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Speaker 1: On today's show, We're gonna have someone on that we

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Speaker 1: vowed never to have on this show again, but hey,

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Speaker 2: Let's go roll the intro.

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Speaker 1: All right, all right, and your line from Philly it's

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Speaker 1: a number one Raven Paulo as Polly Fool's go here

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Speaker 1: with Tony Foolsco.

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Speaker 3: And Tony Yo.

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Speaker 2: Huge show to New Year, can't we know?

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Speaker 1: We continue to chronicle the breakup of Skip Dayless's Swanton Shop,

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Speaker 1: which shows while the whole concept of embraced debate has

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Speaker 2: Failure, colossal disaster exactly.

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Speaker 1: You know people that're tired of all this arguing in

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Speaker 1: this back and forth.

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Speaker 3: You know, we have a new slogan.

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Speaker 1: Instead of embrace debate, how about erase debate? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Perfect, Yeah, there you go.

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Speaker 1: You know, we all know that when it comes to

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Speaker 1: and that's it.

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Speaker 2: Don't you agreet Tony one hundred spot on?

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Speaker 1: You know, that's why we've been so successful for so

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Speaker 1: many years in this business, because you know the audience

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Speaker 1: is they don't want to hit two sides of everything.

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Speaker 1: They just they just had to get to tell them

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Speaker 3: Isn't that right? Don't it?

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Speaker 2: I couldn't agree more.

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Speaker 1: See this is this people take notes, you know, the

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Speaker 1: people in this context is how you.

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Speaker 3: Make great sports contents.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely absolutely, And as the saying goes, we're like two

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Speaker 3: That's what we are.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, Today we're gonna bring on a man who has

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Speaker 1: tried to make it on debate shows to his peril.

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Speaker 1: Now he's gone solo, either because he wanted to do

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Speaker 1: it because you know, nobody could stand him anymore. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: we'll ask him about that. You know someone who has

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Speaker 1: it's gonna happen again, most likely Jason Whitlock, and we're

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Speaker 1: gonna get his thoughts on which side he's on, Skip

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, probably the wrong side as usual, That's what

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Speaker 1: Yeah, before we get into that, first, a word from

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Speaker 1: weird and off putting as it sounds. In fact, Tony,

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Speaker 1: you have your own story here tell the people.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, A couple of weeks ago, I got my aunt

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Speaker 2: Marie and her boyfriend Nunzio a gift card to Outback Steakhouse. Well,

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Speaker 2: I saw them the other night, and Nunzio seemed so happy.

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Speaker 2: He told me he really enjoyed eating out down Under

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Speaker 2: with my aunt. I asked him what he ordered at Outback,

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Speaker 2: and then he seemed confused. He said he'd never eaten

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Speaker 2: there and didn't even know what Outback was. And I said,

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Speaker 2: aunt And oh uh, forget what I was saying. Let's

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Speaker 3: Terrific story, Tony. Anyway, a special treat for.

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Speaker 3: Well, now another check this out of the way.

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Speaker 1: Let's get right into our top story story. All right, First,

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Speaker 1: out the Gate, the big story in sports media, Skip

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Speaker 1: Dayliss and Shannon show yea, you know, get your divorce

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Speaker 1: because they seem to clearly hate each other.

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Speaker 3: Any way.

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Speaker 1: You know, people are saying that this is all Skip's fault,

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Speaker 1: this is what I totally hate about sports TV these days.

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Speaker 3: It, right, Tony.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's a toxic situation because these Hall of

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Speaker 1: You know, we understand, and Skip Bayless understands tool that

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Speaker 2: Objective, exactly. You gotta be objective.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And you know, perfect segue that, Tony as usual,

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Speaker 2: Absolutely this year's Nuggets team would stand no chance against

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Speaker 1: Such a great point that, Dony, And you know another

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Speaker 1: Doesn't anybody find it a little strange that in the

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Speaker 3: It's it's very disconcerting, isn't.

