Speaker 1: All right, been and Skin Show ninety seven point one
Speaker 1: The Eagle. I need some Hurtato barbecue in my life.
Speaker 2: It's been too long.
Speaker 1: I went the whole holiday break without having any Hurtado,
Speaker 1: so that means that I failed. But there are plenty
Speaker 1: locations where I can get that delicious, delicious versus of
Speaker 1: mexicue they're serving up. There's Mansfield, there's Arlington, there's Fort Worth.
Speaker 1: It's pretty close to the South Side area and then
Speaker 1: to a globe life. We've talked about this coming in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. They're opening up at the Dallas Farmers Market.
Speaker 1: That's huge for US East Siders in the two one four,
Speaker 1: So if you haven't had it, you are missing out.
Speaker 2: It is legendary status. Oh so good.
Speaker 1: Her Toto Barbecue coming up here in about thirty minutes.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about the death of a legend. And we'll
Speaker 1: give you a quick movie review as well. If you're
Speaker 1: a music fan, maybe it's a movie you're interested in.
Speaker 1: But right now it's time for this.
Speaker 2: It's good listeners. Here comes KT for tweets. We'll be wow.
Speaker 3: Now let's go around the sports k T queets as
Speaker 3: all the sports.
Speaker 2: We did a Little Cowboys earlier.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll get to some later. Did you watch the
Speaker 1: Pop Tart Bowl? Man, No, I didn't even know who
Speaker 1: was in it. I'm dialed in on the trans Perfect
Speaker 1: Music City Bowl because I've been waiting for this Iowa
Speaker 1: Missouri matchup all day long. I care a lot about
Speaker 1: teams that aren't in the playoffs. Yeah, scenario the.
Speaker 2: Pop Tart Bowl though.
Speaker 1: You know the bit there though, right, Yeah, at the
Speaker 1: end they killed the pop tart right, Yeah, and he
Speaker 1: pops out. Well, this is pretty great because last year, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he had a He's standing on top of the toaster
Speaker 1: and he's holding up a sign that says dreams really
Speaker 1: do come true. And then he jumps in the toaster
Speaker 1: and crank He gets cranked out, and the players come
Speaker 1: over and just start eating him.
Speaker 2: Well that that's so bizarre, dude, It's.
Speaker 1: So crazy, And honestly it made this the most popular
Speaker 1: Bowl game. Yeah, non playoff because it's Stupidty who was
Speaker 1: in it this year? Miami and I will stay. Oh
Speaker 1: what a matchup it was. It was actually a pretty
Speaker 1: good game. I didn't watch it or anything, but I,
Speaker 1: you know, always was pretty tune into the highlights. Well,
Speaker 1: the first quarter. They've got so they've got three pop tarts.
Speaker 1: You get the cinnamon one, wild berry.
Speaker 2: I think they had vanilla milkshake, which I'd never seen.
Speaker 1: They're not common pop tarts. They're not the common They
Speaker 1: went with the wild ones this year. They did the
Speaker 1: they did last year. They did, you know, the basic one.
Speaker 1: What's your favorite pop dart? I mean, it really depends
Speaker 1: on kind of mood i'm in. It's really hard to say.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, the cherry I always liked. I know,
Speaker 1: strawberry is a favorite of many. Cinnamon, sugar is amazing.
Speaker 1: Grape dude, grape chocolate, wild berry is more really good.
Speaker 2: Now themores are good?
Speaker 1: What do you mean it's good now? Did it have
Speaker 1: a run where it wasn't so good? But it's like
Speaker 1: coming back in a big way, you know how like
Speaker 1: you when you try to as you get older, you
Speaker 1: can't eat as bad as you used to. Everything that's
Speaker 1: sweet is like even better when you get older. True,
Speaker 1: you can't have it often. Do you always toasted? Or
Speaker 1: will you eat it just right out the m Yeah,
Speaker 1: right off the package.
Speaker 2: Of the package? Yeah? So good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But so during the first quarter, like an end
Speaker 1: stadium break or whatever. They have this big ritual and
Speaker 1: an rip video to last year's pop Tart okay, and
Speaker 1: they play some music like what's that song That's been
Speaker 1: a long day?
Speaker 2: No no, see you again?
Speaker 3: The ending of Fast seven.
