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Look at you spring in to your step. Hell yeah, feeling pretty good? Head.
So the Knicks and the Pacers are officially now headed to the fourth quarter.
Yeah they are.
It looked like we were headed to the fourth quarter a couple of minutes ago. However, traveling violation called on the Pacers at the end of the third quarter gave the Knicks a last possession with half a second left. Karl Anthony Towns missus a jumper. So now we're officially at the end of the third quarter. Chalomy looks like Rob mcallaney. He's dressed like a combination of Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall from Coming to America. He's gone full in and the Knicks are twelve minutes away from extending this series to game six, ninety to seventy three.
They lead the Pacers at the end of three quarters. It has been a big night for the two players that need to have biggest nights the most. Jalen Brunson's got thirty, Karl Anthony Towns has nineteen and eleven. And I'll just say this right out of the gate, right, Okay, Still obviously with the next out, Jason, you're not that more excited.
Yeah, I've seen them blow leads like.
Eight days ago, spreads minus sixteen this city quarter. You know, I talked about this last night and I said, I expect the Knicks to come out with this kind of an effort because this is who they are, right. They're not a team that's going to roll over and die. They're not a team that's going to show up like Minnesota going, okay, we're just ready for the off season to start. Cu Ya, I'm okay, I'm Anthony Edwards. I'm not gonna worry about reading defenses now. It's too late in the year. So I knew this was gonna be the effort they were going to come in with, especially Brunson knows Karl Anthony Towns, who I'm sure the last twenty four hours had to hear the rumors of w wait, they might want to trade me at the end of the season. I don't fit that. Well, Okay, I'm gonna go. And he's had a big game. But overall watching this, the Knicks defensively are much more intense than they have been at any point in the series against the Paper. So we saw the physical file that McBride took towards the end of the third quarter, and it's one of those where you're right on the edge. Right, it's like you watched playing you know, your daughter playing soccer softball, right, a hard slide or a tackle, a you know, defensive player getting into it. My daughter and defender in soccer. It's like, you know that be aggressive, don't give up your ground, and then then you have to figure out where the line is of an official calling it with McBride. No, he wasn't gonna let Siakam have that easy deuce, right and but it's that right on that border because he makes no play for the ball at all. So Rick Carlisle is screaming bloody murder and it's like, no, no, this is they're gonna review.
It's gonna get adjudicated properly.
But it's one of those for the Knicks, you were waiting for them to match that intensity, waiting for them to counter with some of the blows for Karl Anthony Towns between us talking about you know, you know you're trying to talk Giannis into New York into existence.
Yeah, I thoks.
They're all listening to the show. I mean, there's no question about it. Appreciated on the iHeartRadio app and five hundred affiliates nationwide we love you. The sheer number of jerseys Karl Anthony Town's has been photoshopped into Oh yeah, I mean, it's got to be all every other team in the end, But at this what did I send you?
I did what?
An hour and a half before tip off, there were reports that he was a game time decision because of that knee injury sustained when he went down and was clutching his knee the other day, and instead he comes out like a house of fire and he's bouncing around and he's got a good bounce Offensively, Bronson's had a couple of minutes of action where he's looked like that guy. Right, he's gonna have that big special night. So the two of them leading the charge, but that intensity, because it's a long offseason. If you don't show heart going out and we'll get to Josh Hart and his contributions.
Are lacked there of admitting or lack of that.
Yeah, but it's the idea of like in Minnesota, they'll transition, right, twins are pretty good and they'll get into JJ McCarthy and everything going on with the Vikings in short order. In New York, you can have the Mets and Yankees rolling, that's fine. You can turn the page somewhat to the Giants and the Jets. But if you go out without heart and showing intestinal fortitude and then knock down, drag out game against these Pacers and you go meet Clee into the good night, that's not good for anybody. And I think they're smart enough to have recognized that. Yeah, no, and look, and the main thing I've seen again it's hard to say that, hey, you need more from Jalen Brunson, because you know, I mean, really you need more. But defensively, look, he and Karl Anthony Towns are the worst two defenders in the Knicks out right. We've talked about this the last few nights and how it really hurts them when both of them are on the floor, because you know, how good can you be defensively. That's why at the end of the year, again, no team has found I found more stuff is wrong with them in a conference final than the Knicks right now. But that's why, Hey, going on next year, can you survive with both of them? Because you know, Brunson, as great as he is, he's not going anywhere, and he's on the floor. Karl Anthony Towns has been what looked to be a great fit and then it was sort of an odd fit, and now it really hasn't been what they expected it to be and how they thought by this point, Hey, Carl Anthony, that's gonna be a one two punch with Jalen Brunson. But defensively, the Knicks really struggle, and they struggle with Indiana, and there's a combination of Tibbs not making any adjustments. But all it is tonight, Honestly, they're much more active. They're much more aggressive. Brunson is more aggressive defensively. You see him moving around at the top, you know, coming off screens and staying with wherever he's supposed to be, Like this is the big thing. It's almost like, boy, I wish the Knicks would have realized this before they were down three to one. But I celebrate that they came late to the party instead of not showing up at all. But that's really it. Like the Knicks offense has been the same. They've been hitting big shots all of this. It's a twenty point lead right now with eleven minutes to go, and the Pacers are gonna put it away at some point. Halliburton's out of the game right now, so this is gonna be if the Knicks can play hard for the next five or six minutes and have this fifteen sixteen, eighteen point lead. I feel pretty good about the last few minutes of this game. But honestly, that's really all it is. It's not like all of a sudden the Knicks like, oh they found something and they flip the switch. It's just, hey, defensively, guys, you can't have an effort like you had in the last game. You can't just have an effort where every single but like, what did I say if they took five difficulties shots in the last game the Pacers, that might have been more than I thought. Every other every basket, every time the Pacers had the ball when they would miss, it was because they would miss shots. It was not because the Knicks altered them or because the Knicks defensively put them in a bad spot. It was just, Hey, an open player missed or they missed a layup.
That's it. And you can't play games that way.
