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Speaker 2: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 3: What is up straight firefam, It's me Jason McIntyre. Straight

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Speaker 3: Fire for Thursday, March twenty eight, The Sweet sixteen is here.

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Speaker 3: I know you're as excited as I am for tonight's games.

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Speaker 3: Really good lineup, will do best bets at the end.

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Speaker 3: Obviously if you you're the kind of guy who just

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Speaker 3: tunes in for the best bets, well you The picks

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Speaker 3: were out Monday. I had picks Tuesday. I'd wrote picks

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Speaker 3: for Fox Sports, Like, you're way late to the game,

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Speaker 3: but you know I can't do anything about that. A

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Speaker 3: couple of interesting topics here, I'll I don't know where

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Speaker 3: I want. I should start with the Suns off their

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Speaker 3: big game against the Nuggets. But let me quickly just

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Speaker 3: do this one NFL topic, just real brief so I

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Speaker 3: don't know if you guys saw this. The NFL obviously

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Speaker 3: had massive success with the Christmas Day games last year, right,

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Speaker 3: and they're like, oh, let's run it back. But then

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Speaker 3: you see the calendar. The games are on a Wednesday.

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Speaker 3: They're like, oh, that's dumb. Nobody wants to do it

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Speaker 3: on a Wednesday. You totally screw up everything that Thursday

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Speaker 3: night football games are usually bad and no teams like them,

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Speaker 3: so why would you do a Wednesday game? And I

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Speaker 3: feel like this is just the NFL trying a little

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Speaker 3: too hard. I mean, Rob, I don't know if you

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Speaker 3: saw this. I saw a story where the NFL is

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Speaker 3: deciding which teams are going to play in Brazil in

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Speaker 3: the future, and I'm like, but what are we doing

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Speaker 3: going to Brazil? Last year? It was Germany, before it

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Speaker 3: now you're crowbarring just to say we were on Christmas Day.

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Speaker 3: Look at the big ratings. Well, obviously the raidings are

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Speaker 3: going to be big, but do you think the players

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Speaker 3: want to play on a Wednesday game? Now? The NFL

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Speaker 3: announced in their article the teams that play on Christmas

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Speaker 3: will not play the Sunday before. They'll play this Saturday before.

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Speaker 3: Ooh ooh, an extra day of rest. Well you know

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Speaker 3: games on short rest. And it's such a big monkey

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Speaker 3: wrench into this schedule. You guys know this watching NFL

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Speaker 3: every year The games on Thursday are forget about the matchups,

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Speaker 3: it's week one Thursday game, not that big of a deal.

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Speaker 3: But you get in that system of what Sunday game,

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Speaker 3: You know. I don't want to say players are playing

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Speaker 3: not to get hurt, but it doesn't have the gravitas

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Speaker 3: I don't love this idea of let's force it on

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Speaker 3: we had better ratings. Of course you're gonna have better

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Speaker 3: they start the season. It's like opening week. Everybody watches

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Speaker 3: back to college football NFL, and then we'll pick it

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Speaker 3: up on Christmas Day, which has like five games, usually Lebron,

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Speaker 3: the nfls just seems like it's a little too hard

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Speaker 3: Wednesday game now, Rob, I haven't looked. Is it too

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the oversaturation, You run the risk. Now listen, Obviously, NFL,

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Speaker 3: the NBA, Global sports, soccer, global sport, NFL just a

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Speaker 3: love the NFL. I'll watch Christmas Day games. I have

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Speaker 3: from the NFL to the NBA quick. So there's two

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Speaker 3: Number one is obviously, you know, the Suns have sputtered

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Speaker 3: looks like the Suns are going to be locked in

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Speaker 3: Phoenix has kept Durant. Yes, the Mavericks have been up

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Speaker 3: The Suns are going to be in the planet, and

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Speaker 3: they make it interesting. But here's where it gets really interesting.

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Speaker 3: So I don't know if you guys remember last year

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Speaker 3: can't go with Jokic. I'm like, what do you mean?

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Speaker 3: He's a two time MVP. He sure is hell better

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Speaker 3: winner title. There's pressure on him. I don't know, he's

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Speaker 3: I don't know the You can say that there's pressure

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Speaker 3: He made the right decision, spent forever in OKCE. They

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Speaker 3: a great team. I would argue, the greatest team in

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Speaker 3: Bradley Beal and a bunch of idiots, including yours. Truly,

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Speaker 3: I thought the Sons would be the team to be

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Speaker 3: Lebron and Ad. And I know Rob's a huge Laker fan,

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Speaker 3: I think the Lakers match up really well, really well

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Speaker 3: But Rob, I mean, I'm just being real. I think

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's funny when you again, there's no way to

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Speaker 3: he couldn't get over the hump with Stack, Deck, Russet Harden. Okay,

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Speaker 3: So Ice Cubes done her masterful job here of making

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Speaker 1: What do you think I think she better say no? Because,

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Speaker 3: We'll do tonight first, and then we could do tomorrow's

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Speaker 3: games tomorrow. I don't know. This is probably a little

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Speaker 3: to My biggest play now for tonight is North Carolina

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Speaker 3: minus four. There's some juice, but I just I'm sure

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Speaker 3: North Carolina will fail obviously against Alabama because because I

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Speaker 3: his handily. I would say North Yukon. I mean I

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Speaker 3: on Monday at nine and a half, it's now up

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Speaker 3: to eleven. Yukon should I cannot imagine them losing to

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Speaker 3: San Diego State. Maybe San Diego State learned something in

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Speaker 3: the Natty when they got wiped off the floor, and

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Speaker 3: they keep it close and interesting, but I kind of

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Speaker 3: doubt it. North Carolina just I'm sorry, Yukon just too good.

