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Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome inside, Happy Friday, The Jason Smith Show with

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Speaker 1: my best.

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Speaker 2: Friend Mike Harmon. Well dressed hobo. Oh no, mucho hobo

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Speaker 2: ty shirt? Not yet? Not okay, you got we gotta

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Speaker 2: wait get later in the night for muccho hobo.

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Speaker 3: I think it's like more of like an eight o'clock thing.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Oh sorry, just think about we're just starting seven o'clock. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I'm still dressed in my work clothes. I want to

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Speaker 1: wait and put on my sweatpants before I go to

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Speaker 1: a mucho hobo who wants to go to a strip join.

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Speaker 1: We'll get to that. We'll get to that, trumps, We'll

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Speaker 1: get to that again.

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Speaker 1: Second half ish underway, obviously after the All Star break,

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Speaker 1: got tons of baseball to get to. Coming up for

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Speaker 1: the Play of the Day in about fifteen minutes. We

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Speaker 1: had an all time great Major League Baseball play tonight.

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Speaker 1: I've seen it about fifteen times. I still can't get

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Speaker 1: over it. We're gonna bring it for you for the

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Speaker 1: play of the day when this game ends. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's this is all time on one of those lists

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Speaker 1: of the top types of this play in baseball history.

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Speaker 1: Like this is one of the top three or four

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Speaker 1: that I've ever seen.

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Speaker 2: So it's not involving Tim Teep. I'm so excited. I

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Speaker 2: mean Tibo saving the guy.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he doesn't get as much credit as he

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Speaker 1: should for saving the one guy at Mets camp a

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Speaker 1: few years ago. Like that's a big thing. Like that's

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Speaker 1: a save, Like you know Edwin Diaz, Kenley Jansen now

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Speaker 2: We save a guy. You know, something's happening. Hey, Tebo

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Speaker 2: saved the guy.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 2: But we begin with this absolute tire fire out of.

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Speaker 1: The NFL right now last night, probably about an hour

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Speaker 1: into the show, right about an hour into the show,

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Speaker 1: and the story breaks that NFLPA leader Lloyd Howell Junior,

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Speaker 1: who's been running the NFL Players Association for the past

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Speaker 1: couple of years since the Maury Smith is no longer

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Speaker 1: running the players union, is stepping down as director. Was

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Speaker 1: so pretty big story, not completely unexpected because we had

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Speaker 1: the story about ten days ago that potentially, according to

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Speaker 1: that the NFL and the NFLPA colluded with one another

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Speaker 1: to keep salaries down following Deshaun Watson signing his big

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Speaker 1: contract a few years ago. Everybody was mad, why is

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Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson?

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Speaker 2: I was mad.

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Speaker 1: Every Harmer's man, everybody's mad. Everybody's mad. Oh, let's go.

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Speaker 1: So Deshaun Watson gets this money, and they all allegedly

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Speaker 1: decided reportedly that hey, let's make sure we keep all

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Speaker 1: the guaranteed money down because the quarterback's coming out for

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Speaker 1: contracts where Lamar Jackson and Joe Burrow and Josh Allen,

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Speaker 1: guys that are going to reset the market. Trevor Lawrence

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Speaker 1: as well, so let's keep it down. Incredibly bad, garrassing.

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Speaker 1: When that story broke, I said, I can't believe Lloyd

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Speaker 1: Howell still has a job. You have to sweep out

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Speaker 1: everybody running things at the NFLPA, because this is absolutely terrible.

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Speaker 1: You have to sweep everybody out, right, But a few

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Speaker 1: days go, buy nothing happens. Okay, then we get the

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Speaker 1: story yesterday or early in the day that hey, you

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Speaker 1: know what, Hey, well, maybe the players were being advised

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Speaker 1: running backs were being advised during contract negotiations to play

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Speaker 1: up injuries and overexaggerate them because it would help them

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Speaker 1: in negotiations. Okay, Now you gotta think, Okay, this is

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Speaker 1: the final straw, and Lloyd Howell's got to be out

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Speaker 1: after this, right. This is not collusion with the NFL,

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Speaker 1: but Lloyd Howell's got to be out after this, right, Okay.

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Speaker 1: And last night, around nine o'clock our time, maybe eight thirty,

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Speaker 1: it comes out that Howell is stepping aside, resigning his post.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: So, Mike and I we were talking about this last

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Speaker 1: night and you said to me, I vividly remember you said,

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Speaker 1: I think it was in the last hour of the show.

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Speaker 1: You said, doesn't this seem like a Friday night news dump?

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Speaker 1: Like this story here, like here's the NFL. It's a

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Speaker 1: Friday night news dump story. Right, We're gonna have this

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Speaker 1: Friday night eleven o'clock. This is really embarrassing. This guy's

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Speaker 1: what did I say? And I'm only, you know, I'm

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Speaker 1: off the cuff. This is what tells me being ahead

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Speaker 1: of the curve and just you know, hey, letting it fly.

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Speaker 1: What did I say to you? I said, well, unless

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Speaker 1: they're unless they're trying to get ahead of something that

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Speaker 2: Well, you know there's always more the other shoe.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I'm like, okay, but I mean, really, what

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Speaker 2: Okay?

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Speaker 1: No, turns out he needed to resign to get ahead

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Speaker 1: of this on Friday as the reason for his resignation

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Speaker 1: came up after reports surface that an outside investigator that

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Speaker 1: was hired by the union got documents this week that

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Speaker 1: showed Howell charged the union for two visits two strip clubs,

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Speaker 1: including a seven hundred and four car service that took

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Speaker 1: him from the airport to one of the clubs. The

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Speaker 1: documents are union approved expense reports and receipts.

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Speaker 2: So basically, the dude wanted to go to a strip club,

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Speaker 1: Of times, and how he got there and what he

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Speaker 1: This is falsifying your expense. Now, how did this get

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Speaker 1: found out? This is my favorite part. So one receipt

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Speaker 1: that espn obtanking. This is a Don Van Nada special. Right,

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Speaker 1: He's been doing nothing but doing stories like this for

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Speaker 1: the past twenty years. Said he got picked up in

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Speaker 1: a sedan by car service at Fort Lauderdale International Airport

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Speaker 1: on Thursday, November two of a couple of years ago.

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Speaker 1: Cars first stopped at a nearby Miami Gardens address, right,

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Speaker 1: and the rashiet shows the receipt shows one other stopped

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Speaker 1: that the car services exorbitant costs really raised red flags,

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Speaker 1: so they looked into it. They searched online for the

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Speaker 1: Miami Gardens address, discovering it was a seventy six thousand

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Speaker 1: square foot venue that bills itself as the world's larger

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Speaker 1: strip club full nude number one rated called Tutsis Cabaret.

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Speaker 2: Seventy six thousand square feet Smith, that's I mean seventy

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to get in my head, like what seventy

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Speaker 1: six thousand square feet is That's like a full city block, right,

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Speaker 1: Like that's like like and I don't mean like, hey,

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Speaker 1: there's like how many how many units are in this building?

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Speaker 1: Seventy five one hundred units in this building? Like that's

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Speaker 1: how big this thing is, seventy five thousand square feet.

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Speaker 2: That becomes a question. I mean, like, now you're talking

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's its own municipality in that, But I mean

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Speaker 4: think about the the guy that was driving the car.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's one hell of night.

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Speaker 4: You drop them off, you sit there for eight hours,

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Speaker 4: take it back, get eight hundred bucks, and you're felled

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Speaker 4: because of an eight hundred dollars expense.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 4: It's always it's like al Capone, you got busted for

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Speaker 4: tax evasion because they couldn't nail down everything else, right,

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Speaker 4: Because that's the crux of a lot of this investigation,

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Speaker 4: Pablo Tory everybody else. You've got a bunch of information

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Speaker 4: on messages exchanged between owners which are collusive in nature,

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Speaker 4: but don't prove collusion, right you So like skating on

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Speaker 4: that line where you might teeter over, and reasonably minded

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Speaker 2: Go, come on, what are we talking about here?

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Speaker 4: We're equivalent over some antics versus letter of the law

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Speaker 2: But no, this is how he gets felled. Now.

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Speaker 4: The rest of the investigation he was also part of.

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Speaker 4: There was a sexual discrimination lawsuit going back to twenty

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Speaker 4: eleven that he'd been named as part of.

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Speaker 2: And all sorts of other things.

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Speaker 4: But no, no, no, it's seven hundred and twenty eight dollars

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Speaker 4: to a seventy five thousand square foot I mean on a.

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Speaker 2: Per square foot basis. Boy, that's cheap. Boy, that's cheap.

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Speaker 2: Good for him, But it's the thing that costs of

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Speaker 2: his jump. And now it's not it it's not you know,

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Speaker 2: that's the one thing.

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Speaker 1: But also they also found out he accompanied other employees

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Speaker 1: to the Magic City Strip Club. Now I don't know

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Speaker 1: Rob Parker, Rob partner, no Magic City Strip Club.

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Speaker 2: For an outing.

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Speaker 1: Wa Wow, twenty five hundred dollars in charges, including cash

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Speaker 1: withdrawals ranging from two hundred to five hundred dollars from

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Speaker 1: a club atm they used two VIP rooms. One of

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Speaker 1: the other employees who accompanied OWL on this also submitted

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Speaker 1: expense reports for this outing right, okay, number one, this

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Speaker 1: is it's absolutely stupid. Okay, I mean this is Hey,

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Speaker 1: come on, man, we do stuff. We can slide this by, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: don't worry about I just put that through my expense report.

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Speaker 2: This is coming through.

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Speaker 1: This is absolutely stupid. I mean, I can't get can't

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Speaker 1: get over this. I mean, did you really think that

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Speaker 1: avention you're just gonna be I mean maybe, I guess

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Speaker 1: after you use it in twenty twenty three, something happens,

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Speaker 1: you know, but then you use it again, and then.

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Speaker 2: You go again.

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Speaker 1: You go, hey, okay, I can't I can't stop myself. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna get caught with this, man, You're gonna get

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Speaker 1: at some point, someone's gonna find out that you use

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Speaker 1: you're using company resources to go to a strip club.

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Speaker 1: And even though it's the biggest strip club in the country,

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Speaker 1: it's so oh oh, but it's the biggest one.

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Speaker 2: Oh, then that's okay.

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Speaker 1: If you just went to some small rinky dink you know,

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Speaker 1: a in a strip ball like you know, yeah, No,

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Speaker 1: I don't all about that.