And that's kind of what happened to the Knicks against the Pacers now tonight. It's they're making the Pacers work a little bit more. And look what's happening now. It's you know, it's it's it's a it's a big lead for them here early in the fourth. Yeah, and I come back to we we threw the flowers at the feet of Halliburton last game. Out right, Hey, I did it for daddy. Daddy, look at me all of that fun stuff. What a half ass effort in a closeout potential? Well but it is, no, No, I'm going to try to try to close this out and go down swing it. They still have time to close it out. How many times have they been down this and they came back? Yeah, but you know, I mean they've been down. They know, Hey, we're down sixteen. We got the right where we want him. We're all good, we got him right here. But look, but you know, i'd agree with you. I'd agree with you, except as we've seen now in the last few years in the NBA, because there's such a you know it.
You know.
It was great talking with Rick Buker about this the other day, is that you know, teams just come in now into games that they don't absolutely have to have and they think we're on the road, we're not going to get the calls. Stuff is not going to go our way. And if that happens early, they go, see, we knew it, and suddenly your effort is not what it was supposed to be in the game energy. I understand, it's a point, and that's become a thing now that that's it's not like it's oh hey, here's a It's not like last night with the Timberwolves.
Was the was an outlier? Was this happens all the time?
Now? Mean times we see big blots like this in the NBA playoffs. Twenty thirty points is now the norm for a lot of games when a team is quit or they don't need a game where they feel the series is always they hit that time now edwards and make him realize that you know, what he does on the cord for forty eight minutes really does matter, and that you're not proud promised to get back there again because this postgame comments were once again very troubled. Oh he gets into his off season. It's like, you know, I'm young, We'll get back. No, what did I say last night? He needs a conversation with a Hall of famer to say, dude, you need to do more. You need if you can't read defenses and you need to ask Dante DiVincenzo for help, guess what you need to do. You got to get in the film room. You have to figure out that way to flip the smart guy good school. I mean, no question about it, but I mean this is where I don't care what sport you bring it from Here's Dan Marino, here's Mike Trout. You know, you can be really good and never win anything.
Yeah, Like it's hard, Like, Yeah.
The finishing the season is a very difficult proposition. Don't assume you're gonna have a lot of these runs. But but yeah, looking at the effort tonight, you'll loose balls and and just the fast break points and everything that had been Pacers Pacers, Pacers showing some heart in front of the home crowd.
So making a ninety six eighty one lead for the Knicks right now with nine minutes left to go, Brunson's getting some rest on the bench, Haliburton getting rest. And it was a twenty point lead a couple moments ago, but the Pacers hit a couple of shots to make it fifteen points. I mean, look, and I'll be honest with you, right, what did I say last night? The two really and one is one is very selfish?
The two really?
Look, the Knicks aren't gonna go down without giving a big effort right to have this clearly the series not going their way. They're gonna show up big at home and mainly the other part I look at it is that Yeah, so if they win this game and they lose Saturday, I don't have to worry about it. We don't have to talk about it anymore. Like it's done by the time we get back on the air Monday night. Like this series is where Helen gone.
Man, we're previewing the Pacers and the and the thunder, so very selfishly, I'm like, yeah, do it for me. Do it for me so I don't have to talk about it, so I don't have to spend three hours tonight with the Knicks Wake. We had the knixt funeral the other night. Now the Knicks Wake would have to be tonight at least.
Do that for me.
Yeah, I mean, we keep expanding our reach, you know, like the Blob city after city and just taking over across the land and more and more years across New York State. Tonight you were starting to get back into a little uh, you know, go New York, go guy in the first half, but it was it was the most emotion you've shown since Game one.
Well yeah, dude, game one. It came out, I mean came on.
You were so jacked up, and then and then it was like someone came I don't know, and started throwing bottles at your car as just at.
The Harmon teams with a nine point lead and fifty seconds they go in a game. Oh wait wait, fourteen hundred and forteens and no losses.
Until game one in the history you get to.
Raise a banner your record center is Yeah, you know what I thought about?
How bad that? That's? That sounds? How much worse?
Is ready for this? I think about the other day, going okay, so this is when they were keeping track in the in the in the mid nineteen nineties, right, okay, sure fifty you know, nine pointly fifty one seconds left to go, fourteen hundred and fourteen wins and no loss.
That's a lot of data. Pat, here's how bad that is.
If you can go back further, right, because what was going on in the mid nineties, Yes, we had the three point shot, but not nearly to this extent, not nearly to where teams can make three and four threes in the final fifty seconds of a game and win. Okay, all right, so maybe not there? What about going back no three point shot? Remember, no three point shots? So when you're down.
Nine with fifty seconds left to go, that's a five possession game, right, So I guarantee you that that was in the I would not guarantee you, but I would say if you, if I had to go to Vegas and bet all my money, I would say, if you could find a way to go back all the way to the beginning of the NBA, when the peach Baskets were up in the final scores of like four to two, if you could go all the way back to that, you would find zero instances of a team up nine points with fifty one seconds left to go and wind up losing that game.
Zero out of.
The history of the NBA, when James Naismith was in Canada, going, hey, if I bring this game to the United States, they might like it.
Maybe we'll get a team here in you know, eighty or ninety years.
Well, and don't forget the first decade of the NBA, there was no shot clock. I'm telling you, man so well, you would still foul to put guys in the free throw line, but I mean you'd have to catch them.
Yeah, cat potato baby.
If I'll tell you, look, if the ball's gone, they're not calling the file. It's too big, man, the court is too big. Already passed it done? And back then they were smaller guys. Uh so, I mean you had more room on the on the court.
I got so.
Game one is a lot to come back. I don't know the 'll ever be back from Gever. Macho grande. I'll never be over macho grande. I don't know that I'll ever get over Game one. Game one was that bad man? It was that.
Did you write any off of that?
Did you at least get a new chapter to a post apocalyptic book?
Oh no, the entire night was post apocalyptic.
That's you.
No.
I saw the thousand yards stay in New York. I saw your soul leave your body and hover for a second, and then it waved you off like sipp witch. If the apocalypse happened during Game one, Okay, the news in New York would open up eleven going, the apocalypse is here. Many of us are dead. Half of the people here are dead. But boy also maybe dead the New York Knicks.
Let's go live to Madison Square Garden and find out the latest on that incredible.
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Reporter has been eaten by a zombie and our camera has been eaten by a zombie. Okay, well, luckily we have Gil Gerard here. Who's going to give us about what happened in sports?
Okay? Are they? They're starting to.
Break through into the newsroom. The the zombies here. Okay, so we have about thirty more seconds left to live. Hey, hey, Jerry, can you tell us what happened in this game tonight before the zombies come in?
