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Speaker 1: This is Michael Rappaport and you are now listening to

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Speaker 1: the I Am Rappaport podcast. This is part two of

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Speaker 1: my NBA All Star weekend extravaganza. Saturday morning, I go

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Speaker 1: to the NBA All Star practice, which is really for

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Speaker 1: the kid. It's not a practice. It's kind of like

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Speaker 1: a shoot around. First, the East comes out, the whole

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Speaker 1: teams there, everybody's there, every fucking NBA All start. They're

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Speaker 1: practicing there. I'm right on the fucking court. Then the

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Speaker 1: West comes out. Then there's some fucking shootout. I did

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Speaker 1: this this event with degree, you know, the deodorant. Stefan

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Speaker 1: Curry and John Wall, they come out. I'm bolshoning around

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Speaker 1: with them. Check it out online. I did it. It's fun.

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Speaker 1: I guarded Stefan Curry and I guarded John Wall. John

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Speaker 1: Wall missed a shot. Stefan Curry made a shot. That's

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Speaker 1: the kind of defense that I put on people. All Right,

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Speaker 1: I'm exhausted. I was up all night. I fucking eat

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Speaker 1: pizza because I'm now I'm off raining for my Celebrity

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Speaker 1: All Star Game for for three weeks before the Celebrity

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Speaker 1: Alsar Game, I ate, well, I didn't do anything I

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Speaker 1: slept well. I drink water. I didn't drink a lot

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Speaker 1: of Snapple, didn't drink a lot of Starbucks. You know,

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Speaker 1: I gave up fucking snapping for three weeks. I didn't

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Speaker 1: have any fucking pizza. I was in New York for

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Speaker 1: three days. I waited. But that night we went to

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Speaker 1: Joe's Pizza, and you know we're in there, everybody's like

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Speaker 1: m v P. There was a bunch of kids and

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Speaker 1: they were saying I should have won m VP m

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Speaker 1: v P. They were fucking blasted out of their mind.

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Speaker 1: But I made it up to the to the All

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Speaker 1: Star practice. Saturday morning, went home, I got back to

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Speaker 1: my crib, took a little nap, and then Saturday night

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Speaker 1: is the three point shootout in the dunk contest. So

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Speaker 1: this is how this went down. Me and my friend

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Speaker 1: bar They tell me, you know, you're gonna sit on courtside.

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Speaker 1: Fuck hell yeah, I'm excited. I'm gonna sit courtside. We're

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Speaker 1: sitting under the basket where on the opposite side of

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Speaker 1: the court. Now, this is who's at this event, Nicki

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Speaker 1: Minaj and Meek Mill. They're sitting mid court. Nicki Minaj,

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Speaker 1: Meek Mill. I see Rihanna walking. I'm like, oh shit,

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Speaker 1: oh shit, there's fucking Rihanna. Floyd Mayweather. He walks in.

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Speaker 1: He's got a bag with him. Of course he's got

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Speaker 1: a bag. He's got a bag of fucking money. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Now I have said things about Floyd Mayweather. I actually

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Speaker 1: called Floyd Mayweather Floyd Kardashian. Okay, I called him that

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Speaker 1: on live TV. I've called Floyd Mayweather Floyd Kardashian. Now

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Speaker 1: I'm seeing him now, I'm not worried about any beef

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Speaker 1: with me and Floyd Mayweather. He's not gonna fucking beat

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Speaker 1: me up, but he might not fucking like it. Uh

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Speaker 1: fucking Who else is there? Was Jay? I didn't see

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Speaker 1: Jay Z at this, But Adrian Grenier's there, Anthony Anderson there,

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Speaker 1: the entire NBA's there. Dr j oh I forgot to

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Speaker 1: say this when we're walking into the fucking dunk contest Saturday.

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Speaker 1: Who do I see Bill Russell? Who? If you're a

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Speaker 1: fan of the Iron Rapport Pockets, you know that I

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Speaker 1: have said Bill Russell, when you come out twice a year.

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Speaker 1: One is for the NBA All Star Weekend. Number two

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Speaker 1: is for the Championship Trophy. When you give away the

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Speaker 1: championship trophy. We have said, groom your ship, shave your ship,

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Speaker 1: take a fucking shower, go to the barber, and I say,

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Speaker 1: I see Bill Russell, and I'm like, oh fuck, there's

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Speaker 1: Bill Russell. I'm there's no way he's listened to the

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Speaker 1: Iron Rapports podcast, but I'm like, I need to get

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Speaker 1: a fucking picture. He's with Oscar Robertson, Basketball Royalty, Basketball Royalty.

