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in yeah to your local flower shop. So not only we were trying to do this, but we were doing a story about the most expensive Super Bowl commercial of all time and I mentioned Alexa and then I was like, oh damn it. I just set off a bunch of people's alexas, and then Danny said, what Alexa play pirates? And it worked, which is in our mind, the most expensive porn ever made. That Kevin had to watch and he's going to review at nine o'clock or so in the nine o'clock hour.
But somebody texted, damn you Bayliss, no porno. But my Alexa did start blasting a pirate's theme song through my still sleeping household. Are you serious? That's awesome? Yes? And this you could have far less pleasant music to wake up too. You wake up to a day filled with adventure. I'm plundering and pillaging and seeing the world from one eye and parrots with a needy bird on your shoulders. Yeah, you feel like waking up and going to get your treasure. Yeah, take on the day like a damn
pirate today. Everybody be a pirate today. At nine o'clock, I will have audio of that. I think we're gonna set people up for a different day. Man. If you have that mentality, you play that jam behind you, you're kind of like, all right, that's who I am today, modern day pirates. I've labeled one of my cuts for my pirate audio. Uh has to bang to get loose. Okay, I can't wait for this, Yeah, I can. I lost. What was the bet I lost for? I don't know. Oh no, it was the Royal Rumble.
I lost the Royal Rumble. We had Royal Rumble prediction, Yes, and Kevin and one, but by winning he lost. His punishment was to watch a two hour adult film that was what made in the nineties. Yeah, let's run it back with Daytona five hundred this Sunday right absolutely in on any daytime. You want to bet, you want to make that. You want the person whose car finishes last has to watch Pirates to Stagnetti's revenge.
Oh my god, because last is arbitrary. Someone's gonna put crash on the first lap and then it's over, and then he's proven F one man, that racing is all rigged and all set up, all rigged and all set up. It is script. Last time someone else wonted F one race, Please let her stab in one of them. All. Well, NASCAR is doing the same because they've seen the popularity. So the two finishes last you want to avoid. It's still a game of strategy. You want to avoid
finishing last. How about remaining cars on the track, the person that last, not the first due that crash because you don't want to some might crash and lap one it's over, and then it's they crashed at the same time. So who gets a signed last who skidded further? Why am I having person who actually finished the race? Let's make it that I can't have an interest in it unless I have a driver to pull for. Okay, that's why you're cheering for your guy not to win, and you've cheered the last
lap, and that's a fun different way to view it. Is no as Denny Hamlin rips past. Yeah, others Bubble Wallace, Okay, yeah, he's in the makes, Jimmy Johnson or he retired, right, I can't think of the name of the yes one. Ryan Blaney, Ryan Blaney, Dave Blaney, Ryan Blaney. Ryan Blaney is our reigning champ. Kyle Larson. Isn't he the Kyle Larson's in there? Isn't he the bad word? Guess? Yeah, yeah he is, but he also is one of the
better wheelman on planet Earth's Kevin Harvick still race. I don't know. He wasn't in the playoff last year. Okay, we'll get the terms on that bet later. Let's sort it out much later. And that's the pregame show to Sports at seven. Let's see it. Oh yeah, go ahead, Yes, let's go. Well, I want to see how your review of Pirates goes before we decide that the next thing you should be watching and reviewing Pirates. Raven sounds like someone who's scared to watch Pirates. Dou Stak Natty's
revision. I'll tell you this, I'm not going to make it through as you allegedly did. I had to break it into two every time bring it out. You broke it into two. Ouch, I hear you, dog. There's two hours eight minutes long, so two sessions. Well, some baths content in a minute, of course. But I want to play audio
from Ceedee Lamb first. See Lamb was doing the Micah Parsons podcast, and what you need to know is that he is having a huge bowl of pasta, but he's addressing If you remember, as the season ended there, his mom went on Facebook and was basically said, dak ain't it? I think what was? The post had a few other comments saying that down here to Houston, c J. Stroud is the man and we'd love to have CD down in Houston. So CD talks about that on the podcast with Michael Parsons
on the Bleacher Report. Appreciate you, and then I know we're gonna clear the elephant out the room. I know what my mom said. You feel what I'm saying. Let's get the elephant out the room. Oh, we got to see the elephant at the room. No, I have I have no conscience. No, I have not been talking to my mom about any of this. I don't talk to my mom about my sports nor my personal problems. She just being a mom. She knows her son. He comes home, Matt unfortunately when we lose. So she got it. She had
the opportunity to voice in her opinion on Facebook. Yeah, we know I have. Once again, I'm gonna repeat this. No, I have no bee from my quarterback. I love my dog. You know that. And you know we like with that being said, it's gonna make some more millions, it's gonna score some more tess. Okay, put those in the right order. Home. Yeah, I have his contracts up right or he's about to get one. So I love it. It's what it's all about.