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Speaker 2: But he went to the biggest one.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's okay, Well we'll look the other way

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Speaker 1: on that one, Like I mean, I I mean, and

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Speaker 1: this guy, you're the executive director of the NFLPA. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure you make enough money to be able to pay

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Speaker 1: for this to go out there. But no, the hubris

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Speaker 1: and the I don't think I'm ever gonna get busted

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Speaker 1: just always amazes me that people have, especially now in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, Like could you have gotten away with.

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Speaker 2: This in nineteen eighty two, nineteen eighty five.

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Speaker 1: Of course you would have, right, But now that you're

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Speaker 1: not getting away with that, eventually you're going to get caught,

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Speaker 1: especially if you still continue to do it, you're gonna

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Speaker 4: Well, the bigger thing is you probably can still get

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Speaker 4: away with it in a lot of circumstances until somebody

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Speaker 1: And this is, oh, so he's going to He's going

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Speaker 4: We almost have to go as a show, as a

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Speaker 4: And then we'll see if we can talk to the dancers.

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Speaker 4: Hey hey they're working here. It's like, hey, hey, we've

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Speaker 2: Get out of here.

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Speaker 1: I can't get over this like this is this story

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Speaker 2: But yeah, but I'm gonna go to a.

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Speaker 1: Strip club and I'm gonna make sure they expense that

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Speaker 1: Nobody wins on this, the NFL. That's why no one's

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Speaker 1: The NFL can't talk. That's dude, you colluded to keep

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that.

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Speaker 1: No, you guys colluded to keep it down. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's right, But the NFL's evil. Wait, but you just

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Speaker 1: but still the NFL is evil. Wait a minute, Wait

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Speaker 2: Look, in the end, this guy goes away.

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Speaker 4: And you'll do your outside search and this time, you know,

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Speaker 4: For the players, they're in a tough spot because Treder

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Speaker 4: you go and find, Hey, who's the honest guy in

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Speaker 2: I don't recommend this on your work computer. For tootsies.

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Speaker 4: Here's your what comes back gallery VIP packages the moniker

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Speaker 1: This is what the NFL is lucky that everybody's a wasted.

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Speaker 1: They might keep people out of camps. Hey, we don't

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Speaker 1: watch you report from the few days. Why dude, are

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Speaker 1: you watching the news? This story is terrible to everybody's

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Speaker 1: stay out. You know we're gonna push the season. When

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Speaker 2: Get back on. But what this is really bad?

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Speaker 4: But here you got Jason, How long could you go

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Speaker 4: to you can't keep asking about this crowd.

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Speaker 2: You gotta leave these guys. You can't ask coach, you

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Speaker 4: They don't have any potential intimate knowledge of this place

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Speaker 2: They're gonna deny, deny.

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Speaker 1: Deny, exit out about a Fresca exit swollen Dome. The

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Speaker 1: Maybe we'll call it hey lit from the Tutsis Cabaret Studios.

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Speaker 2: Can we do or we have to pay?

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Speaker 4: Now?

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Speaker 2: Probably?

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Speaker 5: Well?

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, what does it matter.

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Speaker 4: It's right if they contact the sales folks and we

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Speaker 2: I mean, that'd be one hell of a remote.

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Speaker 2: Well, we'll have.

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Speaker 1: It's one of those I catch it in one motion

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Speaker 1: and he uncorks an absolute dart on the fly to

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Speaker 1: third base, and a great play because you know, hey,

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Speaker 1: when you know when when you're the third basemen, you're

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Speaker 1: sitting there and the throw's coming in, your eyes get big,

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Speaker 1: you want to make the play and maybe the runner

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Speaker 1: speeds up. No, no, no, this was I'm real cool. I'm

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Speaker 1: putting my hands up at the last second, grab tag out,

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Speaker 1: double play, gets out of the inning. Braves go up

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Speaker 1: seven to nothing. They win this game.

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Speaker 2: Seven to three. This throw by Akunya, I mean it, Mike.

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Speaker 1: This is up there with like the Dave Parker throw

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Speaker 1: from the Kingdome that they've been showing this week for

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Speaker 1: the All Star Game with you know, Parker passing away

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Speaker 1: a few days ago. That throw, it's one of the

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Speaker 1: greatest all times. Bo Jackson's throw from the left field

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Speaker 1: corner on the fly to home plate that gets Harold

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Speaker 1: Reynolds out at the plate that you see, like, this

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Speaker 1: is how good of a throw this is? Like, this

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Speaker 1: is a top three, top five throws all time that

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Speaker 1: I've seen. I've seen it twenty five times and I

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Speaker 1: still can't get enough of it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I keep watching it on a loop, and then

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Speaker 4: I love the little celebrat at the end where like

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Speaker 4: he's pulled the big fish out of the water. At

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Speaker 4: least that's how I'm interpreting it. Hey, snag me one.

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Speaker 4: But it's you know, he's flat footed, it's he spins

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Speaker 4: and fires the ball back. And the fact that dude

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Speaker 4: half asked it in the third we should all be

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Speaker 4: thankful because otherwise it's like, Wow, that's just a hell

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Speaker 4: of a throw. But it doesn't get the spotlight that

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Speaker 4: it now will, and you know, expanding the legend of

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Speaker 4: Ronald Acunya Junior. It's good to have him back and

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Speaker 4: healthy and playing well. Twenty third RBI tonight, two for

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Speaker 4: three from the plate. But this play, yeah, it's it's mesmerizing,

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Speaker 4: just the the casual nature of the catch.

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Speaker 2: Turn.

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Speaker 4: Let's just throw it and see what happens. And because

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Speaker 4: dude was he was dogging it. I mean, let's call

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Speaker 4: it what it is.

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Speaker 1: There's no chance in hell this guy could throw it

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Speaker 1: that far right and he still might have been safe because.

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Speaker 4: You look, yeah, we haven't gotten a reverse angle yet

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Speaker 4: to see whether we slapped it on him before the

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Speaker 4: foot hit.

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Speaker 2: But no, I get your point there.

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Speaker 1: It's an unreal throw. I mean, and from from where

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Speaker 1: he is all the way in the corner, which, as

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Speaker 1: you know, the one thing you were told growing up. No,

487
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Speaker 1: that's why your best arm goes on right field because

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Speaker 1: it's the longest throw to third base from the corner.

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Speaker 1: And Akunya is flat footed, like there's no I'm going

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Speaker 1: back and I have and I have a momentum where

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna step into the throw. He is absolutely flat

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Speaker 1: footed and he makes this throw on a line to

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Speaker 1: third base.

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Speaker 2: Unreal, I mean, man, yeah, no.

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Speaker 4: Giant crow hops or or sprints or or trying to

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Speaker 4: get momentum back toward now just literally wow, just absolutely flawless.

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Speaker 4: And I wish I could get this like on a

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Speaker 4: sport Flicks card. So you got the three phases, there's

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Speaker 4: the catch, there's the first throw, and there's the tag

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Speaker 4: getting slapped on just to ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: Oh it happens. It happened. I mean, an amazing, amazing throw.

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

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Speaker 1: live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. The fact that

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Speaker 1: Acunya is flat footed when he that's what really cuts

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Speaker 1: through because you go back and look, bit people are

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Speaker 1: gonna look and say, hey, because because YouTube has a

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Speaker 1: top ten outfield throws in baseball history, right, you watch

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Speaker 1: all these throws. They're all incredible plays, But how many

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Speaker 1: of these throws are the guys able to get their

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Speaker 1: feet under them, get some momentum and make the throw

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Speaker 1: right more seven or eight of them, and Acuna just

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Speaker 1: gets it. Turns sometime he's standing still when he catches

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Speaker 1: the ball because he's trying to deak him and he

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Speaker 1: turns and makes that kind of throw. That that's what

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Speaker 1: stands out to me about how he does this flat footed,

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Speaker 1: which is all the difference man.

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Speaker 4: The only thing that could be better with at Smith

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Speaker 4: is if we get audio from him that he looked

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Speaker 4: at the people in the crowd and said, hey, watch this.

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Speaker 1: Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome. Coming up next,

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Speaker 1: we could see absolute history this weekend, and the guy

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Speaker 1: that could win this tournament has made it really hard

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Speaker 1: to root for him.

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you why. Coming up next, Jason to Mike Fox.

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Speaker 7: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

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Speaker 7: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

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Speaker 1: Now you're gonna have to explain a big thing's popularity

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Speaker 1: to me in a second. But you know, a little

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Speaker 1: bit more on Scotty Scheffler from a few minutes ago,

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Speaker 1: because you know, after we you know, we finished talking

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Speaker 1: before trending came up, and Alex tier said, you know,

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Speaker 1: I kind of see Scotty's point on this. Alex Tischer

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Speaker 1: has discovered sports in the last ten weeks, which is nice.

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Speaker 1: And you know, talking about how Scheffler and hey, if

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Speaker 1: you you know, what you do for a living doesn't

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Speaker 1: need to define you and who you are, and I

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Speaker 1: understand that, but it's specifically what he said that we

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Speaker 1: can expand in this yere a little bit because, as

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Speaker 1: I said, Scotti Scheffler now has an incredible day today,

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Speaker 1: best golfer in the world despite the fact he seems

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Speaker 1: to not love playing golf, jumps out to a one

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Speaker 1: stroke lead and made all headlines this week for his

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Speaker 1: press conference, which he talked about how difficult and unsatisfying

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Speaker 1: the life of succeeding in golf is. Now I'm going

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Speaker 1: to play this sound bite back for you again. This

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Speaker 1: is scheffer from the other day and kind of expand

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Speaker 1: the point to where you understand about how when I say,

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Speaker 1: if golf isn't making you happy, then stop playing it.

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Speaker 2: Take a listen.

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Speaker 8: Is it great to be able to win tournaments and

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Speaker 8: to accomplish the things I have in the game of golf?

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Speaker 8: Yet it brings tears myers to think about because it's

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Speaker 8: literally worked my entire life to become good at the sport.

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Speaker 8: And to have that kind of sense of accomplishment, I

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Speaker 8: think is a pretty cool feeling, you know, to get

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Speaker 8: to live out your dreams, it's very special.

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Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, I'm.

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Speaker 8: Not out here to inspire the next generation of golfers.

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Speaker 2: I don't.

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Speaker 8: I'm not here to inspire somebody else to be the

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Speaker 8: best player in the world, because what's the point. You know,

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Speaker 8: this is not a fulfilling life. It's it's fulfilling from

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Speaker 8: the sense of accomplishment, but it's not fulfilling from a

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Speaker 8: sense of like the.