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Speaker 1: Even though I have said and still believe that Bill

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Speaker 1: Russell is one of the most overrated NBA players of

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Speaker 1: all time, he's basketball Royalty. Plus, I'm always thinking about

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Speaker 1: giving the fans what they want, giving it what they need.

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Speaker 1: And I'm like, what better can I give the Iron

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Speaker 1: rapp Report fans than a picture a selfie with me

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Speaker 1: and Bill Russell. So I tell my friend Barr, Yo,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go over to Bill Russell and I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: say something to him, and you take the fucking picture.

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Speaker 1: So I go behind Bill Russell and Oscar Robertson, who

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Speaker 1: are both in their seventies, so they're seven year old men,

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Speaker 1: maybe maybe even older, and and and and and my

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Speaker 1: friend Bar takes the camera and Bill Russell gives him

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Speaker 1: a look like, motherfucker, if you take this fucking picture,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna fucking choke your throat. He wasn't fucking around.

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Speaker 1: And then bar my friend like put his fucking camera

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Speaker 1: in the pocket and we bailed on the picture. And

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Speaker 1: the picture? He said, because that motherfucker looked at me

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Speaker 1: like he was gonna fucking smash my fucking throat. And

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Speaker 1: I said, so what take the fucking picture? Man? You

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Speaker 1: know you could sue him fucking if he hits you.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't doing it to Bill Russell. Man, I was

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Speaker 1: gonna do that to Bill Russell. So we didn't get

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Speaker 1: the picture. I got some shitty pictures of Bill Russell

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Speaker 1: that I will post, but I will say this, Bill

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Speaker 1: Russell did get a haircut, okay, and his beard was

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Speaker 1: groom So maybe, just maybe he is a secret fan

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Speaker 1: of the Iron Rappor podcast on the Low. Maybe he,

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Speaker 1: like the millions and millions and millions of other people,

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Speaker 1: loves the podcast. I don't know, but somebody said somebody

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Speaker 1: got to him and said, you know, don't come out

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Speaker 1: with your ship looking crazy this year. So anyway, the

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Speaker 1: fucking events start to start. We have great seats, but

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Speaker 1: the NBA people, my man says, Yo, we're gonna move you, Mike,

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Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh funk. Here it comes, and I'm like,

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Speaker 1: where are you gonna move me? We're gonna move you

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Speaker 1: over next to Nikki and I'm like what. He's like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: We're gonna put you next to Nicki and Meek Mill.

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Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh fuck. So we get we switch

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Speaker 1: our seats and I'm sitting right next to fucking Meek

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Speaker 1: Mill and Nicki motherfucking Minaj. And I'm like, oh ship.

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Speaker 1: So I sit down and you know, celebrity people, they'll

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Speaker 1: they'll they'll recognize other celebrity people. So I sit down,

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Speaker 1: like yo, what's up. They're like what's up. I'm like, yo,

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Speaker 1: I'm a fan. She's like, I'm a fan. How you doing? All?

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Speaker 1: I sit down, I'm like, yo, I can't believe I'm

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Speaker 1: sitting next to fucking Nicki Minaj and motherfucking Mill. Meek

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Speaker 1: Mill is cool, she's big, motherfucker, sort of got a

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Speaker 1: goon quality. I say that with all due respect. Cool,

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Speaker 1: very cool, young I'm telling Yah, I like that Wu

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Speaker 1: Tang ship you did when you're rhumbing over the Wu

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Speaker 1: Tang beat. We're talking to him. Him and NICKI are chilling.

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Speaker 1: She looks ridiculous. She looks sick. Fucking Rihanna is like

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Speaker 1: four seats down. Floyd mayweathers like three seats down. He recognized,

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Speaker 1: like what's up? And I'm like, oh, ship, maybe he

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Speaker 1: never heard me call him Floyd Kardashian. He says, what's

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Speaker 1: up to me? The fucking the proceedings start. The fucking

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Speaker 1: three point contest is dope. Stefan Curry wins that he

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Speaker 1: made I think at third one point thirteen shots. I'm

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Speaker 1: bullshitting around with fucking Nicki Minaj and Meek Mill, my

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Speaker 1: friend Anthony Kuzi, who's one of the you know, most prolific.

