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Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome inside, Happy Wednesday, the Jason Smith Show with

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Speaker 1: my base friend Mike Harmon.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's like a Sunday football preview show because

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Speaker 3: we got three and a half hours till the open

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Speaker 3: kicks off.

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Speaker 1: That is true, That is true. It's very exciting. It's

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Speaker 1: it's the Open Championship countdown show. We're going all the

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Speaker 1: way to all the way through.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. By time we get off air, guys will be

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Speaker 3: on the course.

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Speaker 1: Man, I gotta say this, what what have you missed?

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Speaker 1: An Open Championship preview so far? Okay, Well, one of

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Speaker 1: the best golfers in the world doesn't know where any

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Speaker 1: of his trophies or medals are, and the best golf

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Speaker 1: in the world doesn't seem like he really cares about playing.

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Speaker 1: There's your Open Championship, right, yeah.

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Speaker 3: That pretty much Ever since he got the Grand Slam

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Speaker 3: and everything, he's kind of like, eh, yeah, but this one, right,

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Speaker 3: it means this time it counts because it's home.

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Speaker 2: Uh yeah.

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Speaker 3: The Scheffler stuff is fun. Yeah, what do you do?

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Speaker 3: I'm really good, but I got I gotta go. Why

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Speaker 3: do you uh well, why do you keep playing? I

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Speaker 3: don't know, you know, do you want to win? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: But you know it's the feelings there for like two

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Speaker 1: have the two of the the most high profile golfer

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Speaker 1: McElroy and and and and the golfer in the world's like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I could take or leave it, you know it really

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Speaker 1: it doesn't.

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Speaker 3: One guy played really tight in his head, everything calculated.

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Speaker 3: The other guy going, hey, let's get out there and

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Speaker 3: have some fun. Let's let's go do it. H Scheffler

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Speaker 3: plus five hundred McElroy plus seven hundred year leaders on

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Speaker 1: That's like every golf fans nightmare going. Okay, you're not

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Speaker 1: gonna pigeonhole?

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Speaker 3: Me?

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Speaker 1: Is this elitist fan that Hey, I like golf, so

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Speaker 1: I talk down to people. And look, when I talk

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Speaker 1: about golf, it's a conversation above the rim, conversation. Right

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Speaker 1: when we're talking about golf, you know you understand only

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Speaker 1: a few people know what.

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Speaker 3: We're talking about. Sanctity. Yeah, this is the worst. This

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Speaker 3: is the worst for calling.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, your best player doesn't even care if he plays

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Speaker 1: or wins or not. Yeah, I just like to play. Okay,

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Speaker 1: what about Yeah, I don't know. I guess I guess

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Speaker 1: so I could go do it all right, that's fine.

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Speaker 3: Can we just finish the round so I can go home. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I'm just I'm just gonna get let's go. I'm just

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Speaker 1: It's only your height for the Open and the thing

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Speaker 1: is The Open Championship, honestly has always been my favorite

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Speaker 1: You know, everybody is dressed the same. They're either wearing

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Speaker 1: Rory McElroy, like it's my son, I've owed. The Open

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Speaker 3: nineteen eighty four Kentucky Derby and Belmont States champion Swale. Well,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, swale, but that's they call the grass. I get

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Speaker 3: Stay out of the rough. Yeah, Oh hey, I played

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Speaker 3: it's called the rough.

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Speaker 1: One course like that once when I went back to Michigan,

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Speaker 1: Space is what he is because my my wife's aunt.

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Speaker 1: They're basically sisters, so i'd just call my brother in law.

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Speaker 1: We went and we played this course that was you know,

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Speaker 3: Like, I'm not going in there. There's gonna be snakes

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Speaker 3: extra ball. I got right right, it was right, I

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Speaker 3: got it right here. Yeah, I'm wide open little space.

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Speaker 3: I'm just it's gonna take a drop right here? Is

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Speaker 3: that okay? I gonna take a drop right here. That's

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Speaker 1: So yeah, so we will take you all the way

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Speaker 1: up to the first hole of the Open Championship.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, let's go. Yeah, very exciting.

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Speaker 1: And you know it's funny because I always you know,

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Speaker 1: a minute, we're fifteen minutes from Saint Andrews. Because you

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Speaker 1: know me, I don't know geography at all when it

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Speaker 1: You guys got this because I'm not going to give

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm going to bed geography and and uh geography

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Speaker 1: and and uh world religion. Like that's where I'm like, yeah, okay,

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Speaker 3: I'm out.