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Speaker 2: It, Tony Very? You know, I don't get my information

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Speaker 1: Just terrific perspective and research that Dony and Yank you

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Speaker 3: What about Chernobyl.

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Speaker 1: You know, you had all that nuclear radiation springing all

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Speaker 1: All of a sudden, you got these monster athletes sprouting

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Speaker 3: You absolutely have to.

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Speaker 1: You know, this is what they call in the business

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Speaker 3: We do real news on the show, unlike.

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Speaker 2: Well the outlets and a ninety three years.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, as we head into the summer, you know this

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Speaker 1: We all know that, but you know it doesn't stop

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Speaker 1: these desperate sites like ESPN dot Com from try and

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Speaker 1: First headline here, Tony Nevada passes three hundred and eighty

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Speaker 3: Do you'll give.

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Speaker 1: No Rangers hiring ex Capital's head coach Laviolette.

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Speaker 1: No Najee Harris backs Ourb's calls out longevity narrative.

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Speaker 2: This narrative has no longevity, only short jevity.

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Speaker 2: There you go, do you'll give a give?

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Speaker 1: And uh, well, just in time, donty, because I see

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Speaker 1: on the Fusco Satellite Networks Satellite All right, I guess

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Speaker 1: today hosts his own show Feels with Jason Whitlock on

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Speaker 1: Blaze Media to be on ESPN, FS one and a

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Speaker 2: Jason Whitlock, welcome back, come back to this show.

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Speaker 5: Yeah on the cry On put expert in parting ways?

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Speaker 4: Jason with about expert.

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Speaker 1: Well, first of all, it's a it's a Chiron, so

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Speaker 3: All right, let's just move on. You know, rough start

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Speaker 3: there for you, Jason, but we'll let you bring it.

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Speaker 2: Okay, you can still make up ground here.

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Speaker 1: You only have twenty thirty years in TV. Maybe you

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Speaker 1: need one more. All right, let's start with the Skip

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Speaker 1: and Shannon breakup, right. You know, it sounds like they

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Speaker 2: You know exactly what I was gonna say.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, these Hall of Fame athletes, they think they know

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Speaker 2: So isn't Shannon from a journalistic point of view, actually

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Speaker 5: What about journalists from a journalation's point of view? No

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Speaker 5: Look, I thought it was a terrible look the way

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Speaker 4: Shannon's a Hall.

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Speaker 3: That is so well said.

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Speaker 2: You know, this is again agreement.

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Speaker 2: No more embrace debate. That's over.

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Speaker 5: Let me say this, didn't you I thought it was

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Speaker 4: Skip, when you lay your head down tonight, I just

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Speaker 5: It was like, hold on, man, y'all weren't a war,

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Speaker 4: But I give you everything. Wow.

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Speaker 1: Honestly, I'm kind of moved by this recreation so on

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Speaker 3: Is that what you're saying?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, those two you can't be liking tweets calling Skip

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Speaker 5: That's what he was doing exactly, and it was a

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Speaker 3: You know, Tony, I do agree Skip Bayless.

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Speaker 1: When I think of authenticity in this business, I think

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Speaker 3: And I also think of you, Jason. And you don't

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Speaker 1: Even when you have takes that are terrible, you stick

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Speaker 1: by them. Ye. I started an article you posted today.

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Speaker 3: Here was the title of the article.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna read this to you, Nicola Djokitch's indifference to

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Speaker 3: So that thanks the question.

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Speaker 1: When you wrote that article, were you trying to get

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Speaker 4: No? I was not.

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Speaker 5: I was trying to use sports to make a bigger

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Speaker 5: the time, Guys.

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Speaker 3: Sounds fascinating. But all right, I keep going, yeah, go ahead,

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Speaker 3: I want to hear this. Take it.

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Speaker 5: So, I was connecting it to the larger thing that's

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Speaker 4: When you start bringing in foreign talent and.

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Speaker 1: You know, I got giving me. You wrote this whole article.

