WEBVTT - 25W: Bobby's Sperm Clinic Experience + Phillies Legend Ryan Howard on Getting Recognized from Being in 'The Office' + Kickoff Kevin's First Babysitter Recap

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<v Speaker 1>It's a podcast called twenty five wist fucking board and

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<v Speaker 1>they were a whist so, yeah, it's too bad.

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<v Speaker 2>But what did you expect?

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<v Speaker 3>It's a podcast called twenty five whistles.

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<v Speaker 4>Everybody, alright, blood whistle. We do have Brian Howard coming up.

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<v Speaker 4>Philly's great, so that's cool. We'll talk NBA basketball a

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<v Speaker 4>little bit as well. The thing that I would never

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<v Speaker 4>want to do, and I think a little bit it

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<v Speaker 4>feels like when we made you do the testosterone test,

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<v Speaker 4>is that I have people racing their sperm. You got

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<v Speaker 4>have you guys seen this at all?

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<v Speaker 3>No?

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 5>What I mean?

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<v Speaker 2>Because they're fast swimmers, right, so what do they.

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<v Speaker 4>Well that's what they say. I don't know, fast compared

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<v Speaker 4>to like us running. They're fast, they swim, so they

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<v Speaker 4>but they yeah, they race them.

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<v Speaker 2>Wow, that's cool. You want to do it?

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<v Speaker 4>I don't. I had to get my sperm checked. I

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<v Speaker 4>did before my wife and I started trying to have

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<v Speaker 4>a baby, because I was forty five and I was like, man,

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<v Speaker 4>if we're gonna like try and like every month, wait

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<v Speaker 4>for that, I need to make sure. And so I

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<v Speaker 4>did that and it was great, Luckily, thank I'm nervous for.

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<v Speaker 2>You, dude, that's crazy.

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<v Speaker 4>It was weird. I was nervous, but it was weird

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<v Speaker 4>first because you're just yanking in a room and everybody

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<v Speaker 4>knows what you're doing. It's it's bizarre.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, that's crazy.

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<v Speaker 2>You've done this.

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<v Speaker 6>No, I've never done it.

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<v Speaker 4>No, no, no, the whole the whole process, because you go

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<v Speaker 4>and you sit in a room and they're like all right, Bobby,

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<v Speaker 4>and they you know, the person working at the desk

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<v Speaker 4>meets you. It's like all right, come on back.

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<v Speaker 2>And then you get a woman at the desk at

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<v Speaker 2>the day.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, it's not all dude. It's not like a sports bar.

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<v Speaker 2>It's got to be all dudes. Like it'd be better

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<v Speaker 2>if it's all dudes that I'd be like, hey, man,

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<v Speaker 2>you know what's up. You know you gotta do this,

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<v Speaker 2>you know what to do.

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<v Speaker 4>And they walk you back and you talk to a

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<v Speaker 4>second like hey, to a doctor or a nurse, another

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<v Speaker 4>woman and she's they call it a sample and they

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<v Speaker 4>say what you're gonna donna go here your sample, And

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<v Speaker 4>the whole time you're just going in my mind, I'm

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<v Speaker 4>going you're looking at me and you know I'm about

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<v Speaker 4>to yank it and that's weird. For about the last

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<v Speaker 4>I'm just thinking that in my head. But they do

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<v Speaker 4>it all the time. It just yankors all day to them,

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<v Speaker 4>Do they know.

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<v Speaker 6>What you're you're using in there? I'm saying them looking

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<v Speaker 6>at you and being like not, not only do you

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<v Speaker 6>know what you're about to do? What you're about to

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<v Speaker 6>do to this?

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<v Speaker 2>Oh do you have something?

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<v Speaker 3>Now?

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<v Speaker 6>Oh? Well, everybody everybody has the movies, but the movies

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<v Speaker 6>where that the magazines in there?

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<v Speaker 4>Everybody has a phone. Now that's true, but no, I

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<v Speaker 4>was just okay, just curious that didn't magazine things disgusting?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I use the same magazine is gross.

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<v Speaker 4>No, So but you go in and there's an old

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<v Speaker 4>radio that you're supposed to turn up, so so they

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<v Speaker 4>don't hear you. I guess because I just I don't know.

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<v Speaker 4>I picture like that because I was like three rooms,

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<v Speaker 4>I guess while they do this the yankor halls, and

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<v Speaker 4>I was calling it when I was doing Caitlyn the

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<v Speaker 4>Yankor hall.

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<v Speaker 2>This is crazy.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, dude, it's no, it's a doctor's office. And oh

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<v Speaker 4>I have a crazy story too, but it's not even me,

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<v Speaker 4>but not only walking down the anchor hall but you

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<v Speaker 4>hear music in the other room, so you know what's

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<v Speaker 4>happening in your hall because I only turn the music

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<v Speaker 4>up when you go in there. And mine was on

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<v Speaker 4>a class. It was like four in a row, Tom Patty.

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<v Speaker 2>That's good.

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<v Speaker 4>And so then when you're done, you have your sample

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<v Speaker 4>and the inside of the wall is it's like a

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<v Speaker 4>metal square, and you pull it back and you put

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<v Speaker 4>your sample on there and you hit a button and

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<v Speaker 4>then you go out and you just kind of hang

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<v Speaker 4>your head in shame as you walk out. Yeah, it's

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<v Speaker 4>like I'm done.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, does anybody make eye contact?

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<v Speaker 4>So that whole process was odd. I was nervous about

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<v Speaker 4>the results. But the results came back and is a plus.

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<v Speaker 4>So thank god, plus is a plus.

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<v Speaker 3>Nice.

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<v Speaker 4>I would have told you if it's be minus is

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<v Speaker 4>a plus.

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<v Speaker 6>So I was.

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<v Speaker 4>I was nervous about that, but I didn't get nervous

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<v Speaker 4>until it was like when I got my ACT results.

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<v Speaker 4>You take the test any way, you're not really nervous

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<v Speaker 4>until the envelope gets there and you're like, oh god,

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<v Speaker 4>when I pull the envelope, this justn be life changing.

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<v Speaker 4>And so I got an email saying, hey, your results

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<v Speaker 4>are on the portal, and I went to the portal

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<v Speaker 4>and if it was like sperm count I don't remember

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<v Speaker 4>what the classifications were, but if it was like over

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<v Speaker 4>ten thousand, that was good, over twenty thousand, that was great.

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<v Speaker 4>And mine was like a million.

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<v Speaker 2>Wow, A bunch of guys in there.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, I wonder what ours would be. Dude knows.

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<v Speaker 4>I think Eddie would be like dust.

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<v Speaker 2>Does the five? Does the test have to do with

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<v Speaker 2>the sperm?

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<v Speaker 4>I don't know. But my point was they do sperm races.

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<v Speaker 4>Oh yeah, yeah, Oh, I'll tell you another story. The

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<v Speaker 4>story that came to my mind. So men of the

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<v Speaker 4>world are invited to put their sperm against each other

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<v Speaker 4>in a race where the owner takes on one hundred

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<v Speaker 4>thousand dollars. The twenty twenty six Sperm Racing World Cup.

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<v Speaker 4>It's one hundred and twenty eight samples, each representing a

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<v Speaker 4>different country that's facing off on a microscopic racetrack. I

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<v Speaker 4>guess it's next month in samp Cisco. It's the Kentucky

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<v Speaker 4>Derby of Juices.

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<v Speaker 2>What on earth?

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<v Speaker 4>But they want one hundred thousand dollars.

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<v Speaker 2>Now that the payday is awesome, but so like, do

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<v Speaker 2>they take just one of your guys, and that represents.

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<v Speaker 4>You under a microscope. The competitors will race each other

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<v Speaker 4>along a customized micro fluidic track. I don't know, I'm sure.

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<v Speaker 2>And do they put like a what's what's the Okay?

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<v Speaker 4>Here you go the entrance. Are sent a kit which

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<v Speaker 4>to provide semen sample which will be mailed back to

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<v Speaker 4>California process through advanced lab technique such as incubation, sperm washing,

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<v Speaker 4>pipe dding, and through a centrifuge. And I think it

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<v Speaker 4>isolates and prepares the most viable cells for racing.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, so it gets your fastest.

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<v Speaker 4>Finds your healthiest horse and puts them on the track.

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<v Speaker 2>And then you know how like when you do the

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<v Speaker 2>dog races, they have flash and dash? Is there like

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<v Speaker 2>an egg or something that like.

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<v Speaker 4>Tells them which way to go?

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<v Speaker 5>Point?

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know.

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<v Speaker 4>It's one hundred thousand bucks. I wouldn't want to be

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<v Speaker 4>a part of this because I don't want.

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<v Speaker 7>To be last.

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<v Speaker 2>Can you imagine your last?

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<v Speaker 4>Like eight? Yeah, the country.

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<v Speaker 2>It's not just you, dude, you'd be letting your country down.

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<v Speaker 2>That's true, you know, it's true.

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<v Speaker 4>I want to stand up there with my hand on

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<v Speaker 4>my heart, knowing that my sperm just won me that gold.

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<v Speaker 6>Amen.

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<v Speaker 2>Uh.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 4>My have a friend, a literal friend, a close friend

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<v Speaker 4>who was doing a full physical type thing and part

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<v Speaker 4>of it was they were checking his sperm too, and

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<v Speaker 4>so he does the physical and they're like, hey, we

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<v Speaker 4>needed to do a sperm test and he's like all right,

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<v Speaker 4>didn't really know that was going to be part of

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<v Speaker 4>the physical, and so they give him the cup for

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<v Speaker 4>the sample and they just say go on, and he

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<v Speaker 4>has to go into like a public bathroom. What he had.

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<v Speaker 4>They just pointed him at a stall and there are

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<v Speaker 4>like three yearnals, three stalls, and he's like he felt

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<v Speaker 4>like too, he could go to jail, like somebody comes

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<v Speaker 4>in like there's a dude waka in there, I promise

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<v Speaker 4>this for a sample? Probably no, no, no, the doctor,

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<v Speaker 4>but he had to. He had to do it there.

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<v Speaker 2>Heck no, I wonder what's worse to do, like not

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<v Speaker 2>knowing it's coming or knowing it's coming.

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<v Speaker 4>You probably just want to know it's coming. No, no fun.

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<v Speaker 2>After I said, I'm like, that's just not a good

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<v Speaker 2>way to say it.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah. So that's that thing, that's what that race is.

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<v Speaker 4>That's my story.

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<v Speaker 2>That's crazy.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 4>Times man, they're changing. Bob Dylan said it. They are,

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<v Speaker 4>They're changing. So yeah, good luck to everybody. Yeah, all countries,

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<v Speaker 4>I mean just in life.

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<v Speaker 1>Man.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, we need it, dude, we need it.

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<v Speaker 4>That crap's crazy, Eddie. I have a bunch of stuff

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<v Speaker 4>from you. But I think have we not already all

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<v Speaker 4>talked talked about this time?

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<v Speaker 2>We have not talked about any of this.

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<v Speaker 4>We for sure talked about meeting t Max mom on

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<v Speaker 4>the other show we.

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<v Speaker 2>Did, but not on this show. But which Kevin doesn't know.

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<v Speaker 4>If people hear this, they're going to know about it.

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<v Speaker 2>It was more for Kevin because like if Kevin would

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<v Speaker 2>have been there, he would have been like, what is happening?

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<v Speaker 4>I give you a quick version because a lot of

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<v Speaker 4>people listen to this. Probably Kevin works in a back

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<v Speaker 4>room and doesn't get to hear the show as doing it.

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<v Speaker 4>Can you turn a volume up in there?

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 6>But I'm also editing all the time, so just be

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<v Speaker 6>But if.

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<v Speaker 4>Like something you were just dying laughing, you could flip

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<v Speaker 4>it up in here.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, because we have a TV. If so, if I

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<v Speaker 6>see somebody dying laughing like you just said, then I'll

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<v Speaker 6>turn the music or the sound up real quick.

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<v Speaker 4>We were going into the Arkansas Texas softball game at

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<v Speaker 4>Texas and it was rainy and cold, and I had

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<v Speaker 4>four or five tickets on my phone from DJ, who's

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<v Speaker 4>hitting coaching Arkansas on my brother in law, and we

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<v Speaker 4>were just like, oh, this one ticket didn't go through

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<v Speaker 4>and a name should be on the list, and so

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<v Speaker 4>they ended up sending me oh the other ticket, gotcha boo.

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<v Speaker 4>Woman in Texas shirt next to us was like, hey,

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<v Speaker 4>do I know you? I was like, and naturally, I

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<v Speaker 4>think it's from the radio show or television stuff've been on.