And don't ever think anything otherwise. It's just a job. It's a job, and we're the idiots that get all work. We talk about it all day every day. Does he really care? Spend it? You really care? Eighty dollars on their hoodies? Haads? Yeah, we yeah, it's stressing. We care so much more than they do. Yes, And then they would be like, you know, so that's you don't understand, you know, and just dismiss you when you say that. Come on, yeah,
Tony Pollard didn't know their DC wasn't there anymore? I mean, and there is something to checking out after the season. Fine, getting the hell away from all of that. Then why are you doing interviews on Super Bowl rope radio? Checked out? Like, I'm sorry, Like it's it's whatever the convenient narrative is at that time. But I think that's funny. Is like, it's just a mom being a mom. She as I come home mad. I was like, well, what did you tell her when you
came home mad? Yeah, but it's kind of funny. It's not that big of a deal, but it's funny. I just the number one takeaway is he had a huge bowl of pasta. I kept waiting for him to just take a break for a nice bite of Fedicini Alfredo. Did he not take a bite when you saw that? Uh No, but I have one where he is taking a bite. But that's how I want so bad. Yeah, okay, hold on, you see he's kind of talking. Did he describe the pasta at any point? Not why they acknowledged the pasta?
I hear how everybody talks me too. Bro. For me to sit here and just let him just do that. Like you said, y'all could be the number one offense, not negotiable, not negotiable. So you're and please say this to the world the people that dads can take us there, please please, that can definitely lead us. You just also need other leaders. And that's why I'm pointing at myself, because I can help him. You know what I'm saying. It's only so much. He already got so much
on his plate. You feel what I'm so much. He got the hardest job in America, man, Come on, think about it, the hardest in America. The quarterback for the guys comes the hardest job in America. And that's why I say cap in his mouth cap uhs. And and that's why I say self reflection. You gotta have a lot of that and I look, I thought, you know what I'm saying. I know that playoff game didn't and away out we wanted it. Nor did I have the beginning
or first half of the game that I wanted. But I've learned so much from that playoff game. Okay, So when he says that he's pointing the fork at the yeah, are you serious? The pasta fork points? Yes, I know that dads across America have pulled that move dinner tables. No cap has less impact when it's you know, issued and muffled through Manicotti. Yes, right, that playoff game didn't we wanted it, Nor did I have the beginning or first half the bowl from that believe it or not?
So where does it start? You can go about in the studio with a bowl apasta, I thought, zooming, there are a beautiful set. Look at him beat that pasta disposable fork? Or is that there's no more waste of time? Bro? There's no more This clock is ticking, has been. So how do we? Georgeously, he said, where does it start? For you? Does start at OTAs and starting camp? It does right now, right now, I'll be watching this super Bowl. Go to somebody
else at that somebody else won that trophy. That's amazing. You're just swimming through a big, big, big I mean, dude, it is huge. Whatever bowl you have at your house multiplied by three. Yeah, yeah. I want the chewing Dad fork point to be a thing. Is that as we've all been on the receiving end of that, Yes, family dinner and the fork point. If you don't get your grades up, mister, okay, what no motocross for you? All right? I grew up in
the seventies. Okay, sorry if my references are a little dated. It's funny. Every once a week after our show, I have to remind jj has, like, you know, you work with three old white men motocross and that's why you need to get a job this summer. Yes, right, so you know, nothing crazy out of that podcast, but it was funny. The posta was the number one headline in the podcast. Our buddy Joe C just texted a picture of his Alexa playing two cellos the Pirates of
the Caribbean theme songs about his house, two cellos. It's gonna work out well for our listener. Our buddy Patrick texted in too about Alexi goes just got Pirates by Rick Ross on my Alex Alexa play Pirates. We're going out with the swashbuckling Bang. That's okay, don't use one of the quotes from the script of Pirates. Washbuckling Bang. We're on that at nine, Okay. Now, the MAVs got a weird win last night over the bad Wizards
team. I don't know if it's a this falls into the category as same old, same old MAVs playing down to their opponent, or this falls into the category of we got some new parts. We did just crush Oklahoma by thirty five. We got some new parts. We're kind of trying to figure
out the rotation and how things work because PJ. Washington and Daniel Gafford immediately inserted into the starting lineup with Lively still out with the fractured nose, and I just thought the offense just looked a little off, And I think that's more to do with new parts. I really think that. But if y'all think differently, feel free to tell me that, because it could have been
same old, same old MAVs playing with their food like CD. I think it is just I don't know what it is, and I don't know if the buck stops with Jason Kidd as far as the consistency of this team. And I don't know. I mean maybe two three weeks ago when we were Max frustrated. It's like, and we're blaming Jason Kidd. I mean,
maybe that's not fair. And Jason Kidd if he was on with us, but he would have said, I got injuries everywhere, and I also have a few guys who belong on the bench in the NBA and not in the starting lineup. You know, like, could any coach in the world do better? Probably, But it will see if that now that you've restocked the cupboard and seemingly have a better starting lineup, and I think Lively's the only guy who's out to injury right now and exum, yeah, true, We'll
see if the inconsistency holds. And if it does hold no matter who's on the roster, then I think you do have to look at coaching because this thing is an ef a wild ass roller coaster always. But on any given night, you could beat the best teams in the NBA like they you know, the thunder or in that conversation, at least record wise, you can lose to the worst teams in the NBA, which they've kind of done this year and almost did last night. You can eke out a win against a
bad team like they did last night. You can blow massive leads to good teams that you have, you know, like they can do it all, blow massive leads to bad teams, blow massive leads to bad teams. But they needed a massive run yesterday. And like I told you before we came on the air, I mean, I think if this team shoots forty three percent as a team from behind the arc, they can win the NBA Championship on any given night or in a series. Hell, maybe forty percent is
the number. I don't know. I don't know the exact numbers because they shot twenty twenty five percent last night. Yeah, it was a good and they shot forty percent against Okay, see, so maybe the numbers forty. I think it's forty, you know, yeah, because there's games, Yeah twenty nine. They shoot twenty nine percent against Minnesota and get absolutely annihilated a couple weeks ago. So if you want to call it forty, they shoot forty forty one percent, they can win the NBA Championship, no doubt.
