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Speaker 4: Here we are.

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Speaker 1: Opening night, coming up of the NBA playoffs. Picked up

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Speaker 1: about it, We got NBC insider Kurt Healing stopping buying

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Speaker 1: about twenty minutes. We take a look at the playing rounds.

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Speaker 1: Will anybody watch the Eastern Conference? How good is the

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Speaker 1: Western con falls balls? We also watched tonight the WNBA

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Speaker 1: draft and to no one's surprised, the player we thought

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Speaker 1: one overall.

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Speaker 4: In the draft.

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Speaker 1: We thought it was going to be Paige Beckers out

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Speaker 1: of Yukon. The Dallas Wings talked to Paige Beckers. Paige

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Speaker 1: Becker said she was excited to be going there if

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Speaker 1: when it came time to make that selection, of course,

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Speaker 4: The Dallas select.

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Speaker 1: So Paige Beckers goes number one overall, Haley Van Liz

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Speaker 1: goes number eleven to the Chicago Sky And you see

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Speaker 1: this everywhere tonight, right Suddenly it's a lot of people

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Speaker 1: They hit the big time last year. Obviously, Caitlin Clark

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Speaker 1: couple of generations, and the WNBA now it's a thing

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Speaker 1: and it became huge and it's something that we cover,

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Speaker 1: that we talk about. It is part of the regular

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Speaker 1: while it pops in there's a conversation about it. Now

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Speaker 1: it's become that because it has something that only the

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Speaker 1: NFL has, and this is why the league is taken

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Speaker 1: the only league now the WNBA does it that. Every

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Speaker 1: year you get new superstars organically joining the league. Right,

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Speaker 1: you have thirty two teams in the NFL. Obviously it's

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Speaker 1: more than double what they have in the WNBA. But

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Speaker 1: the point is is that you got thirty two teams

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Speaker 1: six new superstars that are drafted and show up and

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Speaker 1: become stars right away. Now sometimes it's the very early

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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. There are stars who come in and

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Speaker 1: You think, well, is it gonna be Ashton Genty could

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's cam Ward, maybe it's Shador Sanders, maybe but

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Speaker 1: because in Major League Baseball they don't have it. Guys

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Speaker 1: Hey, here she is to lead a team to the

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Speaker 4: I gotta see this game. I gotta see it.

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Speaker 1: This is a huge, huge thing. And the W is

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Speaker 1: I really gotta see this. I gotta see because now

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Speaker 1: This is Page Becker's en Erriqueo Gunbawally, which love more

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Speaker 4: I think when we look at it. You're at a

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Speaker 4: all right, how does this round out? Because you had

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Speaker 4: What's the Indiana versus Chicago? That'll look like? Well, now

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Speaker 1: We're gonna put that drive up and down that highway,

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Speaker 4: Let's go.

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Speaker 1: Although I don't I don't think now this is just me.

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Speaker 1: I'm not a coach, but I don't think Hailey van

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Speaker 1: But the point being just that we we have been

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Speaker 4: We're already seeing a couple of this cycle that decorated

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Speaker 4: players that said, well, I can go get a different

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Speaker 4: because South Carolina that needs to replace a lot of people.

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Speaker 4: Right for the minutes that they had this year, they

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Speaker 4: Now that's the interesting part for this WNBA draft is

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Speaker 4: But that's the thing, though, you continue building that market

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Speaker 4: We're going to see it beyond Caitlin Clark and with

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Speaker 4: We've got more interest and now it's a matter of capitalizing,

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Speaker 1: The one thing I do want to warn, right, the

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Speaker 1: here comes Page Beckers, who is by far and away

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Speaker 1: the number one overall picture draft this year.

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Speaker 4: Right here she is. She's great.

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Speaker 1: She's not Kitlyn Clark. Okay, she's not Kitlyn Clark. She's

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Speaker 1: Page Beckers is a great player. She's not getting nobody

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Speaker 1: than anything else in the world, shooting the basketball. She

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Speaker 1: she averages twenty two points a game on nineteen shots.

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Speaker 1: It's a rising tide lifts all boats. That's all that's happening.

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Speaker 4: Bud how are you, man?

