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The Crown is Chris Cody has had a heavy, heavy tongue over the last couple of days, but he did that really well. Thank you. The hockey playoffs and the baseball, the basketball playoffs are going to rattle and shake this show over the next couple of months. Amin's flying in last night, he's doing Memphis Golden State and he's flying in for this and I have to get to what I am telling you, Stugat I am serious about. It's one of the most embarrassing things to ever to me, professionally or personally. But it'll be in minutes that I will get to. And I'm. In minutes. Yes. I'm going to make the apology publicly in minutes. But Chris Cody was telling me because he's been doing a private show for me here the last couple of days. It's very funny. I wish you could hear it. That David is annoyed again. That David is bothered at the start of this. That's just me reading body language I haven't heard from. He looks annoyed. He looks annoyed all the time. Okay. Are you mad at us? Are you. Is there something wrong? I just had the time wrong, so it's all good. So you made it yourself. Yeah, it's my fault. I thought it was supposed to be 1020 when it was 1027. Okay, Eastern. My bad. How you guys doing? Well, no, but Sampson's right about one thing. We run a loose ship around here and he doesn't have a lot of time. 10:27. I know, but he does show business, baby. Like, what is like, come on. This is not. This is not 9 to 5 here. This is. We're wheeling and dealing. You're wheeling and dealing, Chris. Yes. You are the executive producer who's supposed to be wheeling and dealing. You are supposed to be driving the show so that things happen when they're supposed to be happening. We were cooking with Tim Kirchen. We were cooking, but sometimes showing a picture of Mel Kuiper. Now you're wrong. Listen, I had to tell Greg Maddox one time because we had a conflict with guests that, hey, we'll call you back in an hour. And he was fine with it. Okay? I mean. And you're not Greg Maddox. And you're not Maddox. Right. And it was Rusty Staub, by the way, not Mel Kuiper. Yeah, that's a fine. No, it was also Mel Kuiper. Yeah, it was Rusty Eagle. It was Mel Kuiper with the protective eagle. Tony. Regardless, you're annoyed because we're late again. Roy. What are you laughing? He's annoyed because he got his time wrong. I mean, I don't like the way he said that to me, by the way. I don't like that. What don't you like? It was very. Just dismissive. Well, but I'm. Look, man, because it was. But we have a problem around here generally about how David Sampson would like things run and how it is that we run things here at Metal Art. Like, it's a recurring theme. He's. He's recurringly angry at everyone. Sounds like David Sampson has a problem. Not us. Yeah. Does. Does David have a ticket guy? Does David. I imagine that David. Oh, David has a ticket. Let's get right to it. He has a ticket. Zaslow wants Pearl Jam tickets. Needs. Do you think that you could get him Pearl Jam tickets? Well, the answer is, would I? Because of course I can. But the answer is, would I? Well, would you? Oh, yeah. What are we weighing here? Like, what's. What are we talking about? Well, clearly not now. It's a week before the show, and the shows were announced months ago. So it can't be that you're that disorganized that you're just making the ask today. Oh, I think my ticket guy could do that in a week. I can't have a. I can't. I can't have a better ticket guy than you. There's no way that I've got a better ticket guy than you. Do you really have a ticket guy if you got to give him months advance notice? Like, I feel like it's not a ticket guy. Ticket guy is a guy, like, five minutes before the show. Yes. And it's not that I'm disorganized. It's that I don't want to have to count on someone else. Like, I. I'd like to get it done myself. And I have failed. I have failed miserably. So now I. I need help. Well, there's something you mentioned before that got me nervous, because you talked about seats in the rafters, and I know you know the venue they're playing at. Yeah, it's a very small, intimate venue. So you say rafters. I think Triple A or I think hard rock. No, that's fair. But you got away. It's sitting up top. And am I also able to pay $2,000? And it's like, well, this. This is what I would say. And Zaslo, I don't want to over promise and under deliver on this one, because I don't think that I can do better than Sampson here. I don't think I can do better than Sampson could. But. But me, yes, I do believe. I do believe that I could not only get Pearl Jam tickets, I believe that my ticket guy could get good Pearl Jam tickets. And with a week's notice. Yeah, I must say, would he need about six months advance notice in writing? I believe I could get. I believe I could get those tickets by the end of the day for Zest Cob, I'll work for free this week if that happens. Face value. Hold on. I just heard something. Wait one second. I thought I just heard. He said he would work for free. No doubt. Okay, so now we're just calculating. Now it's an easy math. Now we're cooking, Samson. Now we're perked up. Now we're cooking. All right, so we're going on the game time. So make the deal. Make