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Speaker 2: Deepest places of your heart.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So a couple of things to expand on this

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Speaker 1: conversation we had, Mike, is that one to sit there

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Speaker 1: and say I'm not out here to inspire the next

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Speaker 1: generation of golfers. It's just a jerky thing to say,

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Speaker 1: right because there's plenty of kids out there who would

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Speaker 1: love to be and aspire to be the greatest golfers

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Speaker 1: of their generation.

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Speaker 2: What do you mean, what's the point?

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Speaker 1: I think there's plenty of other people that would see

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Speaker 1: a great point in having the career of being a

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Speaker 1: great golfer and realizing your dreams. Like you don't sit

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Speaker 1: here and tell you Like, what he's trying to say

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Speaker 1: is that, hey, because I've found a way to not

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Speaker 1: be in love with the sport anymore, you shouldn't be either,

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Speaker 1: you know what. Let me decide what my dreams are.

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Speaker 1: You decide what your dreams are. So that's my first

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Speaker 1: point is that that's really kind of a jerky thing

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Speaker 1: for him to say, and say, you know, if you're

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Speaker 1: not happy that to you, man, but don't see it.

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Speaker 1: Tell me there's no point said. So many people make

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Speaker 1: a living playing golf, whether it's on the PGA Tour,

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Speaker 1: whether it's teaching golf, whether it's whether it's coaching golf

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Speaker 1: at colleges, there's high schools. I mean, golf is a

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Speaker 1: really big bleep in industry. Mann't sit here, tell me

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Speaker 1: what's the point. It's like saying, it's like saying, what's

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Speaker 1: the point to the fast food industry?

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Speaker 2: Come on, man, fast food keeps everybody going. Man, I

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Speaker 2: can't wait.

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Speaker 1: I mean, don't sit here, tell me there's no point

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Speaker 1: to winning golf tournaments. It's because if that's you, if

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Speaker 1: that's what you think, that's great. But don't put that

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Speaker 1: on other people. Let other people decide what they do

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Speaker 1: or want to do with their life.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I think part of it is just you know, verbiage choice, right,

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Speaker 4: in terms of how he's going through this, It's almost

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Speaker 4: like he has this epiphany and he's now talking it

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Speaker 4: out without really having an end game, right, throwing in

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Speaker 4: the role model thing is is kind of an inspiring

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Speaker 4: golferstin all right, that happens by accident. All he needs

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Speaker 4: is a one line, one liner add on to make

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Speaker 4: that clear. It's like, you know, I do well. I mean,

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Speaker 4: it's cool that if it inspires, but that's not the goal.

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Speaker 4: Move on and make your next point kind of thing.

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Speaker 4: But you know, to your point, yeah, I mean it's

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Speaker 4: a multi billion dollar business. You know, you go and

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Speaker 4: you get yourself fitted for for your clubs, custom made,

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Speaker 4: custom paid, custom fitted, all of those different apparel lines

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Speaker 4: and everything else you got going on there. We know

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Speaker 4: people that have left the radio business and gone into

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Speaker 4: the golf apparel line, like that's what they do for

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Speaker 4: their their work now, right, So I mean you've seen

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Speaker 4: a lot of growth in the industry, go back to

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Speaker 4: when when Tiger came in and the EBB and flow

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Speaker 4: and such. But for Scheffler, I mean, I understand, and

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Speaker 4: as we've talked to you and I I understand you know,

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Speaker 4: the larger as existential why are we here? What we

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Speaker 4: what are we doing? Golf isn't the be all to

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Speaker 4: end all, but when you're there to promote a major,

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Speaker 4: this is probably one of those a you know, sixty minutes,

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Speaker 4: you know, make the breakfast and sit around and talk

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Speaker 4: about where you're at in your life kind of thing,

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Speaker 4: as opposed to sitting at the podium promoting the sport

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Speaker 4: as the final major of the year.

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Speaker 1: And you know, and the other part is this for

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Speaker 1: him to say, as he said, what's the point, right?

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Speaker 1: I got a chance to go live out my dreams?

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Speaker 1: What's the point?

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Speaker 2: Okay? Now? And look, sometimes you start.

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Speaker 1: You take a career path, and after you do it

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Speaker 1: for a while, you decide, you know what, I'm kind

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Speaker 1: of done doing it.

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Speaker 2: I'm ready to do something else.

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Speaker 9: Right.

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Speaker 1: I think lot lots of us have had that point

655
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Speaker 1: where I got to the point where I go, you

656
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:31,280
Speaker 1: know what, I need a break from radio. I kind

657
00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:33,120
Speaker 1: of want to do something else. I did it for

658
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:36,040
Speaker 1: a few years. I went back to radio, Like, I

659
00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:39,520
Speaker 1: get that. I completely understand that. But for him to say,

660
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:42,440
Speaker 1: what's the point, right, and what's the point golf is

661
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 1: not a fulfilling life? Okay again, let me go back

662
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:46,160
Speaker 1: to what I said a couple minutes a couple of

663
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:49,520
Speaker 1: minutes ago. Plenty of people can can find a fulfilling

664
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:50,880
Speaker 1: life playing golf professionally.

665
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:51,880
Speaker 2: Plenty of people can do it.

666
00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:53,840
Speaker 1: Plenty of people can find a great life being a

667
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:57,479
Speaker 1: golf pro, running a golf course again, teaching golf, you know,

668
00:29:57,520 --> 00:29:59,760
Speaker 1: being a golf coach in college. Plenty of people can

669
00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:03,280
Speaker 1: find that. You get to do two things in life, right,

670
00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:05,800
Speaker 1: if you want to get deep in existential like Scottischeffier,

671
00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:06,920
Speaker 1: you get two things in life.

672
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:07,560
Speaker 2: You get to do.

673
00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:11,280
Speaker 1: You get to pick what you want to do family

674
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 1: wise and what you want to do professionally.

675
00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:14,960
Speaker 2: Right, those are the big things.

676
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:17,200
Speaker 1: Right. You got family and you have professional right, you

677
00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:19,880
Speaker 1: have your family life, which could be which which is

678
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 1: is your your parents, your kids, your wife, your relatives,

679
00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:25,800
Speaker 1: your brother, your sister, your uncle, your aunt, whatever it is.

680
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,360
Speaker 1: And then there's the path you choose to take professionally.

681
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:31,080
Speaker 1: These are the two things you get to do in

682
00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:34,480
Speaker 1: your life, right and and these are two things that

683
00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:37,960
Speaker 1: quite honestly, you should take them seriously because these are

684
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:40,880
Speaker 1: the two things you get to do if you can.

685
00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:43,000
Speaker 1: If you want to, just hey, find my way.

686
00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 2: I want to.

687
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:47,800
Speaker 1: I want to be much more family oriented, personal oriented

688
00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:50,960
Speaker 1: than professionally. I get it, man, I completely get I

689
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:53,320
Speaker 1: think that's a great choice. If you want to be

690
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:57,240
Speaker 1: more professional oriented, then you are family oriented. Hey, great

691
00:30:57,320 --> 00:30:59,000
Speaker 1: choice too, man, go do it. If you want to

692
00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:01,960
Speaker 1: try to find a way to balance both, which is

693
00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:04,400
Speaker 1: I mean, this is what I try to do, and

694
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:06,120
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people try to find. This

695
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:08,880
Speaker 1: is that I want to have the balance between professionally

696
00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 1: and what I do and personally, And sometimes one takes

697
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:13,840
Speaker 1: a little bit more presidents over the other. But this

698
00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:16,080
Speaker 1: is what I'm looking for, the balance all any of

699
00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 1: those things, they all work. But if you're telling me

700
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:22,120
Speaker 1: that golf is not a fulfilling life, why are you

701
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:25,360
Speaker 1: doing it like what, you have enough money, You've done everything.

702
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:27,040
Speaker 1: You've gotten to the top of your profession. You've done

703
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 1: everything you wanted to do right, you got on top.

704
00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 1: You have more than enough cash. You've done it all.

705
00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:33,240
Speaker 1: If this isn't making you happy, why do you still

706
00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 1: do it?

707
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:36,800
Speaker 2: Right? Go do something else that will make you happy,

708
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 2: and I be.

709
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:41,920
Speaker 1: And if that's not doing anything and being happy personally, great,

710
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 1: you don't need to. Man, You've made so much money

711
00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:46,440
Speaker 1: already it doesn't matter. You could go do anything else

712
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:49,080
Speaker 1: you want. Why wouldn't you leave and go do something

713
00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:52,080
Speaker 1: else that makes you happy. If clearly golf does not

714
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:54,400
Speaker 1: hold the thrill for him that it once did. He's

715
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:56,800
Speaker 1: great at it, he's in his prime. We see that

716
00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 1: it's awesome. But if this is truly what it's what

717
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:00,760
Speaker 1: I mean, it's kind of tough root for him to win,

718
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:04,000
Speaker 1: because boy, I'd like somebody to win who really burns

719
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:06,360
Speaker 1: to win, and like, hey, this is I Like I

720
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:09,280
Speaker 1: get the Rory McElroy. I'm so burnt out because I

721
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:11,760
Speaker 1: put everything into winning this career Grand Slam. I need

722
00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 1: some time away. I understand that, man, I understand being

723
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:17,520
Speaker 1: driven and wanting to win so badly. But that's why

724
00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:19,680
Speaker 1: that's why I say, if this is where you're at

725
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 1: and it's not a fulfilling life, well again, you get

726
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:25,800
Speaker 1: one chance, you know, you know what, one rotation around

727
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:27,760
Speaker 1: this globe where you get to do whatever you want

728
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:29,760
Speaker 1: to do. Go do something else that makes you happy.

729
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 1: If doing nothing makes you happy, great, If doing something

730
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:34,160
Speaker 1: else makes you happy, awesome. But it's clearly that this

731
00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:36,360
Speaker 1: isn't golf. So if this is how you feel about it,

732
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:39,600
Speaker 1: then maybe you should stop playing. I mean I kind

733
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:41,640
Speaker 1: of feel I would. I would give anybody that advice.

734
00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:45,400
Speaker 4: It's it's still the where from where he starts to

735
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:49,200
Speaker 4: where he finishes is just such a divide, right when

736
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:52,000
Speaker 4: he the tears in my eyes and what I've accomplished,

737
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:54,160
Speaker 4: the work I've put in and everything else, and then

738
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:58,400
Speaker 4: by the end he's unsatisfied and that and that's the cure.