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Speaker 1: I'm bring me back to the other ones. But we

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Speaker 1: at some day we think about, you know, living living

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Speaker 1: in the UK for a while, retiring there, you know,

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Speaker 1: years from now. Years now, I'm saying, I'm gonna go

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Speaker 1: to every course. I'm gonna go play Carnousti. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: play all these different courses. It's all it's and it's

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Speaker 1: all close, right, like all these I mean everything, Like

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Speaker 3: It's all, you know, it's impossible.

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Speaker 1: But like all these courses, Like we drove up to

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Speaker 3: Back Oh that's where they had. Oh that's an open chain.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's it, like four places where they had the

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Speaker 1: the muni courses that are around here. Oh I could

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Speaker 1: but it's like, hey, Carnoustie is right here, and you

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Speaker 3: Oh right, great, Like I'm like, I'm gonna go do that.

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Speaker 1: Uh? Yeah, well and head on swivels a big things.

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Speaker 1: You want to make sure you keep it, that's right, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: Remember there could be only one I know, No, I know,

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Speaker 3: But but doesn't know the one time in your life

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Speaker 3: you gotta look out for number one truly. But firstly,

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Speaker 1: You want to look up to the top of this mountain, No,

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Speaker 3: I'm not gonna get my head jumped on. If I

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Speaker 3: comes down, I got a sword. If i'm if I'm

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Speaker 1: If I just get standing up on that thing with

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Speaker 1: Sean Connery, someone's going to chop my head off. It's

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Speaker 1: I'm not happening, not happening bad things now. So we

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Speaker 1: continue to count down towards Day one of the Open Championship. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: a move you would think today meant this was the

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Speaker 1: NBA Championship, that the Clippers are gonna win it all

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Speaker 1: because they're getting Bradley Beal, Like wow, Okay, I understand

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Speaker 1: we're in. They were waiting for Lebron James to get traded.

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Speaker 1: We're waiting to see if other trades can happen. But

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Speaker 1: let's understand, Bradley, Bradley Beal has never been the missing piece.

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Speaker 1: At least Kevin Durant has been the missing piece once

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Speaker 1: in his career, all right, but now Bradley Beal is

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Speaker 1: the guy.

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Speaker 3: Agrees to a buy out with the Suns.

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Speaker 1: Right, you have to not you know, one of two

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Speaker 1: players of no trade clause and is going to join

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Speaker 1: the Clippers. This announcement coming very early today, Shams Tarania

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Speaker 1: having it as soon as he says, has bought out

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Speaker 1: from the Suns. He's going to the Clippers. Two year,

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Speaker 1: eleven million dollar option, two year, eleven million dollar deal.

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Speaker 1: Oh but this is gonna get the Clippers of the championship.

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Speaker 1: The number of the number of reactions to this, it

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Speaker 1: was like, oh, Bradley Beal is your missing piece for

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Speaker 1: a championship. First of all, if the guy was a

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Speaker 1: missing piece, a guy signs more than two years eleven million.

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Speaker 1: out the window. Bradley Beal has never done anything in

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Speaker 1: his career. He's put up some numbers. He went to

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Speaker 3: But at five point five million dollars, it keeps you

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Speaker 1: with ESPN for things. Look, you look at the radio

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Speaker 1: lineup we have here. We have the best line up

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Speaker 1: nationally across the across the country.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 1: You know, Fox has become when it comes to radio

435
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Speaker 1: and content and content people a you know, we're the

436
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Speaker 1: top dogs. And for Barstool to come in now with

437
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Speaker 1: their brand of programming, I get completely what FS one

438
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Speaker 1: is doing because it's there now going after Okay, who

439
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Speaker 1: is going to move the needle for us during the day.

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Speaker 1: We've you know, we've we've had the athletes on and

441
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Speaker 1: everybody bringing on hot takes, and that seems to be

442
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Speaker 1: the way things have been the last few years. But

443
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Speaker 1: now you're seeing a bit of an adjustment in the

444
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Speaker 1: in the audience towards a younger crowd. And look, these

445
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Speaker 1: shows are going to go on and compete directly with

446
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Speaker 1: Pat McAfee because that's exactly the audience they're going after, right,

447
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Speaker 1: They're only after the younger audience, the eighteen to thirty four.

448
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Speaker 1: This is what it's gonna be. And instead of here's

449
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Speaker 1: a couple of a former athletes, come on, it's gonna

450
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Speaker 1: be here's some shows. This is what we do. Now,

451
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be the same type of stuff on a

452
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Speaker 1: different network. And and Fox is going to use that

453
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Speaker 1: to compete with what goes on in ESPN, because look,

454
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Speaker 1: ESPN's built around Steven Asmith and Pat McAfee, right, that's it.