the deal, Samson, that you think if you need one, okay, you think it's an easy one to get Zaslow to work for free? You think it's easy? Wait a minute. You can't have. Have. No, you can't have a lack of faith. Go on in your ticket guy and then say, but if Zaslow is willing to work for free. Yeah, but now he has a reason. All of a sudden, you have a ticket guy that could do what I'm saying. My ticket guy. I'm talking about six months anymore. I'm going on game time, and I'm doing the arbitrage. I don't understand this conversation. I will have tickets in your mailbox as. And you will be on the schedule for tomorrow and Friday for free. And you will have two tickets to the concert next week. I'm going on the game time shows. Thursday, two shows. Two shows. Thursday, Saturday, Thursday. And you're doing two shows tomorrow and Friday. 100%. What about. What about. Wait a minute. What about instead of one ticket both nights, how about two tickets one night? You're asking me? I was asking. Oh, no, I need. I need to go to both shows. But you need two tickets to each show, right? Yeah. My. How do I take my son? He loves them, too. My son. Okay, well, wait a minute now. Multiple tickets. Where we got a problem? Like, we got. No, I would accept just one. No, no. This is what happened. Do the arbitrage thing. I'm not gonna be a Schnur if you presented me with one ticket. I'm very happy about that. Very. Put it on the poll at Lebatard show. Do you know what a Schnurr is? It's not that. Everyone does. I don't know a Schnorer. I don't know what those are. Like, someone who is greedy doesn't appreciate. Yeah, Me. Okay, so I'm sorry, David, that we still haven't gotten to your segment, but I'm going to have to, and this is rude of me, I am going to have to knock Sampson out of the way here to tell you about one of the most embarrassing personal and professional moments of my career and to welcome in Pablo Torre in order to do so. Because beyond being the person who married me and my wife, I am just extraordinarily proud of him for a number of different reasons. The work that he's doing, the awards that he's winning, the things that he's doing on msnbc. And the way that I did something on air this week made Mina Kimes ask me if me and Pablo were okay, and if she. If she asks me that I did something very wrong on air that then got aggregated. And Zazzle comes in here today. Zazzle comes in here today and asks me. What did you ask me? Well, I read it yesterday on Barrett Sports Media, and the tone of the article was very much. Dan is really mad at Pablo Torre. Okay, so. So anyways, a lot of people thought this because of something that happened on air this week, and it's just totally my bad that that's how that came out. Because I'm not kidding you when I say professionally and personally. Wildly embarrassing to me that any of that would land on Pablo, because the work that he's doing is singular and. And it's extraordinary. I don't know what's happening. Right. What are you apologizing for? Are you making an apology? Do you need to relive this, though? I do, because I didn't live it. Hey, guys, for those of us who don't know, yes, we do. That's me, Pablo. I'm also here, beaming in from 30 Rockefeller center in New York. What's funny about all of this, you can imagine, is that when Dan mentions that Mina was concerned about me and Dan and our friendship, I hadn't even known. But the Barrett Sports Media thing, by the way, I was dealing with DMs from a separate sports media writer, so that's cool. Great to know that. Look at me like you. Something that me and I both advised was that Dan not do what he's doing right now, live. So cool. But let's do it. No, I. Well, I didn't get that part. But regardless, the thing that I wanted to play for all of you, and one of the many reasons that I am proud of Pablo is he is doing on Morning Joe something that I have not seen, never mind on that show, with an easy grace. He is capturing our times in a way that you need to listen to what he is doing journalistically and you need to listen to what he's doing socially. Because I'm going to play a clip from Morning Joe here and he's got a facility around things that are happening in America right now that are deeply, deeply troubling. And I'm just really happy to see him doing things like this on MSNBC on behalf of us and the company. It's a test. We are now taking a test. What's the test? The test is, do you see these people as human beings deserving of the protection as human beings of the country that has styled itself the foremost protector of decency and due process in human history? And when you show these videos and you allow this administration to cast these people as people who should be shackled, who don't look like you, what they don't want you to realize in the of Mr. Abrego Garcia is that this was a dad who was apprehended while in a parking lot of an Ikea with his autistic son in the back. And one of the most primary criteria for why he was apprehended was because he was wearing a Chicago Bulls cap and hoodie. Everybody acknowledges that this guy, as we see photos of him and his family, did not deserve any of this. And if this was somebody who looked a little bit more like the people we tend