739
00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:02,080
Speaker 4: Like everybody no idea what's going on in in between

740
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:04,440
Speaker 4: people's ears. We talk about it all the time. Right

741
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 4: on a given day, right, try to be as kind

742
00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:09,120
Speaker 4: as you can because you have no idea what's what's

743
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:11,480
Speaker 4: on the other side there and how how you're going

744
00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 4: to be received, what that person's going through uh and

745
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:17,520
Speaker 4: everything else. With Scheffler, I mean, there's there's obviously something

746
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:22,240
Speaker 4: going on, some disconnect between when he's playing and he's

747
00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 4: locked in and ready to loaded for bear versus the

748
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:30,400
Speaker 4: quiet time to where maybe the stuff in the head

749
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:32,360
Speaker 4: gets to jumble around a little bit and he's not

750
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:35,040
Speaker 4: thinking about his golf game, he's not thinking about the

751
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:38,920
Speaker 4: next shot and thinking about the the larger space.

752
00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:40,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a tough place to be.

753
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:43,240
Speaker 4: I mean, lots of folks get into jobs they love

754
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:46,800
Speaker 4: you referenced, you know, needing to step back. You know,

755
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:49,680
Speaker 4: you have ambitions, you think things are going to go

756
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 4: on a certain path. Sometimes you run into a wall

757
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:53,959
Speaker 4: and then you have to figure out how to how

758
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:55,760
Speaker 4: to get out of that one way street and pivot,

759
00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:59,160
Speaker 4: you know. It's that kind of thing, or figure out

760
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:02,000
Speaker 4: how to get through or over said wall. But it's

761
00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:05,080
Speaker 4: the thing for Sheffler right now. It's it's really an

762
00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 4: interesting split right now. Of while we're kind of setting

763
00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:12,080
Speaker 4: him up as as I mentioned, a couple of other golfers,

764
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:14,680
Speaker 4: including a couple of guys chasing him on the leaderboard,

765
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:17,560
Speaker 4: are making some of those Tiger references, and you're starting

766
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:19,799
Speaker 4: to see that in articles the way he's locked in

767
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:24,480
Speaker 4: and and has become you know, the jaws eating everything

768
00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:25,000
Speaker 4: in his sight.

769
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:28,279
Speaker 2: Uh here on the tour.

770
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:32,520
Speaker 4: But it's still that that conflict that's going through through

771
00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:35,680
Speaker 4: his head, right, It's it's here's all this greatness, but

772
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:39,399
Speaker 4: now we're really thinking about his headspace and talking about

773
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:43,480
Speaker 4: mental health and and fulfillment and everything else to where man,

774
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 4: it's it's it's not just box scores, is it.

775
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:51,080
Speaker 1: And it's and clearly you look, he's still playing, he's

776
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:52,839
Speaker 1: still doing well, he's here everything else.

777
00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:56,759
Speaker 2: I just feel like, yeah, you're right. He goes from hey,

778
00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:57,680
Speaker 2: here's a deep thing.

779
00:34:57,719 --> 00:34:59,399
Speaker 1: I'm gonna going to open the door and to who

780
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:01,760
Speaker 1: I am, and and it gets into a very condescending,

781
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 1: jerky type area of Okay, now I'm gonna tell you

782
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:06,880
Speaker 1: what golf is like and how how unfulfilling it is,

783
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 1: Like okay, I don't need you to tell me that,

784
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 1: but I mean a bottom line is like, I know

785
00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:12,920
Speaker 1: it seems like I'm coming down on the guy, but

786
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,160
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, I would get if a friend came

787
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:17,239
Speaker 1: to me who was really successful at what they did

788
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:19,440
Speaker 1: for a living and and and they said to me

789
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:21,440
Speaker 1: the same kind of things like, you know, I have

790
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:24,200
Speaker 1: a grat but I you know, it's not fulfilling. It

791
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 1: doesn't it's it's not something that's fulfilling. And I don't

792
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:28,000
Speaker 1: know what the point there is to it. I would

793
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,200
Speaker 1: first thing I would say is, Okay, maybe you need

794
00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:32,319
Speaker 1: a break, you know what? What do you think about

795
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:33,040
Speaker 1: taking a break?

796
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:33,759
Speaker 2: Uh?

797
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:36,040
Speaker 1: And and and not playing for a while and seeing

798
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:38,359
Speaker 1: if that fire is still there and if and if

799
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:41,400
Speaker 1: and if that person went on to say, yeah, I

800
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:42,840
Speaker 1: just you know, I just don't see the point. I

801
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 1: would say, all right, you know what, then you then

802
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:47,640
Speaker 1: you should stop doing it and do something else. Be happy,

803
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:49,839
Speaker 1: be happy with you know, like like like I said,

804
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:52,160
Speaker 1: be happy, you get one chance at this, be happy

805
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:54,600
Speaker 1: and go do something you've you've you've really you've lived

806
00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:57,000
Speaker 1: out your dream and and you've done it to a

807
00:35:57,080 --> 00:35:59,480
Speaker 1: level unlike anybody else in the history of the sport

808
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:03,640
Speaker 1: dominant player we've seen outside of Tiger Woods in the

809
00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:06,600
Speaker 1: last twenty five thirty years, like it's really it's been Tiger.

810
00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:08,399
Speaker 1: We thought it might be Rory, we thought it might

811
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:11,439
Speaker 1: be Jordan Speith, but Scotti Scheffler's run the last few

812
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:13,320
Speaker 1: years has been better than than any of them, and

813
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:15,440
Speaker 1: being at the top for three years is a pretty

814
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:17,839
Speaker 1: big deal. So I would say, you've done that. Now,

815
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:21,160
Speaker 1: you know it's get inspiration from something else and go

816
00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:21,839
Speaker 1: do something else.

817
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:22,040
Speaker 2: Right.

818
00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:24,279
Speaker 1: You have the means to do it, you have the

819
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:26,799
Speaker 1: you have the ability to do it. You're young, I mean,

820
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:29,479
Speaker 1: you you have everything going your way. Find something else

821
00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 1: that that really lights you up, and go do that, right.

822
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:34,960
Speaker 2: I mean, I would say, the minute.

823
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:37,880
Speaker 1: That radio doesn't become fun for me anymore and I

824
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:39,560
Speaker 1: don't come in turn the mic on and I love

825
00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:41,040
Speaker 1: and I love doing it, I'm gonna try to do

826
00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:43,439
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do something else, right, I mean, and knock Wood,

827
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:45,880
Speaker 1: I hope that day is a long way away. I

828
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:48,359
Speaker 1: love doing what I do. But I mean, if if

829
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:51,560
Speaker 1: you're not happy about doing something, okay, then it's okay.

830
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:53,480
Speaker 1: You know, I'm gonna go do something else. Like when

831
00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:56,000
Speaker 1: I went to NFL Network, I wanted to try. I

832
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:57,759
Speaker 1: wanted to I wanted to do TV for a couple

833
00:36:57,800 --> 00:36:59,319
Speaker 1: of years. I wanted to see I wanted to break

834
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:01,040
Speaker 1: from radio, right. I wanted to break from doing it

835
00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:03,600
Speaker 1: every day. I had done five hours a night by

836
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:06,799
Speaker 1: myself overnight and I said, you know what, it's time

837
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:08,880
Speaker 1: to do something else. I really need that. And after

838
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:10,920
Speaker 1: three years doing TV, I'm like, all right, great, I

839
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 1: scratched that itch. It was fun. I'd like to keep

840
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:15,319
Speaker 1: doing it a little bit if I can, and I

841
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:17,320
Speaker 1: did for a long time. But I really want to

842
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:18,839
Speaker 1: get now. I want to get back to doing because

843
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:20,440
Speaker 1: I want to get back to doing that again because

844
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:22,440
Speaker 1: I really miss it. And I had three years away

845
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:24,359
Speaker 1: from it, and I recharge, and here where you are

846
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:27,480
Speaker 1: You and I, you know, eleven years later and we're

847
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:30,239
Speaker 1: still rolling with this. So I mean, like I get

848
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:33,440
Speaker 1: the point of, hey, when you need a break, go

849
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:35,480
Speaker 1: do something else. It's not something you want to come

850
00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:36,960
Speaker 1: back to. Don't come back to do it.

851
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:39,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, and look, we put it out in

852
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:42,280
Speaker 4: the universe. I mean you have to do such things,

853
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:45,359
Speaker 4: I guess, And and we do it here on our

854
00:37:45,719 --> 00:37:48,480
Speaker 4: national what is it, five hundred plus affiliates and all

855
00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:52,120
Speaker 4: that fun stuff. You know, we're working to Bobby Benia day.

856
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:53,200
Speaker 4: I mean, that's what we're.

857
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:53,360
Speaker 2: Trying to.

858
00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:59,160
Speaker 1: Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome. So that's

859
00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:01,359
Speaker 1: my point about Scott Scheffler, Right, that's my point about

860
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:01,960
Speaker 1: scheffer going it.

861
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:04,400
Speaker 2: He's probably gonna wind up winning the British the Open.

862
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:07,000
Speaker 1: Championship, and then said, yeah, great, I won, but it's

863
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:08,520
Speaker 1: all rum leave and see everybody goodbye.

864
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:09,880
Speaker 2: But but wait, here's the clarity.

865
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:12,560
Speaker 4: No, no, no, out of care about I want nothing,

866
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:13,360
Speaker 4: Leave me alone.

867
00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:15,400
Speaker 2: I'm going home, Jason.

868
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:16,120
Speaker 7: Can I say something?

869
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:19,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead. I just have a hypothetical for you. Yeah, sure, Gus.

870
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:21,839
Speaker 3: Say Tom Brady won his fourth Super Bowl and then

871
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Speaker 3: comes out at the whatever it is parade and he's like,

872
00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:26,360
Speaker 3: you know what, I just still don't feel fulfilled and

873
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:28,320
Speaker 3: he wins two more. Would you still say the same thing.

874
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:31,400
Speaker 1: I would say. I would say that, go do well.

875
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:32,920
Speaker 1: First of I would tell Tom Brady I'm done of

876
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:34,759
Speaker 1: him winning Super Bowl for him? Are going to do

877
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:38,239
Speaker 1: something else? That's great? Leave no, But I mean like,

878
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:39,880
Speaker 1: but if you're not, But I would tell him the

879
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:41,799
Speaker 1: same thing. I would say, then what are you still

880
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:44,040
Speaker 1: playing football for? If you're not fulfilled with what you're

881
00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:46,560
Speaker 1: doing professionally, go do something else.