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<v Speaker 4>Who knows. It's a grab bag out there, And I

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<v Speaker 4>was like, I don't know. She's like, did you do

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<v Speaker 4>something in Arizona? And I was like no, Like you

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<v Speaker 4>did a sports thing at Arizona And I was like no,

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<v Speaker 4>And I sort of thinking, well we did. She said, yeah,

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<v Speaker 4>you talked to my son about his rating on Madden

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<v Speaker 4>his Teamax. Mom.

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<v Speaker 6>What Yeah, sitting right next to you else.

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<v Speaker 4>Getting teket while we were getting in at the box office. Yeah. Really, yeah,

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<v Speaker 4>he was his game because his girlfriend plays on the

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<v Speaker 4>team Texas for Texas.

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<v Speaker 6>Wow, did you see him?

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<v Speaker 4>No? She face time with him, but the cell was

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<v Speaker 4>so bad. I'm glad because he was. She was like,

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<v Speaker 4>look who I'm with. It was breaking all up and

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<v Speaker 4>I was like, he's not gonna know anyway.

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<v Speaker 2>But we were just like, how is this all happening?

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<v Speaker 2>Like it's random.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, so so t Max mom to be in that

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<v Speaker 6>spot and she recognized you. That's cool.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, she was like linger looking and that happens. But

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<v Speaker 4>usually it's hey, Dandela Stars whatever, breaking Bybones radio shirt

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<v Speaker 4>something like that. But no, it was that it was

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<v Speaker 4>too much access.

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<v Speaker 6>Did she talk about her son's rookie year.

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<v Speaker 4>We didn't get it. It was cold and wet, dude.

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<v Speaker 4>We stayed four and we're freezing our balls off.

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<v Speaker 2>It was cold, man, great seats.

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<v Speaker 4>I think Eddie was able to appreciate, like how fast

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<v Speaker 4>college off ball is.

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<v Speaker 2>Had no idea like baseball. It's just a big field.

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<v Speaker 2>So like, yes, they're fast, but I mean you can't

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<v Speaker 2>really see how fast they are because they're just throwing

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<v Speaker 2>the ball a long way. They're running far. With softball,

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<v Speaker 2>it's so condensed in this small area, dude, it's like, wow,

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<v Speaker 2>double play.

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<v Speaker 4>We were like, it's crazy.

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<v Speaker 2>And the girls hit the ball so hard.

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<v Speaker 6>And you remember how hard it wasn't hit when we

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<v Speaker 6>didn't too much excess.

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<v Speaker 2>I actually enjoyed it. Other than the cold rain, I

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<v Speaker 2>could have I would have loved been there for the

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<v Speaker 2>whole game.

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<v Speaker 4>It's so much more action than baseball.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and the girls are so positive, like we're you get.

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<v Speaker 4>To talk crap, except you're not talking crap, you're talking positive.

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<v Speaker 4>But with your team, Like if you get on second base,

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<v Speaker 4>you dance, you do baseball, they'll throw it at you

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<v Speaker 4>next time you get up, or they'll be a fight.

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<v Speaker 4>Unspoken rules. It's you get a hit, you get a

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<v Speaker 4>first base, like, oh, it's awesome.

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<v Speaker 6>Did you catch a football that?

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<v Speaker 2>Sure it did? Sure? Well, well not.

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<v Speaker 6>Technically, Okay, this is why I'm asking this foul ball? Wait,

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<v Speaker 6>what's the what happened?

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<v Speaker 4>We're walking not we're walking to the stadium, we're not

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<v Speaker 4>in yet. And Eddie goes, it'd be so cool to

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<v Speaker 4>catch a foul ball, that was all. And then you

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<v Speaker 4>hear it and you see a ball come over the

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<v Speaker 4>stadium and go tink clink and start rolling down the

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<v Speaker 4>sidewalk and I'm like, dude, there's a ball, go get it.

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<v Speaker 4>And he's like, I don't know. I'm like dude, there's

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<v Speaker 4>a ball, go get the ball. You wanted a foul ball.

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<v Speaker 4>So he runs down and gets it. In softball, you

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<v Speaker 4>have to give the balls back because I only have

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<v Speaker 4>so many and it's not a sport that makes money.

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<v Speaker 6>So yeah, correct.

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<v Speaker 4>So someone from Texas comes out and it's like, hey,

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<v Speaker 4>you just find that ball, and he's like, yeah, you can.

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<v Speaker 2>Here you go.

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<v Speaker 4>And so she goes back and she says to me, Hey,

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<v Speaker 4>this at the pavement. Does your friend really want this

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<v Speaker 4>ball or no, no way, And I said yeah. She

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<v Speaker 4>goes I'm gonna make sure that it can't be had

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<v Speaker 4>because if it's scuffed, it's done. And so she came

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<v Speaker 4>back and she was like, it's scuffed, he can have it.

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<v Speaker 4>It was like five year old, Yeah it up.

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<v Speaker 7>I know the picture.

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<v Speaker 4>You're like a little kid.

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<v Speaker 2>You'll hold it up well, because because I literally had

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<v Speaker 2>just said like, hey, what I want out of this

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<v Speaker 2>game is to catch a foul ball. Yeah, that's all

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<v Speaker 2>I want. And then dude, it was like the heavens

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<v Speaker 2>opened up and that ball came flying over the wall.

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<v Speaker 6>I wonder what. So it was actually from the game.

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<v Speaker 6>Wasn't like somebody hitting.

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<v Speaker 4>It during the game. We got there in the first inning.

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<v Speaker 2>It was a little legit foul.

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<v Speaker 4>It was so cold. We did not have coach. It

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<v Speaker 4>shouldn't have been that cold in May and Austin it

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<v Speaker 4>did it rained all day. It's freezing. We liked the

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<v Speaker 4>four innings and then we were like, it's too we

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<v Speaker 4>have we're freezing our balls off and uh. We went

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<v Speaker 4>back to the restaurant watching on the phone. But Archets

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<v Speaker 4>won the series two out of three games.

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<v Speaker 2>I had a question about that. So like, so, so

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<v Speaker 2>your brother in law DJ, he's coach there at Arkansas.

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<v Speaker 2>We see him and so we're like, love you DJ. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>go coach Guessa, right, like, like, does is that appropriate?

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<v Speaker 4>It doesn't matter, Okay, yeah, because I.

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<v Speaker 2>Know he's working, Like we don't want him coming here

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<v Speaker 2>and banging on the window.

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<v Speaker 4>If we did it every inning when everyone walked down,

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<v Speaker 4>but he was right below us and he walked out

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<v Speaker 4>with Jay he loves Yeah. I mean, there's there's too much.

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<v Speaker 4>We didn't do too much.

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<v Speaker 2>No, we did not do too much.

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<v Speaker 6>So it says says the guys who did it, and.

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<v Speaker 2>We didn't do We only did it one time.

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<v Speaker 4>You had do Celtics stuff on today I'm shocked.

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<v Speaker 6>I know, I know, you know, it's kind of like

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<v Speaker 6>the Patriots, where I'm surprised they made it this far

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<v Speaker 6>and I'm trying to be positive about it.

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<v Speaker 4>You're not surprised they were really good.

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<v Speaker 6>You're never really good during their regular season. I'm surprised

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<v Speaker 6>that they're out, Yeah, especially being up three to one

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<v Speaker 6>to like like that. I'm surprised that Missoula. Look, he's

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<v Speaker 6>a great coach, awesome coach, but man like they just

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<v Speaker 6>never changed anything and just kept jacking up threes. And

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<v Speaker 6>they've been doing this, but then he's stopped playing guys

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<v Speaker 6>that are on his bench that were key guys all year,

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<v Speaker 6>like the Shireman's, like the Jordan Walsh. These guys didn't

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<v Speaker 6>really play in the playoffs, the same guys that got

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<v Speaker 6>you that two seed, and he didn't really play and

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<v Speaker 6>which surprised me.

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<v Speaker 4>They trow up that rotation though when it's playoff time

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<v Speaker 4>they do.

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<v Speaker 6>But like when you're about to blow a three one lead,

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<v Speaker 6>like yeah, let's try something else here, and then they

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<v Speaker 6>throw out Shiremen and I think Garza for start this

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<v Speaker 6>game seven. I was like, well, it's a little late now.

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<v Speaker 6>Now these guys are just be nervous. It's Game seven

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<v Speaker 6>and now you want to play. So I'm surprised that

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<v Speaker 6>they really stuck to the guns that much and didn't

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<v Speaker 6>really switch anything up. But yeah, I can't believe.

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<v Speaker 2>They I'm surprised that you're wearing the sweatshirt like I

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<v Speaker 2>would think, like like when the Cowboys lose, they're out,

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<v Speaker 2>like they losing the playoffs whatever, like Cowboys stuff is

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<v Speaker 2>gone for at least a couple months.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, because you're embarrassed. Mostly, I just don't want to

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<v Speaker 4>see it because it makes me feel bad.

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<v Speaker 7>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 6>I mean it's a good point, don't get me wrong,

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<v Speaker 6>But I just this thing's just comfy, dude.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, dude is comfy.

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<v Speaker 6>You know, it's raining and we're just like just comfy.

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<v Speaker 4>I agree. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 8>Uh.

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<v Speaker 4>Something we didn't get to talked about was Kevin has

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<v Speaker 4>two kids as twins, so I know you're dealing with

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<v Speaker 4>a babysitter issue. Where is do you pay a babysitter

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<v Speaker 4>double because it's twins or is it like one babysitting

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<v Speaker 4>job because there it's two, but it's like one, you

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<v Speaker 4>know one, it's kind of one because they're twins. What happened?

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<v Speaker 6>So last time we talked. I was going to meet

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<v Speaker 6>her that weekend, I believe, and we met her and

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<v Speaker 6>her husband. He didn't watch the kids with her, but

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<v Speaker 6>we just wanted to meet and greet first. She was great,

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<v Speaker 6>she's a nurse. To talk about that a little bit,

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<v Speaker 6>and we felt super comfortable with her right away, like,

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<v Speaker 6>all right, this is great. So then the following weekend,

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<v Speaker 6>last weekend, we went to the wedding. She came over

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<v Speaker 6>early after or late afternoon, and I was with the

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<v Speaker 6>kids because my wife was in the wedding. So she

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<v Speaker 6>had to leave, like three or four hours before me

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<v Speaker 6>to go do a bunch of stuff. And so I'm

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<v Speaker 6>sitting there like, Okay, she's got to come here. I

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<v Speaker 6>got to run her through. So we ran her through

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<v Speaker 6>some stuff and I left. And this is our first

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<v Speaker 6>time being away from kids without family watching him.

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<v Speaker 5>It was awesome.

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<v Speaker 6>I only got one text the entire time. We're gone

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<v Speaker 6>for six hours, Yeah, about six hours, and the only

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<v Speaker 6>text was Hey, where's your trash can? At That's great,

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<v Speaker 6>that's it. And she's like, yeah, white nervous. Honestly, she

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<v Speaker 6>was way like she handled it waybere I thought she would,

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<v Speaker 6>because she's the nervous one for sure out of us too,

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<v Speaker 6>like I'll be like, all right, see you later, Like

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<v Speaker 6>I need this break where she'll be more of like

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<v Speaker 6>I wonder what they're doing. I can't believe, like they're

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<v Speaker 6>just at home with this random girl. But she was great.

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<v Speaker 6>I think it was because she was in the wedding,

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<v Speaker 6>so she was so busy and her mind was going

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<v Speaker 6>which hell, and she enjoyed the experience. She had a

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<v Speaker 6>great night. It was a great wedding.

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<v Speaker 4>What do you pay?

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<v Speaker 6>We paid her thirty bucks an hour.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, I was total.

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<v Speaker 5>I'm like that.

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<v Speaker 6>No, no, she's like thirteen. Maybe because we asked her,

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<v Speaker 6>were like, you know, what's your rate? We just don't

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<v Speaker 6>lose our first time. And she's like, well, well, at

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<v Speaker 6>first she goes, well usually I maybe sit for like

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<v Speaker 6>people with a lot of money, and we're like she

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<v Speaker 6>said that all wow.

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<v Speaker 2>But then I'm here with you now and.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm like, well I've really dropped a few levels.

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<v Speaker 6>We're not usual people. So now she's like, my rate's

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<v Speaker 6>like twenty five to thirty, and I was like, all right,

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<v Speaker 6>we'll pay you thirty like two of them. Yeah, so yeah,

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<v Speaker 6>I've paid thirty bucks. It was well worth it. Now

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<v Speaker 6>could I do that every weekend? Absolutely not?

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<v Speaker 2>What was the total?

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<v Speaker 6>Two hundred bucks for six hours?

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<v Speaker 2>What do you pay? Nothing anymore? But I used to pay.

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<v Speaker 2>It used to come out to like, yeah, like eighty

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<v Speaker 2>bucks at night. M gosh, dude, little boys and then yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>and then you would like go to dinner.

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<v Speaker 4>Like some child labor laws are being broken.

