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You joined us at a

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juicy time. The dubs are out. The

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Kings are alive. The Lakers are alive

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and they're going to be playing the

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Nuggets. Should they be playing the Nuggets or

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should they have lost on purpose? That's one

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of the things we have to talk about.

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The NHL playoffs are just about set. We'll

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get into those, but we'll probably save most

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of that conversation for Kevin Hensch on our

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next episode this week of minus three. That's

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We started the week with Jeff Schwartz chopping

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up NFL draft talk in the QB League.

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All the rest of it really good times

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there. Check that one out. And with

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that being said, let's get into the

1:01

second layer of

1:03

NBA play in games with our

1:06

guy Eddie Spaghetti, of course, is

1:08

back in New York City still

1:10

riding high from his

1:12

fancy pants. Rags winning

1:14

the president's cup. Maybe he

1:17

didn't get the news. Hockey's for nerds.

1:19

We're on to different sports now. And

1:21

that's why we're bringing in our guy

1:24

to talk NBA today. Martin

1:26

Weiss. What's the poop? How are you? What's

1:29

the poop is pressing today.

1:32

But now the thing that I have been

1:34

driving me crazy, this idea that the Lakers

1:36

should have lost on purpose. It is professional

1:38

sports. The whole point is to win. It's

1:41

the whole point. It's the whole reason. I

1:43

got to interrupt you real quick before you launching

1:45

to some old man sort of rhetoric about

1:48

like we play to win the game and

1:50

and all that kind of stuff. I

1:53

kind of I get it At least.

1:55

And So do you. You Get that you

1:58

want the easier matchup. Of Course. I

2:00

am ultimately with you. I had to double damage.

2:02

Yeah, you're right out of the gates before you

2:05

launched into it that. go ahead now. take it

2:07

away. Because. You know what

2:09

to say because a lot of be

2:11

were for same. The knickerbockers should have

2:13

lost on purpose in their last regular

2:15

season game so that they got be

2:17

easier matchup. They decided not to do

2:19

that. and by the way, let me

2:21

just say a couple other things before

2:24

you launch. It's because this is or

2:26

it's all overlapping on the big.a Venn

2:28

diagram right now. I.

2:30

Am Tuesday night. In.

2:32

A critical night for the bottom feeder

2:35

side to get into the eastern side

2:37

of the playoff bracket in the Nhl.

2:39

It was a fascinating watch because. The.

2:42

Philadelphia, Flyers had the wind

2:45

but they're the we the in

2:47

regulation in on the ice. The.

2:49

Capital's only needed to win

2:51

the game period. The Queen's

2:53

that last playoff spot. The

2:55

spot A slot their. The.

2:57

Flyers with five minutes to go in

2:59

a tie game. Yeah. The

3:02

goalie the capital scored into the

3:04

empty goal and then one. That.

3:07

That that lasts about wild card

3:09

slot there's very weird to watch

3:11

at a critical moment the most

3:14

critical obviously by definition to this

3:16

point in the season and the

3:18

teams pull in their goalie that

3:20

sets up than. A.

3:23

Person. All. Possible.

3:25

Achievement. For. Austin Matthews,

3:27

the great sniper for the Toronto

3:29

Maple Leafs. Of course, he's on

3:31

the cusp of seventy goals, which

3:34

is a iconic number in Nhl

3:36

terms, Should he be playing going

3:38

for it, Against the Lightning

3:40

or should he be saving himself

3:42

and his body eats and not

3:44

risking potential injury in favor of

3:46

getting right for the playoffs when

3:48

the leaves as an organization clearly

3:50

me to make some hey in

3:52

springtime once of rocks and now

3:54

that all leads us to the

3:56

knickerbockers and the Lakers and the

3:59

Cavaliers tanking the other night and

4:01

all of that now Martin Weiss

4:03

I after that like be set

4:05

up. The. Floor is yours. How

4:07

say you? Philosophically, I'm losing on purpose.