882
00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:47,800
Speaker 2: Do something that makes.

883
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:49,960
Speaker 1: You happy that I want everybody to be happy. I

884
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:52,440
Speaker 1: want people to want everybody to be happy. Go do

885
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:55,359
Speaker 1: what makes you happy, especially if you have the means

886
00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:58,120
Speaker 1: to do. So not everybody does, right, Not everybody has

887
00:38:58,200 --> 00:38:59,920
Speaker 1: the means that, Hey, I'm choosing to do this for

888
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:03,080
Speaker 1: a living, I've done it for a while, I've lost

889
00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:04,960
Speaker 1: my passion for it. Well, what would you like to

890
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:06,920
Speaker 1: go do? Well, maybe you don't have the money, you

891
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:08,680
Speaker 1: don't have the resources to go do it. You're in

892
00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:11,360
Speaker 1: a situation family wise where I can't move to a

893
00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:12,759
Speaker 1: place to go do it, and I can't do it.

894
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:15,400
Speaker 1: But when you're young and you have the money and

895
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:16,920
Speaker 1: you can go do something else, I don't know why

896
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:17,680
Speaker 1: you wouldn't do it.

897
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:21,040
Speaker 4: I see, Alex, I would run it like like we're

898
00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:24,400
Speaker 4: talking about the two parts of his statement, Right, there's

899
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:25,799
Speaker 4: that innight.

900
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:28,040
Speaker 2: Wow, look at what I've accomplished kind of thing.

901
00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:32,000
Speaker 4: So I look, everybody respects the brilliance that he's putting

902
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:35,160
Speaker 4: out on the course. Likewise, in your Brady scenario, except

903
00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:38,160
Speaker 4: for Jets fan over here, I mean, we celebrate greatness,

904
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:41,839
Speaker 4: but you also recognize the conflict on the other side.

905
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:44,399
Speaker 4: And I think Jason's advice, you know, in a very

906
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:47,359
Speaker 4: general sense, is a great one. I mean, this would

907
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 4: rob us of a great you know story. If he's

908
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:53,080
Speaker 4: suddenly racking up a ton of these, but legitimately, if

909
00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:55,360
Speaker 4: you're not fulfilled, you know, it's just.

910
00:39:56,920 --> 00:39:58,239
Speaker 2: He's He's got it right. Man.

911
00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:01,160
Speaker 4: We've all experienced it, whether it's f family members, some

912
00:40:01,239 --> 00:40:04,960
Speaker 4: health stuff, ourselves, Uh, circumstances that come and bite you

913
00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:08,440
Speaker 4: in the ass. Uh just really quick that you know,

914
00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:10,920
Speaker 4: life terms turns on a dime, So go enjoy it.

915
00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:14,920
Speaker 1: Exit out about a Fresca Exit Swallen Dome, Jason Smith,

916
00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:17,239
Speaker 1: Mike Harmon, and Alex Tyshert, who in the last two

917
00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:20,680
Speaker 1: weeks has discovered sports and realizes it's a great place

918
00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:21,960
Speaker 1: to have discussion and have fun.

919
00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:22,360
Speaker 5: It is.

920
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:24,439
Speaker 3: And I'm on Schefter's side just because you're the best

921
00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:24,960
Speaker 3: at the sport.

922
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:30,040
Speaker 1: You love it, Chefter, it's Sefter. No, if you're on Adam,

923
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:34,040
Speaker 1: I'm on Adam Schefter's side. I'm on the side of

924
00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:36,840
Speaker 1: the guy that breaks stories about NFLPA heads going to

925
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 1: strip clubs.

926
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:39,239
Speaker 2: That's the side I'm on. Wow.

927
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:42,680
Speaker 4: Well, I mean you are on that side, though, Ty Shirt,

928
00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:43,960
Speaker 4: So I mean that's not wrong.

929
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:46,080
Speaker 2: I'm on Sefter side.

930
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:49,000
Speaker 3: I just think honestly, you just like took it too extreme,

931
00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:49,760
Speaker 3: is what I'm saying.

932
00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:52,080
Speaker 7: Uh, talk about it.

933
00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:54,759
Speaker 2: When the guy says, there, what what's the point? What

934
00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:58,440
Speaker 2: say that life? Okay, that's what he said.

935
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Speaker 3: No, no, he literally said, because they were asking like

936
00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:02,279
Speaker 3: do you f fulfilled? He was like, I've cried, I'm

937
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:03,920
Speaker 3: the best at this, I spent my life doing it.

938
00:41:03,960 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 3: I love it doesn't fill the deepest parts of my heart,

939
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:09,120
Speaker 3: which you did touch on. But I think he's just

940
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:11,160
Speaker 3: saying like you can be the best at something and

941
00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:12,920
Speaker 3: still feel like there's something missing.

942
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:13,359
Speaker 7: That's all.

943
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:17,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, okay, But obviously he's that if he says

944
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:20,120
Speaker 1: winning a tournament, I feel good for two minutes, dude,

945
00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:22,120
Speaker 1: you should be a feel better better for more than

946
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:24,319
Speaker 1: two minutes after winning a turn, winning a major, like

947
00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:26,120
Speaker 1: you should feel way. I mean, this is if this

948
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:28,719
Speaker 1: is everything you work for to get there, If you

949
00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:31,359
Speaker 1: get there and do it and it's a letdown, okay, again,

950
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:33,880
Speaker 1: I think you know, hey, why we should explore some

951
00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:36,600
Speaker 1: other avenues here. If if winning a major turn is

952
00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:40,200
Speaker 1: a you feel good for two minutes, I mean, my goodness, man,

953
00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:42,600
Speaker 1: I mean, pin Alonzo hit that home run against the

954
00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 1: Brewers last year and I'm still thinking about that even

955
00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:48,640
Speaker 1: when Carlos Mendoza does ridiculous crap, like bringing the relievers

956
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:50,759
Speaker 1: he did tonight, first game out of the break with

957
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:52,840
Speaker 1: a four day rest, and he brings up triple A

958
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:54,720
Speaker 1: guys to come out of the bullpen, and the Reds

959
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 1: light them up and we wind up losing, right, But

960
00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:58,640
Speaker 1: doesn't matter because I think back to Alonzo's home run

961
00:41:58,680 --> 00:41:59,240
Speaker 1: and I'm happy.

962
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:01,200
Speaker 2: And there was a whole in the wild card game.

963
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:03,520
Speaker 2: She what just happened there?

964
00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:06,359
Speaker 4: Yeah, because we also tie this and you've been with

965
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:08,919
Speaker 4: us and we were talking about the Damian Lillard stuff. Yeah,

966
00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:12,560
Speaker 4: and that's so polarizing for some folks that just want

967
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:16,160
Speaker 4: to denigrate everything he's about because maybe he wanted to

968
00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:18,600
Speaker 4: go back and be with his kids and wanted to

969
00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:20,160
Speaker 4: go back to a place he was comfortable.

970
00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:21,520
Speaker 2: So suddenly he's the bad guy.

971
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 4: Just because you like it more than they do doesn't

972
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:26,000
Speaker 4: mean it's wrong.

973
00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:28,120
Speaker 2: And I'm not doing that to slap you.

974
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:30,440
Speaker 1: Was great for it was great for Lillard, right, it

975
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:32,600
Speaker 1: was you know, Mark Stein joined us last night, He's

976
00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:34,680
Speaker 1: a romantic brought a tear too, was like, yeah, I

977
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:37,480
Speaker 1: feel I feel guilty that all in the media pushed

978
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:40,960
Speaker 1: Lillard to leave when clearly, hey, I'm happy staying in Portland.

979
00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:43,239
Speaker 1: I'm trying my bat he doesn't he you know, he's

980
00:42:43,239 --> 00:42:45,200
Speaker 1: a guy that gives you his best every night, leaves

981
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:48,600
Speaker 1: it on the floor. But the ultimate pursuing a champion. Hey,

982
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:50,320
Speaker 1: if it happens here, great, I'm still gonna try to

983
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:53,000
Speaker 1: win every day. But I like my life balance that

984
00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:55,759
Speaker 1: I have here in Portland, and that's okay, right. This

985
00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:57,600
Speaker 1: is not David Little saying, you know, I go out

986
00:42:57,600 --> 00:42:59,200
Speaker 1: and I score fifty points, I go, what's the point?

987
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:00,960
Speaker 1: I mean, no, no, no, oh, he wants to keep it. Wait,

988
00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:03,960
Speaker 1: there's a little bit difference between Lillard and Scotti.

989
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:04,400
Speaker 2: Scheffler.

990
00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:08,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, but again, exit out about a Fresca exit Swalling

991
00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:10,920
Speaker 1: Dome eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox, Jason Smith,

992
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:12,840
Speaker 1: Mike Harmon, So I wanted to get more of that

993
00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:15,640
Speaker 1: debate on Scheffler and again, welcome Alex Tisher to the

994
00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:15,920
Speaker 1: world of.

995
00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:20,200
Speaker 2: Sports talk radio. Thanks after eight years of being on

996
00:43:20,239 --> 00:43:20,640
Speaker 2: the show.

997
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:30,520
Speaker 1: But coming up, Wow, tey, sir, buddy way him on

998
00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:33,319
Speaker 1: the way out. You're a sports talk radio hosts man

999
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:37,720
Speaker 1: and you don't know it what you are. But coming

1000
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:41,840
Speaker 1: up next, Harmon's got to explain one of the biggest

1001
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:44,879
Speaker 1: things going on in sports and pop culture the last

1002
00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:48,160
Speaker 1: twenty four hours, because really, I don't get the amount

1003
00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:51,240
Speaker 1: of popularity this thing has. That's next right here, Jason

1004
00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:57,480
Speaker 1: and Mike, Fox Sports Radio, Greetings, Welcome inside Final hour tonight,

1005
00:43:58,280 --> 00:43:59,960
Speaker 1: final hour before my vacation.

1006
00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:00,879
Speaker 2: Here is my.

1007
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:07,160
Speaker 1: Celebratory diet rry pepsig.

1008
00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:12,600
Speaker 4: You notice the other things that you left in the

1009
00:44:12,680 --> 00:44:15,960
Speaker 4: kitchen went away really fast, leaving that it doesn't have

1010
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:16,359
Speaker 4: to be good.