455
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Speaker 1: That's their brand is Steven Asmith and Patt McAfee. So

456
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Speaker 1: now here's Fox coming on still with Colin in the

457
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Speaker 1: morning and first things first, and those shows are doing

458
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Speaker 1: really well. And now if this happens, I think this

459
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Speaker 1: is completely and I'm not saying this that hey, I

460
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Speaker 1: want to do shows, No, I look at that too.

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Speaker 1: This is this is how you compete now in twenty

462
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Speaker 1: twenty five, right, we tried to go after a certain

463
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Speaker 1: audience for a long time. Where's the growth, right, where's

464
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Speaker 1: the growth you can go after? And this and this

465
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Speaker 1: is that audience and growth to go after. So I

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Speaker 1: completely get why this is going on.

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Speaker 3: Well, the rules of engagement also changed in a lot

468
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Speaker 3: of this, right when we look at Big noon kickoff

469
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Speaker 3: and what it's become for Fox, Hallmark events and entertainers

470
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Speaker 3: popping up and whatever. That that huge battle and clash

471
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Speaker 3: for Saturday morning early afternoon eyeballs is certainly there. But

472
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Speaker 3: the McAfee branded to Reverend right, a lot of curse

473
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Speaker 3: and a lot of no sleeves, definitely no sleeves, but

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Speaker 3: lack of a good bro not good bro, right, the

475
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Speaker 3: bro tak not good well. And you're also in a

476
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Speaker 3: climate in the United States in twenty twenty five where

477
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Speaker 3: you can joke again or make the joke and see

478
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Speaker 3: how it lands as opposed to get out, which is

479
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Speaker 3: the climate when Barstool was going to ESPN a few

480
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Speaker 3: years ago. Right, we watched it just you know the

481
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Speaker 3: SP's right, it's the All Star Break story on a Wednesday,

482
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Speaker 3: the chain deal lists, right, and the jokes that he's

483
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Speaker 3: putting out there, those are the things that got him

484
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Speaker 3: fired from other jobs. Right, So it's that kind of

485
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Speaker 3: thing and Barstool, you know, irreverent content and some controversy.

486
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Speaker 3: You don't shy away from it necessarily the same way,

487
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Speaker 3: right if your head competition is going to embrace some

488
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Speaker 3: of that piece, as they've done with the McAfee show,

489
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Speaker 3: and he certainly stepped into it a number of times,

490
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Speaker 3: he and his crew that you know, Portnoy and his

491
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Speaker 3: band of merriment. I mean it could be the same thing.

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Speaker 1: Well it look look when I talk about timing, like

493
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Speaker 1: obviously the timing wasn't right then because it was too

494
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Speaker 1: new of a thing and it was too scary to.

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Speaker 3: A lot of executives. Right, it's too scarious.

496
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Speaker 1: But when you also and so the timing, now things

497
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Speaker 1: work better because people have now gotten used to it more.

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Speaker 1: It's it's no longer where we're gonna put this on

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Speaker 1: the air and spit what is this? I cannot believe this? Okay,

500
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Speaker 1: we get that it's new, and maybe it was too new.

501
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Speaker 1: It's it's very similar to what we saw in the

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Speaker 1: All Star Game last night, where now the ABS system

503
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Speaker 1: is gonna you're gonna be able to at some point

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Speaker 1: in the future challenge balls and strikes right away, like

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Speaker 1: the batter or the pitcher or the catcher can challenge

506
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Speaker 1: a ball strike call. They go to the box technology

507
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Speaker 1: and it's either gets overruled and and the call stays,

508
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Speaker 1: or or either is confirmed in the call stays or

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Speaker 1: it gets overruled. And eventually we're gonna have robot umpires.

510
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Speaker 1: But you can't just throw the computer or robot umpires

511
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Speaker 1: in there right away because there'll be too much backlash

512
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Speaker 1: because it's too new, too fast. But you get used

513
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Speaker 1: to the idea of this technology and you see how

514
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Speaker 1: it worked last night, right four for four people start okay,

515
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Speaker 1: I get this all right, I'm okay a little bit

516
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Speaker 1: more and the backsh is not that big and the

517
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Speaker 1: uproar is not as big. So now the same thing

518
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Speaker 1: with Barstool, with going towards the Fox brand, which is

519
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Speaker 1: more hey, more maverick, more outside the box, more, we

520
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Speaker 1: don't really care what you tweet. The other than ESPN

521
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Speaker 1: that's very more buttoned down. So now that everybody is

522
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Speaker 1: used to this, and as you say that you know

523
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Speaker 1: the climate change is where it goes from. Hey, this

524
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Speaker 1: is stuff we really can here to. Let's see what

525
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Speaker 1: said and see how it lands. This is now the

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Speaker 1: timing is simply better because you've gotten used to that

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Speaker 1: brand and certain things, so it's no longer as big

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Speaker 1: of a shock to you.