4:10

Or. Bars the ball is proven to one thing to

4:12

be true. You. Are the biggest nerd

4:14

that we know. Susie I started out

4:17

with hockey is Bernard and they went

4:19

off on a five minutes a locally

4:21

about this the sport on the ice

4:23

when now they've the Penguins were playing

4:25

for that a spot tonight I would

4:27

not I would not be singing that

4:29

song by Diana was on just reacting

4:31

to the news. Hockey is now officially

4:34

for nerds now that the Penguins are

4:36

done amanda baseball Anyway Martin the Us

4:38

is for nerds the spreadsheet basketball where

4:40

you're losing on purpose to try to

4:42

gain the match. So somehow you can

4:44

go from voting. Like if you

4:46

get out in the first round are

4:48

you get out in the second round?

4:50

Ultimately what is that? Six more games. Who

4:52

gives a good to borrow a phrase

4:54

from new? who gives a good god

4:57

right? Who cares about that Like if

4:59

if if you are is hop for seeds

5:01

and either current reduce it be thinking

5:03

how can we win a championship If

5:05

you are Le Bron, James A as any

5:07

Davis use you be digging how can

5:09

we win a championship Knock out always

5:11

game are far from as have to

5:13

make sure we get to the second rounds.

5:15

At this who knows maybe maybe while trip

5:18

and fall and will be a would replace

5:20

and is the Mavericks was in in movies

5:22

as is gets arrested and then all of

5:24

a sudden all these other things come into

5:27

play. Are we going to easy path to

5:29

the finals or the basket of arms is

5:31

of has that Obama? This is the way

5:33

that works as well as works. sweeter works

5:36

Ok you win in you get in and

5:38

you continue to win to stay in there

5:40

said that he says losing own purposes never

5:42

ever ever be beneficial for professional sports teams.

5:45

The whole point. Of the game is

5:47

winning and losing. That's why they keep score

5:49

day. You see, that's what they see Score.

5:51

Well on my way. I hear you

5:53

say now you're getting into that rhetoric which

5:56

I mostly agree with, but. Dabbles,

5:58

damage sex has a couple of exceptions to

6:00

prove the rule. One, do you think student

6:02

athletes should be playing in the blue bonnet

6:04

bowl when they're going to be a first

6:06

round draft pick in a couple of months?

6:09

Of course they should. They should save themselves,

6:11

not lay their bodies on the

6:13

line for the glory of the program. That

6:15

right. I mean, so we agree with that one.

6:18

I was talking about professional sports, but also I

6:20

think you have a strong argument, depending on what

6:22

the NIL money is, you might have to get

6:24

out there, son. Oh, that's

6:26

okay. Okay. You just have to get out there. I

6:30

mean, of course, you know, these, these singular

6:32

moments, and I just told you about what

6:34

happened in the domino effect of what the

6:36

Flyers did to pull the goalie and not

6:39

just cost themselves, but they were going for

6:41

it. And, you know, I'm,

6:43

I'm kind of in on that, that

6:47

they weren't just going to let the hockey

6:49

gods decide their fate for him. They, they,

6:51

they were going to press the issue and

6:53

yank the goalie. Even though it increased their

6:56

chances of losing the game straight up and

6:59

the domino effect and the teams that

7:01

knocked off behind them, you know, I'm

7:03

not opposed to tanking as an absolute.