1011
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:20,440
Speaker 2: Remember those little colas that you hated? Oh yeah, yeah,

1012
00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:26,720
Speaker 2: those are gone in like an hour. Oh okay, selfish bastard. Okay, okay,

1013
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:28,040
Speaker 2: all right, very good.

1014
00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:31,920
Speaker 1: Uh, Final hour of the show tonight, Final hour of

1015
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:34,440
Speaker 1: the week. We're live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.

1016
00:44:34,680 --> 00:44:37,960
Speaker 1: We'll get back into the craziest NFL story of the

1017
00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:41,000
Speaker 1: year coming up in about twenty minutes, because boy has

1018
00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:43,239
Speaker 1: the NFL. This has not been a great week for

1019
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:45,320
Speaker 1: the NFL. What a blank show and now it involves

1020
00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:49,640
Speaker 1: strip bars. But we're getting set for the Summer League

1021
00:44:49,719 --> 00:44:52,160
Speaker 1: Championship on Sunday. I know Harmon's got a lot of

1022
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:55,640
Speaker 1: money and his daughter's collegiate futures bet on the Summer

1023
00:44:55,719 --> 00:44:59,000
Speaker 1: League Championship on Sunday night. So good luck with that.

1024
00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:03,879
Speaker 1: I know, I know feeling who's playing. I bet at all,

1025
00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:05,759
Speaker 1: bet it on who. I don't know yet.

1026
00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:09,359
Speaker 2: I'm gonna wait and see see what TWA Coast underdogs

1027
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:10,000
Speaker 2: all the time.

1028
00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:13,200
Speaker 1: But are we ever gonna see any trades? We thought

1029
00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:15,840
Speaker 1: we're gonna get trades? What's next to the Lakers and Lebron?

1030
00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:18,080
Speaker 1: What about the Clippers now that they got Bradley Beal

1031
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:21,160
Speaker 1: Lillard back in Portland? What's a big under the radar

1032
00:45:21,239 --> 00:45:23,960
Speaker 1: story of the Summer League? Getting set to join us?

1033
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:26,920
Speaker 1: Now on the hot line. Longtime friend of the show,

1034
00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:32,240
Speaker 1: NBA Insider sports Keta CBSTV here in Los Angeles, Athlon

1035
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:35,520
Speaker 1: sports as well. He's got a lot of gigs. He's

1036
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:39,360
Speaker 1: on Twitter at Mark g Underscore Medina. It is Mark Medina.

1037
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:39,880
Speaker 1: What's happening?

1038
00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:40,080
Speaker 2: Man?

1039
00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:40,480
Speaker 3: How are you?

1040
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:43,360
Speaker 9: I am doing well? I mean, Jason, why are you

1041
00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:46,080
Speaker 9: going on vacation before you can see the Summer League

1042
00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:49,680
Speaker 9: Championship unfold? And two I thought you were gonna wait

1043
00:45:49,719 --> 00:45:52,640
Speaker 9: until Lebron makes this decision about going to the Knicks.

1044
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:55,759
Speaker 1: Okay, A, I can still watch the game even if

1045
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:58,120
Speaker 1: I'm on vacation. I mean, I'm not gonna not watch Okay,

1046
00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:02,360
Speaker 1: because Harmon's got again. Harmon's got his kids college money

1047
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:04,880
Speaker 1: on the outcome of whoever he winds up betting on.

1048
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:07,600
Speaker 2: So I gotta be there for him on that gotta

1049
00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:08,160
Speaker 2: be betting on.

1050
00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:11,440
Speaker 4: Motivation in the NBA is tough in the regular season,

1051
00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:12,680
Speaker 4: let alone summer league.

1052
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:13,960
Speaker 2: Now, I will.

1053
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:16,520
Speaker 9: Tell you this. If you thought that the Oklahoma City

1054
00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:19,799
Speaker 9: Thundered didn't know how to celebrate winningn NBA championship, will

1055
00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:23,480
Speaker 9: you just watch this Las Vegas Summer League team. They

1056
00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:26,399
Speaker 9: might just be barely dowsing everyone with water.

1057
00:46:27,719 --> 00:46:29,560
Speaker 1: Hey, look, I watched last night the Knicks loss of

1058
00:46:29,600 --> 00:46:31,080
Speaker 1: the Pacers. Again, what else is new?

1059
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:31,520
Speaker 2: Now?

1060
00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:34,080
Speaker 1: If you tell me that the Knicks are going to

1061
00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:36,440
Speaker 1: get Lebron James in the next few days, maybe I'll

1062
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:39,120
Speaker 1: postpone my vacation so I can do this. Do you

1063
00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:41,000
Speaker 1: notice is that going to happen with the Knicks getting

1064
00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:41,840
Speaker 1: Lebron James?

1065
00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:45,560
Speaker 9: You know what, Jason, I often get your hopes up

1066
00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:49,080
Speaker 9: about the Knicks, only then to deflate your feelings. Sure,

1067
00:46:49,160 --> 00:46:52,480
Speaker 9: he's not going to the Knicks. I think. Unlike a

1068
00:46:52,480 --> 00:46:55,040
Speaker 9: lot of compelling scripts in Hollywood, this ends in a

1069
00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:58,600
Speaker 9: dud that he comes back with the Lakers in a uniform.

1070
00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:01,320
Speaker 9: I think it'll likely be his final season. Maybe there

1071
00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:04,360
Speaker 9: is a scenario that he rides out this season with

1072
00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:07,279
Speaker 9: the contract and plays next season on that kind of

1073
00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:10,399
Speaker 9: minimum deal so he can go to Cleveland. But if

1074
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:13,360
Speaker 9: I had a guess, I think it's fine on you

1075
00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:16,040
Speaker 9: with the Lakers and joining the farewell tour while hoping

1076
00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:18,160
Speaker 9: that he can also win a championship.

1077
00:47:18,239 --> 00:47:20,480
Speaker 2: But now that's a leftown. That's a letdown.

1078
00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:23,479
Speaker 1: That's a that's a real like how much you don't

1079
00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:25,279
Speaker 1: both sides want to move on from each other.

1080
00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:26,000
Speaker 2: That's a letdown.

1081
00:47:26,160 --> 00:47:29,520
Speaker 9: Enjoy Jalen brunts To remember that magazine article I showed

1082
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:31,319
Speaker 9: you from Lindy is about where I said that Jalen

1083
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:34,040
Speaker 9: Brunton has the case to be the greatest Nick of

1084
00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:34,600
Speaker 9: all time.

1085
00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:36,919
Speaker 2: Oh it is true. No, that is true. He would

1086
00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:38,000
Speaker 2: still be the greatest Nick.

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Speaker 1: It would just be he would do it and Lebron

1088
00:47:39,880 --> 00:47:42,160
Speaker 1: would put him on his shoulders and that would be

1089
00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:44,000
Speaker 1: the statue they put outside of MSG.

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Speaker 9: Oh wow, yeah, you know what, Maybe he does that

1091
00:47:48,520 --> 00:47:51,120
Speaker 9: vet minimum next year. There's always the chance that he

1092
00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:52,719
Speaker 9: rides out in the sunset New York.

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00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:56,360
Speaker 4: Look at that He's just giving you that glimmer of hope,

1094
00:47:56,520 --> 00:47:57,759
Speaker 4: just to screw with you a little bit.

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Speaker 2: All right, Mark, let's stay with the Lakers. Did the

1096
00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:02,400
Speaker 2: would be trade break? Dalton?

1097
00:48:02,440 --> 00:48:05,360
Speaker 4: Connect your reparaly forever? And what the hell happened with

1098
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:06,240
Speaker 4: Bronnie James?

1099
00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:08,520
Speaker 2: Hed done? Grown up really fast?

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Speaker 9: Hey, look, you know what, maybe this should compel lebron

1101
00:48:13,200 --> 00:48:15,080
Speaker 9: James and Rich Fault a lot out of a statement that,

1102
00:48:15,520 --> 00:48:18,800
Speaker 9: because of how great Bronnie James has played, he affirms

1103
00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:21,160
Speaker 9: that he's one hundred percent committed to the Lakers. On

1104
00:48:21,200 --> 00:48:25,440
Speaker 9: the other hand, maybe this is finally the thing that

1105
00:48:25,600 --> 00:48:28,520
Speaker 9: makes a deal with Lebron James possible. Or are they

1106
00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:31,680
Speaker 9: throwing a sweetener that is brownie. The teams will actually

1107
00:48:31,719 --> 00:48:35,080
Speaker 9: think it's an asset that they're package deal. You never know,

1108
00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:36,719
Speaker 9: and maybe the Nicks will like him as well.

1109
00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:40,320
Speaker 4: All right now, you guys, he's hitting you with a

1110
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:43,200
Speaker 4: club and I know right yeah, well.

1111
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:47,120
Speaker 2: He's like bam baman the flintstones, Bam bam ba keep

1112
00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:49,440
Speaker 2: hitting you. All right, now, you go across town to

1113
00:48:49,440 --> 00:48:49,920
Speaker 2: the Clippers.

1114
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Speaker 1: You haven't been on this again on your Twitter at

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00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:55,640
Speaker 1: Mark g underscore Medina the Clippers getting Bradley Beal a

1116
00:48:55,680 --> 00:48:58,880
Speaker 1: couple of days ago. I gotta say, Mark, Yeah, Bradley

1117
00:48:58,880 --> 00:49:01,120
Speaker 1: Beal is nice. But I know how the season's going

1118
00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:02,960
Speaker 1: to end for the Clippers. They're going to win forty

1119
00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:05,080
Speaker 1: five ish games. They're going to lose in the first round.

1120
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Speaker 1: Because you're built around guys who are in their mid thirties.

1121
00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:12,279
Speaker 1: They don't suddenly get younger and suddenly get better. That's

1122
00:49:12,280 --> 00:49:13,120
Speaker 1: how the year is going to.

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Speaker 2: Go for the Clippers.

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00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:17,160
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, I actually, I think you're right. I

1125
00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:20,480
Speaker 9: mean this whole idea that Clipper fans and the Clippers

1126
00:49:20,480 --> 00:49:23,759
Speaker 9: should feel encouraged about Kawhi Leonard because he got through

1127
00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:27,200
Speaker 9: a postseason healthy. I think you know, that's the same

1128
00:49:27,239 --> 00:49:31,080
Speaker 9: thing as you know, landing on seventeen in Roulette and thinking, Okay,

1129
00:49:31,160 --> 00:49:33,200
Speaker 9: just because I did it once, I can do it again.