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Speaker 3: So Yukon North Carolina. I think both ones advanced. I

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Speaker 3: did bet Clemson getting seven. You know, I outlined this

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Speaker 3: on the pod earlier this week. I wrote about it.

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Speaker 3: I'm in on this Clemson team and Arizona can be

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Speaker 3: hit and miss. This is one of these pace games.

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Speaker 3: Can Clemson slow it down? I say yes. If they cannot, yeah,

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Speaker 3: Arizona probably runs away with it. But the gut here is,

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Speaker 3: you know, we saw Oregon slow down Arizona and the

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Speaker 3: PAC twelve tournament. It could be done. It's not like

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Speaker 3: Arizona's unbelievable. So I took Clemson plus seven, and then

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Speaker 3: the big one for me because of the Calcutta I'm

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Speaker 3: on Iowa State money line in a parlay with I

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Speaker 3: think it's Houston, Oh Marquette, and then I also have

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Speaker 3: them in one with Houston. Confidence is waiting, though Money's

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Speaker 3: coming in on Illinois all week. This is the real test.

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Speaker 3: If this game is in the sixties seventies, I'll take

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Speaker 3: Iowa State. If it's in the nineties eighties, edge to

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Speaker 3: Illinois because that's what Illinois wants to do. There are

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Speaker 3: three guys on the wing, run and jump offensive machine.

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Speaker 3: I lean defense here, So I'm on Iowa State. I

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Speaker 3: think your winners are Iowa State, Connecticut, Carolina, and then

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna go I'll just since I took the points,

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Speaker 3: I'll just say Clemson. But agreement, disagreement, Rob, how's your

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Speaker 3: bracket in the Fox Sports radio?

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Speaker 1: Oh, my bracket has been set on fire, like when

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Speaker 1: I are gonna talk about it, rest in peace to

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Speaker 1: My bracket started out eight to o killing the game

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Speaker 1: and then just fell off of freaking cliff. But unlike you,

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Speaker 1: I don't have you know, a massive you know, bank

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Speaker 1: Like that's just not me. I think I'm most like

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Speaker 1: the rest of America, where I'd rather bet a little

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Speaker 1: to win a lot. And before you even started talking,

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Speaker 1: I had a three game parlay already ready to go.

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Speaker 1: And interestingly enough, it's all three sides that you're on.

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Speaker 1: So I had Carolina with giving up the points at

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Speaker 1: Connecticut giving up the points. I think yukond is gonna

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Speaker 1: roll in that one. I think you could put it

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Speaker 1: up to like fourteen and I'd still feel.

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Speaker 3: Good about it.

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Speaker 1: And I have Clemson plus the have I got him

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Speaker 1: at seven and a half, you had him at seven

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Speaker 1: a half seven and a half. Because it's not necessarily

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Speaker 1: much about Clemson, it's more so about Arizona. Arizona. We

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Speaker 1: joked about it before the Shermany even started. You know,

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Speaker 1: I made the joke about no one's really expecting Long

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Speaker 1: and you're like, well, hey, they're playing Arizona in round one,

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Speaker 1: you know, and anything could happen. And I know we

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Speaker 1: laughed about it, but the fact remains is Arizona will

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Speaker 1: find ways to disappoint you in the tournament. They almost

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Speaker 1: always have at least one game where they don't play

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Speaker 1: up to their talent level. And if it's just based

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Speaker 1: on talent, I think Arizona's right up there with the

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Speaker 1: best teams in the country. But they're just such a

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Speaker 1: roller coach ride at all times. So if you're gonna

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Speaker 1: give me a very solid team like Clemson getting more

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Speaker 1: than five in this case, I got am at seven

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Speaker 1: and a half, I love that. So a three team

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Speaker 1: parlay Carolina giving up the four, Yukon given up the eleven,

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Speaker 1: and Clemson getting seven and a half against Arizona.

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Speaker 3: The only drawback is the games in La and Arizona

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Speaker 3: probably ninety to ten, maybe eighty twenty. So that's not great.

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Speaker 3: And my concern with UNC is they're looking ahead to

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Speaker 3: the Arizona matchup where they would face Caleb Love, who

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Speaker 3: played for them last year had kind of an acrimonious ending.

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Speaker 3: Now he's Arizona's leading scorer. It was very clear they

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Speaker 3: kind of shoved Caleb Love out and he did not

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Speaker 3: get along with RJ. Davis. He's a heat check guy.

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Speaker 3: He's gonna go give you thirty two on fifteen shots

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Speaker 3: because he's gunning threes, or he's gonna take, you know,

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Speaker 3: thirty shots and score like seventeen points. He'll shoot you

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Speaker 3: in or out. So, uh yeah, I'm not feeling wonderful

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Speaker 3: about that. Anyways, enjoy the games. We are back tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: Talk to you then