7:05

I think going 0 and 16, like

7:08

Hugh Jackson, when, when the Browns decided,

7:10

and by the way, the thing that

7:12

gets in the way of that whole

7:14

particular case is that Hugh Jackson

7:16

tanked out so that they wound up

7:18

with Miles Garrett. Wait, they'd know they

7:20

wound up with, yeah, they wound

7:23

up with my, they could have wound

7:25

up with Patrick Mahoney, but Hugh Jackson decided

7:27

that miles Garrett was the better player. So

7:29

they did that. I of course, benefited

7:31

from the greatest tank job in sports history,

7:33

which was the penguins tanking in 1984 so

7:37

that they could get Mario Lemieux. I don't think

7:39

that was wrong. I think he was an all

7:41

time player or, or, or so

7:43

that's an exception that proves the rule

7:46

for tanking. Well, if you want to

7:48

win, win, win, nudge, nudge, if you're at the bottom

7:50

of the standings, you're just trying to improve your draft

7:52

stock for the next season. Do I like

7:54

it? Not necessarily, but I

7:56

understand it. We're not talking about

7:59

these teams. We're not talking about

8:01

the dregs of the league. We're not talking about

8:03

the Cleveland Browns prior to miles Garrett and Baker

8:05

Mayfield or the the Penguins

8:08

prior to Sidney crowds. We're talking about teams

8:10

that have already qualified You are

8:13

correct. It's the same difference It's

8:15

the same dynamic of like I

8:18

will frown on you from up on Mount Pius

8:20

If you are headed to the Hall

8:22

of Fame as a baseball player and

8:24

you juice because your egos like these

8:27

guys are getting too much Shine and

8:29

I need to remind everybody who's boss.

8:31

Okay, that's weird If you're a borderline

8:33

Major League Baseball player and

8:35

by taking steroids You can set up your

8:37

family for the next five generations by juicing

8:39

up a little bit then I'm all for

8:41

it Right the the the context does matter

8:43

here and you're exactly right If you're a

8:45

baby you've been a body much like for

8:47

five or ten years and tank out

8:49

do we have to do this? Is

8:51

a disgrace if you're the Cavaliers or

8:53

anybody who's a Lakers fan saying like

8:55

yeah Let's let's lose so that so

8:57

that we don't have to get the

9:00

the defending champs. Where's your dignity, right?

9:02

It's cornball type stuff It's

9:04

kind of reminds me of John T. Porter

9:06

who just got banned from the NBA for

9:08

gambling because John T. Porter was making like

9:12

$700,000 a year playing in the NBA He

9:15

is the only that's the only soap so

9:17

far test case in sports gambling where I

9:19

was like Well, that makes sense Like if

9:21

you were telling he plays on the Raptors

9:23

if you were telling me that Pascal see

9:25

a come who was on the Raptors Early

9:27

this year who had signed a max contract

9:29

in his career was taking his unders You're

9:33

a millionaire four times over ten times over, you

9:35

know, like how could you why would you ever

9:37

do that? Now if you're if you're pulling in

9:39

less than a mill, this is a different story

9:41

I kind of get it like I kind of

9:43

I kind of that one makes a little bit more

9:45

sense Now I can make a million dollars in

9:47

a night Compared to the million dollars. I

9:50

won't make out the course of the year if you

9:52

were already making half a million dollars a night What

9:54

are you gambling for? I? Feel

9:57

like I'll go one step further. What is

9:59

it? Rorschach test what

10:01

you see in it. That's not wait. That's not the

10:04

test. I'm thinking of it's not Pavlov's dog Anyway,

10:06

I don't know the false premise test

10:09

Which is I would like

10:11

to be the head coach or the general

10:13

manager of a pro basketball team or a

10:15

pro team And walk into the

10:17

room and like like what the

10:19

Lakers were facing in Nola on Tuesday

10:21

night I would say you know what?

10:24

I know it's a little embarrassing and there's

10:26

no dignity in it fellas But who thinks

10:29

raise your hand who thinks we should tank

10:31

tonight because it'll provide a better matchup for

10:33

us in In

10:35

the next week or two and if anybody raises

10:37

their hands you say you're off the team forever

10:39

We don't want we can't have it. We can't

10:42

imagine that do you think LeBron James would raise

10:44

his hand for that? If he would I would

10:46

lose regard for him, right? I don't

10:48

think I don't know You

10:50

don't get to be that good at something without

10:52

having competitive spirit, but you have to want to

10:54

win That's the only way you can ever be

10:57

Get to me even not even just LeBron

11:00

But even even the Gabe Vincent's of the

11:02

world But you don't get to be the

11:04

Gabe Vincent's of the world in the NBA

11:06

without having an intense desire to win at

11:09

least That's what I tell myself Though

11:13

wouldn't it wouldn't that categorize is like

11:15

he's doing the smart thing that That

11:19

the Cavaliers now getting to play

11:21

the Orlando Magic are in a

11:23

better spot We now of

11:25

course must root against them,

11:27

right? I mean like that that's

11:29

the moral I'm really I am

11:31

rooting against what the Cavaliers did

11:33

in Charlotte was Reprehensible.