1130
00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:37,239
Speaker 9: The reality is we've seen Kawhi Leonard's injury history. We've

1131
00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:41,920
Speaker 9: also seen James Harden's playoff history as well. Be on

1132
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:44,920
Speaker 9: the sidelines as well. Bradley Beale, I know, talking to

1133
00:49:44,920 --> 00:49:48,120
Speaker 9: his agent, Mark Bartlestein, you know, he's saying that he's

1134
00:49:48,160 --> 00:49:51,560
Speaker 9: better with his recovery. He's just looking to bulletprove his

1135
00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:54,759
Speaker 9: body in the offseason. He's a lot better condition than

1136
00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:57,720
Speaker 9: he was health wise in Phoenix. The Clippers are talking

1137
00:49:57,719 --> 00:50:00,000
Speaker 9: about how they want him to be the best version

1138
00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:02,920
Speaker 9: of himself and feel like he'll play a lot of

1139
00:50:02,920 --> 00:50:05,200
Speaker 9: starters in minutes, being All Star all that good stuff.

1140
00:50:05,200 --> 00:50:07,640
Speaker 9: I think that can play out, But the reality is

1141
00:50:07,680 --> 00:50:11,080
Speaker 9: Bradley Beal's injury history is what it is. So I'm

1142
00:50:11,120 --> 00:50:13,239
Speaker 9: with you that the Clippers are going to be competitive

1143
00:50:13,280 --> 00:50:15,320
Speaker 9: but not great. They'll get to the playoffs in the

1144
00:50:15,360 --> 00:50:18,360
Speaker 9: first round and that's probably it, and it's going to

1145
00:50:18,440 --> 00:50:20,879
Speaker 9: be the same old story. They have Kawhi, Leonard, James Harden.

1146
00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:24,040
Speaker 9: They're good, they have a good supporting cast, but it's

1147
00:50:24,080 --> 00:50:27,080
Speaker 9: not quite good enough. And so I think really the

1148
00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:31,279
Speaker 9: only realistic pathway for hope here is because they made

1149
00:50:31,280 --> 00:50:34,640
Speaker 9: that tough but necessary decision of not extending Norman Pale,

1150
00:50:35,200 --> 00:50:38,839
Speaker 9: they do have some cap space to work with, you know,

1151
00:50:38,920 --> 00:50:41,040
Speaker 9: to make a big deal next summer. So who knows,

1152
00:50:41,120 --> 00:50:44,080
Speaker 9: maybe that means Gianna Thompson Koupo comes to LA but

1153
00:50:44,160 --> 00:50:46,680
Speaker 9: with the Clippers and not the Lakers, or who knows,

1154
00:50:46,719 --> 00:50:50,120
Speaker 9: maybe it's Nakola Jokich. We'll have to wait and see.

1155
00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:53,880
Speaker 9: But whether it's those blockbuster deals or you know, two

1156
00:50:54,920 --> 00:50:58,160
Speaker 9: solid kind of deals, the Clippers are more lined up

1157
00:50:58,160 --> 00:51:00,760
Speaker 9: for long term success. Success and all of a sudden

1158
00:51:01,080 --> 00:51:02,560
Speaker 9: becoming a contender this season.

1159
00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:07,359
Speaker 4: You mentioned Giannis now former teammate Damian Lillard goes home.

1160
00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:09,440
Speaker 2: How does that resonating throughout the league?

1161
00:51:10,120 --> 00:51:12,400
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think on one hand, it's kind of a

1162
00:51:12,440 --> 00:51:15,280
Speaker 9: feel good moment. I was listening to Mark Stein's interview

1163
00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:18,760
Speaker 9: with you the other day, or you know, the romanticism

1164
00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:22,600
Speaker 9: of reuniting. The fact that they're on better terms now

1165
00:51:22,640 --> 00:51:25,560
Speaker 9: after kind of the ugly departure, that's a cool thing.

1166
00:51:25,560 --> 00:51:27,839
Speaker 9: I think the other cool thing is that he can

1167
00:51:27,880 --> 00:51:32,360
Speaker 9: spend this entire season rehabbing his achilles, close to family,

1168
00:51:32,520 --> 00:51:34,680
Speaker 9: still have a presence around the team with this young

1169
00:51:34,840 --> 00:51:37,680
Speaker 9: this young group of players. But at the same time,

1170
00:51:39,120 --> 00:51:41,760
Speaker 9: I think he's also choosing his team that's not quite

1171
00:51:42,680 --> 00:51:46,400
Speaker 9: ready to make that you know, championship contending leap. So

1172
00:51:47,040 --> 00:51:48,600
Speaker 9: you know, I know one of the reasons why he

1173
00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:51,280
Speaker 9: wanted out of Portland is he felt like, even though

1174
00:51:51,560 --> 00:51:54,160
Speaker 9: they're making the playoffs every year, they weren't in that

1175
00:51:54,239 --> 00:51:57,319
Speaker 9: contending status. But I think at the end of the day,

1176
00:51:58,200 --> 00:52:01,800
Speaker 9: he was also mindful that even if he joined the

1177
00:52:01,880 --> 00:52:06,040
Speaker 9: contender this season, he's out for next season, so that

1178
00:52:06,960 --> 00:52:09,400
Speaker 9: idea of being part of a championship team's gone. And

1179
00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:12,440
Speaker 9: I think the other thing is even these contending teams

1180
00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:15,360
Speaker 9: have a lot of question marks on whether they're true

1181
00:52:15,400 --> 00:52:18,680
Speaker 9: contention status. Outside of Oklahoma City, which wouldn't have been

1182
00:52:18,680 --> 00:52:22,960
Speaker 9: a viable option anywhere, everyone else has legitimate question marks.

1183
00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:26,040
Speaker 9: So with Portland, they're not a contender by any means,

1184
00:52:26,080 --> 00:52:29,680
Speaker 9: but they do have a good young nucleus, and you know,

1185
00:52:29,920 --> 00:52:32,400
Speaker 9: I was attached Summer League. One of the cool things

1186
00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:35,880
Speaker 9: with seeing young Hanson in person, he's a legitimate center

1187
00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:39,680
Speaker 9: a lot of great excitement, obviously because of the Chinese market,

1188
00:52:39,719 --> 00:52:42,520
Speaker 9: but you know, they're calling him the Chinese version Nicole

1189
00:52:42,600 --> 00:52:45,759
Speaker 9: Jokic for a reason. He has a great combination of

1190
00:52:45,840 --> 00:52:49,080
Speaker 9: power and skill that makes me suggest that he's going

1191
00:52:49,160 --> 00:52:50,480
Speaker 9: to be a pretty specially unflawer.

1192
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Speaker 1: And so, speaking of Summer, we're getting ready for the

1193
00:52:53,120 --> 00:52:55,880
Speaker 1: championship on Sunday, right we're seeing teams get you know,

1194
00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:58,840
Speaker 1: get there and what could be a game that dozens

1195
00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:01,719
Speaker 1: of people watch. Well, give me a big story that

1196
00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:04,600
Speaker 1: you like from the summer League that maybe not quite

1197
00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:08,200
Speaker 1: getting the attention of Will Lebron get traded, Damian Lillard,

1198
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:11,040
Speaker 1: Bradley Beal. Yeah, give me something from the Summer League, like, hey,

1199
00:53:11,080 --> 00:53:12,600
Speaker 1: you know, I really like this story.

1200
00:53:13,440 --> 00:53:15,759
Speaker 9: Yeah, well, I would say what I would just mention

1201
00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:18,719
Speaker 9: about Jan Hohnson that he came out of nowhere. I

1202
00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:20,520
Speaker 9: mean there was a lot of intrigue in buzz when

1203
00:53:20,520 --> 00:53:23,920
Speaker 9: he got drafted. I know Jake Fisher said that some

1204
00:53:23,960 --> 00:53:27,080
Speaker 9: people said that he is the Chinese version of Jokics,

1205
00:53:27,080 --> 00:53:30,320
Speaker 9: but actually seeing him in person and just really galvanize

1206
00:53:30,600 --> 00:53:33,680
Speaker 9: the excitement in the arena. The Blazers are playing games

1207
00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:37,200
Speaker 9: at like seven point thirty eight o'clock at night, and

1208
00:53:37,280 --> 00:53:39,960
Speaker 9: this is in Las Vegas, and usually now is the

1209
00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:42,120
Speaker 9: time to go get dinner, getting early see at the

1210
00:53:42,160 --> 00:53:45,440
Speaker 9: casino tables. And it was a pretty riveting crowd. The

1211
00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:49,480
Speaker 9: best atmosphere I saw outside of Cooper Flagg's debut as

1212
00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:53,440
Speaker 9: well as you know, coinciding with Brownie James's return. So

1213
00:53:53,480 --> 00:53:55,440
Speaker 9: I would say that's the next real good story. I

1214
00:53:55,480 --> 00:53:59,000
Speaker 9: think the other part, yeah, there's obviously the headliner with

1215
00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:02,080
Speaker 9: Cooper flag and all attention on him, but I think

1216
00:54:02,120 --> 00:54:05,760
Speaker 9: the cool part was how he responded to summer league

1217
00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:08,719
Speaker 9: that even though none of this stuff matters and the

1218
00:54:08,719 --> 00:54:11,440
Speaker 9: fact that he didn't shoot the ball well really means anything,

1219
00:54:11,840 --> 00:54:15,080
Speaker 9: he was legitimately pissed off about it so much, as

1220
00:54:15,200 --> 00:54:18,160
Speaker 9: trainer Matt McKenzie told me that he was upset the

1221
00:54:18,239 --> 00:54:20,600
Speaker 9: next day after it and talking about what he needs

1222
00:54:20,640 --> 00:54:23,640
Speaker 9: to do to adjust. And there was never any concern

1223
00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:26,440
Speaker 9: about it because of this Summer League, but it provided

1224
00:54:26,440 --> 00:54:30,120
Speaker 9: an early window that this guy really really hates to lose.

1225
00:54:30,360 --> 00:54:33,480
Speaker 9: And you put that into context of the regular season

1226
00:54:33,880 --> 00:54:37,279
Speaker 9: him gained tested as a rookie. I think he had

1227
00:54:37,320 --> 00:54:40,080
Speaker 9: this really illustrated that he's all about the right things

1228
00:54:40,360 --> 00:54:42,920
Speaker 9: as far as his competitive spirit and work ethic. That

1229
00:54:43,040 --> 00:54:44,160
Speaker 9: was really cool to sue.