to be intuitively sympathetic towards, which is to very clearly if he was a white guy who wasn't generally associated with what it means to be scary and foreign. John, this is the sort of story, the suspension of due process, the deportation to a terrorist prison camp in El Salvador that has Americans typically saying, this is why we need our second Amendment. And here I just wonder why that level of panic has not risen to the level of action. Because it is absolutely horrifying. Woke bullshit. I'm still not clear on what you're apologizing for, Dan. Right. I mean, fellow sin. I just want to rank quarterbacks. Can we rank quarterbacks? Thank you. Can we do that? David, what are your general thoughts on everything that's happening here? We've pushed you out of the way. You're busy texting you still here? You look like you're annoyed again. We got Pablo from the set of MSNBC where he's becoming a huge star. Hmm. That's all you have? Yeah, I'm just trying to. Trying to calculate whether we're losing monetization by clipping that long a clip of MSNBC and whether or not Pablo was aware that we were doing this, because I think it's fantastic. And the focus should be on what Pablo is doing with Meadowlark as part of Pablo, Tory finds out just one of the most unbelievable things getting Nominated for a Peabody Award and the aggregation of you being upset with Pablo. It's a fricking Tuesday that you're aggregated for people misunderstanding, understanding things that happen, if not members of your family and friends. So my focus, to the extent that I'm still sitting here 18 minutes later, is that Pablo's show is so good that for anything Meadowlark adjacent to be recognized the way his show is, is a credit to what Dan, you have done and started and you should be damn, damn freaking proud of. You want us to celebrate a nomination? Congratulations. Yes, a nomination. Wonderful. This went this very quickly and I have to say, maybe even predictably went from I am feeling my heart growing full to I hate you guys. I really do. We love you, Dan. I got you a Peabody. Yes, the nomination. It is a nomination. We have it. We had the winners are announced at some point in the future. I want to explain what's happening to Amin. I mean, remember when your parents were like. Well, I don't know if this is the right metaphor, but it feels like when as a kid, the adult in the room starts off by complimenting you and it's so effusive that it becomes suspicious. Yes. It's that setup times the time that you and Izzy were fighting on air. It's kind of like that stuff. Kind of like all that stuff. You know what's funny? When you get nominated for these things, the show's nominated, but typically they submit a particular episode. Pablo, I just want to make sure was the episode submitted the Haunted Hotel one in Oklahoma City. That was not what we submitted. But I still get a Peabody if we win, right? Because I. Yeah, we cut this thing up. Well, cut this thing up into pieces. Samson, what's the. Sampson, what's the face. What's the face that you're making? Cuz I will let everyone know that Sampson among the budget cuts that he's recommending. Award award prices, nomination prices. Like Sampson doesn't want any. Look, you gotta save where you. Can we go through a day without being aggregated. Can we go through one day without Barrett Sports Media getting in my inbox about the awards budget? Christ, what is Samson laughing about? He's trying to how bad you are at this. What was the apology? Chris, the balloon. Chris, the balloons aren't helping. The balloons aren't helping. Chris, the balloons are not helping us. No, they're great. We're trying to be an adult media company winning the most prestigious awards in journalism and getting Emmy nominations for documentaries and signing giant deals and all I'M seeing is Chris Cody waving balloons. Fireworks. Guys, please get fireworks. Just visually. Visually. That's our. That's our budget for fireworks. They're gonna take back the nomination. They're gonna take it back. Guys. I stayed at a haunted hotel for one night. This can't. Come on. This can't be. This can't be. This can't be. They're going to take back the nomination. I'm going to screw it up. While I'm apologizing. While and. While I'm apologizing. No, this can't be. This can't. Please help me. Help me, please. I swear to you all. Listening and watching on the Levitar network and live. Dan and I spoke this morning about myriad things. One of them was here's two words that we should consider not saying. Awards, budget. Oh, I don't even remember that. Dave. I don't even remember. Dave. I don't even remember. You are unsurprised to hear Dan say that. I'm just gonna speak for everybody now. Cue the fireworks. Thank you. Yeah. No one's surprised. I can't believe Santa. You gotta be kidding me. You have. I just. I don't know if people realize I'm not well. I'm not well. I'm missing so many. You are having fireworks. This is not on Dan. You need to know when you tell Dan not to say something, he's gonna say it's. Gonna say it. Yep. This is on whoever told Dan. This is mortifying to me. Mortify. I'm not doing this on purpose. It's not your fault. It is my fault. No, it's Samson's fault. No, your teammates. It's