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Speaker 3: And you also have a more frame of reference, as

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Speaker 3: if we.

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Speaker 1: Put this show on, we kind of know what we're

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Speaker 1: gonna get it before we didn't know what we're gonna go.

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Speaker 3: You've got proof of concept both for that brand and

534
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Speaker 3: its extension and good, bad and different wherever you stand

535
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Speaker 3: on their content, it's successful and it attracts an often

536
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Speaker 3: an audience and offense. And then you've got for McAfee.

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Speaker 3: Again proof of concept, and you've also been able to

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Speaker 3: have a little bit of institutional learning from what has

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Speaker 3: been done and how things have been navigated on the

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Speaker 3: other side of the aisle. So it's that, all right,

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Speaker 3: we've seen this, so we know and we can start

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Speaker 3: planning for when, if when, and if we have any

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Speaker 3: kind of issues that you know, we have a tactical

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Speaker 3: response fairly short order. Now you you brought up the

545
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Speaker 3: robot umpires. I'd be remiss, but I didn't talk about

546
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Speaker 3: something that keeps showing up in my timeline. I don't

547
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Speaker 3: know if it's AI generated or actual happening of these

548
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Speaker 3: running robots in China. Oh yeah, it looked like Dedroid

549
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Speaker 3: Army from the Clone War. Oh that's exactly what's gonna happen.

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Speaker 3: It is terrifying you. Everything is. Those might be the

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Speaker 3: umpires Execute Order sixty six. What does that mean? Oh

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Speaker 3: my goodness.

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Speaker 1: The player guy argued, balls and shrikes he'd done, But

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Speaker 1: then it would look good because the players would be

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Speaker 1: fighting back with bats that would look like lightsabers, and

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Speaker 1: then someone would would would do the whole like John

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Speaker 1: Wick scene with lightsabers instead of swords, and it would

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Speaker 1: look like the players are fighting back with with lightsabers

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Speaker 1: instead after it gets photos.

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Speaker 3: That'd be fantastic. How have we not figured out how

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Speaker 3: to make those bats already?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, wants look like wan So would have a big

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Speaker 1: purple lightsaber that big mace Wind.

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Speaker 3: Insisted it happening to be purple when he signed on

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Speaker 3: to the to the franchise. Yeah, that's my lightsaber, mother blanker.

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Speaker 3: Let's I did like the little meme. Also at wan

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Speaker 3: So watching the All Star Game, it was a cartoon

568
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Speaker 3: surrounded by money, but with a tear coming. Yes, uh

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Speaker 3: never guy.

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Speaker 1: While the Major League Baseball taking a break after the

571
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Speaker 1: All Star Game, we're waiting for the end. Look again,

572
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Speaker 1: a couple of NFL teams coming to camp today, more

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Speaker 1: in the next week or so.

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Speaker 3: Utah tried to get off the snide in summer.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, you put money on the Jazz tonight.

576
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Speaker 1: You are somewhat nervous right now, but uh, the most

577
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Speaker 1: nervous league in the world is the w NBA All

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Speaker 1: Star festivities at home for Caitlin Clark this weekend and

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Speaker 1: her status uncertain after her groin injury last night. Missed

580
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Speaker 1: tonight's game against the Liberty and you know when it happened.

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Speaker 1: We saw right away. We said, uh, oh, I think

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Speaker 1: Caitlyn Clark just got hurt. Backdoor passed with about forty

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Speaker 1: seconds left to go and the fever win. She ran

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Speaker 1: down the court, put her hand over her right groin

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Speaker 1: and stopped and pounded the stanchion with her fists because

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Speaker 1: she knew she was hurt, not the same groin she had.

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Speaker 3: Been out with. So this is now a double.

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Speaker 1: Groin injury for Caitlyn Clark and her status for this

589
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Speaker 1: weekend is uncertain. This is the worst nightmare for the WNBA,

590
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Speaker 1: who has been fighting the perception issue of do they

591
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Speaker 1: know what they're doing? Does the league know? Why do

592
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Speaker 1: the players all hate Kitlyn Clark? Why is this jealousy?

