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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. What is up

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Speaker 1: straight Fire? Fam, It's me Jason McIntyre, Straight Fire for Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: January thirty one. It's the end of the first month

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Speaker 1: of three. Boy, that really went by quickly, didn't it?

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Speaker 1: So much happening in January? Always a fun, busy month,

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Speaker 1: got kids sports, NFL playoffs, start to watch, a little

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Speaker 1: more college basketball, NBA trade deadline rapidly approaching. Oh no,

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Speaker 1: by the way, um, if you tune into the Herd today,

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Speaker 1: you'll see a Seahawks logo on the side of my head.

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Speaker 1: But I do not want to talk about that. There

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Speaker 1: are too many good sports topics. It's not always about me.

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Speaker 1: I mean kind of is, but just not all the time.

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Speaker 1: Like now, um, I need to We'll get to the Lakers.

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Speaker 1: They lost, but there's good news. We'll get to Aaron Rodgers.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's much big coaching move in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: We'll get to that shortly. I think we have to

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Speaker 1: start here. Brock Purty suffered the injury to his elbow

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Speaker 1: on the sixth play offensively for the Niner Sunday. He

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Speaker 1: tried to go, he could not throw the ball down

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Speaker 1: the field. It was only dink and dunk, and the

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Speaker 1: Eagles knew it. It It was not a game in the

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Speaker 1: second half. Once Josh Johnson got concussed. Actually, once Josh

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Speaker 1: Johnson fumbled down fourteen seven late first half, that was

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Speaker 1: the game right there. But I got a lot of

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Speaker 1: why isn't Purtty being tough and throwing the ball? You know,

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Speaker 1: like there was a lot of that negativity swirling on

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Speaker 1: social media. I'm not gonna call anybody out, but Purdy

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Speaker 1: was kind of getting hit hard, questioning is toughness? Well,

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Speaker 1: he's sitting there while he's taking steps, he's handing off,

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Speaker 1: he's throwing screen passes. Why is he throwing down the field?

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Speaker 1: What's going on? Is he soft? Well, we now know

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Speaker 1: brock Purty suffered a complete terror of his u c

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Speaker 1: least after surgery. Best case scenario is brock Purty will

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Speaker 1: avoid Tommy john surgery. San Francisco forty Niners fans, Kyle Shanahan,

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Speaker 1: if you guys just you just went through this, It's

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Speaker 1: like groundhog Day in San Francisco. Last year, heading into

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Speaker 1: the off season, you had Trey Lance, who didn't do much.

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Speaker 1: You had Jimmy Garoppolo who got to the NFC Championship game,

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Speaker 1: and then Garoppolo needed surgery in the off season, so

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Speaker 1: you wouldn't take it all right. Tray Lance is the

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Speaker 1: guy garoppolos the backup. Trey Lance gets hurt. Garoppolo goes in,

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Speaker 1: Garoppolo starts winning. Garoppolo gets hurt. Tray Lance, not Trail Lance.

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Speaker 1: Brock Purty comes in, brock Purty goes seven and oh

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Speaker 1: just just let this sink in for a second. Brock

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Speaker 1: say get surgery this week, six months. Maybe maybe he's

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Speaker 1: ready for the preseason, but I mean that's like absolute

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Speaker 1: best case scenario. If he's got like a bionic elbow,

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Speaker 1: guess that's the case. Brock Party probably will not be

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Speaker 1: one San Francisco forty Niners is Jimmy No, no, Jimmy

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Speaker 1: Garoppolo is not coming back. He's not. He's a free

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Speaker 1: one San Francisco Fort Nits fans is Trey Lance, who oh,

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, and I do want to nip this

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Speaker 1: in the butt. I saw a lot of silliness on Monday. Hey, hey,

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Speaker 1: they can't get the quarterbacks are always getting heard they

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Speaker 1: should bring in Brady. He's never hurt. Yeah, that's the answer.

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Speaker 1: Let's go get the guy who's gonna turn forty six

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Speaker 1: years old in August. Let's bring Tom Brady in to

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Speaker 1: solve our problems. Pay money for a quarterback, and then

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Speaker 1: one folks that that just feels like a nonstarter. I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm on board with the Niners in their plan. Do

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Speaker 1: me quickly call up the forty Niners uh free agents

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Speaker 1: to go over right now, the free agents for the Niners.