definitely Pablo and Sa. It is absolutely. It's Amici's fault. I'll say fault. It's nobody's fault. But I've been hearing more about Amici and his fault, so I'm gonna earmark that for a future. Okay? So I am very proud of you, Pablo. Cue the fireworks. Over Dan. I am very. So the episode that you got nominated for a Peabody Award, and honestly, you could have selected 40 of your shows and nominated them and any them would have gotten a nomination overdoing it. Like the Haunted Hotel one, The one that did get a nomination. How did you select it over the others? I swear to God, Pablo, I'm trying to apologize to you. And I just did it the same. The fireworks that Chris is playing over your face are a bit less persuasive than the words coming out of your mouth. I told David this morning that I was willing to fly to New York this weekend to apologize to you and. Or budget. Am I right, David? Yeah, I said no. Most expensive apology in the history of apology. The apology budget. The apology budget is a remarkable line item for this company to consider. I don't know. I don't know what's happening anymore. By the way, the entirety of MSNBCs on the other side of this door, I presume now just like listening to what sounds like their new alleged star employee being a crazy person, yelling about fireworks and balloon boobs. Like, I don't. I don't really know. Pump your brakes. You're not an employee, just a contractor. Take it easy. I will say to you and letting people look behind the curtain that this right here is precisely the reason that our executive, our former executive producer before I got old heavy tongue over here, said, I do not trust Dan on live television anymore. Yeah. Oh, man. I think David is peeing himself at the moment. Oh, he is. I just can't even imagine what just happened. What happened? Did the apology happen? I have no idea what he's apologizing. I don't know. So, Pablo, what episode was it finally? Sorry, it was. That was Cowboys. You can't. Okay, well, we can't. We did a press release. We did it. We did. We did do a press release. I missed that. My bad. Was the press release for the. Get out of here. David, I just want you to know that part of my goal here at Meadowlark, part of my. Stop with the fireworks, please, Chris. Stop with the fireworks. One of my goals is to get. Get Tony to listen to an episode of my show. And this may seem as unlikely as converting a Trump voter in 2025 to the notion that we as Americans have partnered with a guy who calls himself the world's coolest dictator in El Salvador. It may be as unlikely as that. Very proposition. But I'm going to try. I'm really going to try. Tony, why so Haunted Hotel one. Okay, I was going to say amines on that one. I'll watch. But if you tell me the one that got nominated for Peabody, I'll check it out. Right. I think is that one. Oh, is that one. Send me the link. It wasn't that. That one. But it could have been, according to them. I. I'm. I'm not fooling around here. That while apologizing for what is one of the most embarrassing moments of my professional and personal career, I'm repeating the mistake and parts of it that I was just ap. Apologizing for because I'M not. Well, I'm forgetting things that people say to me, and I have. David Sampson is laughing to keep from crying because he has not been able to protect me from myself. He lost that battle. He's lost all the battles you've mentioned crying, you versus you. Every one of them just a series of defeats. So how is it that this was nominated over other things? Because I imagine on what is an extraordinary podcast, unlike any other in the space, not just sports space, the podcast space, doing important journalism, you had a top five or top ten list and it was hard to get it down to one. Yeah, look, the whole thesis of what we're doing at Meadowlark, by the way, the whole, like, reason I do my show is because I believe that sports is a way in to really genuinely entertaining and nourishing stories. Like, my whole thing as, as I've said to Dan many times, is that I want to melt some cheese on broccoli. Right? Right. Like, I'm not just trying to scold you and shame you into caring about something. I want to tell you a story. And so the story we picked is the episode in which we sent one of our correspondents to a supermax prison in Texas to meet a guy on death row to talk about how at an alarming and frankly, insane and eye opening rate, people who are about to be executed in Texas shout out the Dallas Cowboys. They shout out their favorite sports teams. And so this was an episode in which we went inside a supermax prison, went inside death row to talk about what it's like to be in a. In a fantasy football league. What's it like to care about the most popular American thing? What's it like to be able to laugh about what it's like to be a Cowboys fan, what it's like to actually consider, as this man we interviewed, Charles Flores, told us, what it's like to consider your Dallas Cowboys fandom in some ways even sadder than the fact that you've been fighting for Your innocence for 25 years on death row. Right. Like, there is absurdity and laughter and like, actual news you could use about capital punishment in there, and no one else is doing it. Like