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Speaker 5: I'm doing all right. I just got back today from

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Speaker 1: of rotation for me and now Kurt gets it, it's.

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Speaker 4: Like the ring. It's like the ring. Now you got it.

434
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Speaker 4: Now you gotta take it all right? So here we go.

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Speaker 1: You know, we were taking a look now at the

436
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Speaker 1: at what we're seeing in the playing round, And do

437
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Speaker 1: you see any craziness either in the I mean, I

438
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Speaker 1: mean the Eastern Conference is lucky if it's televised. Do

439
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Speaker 1: you see any crazy sorry, do you see any craziness

440
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Speaker 1: coming out of the playing round either East or the West?

441
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Speaker 5: Not? Look, especially not in the West. I think there

442
00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:34,320
Speaker 5: is a distinct gap between Sacramento and Dallas and anybody else.

443
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Speaker 5: Like I just don't. I can't. It's one game, so

444
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Speaker 5: I mean again, it's what we love about the NCAA

445
00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:47,240
Speaker 5: tournament and those kind of situations where the Warriors could

446
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Speaker 5: lose to the Mavericks I mean Matt Mavericks mage to Memphis.

447
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Speaker 5: I mean, it could happen. Probably doesn't, Memphis, probably wins,

448
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Speaker 5: but I don't think at that side it seems less

449
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Speaker 5: likely to me. And on the other side, it's almost

450
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Speaker 5: as bad. I think Orlando was clearing away the best

451
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Speaker 5: of that group. But I can't imagine anybody's beating with

452
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Speaker 5: the pressure on. I would expect Trey Young not to

453
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Speaker 5: shoot efficiently, but to put up numbers and get it done.

454
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Speaker 4: I think he'd be more effective if he's playing the Knick,

455
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Speaker 4: so he just asked to pretend he's at Madison's.

456
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a.

457
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Speaker 5: Good point, Like if there was a way to get him.

458
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Speaker 5: Unfortunately he's not gonna get up to six, but like

459
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Speaker 5: we can get him on that side of the bracket,

460
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Speaker 5: that'd be great.

461
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Speaker 4: No, that'd be fun.

462
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Speaker 3: See.

463
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Speaker 1: The thing is, I honestly, if you look at for

464
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Speaker 1: a surprise team, I don't know, man. I think the

465
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Speaker 1: Bulls can come out of that. And they've been pretty

466
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Speaker 1: good since the trade deadline. You got two really dynamic

467
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Speaker 1: players in White and Giddy. I mean I could see

468
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Speaker 1: I could see them winning these couple of games here

469
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Speaker 1: and getting in.

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Speaker 5: That's not a crazy idea because the Hawks really, despite

471
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Speaker 5: having Dyson Daniels, don't really defend consistently well at all.

472
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Speaker 5: And there's only as good as Dys in his band.

473
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Speaker 5: There's one of him. Is not time yet to clone

474
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Speaker 5: him and have technology before the before the next round.

475
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Speaker 5: So yeah, I guess that I could. I could see

476
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Speaker 5: them again. It's the beauty of this thing. If it's

477
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Speaker 5: Atlanta versus Chicago in that second game, Yeah, you could

478
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Speaker 5: see that. I could see Levin getting hot. It's something

479
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Speaker 5: not Levine. But like somebody, they're getting hot. Even Bozellis

480
00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:25,720
Speaker 5: Lorookie is like he's been playing a lot better lately.

481
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Speaker 5: Somebody gets hot and makes that happen.

482
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Speaker 4: Kert, let me take it to the thirty thousand foot

483
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Speaker 4: in view. How deep is the real pool of potential winners?

484
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Speaker 5: I don't, honestly, it's too deep in the East. It's

485
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Speaker 5: I think Boston is clear clearly the best mentions they clearly.

486
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Speaker 5: I think they are capable of being the best team

487
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Speaker 5: when fully functional. They what's different for them this year

488
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Speaker 5: is they can't get to the finals and have for

489
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Speaker 5: Zingis get injured and have him sit for a few

490
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Speaker 5: games and they'll be fun. Like, that's not going to

491
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Speaker 5: be the ride this year. They are not coasting into

492
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Speaker 5: the finals. They're going to have to earn it. If

493
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Speaker 5: they're half a step back, Cleveland can beat them, and

494
00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:09,119
Speaker 5: they half a step back. The Knicks are a problem.