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Speaker 1: heavy hitters are free agents. Folks. You gotta be excited.

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Speaker 1: You automatically know the forty Niners as long as they

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Speaker 1: water into wine at the quarterback position. Now listen, listen.

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Speaker 1: Come on, let's not Let's not go overboard. Okay, as

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Speaker 1: we know the Cardinals are rebuilding in an NFC that

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Speaker 1: Who are the quarterbacks you fear in the NFC, Guys,

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Speaker 1: brings me to the next quarterback situation in the NFC,

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Speaker 1: my Jets. But guys, we've talked about this for a

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Speaker 1: do anything. That's not on Kellen Moore. You in San Francisco,

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Speaker 1: come on, you were underdogs. I thought, I thought, I mean, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Dad did not play great. So Kellum warns to blame.

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying it reminded me because I like to

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Speaker 1: make it about Jason. You know that by now I've

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Speaker 1: been listening for three years and the five prior my

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Speaker 1: Saturday morning radio show, so high profile ending stink. And

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Speaker 1: again I'm just speaking on my granular level. So you

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Speaker 1: guys know, I had started the website, The Big Lead.

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Speaker 1: When I moved out here for Fox, I still did TV.

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Speaker 1: I did the Big Lead, and then the Big Lead

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Speaker 1: was sold from USA today to this new company called

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Speaker 1: Minute Media, and they have a constellation of websites, sports blogs, whatever.

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Speaker 1: But you know, we had a lot of traffic. So

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Speaker 1: as this deal is going down, you know, I talked

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Speaker 1: to the guys and they you know whoever whoever I

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Speaker 1: have forgotten by now who they are. It was like

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Speaker 1: and they started asking me, so, what's your strategy. I'm like, well,

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Speaker 1: you know, we've had a great strategy. You know, we'll

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Speaker 1: tweak it every now and then, but by and large

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Speaker 1: this has worked. We do this, that and the other,

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Speaker 1: and it enables us to do this, that or the other.

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Speaker 1: We got a podcast from one of the guys that's

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Speaker 1: doing well. Um our ad money on the P and

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Speaker 1: L we're doing well. I was running the p n

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Speaker 1: L for many years. Um, things are good. I can

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Speaker 1: continue that. And they were like, oh okay. So you know.

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Speaker 1: Ultimately two weeks later they called me back and they're like, hey, Jason,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna go in another direction. Um, when your contracts over,

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Speaker 1: you're done. Thank you for your service. I never met

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Speaker 1: these guys face to face, never even zoom. There's just

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Speaker 1: phone calls. So I was stunned. I was like, wow,

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Speaker 1: and this is the funniest part. Well not, it was

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Speaker 1: not funny at the time. Within like six hours, I

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Speaker 1: get a call from Andrew Marshand at the New York Post. Hey, Jason, UM,

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Speaker 1: I heard you're out at the big lead. What's the story.

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Speaker 1: I was like, so, so these guys at minute Media

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Speaker 1: take over the side. The first order of business is

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Speaker 1: to cut me loose, and the second order of business

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Speaker 1: is to call a newspaper and let them know that

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Speaker 1: they're running the show. And I'm I'm out. And I

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Speaker 1: was like, damn, it's freaking cold blooded. I was angry,

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Speaker 1: and it's funny. I did at the time kind of

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Speaker 1: hide my anger from my family, but I was living.

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Speaker 1: I started the website, sold it. It wasn't quite my identity,

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Speaker 1: but I mean, you know, everything I had done for

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Speaker 1: the site I was proud of and they're just dumping me.