this company, man, look at the pride I have, the authentic fireworks I want to set off here that you look at this list of nominees, and it was shocking when we got it. It's that it's a bunch of enormous, enormous companies with all the pedigrees and the awards already, and then it's this company with these people who can't even Apologize. Right. For an apology they attempted to do also in that room. It's kind of amazing. And nothing personal to all of bit and also not. Not that but sure. Let's just throw some stuff in at the end. Yeah, also that. So he's apologizing for. I don't know, question mark. I mean, where do I start? Where do I start apologizing today? You can start with the time you thought I worked at the Clevelander. Let's start there and work our way up. That's a good episode. This is so much fun. That's a good episode. This is so much worse. All right, I'm sorry. Pablo Zaslo, do you have. Congratulations. I'm super proud of you for Cue the Fireworks. For merely a nomination. It's not yet a prime. It work when the EP says allowed. Cue the fireworks. Is that part of the. Can you. But you didn't really answer my question of what finished second place to that one. Like what among? Because it must have been hard to pare down your list. You're doing really good comprehensive work. Work. That podcast in sports. It's unseen. Oh, no one's trying, dude. No one's trying to do this. And by the way, this is the argument I always have behind the scenes now increasingly about like degree of difficulty. What it takes, you guys. We're a company that hires journalists to do work like this at a time when everybody's running away from it. And so the follow up, you know, or the runner up episodes. Sorry, someone's knocking at the door. Can I just take this? I actually don't know who this is. Joe. I bet you. Let's see if it's Scarlet. Please let it. Or his boss who's firing him. I mean. Stop talking out here. Stop talking. I'm just taking a work call. Okay? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Absolutely. Yep, very good. Wasn't. I got kicked out of the room, so I gotta go cue the fireworks. All right. What was second place? What finished second place? I don't know. Subscribe and find out. God. Blam it. Pablo, one more question. One more question. Pablo, have you ever done an episode? Oh, it's too bad. What were you gonna ask? If he's ever done an episode on helping a friend get tickets. Zaz, I thought you'd never ask. My man. Game time, guys. Tech is not really my thing. And as I'm trying to build out a website recently, I'm really starting to feel kind of frustrate. Ever feel overwhelmed trying to manage your web hosting while juggling a million other tasks. Sort of like I do. Even if tech isn't your thing. Like me, Kinsta's managed WordPress hosting is just a relief. 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That's how I found my vocal range. Sometimes I just say, savannah Bananas. Savannah Bananas. This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats. It's time for against the Spread and it's brought to you by our friends at DraftKings. DraftKings. The Crown is yours. Rory. What do we got? Big one tonight. Carolina Hurricanes. Montreal Canadiens. The Canadiens can clinch a playoff spot with one point if they lose in regulation and Columbus wins tomorrow in regulation, then Columbus makes the playoffs. So this is a big game for Montreal. Carolina has nothing to play for now. Montreal has won eight straight games against the east and Carolina has failed to cover the puck line in the last eight games against the Atlantic Division. So I got the Canadiens winning this one. They are one and a half goal favorites against the spread. I've got to tell all you guys. The Hockey show sometimes on Fridays. I couldn't believe when I walked in here today. And Roy and Zaslow are so confident about their hockey team. Stanley cup champs. Why wouldn't you be? Oh, no, no. I'm just saying that when the Panthers lose 51 to the Lightning, you would understand how and why I have some post traumatic stress disorder. Even if the Panthers are not actually playing their people, it's just Tampa in general. You'd all understand why I would have some visions that perhaps you don't have. Hockey can hockey. I'm with Dan on this. I'm nervous. Look, it's. It's been a year. It's. They can come get that ass took. All right, let's go. Yeah, man. Tony. Tony. Bring us home. Big one tonight in the association. The Miami Heat vs. The Chicago Bulls tonight. Dan, I know what you're thinking. This is a Miami Heat show, okay? This is Miami. We want the Heat to win. Not so fast, my friend. 