Yes?
What an incredible, awful loss by the New York Nicks. Here come the z I may as well let the zombies eat me. It doesn't even Ah, Dawn, that still doesn't hurt as much as the Nicks loss. And now gonna be a zombie Paula out Ah, that hurts even more.
That hurts more than the joke side that Haliburton. Does Gil Gerard get infected by a zombie? So tweeted?
Has did meet Ebedd? I meant to say, Jerry Girard, Jerry Gerard, former.
Sports cast say now I'm thinking about Buck Rodgers.
And that gets us to, uh, what was the woman that was on Silver Spoons that Aaron Gray? Aaron Gray see it all ties together?
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She was one of my first TV crushes. I was like, what Aaron Gray is you like? During that Silver out? I wanna wat, I wanna I want to watch Buck Rogers every Sunday night after I take my shower and before I go to bed early for school? Can I watch Buck Roger? You realize that for about eight years Gil Gerard was married to Connie Selica.
I did not know that about that. Wow, thinks you learned? And TJ.
Maybe they lived in a hotel at that point.
TJ.
Now we get into the Brolins and Panos.
So we get back to post apocalyptic world.
See it all ties together? Under eight minutes left to go. The Knicks lead the Pacers by twelve. Halliburton's back in the game, Brunson's back in the game. So I direct you to the Mike Harmon two. Oh they're not showing up for the Yeah, I told you, plenty of time left, plenty of time left to just rip everything out of it. Already put a cape on while he said.
So, we'll keep you updated on this game.
But coming up next, not one, but two big stories out of college basketball and college football. If you like more teams in the playoffs, you're gonna love what's coming up next. That's straight ahead, Jason and Mike. You are listening to Fox.
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Sometimes you just shake my head at the shots Jalen Brunson.
HiT's just what are you gonna do?
Right?
Big hoop by Brunson right there, pushes the Knicks lead back out to eighteen Nix lead the Pacers one oh four eighty six, just over four minutes left to go, And one of those shots that if you missed it, you'd say, why is he taking that shot?
No?
No, I mean that's just a way I know.
I've come to the come to the conclusion. Whatever Brunson does, I will live and die with that. That's absolutely fine.
If Brunson whatever. Yeah.
So defensively no, but offensively, if he wants to have one foot falling out of bounds and throw it up with a hook shot righty, if he wants to put up a shot like, what what's the shot that got uh Woody Harrelson got uh Rosie Perez on Jeopardy with and White Men Can't Jump when he had to make the hook shot from the other free throw, Like, if that's what Brunson los Okay, I'm okay with that. If that's what Brunston needs to put up, that's what brunt needs to put up, a big jumper. And again it's it's a sixteen point lead now for the Knicks, three and a half minutes left to go. I we'll have more on this game coming up in a few minutes up. Maybe the Pacers have the Knicks where they want him, but you know, we'll see. Uh So, if you like more teams in playoffs, and who doesn't, right this is these are not one, but two great stories come in your way, college basketball and college football. It's just a matter of time and by that I mean maybe just a couple of months until we get an expanded college basketball tournament and an expanded college football playoff. College basketball first, the tournament could expand to seventy two or seventy six teams, with a decision hoped for in the next few months. This is by NCAA President Charlie Baker.
Charlie.
Right now people are saying, oh, so they do have a president, Yes, a member, Charlie. There is somebody, Member Baker, there is somebody in charge of college basketball. I didn't think there was none other it's not college football. He fit the suit. Right, So seventy two or seventy sixteens with a decision, hope for in the next few months.
Right Number one, we've talked about this for a while. Of course this is going to happen, right, and I get sit Aaron. You can talk about the money and more teams getting in, and the and the overall appeal of putting more teams in.
But I will say I will say two things outside of that. Where it's money, it's money. Everybody wants to fault to the money, the money, the money. Sometimes he's the fault to the money. But sometimes there's two things. Number One, you will get a better first four because right now it feels like the first four is sort of a piecemeal thing. Like, hey, we wanted to expand the tournament a little bit, so we put some more teams in. We have a couple of games on Tuesday and Wednesday, and that gets into the first round. But it kind of feels like it's halfway done, right, Like like you started something on your house and like, okay, well we ran out of money for now, so I got a bathroom. It's half built. When when we get money again of everything else. Okay, we're gonna finish.
Does that have holes? Yes, it has holes?
Can we use it?
Can we use it?
Yeah, it's a big hole in the ground. That's called the latrine. No, it's a bathroom. It's it gets it done, put it, put it on Zilo. It's a it's a three and two and a half. Now, so it's a better first four because it is Okay, instead of this piece meal Tuesday Wednesday, it is now, hey, four games on Tuesday, four games on Wednesday, right, and that and that's great. All of a sudden, you can own the entire week. If you are the NCAA tournament, you own selection Sunday. You're off on Monday. Obviously. Be believe me, if they could find a way to get games in a Monday, they would. But you're talking about now a mini NCAA tournament night in prime time on Tuesday and Wednesday. Because what do we get on Thursday and Friday? Right, it's four games at night? Right, you get the games all day obviously, but then at night it's four games. Well, now we're getting four games in a primetime window, and it feels like a full night of the NCAA tournament and it's now you own the entire week in college bass, which comes back to everybody's getting more money, right, right, I mean, look, we can push it off to logic and what's the difference. Let them all in it, come to this house, be one of the you know, glorious people and start singing who lyrics as we go.
But the.
You're looking at a situation whereby who's complaining when teams get get in? And it's the all right, did you leave anybody out that has a viable chance? Well no, And generally the argument is no, except for in that local market where there'll be a little bit of outrage and a fight. But if it means that you get to own another couple of days, it makes a couple of teams more viable in terms of transfer portals and places where players go. In an era where we're seeing a dilution of talent because there are opportunities, nil, scholarship productions, all of that stuff across all sports to where guys are looking and women are looking for their opportunities. It's only good for the business as a whole. Right, There's so much growth to be had there opportunities for coaches, for the players to be seen, and obviously for the cash registered to ring a few more times. True TV or whoever else in the streaming world decides they want a piece of that pie.
Now, the other part of it is this, and this is why everybody's going to agree to it. What if we've seen be the big trend the last decade plus in college basketball the mid majors, right, Butler makes the back to back match championship and side, well, we gotta let them mid majors in. Well, too many mid majors are getting in too many way, too many mid majors are getting in.