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<v Speaker 6>I had two hundred you paid eighty for four boys.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah for like three hours. You were gone for how hours?

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<v Speaker 4>Six?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah? Six? So like yeah, I was I mean, dude,

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<v Speaker 2>think about going to dinner and spending one hundred and

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<v Speaker 2>twenty five dollars on dinner and then come back and

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<v Speaker 2>give a eighty dollars cash to like a young girl like,

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<v Speaker 2>oh god.

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<v Speaker 4>Did you ever have any bad experiences?

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<v Speaker 5>No?

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<v Speaker 2>But this is something funny. Funny story is the first

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<v Speaker 2>time we got a babysitter. I had no idea, so

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<v Speaker 2>like she it's just like Kevin was describing it made

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<v Speaker 2>me think about it when it's like, yeah, they come

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<v Speaker 2>over and then you're like, all right, here is the

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<v Speaker 2>fire stinguisher like any of that. But they eat at

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<v Speaker 2>this time, what they need, whatever, they need to go

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<v Speaker 2>to bed at this time, whatever, And then I just

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know. I wasn't even trying to be funny.

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<v Speaker 2>But as we were walking out and like, hey, and

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<v Speaker 2>there's beer in the fridge, help yourself or whatever, and

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<v Speaker 2>my wife goes, no, no, don't help yourself to the beer.

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<v Speaker 2>And I was like, oh, right, right, like I don't

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<v Speaker 2>want my babysitter drinking. But to me, it was the

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<v Speaker 2>first time I'd ever done that, and I thought like,

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<v Speaker 2>why not, Like you're here all day, they fall asleep,

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<v Speaker 2>and like, yeah, yourselet with brude. Like my wife's like, no,

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<v Speaker 2>absolutely not.

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<v Speaker 4>Did you have food for your babysitter?

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<v Speaker 6>Okay? So I asked my wife that morning, I was like, hey,

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<v Speaker 6>should we have food? It hit me that day, I'm like,

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<v Speaker 6>should we do something food? I'm like, ah, she's a

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<v Speaker 6>nurse and she does this all the time. She probably

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<v Speaker 6>comes prepared and she's okay, and I regret it. We

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<v Speaker 6>didn't get anything. She brought like a bag of snacks,

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<v Speaker 6>and I was like, hey, you're welcome to anything in

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<v Speaker 6>the fridge, anything in the pantry, whatever, And then she

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<v Speaker 6>ended up just ordering a pizza, Like we should have

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<v Speaker 6>got her food.

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<v Speaker 2>Did you pay her for the pizza?

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<v Speaker 8>No?

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<v Speaker 2>She could have the move for us is always like

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<v Speaker 2>all right, we're gonna order pizza, should be here in

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<v Speaker 2>ten minutes, and so when we leave, they get the pizza.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah. See, yeah, we should have done that. I regret that,

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<v Speaker 6>but hey it was the first one, you know. But

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<v Speaker 6>she's also she's pregnant now, so it's like, okay, well

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<v Speaker 6>she's not gonna last for you. We can't use her

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<v Speaker 6>for long.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh the baby's babysitter.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah. I told us that she's you know, early on,

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<v Speaker 6>but she's pregnant.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, a few more months at least. Yeah, unless she's

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<v Speaker 4>sick the first time. Atter stuff for a lot of people.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, that's what I was.

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<v Speaker 4>I was like, oh, okay, man, if you find somebody

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<v Speaker 4>though that you trust, always do the little things like

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<v Speaker 4>cover their freaking pizza after I.

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<v Speaker 2>Just just know, like babysitter usually you cover their dinner. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>And if you forget, like like Bone said, yeah, give

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<v Speaker 2>her a little bit of money. I'm sorry, I completely forgot.

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<v Speaker 4>Here is now, if you kind of a sucky babysitter

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<v Speaker 4>and you just were using her one time because you

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<v Speaker 4>got a straight by it, that's different. But if like,

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<v Speaker 4>if it's something that you really want to be able

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<v Speaker 4>to use a lot.

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<v Speaker 3>Man.

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<v Speaker 4>You really gotta make make them feel valued.

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<v Speaker 6>You know what she did. I just thought about it too.

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<v Speaker 6>She actually did text me and she's like, hey, do

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<v Speaker 6>you care if I uber eat something to your house?

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<v Speaker 2>Is that her way of like telling you didn't leave

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<v Speaker 2>me food?

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<v Speaker 6>You'd like, do you want to order me something?

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<v Speaker 4>I don't think something? Or do you think she was

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<v Speaker 4>just asking just be I think she was asking because

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<v Speaker 4>if for some reason you had a camera somebody saw

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<v Speaker 4>a car drive up, You're like, why is our car

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<v Speaker 4>at the house? Why is it? Yeah? I just think

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<v Speaker 4>it's a somebody. Also, she could be like, you know,

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<v Speaker 4>maybe you don't want people know where you live. Maybe

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<v Speaker 4>you guys purposely don't have stuff delivered to your house.

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<v Speaker 4>I don't know.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, I wonder if she was asking because of like allergies,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, like do your kids have allergies or whatever?

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<v Speaker 2>Like if I uber eat something?

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, the kids were asleep by no.

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<v Speaker 2>No, But I don't know.

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<v Speaker 6>But I appreciate that.

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<v Speaker 2>But overall success, when do you think you're going to

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<v Speaker 2>be dealing with this?

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<v Speaker 4>I don't know. Soon ish, we don't have any childcare

0:20:19.320 --> 0:20:22.600
<v Speaker 4>now we have friends. One time we only left one time.

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<v Speaker 4>We had to prank them over. We went to therapy.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know, a man.

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<v Speaker 6>How how did your wife do? And you're gone for

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<v Speaker 6>an hour?

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<v Speaker 4>It's only an hour, but still it's the first time

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<v Speaker 4>I've been gone a lot, so I didn't even think

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<v Speaker 4>of it as that, right, because I'm gone every day

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<v Speaker 4>And we were in the car and we're driving. Is

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<v Speaker 4>this the first time we've both been gone? I was like, really,

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<v Speaker 4>because you're always both of us.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 4>I was like, huh, how about that? Uh? I think

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<v Speaker 4>she did great. She has a friend that she really

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<v Speaker 4>trusts that has had a bunch of babies or that's important.

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<v Speaker 4>I guess a bunch of two. But yeah, yeah, so yeah,

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<v Speaker 4>I don't know. We haven't got there yet.

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<v Speaker 2>How was your your weekend away from the baby?

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<v Speaker 4>Did you easy?

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<v Speaker 5>Is he?

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah? So so easy? I mean yeah, yeah, I don't know.

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<v Speaker 4>It was easy for a couple of reasons. One, her

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<v Speaker 4>parents were there, so I was my fear would have

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<v Speaker 4>been on her more than anything, like she just overwhelmed.

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<v Speaker 4>So her parents were there, so I was good.

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<v Speaker 5>That's it. Yeah, that's good.

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<v Speaker 2>That helped.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, if you get a family, if she's by herself. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 4>and her parents came in. They had planned a long

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<v Speaker 4>time ago because I told my wife I want to

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<v Speaker 4>leave for two months after she had the baby. This

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<v Speaker 4>was the first trip that I was leaving on. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 4>and so her parents were like, hey, when he leaves,

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<v Speaker 4>this is like a month and a half ago, we'll

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<v Speaker 4>come into town. He's gonna be gone for a couple

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<v Speaker 4>of days, so we'll just come because it'll be time

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<v Speaker 4>for us to come back. Anyway, we had been there

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<v Speaker 4>in a month, and so it was planned out a

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<v Speaker 4>long time ago that they would drive in. So they

0:21:42.440 --> 0:21:45.000
<v Speaker 4>were there, they got there. We left on Thursday evening.

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<v Speaker 4>They got to like Thursday afternoons. So I hung out

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<v Speaker 4>with them a little bit. And it was difficult because

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<v Speaker 4>we got in Saturday night, but Sunday morning at three am, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 4>super late, so I had to be up at like

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<v Speaker 4>six thirty withth baby. That sucked, But I did get

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<v Speaker 4>to say bye to them, and then I'm I'm just

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<v Speaker 4>now caught up on the week, Like where I'm feeling

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<v Speaker 4>normal again.

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<v Speaker 2>Is your father in law pumped about the thunder.

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<v Speaker 4>They won last year? So I don't know if he's pumped.

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<v Speaker 4>I think he just enjoys it. He enjoys having a winner. Now,

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<v Speaker 4>he watches every game. I think he was pumped last year. Now,

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<v Speaker 4>not that it's expected, but there is an expectation because

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<v Speaker 4>they win all the time.

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<v Speaker 6>Pretty good, Yeah, right, really good.

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<v Speaker 4>So the Lakers didn't look bad last night, thunder just

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<v Speaker 4>so they're just so good. They just so affoicate, suffocate

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<v Speaker 4>you defensively. Yeah, and Chet played really well last night.

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<v Speaker 6>And Jalen didn't even play, right Williams one of the Williams,

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<v Speaker 6>I don't know. I saw him on the bench in

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<v Speaker 6>the street clothes.

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<v Speaker 4>Then that means he didn't play, didn't play. All right,

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<v Speaker 4>let's break and we'll come back with Philly's first baseman,

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<v Speaker 4>former Phillies first basement stud, Ryan Howard.

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<v Speaker 3>All.

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<v Speaker 4>We're going to welcome in Ryan Howard, Phillies' legend, two

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<v Speaker 4>thousand and eight World Series champion, two thousand and six

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<v Speaker 4>National League MVP, Rookie of the Year, really one of

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<v Speaker 4>the greatest power hitters of me watching baseball. He has

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<v Speaker 4>a new podcast now with another Phillies legend, Jimmy Rollins,

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<v Speaker 4>You Love the Phillies. Check it out. Ryan is here now, Ryan,

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<v Speaker 4>first question, how much does a manager actually matter? And

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<v Speaker 4>I think you know where I'm going with this.

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<v Speaker 9>Well, Bobby, I'm gonna say that I don't know where

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<v Speaker 9>you're going. All right, Well, a manager does matter. I

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<v Speaker 9>think the manager has to keep the mood in the

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<v Speaker 9>clubhouse nice and calm and easy. I know with uh, well,

0:23:36.080 --> 0:23:37.479
<v Speaker 9>I'm gonna let you take it there. I'm gonna let

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<v Speaker 9>you take it there. I'm not gonna get ahead of you.

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<v Speaker 9>But but but with a manager, it's it's just doing that.

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<v Speaker 9>You're managing the game, you're watching the game, you're seeing

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<v Speaker 9>how things go. I think the great managers have a

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<v Speaker 9>tendency of just letting their players play, do their thing,

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<v Speaker 9>and then they make the moves as they need to

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<v Speaker 9>make the moves.

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<v Speaker 4>I asked, because with the Phillies firing Rob Thompson and

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<v Speaker 4>Don Maddingley taking over, you know it can and there'd

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<v Speaker 4>be a culture change. I know we're not mid season,

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<v Speaker 4>but early enough in the season that it actually affects

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<v Speaker 4>team play.

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<v Speaker 5>I mean, there can be a culture change.

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<v Speaker 9>I think that obviously with with what's kind of taking

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<v Speaker 9>place with the Phillies, it's you know, the guys were

0:24:13.280 --> 0:24:14.160
<v Speaker 9>kind of underperforming.

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<v Speaker 5>I don't really know what was going on in the clubhouse.

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<v Speaker 9>You know, usually when there's something like that that's taking place,

0:24:21.320 --> 0:24:23.200
<v Speaker 9>there's got to be some kind of change, and usually

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<v Speaker 9>a lot of times the managers that the first one

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<v Speaker 9>to kind of take the heat, so, you know, and

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<v Speaker 9>in terms of that whole situation, there's one thing I

0:24:32.960 --> 0:24:36.119
<v Speaker 9>always say too, is that players also have to be accountable.

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<v Speaker 5>I've been on teams, you know, that have had.

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<v Speaker 9>Bad stretches and the mannerier kind of takes the heat

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<v Speaker 9>for it all. But the players also have to take accountability.

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<v Speaker 9>And that was one of the things that I remember

0:24:48.040 --> 0:24:49.520
<v Speaker 9>when I was kind of going through a stretch like that.

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<v Speaker 5>As a player, It's like, hey, what do we what

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<v Speaker 5>are we doing right?