593
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Speaker 1: Why is social media all taken up with Kitlyn Clark

594
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Speaker 1: versus Angel Rees? This is supposed to be a weekend

595
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Speaker 1: where it's okay, everybody understands Caitlyn's the show, right, We're

596
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Speaker 1: all in this together. Here is the festivities. She wanted

597
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Speaker 1: to wait till she got to Indiana to do the

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Speaker 1: three point shooting contest, which she still scheduled to do. Oh,

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Speaker 1: there's still a couple of days ago. This was going

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Speaker 1: to be that the the moment of hey where where

601
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Speaker 1: like when when Hollywood couples announced they're a couple. But

602
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Speaker 1: he put that big picture on Instagram and them holding

603
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Speaker 1: hands or they're photographed on a red carpet.

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Speaker 3: Together, lookers together.

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Speaker 1: This was the WNBA's moment where it was gonna be

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Speaker 1: this is Caitlin, She's the show. You got to put

607
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Speaker 1: your jealousies away, and you have to understand seeing this

608
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Speaker 1: All star the festivities and seeing the r around it,

609
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Speaker 1: She's bringing us to great places like this was a

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Speaker 1: big opportunity and it is a big opportunity for the

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Speaker 1: WNBA to maybe move past some of those crazy issues

612
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Speaker 1: that they can't seem to get past. This is that

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Speaker 1: moment where Caitlyn Clark takes center stage. You know, Blank,

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Speaker 1: you Cheryl Reeve and you and you don't like me

615
00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:43,880
Speaker 1: and all this stuff. Understand, you have to get on board,

616
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Speaker 1: right because you have to no matter how you feel,

617
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Speaker 1: you got to get on board. But now who knows?

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Speaker 1: Can she take part in the three point shooting contest?

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Speaker 1: Can she take part in the All Star Game? And

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be festivities where you don't get her and

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Speaker 1: I know that they'll they'll be deal put things like

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Speaker 1: put her on TV and they'll have her or in

623
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Speaker 1: the broadcast, which you can't be on all these different things,

624
00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:04,840
Speaker 1: but it's not gonna be the same as seeing her.

625
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:08,760
Speaker 1: She gets people to the television unlike anybody else in

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Speaker 1: sports right now. Nobody else in sports gets people to

627
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Speaker 1: the TV like Caitlyn Clark. You can look at her

628
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Speaker 1: games and say, there's the difference one person playing in

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Speaker 1: a game. That's why they watch that game. No one

630
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Speaker 1: liked that in the NFL. No one like that in

631
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Speaker 1: the NBA. No one liked that in Major League base

632
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Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, Pete A. Lonzo Is, but you know,

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Speaker 1: I like that all the other sports.

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Speaker 3: But she's that.

635
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Speaker 1: If she's not there, this is a huge missed opportunity

636
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:33,480
Speaker 1: for the WNBA. They are doing whatever they can right now.

637
00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:35,800
Speaker 1: They got all kinds of they're they're they're putting all

638
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:38,400
Speaker 1: kinds of karma out there right now and trying to go, hey,

639
00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:40,560
Speaker 1: I got some kind of homemade ointments for you here

640
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:42,840
Speaker 1: to get better and do this. My mom had a

641
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:45,080
Speaker 1: strain growing. She took this pill and she was better

642
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Speaker 1: in five seconds. Come on, can we need you this weekend,

643
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Speaker 1: like the w needs Caitlin Clark so badly.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's also a difficult process, right because you did

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Speaker 3: sign the two point two billion dollar right steal Amazon, NBC,

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Speaker 3: Disney that starts in next year, so that's in the books,

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Speaker 3: but it's also you're going into CBA negotiations during this time.

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Speaker 3: The rights expire and the agreement, I should say expires

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Speaker 3: in October, so after the season ends were and we've

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Speaker 3: had a lot of back and forth about you know,

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Speaker 3: maybe conflict of interest with the other leagues and everything

652
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Speaker 3: else that are floating right, the unrivaled league. So you've

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Speaker 3: got that swirling in the background. This is your big

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Speaker 3: marquee event. It was built for her in Indianapolis to

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Speaker 3: have this giant spectacle where she might as well have

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Speaker 3: been main eventing the second night of WrestleMania the way

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Speaker 3: this thing has been built for the last year. And

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Speaker 3: so this injury absolutely crushing in many ways because a

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Speaker 3: lot of you know, the proof of concept and advertising

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Speaker 3: rates and everything saying, look at the popularity, look at

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Speaker 3: this is what we can do at our best. A

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Speaker 3: lot of those eyeballs go away if she's not there, right,

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Speaker 3: and a lot of the interest for the weekend. Doesn't

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Speaker 3: mean we won't still cover year on Fox Sports Radio

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Speaker 3: to a degree, but it's it's a little less of

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Speaker 3: a show. But John Paul Morosi, I think it hurt

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Speaker 3: him in his being to call the All Star Game

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Speaker 3: a show yesterday, but he recognized, like with what Fox

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Speaker 3: put on and what Major League Baseball did was a

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Speaker 3: big show. That's what the w NBA was banking on

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Speaker 3: for this weekend, and that star is a little diminished.