But you can't count on that. Of course you can't count on it, but if you shoot twenty five percent, you can lose to the worst team in the NBA. And we've said it before the trade. It kind of comes down to, is the basketball making the swisch noise after someone throws it from a long way out, then you're a good team, and if it's
not making that noise that night, then you're a poor team. The difference is, though, now you seem to and once Lively's back, you've got at least a presence to get the rebounds on those shots that are missed. And now I do understand that a lot of three point shots there are longer rebounds that aren't just gonna fall to dudes in the paint. But man, Gafford was a game changer last night. Game changer seventeen rebounds. You get smushed without him. Yeah, last night he kept you in the game on
a lot of different levels. He scored, just gobbled up rebounds, blocked how many five blocks out side? I think important ones too. I'm really excited for tomorrow night because it's Wimby and the Spurs and Wimby. He did last night a triple double with ten blocks. Good twenty seven to fourteen and ten blocks. He had twenty seven last night, twenty seven points, fourteen and ten blocks and five assists. And he did it in twenty nine minutes.
Oh my god, ten blocks in twenty nine minutes. Ridiculous. Wow, do you know who the only because I remember the the Hachem Elijah Wan quadruple double with blocks. I remember that being you remember that? Yeah, how big of a deal that was? And has that? I don't know what that ever happening. I know the last time somebody had a ten block triple double was Clint Cappella two years ago. I believe Akeem Elijuan had the
most triple doubles with blocks since the stats started being officially recorded. He did it eleven times, and that's one more than to Kenba Matombo who did it ten and uh two more than David Robinson. But those are the only dudes who really could hang a triple double with blocks. But that's an impressive stat.
Usually it happens when there's like one possession where Wenby and I think he did get three blocks on like one possession where he's just neutering some poor guys trying to, you know, block rebound, block rebound, but he's impressed as hell. It did take Luca last night back going back to real quick to last night, it did take Luca needing stitches to his chin to awaken
that beast though, because that's honestly when the game changed. I think the play of the of Gafford really helped keep them, you know, somewhat close without it being a blow, because they could have easily gotten beat by twenty three last night, Mavericks could have there's a beat up guy, something about Luca having to leave the game after getting fouled and taken it was an elbow to the chin, had to leave the stadium or the arena to get stitches.
Came back and just he was, like Followell said on the broadcast, pissed off Luca, and Skin said the same thing. I wonder if we're gonna get pissed off Luca when he comes back. Revenge Luca as how they described it, and you did. And the dude just started making threes, dishing dimes, driving the lane and he looked like you expect Luca to look for forty minutes. He just waited until the last few of the fourth quarter, and then the Mavericks kind of, you know, basically run away with
it. But I don't know. I think a little bit of hangover from getting all of these new toys together, the excitement of that rolling out on at the time, the best record in the West. It's going to take a minute. There's a little bit of a hangover. There's some residual we
got this going into last night against a team with nine wins. I just think subconsciously there's a human nature to kind of just go into those things and realize that there's nothing they can do that can beat us after what we did to Oklahoma City, and then you realize, oh crap, this is the NBA and those are NBA players and nine wins that really don't matter. When a team gets hot and plays with a kind of I don't give an f mentality and uh oh we actually have to work. Okay, all right,
all right, dad. But yeah, I'm not surprised by the way that game turned out. I would have been. I would have been surprised had they lost. Yeah, No, for sure. The sixteen point seventeen rebound man Daniel Gafford calls in at nine forty five today on the downbeat coming up next the scuttle butt, an American Airlines jet had a little trouble landing here at DFW. Another plane incursion, next to ninety seven to one, the freak