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<v Speaker 9>We've got to try to do better and be better,

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<v Speaker 9>you know, at some point, you know, everybody's got to

0:24:57.560 --> 0:25:00.520
<v Speaker 9>be accountable for their own actions. So, you know, I

0:25:00.520 --> 0:25:02.680
<v Speaker 9>think the team has kind of turning around. They've gotten

0:25:02.680 --> 0:25:05.080
<v Speaker 9>a few wins under the belt, and that team is

0:25:05.080 --> 0:25:09.280
<v Speaker 9>just way too talented to have kind of underperformed the

0:25:09.280 --> 0:25:13.080
<v Speaker 9>way they have. But luckily, the Phillies' history in April

0:25:13.200 --> 0:25:17.400
<v Speaker 9>is not is not the best, but hey, that's why

0:25:17.440 --> 0:25:19.960
<v Speaker 9>you've still got a lot of season left and it's

0:25:19.960 --> 0:25:21.080
<v Speaker 9>a marathon, not a sprint.

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<v Speaker 4>How do you feel about the ABS system?

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<v Speaker 9>The ABS system I think is great. Actually would have

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<v Speaker 9>loved to have it when I was playing. Probably would

0:25:29.840 --> 0:25:32.520
<v Speaker 9>have knocked down some strikeouts or whatnot. But I think

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<v Speaker 9>what it's all about is about getting the calls right.

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<v Speaker 9>And I don't think it's tough for umpires to not

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<v Speaker 9>take it personal. You can understand that, but I think

0:25:42.520 --> 0:25:44.560
<v Speaker 9>ultimately it becomes a tool to where everybody can get

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<v Speaker 9>better and you get a full understanding of what the

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<v Speaker 9>strike zone is and a consistent understanding of what the

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<v Speaker 9>strike zone is. I think the umpires are going to

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<v Speaker 9>continue to get better with that, catchers, the pictures, the

0:25:56.040 --> 0:26:00.520
<v Speaker 9>hitters once everybody gets a better understanding of what that

0:26:00.600 --> 0:26:03.520
<v Speaker 9>strike zone is in being able to utilize it and

0:26:03.920 --> 0:26:07.760
<v Speaker 9>the challenges. Right now, all of a sudden, you're implementing

0:26:07.800 --> 0:26:10.040
<v Speaker 9>these challenges, and you've got to be strategic with these

0:26:10.119 --> 0:26:12.960
<v Speaker 9>challenges because you don't want to necessarily use their challenges

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<v Speaker 9>up too early.

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<v Speaker 5>In the game if you miss them.

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<v Speaker 9>So I think it's a cool addition to the game

0:26:20.640 --> 0:26:22.520
<v Speaker 9>where it's just all about trying to get things right

0:26:22.720 --> 0:26:24.399
<v Speaker 9>because it can change the flow of a game one

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<v Speaker 9>way or the other.

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<v Speaker 4>I think it's fun for fans because it gives us

0:26:28.640 --> 0:26:32.280
<v Speaker 4>something like it's almost like that cup thing where it's

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<v Speaker 4>like which balls under the cup and they start spinning

0:26:34.680 --> 0:26:36.359
<v Speaker 4>the cups and you got to watch it between innings.

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<v Speaker 4>Like it's a little bit of that, but like game affected.

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<v Speaker 4>What I do like about it the most though, is

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<v Speaker 4>the people that are running that system are live in

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<v Speaker 4>the umpire's ears. So even when people aren't challenging it,

0:26:48.359 --> 0:26:51.879
<v Speaker 4>they're telling the umpires like, hey, you're a little outside today,

0:26:51.920 --> 0:26:54.399
<v Speaker 4>like you're a little inside. So the real game feedback

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<v Speaker 4>I think is great for the game.

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<v Speaker 9>Yeah, no, absolutely, because ultimately, at the end of the day,

0:26:58.320 --> 0:27:02.480
<v Speaker 9>you just want to have the insistency and you want

0:27:02.480 --> 0:27:05.760
<v Speaker 9>to have the right call so that ultimately you get

0:27:05.760 --> 0:27:08.200
<v Speaker 9>into a situation where now it's like the players can

0:27:08.320 --> 0:27:09.280
<v Speaker 9>determine the game.

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<v Speaker 5>You don't want to have.

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<v Speaker 9>It be where you know there's a there's a big

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<v Speaker 9>situation where you know a team's got runners on and

0:27:17.680 --> 0:27:20.439
<v Speaker 9>they're either down and they can tie the game or

0:27:20.440 --> 0:27:23.080
<v Speaker 9>they can go ahead, and then the umpire makes a

0:27:23.119 --> 0:27:26.639
<v Speaker 9>call and it ends the game and ultimately can end

0:27:26.640 --> 0:27:30.040
<v Speaker 9>a season or do something like that. But again, you've

0:27:30.040 --> 0:27:32.159
<v Speaker 9>got to be smart with your challenges because if that

0:27:32.280 --> 0:27:34.439
<v Speaker 9>team goes and you uses those challenges up early in

0:27:34.480 --> 0:27:37.879
<v Speaker 9>the game to where you get to that situation and

0:27:37.960 --> 0:27:39.639
<v Speaker 9>all of a sudden, we need that challenge and we

0:27:39.680 --> 0:27:43.919
<v Speaker 9>don't have it, then you just, hey, you're you're at

0:27:43.960 --> 0:27:46.239
<v Speaker 9>the expense of the umpire and those guys are out

0:27:46.280 --> 0:27:49.360
<v Speaker 9>there trying to so you know, they're they're human, They're

0:27:49.359 --> 0:27:52.040
<v Speaker 9>gonna make mistakes, but it happens in the blink of

0:27:52.080 --> 0:27:54.240
<v Speaker 9>an eye, and you're just trying to do the best

0:27:54.240 --> 0:27:54.960
<v Speaker 9>they can out there.

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<v Speaker 4>Was there a version of what the Dodgers are doing

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<v Speaker 4>now in the National League when you were play not

0:28:00.560 --> 0:28:03.080
<v Speaker 4>the same same, but like they just spend all the

0:28:03.080 --> 0:28:05.919
<v Speaker 4>money and have all the players. Was there one of

0:28:05.920 --> 0:28:07.240
<v Speaker 4>those teams when you were in the league?

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<v Speaker 5>Uh? NL? Not really, not really.

0:28:12.400 --> 0:28:15.040
<v Speaker 9>I mean the Dodgers always had, you know, great rosters

0:28:15.080 --> 0:28:17.520
<v Speaker 9>and talented players, but not to the extent of what

0:28:18.119 --> 0:28:19.600
<v Speaker 9>they've been able to go out and go do now.

0:28:20.080 --> 0:28:21.639
<v Speaker 9>But I mean, yeah, I mean, if you had to

0:28:21.680 --> 0:28:24.280
<v Speaker 9>look at a team, you'd have to say that team

0:28:24.440 --> 0:28:26.399
<v Speaker 9>was the Yankees, even though they were in al.

0:28:26.400 --> 0:28:29.280
<v Speaker 4>The Braves may be the team that could play with

0:28:29.320 --> 0:28:31.399
<v Speaker 4>the Dodgers. You feel like anybody in the in the

0:28:31.560 --> 0:28:34.080
<v Speaker 4>NL can actually make it to the World Series other

0:28:34.160 --> 0:28:34.840
<v Speaker 4>than the Dodgers.

0:28:35.480 --> 0:28:37.320
<v Speaker 9>Yeah, there's I mean, there's teams. It's gonna be tough.

0:28:37.320 --> 0:28:39.040
<v Speaker 9>I mean, look, with what the Dodgers are doing and

0:28:39.040 --> 0:28:41.719
<v Speaker 9>how they're playing right now, it's it's very hard to

0:28:41.760 --> 0:28:45.760
<v Speaker 9>overlook them. But again, you mentioned it, the Braves. The

0:28:45.800 --> 0:28:48.320
<v Speaker 9>Braves are playing really well at a very very high clip.

0:28:48.400 --> 0:28:50.880
<v Speaker 9>This is the first time in you know, however many

0:28:50.960 --> 0:28:53.360
<v Speaker 9>years that the Braves have been fully healthy and had,

0:28:53.440 --> 0:28:55.720
<v Speaker 9>you know, their horses on the field all at the

0:28:55.800 --> 0:28:58.880
<v Speaker 9>same time. I mean, you're getting great, great hitting, you're

0:28:58.880 --> 0:29:02.480
<v Speaker 9>getting great pitching. They're just playing great all around team baseball.

0:29:03.080 --> 0:29:05.040
<v Speaker 9>Sneakily kind of back on the radar.

0:29:05.160 --> 0:29:05.320
<v Speaker 7>Man.

0:29:05.480 --> 0:29:07.680
<v Speaker 9>Look, it's it's a little bit of a of a

0:29:07.760 --> 0:29:09.640
<v Speaker 9>of a long shot, but these guys are playing great

0:29:09.640 --> 0:29:13.240
<v Speaker 9>baseball too. You can't necessarily overlook the Cardinals. It's it's

0:29:13.280 --> 0:29:16.960
<v Speaker 9>just all about who's playing good ball at the right time.

0:29:17.160 --> 0:29:19.040
<v Speaker 9>I think the Phillies, you know, get back on track

0:29:19.680 --> 0:29:23.800
<v Speaker 9>with anything and any team, Dodgers included, Like, you've got

0:29:23.840 --> 0:29:25.640
<v Speaker 9>to stay healthy over the course of the season. The

0:29:25.680 --> 0:29:28.800
<v Speaker 9>Dodgers have so much depth, you know, you can probably

0:29:28.840 --> 0:29:31.520
<v Speaker 9>afford to have guys you know, go down at some point.

0:29:31.560 --> 0:29:35.720
<v Speaker 9>But when it comes to September, October, like those later months,

0:29:36.360 --> 0:29:38.960
<v Speaker 9>you've got to be healthy to be able to make

0:29:39.000 --> 0:29:41.440
<v Speaker 9>it and make a big run in the postseason.

0:29:41.560 --> 0:29:43.640
<v Speaker 5>So it's going to come down to a lot of

0:29:43.640 --> 0:29:44.160
<v Speaker 5>that as well.

0:29:44.440 --> 0:29:45.760
<v Speaker 4>How would you get out of a slump?

0:29:46.240 --> 0:29:49.719
<v Speaker 5>I would usually try to It depends on what I

0:29:49.800 --> 0:29:50.200
<v Speaker 5>was doing.

0:29:50.320 --> 0:29:51.880
<v Speaker 9>I mean, I think a lot of the times, if

0:29:51.920 --> 0:29:55.440
<v Speaker 9>I was pulling the ball a lot early on, I

0:29:55.480 --> 0:29:57.240
<v Speaker 9>would try to just kind of back the ball up

0:29:57.760 --> 0:29:59.400
<v Speaker 9>a little bit more and let it get a little

0:29:59.400 --> 0:30:01.680
<v Speaker 9>bit deeper, maybe take a couple of abs and just

0:30:02.320 --> 0:30:05.000
<v Speaker 9>tell myself, hey, I'm going to jam myself no matter what,

0:30:05.640 --> 0:30:07.200
<v Speaker 9>and try to kind of stay back up the middle

0:30:07.200 --> 0:30:10.560
<v Speaker 9>of the field. And so by doing that, it's allowing

0:30:10.600 --> 0:30:14.800
<v Speaker 9>me to let the ball travel and watch the ball

0:30:14.840 --> 0:30:17.480
<v Speaker 9>and track the ball a little bit more into the bat,

0:30:18.240 --> 0:30:22.080
<v Speaker 9>and then as I start to make that contact, then

0:30:22.160 --> 0:30:26.600
<v Speaker 9>I can kind of start to push my contact point

0:30:26.960 --> 0:30:29.560
<v Speaker 9>forward just a little bit more, a little bit more,

0:30:29.600 --> 0:30:31.080
<v Speaker 9>a little bit more, and then boom, all of a sudden,

0:30:31.120 --> 0:30:34.000
<v Speaker 9>there it is. And then starting to work my way

0:30:34.040 --> 0:30:37.120
<v Speaker 9>back in the middle of the field, left center, right center,

0:30:37.600 --> 0:30:40.000
<v Speaker 9>and to left field.

0:30:40.280 --> 0:30:42.640
<v Speaker 4>Would there be at bats where you're going up knowing

0:30:42.960 --> 0:30:44.800
<v Speaker 4>you're just trying to get yourself out of a slump,

0:30:44.840 --> 0:30:46.800
<v Speaker 4>no pressure to actually get on base, You're just trying

0:30:46.840 --> 0:30:48.000
<v Speaker 4>to like progress a bit.

0:30:48.520 --> 0:30:50.920
<v Speaker 9>Yeah, sometimes you just you got to say, you know what,

0:30:51.080 --> 0:30:53.440
<v Speaker 9>no matter what happens here, I'm just going to chalk

0:30:53.480 --> 0:30:55.600
<v Speaker 9>it up because this is what my focus is right now.