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Speaker 3: A few strands of light just went out on your

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Speaker 3: Christmas tree.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this would be such a huge missed opportunity

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Speaker 1: and the w Just if I'm Kathy Engelbert, I'm sitting

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Speaker 1: here saying, just wake me up on Friday and tell

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Speaker 1: me that she's playing.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to know anything else.

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Speaker 1: I can't sit here. The clock is ticking so unbelievably slow.

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Speaker 1: She waked me up Friday to tell.

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Speaker 3: Me she's she's been submerged in one of those tanks,

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Speaker 3: like when Skywalker was getting defrosted. The back to tack,

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Speaker 3: back to come on man, back to tank is what

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Speaker 3: it is. The back to tank. I was going for

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Speaker 3: what it was. I wasn't gonna I was going for

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Speaker 3: the I was going broadcast. But yeah, but that was

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Speaker 3: going to the non So when you know something, you

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Speaker 3: gotta say it. Okay.

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Speaker 1: Yeah when two to one B worked on him and

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Speaker 1: made sure he made him as good as he could

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Speaker 1: legend and then he kissed his sister.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Time out to find out what's trending in the wide

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Speaker 1: world of sports, Martin Wise at a time, What do

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Speaker 1: you got on for us tonight?

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Speaker 3: What's going on?

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Speaker 2: Fellas?

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Speaker 5: Free agent defensive Van von Miller will join the Commanders

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Speaker 5: on a reported one year deal.

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Speaker 3: Two sides reporting on this one.

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Speaker 5: Von Miller himself posted a picture of Champ Bailey in

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Speaker 5: a Washington uniform on his Instagram page, and Adam Schefter

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Speaker 5: taking care of the reported one year deal part the

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Speaker 5: team still working on the compensation. Last year's MLB All

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Speaker 5: Star Show, according to John Paul Morose, he drew seven

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Speaker 5: point two million viewers on Fox three times. NBA All

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Speaker 5: Star Bradley Beale has agreed to a contract buyout with

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Speaker 5: the Suns and plans to join the Clippers on a

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Speaker 5: two year, eleven million dollars deal player option after clearing waivers.

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Speaker 5: The Spurs are shutting number two overall pick Dylan Harper

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Speaker 5: down for the remainder of Summer League. In the w NBA,

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Speaker 5: the Fever be delivered ninety eight to seven seven, with

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Speaker 5: Caitlyn Clark out of the lineups.

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Speaker 3: She was ruled out before the game.

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Speaker 5: Breano Stewart had a twenty four point eleven rebound double double.

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Speaker 5: Clark's status for All Star Weekend, as you just heard

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Speaker 5: the Boys talking about yet to be confirmed. Age Wilson

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Speaker 5: had a thirty seven point ten rebound double double. Ages

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Speaker 5: beat the Wings ninety to eighty six, storm over the

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Speaker 5: Valkyrie sixty seven to fifty eight, Links win as well,

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Speaker 5: and the Dream win big over at the Sky. The

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Speaker 5: NFL Broncos have signed their first round pick, cornerback John

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Speaker 5: John de Baron out of Texas to his rookie deal.

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Speaker 5: That means just sa Mar Stewart, who ironically is working

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Speaker 5: out in Texas, but it's The Cincinnati Bengals seventeenth overall

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Speaker 5: pick is the only unsigned first round pick from April's draft,

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Speaker 5: and Chargers running back Najie Harris likely begin training camp

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Speaker 5: on the NFI list Non Football Injury after sustaining a

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Speaker 5: fourth of July firework injury to his eye back to you, guys.

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Speaker 3: Thanks a bunch, Ye dub.

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Speaker 1: Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the sports radio studios.

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Speaker 1: Coming up next. Why are suddenly the Lakers unbelievably stressed

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Speaker 1: in this offseason? Here thing, it ain't about Lebron. It's

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Speaker 1: next right here, Jason and Mike. Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

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Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

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Speaker 2: pm Pacific.

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Speaker 1: I guarantee you that caller tells everybody knows hey on

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Speaker 1: The Jason Smith.