Speaker 1: So and then he can help us with that with
Speaker 1: some of that gen Z stuff. Yeah, he resurrects and
Speaker 1: he's like Michael Jackson at the nineteen ninety Super Bowl
Speaker 1: or hell, like Jesus like that at the beginning of
Speaker 1: the New Testament of.
Speaker 2: The stadium and they're having fireworks.
Speaker 1: But at the end it was a Simon roll pop Tart,
Speaker 1: who I think just said had a sign that said
Speaker 1: follow your dreams okay, something very similar, and he jumps
Speaker 1: in and they spit him out and they all started
Speaker 1: eating him again. Pop darts is Kellogg's right, Yes, God,
Speaker 1: what a what a coop of Kellogg's beautiful.
Speaker 2: The more bits, the better have their sales skyrocketed. They
Speaker 2: have to.
Speaker 1: It's I mean, it's the only time I've thought about
Speaker 1: pop darts. Nothing makes a breakfast pastry more top of
Speaker 1: mind than a spare.
Speaker 2: Bowl, I know.
Speaker 1: But as long as you're making fun of the spare
Speaker 1: bowl game right right, like the bowl game should like
Speaker 1: supersede the thing.
Speaker 2: Dude, I saw a play I would be real quick
Speaker 2: on this. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So Shador Sanders and Travis Hunter, who will go in
Speaker 1: the top five in the draft, they played and then
Speaker 1: I learned they took out a huge life insurance checked
Speaker 1: him and there was a play where Shador threw it
Speaker 1: to Travis Hunter in traffic and Travis Hunter got drilled,
Speaker 1: and Travis Hunter got up and started chewing shit her
Speaker 1: out really like, don't ruin my top five. I want
Speaker 1: to wait till I get hurt next year. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: So the Mavericks Christmas Day, oh no, yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: It was very disappointing with the Luke injury. The game
Speaker 1: more I mean fun, it got fun Kyrie just fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: Kyrie is bonkers. And did you see any of the
Speaker 1: forty six point game against Portland? So that's the one
Speaker 1: game I haven't seen, oh man last Well yeah, we'll
Speaker 1: get to that in a second. But the main news
Speaker 1: you've probably heard the news Luca has a calf strain.
Speaker 1: He's had multiple cap strains the last several seasons, and
Speaker 1: so he is going to miss at minimum a month.
Speaker 1: What they said is will reevaluate in a month. So
Speaker 1: if you want to go back to December the twenty
Speaker 1: fifth when it happened, and you jump to January twenty fifth,
Speaker 1: you're gonna miss sixteen games minimum.
Speaker 2: And I went ahead and took it to February first,
Speaker 2: some nineteen games.
Speaker 1: Well, let me let me just throw this in two. So,
Speaker 1: if you have a calf strain, you're not doing cardio.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, I'm sure there's stuff he can do
Speaker 2: in the pool or whatever. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm not privy to medical crap, but I would assume
Speaker 1: that if he sits around for a month letting that
Speaker 1: thing heal, he ain't gonna be in the best shape.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So now we're gonna we're gonna spend some time getting
Speaker 1: him in shape, and then there's an All Star break.
Speaker 1: The All Star break is February fourteenth, So he misses
Speaker 1: a month and then we get him back in shape,
Speaker 1: and then it's if it's me, if they're not getting
Speaker 1: hammered in the standings, I wouldn't bring him back till
Speaker 1: after the All Star I agree, because the other thing
Speaker 1: that's gonna happen is all right, so he's gonna.
Speaker 2: Be voted into the All Star Game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're are we cool with him coming back and
Speaker 1: playing four games and then going to the All Star Game.
Speaker 2: I don't want that.
Speaker 1: I mean, I understand him wanting that, and I want,
Speaker 1: you know, I want what Luca wants, but same time,
Speaker 1: this whole season because here the other thing, we're about
Speaker 1: to grind Kyrie down to a nub.
Speaker 2: That's that's my biggest concern. I'm glad you said that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's my number one concern about all this is
Speaker 1: not so much where you're gonna end up in the standings.
Speaker 2: I think he'll be fine.
Speaker 1: It's the idea of being able to go a little
Speaker 1: bit easier on Luca and Kyrie this year after they
Speaker 1: played one hundred plus games last ynight and now Kyrie
Speaker 1: having to tote the note if they if they do this,
Speaker 1: if they commit to Luca not coming back until after
Speaker 1: the All Star break, and then he doesn't have to
Speaker 1: go to all that All Star crap.