495
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Speaker 5: Like I don't I don't think the Knicks can beat them.

496
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Speaker 5: I think you can. There's places to attack them, but

497
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Speaker 5: they're not gonna be They're not They're gonna be physical,

498
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Speaker 5: They're gonna play hard, They're not gonna roll over. They're

499
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Speaker 5: gonna the Celtics are gonna have to earn this one.

500
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Speaker 5: But I still think it's Boston won Cleveland won a

501
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Speaker 5: and I don't think anybody else can get out of

502
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Speaker 5: the East in the West. I'll say that pool is

503
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Speaker 5: three deep now and I'm leaving Denver out uncomfortably, Like

504
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Speaker 5: maybe Denver could put together a run. But I think

505
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Speaker 5: the Lakers, Warriors, and then obviously the Thunder who I've

506
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Speaker 5: got who I've picked to come out, you know before

507
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Speaker 5: the season. I think those are your teams, and I

508
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Speaker 5: I could see the Warriors or the Lakers possibly upsetting

509
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Speaker 5: the Thunder. I wouldn't. I'm not gonna pick it. But

510
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Speaker 5: like that's not insane.

511
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Speaker 4: You can never go to Houston again, then yeah, you're done,

512
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Speaker 4: You're you can never go.

513
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Speaker 5: First off, I'm okay with that. Second no, I'm just

514
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Speaker 5: they're not there. I love that they're a young team,

515
00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:17,160
Speaker 5: they're athletic, they're going They're not gonna roll again. They're

516
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Speaker 5: not gonna roll over for anybody. If it is Golden

517
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Speaker 5: you know it is Golden State Houston, and that that's

518
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Speaker 5: gonna be a great series because the athletes everywhere on

519
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Speaker 5: that team. But I just don't I think you do

520
00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:30,280
Speaker 5: have to learn how to win in the NBA a

521
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Speaker 5: little bit. I think you've kind of got to tea

522
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Speaker 5: that team just as a group doesn't if the players

523
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Speaker 5: don't have experience. And I'll ask you the other question, Guys,

524
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Speaker 5: late in the game, it's gonna be tight, it's gonna

525
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Speaker 5: be clutch minutes. Who's there Alpha, who's the guy taking

526
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Speaker 5: the shots?

527
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Speaker 4: Well, next year it'll be KD.

528
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Speaker 5: Yeah exactly. So you're saying they're not gonna go get

529
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Speaker 5: Zion because you know that's out there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Dog.

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Speaker 1: So that's the other thing too. Now Pelicans making making move?

533
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Speaker 1: Who now is Zion's future? Is he still going to

534
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Speaker 1: be a Pelican? You think he gets moved in the

535
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Speaker 1: off season.

536
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Speaker 5: I will tell you this from what I've heard and

537
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Speaker 5: I and I know some people actually kind of reported

538
00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:12,960
Speaker 5: this a little bit today, but like what I had

539
00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:16,280
Speaker 5: heard after this and started reaching out to people today.

540
00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:19,200
Speaker 5: The Griffin thing, by the way, not a huge surprise here,

541
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Speaker 5: like I but when I reached out and they said, well,

542
00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:25,119
Speaker 5: Willie Green's like they're bringing in a new GM, so

543
00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:28,080
Speaker 5: you're done as coach, right, And a bunch of people said, no,

544
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Speaker 5: ownership likes him. Gail Benson and the top brass there

545
00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:39,240
Speaker 5: like him. So if it's do Mars, it looks like

546
00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:41,000
Speaker 5: it will be Joe Dumars. If it's Do Mars, you're

547
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Speaker 5: like he's going to be given marching orders to keep

548
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Speaker 5: Willie Green and trade Zion. So I think there's I

549
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Speaker 5: think that is there's a better than fifty percent chance

550
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Speaker 5: that happens this offseason. We'll see the problem is. But

551
00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:01,119
Speaker 5: somebody's going to take a swing on here him. But

552
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Speaker 5: I don't know how much they're going to get back.