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Speaker 3: Show with Mike Harmon, that they run my thing where

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Speaker 3: I go looking for the woman looking for the one. Listen, listen,

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Speaker 3: they do it. I guarantee you.

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Speaker 1: He tells everybody he knows they do that. Don't trust me, man,

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Speaker 1: And then they go, dude, I just heard it. It's

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Speaker 1: it's a song. No, no, they do a different one.

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Speaker 3: It's me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah whatever you say, Rick whatever, man, Yeah, no problem,

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Speaker 1: Ye all right.

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Speaker 3: They play him on the radio. Sure, yeah, but you

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Speaker 3: can't HiPE him too much. He'll come back saying that

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Speaker 3: tight shirt owes him copyright. Looking for the woman looking

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Speaker 3: for the one. Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show

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Speaker 1: tire buying should be. So according to reports, and by

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Speaker 1: that I mean Brian Wenthorse the ESPN, the Lakers are

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Speaker 1: stressed right now. They're under a lot of stress. Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Lebron Jay, No, this does not have anything to do

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Speaker 1: with Lebron James. Lebron James a complete separate entity from this,

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Speaker 1: whether he's traded, bought out, or stays with the team,

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Speaker 1: all of this, right.

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Speaker 3: Is it the fact that the big move was DeAndre Ayton.

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Speaker 1: I'd be stressed if my big move was only DeAndrea. Okay,

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Speaker 1: but but that's different stress. They are stressed because Luka Donsich,

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Speaker 1: who in had fifteen six seventeen days, was eligible to

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Speaker 1: sign a big contract extension. No, obviously it's less than

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Speaker 1: the one he could have signed with the Mavericks. So

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Speaker 1: he's gonna he would sign for about one hundred million

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Speaker 1: lesson he could have made. If he waits another year,

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Speaker 1: he can sign for more money, right, which is you

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Speaker 1: know we've heard about you know many players are waiting

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Speaker 1: for the next year they can sign for like Nicola Jokic.

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Speaker 1: Uh didn't sign his his extension this offseason because next

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Speaker 1: offseason he can make even more money. But the Lakers,

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Speaker 1: according to Brian Windhorst, are stressed because if Luca doesn't

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Speaker 1: accept the extension now, which why would you if you

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Speaker 1: could make more money and you're twenty five twenty six

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Speaker 1: years old and you're Luca. Potentially this opens the door

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Speaker 1: to all of a sudden other teams saying, hey, Luka here,

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Speaker 1: so means you're gonna be a free agent, because if

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Speaker 1: you're gonna wait till next off season to sign this money,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna be a free Hey we love you, come here,

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Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, it's open season on getting

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Speaker 1: Luka Doncic and the Lakers would understandably be stressed before

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Speaker 1: they made this big trade. They're moving up, they're pushing

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Speaker 1: Lebron out the door, and they want to make Luca

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Speaker 1: the franchise part. And he's like, ah, I'm gonna wait

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Speaker 1: and sign. When you wait to sign this election, other

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Speaker 1: teams to come out and maybe you don't fall in

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Speaker 1: love with the Lakers like you like they wanted you to.

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Speaker 1: And at the end of the year, it's yeah, I

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00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:08,520
Speaker 1: can still get a lot of money someplace else.

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Speaker 3: I'm going.

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Speaker 1: All right, so I get the Lakers stress, right, But

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Speaker 1: here's where I'm a problem solver.

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Speaker 3: Here's my problem solver. This change all the dope the

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Speaker 3: NBA rules about payments and bonuses. Yeah, but that what

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Speaker 3: what you're eligible from back? Hey, that guy all NBA.

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Speaker 3: So I'm screwed. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: But here's the thing. It's the summer and it's too hot,

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Speaker 1: not out of time for that. Okay, this this is

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Speaker 1: a little bit more more straight line. Oyeah, yeah that

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Speaker 1: you know that is that's a middle of the winter.

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Speaker 3: Oh a boy.

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Speaker 1: Uh mister Marley, you're here, mister Scrooge late tonight. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we'doing all the NBA stuff. Uh, that's middle of the

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Speaker 1: winter when you don't go outside in this deep an

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Speaker 1: hour of sudden Okay, this is where this is where

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Speaker 1: I give the Lakers tough love. And I and I say, huh, okay,

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Speaker 1: I hear you on that. I understand. So so how

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Speaker 1: do you fix this, Jason.

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Speaker 3: Suck it up. Suck it up and woo Luca for

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Speaker 3: the next year. Yeah, that's high. Suck it up.

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Speaker 1: This is the price you pay for running your franchise,

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Speaker 1: unlike what a modern NBA franchise is.