Speaker 2: And again, they.
Speaker 1: May have other injuries. They may be, you know, lose
Speaker 1: a bunch of games. Do you know what their strength
Speaker 1: of schedule is from December twenty fifth to January twenty fifth?
Speaker 2: Have you seen this anyway?
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know that but I know it's two
Speaker 1: against Oklahoma City, Cleve, Houston, Denver, two against Denver. It's
Speaker 1: the sixth toughest schedule in the NBA. Okay, So the
Speaker 1: way I look at this, which nobody consults me fair enough,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't bring Luca back till after the All Star break.
Speaker 1: I would get his calf completely healthy, and then I
Speaker 1: would spend two weeks doing nothing, book cardio, nothing, book.
Speaker 2: Cardio, and then you know, you have the.
Speaker 1: All Star break, get everybody get back so we can
Speaker 1: have some scrimmages, and then you have almost two months
Speaker 1: of the season left to ramp up and hit the
Speaker 1: ground running and make a deep playoff run. I exercised
Speaker 1: my choice to view this injury as a Christmas miracle
Speaker 1: rather than a like, this really awful thing.
Speaker 2: And the reason is that speak your truth.
Speaker 1: Well. When you play as much as he has without stopping,
Speaker 1: because he's going to play international ball and playoffs, so
Speaker 1: extra games and just being on this run, and people,
Speaker 1: I do think forget that the twenty twenty schedule got
Speaker 1: so jacked up with the bubble and that season was
Speaker 1: pushed back. The next season started really fast. Yeah, there
Speaker 1: is no downtime. He is not experienced legit downtime. Remember
Speaker 1: all that dumb traveling they did at the beginning of
Speaker 1: last season where they went to Dubai and then went
Speaker 1: to Spain.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what I mean.
Speaker 1: Nobody's ever done that. Yeah, there's just a lot. It's
Speaker 1: a lot of NonStop action and wear and tear on
Speaker 1: your body, agree and lower body injuries. That's just what
Speaker 1: fourth fifth it was as fifth injury of lower body injury.
Speaker 1: Since we've gotten he's had the year four. This year
Speaker 1: we had the quad, we had the heel. The heel
Speaker 1: was the last one we have had. Half calf an
Speaker 1: I think then not to mention the risk thing, right, Well, so,
Speaker 1: I mean, look, this kind of felt to me like
Speaker 1: something like this might be coming down the pike at sometime,
Speaker 1: and I'm glad it's not happening in April.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 2: That that's that's a great point.
Speaker 1: That's what all this is about, which is why I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: if they can and right.
Speaker 2: Now, what is their records at twenty one in the life.
Speaker 1: I think, okay, yeah, they were nineteen eleven recently, so
Speaker 1: something similar.
Speaker 2: Eleven or twenty and twelve somewhere in there.
Speaker 1: If they can go five hundred in this stretch and
Speaker 1: still have be eight games above five hundred. You're still
Speaker 1: trending towards a fifty win season and then you can
Speaker 1: really get it together and the final stretch of the
Speaker 1: year just be in the top four, right, you know,
Speaker 1: That's where there are now twenty and twelve and so,
Speaker 1: and there are a game and a half up on
Speaker 1: the Lakers and the Clippers. I'm not worried of the Clippers,
Speaker 1: although you will get Kawhi back soon, but I'm not
Speaker 1: worried about the Lakers. I'm more worried about it that
Speaker 1: group of teams behind is Denver getting it together and
Speaker 1: Minnesota like those like teams who could actually find a way,
Speaker 1: and yeah, you end up in the play in somehow.
Speaker 1: Minnesota was in your Western Conference finals last year. Now,
Speaker 1: they did swap out Karl Anthony Towns for Julius Randall.
Speaker 1: But point being is that if you have a guy
Speaker 1: as good as Anthony Edwards and you've got good players
Speaker 1: around them, which they do, good defensive players around them,
Speaker 1: then you're in the mix.
Speaker 2: You're absolutely in the mix.