2% chance of Cooper flag. You know exactly what we're doing. We're betting with the Miami Heat. Why? Reverse jinx. If I put money on them, they're going to lose. All of a sudden, that pick them spread becomes a lot larger. I'm gonna take the Miami Heat plus one. Bulls have been feisty, by the way. Incredible. Colby White Bazillis. Very good. I'm gonna go Miami Heat. I mean, are the Bulls indeed very good? They put 150 up on the Lakers. Giddy was good. I. I would say they're younger and more fun than the Heat. This is the most optimistic Chicago has been in years in terms of like, oh, now it looks like we have the makings of something that can grow into something a little bit more. They're fun to watch. They play up and down. Kobe White, what a story about him. Because remember, he was in the doghouse when Billy Donovan first came in. They didn't want him. They put him out to pasture. But then through injuries and his own improvement, he won back his spot. Now I think Billy Donovan is one of his favorite guards. So Chicago, believe it or not, the feel good story. If you want something new and exciting, you root for Chicago against Miami tonight. But Dan, I just want to say one more thing about last night. Walking into that building and seeing all the chairs with the gold shirts on it. And then watching Orlando and Atlanta, everyone had the blue shirts on. God, this is the best time of year, ain't it? Oh, my God. It's like all that other bullshit about like load management. It's done. We're baby. Our basketball is at a high level. Everyone's Going crazy. When Steph Curry hit that last three and just walked down the court looking dead at the camera, everyone lost their mind. I was like, oh, my God, the NBA is bad. All right. But it's not bullshit, though, because the NBA last night is showing you they're a good product when the players try, like, it's not bullshit. Well when they play. Okay, you guys are saying that, and I understand your love of basketball. I love it, too. But please do not bring Orlando, Atlanta around here. As if I have just the colors. Just the colors. Hold on. You didn't like Paolo Banker over last night? Trey Young, frustrated, ejected. Dan, you're rooting for a Pacers Clippers. That is true. You are. You are ready for that. Trey Young gave me some of the content I need there. Orlando and Atlanta playing games that I can hide on NBA TV and not have to worry about them mattering in six weeks or not. I've been watching those for. Look, Trey Young is that frustrated because he's been playing in many of those games for Atlanta. One of my favorite pastimes, I'm sure Tony shares this with me, is which one of these series is going to be the NBA TV series? I'm going to tell you right now. Cleveland, Atlanta. Book it. Cleveland, Atlanta straight to NBA tv. That's right. Yeah. You're assuming Atlanta is going to win that. Yeah. I'll get Chicago or Miami. Really? I'm not impressed. I mean, look, Trae Young is that frustrated because it's been frustrating to be Trae Young since he left Madison Square Square Garden in the playoffs. And he's frustrating his trade value. Like what happened last night with Trey Young. Immature, unprofessional, ridiculous, and not at all surprising. He's been a Hawk for a long time, and the Hawks have been the Hawks for a long time. Yeah, I mean, like, I think it's always chicken in the egg, right? Are the Hawks the Hawks because of Trae Young, or is Trae Young suffering because the Hawks are the Hawks? It's probably a little bit of everything feeding into each other. As far as what's happening. There are a lot of people who feel like Trae Young should be the one to go. If you're Atlanta, you're trying to repurpose yourselves, they've got pieces to like, right. Jalen Johnson, who's hurt. But, like, when he was playing, that's when the Hawks were at their best. I, like, obviously Dyson Daniels was a great find for them this year after everyone said, oh, my God, they traded Dejounte Murray. After a couple years of that experiment not working, you get Dyson Daniels, who is okay in New Orleans, comes in here. He's one of the front runners for defensive player of the year. Like I think the Hawks have things to look forward to to. But there does seem to be a cap as far as how good they can be as long as Trey Young is there. I don't think we've mentioned this yet today. Golden State and Memphis last night. Great game. Has there ever been a more anticlimactic finish? Oh no. Look in the building. That it was amazing. Dude. On television. It was brutal. Brutal. Five seconds. The five second count was. You know what's crazy everyone. All my friends in the group tag team to that felt like faster than five seconds. And I sat next to Nate Duncan and we timed it. We literally put the timer on and it was like six, six and change. Like the dude and didn't even look like he was about to pass it in. Maybe he didn't know. Does he think you just get all the time you want to throw it in. And Curry was on ball too. So it's not like they have posts. They have a seven footer. It's Curry trying to do his best since Aldonna's here. Like I'm good. I mean what are we doing with the Rockets where The warriors are minus 190 to win that series? So stugats, this is what's happening here. On the one hand, the Rockets, great season, tough defensive team, very physical. And of all the players in the NBA who have had to guard Steph Curry this year, I think Thompson has done perhaps the best job. He's just exact in terms of size, in terms of defense and IQ and all that stuff. But first time at the rodeo and you know what happens at the first time at the rodeo? Stugots. The bull rides the horns or some shit like that. Nailed it. That's what happened his first rodeo. He's never been to his first rodeo. How was that? 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