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Speaker 1: s I check him out on Instagram. He shoots all

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Speaker 1: the knicks, all the local you know, the New York sports,

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Speaker 1: all the fucking stuff. And I see him. I'm like, yo,

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Speaker 1: you gotta get fucking pictures with me and Nicki Minaj

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Speaker 1: and fucking Meek Mill. He's like, don't worry. I got you.

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Speaker 1: So he's taking long lens pictures of me and Minicki

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Speaker 1: Minaj and Meek Mill, and then the fucking dunk contest

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Speaker 1: comes off. We're like having a fucking ball. I'm losing

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Speaker 1: my mind. Rihanna's four seats down from me. I'm fucking

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Speaker 1: tripping the funk out that Rihanna's four seats down from

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Speaker 1: me and Nicki Minaj is right fucking next to me,

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Speaker 1: next to Meek Mill looking up on Instagram and people,

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Speaker 1: the pictures don't lie, The pictures don't lie. This is

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Speaker 1: really fucking happened. I've said before, I love min Nicki Minaj,

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Speaker 1: I love her, asked, I've questioned whether it was real

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Speaker 1: or not. But when you're up on her, when you're

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Speaker 1: seeing these people in real life, you're like, you know,

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Speaker 1: what the funk is going on? Man? I have met

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Speaker 1: all sorts of celebrities, but when you were up on

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Speaker 1: Nicki Minaj, You're like, what the fund is going on?

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Speaker 1: And when Rihanna was is in sniffing distance, smelling distance,

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Speaker 1: we made eye contact one point. Okay, she's a human,

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Speaker 1: I'm a human. We made eye contact. I knew that

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Speaker 1: for that brief second we shared something or at least

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Speaker 1: I felt like we shared something. Okay, the dunk contest started.

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Speaker 1: This dude, Zach Levine or Zach Levin. We need to

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Speaker 1: check this guy. Is this guy fucking Jewish who won

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Speaker 1: the dunk contest? Has that been brought up? Has that

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Speaker 1: been questioned? Is Zach fucking Levin fucking Jewish? Okay? He

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Speaker 1: he shut down the dunk contest. Everybody's happy. We're having

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Speaker 1: a fucking ball. You know, it is a great time.

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Speaker 1: The fucking shows over. The dunk concert is over. Rihanna

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Speaker 1: walks by. She walks right by me, right the fuck

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Speaker 1: by me. Look on the internet, look on my Instagram.

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Speaker 1: The pictures don't lie. And she says to me, how

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Speaker 1: you doing? I'm a fan? And I go the something

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Speaker 1: to that effect. I My moment was shot. I couldn't

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Speaker 1: say anything. She's tall, she smells good, her eyes fucking

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Speaker 1: and and and and and she shook my hand, and

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Speaker 1: I and I I didn't let it go for an

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Speaker 1: not let her hand go because I couldn't believe what

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Speaker 1: was going on. I shot the bed. Okay, I shot

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Speaker 1: the bed. That happened. We walk out. Everybody's sucking their money.

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Speaker 1: Maywhere I tell you this money? Maybe whether tipped his

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Speaker 1: fucking waitress, Probably about he went into his bag of money,

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Speaker 1: because his money made. Whether he tipped his waitress at

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Speaker 1: nice Nicki Minas laugh, love you, love you, you guys,

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Speaker 1: A dope Meek mil Yo staying top. Well, it's cool.

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Speaker 1: It's Saturday night. The fucking NBA All Star Game hasn't

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Speaker 1: even fucking started yet. It's Saturday night. So I go

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Speaker 1: to the fucking after party at the Slam Dunk contest.

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Speaker 1: You know, it was like, Oh, there's this party, this

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Speaker 1: is that party. You gotta pick your fucking spot. So

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Speaker 1: he said, fuck it, let's try this g Q party.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know what the funk was. I was walking

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Speaker 1: into scanning some downtown in Wall Street district of Manhattan.

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Speaker 1: If you've never been in Manhattan, you've never been in

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Speaker 1: New York. It's your fucking problem. You don't know where

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Speaker 1: Wall Street is. That's your fucking problem. I have no

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Speaker 1: problem getting into this party. The security guards. I just

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Speaker 1: want to say one thing. The security police an event

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Speaker 1: coordinators in New or City and Madison Square Garden all weekend.

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Speaker 1: You know, if any of you listen to this, I

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Speaker 1: want to tell you thank you so fucking much for

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Speaker 1: making me feel welcomed and and and greeting me with

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Speaker 1: my fucking wrist bands and all that. Ship. I walked

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Speaker 1: up to the fucking party. They said, come on in, Mike,

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Speaker 1: I said, how many with? I said, I'm with five

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Speaker 1: fucking dudes who normally is whack. They let me in.