553
00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:04,320
Speaker 5: I don't know if they're going to get back enough

554
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Speaker 5: to be worth it, because this isn't going to be

555
00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:12,479
Speaker 5: five first round picks, man. But I think it's if

556
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Speaker 5: you're an up and coming team, and I don't think

557
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:15,280
Speaker 5: Houston should do it. But if you're an up and

558
00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:19,320
Speaker 5: coming team and you need an alpha and you need

559
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Speaker 5: like you want to take a swing, and it's just

560
00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:25,639
Speaker 5: kind of hot, you could take the bet. Because the

561
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Speaker 5: way his contract is structured, you can always just walk

562
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Speaker 5: away from it, like he's he's missed so many games

563
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Speaker 5: that you're going to be allowed unless he plays like

564
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Speaker 5: seventy and plays well, in which case you don't want

565
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:37,320
Speaker 5: to let him go anyway, you can just walk away

566
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Speaker 5: from the contract. So I think somebody takes a swing

567
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Speaker 5: at him. I think they trade him so better.

568
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Speaker 1: Than fifty like like better than fifty percent. Like it

569
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Speaker 1: could go either way, or it's going to like crawling

570
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Speaker 1: north of fifty.

571
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Speaker 5: Crawling north of fifty and going up. I would you know,

572
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Speaker 5: sixty maybe and on sixty forty. Again, it's going to

573
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Speaker 5: depend on is it dumars and what are they getting

574
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Speaker 5: back in a trade? Like is it really going to

575
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:04,960
Speaker 5: be worth it? But there's real potential on that Ruster.

576
00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:07,440
Speaker 5: I mean, look, Trey Murphy really started to come along

577
00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:10,760
Speaker 5: until he got hurt and Herb Jones and again the

578
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:13,200
Speaker 5: same injury as Trey Murphy with the late torn labor,

579
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:18,720
Speaker 5: really good defender de Jante Mary, you know, tears his achilles.

580
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:21,320
Speaker 5: Hopefully he comes back at some point next season, and

581
00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:26,959
Speaker 5: there's some nice players there. I don't think you can

582
00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:29,480
Speaker 5: build a round Yon, and then so if you you

583
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:31,560
Speaker 5: get back what you get back and you start retooling

584
00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:31,920
Speaker 5: that thing.

585
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Speaker 4: Kurt, lastly you met Jason mentioned Kevin Durant. How many

586
00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:39,919
Speaker 4: of those guys are back in Phoenix? Do they finally

587
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Speaker 4: get to clear House fully after giving Bootenols a forty

588
00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:45,200
Speaker 4: million dollars to walk away.

589
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:53,040
Speaker 5: Yeah, nice gig if you can get it, isn't it. Yes, Well,

590
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:56,879
Speaker 5: Kevin Durant is absolutely gone. They will work together to

591
00:27:56,920 --> 00:28:00,880
Speaker 5: find a deal. Bradley deal is probably gone again. They're

592
00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:02,480
Speaker 5: going to work together to find a deal. But that

593
00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:04,919
Speaker 5: one's a little harder. There's a lot of teams interesting,

594
00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 5: you know you mentioned Houston. There's plenty of teams that

595
00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:10,480
Speaker 5: have interest in Durant and give him one hundred and

596
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:16,359
Speaker 5: twenty two million dollar to your extension. He wants Beal's

597
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:18,359
Speaker 5: a different story. You're gonna they might have to attach

598
00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:20,120
Speaker 5: a first to it or something. It's not gonna be easy,

599
00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:22,400
Speaker 5: but they're going to try to move that and rebuild

600
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:26,480
Speaker 5: around Booker. The Booker's not going anywhere. Whoever they bring

601
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:29,840
Speaker 5: in his coach. It's it's going to be a Booker

602
00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:33,120
Speaker 5: centric team and we'll see what it looks like. It's

603
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:35,879
Speaker 5: they needed to do this, obviously what they had just

604
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,440
Speaker 5: wasn't working. But I don't know that they're going to

605
00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:41,360
Speaker 5: be dramatically better next year unless they can really hit

606
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:42,479
Speaker 5: a home run with these trades.

607
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Speaker 1: He's on Twitter at Basketball Talk that is at Basketball Talk, Kurt,

608
00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:48,000
Speaker 1: big stuff.