As I told you, I don't think hardly any mid majors deserve to get in because they don't play the year. They don't play the same schedule that the power conferences do, so I don't.
Think they should get in. But okay, you're in. It's fun. It's fun to see the mid major upsets.
I love them.
But adding more teams means more Power conference teams will get in. And and so everybody's gonna be on board with that because it's not gonna be all We're gonna we can let monmuthin again.
You know, we can let Saint Mary's in it?
No, we can we let No, you're not letting in a third team from the from the West Coast Conference. It's gonna be We're gonna have two more teams in the Big Ten, one more team from the ACC, one more team from the SEC.
That's what this means. There's gonna be more Power Conference teams are gonna get in, which all of college baskets better. When these teams get in, they're more fun, they're more fun seeing these teams on Tuesday and Wednesday. Hey, it's great. That okay, great, but we got al Corn State is playing against UAB. That's awesome, right, it's great, Oh, Arizona State, Hey, you got give me power five teams, right, give me power five teams that are getting in. I think people would like to see if Syracuse is playing against Wisconsin.
In a in a in an early first round game in the NCAA tourna. Those are games people are gonna watch. So I mean, I don't I don't get you know, I don't get the moving against it. But now seeing that this is what it's gonna be, everybody's gonna go for it. And by this time next year we're going to say, hey, we're looking forward to the bigger tournament. Well, I mean this is perfect that as we're talking about expanding, so pretty much everybody gets in you immediately go to a Syracuse reference. So I mean that's good.
If you had to say to me, okay, who are some of the power teams conference teams that used to be big deals that have a tough time making the tournament.
Now Syracuse at the top of that list. To the larger point, let me say USC, come on, man, and I don't I don't care what conference they're from, because we know that in reality, there is a very small group of teams that are really going to compete for a title. Now, if the luck of the draw, an injury, the right seating, and the road opens up, then yeah, we get some craziness and you have massive runs where a team is led by veteran guard play and all those cliches that we do to where you get Butler a couple of times. It's great, it's good for and it's good for outside the game, right, and this is where you get the periphery eyeballs people that are watching college buckets. As soon as there's a bracket to be filled out, or a bunch of games that they can bet and go to Vegas or whatever, or their mobile apps they're in. It doesn't matter. It's the fringe folks that perhaps you bring in and look all for glory of Alma Mater. It's a lot easier to get that first. Hey, we hadn't heard from you this year. We'd like some money if it starts with, hey, we made the NCAA tournament, because again the fringe person saying good for us, good notoriety. How many teams made to turn it, it doesn't matter. You're not putting that in now. So that's great news. So you know that's gonna happen. The other thing is, you know we're getting expanded college football player four year from now as this five plus eleven model, which is what it's been called the last couple of days where the five conference champions and eleven at large bids is starting to gain a lot of momentum and different conference leaders like it and they're eyeing the next steps as to how we make this happen right now. This would be for twenty twenty six and beyond, and yeah, we've talked about that again.
The money is there and all the money.
Yes we can have more games, and yes the SEC and the Big ten will be happy because likely they will get without getting a guarantee of getting more teams in.
I am sure they.
Will get more teams in with a laurel and a hearty.
So there's gonna be a bit of hand ringing on it.
And you know the SEC and the Big Ten are going to push for automatic bids for them, and you know there's some different nuances of it. But outside of the money, again, I'll tell you another reason why this is done. Why did college football expand the playoff to begin with? Because they saw, after not long amount of time, boy college football really became regionalized in the last ten to twelve years and it wasn't the big national sport that it used to be. Because everybody's taste change and how we consume sports changes. And when you have a whole college football season where basically, oh so two teams are gonna get a chance to play for the nut of the one hundred and twenty six teams. Two teams, well, we're used to that for a long time, but times change. Fans don't want that anymore. Why am I gonna Why am I into it to watch everything going on across the country. Why do I care about USC and Ohio State when I know whoever loses his game is out right? I mean, it's it's getting to a point where you used to watch all those games because it's what you did, right. We used to go to the movies all the time because it's what we did. Now we don't.
Now we stream, We go to movies not as often as we did because life changes, time changes, how we consume sports changes, and we consume college football differently now.
So yes, it's the money, but it's also hey, the entire nation is more into it if we know that sixteen teams can get it. I know for Syracuse now, I know I have a shot to get in. Right last year, if we had sixteen teams, I think Syracuse gets in the playoff, right because the big win over Miami at the end, other schools are saying, yes, we can get in. If you are a three loss team, you can potentially get into the college football playoff, And that's great. Across the board, all the games become more interesting. It's not that less games, it's stupid. All games become more interesting because across the country people are. I'm keeping track of all men. I'm so glad that so and so lost because they had two losses. Now they have three, we have two. We can move ahead of them, like if I'm watching Syracuse and Pittsburgh and Syracuse winning, but I'm also keeping an eye on Oregon and Washington because Washington's got two loss and if they lose three, we'll move ahead of them. This is how everybody thinks. Well, but that's it. The games of November still have meaning this way, right. It's like when they added another wildcard team in baseball. You had people wring their hands a bit. Guess what. In a lot of cities it became a hey, you know, if we claw anywhere near to five hundred, we've got a puncher's chance of getting one of those slots, and if our pitching lines up properly, we get one or two timely hits. Guess what upset said thank of football? Right is final couple of weeks. Even if you're just looking to play spoiler and take a team or two out of playoff contention, you're still you have the rapt attention of it for you on this expansion, Yeah, you might have actually gotten a playoff. Berth so telling me half butts in that other universe, you would have had glory.
Yeah, but Alabama would have gotten in, right, Alabama would have gotten in.
Wow. They just need to shut up at this point. Right, But I mean you're talking about but the amount of crying this offseat like let it go.
Oh no, Well, I told you last night.
I'm sick of the SEC and the Big Ten saying we're better than everybody.
I'm sick of that crap. But I mean that's not good about Dob.
They would have gotten an extra team and they would have been happy. You know, everybody would have been happy. The wouldn't have been all this this this handwringing over that final spot. Oh, we can let some big teams in because it's not like teams are getting in like okay, we're letting too many you know, mid major teams in the in the college basketball tournament. These are all big powerhouses and teams that are good it right, So I mean it's gonna happen for that because that's better for the sport, the more teams that can be in. And Baseball's realize this. The NFL realized this, the NHL.