0:30:55.920 --> 0:30:58.160
<v Speaker 9>So it may take me a couple of bats to

0:30:58.760 --> 0:31:01.480
<v Speaker 9>let the ball travel. As long as I can start

0:31:01.520 --> 0:31:03.840
<v Speaker 9>tracking the ball again the way and get my timing

0:31:03.920 --> 0:31:06.120
<v Speaker 9>down the way I want it to, I know that

0:31:06.240 --> 0:31:08.400
<v Speaker 9>it's gonna start to come back, and then I'm gonna

0:31:08.400 --> 0:31:11.280
<v Speaker 9>start squaring balls up these next two maybe three at

0:31:11.280 --> 0:31:14.520
<v Speaker 9>bats or whatnot, depending upon what the situations are. Is

0:31:14.720 --> 0:31:17.560
<v Speaker 9>I want to let the ball kind of get deeper

0:31:17.640 --> 0:31:20.160
<v Speaker 9>on me and start trying to track it and kind

0:31:20.160 --> 0:31:20.959
<v Speaker 9>of catch it if I can.

0:31:21.240 --> 0:31:26.520
<v Speaker 4>I'm an Arkansas baseball fan Missouri state like quietly they're

0:31:26.560 --> 0:31:29.800
<v Speaker 4>freaking good. They're always they're those boys fight, like when

0:31:29.840 --> 0:31:31.560
<v Speaker 4>you play for Missouri State. Was it the same kind

0:31:31.560 --> 0:31:31.880
<v Speaker 4>of team?

0:31:32.080 --> 0:31:36.240
<v Speaker 9>Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, great, great program.

0:31:36.880 --> 0:31:38.840
<v Speaker 5>I think it's a very underrated program.

0:31:39.480 --> 0:31:43.720
<v Speaker 9>We would always play Arkansas every year, missoo Kansas schools

0:31:43.760 --> 0:31:46.080
<v Speaker 9>like that. Now they're playing you know, they're playing the

0:31:46.080 --> 0:31:49.960
<v Speaker 9>big boys every year, still playing those guys playing Oklahoma

0:31:50.000 --> 0:31:58.520
<v Speaker 9>State yearly. It's always been a very gritty program. I mean,

0:31:58.560 --> 0:32:00.440
<v Speaker 9>the guys that come out of there just you know,

0:32:00.480 --> 0:32:02.680
<v Speaker 9>you look at Drake Baldwin. You know, We've had some

0:32:02.720 --> 0:32:05.480
<v Speaker 9>guys Jake Berger, Luke Voyd, like a lot of guys

0:32:05.480 --> 0:32:10.000
<v Speaker 9>that have come out of there. Brad Zigler. Brad Ziggler

0:32:10.000 --> 0:32:12.240
<v Speaker 9>and I played together, we were we were there at

0:32:12.280 --> 0:32:15.800
<v Speaker 9>the same time. So it's it's a it's a program

0:32:15.840 --> 0:32:19.320
<v Speaker 9>that is is a very hard working program and it's

0:32:19.360 --> 0:32:21.080
<v Speaker 9>still i think on on the up and up.

0:32:21.520 --> 0:32:23.760
<v Speaker 4>How much time did you spend in the miners. Did

0:32:23.800 --> 0:32:25.440
<v Speaker 4>you do the whole travel around on the bus thing?

0:32:25.800 --> 0:32:28.360
<v Speaker 5>Oh? Absolutely absolutely we were.

0:32:28.720 --> 0:32:32.160
<v Speaker 9>What was it started out once I got drafted Batavia,

0:32:32.240 --> 0:32:34.200
<v Speaker 9>New York and New York Penn League and then went

0:32:34.240 --> 0:32:38.680
<v Speaker 9>to South Atlantic League Lakewood, New Jersey, where we had

0:32:38.760 --> 0:32:40.640
<v Speaker 9>I think at that time we were the furthest team

0:32:40.720 --> 0:32:48.360
<v Speaker 9>North and we would travel down to Georgia, South Carolina, Georgia,

0:32:50.240 --> 0:32:53.560
<v Speaker 9>you know, seventeen hour bus rides. So yeah, got the

0:32:53.760 --> 0:32:56.360
<v Speaker 9>got the full experience. And I was in the minor

0:32:56.440 --> 0:33:01.280
<v Speaker 9>leagues for three three and a half years. I got

0:33:01.320 --> 0:33:04.320
<v Speaker 9>September call up in four, drafted in OH one, September

0:33:04.320 --> 0:33:08.960
<v Speaker 9>call up in O four, and then five. Was started

0:33:09.000 --> 0:33:12.360
<v Speaker 9>out in Triple A and then Tommy got hurt and

0:33:12.600 --> 0:33:15.200
<v Speaker 9>went went up for a little bit, went back down

0:33:15.240 --> 0:33:17.680
<v Speaker 9>when he came back, and he got hurt again, was

0:33:17.720 --> 0:33:19.080
<v Speaker 9>out for the rest of the season, and then was

0:33:19.160 --> 0:33:22.440
<v Speaker 9>up the rest of the year and five and the

0:33:22.480 --> 0:33:23.200
<v Speaker 9>rest was history.

0:33:23.520 --> 0:33:26.600
<v Speaker 4>Your call up moment, was it pretty cool or they

0:33:26.640 --> 0:33:28.600
<v Speaker 4>tell you just like hey, you're up your head now?

0:33:29.480 --> 0:33:32.320
<v Speaker 9>No, it's it's always cool man. They they understand like

0:33:32.440 --> 0:33:34.240
<v Speaker 9>this is what you work for. This is a dream

0:33:34.280 --> 0:33:39.400
<v Speaker 9>come true. And I mean I understood just the opportunity

0:33:39.720 --> 0:33:42.920
<v Speaker 9>right where I understood that Tommy was hurt for you know,

0:33:43.000 --> 0:33:45.520
<v Speaker 9>he was going to be on the the back.

0:33:45.560 --> 0:33:46.480
<v Speaker 5>Then they called the d L.

0:33:47.520 --> 0:33:49.400
<v Speaker 9>But like the I L for like two weeks, so

0:33:49.400 --> 0:33:50.680
<v Speaker 9>I knew I was only going to really be up

0:33:50.680 --> 0:33:53.400
<v Speaker 9>for two weeks until he came back, But was really

0:33:53.440 --> 0:33:55.040
<v Speaker 9>just going to try to go up and just do

0:33:55.080 --> 0:33:57.040
<v Speaker 9>the best that I could and.

0:33:56.680 --> 0:33:57.480
<v Speaker 5>Soak it all in.

0:33:58.160 --> 0:34:01.080
<v Speaker 9>And uh, once I once I got up up early

0:34:01.160 --> 0:34:04.680
<v Speaker 9>on in five and then like late in four, was

0:34:04.720 --> 0:34:08.320
<v Speaker 9>really like looking at like, Okay, this is the big leagues,

0:34:08.360 --> 0:34:10.320
<v Speaker 9>Like this is this is awesome, Like this.

0:34:10.200 --> 0:34:13.680
<v Speaker 5>Is what you aspire to. So having that opportunity was.

0:34:13.680 --> 0:34:16.200
<v Speaker 4>Amazing when you got up. Was there anyone you thought

0:34:16.200 --> 0:34:18.319
<v Speaker 4>it was really cool to actually see in person that

0:34:18.360 --> 0:34:19.520
<v Speaker 4>you'd watched as a kid.

0:34:19.800 --> 0:34:22.560
<v Speaker 5>Oh yeah, everybody. Just the whole experience.

0:34:22.600 --> 0:34:24.799
<v Speaker 9>I was like when when I first got called up

0:34:24.840 --> 0:34:27.799
<v Speaker 9>in September, I think we went Gavin Floyd and I

0:34:27.880 --> 0:34:32.359
<v Speaker 9>were same draft class and we both got called up

0:34:32.520 --> 0:34:36.600
<v Speaker 9>September of four, and I think our first road trip

0:34:36.800 --> 0:34:38.960
<v Speaker 9>was to Atlanta.

0:34:38.480 --> 0:34:41.360
<v Speaker 5>And you know, you're you're you're in the minor league.

0:34:41.440 --> 0:34:43.719
<v Speaker 9>So like you get to the to the hotels like

0:34:43.760 --> 0:34:46.200
<v Speaker 9>you're usually you're bunking up with somebody, right, you got

0:34:46.200 --> 0:34:49.080
<v Speaker 9>to you got a roommate, and we get in, we

0:34:49.120 --> 0:34:52.439
<v Speaker 9>get we checked in at the hotel and I walk

0:34:52.520 --> 0:34:54.919
<v Speaker 9>in and I'm looking and there's like a king bed

0:34:54.920 --> 0:34:57.680
<v Speaker 9>in there and I'm was like, wait, but there's no

0:34:57.920 --> 0:34:58.800
<v Speaker 9>we don't have roommates.

0:34:59.360 --> 0:35:02.920
<v Speaker 5>So that was the that was cool for me. I

0:35:02.960 --> 0:35:04.600
<v Speaker 5>was like, oh man, we don't have roommates. We get

0:35:04.640 --> 0:35:06.080
<v Speaker 5>our own room. Oh this is amazing.

0:35:06.640 --> 0:35:09.400
<v Speaker 9>So you know that that was kind of the first

0:35:09.560 --> 0:35:12.359
<v Speaker 9>first part of getting up there. But I think just

0:35:12.360 --> 0:35:18.520
<v Speaker 9>seeing all the guys that you've grown up watching and

0:35:18.600 --> 0:35:20.520
<v Speaker 9>now you have the ability to be able to step

0:35:20.560 --> 0:35:23.719
<v Speaker 9>on the same field and play with and against some

0:35:23.760 --> 0:35:25.800
<v Speaker 9>of these guys was was an amazing feeling.

0:35:26.200 --> 0:35:28.520
<v Speaker 4>Is it the six on one podcast? Because you guys numbers?

0:35:28.520 --> 0:35:29.760
<v Speaker 4>Because that's not the area code?

0:35:29.800 --> 0:35:30.080
<v Speaker 2>Is it what?

0:35:30.320 --> 0:35:30.839
<v Speaker 4>Because you guys?

0:35:31.400 --> 0:35:33.759
<v Speaker 9>The funny part about it is is that, yes, it

0:35:34.160 --> 0:35:35.960
<v Speaker 9>is our numbers, because I was number six and Jimmy

0:35:36.000 --> 0:35:38.920
<v Speaker 9>was number eleven. But it's also and we didn't necessarily

0:35:38.920 --> 0:35:42.520
<v Speaker 9>realize it at the time, but it's also the street

0:35:42.600 --> 0:35:48.520
<v Speaker 9>exit for Broad Street in Philadelphia. So the whole thing

0:35:48.600 --> 0:35:51.239
<v Speaker 9>just kind of came together with like that and just

0:35:51.280 --> 0:35:51.960
<v Speaker 9>all made sense.

0:35:52.239 --> 0:35:54.520
<v Speaker 4>When you guys do your podcast, I'm assuming you're like

0:35:54.560 --> 0:35:57.200
<v Speaker 4>across the board with baseball, right, it's not just Philly stuff,

0:35:57.200 --> 0:35:58.840
<v Speaker 4>but it's you guys both played for the Philly c

0:35:58.920 --> 0:36:01.600
<v Speaker 4>you have very you know, in depth knowledge of the Phillies,

0:36:01.719 --> 0:36:04.760
<v Speaker 4>but you're talking to other other players and like clubhouse

0:36:04.760 --> 0:36:06.200
<v Speaker 4>stuff right inside baseball.

0:36:06.520 --> 0:36:09.520
<v Speaker 9>Yeah, there's there's definitely the baseball base but we've talked

0:36:09.520 --> 0:36:15.760
<v Speaker 9>to We definitely talked to entertainers, rappers, other baseball players

0:36:15.760 --> 0:36:22.440
<v Speaker 9>from other squads. We've talked to business moduls, entrepreneurs, so

0:36:22.560 --> 0:36:24.279
<v Speaker 9>we diversify the portfolio.

0:36:24.440 --> 0:36:25.040
<v Speaker 5>So we h.

0:36:25.920 --> 0:36:28.200
<v Speaker 9>We definitely have the baseball talk, but we definitely want

0:36:28.200 --> 0:36:30.360
<v Speaker 9>to have the outreach of being able to reach different

0:36:30.400 --> 0:36:31.600
<v Speaker 9>genres and different people.

0:36:31.920 --> 0:36:33.440
<v Speaker 4>Final question for you, and I was a big fan

0:36:33.480 --> 0:36:36.040
<v Speaker 4>of yours while you played, but do people ever come

0:36:36.120 --> 0:36:37.440
<v Speaker 4>up to you and go, hey, you're that dude from

0:36:37.440 --> 0:36:37.880
<v Speaker 4>the office.

0:36:38.200 --> 0:36:40.239
<v Speaker 5>Absolutely.