11:36

Yeah, disgusting Terrible

11:39

to watch and just what's

11:42

wrong with today's participation trophies across the board.

11:44

I hope the Magic beat them at four

11:46

games I hope it's a sweep and I

11:49

hope none of the games are particularly close

11:51

I have never been a bigger Orlando Magic

11:53

fan than I am right now In

11:55

fact of all the first round matchups. That

11:57

is the one that I will watch ever

12:00

single minute of and root root root

12:02

against the Cleveland Cavaliers because they deserve

12:04

it. They do not deserve it. They

12:07

do not deserve to advance another round

12:09

to the gaming the system the way

12:11

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12:14

They're trying they're trying to game the

12:17

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13:53

Spaghetti, you're a Knickerbocker's fan by the way.

13:55

Ah, gives

13:58

me no pleasure. but I have to extend

14:02

congratulations to

14:04

the Rags. You were there, I was

14:06

happy to see it. You got to be an MSG with

14:08

your special lady and all that

14:10

for a special night, the President's Cup.

14:13

Now, here's another one, Martin

14:15

Weiss. The Rangers

14:17

on purpose won the President's Cup.

14:19

Eddie Spaghetti will tell you that

14:21

the new math says that it

14:23

actually is good to win the

14:25

President's Cup for a

14:27

hockey team. It used to be as recently as like

14:29

a year or two ago, it was like, oh,

14:31

it's a curse. It's like, if you win that thing,

14:33

then be the number one team

14:35

in the league by record at the end

14:37

of the regular season. It was like a

14:39

pox for the majority of this millennium, but

14:42

Spaghetti has new math that says it's favorable.

14:44

Either way, congratulations on that. And

14:47

two, what about your Knickerbocker's

14:49

choice to play and play hard and

14:51

play to win the game versus play

14:54

for a more favorable matchup than round

14:56

one of the playoffs? Well,

14:58

thank you for the congrats there. And since this

15:00

is an NBA podcast, I will connect both the

15:03

Rangers to the Knicks. I think it's a great

15:05

move. I think I'm tired as a

15:07

Rangers fan, I'm tired of hearing like, don't win

15:09

the President's Cup or hopefully this team wins or

15:11

this team loses. I don't want to play the

15:14

Penguins. I don't want to play this team. I

15:16

don't want to play Tampa. Like, that's not really

15:18

how it works. If you're a guy- That's thinking,

15:20

thinking. You're cheating, right Spaghetti. That's right, Martin Weiss

15:22

is right. That starts a

15:24

culture of losing, being favorable.

15:26

Don't go down that rabbit hole.