1230
00:54:44,719 --> 00:54:46,879
Speaker 4: Now, did you see the video that was circulating Klay

1231
00:54:46,920 --> 00:54:49,480
Speaker 4: Thompson making seventy two straight three point shots?

1232
00:54:50,040 --> 00:54:50,800
Speaker 2: What's your record?

1233
00:54:52,080 --> 00:54:54,520
Speaker 9: Yeah? I hear there's some connecting the dots on why

1234
00:54:54,560 --> 00:54:57,040
Speaker 9: that is because of there some things going on in

1235
00:54:57,080 --> 00:54:59,319
Speaker 9: his life right a little bit.

1236
00:54:59,719 --> 00:55:02,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, Hey, if I was dating Megan the Stallion, I

1237
00:55:02,880 --> 00:55:04,080
Speaker 1: hate you gave me the ball.

1238
00:55:04,120 --> 00:55:05,719
Speaker 2: I'm ready, I'll make seventy two in a row.

1239
00:55:05,840 --> 00:55:09,160
Speaker 4: Right here, I go go women don't weaken legs. That's

1240
00:55:09,160 --> 00:55:10,920
Speaker 4: what he's trying to show. I can have both.

1241
00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:16,640
Speaker 9: Yeah, look, I mean happy happy wife, happy wife, happy

1242
00:55:16,680 --> 00:55:19,319
Speaker 9: significant other, all that stuff. I think. The other thing

1243
00:55:19,360 --> 00:55:22,640
Speaker 9: that we're seeing with Clay is that, let's be real,

1244
00:55:22,719 --> 00:55:26,319
Speaker 9: ever since acl Achilles injury in twenty nineteen twenty, he's

1245
00:55:27,280 --> 00:55:29,680
Speaker 9: never been the same player, never will be the same player,

1246
00:55:30,120 --> 00:55:34,560
Speaker 9: especially defensively. But as a shooter, those things can carry through.

1247
00:55:34,719 --> 00:55:37,960
Speaker 9: So even though his roles evolved with Golden State, his

1248
00:55:38,160 --> 00:55:42,840
Speaker 9: roles evolved with Dallas, He's still a pretty effing good shooter.

1249
00:55:42,960 --> 00:55:46,399
Speaker 9: And I expect that now that he's more settled into

1250
00:55:46,520 --> 00:55:50,360
Speaker 9: Dallas and there's less turbulence about, you know, adapting to

1251
00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:54,040
Speaker 9: playing with Luka Doncics than adapting to not playing without

1252
00:55:54,120 --> 00:55:56,520
Speaker 9: Luke and all the different injuries, You're going to see

1253
00:55:56,520 --> 00:55:59,160
Speaker 9: a much better version of Clay on the offensive end

1254
00:55:59,160 --> 00:55:59,680
Speaker 9: next season.

1255
00:56:00,400 --> 00:56:02,359
Speaker 1: All right, Mark, let's end here now as we get

1256
00:56:02,400 --> 00:56:05,360
Speaker 1: set for the last month before we you know, everybody

1257
00:56:05,440 --> 00:56:08,120
Speaker 1: goes away vacation. You know, we thought we could get

1258
00:56:08,160 --> 00:56:10,880
Speaker 1: some big trades. You're telling me Lebron's gonna wind up staying.

1259
00:56:10,960 --> 00:56:12,960
Speaker 1: Are we going to see any.

1260
00:56:12,680 --> 00:56:14,160
Speaker 2: More any more? Big trades.

1261
00:56:14,200 --> 00:56:16,319
Speaker 1: We saw a lot of activity in and around the

1262
00:56:16,400 --> 00:56:19,040
Speaker 1: draft and trades. Are we going to see any big

1263
00:56:19,080 --> 00:56:21,279
Speaker 1: trades between now in the beginning of the season.

1264
00:56:21,560 --> 00:56:23,839
Speaker 9: Well, you never say never. I mean, I think it's

1265
00:56:23,880 --> 00:56:26,239
Speaker 9: telling that even though the Milwaukee Bucks says that they've

1266
00:56:26,239 --> 00:56:30,280
Speaker 9: been in constant communication with Jannis Antokumbo and nothing's changed.

1267
00:56:31,239 --> 00:56:34,800
Speaker 9: You know, he's doing his Instagram Instagram live video saying

1268
00:56:35,040 --> 00:56:38,360
Speaker 9: he's probably he's probably going to be back with the

1269
00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:42,040
Speaker 9: Milwaukee Bucks. All that that probably still left a window

1270
00:56:42,239 --> 00:56:45,560
Speaker 9: for other teams to be determined to give the Milwaukee

1271
00:56:45,560 --> 00:56:49,040
Speaker 9: Bucks different trade packages. So if there is a major deal,

1272
00:56:49,160 --> 00:56:51,440
Speaker 9: I think it's going to involve that. But you know,

1273
00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:54,160
Speaker 9: if I had to put money and look, I took

1274
00:56:54,160 --> 00:56:56,719
Speaker 9: her guys advice about how to gamble in Vegas last

1275
00:56:56,719 --> 00:56:59,239
Speaker 9: week did not work. But if I had to put

1276
00:56:59,320 --> 00:57:01,480
Speaker 9: money on, I don't think that there's going to be

1277
00:57:01,920 --> 00:57:05,480
Speaker 9: major trades. All the major things already happened. Kevin Durant

1278
00:57:05,520 --> 00:57:09,040
Speaker 9: gain trade is Houston, the surprise with the Milwaukee Bucks

1279
00:57:09,080 --> 00:57:13,320
Speaker 9: waving and stretching Damian Loward, and then Damian joining Portland.

1280
00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:15,600
Speaker 9: I think now it's just going to be all different

1281
00:57:15,680 --> 00:57:19,160
Speaker 9: kind of chalk things about where does Jonathan Kaminge go?

1282
00:57:19,320 --> 00:57:21,280
Speaker 9: Is he come back to Golden State as our actual

1283
00:57:21,880 --> 00:57:24,360
Speaker 9: team that wants to sign him after not really gaining

1284
00:57:24,360 --> 00:57:26,920
Speaker 9: any offers for the first three weeks of free agency

1285
00:57:27,280 --> 00:57:31,560
Speaker 9: and then other rotation players but major things not going

1286
00:57:31,640 --> 00:57:31,959
Speaker 9: to happen.

1287
00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:35,800
Speaker 1: I don't think he's on Twitter at Mark g Underscore Medina.

1288
00:57:35,800 --> 00:57:39,000
Speaker 1: That said, Mark g Underscore Medina, Mark as always, Buddy,

1289
00:57:39,160 --> 00:57:41,800
Speaker 1: appreciate you popping on with us as always. Well, we'll

1290
00:57:41,840 --> 00:57:44,240
Speaker 1: talk to you soon and enjoy the weekend, enjoy the

1291
00:57:44,440 --> 00:57:46,480
Speaker 1: Summer League championship.

1292
00:57:46,160 --> 00:57:49,480
Speaker 9: Indeed, and Jason, enjoy your vacation. I hear that it's

1293
00:57:49,520 --> 00:57:51,120
Speaker 9: going to be with Mike Brown. Wh you guys are

1294
00:57:51,120 --> 00:57:53,720
Speaker 9: going to be breaking down tape till five o'clock in

1295
00:57:53,760 --> 00:57:55,160
Speaker 9: the morning. Sounds like a fun time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, here's my tape. Okay, at the end of the game,

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Speaker 1: just give the ball to Brunson.

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Speaker 2: There we go. That's it.

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Speaker 9: How of a coaching advice to continued invoice James, Don.

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Speaker 2: Take it easy, buddy, have a great weekend. Two guys

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Speaker 2: to Mark, there we go.

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Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I mean, look, I would love to say

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Speaker 1: there would be a trade, but look it all goes

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Speaker 1: back to what we've talked about is that if a

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Speaker 1: star wants to trade in the NBA, he's got to

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Speaker 1: be okay being the bad guy. If you're not okay

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Speaker 1: being the bad guy, you're not gonna get traded. Teams

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Speaker 1: are gonna hold on to you and try to make

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Speaker 1: it work, and they're not gonna give up a star

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Speaker 1: because it's so hard to replace you.

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Speaker 2: We've seen.

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Speaker 1: If you want a trade, you can be traded, but

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Speaker 1: you have to be the bad guy. Lebron will get

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Speaker 1: traded in a second. If he says to the Lakers,

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Speaker 1: buy me out or trade me.

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Speaker 2: Guess what.

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Speaker 1: Lakers would buy him out or trade him. They would

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Speaker 1: figure something else out, even if the buyout doesn't.

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Speaker 2: Make as much sense.

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Speaker 1: If Lebron said buy me out, the Lakers say, wait, wait, wait, wait,

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Speaker 1: how about a trade? Okay, now, a trade would happen, right.

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Speaker 1: If Yanna says I want to get traded, you gotta

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Speaker 1: trade me, the Bucks would. But they have to be

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Speaker 1: okay being the bad guy to say this, and so

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Speaker 1: far none of them, no stars are okay with being

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Speaker 1: that bad guy.

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Speaker 4: Lebron, give us back fifty one point six million of

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Speaker 4: what you're expected to get this year and we can talk,

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Speaker 4: but it would also be that thing like we talked

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Speaker 4: with Mark Stein yesterday, like they're not gonna let him

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Speaker 4: walk away to a contender, right because even if you

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Speaker 4: got some of that money back, what the hell can

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Speaker 4: you spend it on right now? Nothing? Confetti? Yeah, confetti

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Speaker 4: in your next bobblehead.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's it. That's all.

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Speaker 4: Note a lot in the marketplace to go get for improving.

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Speaker 4: So Lebron'll just have to smile and get through his

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Speaker 4: season exit out by a Fresca exit.

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Speaker 1: Swallen down the Jason Smith Show with my best friend

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Speaker 1: Mike Carbon.

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Speaker 2: Now, there's times.

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Speaker 1: We're ahead of the curve when hey, we have a

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Speaker 1: big take and we tell you that, hey we've thought

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Speaker 1: about and done research on and done our homework.

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Speaker 2: Yeah we got And.

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Speaker 1: There's sometimes that very flippantly we'll say something and boil

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Speaker 1: we end up ahead of the curve. That is the

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Speaker 1: case today with what we're going to talk about next

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Speaker 1: that happened in the NFL Jason and Mike Fox Sports

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