs unless Logan Gilbert,
George Kirby, Brian wu Logan, Evans, Emerson, Hancock, Luis Castillo
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just basically pitch like Pedro Martinez, Roger Klens, Bob Gibson
in their prime. That's the only way this team's gonna
make the playoffs. It's gonna be a repeat of twenty
twenty three, twenty twenty four all over again. Sad man, sad,
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and you're wasting a possible MVP type season by cal Raley,
wasting it, absolutely wasting it.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Sad.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
But we got to fifty four percent. Thank you, Seattle.
I knew we could do it. I can't believe it
got there. Fifty four percent, said already given up. There
you go, Girard, we hit your fifty four percent. I
just checked that.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Now.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
I love it. Thank you very much for voting now
that ball fifty four percent. There you go, There you go.
But you know what you're gonna get socks on Sunday. Oh,
by the way, let me mention one thing. Plenty of
seats still remaining for this six game, homestand coming up
plenty of You can probably pick your own section. But
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you get socks on Sunday for Father's Day. A what
a benevolent gesture by ownership to the fans out there
to show appreciation. Socks, You get socks. Hello, Kittie Night
and k Pop fireworks. Congratulations, really really well done? Is
it Seahawks, Dogs and Kooch season?
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Yet?
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Just asking? It will be pretty soon, probably in the
next couple of weeks. It will be very soon, all right.
Coming up next, there's nobody cooler than this cat and
he well, these two Hall of famers talk about one
of the best in the game right now, but they
do it in a way that none of us can
comprehend because they are cool af We'll get to that next.
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On Hitting to All Fields, Mjay and The Midday On
a Thursday, don't forget Sharen Williams coming up, Brian Danielson, Yes, yes, yes,
in studio right here.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
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Speaker 2 (25:17):
Leu Ane Higgins in Issaquah. She hit it.
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She got three hundred dollars because in the previous two
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Ninety five ninety five.
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then it rolls over to the next hour. Let's go
three for three today, Unlike the Mariners. Let's go three
for three today, not be Donovan Solano and Rowdy Telez. Right,
Let's be like Eugenio Suarez, let's do that, let's actually
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come up big time. And Josh Naylor two guys that
would have been great on the Mariners. They could have
had for practically nothing. But anyway, as I digress, there's
nobody cooler in sports then KG. Kevin Garnett like dude
ages like a fine wine and like he's just cool.
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I've always like, no dude can ever you just you
either have it or you don't. And KG just has
that swag. He's never lost it. He's as cooler as
he is now. Then when he came out of Chicago
Farragut Academy in nineteen ninety five, straight out of high
school to be pick in the top five and open
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a reopen the floodgates of high school kids going to
the NBA and a guy you might have heard of
the following year, by the late great Kobe Bryant, did
it coming out of Lower Marion in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Well,
KG and Paul Pierce, part of the two thousand and
eight NB World Champion Celtics, have a podcast and they
were talking about ant Man and this is hilarious.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Listen, I just told you he don't hoop like that, bro,
this is the closer.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
He could two hour claw.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
All right, I got this attitude and in the league
no more. I'm you're gonna have to put him out.
You're gonna need a whole three fire trucks.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
You don't need.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
What's that stuff they put in the planes, that pink
star because put it out to put it out. Damn,
you're gonna need all of that.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
When I was talking eighty four, do you understand what
I'm saying now, I'm not talking about the finished productle.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
I'm talking about.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
You when it just went over my hand, and so
I had to think, wasn't you just you would just
have to think about not to see it again?
Speaker 4 (28:02):
I'm like, have you had to re analyze?
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Like overreacting?
Speaker 4 (28:06):
You had to go look at it again?
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Like, man, hold on, I see what he's saying.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
Because when you throw Mike out, overreact to Mike. So
I'm like, hold on, let.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Me think when he saw a big under that, it's
like he lit up. That's how you're fellas seeing you
one of them, and there's some ground. Try you, big fellow,
for I don't care who you are where. Indeed, the
Statue of Liberty it don't matter. This one of them
little Baybay kids, that's what used to call them. This
one of them little homies that used to be flipping
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on the pissy mattress. This is the little homie that
can do all the flips, you know, all the dances.
That's man from kid right here.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
What thank God for?
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Thank God for Christopher Kidd, because sometimes you know, I'm
half Polish.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
I can blame it. Some times I get a little airheaded.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
I just went, kid, I gave you, you know, my
life day yesterday where I was thankful to be alive.
I just want to Christopher Kidd appreciation days every day.
Thank you kid. Let me get this right, Pride. Danielson
will be in the Dude Hour. I'm start Sharen Williams
coming up at the top of the hour after one
of y'all win another one hundred dollars from Emerald Queen
Casino Brian Danielson in studio. He's actually gonna be in
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around eleven forty ish around that time.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Kid.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Appreciate you, man, all right, stay tuned. Next, we're gonna
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kJ aren't time