15:29

And if you want to be the best, you have to beat

15:31

the best, which is a tired phrase, but it's true. And

15:34

that ties into the Knicks as well. I mean, the Knicks

15:36

getting the two seed for that team for

15:38

the city, it means something. Getting 50 wins

15:41

for this team, for the city, it means

15:43

something for the fans, definitely means something. And

15:45

yeah, I understand that Joel Embiid is the

15:47

reigning MVP. He's a phenomenal basketball player, but

15:49

the fact of the matter is he's been

15:51

banged up all year. And

15:53

it's no sure thing that if they had to play, you

15:55

know, the Pacers who gives a lot of team fits, that

15:57

could have been a problem. And the same goes for, You

15:59

know, if the heat- My whatever I just feel like of

16:01

his and I'm going to being one of those

16:04

two teams are from the playing games. I get

16:06

your beer and a half to be him. Doesn't

16:08

matter what the history as or how many star

16:10

players they have because the next house or star

16:12

player in jail brunson of course like Julius Randle,

16:15

being healthy would have been a lot better but

16:17

I saw them to death as good anything Tom

16:19

Thibodeau, the phenomenal couch instead he may are you

16:21

grind players to their bone because of how much

16:24

he plays them for the regular season. They're kind

16:26

of the the anti of this arab and be

16:28

a basketball where people are are not. Near you're

16:30

doing load management the next don't really do that

16:32

whatsoever which could bite them really in the and

16:35

bytes on a is it does seem like reminds

16:37

me of those mid nineties knicks the and like

16:39

those is like Tov grind your out and like

16:41

they were the identity of the city with those

16:43

he's with like you know organ maze and doing

16:46

and starts and I think as a reason why

16:48

this whole town is like really believing in them

16:50

a little bit different and guy carmel my the

16:52

meeting usually did when fifty four games they were

16:54

very good. This is a different feel. This team

16:57

actually has the potential to go pretty far. Not

16:59

going to say when these are our final even

17:01

make it to the easy and I think they're

17:03

gonna be in the car essays and I think

17:05

it's a first step in a very long time

17:08

for the next name. Well. Let's

17:10

get into a Dan Martin Am. What?

17:13

Do you think about first of

17:15

all the not small matter and

17:17

be. And company against Jimmy

17:19

Butler at the time this recording

17:21

the sixers lane five total is

17:24

to away. Jimmy Butler.

17:26

Do it again or you take in Philly here.

17:29

Until you feel here. Because I mean.

17:32

There. Is only so much dancing to

17:34

the raindrops in Miami Heat and Do

17:36

before it's been. Rain hits that flame

17:39

and distinguishes it. Nine dates this year.

17:41

They. Know was we could look back and

17:44

three weeks and like this tape made it

17:46

may aids I've old mill but that he

17:48

all season I've not done anything to make

17:50

me think that they're at top eighteen or

17:52

at least a top six team in the

17:54

west's right A I mean in the East

17:56

well the top six him in the east

17:59

and. The moment they had

18:01

moments last year where it was up

18:03

and down right this year to me

18:05

has been more steady just of average

18:07

and to me they are much closer

18:09

to to the horse in the balls

18:11

than they are to the seventy sixers

18:14

who realistically it like to etti point

18:16

do all of these been knocked have

18:18

been bangs of all season. If.

18:20

He was healthy. I think that he would

18:22

they would probably be the two seats rise

18:24

as a boss and would still ran. I

18:26

mean they those a bigger gap or Padres

18:29

my answer. I lost his celtics and the

18:31

to see. Then. There was in

18:33

the entire play off for the Western Conference.

18:35

Philadelphia probably should have been right there about

18:37

six and a half games back out. a

18:40

first place all season long pad and be

18:42

been helping. And isn't

18:44

it it out again? You say? three weeks

18:46

from now we might look back him and

18:48

look like. By. This

18:50

really does either. Know it. It's

18:52

not if I were a south

18:55

expanse. very cautious. optimism. dead. Yet

18:57

out with ah, with Yannis in the

18:59

state he is, it doesn't sound like

19:01

easy to be available to even start

19:03

the series on. The. Patio Julius

19:05

Randle down. A lot of people including

19:08

you and Kevin Hands were circling the

19:10

knickerbockers as the team that might be

19:12

able to actually take for off of

19:14

Boston. Ah, on the eastern side of

19:16

things. I mean the pads is pretty

19:18

clear for the celts. I mean is

19:20

is this as. Ah,

19:22

I'm. Pretty. Bit a favorite.

19:25

First. A city like new one last

19:27

year. with Denver Denver. last year I've lost

19:29

to play off games on the way to

19:31

Defiance Right reads all over the last one

19:34

in the funds. If the south the city

19:36

was a weird. If they go strong it

19:38

should be a run like that where they

19:40

are losing. Less. Than five playoff

19:42

games in total. ah but the

19:44

way the thing that the thing

19:46

that like gives me pause with

19:49

the celtics is date august to

19:51

the free throw on and they

19:53

have no was shot diversity outside

19:55

of three pointers and layouts and

19:57

I know that in a perfect

19:59

world. Every shot that you take

20:01

would be a three pointer or a layup

20:03

according to the nerds that have taken over

20:06

the sport that I love, right? but nothing

20:08

is perfect in the play offs. These go

20:10

wrong in the playoffs and would things go

20:12

wrong as they sometimes will. You're going to

20:15

need a guys and simple up from the

20:17

free throw line because he can get all

20:19

the way to the room and to brew

20:21

foreigners are Poland. somebody's gotta make something happen

20:23

and I'll Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown. Are

20:26

you quiz? It with with they

20:28

to the way they play all year

20:30

to to get to the free door, wide

20:32

extended area and hit mid range jump

20:34

shots you will get every great score in

20:36

the N B A is really in the

20:39

last. Ditto. As distinct, the

20:41

last ten years of the Mbs every.

