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Very expensive teams, very limited trade options.. A number of these teams paid for the fortune of being ejected from the NBA playoffs quite early this year, but it's the coach's fault, right? It's not all doom and gloom though because we had some uplifting [NBA] stories with the Knicks and the Thunder this year. Anyway, it's the next batch of our postmortems for the 2023-24 season. Enjoy!  Teams covered:  PHI [2:20], CLE [9:04], NO [13:22], NYK [18:35], PHX [25:25], LAC [29:48], LAL [36:04]; DEN [41:17], OKC [46:30]

Welcome to PTBN Pop’s Video Jukebox Song of The Day! Every weekday will be featuring a live watch of a great and memorable music video. On today’s episode, Steve Riddle is watching “Paralyzed” by Rock Kills Kid from 2006.
The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwrYcvuRej0

Welcome to this special Bracketology podcast breaking down the Greatest Cartoon of All-Time Tournament held exclusively in the The Place To Be Facebook group. Join Steve Riddle as he breaks down the brackets by unveiling the Top 40 seeds of all the brackets, goes through the shows, discusses potential matchups, picks which shows would be favorites, underdogs, or dark horses, and finally gives his predictions for the Elite 8, Final Four, Finals, and ultimately his pick for winner of the tournament.

Welcome to PTBN Pop’s Video Jukebox Song of The Day! Every weekday will be featuring a live watch of a great and memorable music video. On today’s episode, Andy Atherton is watching “Summer Of ‘69” by Bryan Adams from 1985.
The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFjjO_lhf9c

This week on It Was a Thing on TV we celebrate Greg’s birthday!
 
First, we continue Pilot Month 2024 with a continuation of something we covered last year. We covered the 1992 Red Dwarf pilot for NBC in Episode 375.  A second pilot, of sorts, was done shortly after.  Running a mere 11 minutes long including previews of two episodes, this ambitious endeavor looked like it was shot in a broom closet, and that was before the lackluster quality of the video available online.
Then, it's Greg's 40th birthday and to celebrate the occasion, Greg has chosen the short-lived comedy from 1983 about a guy who buys a lamp which has a genie in it, who causes all sorts of mischief.  Maybe it was Just Our Luck that this show ran for only 13 episodes.
This episode is uncensored.  Listener discretion is advised.
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Timestamps
0:10 - Cold Open to Episode 473 (Update on The Ja Morant Rookie Card discussed in Episode 404)
2:35 - Correction from last week
5:59 - Red Dwarf USA, pilot 2
25:41 - Just Our Luck
1:23:59 - This Week in Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour History (5-21-84/5-25-84)

Welcome to PTBN Pop’s Video Jukebox Song of The Day! Every weekday will be featuring a live watch of a great and memorable music video. This week we’re all about trios so each song will be by a group or band that only has three members. On today’s episode, Andy Atherton is watching, “Sharp Dressed Man” by ZZ Top from 1983.
The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wRHBLwpASw

On the eighth episode of The Most Sensational, Inspirational, Celebrational, Muppetational Podcast, Mirandia Berthold & Andy Atherton continue talking about their love for The Muppets and review episodes 5-8 of season two of The Muppet Show that featured guest stars: Judy Collins, Nancy Walker, Edgar Bergen & Steve Martin. And give their thoughts on their favorite characters and sketches that appeared in each.

Welcome to PTBN Pop’s Video Jukebox Song of The Day! Every weekday will be featuring a live watch of a great and memorable music video. This week we’re all about trios so each song will be by a group or band that only has three members. On today’s episode, Steve Riddle is watching, “Get Free” by The Vines from 2002.
The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asOvnGHwtDU

Welcome to PTBN Pop’s Video Jukebox Song of The Day! Every weekday will be featuring a live watch of a great and memorable music video. This week we’re all about trios so each song will be by a group or band that only has three members. On today’s episode, Andy Atherton is watching, “Invisible Touch” by Genesis from 1986.
The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpmiZ7zsHXY

Honestly, who had Indiana and Dallas and Minnesota in the conference Finals? Where's LeBron, Steph, Dame, KD, and all the others from the old guard? Well, i guess time's are a changin' and Andrew and Adam are here to give their thoughts on the NBA Conference finals. Enjoy!
 

Welcome to PTBN Pop’s Video Jukebox Song of The Day! Every weekday will be featuring a live watch of a great and memorable music video. This week we’re all about trios so each song will be by a group or band that only has three members. On today’s episode, Steve Riddle is watching, “Minority” by Green Day from 2000.
The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDBlqu6KF4k

Welcome to PTBN Pop’s Video Jukebox Song of The Day! Every weekday will be featuring a live watch of a great and memorable music video. This week we’re all about trios so each song will be by a group or band that only has three members. On today’s episode, Andy Atherton is watching, “Don’t Stand So Close To Me” from 1980.
The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNIZofPB8ZM

This week on It Was a Thing on TV we continue with Pilot Month 2024.
 
First, 1982 was a time of flux at NBC in the daytime.  Game shows were out earlier that year minus Wheel of Fortune, replaced with soaps and sitcom reruns.  NBC had a pilot that was part-game, part-psychological analysis with Let's Get Personal, hosted by a familiar face to NBC game show watchers, but also with an acting troupe of three big names around these parts.  
 
Then, as we have said in the past, Jay Wolpert is the master of the overly complex but unique game show format.  In this show, two people build a team of players with the end goal of winning that captain $10,000 and making some fast friends.  Apparently NBC passed this up for a show that John Davidson predicted would be on for a very long time.
 
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Timestamps
0:10 - Cold Open to Episode 471 (Update on The Virtual Ed Sullivan Show)
2:19 - Let’s Get Personal (1982 pilot)
33:52 - The Season Finale of The Russell Westbrook Update
36:45 - The Joey Gallo Update
38:28 - Cold Open to Episode 472 (Episode Change)
41:14 - Fast Friends (1984 pilot)
1:03:05 - This Week in Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour History (5-14-84/5-18-84)

Welcome to PTBN Pop’s Video Jukebox Song of The Day! Every weekday will be featuring a live watch of a great and memorable music video. On today’s episode, Andy Atherton is watching “Fly” by Sugar Ray from 1997.
The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUtnwcv-quE

On the sixth episode of Cartoons Of Our Youth, Andy Atherton welcomes Jennifer Smith to talk about one of her favorite cartoons, Futurama. The duo talks about the great voice cast; Monkey Fracas Jr.; accidentally getting cryogenically frozen; drunk robots; heads in jars; comparing Farnsworth to Freck; cheating robots; cheating at contests and Grunka-Lunkas before moving on to live watch the two episodes that Jenny selected for them. The ones picked are S1 E1 “Space Pilot 3000” & S2 E4 “Fry And The Slurm Factory”.
 
So grab a bowl of your favorite cereal, park yourself in front of the TV and join us for some great cartoons!