609
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Speaker 3: Man.

610
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Speaker 4: Think we'll talk to you as the playoffs go on. Man,

611
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Speaker 4: thanks so much.

612
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:54,600
Speaker 5: I feel like I just need to hang up now

613
00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:55,440
Speaker 5: that music started.

614
00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:58,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, I get played off with the go gos. But

615
00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:01,520
Speaker 1: apparently Alex tyscher like really just wants to play this again.

616
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 4: All right, We got to make sure Kurt wants to

617
00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:08,479
Speaker 4: come back on the show. Yeah, that would helps Kurt. Yeah, yeah,

618
00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:09,360
Speaker 4: he likes us.

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Speaker 1: Yeah say me all right, Well, it doesn't matter as

620
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Speaker 1: long as he likes Okay.

621
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Speaker 6: Maybe he knows how eel's reproduced.

622
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Speaker 4: No, I'm glad we didn't ask I'm glad we did

623
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Speaker 4: not ask him that.

624
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:23,000
Speaker 6: No, maybe Steve knows.

625
00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:25,800
Speaker 1: How do you know, Steve knows a lot of things.

626
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Speaker 1: I don't think he knows that. I bet he knows

627
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:30,560
Speaker 1: what's trending in the wide world of sports. And maybe

628
00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:34,440
Speaker 1: maybe the path of Juan Soto's home run tonight took

629
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Speaker 1: the path of an eel swimming in the water. I

630
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Speaker 1: don't know. We'll find out right now. He did have

631
00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:41,880
Speaker 1: an awesome hoodie on. I love that Won Soda wears

632
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:43,480
Speaker 1: a hoodie. That's pretty cool, man.

633
00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:46,240
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was more than a little cool in Minnesota

634
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Speaker 7: for that game.

635
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:50,840
Speaker 1: Lois crowd not non COVID years. Lois crowds in his

636
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Speaker 1: target field open in twenty ten.

637
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Speaker 7: Yeah, that is saying something because they've had a lot

638
00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:58,000
Speaker 7: of games in the forties with temperatures. Gets an outdoor

639
00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:01,240
Speaker 7: stadium unlike the old you know, hefty bag and right

640
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:03,960
Speaker 7: field at the undiverse stadium they had for years. Mets

641
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:06,000
Speaker 7: are eleven and five. By the way, they won five

642
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Speaker 7: to one at Minnesota. The Twins record five and twelve,

643
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Speaker 7: although it was another good start for Joe Ryan, but

644
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:14,760
Speaker 7: Twins offense was three for twenty eight with thirteen strikeouts,

645
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Speaker 7: and Twins first baseman Ty Franz was named AL Player

646
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Speaker 7: of the Week, Brewers catcher William Contreras NL Player of

647
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Speaker 7: the Week Wan Soto for the Mets two run homer,

648
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Speaker 7: Pete Alonso, two singles, two walks. But the Padres are

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Speaker 7: the lead story late tonight because they're still undefeated at home.

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Speaker 7: It's eleven and oh at home.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 7: If you look at the list of the ten best

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Speaker 7: starts at home in baseball history, five of the ten

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Speaker 7: teams go back to the eighteen hundreds. More recently, a

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Speaker 7: couple of years ago. The Ray started fourteen and oh

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Speaker 7: at home again, Padres eleven and oh at home at

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Speaker 7: the moment, and they just pitched three straight shutouts over

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Speaker 7: the weekend against Colorado. Fernando Tatist Junior two home runs

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Speaker 7: tonight for San Diego. It's ninth cell out of the year,

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Speaker 7: ten four over the Cubs, and Colorado lost again. Dodgers

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Speaker 7: held on five to three against the Rocky who have

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Speaker 7: a three and thirteen record, and the Rockies are already

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Speaker 7: ten and a half games out in the division. We

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Speaker 7: are not quite to mid April. Early home runs for

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Speaker 7: Mookie Beds.

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Speaker 1: The Braves who started out oh to fifteen are even

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Speaker 1: closer to first place.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, the Braves are five and eleven now. They've gotten

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Speaker 7: a few wins recently. But yike's what is going on

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Speaker 7: with the Rockies. It's just the worst division to be in.