20:43

Smoothly. Dominant or even step Harrys got

20:45

a floater. Everybody has something that they can

20:48

do if you cut their if you cut

20:50

him off before they get to the rim.

20:52

Le Bron in his around fade away right?

20:54

Kevin Durant's free door of Extended for the

20:56

last ten years has been money. Devin Booker

20:59

the same three pointers are great and used

21:01

to suit a lot of them right, but

21:03

you have to have some side. the birds

21:05

that you gotta be able to pump, fake

21:07

take to dribble and then boom right there.

21:10

Floater from the brutalize has put a put,

21:12

does that. Added pressure on. The Demons and

21:14

when you're in the play offs. To me

21:16

though, the way you have to look at

21:19

this is the more bug getter that you

21:21

have wanted. seen the better right? because you.

21:24

Did. Years the Us would be

21:26

able to run your set in. I

21:28

could be able to just screen and

21:30

roll into oblivion cause you're playing the

21:32

same team at minimum four times. You

21:34

have to beat them for time to

21:36

get through to the next round. unless

21:38

you're talking about the plane and with

21:40

anything can happen. Disaster Golden State Warriors

21:42

last night. But. If you

21:44

that a beat Us Imports Rg Kids is due

21:46

to say that you didn't game one because they'll

21:48

be. They'll be hit two a day. They're all

21:51

professions. Either. Way you mention

21:53

that, Ah yeah, you mention what happened

21:55

on Tuesday night. And okay

21:57

balance as compelling Matt yep hangs

21:59

feel like they're on the rise.

22:01

Things got sideways injury wise with

22:04

Monk and all that. but. I.

22:06

Do like the King's next three

22:08

to five years. Golden. State I

22:10

don't like it as my by okay an

22:12

iconic team and all that. I.

22:15

Mean the East Nine Ten

22:17

matchup. Is a statement about going

22:19

too far with how many plastics ago. I

22:21

mean, what are what are we talking about

22:23

that combines. ah, I'm twenty games under five

22:25

hundred or whatever these two teams are. Still

22:28

just send them both out into the field.

22:30

Let's let's just cut to the chase. Oh,

22:32

that's when I love about the King's is

22:34

that now they go to Nola. I'm

22:37

correct me if I'm wrong. the Pelicans

22:39

mascot was that thing. Baby cake. Rides.

22:42

Or king take baby or whatever his name

22:44

was easily the good. Either me or things

22:46

are com and a into his house and

22:48

he's a baby. Came. So. The only

22:51

at the root for Sacramento. You. Know

22:53

the story behind the king Take baby

22:55

the know how I will I be

22:57

less? I know I think the better.

22:59

probably because it's really it's bizarre in

23:01

kind of creepy. would you do see

23:03

it without who is bizarre? Kind of

23:06

creepy but every year between during Mardi

23:08

Gras seasons new can buy it's what

23:10

is called a king taste right move.

23:12

It's guy looks like a pastry with

23:14

icing on agreed gold and yellow or

23:16

these are me green golden purple on

23:18

the colors of Mardi Gras and you

23:21

have a team taking so like. Let's

23:23

say hypothetically speaking, I would. I lived

23:25

off a parade route. I say day

23:27

pay spaghetti was come on down and

23:29

Miles was the parade because I live

23:32

two blocks away. I was there by

23:34

eating cake. So. They got of the

23:36

take everybody would eat, it's you be needed

23:38

and his arm and a day or night

23:40

as long as it's during Mardi Gras season.