0:36:40.400 --> 0:36:42.440
<v Speaker 9>I've had some people I'd go get coffee at morning

0:36:42.480 --> 0:36:45.239
<v Speaker 9>in the morning sometimes and and they would recognize me

0:36:45.320 --> 0:36:48.160
<v Speaker 9>more so from that than ever playing baseball. They wouldn't

0:36:48.200 --> 0:36:50.200
<v Speaker 9>have known that I played baseball, but they were like, hey,

0:36:50.719 --> 0:36:53.040
<v Speaker 9>you look familiar, Like have you.

0:36:53.040 --> 0:36:54.000
<v Speaker 5>Been on the Office.

0:36:54.160 --> 0:36:55.960
<v Speaker 9>And I did a couple other shows where it was like,

0:36:56.040 --> 0:37:00.759
<v Speaker 9>you know, always Sunny and and then Entourage, and so

0:37:00.960 --> 0:37:03.560
<v Speaker 9>it was just funny because people would recognize me more

0:37:03.640 --> 0:37:06.800
<v Speaker 9>so from some of those than actually playing baseball.

0:37:07.239 --> 0:37:09.680
<v Speaker 4>The office thing was legit though, because you actually acted

0:37:09.719 --> 0:37:12.200
<v Speaker 4>a bit, because you had the role of like, hey,

0:37:12.280 --> 0:37:14.880
<v Speaker 4>I got this script. Like it wasn't just like you

0:37:14.920 --> 0:37:17.560
<v Speaker 4>showed up and it was a cameo. You actually acted.

0:37:17.560 --> 0:37:19.239
<v Speaker 4>Did you prepare for that or were you just good

0:37:19.239 --> 0:37:19.520
<v Speaker 4>at it?

0:37:19.960 --> 0:37:21.280
<v Speaker 5>I mean, there was a little bit of preparation.

0:37:21.360 --> 0:37:24.319
<v Speaker 9>But they made it easy for me, you know, it

0:37:24.400 --> 0:37:26.319
<v Speaker 9>was I mean, it was me basically kind of, you know,

0:37:26.360 --> 0:37:28.560
<v Speaker 9>being myself, and yeah, there was there was a script.

0:37:28.680 --> 0:37:31.799
<v Speaker 9>So you know, if I can't be myself, then I

0:37:31.840 --> 0:37:35.280
<v Speaker 9>don't know what. I don't know what I'm doing. But

0:37:35.280 --> 0:37:37.319
<v Speaker 9>but it was it was easy. They they made it

0:37:37.360 --> 0:37:41.120
<v Speaker 9>so so smooth and effortlessly like fun.

0:37:41.719 --> 0:37:43.360
<v Speaker 5>I mean that was the first thing. The guys were like,

0:37:43.360 --> 0:37:44.800
<v Speaker 5>hey man, just do yourself.

0:37:44.840 --> 0:37:46.840
<v Speaker 9>Have fun, like say things how you would normally say it,

0:37:46.840 --> 0:37:48.640
<v Speaker 9>and they that's all we're gonna do.

0:37:48.680 --> 0:37:50.600
<v Speaker 5>We're just we're gonna have some fun with this, and

0:37:50.640 --> 0:37:51.120
<v Speaker 5>that was it.

0:37:51.800 --> 0:37:53.960
<v Speaker 4>I really appreciate the time and hope everybody checks out

0:37:54.000 --> 0:37:57.000
<v Speaker 4>the six to one one podcast. Uh Ryan Howard, you

0:37:57.040 --> 0:38:00.799
<v Speaker 4>guys follow him too on Instagram. Ryan Howard Underscore Double six.

0:38:01.120 --> 0:38:03.759
<v Speaker 4>Really appreciate the time, and again I was a big fan.

0:38:03.800 --> 0:38:06.640
<v Speaker 4>I'm a massive Cubs fan. We weren't in the same division,

0:38:06.680 --> 0:38:08.160
<v Speaker 4>so that was good so I could be a fan.

0:38:08.560 --> 0:38:10.640
<v Speaker 4>But uh yeah, you were fun to watch, Ryan, So

0:38:10.680 --> 0:38:12.040
<v Speaker 4>I really appreciate the time, Bobby.

0:38:12.080 --> 0:38:13.680
<v Speaker 5>I appreciate you man. Thank you for having me on.

0:38:13.760 --> 0:38:18.480
<v Speaker 4>See you Ryan. All right, let's welcome in Mike Workanov,

0:38:18.600 --> 0:38:23.120
<v Speaker 4>national NBA reporter for the Athletic Basketball Business Reporter, someone

0:38:23.120 --> 0:38:26.200
<v Speaker 4>who I look to whenever I can't really understand how

0:38:26.200 --> 0:38:30.120
<v Speaker 4>the NBA works behind the scenes. He also hosts Business Decision,

0:38:30.200 --> 0:38:32.160
<v Speaker 4>which is the podcast he does where he breaks down

0:38:32.160 --> 0:38:34.520
<v Speaker 4>all of this the intersection of sports money power, so

0:38:34.640 --> 0:38:37.200
<v Speaker 4>be sure to go check it out. Mike, really appreciate

0:38:37.280 --> 0:38:39.480
<v Speaker 4>you jumping on. I do want to talk about tanking first,

0:38:39.480 --> 0:38:40.680
<v Speaker 4>if you're ready to tackle that with me.

0:38:41.120 --> 0:38:42.400
<v Speaker 3>Sure, I was gonna say, I don't know if I

0:38:42.400 --> 0:38:44.600
<v Speaker 3>always understand how the NBA works, but I'll give it

0:38:44.640 --> 0:38:44.959
<v Speaker 3>a try.

0:38:45.080 --> 0:38:47.560
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, that's what That's what I need help with because

0:38:47.560 --> 0:38:52.160
<v Speaker 4>I've read the you know, the meaningful changes from Adam

0:38:52.200 --> 0:38:54.839
<v Speaker 4>Silver about tanking, like what are we doing here next year?

0:38:57.360 --> 0:39:00.840
<v Speaker 3>Well, I'm trying to figure out how to just shortcut

0:39:00.880 --> 0:39:04.759
<v Speaker 3>this answer. Basically, they're gonna try to find a way

0:39:04.880 --> 0:39:07.279
<v Speaker 3>or they think they found the way where they can

0:39:07.440 --> 0:39:10.759
<v Speaker 3>kind of, you know, try to incentivize teams to be

0:39:10.760 --> 0:39:12.160
<v Speaker 3>better versions of themselves.

0:39:12.200 --> 0:39:13.680
<v Speaker 7>Right, let's put.

0:39:13.480 --> 0:39:15.439
<v Speaker 3>It like that, and instead of trying to be as

0:39:15.440 --> 0:39:18.240
<v Speaker 3>bad as they can be to maximize their lottery odds,

0:39:19.040 --> 0:39:21.760
<v Speaker 3>like they will. You know this Sunday when we got

0:39:21.880 --> 0:39:24.760
<v Speaker 3>we got the latest draft lottery coming up. They're changing

0:39:24.760 --> 0:39:28.800
<v Speaker 3>the odds basically, where you're trying to be middle bad

0:39:29.000 --> 0:39:32.520
<v Speaker 3>instead of horribly bad and hope that when it gets

0:39:32.520 --> 0:39:34.960
<v Speaker 3>to March in April, you're trying to win more games

0:39:34.960 --> 0:39:37.640
<v Speaker 3>than you are, just like benching all your best players,

0:39:37.680 --> 0:39:40.960
<v Speaker 3>and we see an elevated version of college basketball in

0:39:41.000 --> 0:39:41.560
<v Speaker 3>those months.

0:39:41.960 --> 0:39:44.000
<v Speaker 4>When I was reading about it when it first came out,

0:39:44.719 --> 0:39:48.240
<v Speaker 4>it definitely was if you're the worst, you have worse odds.

0:39:48.280 --> 0:39:50.240
<v Speaker 4>It's weird to say worst versus better, but your odds

0:39:50.239 --> 0:39:51.759
<v Speaker 4>aren't as good to get the first pick if you're

0:39:51.760 --> 0:39:54.480
<v Speaker 4>the worst team to incentivize yeah, those teams not finishing

0:39:54.600 --> 0:39:57.080
<v Speaker 4>last last, but then what if you literally have the

0:39:57.160 --> 0:39:59.600
<v Speaker 4>absolute worst team and you need to get one of

0:39:59.600 --> 0:40:00.440
<v Speaker 4>those top picks.

0:40:00.840 --> 0:40:02.960
<v Speaker 3>Well, yeah, that's the problem with this, and I think

0:40:03.000 --> 0:40:05.520
<v Speaker 3>this is something that there have been complaints about even

0:40:05.560 --> 0:40:08.640
<v Speaker 3>this current lottery system, which is that they watered down

0:40:08.680 --> 0:40:10.600
<v Speaker 3>the odds for the worst teams. And you know, some

0:40:10.640 --> 0:40:12.600
<v Speaker 3>people said, like, hey, isn't the whole point in the

0:40:12.680 --> 0:40:16.360
<v Speaker 3>draft to give the best prospects to the worst teams,

0:40:16.480 --> 0:40:18.480
<v Speaker 3>right to try to make them better? And I think

0:40:18.480 --> 0:40:20.319
<v Speaker 3>that you could argue, like, hey, there's a reason that

0:40:20.360 --> 0:40:22.280
<v Speaker 3>some of these teams like the Jazz and the Wizards

0:40:23.080 --> 0:40:25.080
<v Speaker 3>are in the lottery for a longer period of time

0:40:25.200 --> 0:40:27.319
<v Speaker 3>is because they're not getting the top pics, so they're

0:40:27.320 --> 0:40:29.160
<v Speaker 3>not getting the best players, and so they're just worse

0:40:29.480 --> 0:40:30.560
<v Speaker 3>for a longer period of time.

0:40:30.640 --> 0:40:32.759
<v Speaker 7>And this probably will not solve it.

0:40:32.880 --> 0:40:37.160
<v Speaker 3>Right, Like, if you're if you're authentically bad, let's say that, right,

0:40:37.280 --> 0:40:40.120
<v Speaker 3>you have lost with integrity because you are just really

0:40:40.160 --> 0:40:42.560
<v Speaker 3>bad at putting out rosters and you're the worst team

0:40:42.600 --> 0:40:43.080
<v Speaker 3>in the league.

0:40:44.200 --> 0:40:45.200
<v Speaker 7>This is not going to help you.

0:40:45.520 --> 0:40:47.400
<v Speaker 3>It's trying to stop the teams that are tanking, not

0:40:47.480 --> 0:40:49.640
<v Speaker 3>the teams that are just like bad by their own

0:40:50.080 --> 0:40:51.680
<v Speaker 3>you know, bad decision making.

0:40:51.920 --> 0:40:54.160
<v Speaker 4>I was looking at all the number one picks over

0:40:54.160 --> 0:40:55.880
<v Speaker 4>the past few years and I really felt bad for

0:40:55.880 --> 0:40:57.880
<v Speaker 4>the Atlanta Hawks, Like they finally get the number one

0:40:57.920 --> 0:41:00.640
<v Speaker 4>pick and it's like the one year, one year that

0:41:00.719 --> 0:41:04.520
<v Speaker 4>it's not a player that would actually change an organization.

0:41:04.920 --> 0:41:07.400
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, the timing is so much of it too, Like,

0:41:08.000 --> 0:41:10.640
<v Speaker 3>you know, it's funny this is happening now because all

0:41:10.680 --> 0:41:13.040
<v Speaker 3>the smart draft people say the next two drafts.

0:41:12.840 --> 0:41:13.879
<v Speaker 7>Are not gonna be that great either.

0:41:13.920 --> 0:41:16.719
<v Speaker 3>So it could be another, you know, version of that

0:41:16.800 --> 0:41:18.880
<v Speaker 3>situation like the Hawks had if you had, you know,

0:41:19.040 --> 0:41:21.319
<v Speaker 3>the number two pick in twenty twenty. The Warriors had

0:41:21.320 --> 0:41:24.080
<v Speaker 3>that and James Wiseman right, Like, imagine if they got

0:41:24.080 --> 0:41:26.520
<v Speaker 3>a great number two pick and how that team would

0:41:26.520 --> 0:41:29.160
<v Speaker 3>have looked now. So timing matters so much so when

0:41:29.200 --> 0:41:31.640
<v Speaker 3>your bad really matters, there's just so much that goes

0:41:31.640 --> 0:41:35.160
<v Speaker 3>into it. Not to mention the MVP shake. Gildis Alexander

0:41:35.200 --> 0:41:37.880
<v Speaker 3>was the number eleven pick, Yokich was the second round pick,

0:41:37.960 --> 0:41:39.400
<v Speaker 3>like Gianna's number fifteen.

0:41:40.840 --> 0:41:42.360
<v Speaker 7>All great players come from everywhere.

0:41:42.800 --> 0:41:46.400
<v Speaker 4>Let's talk expansion. Are the Seahawks, excuse me this, the Seahawks?