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Speaker 2: Runner.

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Speaker 1: We said this when the Lakers were sold to Mark Walter,

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Speaker 1: we said, thank you. Maybe now things will get better

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Speaker 1: because the Lakers being run like a mom and pop show. Hey,

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Speaker 1: that was great and I miss that, But clearly the

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Speaker 1: Lakers are not We're not being run to how an

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Speaker 1: NBA team, a high level, high market NBA team needs

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Speaker 1: to be run in twenty twenty five. Right, you can't

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Speaker 1: sit here and say you have money problems.

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Speaker 3: That's not doesn't work right. Everybody's worth so much money. Now.

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Speaker 1: These are the owners that are running things. So that's

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Speaker 1: why it was such a great day for the Lakers because, hey,

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Speaker 1: Mark Walter's coming in. Now you expect, Okay, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: start spending money at some point, really big. We're not

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Speaker 1: gonna worry about this. We're not gonna let Rich Paul

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Speaker 1: and Clutch Sports dictate who we go sign in free agency.

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Speaker 1: That's why this was such a big deal. But I

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Speaker 1: tell the Lakers. Yeah, suck it up. This is the

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Speaker 1: price you pay for running your franchise the way you

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Speaker 1: have the last few years. You gotta spend a year

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Speaker 1: wooing your guy that you want to sign the day

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Speaker 1: he is able to the minute he is able to

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Speaker 1: that long term contract extension. So, yeah, do I feel

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Speaker 1: bad they have to do this? I do not, because

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Speaker 1: you brought this on yourself, but it's not unsolvable. Woo

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Speaker 1: him for the next year. Whatever you need to do

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Speaker 1: to make him happy. You make him happy because he's

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Speaker 1: the guy you decided to empower and make him the

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Speaker 1: centerpiece of the franchise. So guess what, that's what you

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Speaker 1: gotta do. Do you want to have to do this? No,

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Speaker 1: you want the Lakers to be able to sell itself.

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Speaker 1: But this is not twenty years ago. This has not

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Speaker 1: come play with Shack right. This is not come play

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Speaker 1: with Magic and kareem right. This is not other destinations

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Speaker 1: across the NBA where I just want to go play

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00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:41,440
Speaker 1: there because they're gonna win and I love what's going on.

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Speaker 1: This is not the Golden State Warriors of the you know,

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Speaker 1: most of the ten years up until a couple of

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Speaker 1: years ago, this is the price you pay, so suck

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Speaker 1: it up, woo him, and that's how you get him.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we know with the second apron it's complicated,

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Speaker 3: but there are a lot of restrictions that go along

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Speaker 3: with it in terms of your roster, where your draft

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Speaker 3: pick goes to the end of the round. You can't

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Speaker 3: aggregate salaries and trades, which is part of the considerations

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Speaker 3: when we start looking at Lebron deals for anywhere in

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Speaker 3: the trade market. But yeah, the Walter money, and you

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Speaker 3: can't tell me that this wasn't already going on behind

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Speaker 3: the scenes when that trade came under cover of night.

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Speaker 3: You know, by that sell you some land, you know,

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Speaker 3: the oceanfront property in Arizona, right, as George Strait saying.

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Speaker 3: But all of it to say that you get all

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Speaker 3: the secondary stuff, right, all the luxuries of an organization

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Speaker 3: of Wait, we can upgrade our training facilities, we can

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Speaker 3: have more people on staff, here's the latest equipment, here's

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Speaker 3: all of these things that maybe cash strapped quote unquote,

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Speaker 3: you couldn't do in the past as a the mom

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Speaker 3: and bop entity as it were, in terms of spending

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Speaker 3: on the squad. I mean they spent the money, not

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Speaker 3: it's just a matter of spending it wisely. Right to

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Speaker 3: your point about Rich Paul and Clutch Sports and their

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Speaker 3: stranglehold over the history. Now, they didn't push for the

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Speaker 3: second year, an extension or any of that stuff from

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Speaker 3: Paul's latest comments, So this looks like it's the final run,

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Speaker 3: assuming he stays in LA. But all of that, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: you've got to really bust it out for Luca and

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Speaker 3: a lot of bobblehead and pillow nights. Not often I

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Speaker 3: give the suck it up advice, but this is suck

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Speaker 3: it up.

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Speaker 2: Suck it up and do it.

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Speaker 3: I'm suck it up.

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Speaker 1: Coming up next, Boy, do we have a big NFL

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Speaker 1: rivalry that seems to have been reignited after the big

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Speaker 1: news today.

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Speaker 3: That's next, Fox,