23:42

I've had think take for breakfast many times

23:44

in my debts. So whereas you cut to

23:46

pieces right, there is a baby inside the

23:48

case. And the person who gets

23:50

the baby. I know is odd.

23:53

But. the person who gets the benefit i would hide

23:55

the baby in there somewhere the know lived or

23:57

the gays put a sense to given a bottomless

23:59

or other other pastry cut

24:02

it up. And as you say, Dave, you

24:04

got the baby now you have to buy

24:06

the next tin cake for the next time

24:08

that we have a Mardi Gras party. The

24:12

irony that this is all going

24:14

on in Louisiana, where the speaker

24:17

of the house Mike Johnson is

24:19

is, or actually, maybe it informs why

24:21

he is the way he is anyhow. Okay,

24:24

last couple things here for you, Martin. And

24:26

last couple things for us, as a matter

24:28

of fact, we wanted to get you in

24:30

in advance of these, these

24:32

NBA playoffs Lakers now, with

24:35

the nugs, nugs minus 380,

24:38

prohibited favorites, in other words, although I'll

24:40

defer to you on this, I have

24:42

heard repeatedly, I listen,

24:44

you and Mark Gunnels on

24:47

lemon pepper parlay have been singing a

24:49

song I have been bitten by the

24:51

Mavericks one too many times to

24:53

support them. I really

24:55

you know, Don, I am

24:57

waiting for the big breakthrough. But like I

24:59

say, one too many spring times I've invested

25:01

in them. So I'm off of that. But

25:04

you say the Mavs have a have the

25:07

best shot out of all the West to

25:09

knock off the nugs. Am I heard

25:11

you're right? I

25:13

think it especially with Jamal Murray's injury

25:16

is anything that's more significant, I will

25:18

probably peg the Mavericks as a team

25:20

with the best shot to go to

25:22

the Western Conference Finals outside of Denver.

25:24

And I mean, the odds reflected as

25:26

such, but I think Hawaii's knee is

25:29

going to be a world clear

25:31

shortly that it's a bigger issue than, um,

25:33

than it actually is. The Thunder

25:36

are interesting, but the Thunder don't have

25:38

any big bodies, right? They have Chad

25:40

Holmgren, who is slim tall, instead of

25:43

big tall, right? You know, he's not quite,

25:45

you know, he there's no, he needs a little,

25:48

you know, look few more sandwiches or some more.

25:50

What a pro needs. Oh

25:54

my goodness. That commercial

25:56

had this household Asking

25:59

at the end. Why do

26:01

they keep showing his God what is

26:03

a terrible covered I tell you my

26:06

hypothesis about why that commercial has been

26:08

received so poorly to fold wine. What's.

26:11

Chester. don't walk and around them. The

26:13

had to tell whether I'm on and

26:15

it doesn't look like he's worn it

26:17

very much but he did buy it

26:19

ends.that leather suit is where and him

26:22

not the other way around. Wider into.

26:24

It's the thing he does with his hands. right?

26:27

Hand. Side. He he said they didn't.

26:29

Do their song back and forth by but

26:32

it's when said goes. I want to get

26:34

oil approach what you know That's when people

26:36

are like what the how you doin Chester

26:38

I'm I'm right. I mean the singing voices

26:41

don't help because as hard as it is

26:43

really hard to ignore when you're sitting there

26:45

is really did you watch it again? We

26:47

try your best to ignore to commercials and

26:50

doing go about your life in those four

26:52

minutes. the five minute periods of respite that

26:54

you get from being locked into the Axe

26:56

Black since we're all here for an in

26:59

that commercial. Very. Was like the I

27:01

like the Whopper. During

27:03

the when it first came out. Once

27:05

you hear it, you can stop listening

27:08

and now thirty seconds of your break

27:10

from what's actually going on. the intensity

27:12

of the massive that you're watching thirty

27:14

Seconds is now been stolen from Daves

27:16

Us for the Bronx where we are

27:18

talking about this big scandal. No one

27:20

is talking about the Big Scandal, The

27:23

Eraser, The Original Georgi and Song Lady

27:25

She's on the Boss. It's a big

27:27

Hollywood production like I take one day

27:29

lead your audience at each day. Saw

27:31

didn't See does the. Big dance number.