0:41:46.440 --> 0:41:48.399
<v Speaker 4>The Super Sonics? Are they going to exist again?

0:41:49.400 --> 0:41:50.200
<v Speaker 7>They very well may.

0:41:50.880 --> 0:41:53.080
<v Speaker 3>It is looking like the NBA is going down the

0:41:53.160 --> 0:41:56.920
<v Speaker 3>road for expansion, So the Sonics maybe a team in Vegas.

0:41:57.160 --> 0:41:58.880
<v Speaker 3>I don't know, maybe though I don't know what that

0:41:59.000 --> 0:42:01.239
<v Speaker 3>nickname is going to be. But like the NBA is

0:42:01.280 --> 0:42:03.759
<v Speaker 3>looking at it, it looks like they're trying to get

0:42:03.800 --> 0:42:06.719
<v Speaker 3>a good price for teams there, and they're really this

0:42:06.800 --> 0:42:08.560
<v Speaker 3>is the closest they've ever come to expansion.

0:42:08.600 --> 0:42:10.200
<v Speaker 7>They've been dancing around it for so long.

0:42:10.320 --> 0:42:13.759
<v Speaker 3>But I think we'll know an answer well may like

0:42:14.120 --> 0:42:16.160
<v Speaker 3>I would say, by the end of twenty twenty six,

0:42:16.239 --> 0:42:17.560
<v Speaker 3>we should know where that's going.

0:42:18.360 --> 0:42:20.600
<v Speaker 4>A lot of the Las Vegas talk has been possibly

0:42:20.680 --> 0:42:23.480
<v Speaker 4>Lebron would be part of an ownership group in Las Vegas.

0:42:23.680 --> 0:42:26.560
<v Speaker 4>Do you think the NBA would allow a guy to

0:42:26.719 --> 0:42:28.280
<v Speaker 4>play and also be part owner.

0:42:29.000 --> 0:42:31.839
<v Speaker 3>Well, they definitely won't allow that. That's part of their

0:42:31.840 --> 0:42:34.560
<v Speaker 3>CBA and their rules. And you know, Lebron seems like

0:42:34.600 --> 0:42:36.920
<v Speaker 3>he's out on it too. Mi Collie and I Joe

0:42:36.960 --> 0:42:40.600
<v Speaker 3>Varden we reported earlier this spring like he's out on

0:42:40.640 --> 0:42:42.480
<v Speaker 3>trying to get an expansion team, and it had been

0:42:42.480 --> 0:42:44.239
<v Speaker 3>something he had wanted for so long, right, and he

0:42:44.280 --> 0:42:47.239
<v Speaker 3>talked about publicly for so long. But the firm that

0:42:47.280 --> 0:42:50.400
<v Speaker 3>he's a partner in fenwly Sports Group which owns Liverpool

0:42:50.440 --> 0:42:53.000
<v Speaker 3>and the Red Sox. They're out on trying to get

0:42:53.239 --> 0:42:55.560
<v Speaker 3>an NBA expansion team, so Lebron for now is also

0:42:55.600 --> 0:42:56.560
<v Speaker 3>out on trying to get one.

0:42:56.880 --> 0:42:58.920
<v Speaker 4>You hear from a lot of people, I feel at

0:42:58.920 --> 0:43:02.200
<v Speaker 4>times ill educated people about how the ratings of the

0:43:02.320 --> 0:43:05.600
<v Speaker 4>NBA have dropped so much. But I think for me,

0:43:05.800 --> 0:43:08.480
<v Speaker 4>what I've been able to see is people are consuming

0:43:08.520 --> 0:43:12.160
<v Speaker 4>the NBA differently, and I could be completely wrong. What

0:43:12.280 --> 0:43:16.040
<v Speaker 4>are your thoughts on the NBA and just generally ratings talk.

0:43:16.440 --> 0:43:19.560
<v Speaker 7>I'm tired of it, honestly, for a lot of reasons.

0:43:19.600 --> 0:43:22.600
<v Speaker 3>One is the ratings don't matter, right, Like, the ratings

0:43:22.640 --> 0:43:25.600
<v Speaker 3>were down and the NBA still got this behemoth seventy

0:43:25.640 --> 0:43:29.440
<v Speaker 3>six billion dollar media rights deal despite all that, and

0:43:29.480 --> 0:43:31.359
<v Speaker 3>now ratings are up this year, and that's for a.

0:43:31.320 --> 0:43:32.000
<v Speaker 7>Number of reasons.

0:43:32.040 --> 0:43:33.399
<v Speaker 3>One of them is that there's a lot of games

0:43:33.440 --> 0:43:35.439
<v Speaker 3>on NBC and it's easier to watch games on NBC

0:43:35.560 --> 0:43:38.400
<v Speaker 3>than it is on TNT. The other there's some inflation

0:43:38.560 --> 0:43:41.160
<v Speaker 3>going on with Nielsen ratings and how they count it.

0:43:41.200 --> 0:43:44.279
<v Speaker 3>But honestly, like if you're an NBA fan, just watch

0:43:44.320 --> 0:43:46.640
<v Speaker 3>the basketball or don't. Who cares how many other people

0:43:46.719 --> 0:43:49.400
<v Speaker 3>watch the basketball or don't. I feel like this is

0:43:49.840 --> 0:43:54.239
<v Speaker 3>wholly individual to the NBA as opposed to baseball and

0:43:54.280 --> 0:43:56.600
<v Speaker 3>to the NFL and hockey, Like sometimes just enjoy the

0:43:56.640 --> 0:43:59.160
<v Speaker 3>sport that you like and who cares who's along.

0:43:59.160 --> 0:44:00.000
<v Speaker 7>For the ride with you?

0:44:00.360 --> 0:44:02.319
<v Speaker 4>To me, when that headline comes up, when those stories

0:44:02.360 --> 0:44:04.600
<v Speaker 4>come up, it feels a bit like whenever the story

0:44:04.680 --> 0:44:07.799
<v Speaker 4>is that a movie studio paid four hundred million to

0:44:07.800 --> 0:44:09.600
<v Speaker 4>make the movie and only made two hundred and thirty

0:44:09.600 --> 0:44:12.440
<v Speaker 4>million back, Like that's so inside. It's like, I don't know.

0:44:12.800 --> 0:44:15.040
<v Speaker 4>My friends like watching the movie. I really don't care

0:44:15.239 --> 0:44:17.600
<v Speaker 4>how much the movie studio spent on the movie and

0:44:17.600 --> 0:44:18.520
<v Speaker 4>how much it made back.

0:44:18.880 --> 0:44:21.960
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, exactly, Like that's their money and not yours. If

0:44:22.000 --> 0:44:23.680
<v Speaker 3>it was a good movie, that's you know, then you

0:44:23.760 --> 0:44:25.920
<v Speaker 3>like it, and if not, like you don't you move on?

0:44:26.040 --> 0:44:28.359
<v Speaker 7>I think, I don't know. That's the same thing.

0:44:28.400 --> 0:44:30.360
<v Speaker 3>I think there are better questions to be had about

0:44:30.760 --> 0:44:33.600
<v Speaker 3>the state of like what the actual Encourt product looks

0:44:33.680 --> 0:44:35.560
<v Speaker 3>like and where that's going, and how you know and

0:44:35.600 --> 0:44:37.520
<v Speaker 3>tanking and how teams are built than there is about

0:44:37.520 --> 0:44:38.320
<v Speaker 3>the rating stuff.

0:44:38.640 --> 0:44:41.719
<v Speaker 4>I was reading an article about shoes and how you know,

0:44:41.719 --> 0:44:44.480
<v Speaker 4>some of the shoe companies aren't selling as many shoes,

0:44:44.560 --> 0:44:48.480
<v Speaker 4>especially basketball shoes, because of one of the theories was

0:44:48.560 --> 0:44:50.879
<v Speaker 4>limited star power. What are your thoughts on that.

0:44:51.280 --> 0:44:52.160
<v Speaker 7>I think it's interesting.

0:44:52.200 --> 0:44:54.799
<v Speaker 3>I think it kind of like, I mean, not to

0:44:54.840 --> 0:44:56.319
<v Speaker 3>bring it back to the ratings thing, but it's also

0:44:56.440 --> 0:44:59.680
<v Speaker 3>just about it's harder to build stars nowadays.

0:44:59.800 --> 0:45:03.480
<v Speaker 7>Right, there's the monoculture that everyone talks about, so it's

0:45:03.520 --> 0:45:06.600
<v Speaker 7>harder to break through. So it makes sense that if

0:45:06.600 --> 0:45:10.000
<v Speaker 7>you're depending on stars to sell shoes, and it's harder

0:45:10.000 --> 0:45:11.680
<v Speaker 7>to build a star, then it would be harder to

0:45:11.680 --> 0:45:12.600
<v Speaker 7>sell shoes, right.

0:45:12.640 --> 0:45:16.440
<v Speaker 3>And I think just looking at you know, that whole business,

0:45:16.440 --> 0:45:18.680
<v Speaker 3>it seems like everyone's kind of trending towards ath leisure

0:45:18.719 --> 0:45:22.320
<v Speaker 3>and all that, and you know, influencers are now selling

0:45:22.320 --> 0:45:25.640
<v Speaker 3>shoes or selling shoes or selling apparel and all that.

0:45:25.680 --> 0:45:28.120
<v Speaker 3>So I think everyone is just looking for different places

0:45:28.160 --> 0:45:31.719
<v Speaker 3>to have sponsors sell their products, and so maybe the

0:45:32.360 --> 0:45:34.440
<v Speaker 3>sponsorship from the Mad Player it just doesn't go as

0:45:34.440 --> 0:45:35.160
<v Speaker 3>far as it used to.

0:45:35.680 --> 0:45:37.160
<v Speaker 4>It feels like if I were thinking about it now,

0:45:37.239 --> 0:45:39.920
<v Speaker 4>like whose shoe would I want? It honestly would be

0:45:40.000 --> 0:45:42.320
<v Speaker 4>Kaitlyn Clark. And that's crazy to say, because like, I

0:45:42.600 --> 0:45:45.560
<v Speaker 4>don't play women's basketball. I'm not a woman. But it's

0:45:45.680 --> 0:45:48.040
<v Speaker 4>if it's pick a star who'd put out a shoe

0:45:48.040 --> 0:45:50.200
<v Speaker 4>that you genuinely because I'm a shoe guy, I think

0:45:50.239 --> 0:45:53.280
<v Speaker 4>I would like the Caitlyn Clark. I think she almost

0:45:53.320 --> 0:45:56.560
<v Speaker 4>transcends all the dudes that aren't that last we'll say

0:45:56.640 --> 0:46:00.000
<v Speaker 4>last generation that still play the steps the Lebron's because

0:46:00.200 --> 0:46:02.960
<v Speaker 4>the new guys. You're right, everything is so fractional now,

0:46:03.000 --> 0:46:05.440
<v Speaker 4>it's so hard to be famous generally in media, in

0:46:05.520 --> 0:46:08.359
<v Speaker 4>basketball in general, and like Caitlin Clark has a bit

0:46:08.440 --> 0:46:10.400
<v Speaker 4>transcended that. Am I insane?

0:46:10.719 --> 0:46:10.879
<v Speaker 5>No?

0:46:11.080 --> 0:46:12.000
<v Speaker 7>I think you're totally right.

0:46:12.040 --> 0:46:14.919
<v Speaker 3>Whenever her signature shoe drops, like, I bet that's gonna

0:46:14.960 --> 0:46:17.600
<v Speaker 3>sell a lot of pairs. Like the Sabrina I and

0:46:17.719 --> 0:46:21.160
<v Speaker 3>Escu shoe super popular, right, like both among NBA players.

0:46:21.200 --> 0:46:23.240
<v Speaker 3>You see a lot of NBA players wearing the sabrina

0:46:23.280 --> 0:46:25.480
<v Speaker 3>Is on the court and then also just you know,

0:46:25.719 --> 0:46:31.440
<v Speaker 3>selling to folks too in stores. And so Caitlyn's probably

0:46:31.480 --> 0:46:35.799
<v Speaker 3>one of the biggest most famous athletes in America period, right,

0:46:35.840 --> 0:46:38.520
<v Speaker 3>So why wouldn't she be the great person to have

0:46:38.560 --> 0:46:40.280
<v Speaker 3>a great selling signature shoe.

0:46:40.520 --> 0:46:42.640
<v Speaker 4>I know you used to work with the Knicks. They're

0:46:42.640 --> 0:46:43.200
<v Speaker 4>pretty good.

0:46:43.280 --> 0:46:43.680
<v Speaker 2>I got it.

0:46:44.160 --> 0:46:47.040
<v Speaker 4>Ye Are you a Knicks fan? I know because I

0:46:47.040 --> 0:46:49.960
<v Speaker 4>know you were covering the Knicks. Do you like the Knicks?