Real every every sport has realized more teams is better interest, better relevancy, more eyeballs, it's better for us across the board. And college football finally, hesitantly has been dragged across that finish line like I'm gonna pull you with every ounce of strength I have across this expand the playoff finish line.
And now we have it.
Now they just have to go and fight about, you know, players getting paid and what's what the new rules are and guardrails there. That's you know, small potato, like Brad Pitt says in fight one fight at a time, Guys, one fight at a time, one fight at a time.
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Who's being interviewed?
What is he saying?
Let's find out why? From Martin Weiss, who brought his guitar in again tonight to do updates and tell us what's trending.
Listen, once I can string together four cores and on the singing update.
Guy, Okay, why do you need four?
There's a lot of hits across musical landscape with three.
Yeah, yeah, maybe one. You could play anything by the clash. All you need are three cord is true. That's Jalen Brunson.
That's Jalen Brunson right now giving what I'm sure Jason Smith might say is the best postgames interview in the world. Thirty two points for thirty two points from Brunson on twelve for eighteen from the floor. The final score one eleven and ninety four. The Knicks keep their series alive. That's Indiana three two in the Eastern Conference Finals. After that Game five, you had almost four of the five Nick starters in double figures. Carlington Towns had twenty four points, Mikheale Bridges o Jananobi with twelve and eleven respectively. Tyreez Haliburton was a mostly no show today. He did have six assists, but only eight points on two for seven from the floor. The Pacers were leading scoring by Bennett Matherin off the bench with twenty three, Pascal Siakam had fifteen, and the NHL well about one minute left Dallas has an empty net, but Edmonton a two goal lead right now in Edmonton a three to one lead in the Western Conference.
Finals, so they are about a minute away from advancing.
That'll mean your Stanley Cup Final will be between the Florida Panthers and the Edmonton Oilers.
And Major League Baseball bottom of the seventh.
Ending of the Rays having eight to three lead over the Astros, bottom of the fifth on FS one, you'll see the Nationals and the Mariners. That's a scoreless right now. Had a double header today the Braves and the Phillies. Game one went to Philadelphia five to four. Game two win to Atlanta nine to three. Kyle Schwarber hit a home run his nineteenth in Game one, and Chris Shale reached two thousand and five hundred strikeouts in Game two. The Blue Jays hit four home runs on the way to blanking the A's twelve to nothing. And Michael Parsons absent from OTAs still hoping to receive a long.
Term contract extension.
Prior to the start of the year, Dolphins and Steelers in trade talk surrounding tight end John news Smith. Smith has expressed interest in reworking his deal. He wants to stay in Miami, but Miami obviously not necessarily wanted to pay him that four point eight million dollars he's due.
He was not seen at OTAs on Thursday.
Back to you guys and Pat Fryer Ruth is calling his agent going, there's no out in my contract. Right, they're not cod like I still get all that money I signed last year, right?
Yeah. No, they're doubling down an event that Aaron Rodgers doesn't show up, because that's the only past you're completing against at the tight end. Oh no, no, I'll I'll gie you more than that. They're gonna run the single way that's gonna be. Just say, they're gonna have the tight end in the backfield. They're gonna single wing offense. Is how they're gonna do it.
I don't know.
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Does it mean they're gonna win in seven?
Keep you right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
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Well Dressed Cobot the next Stay Alive.
They force Game six with a dominant effort against the Pacers one eleven to ninety four. Right now, we have a very special camera set up in studio. We are following Scott Foster a round his house seeing if the phone rings and he gets that phone call to officiate Game six.
Maybe I gotta go. I'm the extender. He puts on his uniform and he leaves jets out. He's like the human torched. He flys out. Maybe you knew I had to leave someday. No, but stead, I love you. I can't put my feet down in one place for too long because I'm the extender. Referee assignments are posted at approximately nine am Eastern time each game day. I'm currently Atofficial dot NBA dot com.
Very nice, So he got that?
I mean, so you had today's assignments replay center was John Goebel, and then you have the WNBA referee assignments for the two games listed as well. So guess what. I'm gonna set an alarm cloud for five point fifty on Saturday morning.
Let's go.
Can't believe George Goebel is officiating NBA game. It's amazing, Okay, I gotta explain to Joe, I got explain the gen X who George Goebel like?
Forget about me? Probably do that man.
Now we'll have more on this game coming up in a American humorist. Yet he's American humorist George Goebel. But time now for the play of the day, brought to you by tire Ract over four ears, tire Rack's been helping customers find the right tires for how what where they drive ship fast and free backed by free Road, has a protection with convenient installation options like mobile tire installation. Tire Act dot Com is the way tire buying should be. Now, he could have given you a big Jalen Brunson shot. He could have given you something for Karl Anthony Towns. But instead from tonight's NIXT went over the pacers play by play of a foul that could have set the NBA back fifty years.
Not yunning the basketball over in this series. Oh come on, now, I've been kissed harder than that.
Clow you have.
Wow.
Do you want to tell her? You want to tell us more about that?
I mean, these are the playoffs now, these officials know this.
This I'm trusting in Zach Sarvin James Williams over there that this will not be a flagrant pat.
No way this will set playoff basketball back if they if they deemed this as a flaguer Orange. It was a ten point game a couple of minutes ago, and now it's up to twenty two.
They're taking a look at that play after you. There's no wind up and no follow through.
The impact is not with the standard for a flagrate fowl.
There for a common foul stance.
This was at the end of the third quarter that on TNT.
Remember being kissed hard, isn't that? Yes? Very much?
So?
Oh yeah, By Reggie Miller, I'm not going to say by you. I got to keep it a mystery, was it?
Reggie? I'm not going to say did you lose a hairm in the process or deny. It can to confirm or denya? Uh was it a nice hat? That was the end of the third quarter where uh, Pascal Siaka was going in for a layup and there's a foul that you know what it looked like. Honestly, it looked like the Caitlin Clark foul on Angel Reese a little bit where where I'm gonna hold your arms down and Rick Carlisle comes off the bench like Hulk Hogan out of out of the locker room.
Oh look at this, can't believe it.