Speaker 1: So the Western Conference is incredibly tough, it's uh and
Speaker 1: so to me, it's just tread water and get healthy,
Speaker 1: and so that is where I'm a little concerned during
Speaker 1: this stretch. Man, I can't I can't believe Kay played
Speaker 1: against Portland and dude, he had twenty in.
Speaker 2: The first half.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so this game, you know, we didn't even talk
Speaker 1: about the fight. What was your reaction to the fight
Speaker 1: in which Nause and PJ got Pj's back for tonight
Speaker 1: and I think Lively is going to be back for tonight.
Speaker 2: That's good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know Kyrie is out by the way tonight. Oh,
Speaker 3: I didn't see that. It did drop about Sorry, I
Speaker 3: dropped a thing about an hour ago before we started.
Speaker 2: I have not seen that. UK. Well, that's not good.
Speaker 1: I thought it was I thought it was a lofty
Speaker 1: uh suspension for Nause.
Speaker 2: I didn't know that was four games. I don't think.
Speaker 2: Did you read the press release? I didn't know. So
Speaker 2: he went and starred stuff up in the corridor. Oh okay,
Speaker 2: so that's what probably. So the thing is like, and
Speaker 2: I kind of it.
Speaker 1: Everybody everybody on Friday night was selling could I have
Speaker 1: I had MAV's postgame duty. Yeah, So I got home
Speaker 1: late and was on Twitter and I saw everybody in
Speaker 1: the MAV world going crazy for him changing his Twitter
Speaker 1: banner to him punching. It's so good, right, and I'm
Speaker 1: looking at that going. I was preferred this to be
Speaker 1: changed after the suspension was announced. Yeah, because you're just
Speaker 1: like sending a message to the Yeah, punched him, I'll
Speaker 1: do it again. And did you ever see the footage
Speaker 1: of him choking Jimmy Butler? No, so that happened last
Speaker 1: year or maybe it was two years ago. But you
Speaker 1: know what happens in the league. It's like the same
Speaker 1: thing with Draymond. They start going, all right, we're gonna
Speaker 1: do this again. All right, check out this as we learned. Yeah, so,
Speaker 1: I think it has great long term residual effects for
Speaker 1: the team to have him be involved in that.
Speaker 2: I too. I think PJ.
Speaker 1: Washington Junior got done wrong too. I don't even think
Speaker 1: he should have been kicked out of that game for
Speaker 1: them to say he escalated it. Dude, he pushed a
Speaker 1: guy that was throwing a punch and then immediately turned
Speaker 1: his attention elsewhere. Escalating it would have been pushing him
Speaker 1: and then going after him or standing on top of
Speaker 1: him or stepping on him. He didn't escalate it. He
Speaker 1: shoved a guy that was throwing punches out of the way.
Speaker 1: That was terrible. This is how I think about this
Speaker 1: these things, like especially the NBA, the games are a
Speaker 1: group close together. Though something like that happens, Okay, suspending
Speaker 1: for a certain number of games, just because you're probably
Speaker 1: going off something that happened in the past, not with
Speaker 1: that player, just in general, Like what do we normally
Speaker 1: do for suspensions on guys who threw a punch?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, okay, so it happened, so four games.
Speaker 1: What's usually, let's just say, is eight days ago, they're
Speaker 1: not still going. Man, I gotta learn my lesson here.
Speaker 1: D It's not jail time right right, just to think
Speaker 1: about your mistake, Like, dude, after two games, we're good
Speaker 1: to get back out there and play.
Speaker 2: By the way, your product is better when your players
Speaker 2: get to play.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, And I think the whole Nurkic thing, it's like
Speaker 1: he started it because he doubled back and then he's
Speaker 1: the first one that threw a blow. Yeah, like Nase
Speaker 1: pushing Nurkic is nothing. Nurkic taking his giant bear paw
Speaker 1: and slapping Mark. I mean his hand is the size
Speaker 1: of Marshall's head. It was basically looked like that Russian
Speaker 1: slap fight thing. So he started it and then threw
Speaker 1: the first punch. That is a punch just because your
Speaker 1: fist is bald up, going at someone's head is going
Speaker 1: at someone's head. And anyways, Naje didn't even connect whatever.
Speaker 2: Uh PJ.
Speaker 1: Washington Junior got done wrong. So wow, all right, so
Speaker 1: Kyrie out tonight. That's news to me. But of course
Speaker 1: we will have the game right here on ninety seven
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