27:34

The. Original Lady. she's gone from the planet

27:36

earth as far as we know they've replaced

27:38

are now office seats and no one's Batman.

27:41

I about it But Damage. Six years, Amanda

27:43

Justice and now Quick Break. Listen,

27:50

Martin Dynamite, Stop. Before.

27:52

You go. The one last thing we were talking know

27:54

and all that. Where's. Our ongoing

27:56

a little project here is we've gotten

27:58

Chris Long Jeff. Lord spaghetti to wait

28:01

and I'm the audience is weighing in

28:03

with that with their keen ideas. Now

28:05

it's your turn Martin Weiss, You can

28:07

bring back one player. From.

28:10

New. Orleans Saints history in his

28:12

prime. And. Plug him on to the Twenty

28:14

Twenty Four roster. Who is it? Drew.

28:16

Brees. So. Cheaply

28:18

com a spaghetti and I have already agreed

28:20

it's novice stuff to take a Qb. Okay,

28:22

I'll take the advertiser when you're a one

28:25

man a new one moment when they're all

28:27

of it feels like is legitimately a quarterback

28:29

way. How can any sign of quarterback? A

28:31

year ago for three years, one hundred million

28:33

dollars and now the says is that much

28:35

worse against a salary cap when you probably

28:37

if you can, give me Drew Brees of

28:39

their cars contracts bloodstains my won a playoff

28:41

game. You. Know when which Amazon. Being

28:43

the head coach, I'm sure I did find some

28:46

offensive lineman they would dare appeal to some. Ps.

28:48

If I think the correct answer, I'm just thinking

28:50

about this off the top my head. West.

28:53

Chandler Went on to start on with the

28:55

Chargers. I'm a bomb Saints team with Archie

28:57

Manning but West handler was one of the

29:00

great wide receivers before you to walk the

29:02

planet earth with you and Etti Spaghetti stats

29:04

the correct answer a burner for all of

29:06

time and a going to the productive why

29:08

does Already got married so used as his

29:10

new be he got us a lot of

29:13

is no thought. Look there's a lot of

29:15

a slow down there though they are or

29:17

how sounds. I'm. Going To. I'm going

29:19

to tell Rut West Handler you just compare. Proceed.

29:22

To. He them. As. Or

29:24

Betty I bet he receives as fast

29:26

and was downloaded. While.

29:30

Madden football or I listened. Okay Busters time.

29:32

Thank you for making the time for a

29:34

smart Weiss. I'm sure you'll likely you just

29:36

heard great news. You can listen to him

29:38

on the aforementioned lemon pepper parlay. You can

29:40

catch him on Fox Sports with Rob Parker

29:42

and Chris Broussard. I like make an appearance

29:44

is on Eggshells and I like making appearances

29:47

on Martin Weiss as week and shall also

29:49

on Fox Sports. Big times coming up for

29:51

ah, Martin Weiss. I'll let him tell you

29:53

about bad in the upcoming days. In the

29:55

meantime, great thanks. Enjoy these M B A

29:57

playoffs and that makes some time for the

29:59

Nhl. They are to watch him for me

30:01

to because I'm I'm out. I'm out. I'm

30:03

watching baseball bats. It. Tells. Me all

30:05

you have shown that till September was me

30:07

an issue by now that of the playoff

30:10

hockey her a hotel with all that how

30:12

with all of it. And

30:14

you martin. You. Have about.

30:17

Their. Egos, Eddie Spaghetti, let's get outta here

30:19

are and he's already got and that's

30:21

fine because I'm out the door to

30:23

just like I am on Hockey State

30:25

and hardy leave Sydney's Us the best

30:27

player the millennium out what he is

30:29

doing Bettman I told you to rig

30:31

the same and now he gets the

30:34

Washington Capitals in the New York Islanders.

30:36

Good luck getting audience or that Sas

30:38

will be back tomorrow with have enhanced

30:40

with a brand new episode a minus

30:42

three. Until then say so much for

30:44

St. Vincent's lies ahead.