And I'm watching Rick. Rick Carlisle makes it so easy to hate him. No, No, it's so easy to hate. But the difference in this fall when Clark had that run in with Angel Reese, the ball's down around her knees right, so the contact is there, there's a little extra curricular shoved right off balance whatever, and a big cell by Reese. Here's Siakams he's hit up top right. It's not hey, his arms are down low and he's gathering the ball like he's going to the to the hoop and the contact is up around the shoulders and neck. And so.
Do I want it to be a flagrant?
No, But we've seen lesser called flagrance throughout this playoffs. So the commentary of you know, I've been kissed hard in that that's not a flager. I'm like, all right, we've watched a lot of playoff basketball that's been a flagrant. Nine times out of ten. It's at the stanchion and he's going to the rack and the guy's up and around his his shoulders and neck, and yes he does pintin their arms down, sure, but it's from a different point in the process. And it also it never puts it never puts him in danger. Right, There was never anything where I looked as oh, he could fall, because that's always a big thing. They don't say it, but I'm pretty sure that's always the tipping point for a flagrant foul. Is did this foul put this player in danger of getting injured? And there was no potential of getting injured on that play, right, it was. It was a hard foul. We've seen it before and and I'm you know, I'm glad they did this. And it makes me think that maybe they'll officiate Game six and let him continue to play like they did, because hey, if they officiate the if they let the teams be physical Guess what, that's a Knicks advantage.
That's a huge Knicks advantage for games.
What was funny was listening to some of the radio call on the on the drive up the good old four or five today and the number of times they were arguing in the boot like slap fighting over would that have been a fall, like well, he hit the shot so it didn't affect the shot.
Like he In the entire the entire series, I've listened to them argue back and forth about about how oh, because the shot went in, there was no foul called and if there was a foul like.
They've been arguing.
Those guys have been arguing that the entire like that's talk radio. It's like watching part of the interruption when they just keep arguing back and forth about well, I'll see there's no there's no whistle there because the ball went in.
If there wasn't a made shot, there would have been a whistle. Like the entire time driving up listening to the game, like that's what they're saying. You had that anticipation for the referee?
Is it an one?
Every time on ESPN radio it's there's a pout, Well, this is where you and I are going to do Oh, here we go again with a whole this a.
Hey man, that's the way to kill time.
Though. All right, we're gonna do the Is that a follow or not?
Let's go.
I'll tell you this. You think there's not going to be, They're not gonna find it. Sorry, Pat and Penning on this idea. There's not going to be a way in the next few years for play by play people to do a game and to do a PTI type show, a debate type show. Of course there is, Well, we should be the first. Of course you can do doing it for ten years. Exit up about year eleven of it. Man, come on, Exit Swollen Dome. Maybe the Nicks had a little bit of extra help to win tonight.
We have a bizarre story coming up next as well as how do I feel going to Game?
Six? Am? I go New York, Go, New York Go.
That's next. Fuck.
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Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best Friend Mike Harmon, It's My Upset Special more basketball coming up in a second, but you know this is something I wanted to bring this up tonight. The big highlight of the day in sports, the big walk off home run Women's College World Series, Ella Parker of Oklahoma second home run of the game, Tennessee's pitcher, fastest pitcher in college softball. Some of her pitches seventy five, seventy eight miles an hour, Like she talks really really hard, and she hits a big walk off homer and a snatch a win out of the jaws of defeat.
And now Oklahoma four time defending champion doesn't have to go through the loser's bracket.
Scary squad man, they just keep coming.
Now.
Ella Parker's a sophomore, right and she's made all these headlines today. And Ella Parker is someone I coached with her dad in softball at our little league.
She played in our little league at Westchester. I coached Ella's younger sister in softball, Ava, who I think is now a terrific volleyball player. And it's crazy seeing her success being this good like all this, she's like the number three recruit in the nation and she's hitting like four hundred here she is now single handedly winning the game for Oklahoma. Now, I say this because I gotta ask you, do you know whose niece Ella.
Parker is now? She comes by, she comes by her softball skills pretty honestly. She is Rodgers manager Dave roberts niece.
How about that?
Now, I never saw you, never came to any of the games. And maybe he came when because Ella Parker was is a is a like probably four years four years older than Zoe. So when I was there, her sister was was Zoe's age, so that that's why we're there at the same time. But seeing her like I would see her. I remember seeing her games there where she would be like, wow, she just hits the ball like that. She's been she's been DP for Oklahoma now for the first two years, and wow, can she just she can just tattoo it and both those home runs today, Like as soon as I said, oh, that's gone. Like Pam and I went to lunch today and we go when we sit down and I go, oh, hey, I'll be right back. Ella Parker's gonna bat. I want to go see her. Hid.
I go up and I go by, Wow, she crushes that ball to the right field stands for home run. I get back, Pem goes what happened? I go, she had a home Runes. You didn't call me to tell me. I go, what do you want me to say? Hey, the ball's going out?
Cut?
Oh you missed it.
You see the replay, he's only like three seconds from the ball hits the bat. And do you know what's the outcome of it's gonna be? You were gonna get up here in three seconds and see that knobs? All right, she's I could have seen the replay. I go, wait three seconds, it'll be on I'll have it on Twitter in a minute. I'm sure this will be on it. You'll be able to see it. It's okay, what fun time of year. Obviously Oklahoma going for that that five count the King Kong Bundi five count.
Of titles in a row.
We were talking about the million dollar nil deal in at A and M and where we're at in the larger continuum where it's all our most of the oxygen is taken up by basketball and football when you talk about athletes and payments. That it's good to see women's softball getting a little run and on the national stage getting a little bit of shine as well for the competition it's become. Yeah, I mean it's a fun tournament, right, I mean because probably Texas getting bounds straight like a and m losing the first team to ever not when they were the number one team in the country. I'm making it out of their own regional I mean, that's like a one to sixteen loss in the NCAA tournament, like it really is something. We don't have a one seed or in the in the college in the college softball playoff. So big, big doings here as we saw this. You can get walk offs anytime in the middle of the day, don't have to don't have to wait too Mutch Premier League, middle of the day, middle of the week, now you can.
You can get drama during the NEIL.
You know me, I love my middle of the day soccer. No question about a lot of chaos, a lot of referees to yell at. So it's good.
Let's find out what's trending right now in the wide world of sports. And Martin Weiss, he's got a he's got his guitar in with him tonight. And I see you at various times doing work on the computer. Fore your updates and also playing your guitar like you're getting everything done tonight at work.