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Speaker 1: And then they I think they dumped one other guy

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Speaker 1: who made some money and another guy and they were

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Speaker 1: going to do it on like a shoe string budget

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Speaker 1: and all this. I was like, all right, whatever. So

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Speaker 1: I tried first to land and I had the TV

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Speaker 1: gig here a Fox. I was no problem. But the

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Speaker 1: other guys that wanted to make sure they landed okay,

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Speaker 1: So I ended up helping them get gigs. And here

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Speaker 1: was the weirdest part. For like the first couple of days,

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Speaker 1: I was rattled. I was so pissed. I'm sure kelln

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Speaker 1: More was super piste on Sunday when when this happened

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Speaker 1: to him. And then a weird thing happened. I realized

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Speaker 1: I didn't have to wake up at the ass crack

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Speaker 1: out here in l A to get post done, and

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Speaker 1: I didn't have to collect links for the roundup, and

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Speaker 1: I didn't have to do a bunch of stuff that

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Speaker 1: I was doing for the website. All of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: my quality of life improved greatly, and I was like,

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Speaker 1: this is awesome. So initially it sucked and then it

487
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Speaker 1: was awesome because I had more free time. I was like,

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Speaker 1: I don't need to bring the computer to bed anymore, honey,

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Speaker 1: I don't have to do this crap. And then it

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Speaker 1: got better because Fox, which had decided to cut all

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Speaker 1: their writing, said you know what, we want to go

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Speaker 1: back to a digital strategy. Hey, Jason, can you do

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Speaker 1: some videos for us? Um it was like, you know,

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Speaker 1: I got, I think I got. They dumped me in

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Speaker 1: like October maybe I don't remember exactly what it was,

496
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Speaker 1: but bottom line, just in time for the playoffs, foxes like,

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Speaker 1: let's do videos. I was like, sure, well we'll do

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Speaker 1: gambling videos, and um, we could do gambling content. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So we start leaning into that have a and what

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Speaker 1: do you know, A couple of months later, Fox is like, hey,

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Speaker 1: we want to sign you to a digital deal with

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Speaker 1: your digital rights with the big leader done. Can can

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Speaker 1: we sign you? I was like, oh, hell yes, And

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Speaker 1: so now I get this digital deal with Fox. I've

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Speaker 1: got the radio show and I've got the TV show,

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Speaker 1: and folks, I went in the span of I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: say it's like five months from being a little really

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Speaker 1: down in the dumps and ticked off about my situation

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Speaker 1: to all of a sudden, Oh my gosh, this is amazing.

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Speaker 1: Everything happens for a reason. I'm glad those ass clowns

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Speaker 1: fired me from the website. It enabled me to get

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Speaker 1: on digitally at Fox and things instantly got better for me.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it was outstanding. And of course, next thing

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Speaker 1: you know, you know, a year or two later, COVID

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Speaker 1: hits and I have a digital deal TV radio. Then

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Speaker 1: the radio one shifts to the podcast, and I basically

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Speaker 1: made myself as valuable as possible. And here we are

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Speaker 1: six years later, Stella Fox, doing digital, doing TV, got

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Speaker 1: the podcast. I mean, could I have gotten here without

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Speaker 1: getting fired by the big lead? Maybe I don't know,

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Speaker 1: but I guess that's a roundabout way of for saying.

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Speaker 1: For Kellen Moore, I'm sure he went through a pretty

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Speaker 1: crappy week waiting in the wings and McCarthy talks to

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Speaker 1: the media, we're evaluating blah blah blah than getting parted ways.

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Speaker 1: But remember they tried to bury it Sunday, try to

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Speaker 1: bury it in the conference championship games, and then twenty

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Speaker 1: four hours later Kellen Moore lands with the Chargers, now

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Speaker 1: just think about this. You get an upgrade at quarterback, yes,

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Speaker 1: just a nervous an upgrade. You get a better roster

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Speaker 1: to work with. And oh, by the way, the Churches O. C.

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Speaker 1: Lombardi really had struggled. They did not like his offense.

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Speaker 1: I don't think Kellen Moore needs to reinvent the wheel,

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Speaker 1: but I think this is gonna be a huge boost

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Speaker 1: for him. And I'll tell you this if he crushes it,

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Speaker 1: and there's a good chance he will. With Justin Herbert,

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Speaker 1: let's Justin Herbert and the Chargers. Remember they lost Slater

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Speaker 1: to the i R, they lost Bosta to the i R.