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Speaker 7: If you're the Rockies, you couldn't have picked a worst

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Speaker 7: division to be in.

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Speaker 4: Mookie bets Sho.

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Speaker 7: Heeo Tani early home runs, La wins Dustin May. The

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Speaker 7: victory the Atlanta win was eight four at Toronto. They

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Speaker 7: led eight to nothing in the fifth. Austin Riley two homers,

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Speaker 7: five RBIs Braves on the road had been one and nine.

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Speaker 7: The Giants on the Road are eight and two. They

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Speaker 7: were down at Philadelphia three to nothing in the first,

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Speaker 7: then scored six times top of the second, ten to

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Speaker 7: four Giants.

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Speaker 4: The final.

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Speaker 7: Pittsburgh and Paul Skeens beat Washington ten to three, Tampa

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Speaker 7: Bay sixteen to one over Boston. It was a fourteen

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Speaker 7: to one lead in the third inning. The Yankees had

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Speaker 7: four solo homers against Royals, losing pitcher Seth Lugo four

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Speaker 7: to one Yanks.

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Speaker 4: The final.

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Speaker 7: Jazz Chisholm with his sixth homer of the year already

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Speaker 7: Ben Rice with his fifth. By the way, Aaron Judge

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Speaker 7: was named tam USA captain for next year's World Baseball Classic.

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00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 7: It was Detroit and Trek scouble winning nine to one

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Speaker 7: at Milwaukee. Saint Louis and pitcher Sonny Grays three to

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Speaker 7: zero beat Houston eight three. That was eight to nothing

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Speaker 7: in the ninth. The Phoenix Suns fired coach Mike Budenholzer

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Speaker 7: after one season. The Pelicans fired vice president David Griffin.

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Speaker 7: The NBA playing tournament starts Tuesday with two games. Purdue

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Speaker 7: All American guard Braden Smith will return for his senior season.

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Speaker 7: The WNBA draft was tonight Yukon's page. Beckers was taken

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Speaker 7: number one overall by Dallas. Six foot six center Dominique

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Speaker 7: Malonga from France went to Seattle in the NHL. Among

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Speaker 7: the six games, LA a five nothing winner at Edmonton

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Speaker 7: to clinch home ice advantage for the upcoming first round series.

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Speaker 7: The NHL regular season ends Thursday. Back to you, Thank you, Steve.

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Speaker 1: The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon

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Speaker 1: Lai from the Tirack dot com studios. Coming up next,

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Speaker 1: how about not one, but two big conspiracy theories coming

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Speaker 1: off of two big stories today?

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Speaker 4: Oh sweet, I love those.

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Speaker 1: One's about basketball and one's about a trophy. Oh that's next.

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Speaker 6: Fox, Where do wheels come from?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 4: Not no.

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Speaker 3: This one goes out to the eels.

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Speaker 4: What the hell are you playing?

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Speaker 6: Goes out to the eels.

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Speaker 1: It's a blowboard gang. Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith

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Speaker 1: Show with Mike Harmon.

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Speaker 6: Wait for the chorus.

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Speaker 3: Here's for the Eels, Jason and the re vehicle Tigle.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, all right, okay. This song was popular for

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Speaker 1: about like eight seconds, like in the in the all right,

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Speaker 1: yeah right. Two thousand and five is two thousand and six,

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Speaker 1: the vast barren wasteland.

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Speaker 4: That is the Aughts. What do you consider it in

726
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:11,240
Speaker 4: pop culture? I like a month.

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Speaker 6: They have over six hundred million plays on that.

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Speaker 1: Well, if you got at least four people in the band,

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00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 1: if you're continuing to hit play every few minutes, you

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Speaker 1: get a.

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Speaker 4: Lot of I'm just gonna say this, I've fear for humanity.

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Speaker 4: Six hundred million plays of that.

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Speaker 1: But who knows if what Tyser's telling you is the truth.

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Speaker 1: I don't need science, man, I don't even know. I

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Speaker 1: don't even Bill n Yeah, no one knows how eels, right,

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Speaker 1: we can't tell how Eel's reproduced. Well, Bill Ny doesn't lie?