You know, I try to be a multi fasted a human being. What can I do? Okay? Very good bottom of the night.
Thenning the Rays with a ten run lead over the Astros thirteen to three bottom of the seventh in in the Nationals, and the Mariners Washington with the two to lead. Of them three games in Major League Baseball outside of that, two of them between the Phillies and the Braves. Game one of that doubleheader, Phillies got five. That's a four, Kyle Schwarber with a home run. There is nineteenth on the year, and the Braves got the next one, nine to three, and the Blue Jays pounded the Athletics twelve to nothing after eight runs in the second inning. Now to the conference finals or finals, depending on which sports you're talking about. Let's go to the Hockey one Western Conference Final. Edmonton six to three over Dallas wins the series four to one over Dallas.
That means the Stanley Cup.
Final will be between the Florida Panthers and the Edmonton Oilers. In the NBA, the Knicks stave off elimination three to two, the series right now, one eleven to ninety four. The final score of tonight's game Jalen Brunson with thirty two points, Karl Anthony Towns had twenty four. Benettic Mathern ended up leading the Pacers and scoring with twenty three points. Tyreez Halliburton on two for seven from the floor eight points. Who's minus twenty three on the night. In the NFL, Michael Parsons hoping to receive a long term contract extension prior to the start of the season.
He's not at OTAs.
Ricky Piersoll has a hamstring interust your injury, likely will not return to practice until training camp, and the Dolphins have expressed interest in trading tight end John new Smith. John new Smith more interested in staying in Miami, but the Dolphins want to restructure this four point eight million dollars deal that he's owed to start next season. So we'll see the Dolphins and Smith. I'm Smith not seen rather. At the second day of Dolphins OTAs and SIBEE president Charlie Baker says there's value in expanding March Madness from sixty eight teams to seventy two or seventy six teams. He expects to reach a decision on that in the next few months. Back to you guys, Thanks so much, Martin.
Now, just real, real quick on this, on this John new Smith story, which doesn't make any sense because you know, what do I say the Steelers, Hey, Omar Kahn, Mike Tomlin, Dude, you guys, I don't know that you know what it is to run a team in twenty twenty five to not understand that the quarterback is the most important position on the field and you got to take care of that, not try to get by with it. Right, It's an antiquated way of doing things. I don't get how this is how you run a team. I also don't get how the Miami Dolphins being run right now. I don't understand how in a year you go from all this young talent a fast team that's going to change the way the NFL is. Right, here's a young team that's coming out here, we're fast. Good luck keeping up with us. And now they're starting over and they're talking trade with the Steelers, trading away a Pro Bowl tight end when they don't have anybody on the roster. It's not like the Raiders, where every year we're taking a tight end in the first round. So hey, well, if we want to trade away our guy, you know, we still have Mike Mayer, you know. I mean, I don't I don't understand. The Dolphins don't have anybody.
I mean.
And if this is a trade where it's gonna be John hu Smith for Pat Fryermuth, Okay, I kind of get that a little bit. I okay, Well, Friar Muth is not bad, and you don't want to pay John Husmith more.
But he's not been named in any of this. This has not been Hey, they're talking to a tight end swap. This is we're talking about a t with Jonny Smith because we don't know if we want to pay him. Like, what the hell is going on in Miami? How do you have all this talent in how are you a year ago? A little bit over a year ago? We are ready to be the next great power? And good luck? Because that's how I felt about them going great. I spent all this time looking up at the Patriots, and now you look up at the Bills, and now the Dolphins are good man. This stinks.
I hate being in the AFC East, but now I look at it as Oh boy, what are the Dolphins doing.
I mean they don't have anybody there.
I mean I think Jim Jensen is the guy that's gonna catch passes for that team. Now you like my crash Jensen.
No, that's pretty good.
I mean you still have Wattle Hill, Westbrook, Kakine comes in, he's solid in the out of the backfield, a chan right, you brought in Alexander Madison. Insert your lines there. I mean they're reuniting for the Tonys and whatever. So that's good to do some Hamilton stuff. But then you're you're looking at the tight end position.
It's Pharaoh Brown. You laugh at the Raiders.
Well that's where he began in twenty seventeen, and he's not hit so certainly not exactly operating for a position of strength.
They have currently six tight ends on their depth.
Chart, but none of them touch passes. None ever really good. None of them touch passes. Now if they're really great blockers, which is how Farrell Brown still collects his checks. I guess you're looking for a guy to keep two upright, But you're gonna trade.
Away a guy that had eighty eight.
Catches for you No last year, don't understand Now part of that also becomes the for the Steelers side of things, that's the all right break glass in case of emergency. If Rogers doesn't show up, not that he doesn't utilize the tight end position, but let's face it, you get into checkdown mode for any of those other quarterbacks that'll be on the roster. Unless Captain Kirk finds his way, then you can push down field. The other being for the Steelers, you're sitting there with what twelve thirteen picks, I forget what the official number is now for the twenty twenty six draft. So if they want to bring him in and you've got room and you can finagle money because you can always make the money work. We talk about that all the time in terms of smoothing things out. Whatever that you want to bring him in, it's another body, right, it's another He's a good, good player, there's no question about that. Is he a difference maker down the field replacing what you lost when you traded away George Picking? No, but a guy with sure hands in a division where for two months out of the year you're hoping that the winds aren't cutting down anything beyond an eight yard pass, an extra tight ends not the worst thing to have.
No, look, it's not.
And knowing this would be a good trade for the Steelers, right, I'm saying this would be a good trade. Hey, we're gonna pay this guy because clearly this means we're gonna run the football lot, right. Uh yeah, I'm just just missing the Dolphins, even though we get I mean, by this primetime games, I've already written them off. At the same time, though, at the still like like, like, you gotta get your quarterback things situated.
Man, I mean really, I don't.
I don't get that how they just Hey, we're gonna we're gonna get by with whatever we can get by with a quarterback. I mean it's really it's like me getting into my car going, hey, I'm gonna drive to work right now. But you don't have air in your tires.
Doesn't matter.
I'm gonna get by. Yeah, but it's leaking. It's you're gonna run out of air in the freeway. Yeah, it's fine, I'll be I'll be fine.
I'll get by. I'm just gonna get by. But the rest of my car is great, right.
The whole I got the bows audio, the I got the stereo sounds, great.
The air conditioning works.