0:46:50.360 --> 0:46:52.520
<v Speaker 3>I listen, I grew up in the New York area,

0:46:52.600 --> 0:46:54.200
<v Speaker 3>so I was a Knicks fan growing up. But then

0:46:54.239 --> 0:46:56.200
<v Speaker 3>when you start covering the Knicks and you're covering sports,

0:46:56.239 --> 0:46:59.520
<v Speaker 3>that gets sucked out of you real quick. But I'm

0:46:59.520 --> 0:47:01.840
<v Speaker 3>a fan of g I think that arena is great. So,

0:47:02.000 --> 0:47:03.640
<v Speaker 3>like you know, I was there for game one for

0:47:03.760 --> 0:47:05.759
<v Speaker 3>Nick Sixers and that that was an awesome place to

0:47:05.760 --> 0:47:07.560
<v Speaker 3>be and that place was awesome when the teams I

0:47:07.640 --> 0:47:10.719
<v Speaker 3>covered when they're horrible and the place was still like

0:47:11.160 --> 0:47:12.799
<v Speaker 3>thriving in the fourth quarter of a tight game.

0:47:12.880 --> 0:47:14.919
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, that's like a thirty nine point win, right that

0:47:14.920 --> 0:47:15.480
<v Speaker 4>that game won?

0:47:15.719 --> 0:47:17.560
<v Speaker 7>I mean, that was that was wild. That was blow.

0:47:17.680 --> 0:47:18.840
<v Speaker 7>I did not expect that.

0:47:18.840 --> 0:47:21.080
<v Speaker 4>That is a team though, like the Sixers, and you

0:47:21.120 --> 0:47:23.320
<v Speaker 4>can give me your opinion. They just played seven games,

0:47:23.440 --> 0:47:27.160
<v Speaker 4>so usually game one after a seven game set usually

0:47:27.440 --> 0:47:29.600
<v Speaker 4>doesn't end well for that team that just played seven.

0:47:29.640 --> 0:47:32.440
<v Speaker 4>But a thirty nine point defeat, that's a that's a

0:47:32.440 --> 0:47:35.000
<v Speaker 4>bit disheartening if you're if you're a Sixers player.

0:47:35.000 --> 0:47:37.239
<v Speaker 3>Well, yeah, and like the Knicks are rolling right now.

0:47:37.480 --> 0:47:40.040
<v Speaker 3>I was looking up after that game. They've like they've

0:47:40.040 --> 0:47:43.120
<v Speaker 3>got the largest four game margin of victory ever in

0:47:43.280 --> 0:47:46.239
<v Speaker 3>NBA playoff history. Like they're doing things over the last

0:47:46.239 --> 0:47:48.640
<v Speaker 3>four games that teams just have not done in the

0:47:48.719 --> 0:47:49.320
<v Speaker 3>league before.

0:47:49.400 --> 0:47:51.120
<v Speaker 7>And so how long does that last?

0:47:51.160 --> 0:47:53.040
<v Speaker 3>Because if you're gonna win every game by thirty, you're

0:47:53.040 --> 0:47:55.080
<v Speaker 3>probably winning the title, right, Like, it's just there on

0:47:55.120 --> 0:47:56.600
<v Speaker 3>this hot streak that we haven't seen.

0:47:56.880 --> 0:47:58.719
<v Speaker 4>What's with the Knicks? And I'll just sit here for

0:47:58.760 --> 0:48:02.200
<v Speaker 4>a second because I'm so curious ownership to coaching that

0:48:02.520 --> 0:48:04.640
<v Speaker 4>it feels like it'd be a tough place to have

0:48:04.680 --> 0:48:08.560
<v Speaker 4>to work under that ownership group. Your thoughts for working

0:48:08.600 --> 0:48:09.880
<v Speaker 4>under that ownership group.

0:48:10.080 --> 0:48:11.920
<v Speaker 3>I mean, that's a that's a really tough job for them.

0:48:11.960 --> 0:48:15.560
<v Speaker 3>James Dolan is a you know, demanding owner. He is

0:48:15.560 --> 0:48:20.439
<v Speaker 3>a very peculiar owner. Look, he already set the expectations

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<v Speaker 3>for that team for this season when he set out

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<v Speaker 3>he thinks it's a title winning team.

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<v Speaker 7>So you know where that's going, right.

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<v Speaker 3>Tom Thibodeau got the team the furthest It's gone in

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<v Speaker 3>twenty five years last year and got fired anyway, So

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<v Speaker 3>Mike Brown knows the expectations and New York is demanding place,

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<v Speaker 3>and I think, yeah, I mean, look, you get a

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<v Speaker 3>lot of resources, but man, you're walking a tight ship there.

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<v Speaker 7>I think you got to you gotta get what the

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<v Speaker 7>owner is looking for.

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<v Speaker 4>Are you watching every game?

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<v Speaker 5>Am I?

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<v Speaker 7>Well, yeah, it's the playoffs?

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<v Speaker 5>Now?

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<v Speaker 7>Why not?

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<v Speaker 4>Well, I mean some of them are late. I don't

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<v Speaker 4>know where you live, but.

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<v Speaker 3>You met every playoff, every playoff game, every next game.

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<v Speaker 7>No, I'm not watching it.

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<v Speaker 3>I mean listen, I I pass out on the couch

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<v Speaker 3>at nine o'clock. Sometimes I'll admit to that and then

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<v Speaker 3>I'll catch up the next morning. But I can't always

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<v Speaker 3>stay up till like two o'clock in the morning.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I'm watched same spent Those West Coast games kill me.

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<v Speaker 4>And I have League Pass and I try to even

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<v Speaker 4>during the season watch as much like it just stays

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<v Speaker 4>on even if I'm not watching it, like I'm trying

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<v Speaker 4>to absorb through a bit osmosis even you know, watching

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<v Speaker 4>some of these teams. And it's interesting that East is

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<v Speaker 4>So I'm going to say wide open now because I

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<v Speaker 4>don't think anyone expected the Celtics to especially to blow

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<v Speaker 4>that series like they did. But the Knicks a real shot.

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<v Speaker 4>It's interesting, the Pistons a real shot. Who do you

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<v Speaker 4>think comes out of the East.

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<v Speaker 7>I still give the seventy six Ers a real shot.

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<v Speaker 3>Like, I know, they got blowed to smithereens in Game one,

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<v Speaker 3>but that happened in the Boston series too, And to

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<v Speaker 3>your point, like they talked about it afterward, they're going

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<v Speaker 3>from highly emotional, high leverage Game seven to Game one

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<v Speaker 3>forty eight hours. I think took a lot out of them.

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<v Speaker 3>So I'm kind of curious to see what they're going

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<v Speaker 3>to do tonight at MSG. But I think it's between

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<v Speaker 3>the Pistons, the Knicks, and the UH and the seventy

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<v Speaker 3>Sixers to come out of the ease.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I guess. I just don't trust embiid ever to

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<v Speaker 4>even show up for the game. And it's just something's

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<v Speaker 4>wrong and it's it's not his fault, like in an appendix,

0:50:16.760 --> 0:50:21.040
<v Speaker 4>his appendix ruptured. So but yeah, if EMBD plays, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 4>I agree that the Sixers are really good. I just

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<v Speaker 4>don't have any trust he's going to show up and

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<v Speaker 4>be able to play. Most games.

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<v Speaker 3>No, I mean he could he arrives the NBA games

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<v Speaker 3>and one of those boxes label fragile, right like, But

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<v Speaker 3>it then when he plays and he takes the court

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<v Speaker 3>and you watch him move pregame and you're like, how's

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<v Speaker 3>this guy gonna do it for forty minutes?

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<v Speaker 7>And then somehow he does and when he plays, he's

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<v Speaker 7>just a huge difference maker.

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<v Speaker 3>But you just you don't know if he's going to play,

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<v Speaker 3>you know, if it's a seven game series all seven

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<v Speaker 3>or this is the last game he plays.

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<v Speaker 4>One final question. How how many more years you think

0:50:50.960 --> 0:50:51.520
<v Speaker 4>Lebron has?

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<v Speaker 3>Oh man, oh h that's top. I feel like before

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<v Speaker 3>this year I would have guessed none. But I feel

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<v Speaker 3>like the way that this year is gone, he's going

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<v Speaker 3>to attack on another year after this.

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<v Speaker 4>He's been the Lakers. I mean he won that series

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<v Speaker 4>that that that it was him, right, because I mean

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<v Speaker 4>Austin Reeves none, Luca none, So it definitely was Lebron. Hatchiemura.

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<v Speaker 4>I don't know if you count that if you know,

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<v Speaker 4>but Lebron was the dude. So yeah, do you think

0:51:19.040 --> 0:51:22.200
<v Speaker 4>he does a farewell tour? He loves Lebron loves you know,

0:51:22.280 --> 0:51:25.359
<v Speaker 4>the adulation does Lebron do announce it.

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<v Speaker 3>I feel like it because then you could just like,

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<v Speaker 3>you know, help all the things, all the companies he

0:51:29.840 --> 0:51:32.799
<v Speaker 3>partners with just like leverages into this long farewell tour.

0:51:32.880 --> 0:51:35.800
<v Speaker 3>Nike does a whole thing. He can record it behind

0:51:35.800 --> 0:51:38.040
<v Speaker 3>the scenes. Yeah, I mean, like, when was the last

0:51:38.080 --> 0:51:42.440
<v Speaker 3>time someone just suddenly shockingly retired a star of that magnitude.

0:51:42.480 --> 0:51:47.040
<v Speaker 3>It was like, I think it was probably Tim Duncan.

0:51:47.080 --> 0:51:49.120
<v Speaker 3>I want to say, like Tom Brady tried to just

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<v Speaker 3>up and quit and then he had to do it again.

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<v Speaker 4>Anyway, I really appreciate the time business decision with Mike

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<v Speaker 4>working op and get you do such a great job.

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<v Speaker 4>And yeah, thanks for hopping on with us and and

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<v Speaker 4>teaching us a few things because sometimes man that I

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<v Speaker 4>still don't think that the tanking thing is gonna work.

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<v Speaker 4>I don't know how you fix the tanking thing though,

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<v Speaker 4>Like I don't have a good idea. It's not like

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<v Speaker 4>I'm sitting here from the rafters going I know how

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<v Speaker 4>to fix it. I don't know how to fix it.

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<v Speaker 7>I mean, it's a trial run. They're going to run it.

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<v Speaker 7>They already said it. They'reright.

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<v Speaker 3>We look and you know, well we're gonna do is

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<v Speaker 3>for three years and twenty twenty nine. We're gonna see

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<v Speaker 3>what works and try it again. And if maybe there's

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<v Speaker 3>expansion and they have to put a new thing out there.

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<v Speaker 3>So I don't know that they're thinking it's a long

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<v Speaker 3>term this fixes everything solution anyway, all.

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<v Speaker 4>Right, check out Business Decision. Hey, Mike, thanks for the time.

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<v Speaker 4>See later, man. All right, that'll do it. Thank you

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<v Speaker 4>guys for being here. I appreciate you listening to the podcast.

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<v Speaker 4>Appreciate your leaving comments down in the comments. If you're

0:52:39.040 --> 0:52:41.520
<v Speaker 4>you know, listen to this on Spotify, leave a comment

0:52:41.520 --> 0:52:44.600
<v Speaker 4>down there that helps us. I don't know, maybe back

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<v Speaker 4>this week. Maybe we won't. It's just a weird time.

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<v Speaker 4>There's nothing going on.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, maybe a playoffs and then it's gonna last forever.

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<v Speaker 4>Well, I'm closer to football is when it really starts rocking.

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<v Speaker 4>You gotta hear us have to do an NFL show

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<v Speaker 4>and when there's nothing going on.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, but that's tough.

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<v Speaker 4>Well, what's your favorite dinosaur.

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<v Speaker 2>Team logo? That's tough. Yeah, that gets the draft was

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<v Speaker 2>probably fun for a little bit.

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<v Speaker 4>What's the most fun letter? Well, do that for thirty minutes.

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<v Speaker 4>We're like, all right, we'll see you next week.

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<v Speaker 7>Go to the alpha bit.

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<v Speaker 4>All right, that's it. Well, we'll see you guys soon.

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<v Speaker 4>Thank you very much, thanks to our guests. Thanks to

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<v Speaker 4>you guys. Blow the whistle all right by Everyboddy. Theme

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<v Speaker 4>song written by Bobby Bones That's Me and performed by

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<v Speaker 4>Brandon Ray. Follow Brandon on socials at Brandon Ray Music.

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<v Speaker 8>producer at Kickoff Kevin, and executive producer at Mike Gestro.

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<v Speaker 4>The most importantly, thank you for listening.

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<v Speaker 2>Bobby Bones.

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