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Speaker 1: When we walk into the fucking party. Four fucking ding

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Speaker 1: bat pr girls, what's going on? What's going on? And

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Speaker 1: I said, you know what's going on. We're going into

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Speaker 1: the fucking party, lady. We walk in and the Roots

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Speaker 1: forgot to fucking I can't remember the name of, but

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Speaker 1: where she plays at Alzheimer's. And he's he's now, Bill Clinton.

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Speaker 1: This is the god's on his truth. Bill Clinton is

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Speaker 1: talking to me and he has his arm on me

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Speaker 1: like we're friends. Um, literally, I don't know if I

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Speaker 1: call this guy Bill Mr President. At one point I said,

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Speaker 1: Mr President, I cannot tell you all the things I said.

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Speaker 1: I can tell you what he said. He's telling me

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Speaker 1: he loves that film. You know, he believes in Alzheimer's.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's done a lot of stuff to try

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Speaker 1: to raise money for it. I'm like, I can't fucking

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Speaker 1: believe that Bill Clinton is fucking talking to me. He's

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Speaker 1: got these fucking beautiful, darting blue eyes. I'm like, what

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Speaker 1: the fund is going Bill looks good? He's vegetarian. Now,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, what the fund is going on here? And

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Speaker 1: then my friend I said, Jason, you know, you know,

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Speaker 1: we gotta get a picture. He's got like people around him,

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Speaker 1: their security. It's like real fucking like serious ship. But

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Speaker 1: they're real cool, like you know, they weren't yo, they

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Speaker 1: weren't tripping that he put his hands on me. Bill

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Speaker 1: Clinton was leaning on me to talk to me. I

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Speaker 1: wasn't leaning on him. He's talking to me like that,

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Speaker 1: and I gotta p sure with the President Bill Clinton,

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Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh ship. So me and my friend Jason,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, yo, we need to go take as because

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Speaker 1: I'm like, seriously, I'm hyper visiums. So we go into

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Speaker 1: the back. We go in the back, and I'm like, yo,

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Speaker 1: I gotta i gotta get some water, like a Coca

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Speaker 1: Cola because I'm bugging that Bill. I just had an

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Speaker 1: exchange with Bill Clinton. And while I'm going into the back,

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Speaker 1: I see Julianne Moore, who have met a couple of times.

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Speaker 1: He's very nice. She's with her husband who I've met,

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Speaker 1: and I believed they're with their son. And I go, yo,

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Speaker 1: She's like, what, I go, Yo, I just had a

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Speaker 1: conversation with Bill Clinton. She goes really, and I go, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and you know what he fucking told me? And she's

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Speaker 1: like what, I go. He fucking loves that film you

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Speaker 1: just did that. I can't remember the one you had,

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Speaker 1: the awesome. She goes, get the funk out her. I know, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Julianne Moore, he just fucking said that to me. If

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Speaker 1: you went over to him right now, he fucking trip

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Speaker 1: out because he fucking loves that movie and he and

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Speaker 1: it really touched the chord in him. And she's like, oh, ship,

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Speaker 1: And I'm like, I can't even believe he knew who

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Speaker 1: the funk I was. She goes, isn't that crazy when

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Speaker 1: that happens. I go, maybe not, maybe maybe you're used

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Speaker 1: to it. That ship don't happen to me like that

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Speaker 1: fucking president fucking knew who are I was. I go

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Speaker 1: in the back. It's like the NBA Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 1: Back there, Barkley, Gary Payton, they're all back there. I'm

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Speaker 1: hyper ventilating. The game has started. We're like, yo, we

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Speaker 1: need to stay back here and catch our breath. Me

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Speaker 1: and my friend Jason are tripping. I see Charles Barkley,

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Speaker 1: coolest ship, talk some ship to him. I go up

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Speaker 1: to him like I'm posting up in a basketball game.

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Speaker 1: I go, yo, there's a mouse in the house. He goes, Mike,

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Speaker 1: no team in this league would be dumb enough to

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Speaker 1: put you in the game. I go, ha ha, Fuck Charles,

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Speaker 1: what's up? Gary Payton love him talking about his son,

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Speaker 1: talking about when he his son played against him and

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Speaker 1: showing camp hep was something was a beautiful thing. It

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Speaker 1: was surreal. See my man Kareem abdul Jabbar. God's on

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Speaker 1: his truth. God's on his truth. He says to me.