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Speaker 3: Why is it?

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Speaker 2: What is it?

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Speaker 4: Okay?

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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, all right, you know what. I open

741
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Speaker 1: the door. Let's walk through. What does Bill Ny lie about?

742
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Speaker 6: Where do I start?

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Speaker 4: Give me one big thing.

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Speaker 1: The thing that he lies about, allegedly that upsets you

745
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Speaker 1: the most, the.

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Speaker 6: Fact that he says he knows what's going on in space?

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Speaker 4: Okay, science? I thought, no, you said, was Neil deGrasse

748
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Speaker 4: Tyson don't.

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Speaker 6: We don't have time for that.

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Speaker 4: But you said it was. But you said earlier he

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Speaker 4: was the guy that didn't know anything about he's it.

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Speaker 6: Well, all right, there, so how Bill Bill Ny lies?

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Speaker 4: Bill Ny? But what do you lie? Tell me something

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Speaker 4: you lied about?

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Speaker 6: What do we start?

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Speaker 3: Just tell me one day? The Bill just there? You go.

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Speaker 4: What's his name?

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Speaker 6: I don't know what's not?

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Speaker 3: Bill?

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Speaker 4: How do you know what's not?

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Speaker 3: Let me look it up.

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Speaker 4: His name is Bill? His name stan Nye. I gotta

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Speaker 4: do it. Bill, William Sanford.

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Speaker 3: No, it's a lie. I's William Bill.

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Speaker 1: Okay, well, okay, so it's you open that door. That's

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Speaker 1: not one of the conspiracy theories I was talking about.

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Speaker 1: And I said, we got a bonus one, uh to

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Speaker 1: conspiracy theory number one. Right, you saw today with Vice

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Speaker 1: President JD. Van's welcoming the Ohio State Buck guys to

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Speaker 1: the White House. Drop the Chaceampionship trophy. It came apart,

771
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Speaker 1: dropped it on the ground, picked it up. Conspiracy theory.

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Speaker 1: That's not the real championship trophy. What do you think

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Speaker 1: it was from a three D that is that is

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Speaker 1: a that is a traveling trophy that they use for

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Speaker 1: moments like this. The real trophy they keep back so

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Speaker 1: it doesn't get dropped or busted or broken or dented,

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00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:22,320
Speaker 1: because look, how many times have you seen people travel

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Speaker 1: with These trophies are supposed to be great trophies, and

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Speaker 1: the top falls off the bottom. Come on me in

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Speaker 1: the bottom can't fall off the National Championship trophy. Oh,

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Speaker 1: but the top is made to come off. No, I'm

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Speaker 1: telling you conspiracy theory. If you told me they had

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Speaker 1: a travel trophy for different leagues, had it that went around,

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Speaker 1: I'd believe you would say one hundred percent you were

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Speaker 1: right about that.

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Speaker 4: Maybe this was the rejected design of a Minecraft popcorn bunch.

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Speaker 1: Oh, maybe that's how the eels spawned. They did just Minecraft,

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Speaker 1: they just spawned, or they have an eel spawner or

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Speaker 1: chicken just saboteur eel jockey.

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Speaker 4: Again. Yeah, your kids can't slide right.

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Speaker 1: Off the eel slide flint and steel.

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Speaker 4: Uh so yeah, a Michigan fan infiltrated the proceedings.

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00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:09,000
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, just like sought it off. There was one

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Speaker 1: guy there wearing a Michigan hat. Jd Vance was not happy.

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Speaker 1: No actually mentioned uh uh, social Security actually mentioned.

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00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:20,520
Speaker 4: Well, there's a lot I saw that with Bowser from

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Speaker 4: Shanna and I yelling about leaving social Security alone. Did

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Speaker 4: he really did he say dot dodo do dodo do do?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: He was singing, singing the old do wop songs.

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Speaker 1: Do not touch social security?

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Speaker 4: Do dodo do do? I hate to not have a

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Speaker 4: check to cash?

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Speaker 1: Do dodo do? Okay, So that's conspiracy theory numbers. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that one's pretty good.

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Speaker 4: That's it.