Yeah, yeah, that sounds awesome, right, the the the built in GPS.
No, everything else.
The seat is comfortable, I got the the you know the the seat is gonna I can I can make it hot or cold. I can cool the seat. No, I got a great car. Yeah, but the tires are the most But yeah, whatever, really that I'm gonna run out of air kind I'll get by.
I'll be able to get to work and drive home. It'll be fine. No, it doesn't happen that way.
I really thought you were gonna go up Cramer, uh, trying to ride out whatever gas is left in the in the system. But yeah, for the Dolphins, a lot of curiosity, right, we question why they got so many prime time games in a division that it would look, at least on paper, that the Patriots are going to pass them by again. Right, So where now you're you're challenging the Jets for the bottom and raced down to there. But to a tongue of Vailoa, good and efficient quarterback went upright and ready to play. You've got a couple of great wide receivers and then a lot of questions. Skill positions fairly sut but losing an eighty eight catch guy. Oh yeah, that's tough. That's how it goes man, that's a all right, let's find the money in the room and everybody cough up a buck so I.
We'll have more NFL on the way.
But right now, well have a game to play. Bad news is magic Johnson is not tweeting quitter after the Knicks have sent the Eastern Conference Finals to game six. But the better news is we still have a game to play. Justin Frossburg has a home cook game.
Oh, coming off of Game five of the Eastern Conference Finals, Frostburg, what do we.
I mean, we shouldn't even be celebrating this? But why not?
Why shouldn't we be?
We absolutely should not be. Why not?
It's fine to celebrate it. Why should we not be celebrating You had them at their funeral today, Yeah, and.
The calling hours were supposed to be tonight, but they won, so we postponed the calling out.
I mean, I found a lot of songs about funerals, some Irish dirges, some Lannigan songs. Maybe that's why that guy threw the bottle at my car when I was driving in You didn't he didn't like the land again.
It's tough to host one of those when they're alive and kicking, you know.
Yeah, that's why wait, wait for it. Hey, wait a minute, we got some news from the hospital. Yeah, well, just we're gonna we're gonna postpone it for a couple of days. It's gonna wait a little bit. It's inevitable, but it's like an arrest of development. We've lost George Senior. What wait, let him finish, Let him finish. Yeah, he just left the hospital. We don't know where he is.
Why would you say things like that? All right, So what's the game, Frostburg?
What do we got?
All right, Well, there's a lot of cheap tickets courtside at the next game, as we all know. Sure, yes, they're so cheap that the people don't even pay for them.
Cheap they are.
Now, it was this celebrity sitting court side at game five at Madison Square Garden. Oh okay, was the celebrity court side?
Okay, all right, very good, let's go.
What's ready?
Yeah?
Yeah, Howard Stern? Did I see Howard Stern in the cutaway? Say?
Front row?
I mean like the first three rows. I think that's celebrity row. There.
Yeah, but he's only the He said if I'm I'm never gonna sit in the second row. I either sit in the first row. I'm not going to the games. And you actually said that. He said that a couple of weeks.
He should have been.
Decade.
I'm not a second row guy. I'm good.
I sit in the first row right and go to games.
Uh.
I don't know that.
I saw Howard Stern at the games, and I'm gonna say no. I'm gonna say no he was.
I agree, no on Howard, you're both pig vomit.
He was not at the game. W wain BC, w n BC, w n BC. All right, all right, one for one, very good. All right, I'm feeling hot. You think pig vomb had ever met with Pete Rose? Hmmm, Uh, maybe he was in a room at some point as a kid.
I just thought nephew was a shaboozy at the game court side. O, your.
Gosh, Chaboozi was chaboozy at the game. I feel like he's at every game. Oh did I not, Drake? Did I see Chaboozi? I don't know that. I said, See, that's what sucks about being on the ra or doing the game like I can't see all the couple. I'll take the being out in the air, but I want to win this game. I like, I get it. I'm gonna say Shaboozy was there. I'm gonna say no, neither of us have any idea, but I'm saying he was there. Well, you're correct, Chaboozy was there, your gus Chaboozy in the house two for two. Beckham sitting courtside a game. David Beckham was David Beckham court side Crisps Boots.
I'm gonna say, yeah, I did not see him.
He didn't see Shaboozie either. No, but I got but.
I was right.
I guess right. I'm gonna say I'm hot. I'm feeling hot. Yeah, I'm gonna see he checked. I'm gonna say David Beckham was not at the game tonight and I said, yeah, yeah he was. Wow, you're letting Smith win.
Woo oh.
He checked Smith. He checked Smith. Give me the ball, Give me the ball. I'm like Brunson on the fourth he checked, Okay.
Go.
Was John Mellencamp at the game.
Sitting next to Pat McAfee.
Never wanted to see no be pop singer. I no, no, I don't. I'm gonna say, did he travel to New York to tell everybody he's not going to New York? Sorry, people made fun of you Knicks fans. I'm gonna say no. For John Mellencamp, you are correct, all right? I feel good about right. That was one of the dumbest things I've seen in recent memory. He wants to make sure people Indiana hospitality means something, but all the guy does his stand at a microphone and yell at people that are there at his concert. Hey, John sing it soup? Hey you know Jobby would He'll be a game six, He'll be okay, all right?
One more?
One more was Diddy at the game tonight. I'm gonna go out and live and say, oh, not at the game tonight.
I think we would have gotten more coverage of that one. I need baby Oil. Not at the game? Whoa not at the game? Not at the game?
No, no, no, said there, You're gonna give me like a Marishka Hargeta because I saw what we saw her well, because they were probably talking about the fact that Giddish is coming back as a full time cast member for next season of so their buddies and hanging out together.
All right.
I mean Stiller was there. They showed shallow May and Spike Lee in that great nick. I think, come on, that guy got a lot of screen time. Yeah, but Miike Lee was dressed like a batman super villain like that. He looked great man. I thought he looked like you ever see what was it all about the Chew Chew train with Genevieve? Like it was on Disney in the mornings, and it was like this little thing where they'd sing a song. She was dressed like a conductor. Wait, well you had the conductor and then she was like the ticket taker. Oh yeah yeah with Genevieve. Yeah yeah, that that was the superhack combination to me that it looked like it was straight off of that interesting Oh I never thought about. Now you gotta go back and look at that chug Ington. That's what you're going with.