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Speaker 1: As soon as I go Cap, you know, I know

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Speaker 1: he doesn't like pictures. I know he doesn't like fucking

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Speaker 1: with people. He's kind of a serious dude. I go Cap,

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Speaker 1: I get his attention. He goes, hey, Mike, how you doing? Real? Calm,

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Speaker 1: cool and collective. First thing out of his mouth is

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Speaker 1: I swear on my kids. He goes, you know, I

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Speaker 1: tell people all the time, I coach you in your

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Speaker 1: first celebrity game. And I go, get the funk out

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Speaker 1: of here. I'm cracking up He goes, yeah, yeah, you

485
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Speaker 1: and Queen Latifa because Kareem coached us in Rock and

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Speaker 1: Jock Game, like in ninety three, and we always got along.

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Speaker 1: Now I know Kareem might have a like, you know,

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Speaker 1: reputation for not being cool and not being friendly. Always

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Speaker 1: been fucking coolest ship with me. Always been friendly, always

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Speaker 1: got my humor, always got my jokes. And I say,

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Speaker 1: of course you told people that you coached me in

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Speaker 1: the Rock and Jock Game. Who gives a ship about

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Speaker 1: the fact that you're the all time leading score in

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Speaker 1: NBA history. Who cares a ship about it? About all

495
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Speaker 1: the championships? Who cares a ship about all the the

496
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Speaker 1: things you've accomplished over the court? He goes, that's what

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Speaker 1: I tell people. Great sense of humor, super fucking cool.

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Speaker 1: Goes on to tell me that he loves Justified, loved

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Speaker 1: me on Justified, hasn't started watching the sixth season. Tells

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Speaker 1: me that the I already knew this. He goes, you

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Speaker 1: know that book was a short story. I oh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know, And I said, you know, it turns out

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Speaker 1: that Elmore Leonard really did love Justified. He goes, Really,

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Speaker 1: that's cool, and you know he starts naming his other

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Speaker 1: other famous Elmore Leonard books. I'm like, what the fund Kareem.

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Speaker 1: The fact that he's even speaking to me, It's like

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Speaker 1: five minutes he's talking to me. He's talking to me,

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Speaker 1: He's talking to me. What are you up to? I'm

509
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Speaker 1: doing this. I saw the when the garden was eating.

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Speaker 1: Oh shit, It's just it was crazy. It was fucking crazy.

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Speaker 1: I get a picture of Kareem Abdul Jabar. I saw

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Speaker 1: Willis Reid, I saw Earl Monroe, I saw Walt Frazier.

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Speaker 1: Those guys were always so cool to me. I don't

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Speaker 1: even know what to say. All I want to say

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Speaker 1: this when I'm when I'm dropping these names and I'm

516
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Speaker 1: telling you guys about my experience, I'm not doing it

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Speaker 1: to sound cool, because truly, at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: I am a fan and I am as excited to

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Speaker 1: be there as anybody else would. It was a great

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00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:40,679
Speaker 1: fucking weekend. I gotta fucking selfie with Jesse fucking Jackson.

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00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:42,880
Speaker 1: Didn't have a fucking clue who I was. I met

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Speaker 1: Mariano Rivera, got a picture with him. The whole fucking NBA,

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Speaker 1: Damian Lillard, every fucking body to kem Bay. It was

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Speaker 1: a great fucking weekend. This the Iron Rapport Podcast. If

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Speaker 1: I sounded like a fucking name dropper, you're a fucking asshole.

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Speaker 1: Like I said, you know, I just sharing my experience

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Speaker 1: with you guys. It was, it was, it was, It

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Speaker 1: was a ball. It was a pleasure in New York

529
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Speaker 1: treating me great. I really believe it was the best

530
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Speaker 1: All Star game. It was the best celebrity All Star game.

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Speaker 1: The dunk contest was shockingly good. I think everybody was

532
00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:14,440
Speaker 1: caught by surprise by how good it was. The three

533
00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:16,840
Speaker 1: point shootout was good, and the All Star Game was

534
00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:20,480
Speaker 1: was a great entertainment piece and I was happy to

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Speaker 1: be a part of it. This is the I Am

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Speaker 1: what they do and uh yo, that's it man. I

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Speaker 1: probably have some more stuff that I forgot. This is

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Speaker 1: sort of off the cuff. J Monetti will be back soon.

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Speaker 1: He's been in Thailand doing god knows what. And we're

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Speaker 1: out eight