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Speaker 1: The other one is now this report today, Luka Doncic

808
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Speaker 1: has the number one selling jersey in the NBA, right

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Speaker 1: first time in twelve years. It's not Lebron or Steph Curry.

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00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:59,640
Speaker 1: Now this maybe this is just me, because it could

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Speaker 1: it could really be just me. But living here in La,

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Speaker 1: I don't know that I've seen one person in person

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Speaker 1: wearing a Luka Doncic Lakers jersey. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: that's saying. I see, I see cutaways in the crowd,

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Speaker 1: and but I don't see people in my every day

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Speaker 1: like you would think.

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Speaker 4: I would say it.

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Speaker 1: I'm out and about every day doing stuff I have

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Speaker 1: my day. I go while we go to around, I'm nuts.

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Speaker 4: I see it.

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Speaker 1: Look every third person's wearing something Dodgers. That that that's

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Speaker 1: how Potu the Dodgers are. People wear Lakers stuff. But

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Speaker 1: Luka Donc's seventy seven jerseys. I don't think that I've

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Speaker 1: seen one person live in person wearing them. Not saying

825
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Speaker 1: that it's not real, but like, how many jerseys are

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Speaker 1: really sold?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 5: Like?

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Speaker 1: Did did Mavericks fans buy them all because they were upset?

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Speaker 1: Did Nico Harrison buy them all because he's like, hey, listen,

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Speaker 1: I just want to make sure that nobody can wear

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Speaker 1: them so I don't have to walk down the street

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Speaker 1: and see someone wearing a seventy seven Luca Lakers jersey,

834
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Speaker 1: and I don't want that. So I'm gonna buy all

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Speaker 1: the jerseys.

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Speaker 4: I mean, could be or they knew it would get

837
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Speaker 4: him to the top of the list thereby Irkin Lebron

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Speaker 4: James and Lebron's James. People Like I'm seeing people posting

839
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Speaker 4: pictures of the new Ken doll. They're not exactly moving

840
00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:09,799
Speaker 4: like hotcakes. I don't I don't think Nico is one

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Speaker 4: of those I'm playing chess while you're playing checkers. Well,

842
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:14,359
Speaker 4: I think it would have been kind of fun. I don't think. Also,

843
00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:16,800
Speaker 4: not a great couple of weeks for guys name Nico.

844
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Speaker 4: Uh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. It's been a

845
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Speaker 4: bit of struggle, a bit of a struggle.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well well Nico Harris're going back to February.

847
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Speaker 4: With But it's also you know, the ownership really got

848
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Speaker 4: a free pass out of all of that.

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Speaker 1: Sure that guy, sure, look what he did. Nobody said

850
00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:36,360
Speaker 1: he was doing what we wanted him to execute. It

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00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:39,120
Speaker 1: was O you're nuclear man, You're gonna, you're gonna, you're

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00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:40,719
Speaker 1: gonna take this for us. Okay, just so you know,

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00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:43,359
Speaker 1: all right, Greg, well you tell your job, but you're

854
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Speaker 1: gonna how much.

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Speaker 4: Of the one hundred million that Luca lost, does Nico get.

856
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Speaker 5: The buk.

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Speaker 1: You take this, We'll give you three percent of the

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00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:54,880
Speaker 1: money we were gonna give to Luca. Okay, this is

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00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:57,479
Speaker 1: still pretty good because that's the other part the whole

860
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Speaker 1: equation for Luca coming to La Maybe he boughted.

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Speaker 4: Know he get by the jersey. He lost over one

862
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Speaker 4: hundred million dollars. He can't get the superman. He's the

863
00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:06,760
Speaker 4: kidney getting salty.

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Speaker 1: But I mean, I don't I don't know that I've

865
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Speaker 1: seen one person wearing a Luca jersey. Every person in Europe,

866
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Speaker 1: they're all across Europe, or they haven't made it through

867
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Speaker 1: the boat. That's got stopped Germany, and I don't know Italy.

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Speaker 1: Maybe Scotland wearing the Luca Laker jerseys. That's where it

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Speaker 4: Maybe maybe Luca bottom all that. We don't know how

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Speaker 4: many jerseys that represents. That's the biggest question in all

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Speaker 4: of it.

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Speaker 1: Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen down the Jason

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