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Speaker 1: This team will be healthier. I think there's a real

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Speaker 1: chance the Chargers, in a loaded an FC could end

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Speaker 1: up in the Converse Championship Game. They could be a

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl team next year. I mean I thought they

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Speaker 1: could be a super Bowl team this year. The upside

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Speaker 1: for Kellen Moore is enormous. He is in a better

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Speaker 1: spot now than he was before. He needs to thank

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Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys for cutting him loose. And I'll wrap

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Speaker 1: up the pod with just a couple of quick words

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Speaker 1: on the Los Angeles Lakers, who were getting pummeled in

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Speaker 1: Brooklyn made a spirited comeback and then ended up falling

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Speaker 1: to the durant less nets Um by what they lose

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Speaker 1: by seventeen points. Kyrie Irving looked good, Cook and Patrick Beverley.

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Speaker 1: But I just want to I know the Lakers are

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Speaker 1: reeling a little bit twenty seven down there in the

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Speaker 1: dumps a little bit. This is a tough East Coast

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Speaker 1: swing for them. But I need to just point out

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Speaker 1: one positive because listen, it's positive Tuesday, Jason. I'm trying

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Speaker 1: to be optimistic. I loved that once again, even with

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Speaker 1: no lebron, even with no a D. Darvin Ham kept

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Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook on the bench. He came off the bench,

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Speaker 1: he played thirty minutes, He got a lot of shots.

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Speaker 1: He did not play particularly well. Five or fifteen, seventeen

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Speaker 1: points tennessis eight boards, six turnovers. That's obviously not going

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Speaker 1: to cut it. But I'm sure Westbrook's ass was chapped

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Speaker 1: that he's coming off a bench behind the likes of

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Speaker 1: Troy Brown, Pat Bev and Dennis Shrewder. Hachimura got in

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Speaker 1: town last week and he's already starting. What do you

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Speaker 1: think Russell westbrooks dealing with right now? He cannot be

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Speaker 1: happy coming off the bench. And now listen, he played

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Speaker 1: thirty minutes, he got his shots. But Darvin Ham sending

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Speaker 1: a message like, there's no way on Earth you're getting

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Speaker 1: back in the starting lineup. That's the obvious message. Shredder

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Speaker 1: was to a five team Pat bev one of eight.

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Speaker 1: When you're starting back quarters three of twenty three, you're

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Speaker 1: not winning anything, nothing, absolutely nothing. I listen, I'm happy

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Speaker 1: to see Lonnie Walker back. He is his game two.

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Speaker 1: He was out a month. It's gonna take a minute.

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Speaker 1: Austin Reaves is next. Folks, you can sleep on the Lakers,

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00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 1: you can bash them. There obviously not a great basketball

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00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:25,560
Speaker 1: team right now. They are five games under five. They

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Speaker 1: have lost three or four. They are in New York

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Speaker 1: tonight for a big t NT game. Lebron and a

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Speaker 1: d will play. Then they it gets a little easier

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Speaker 1: with Indiana. New Orleans is reeling a bit. Then there's

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Speaker 1: okay see and next week is a tough one verse

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Speaker 1: Milwaukee at Golden State. That is a brutal Thursday Saturday

585
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Speaker 1: swat arguably two of the best teams in the league.

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Speaker 1: I would say the Lakers have to win tonight against

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Speaker 1: the next, it's a big one. Then you beat Indiana,

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00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:58,440
Speaker 1: you get the momentum going. And if you can get

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Speaker 1: to the All Star Break at like tenth in the West,

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Speaker 1: and that's not asking for too much. That's not tenth

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Speaker 1: in the West is like nothing special. Sacramento keeps winning,

592
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:10,800
Speaker 1: but you look around the West and it's like Phoenix

593
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:14,480
Speaker 1: can't get their act together. Minnesota is still bumbling, Utah's

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00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:18,520
Speaker 1: barely treading water. I mean, the Lakers, what are they

595
00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:21,920
Speaker 1: three games back of the sixth seed. That's it. So

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Speaker 1: if you can get to get to ten by the

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Speaker 1: All Star break, well I don't think okay, So he

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Speaker 1: can keep this up. Portland's is headed their nose diving badly,

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Speaker 1: and the Rockets and uh Suppursia going nowhere. It's a

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Speaker 1: jumbled mess in the West, and the Lakers are in

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Speaker 1: perfectly fine shape. That's enough for Tuesday. Talk to you tomorrow.