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Speaker 1: I got two words to refute it.

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Speaker 4: Yep.

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Speaker 3: Give it to him, Tony.

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Speaker 2: Joel Embiid, There you go.

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Speaker 1: Joel Embiid comes over to this country and immediately wins

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Speaker 1: a title. And of course we're talking about the scoring title. Yes,

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Speaker 3: You can rely on your.

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Speaker 2: Team, you can't have your teammates do it for you.

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Speaker 1: Now, what do you say, Joel Embiid proves you're totally wrong?

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Speaker 5: Did you listen to the Doc Rivers interview with Bill Simmons.

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Speaker 1: Boy, stop listening to Doc Rivers on not in the

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Speaker 3: Just like the rest of the Sixers.

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Speaker 4: Those guys are hard to coach.

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Speaker 5: Man, Joel Embid, you know, good player, but I don't

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Speaker 2: Uh, scoring title, thirty three points a game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what's your scoring average? From what I heard of

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Speaker 1: going on in Los Angeles?

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Speaker 3: It's zero?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, zero in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we heard your Saturday nights are pretty empty there,

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Speaker 1: whitlock yep in Nashville too.

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Speaker 4: That's accurate.

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Speaker 1: See, that's see, that's called journalism. That's how you do

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Speaker 1: it right there, how you do a journalism learn wit Locksley.

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Speaker 1: We did the backstory.

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Speaker 2: I am now on the subject.

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Speaker 1: Of journal journalism. You're gonna you're gonna love this. In fact,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna kick yourself for not realize watch this. You know,

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Speaker 1: you know you're you like a conspiracy, right you do.

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Speaker 1: But you're kind of you kind of whiffed on this one.

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Speaker 1: You know, if you're in the past week, we've seen

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Speaker 1: two players, two athletes from the same random country win

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Speaker 1: major championships. You got Novak Djokovic, a Serbian, He goes

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Speaker 1: Nicola Djokick, he wins the NBA Finals. It makes no

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Speaker 1: athletes unless you look at one thing. Jason Chernobyl nuclear

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Speaker 1: you got a seven footer who can shoot three points

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Speaker 1: like a small person. Makes no sense unless you think

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Speaker 1: about it, your thoughts.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna have to give this some thought.

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Speaker 5: This some thought, man, This this is like, uh well,

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Speaker 5: the first time I ever saw a loose change about

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Speaker 5: nine to eleven.

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Speaker 4: It blew my mind.

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Speaker 2: See, he's jealoustony, he's jealous. So now he's jealous.

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Speaker 5: Maybe the nuclear thing has, you know, empowered these guys

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Speaker 5: and made them special athletes.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna have to give this some thought.

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Speaker 1: I just come in and admit it's a folly Tony.

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Speaker 1: That is the finest piece of journalism I've ever heard.

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Speaker 2: I bowed nothing close to it. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: No, I'm not going to say that.

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Speaker 2: See I know it, I know it.

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 1: Let me just tell yourself and Jason, you got your

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Speaker 1: egos too big, But you know it's all so big.

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Speaker 1: It's the door and I'm gonna throw you right out

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Speaker 1: of it right now because you're up this show show.

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Speaker 5: I just got done exercising. I need to go eat.

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Speaker 3: I'm exercising my right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, wait, exercise in your off the show from possessing

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Speaker 2: the show.

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Speaker 4: See ya, you know what this means?

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Speaker 2: Oh, get out of here, Jay, Hang up the phone.

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Speaker 2: Number one.

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Speaker 3: Number one is what that means?

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Speaker 2: Off the line, Jay, hang up the phone.

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Speaker 3: They have it people.

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Speaker 1: That's officially the nineteenth show that Jason Whitlock has been

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Speaker 1: thrown off of.

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Speaker 2: YEP, at some point we got to witlock him out

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Speaker 2: of the show. He can't come on anymore.

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Speaker 3: They're well said, Tony.

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Speaker 1: Know that a great way to turn around, because it's

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Speaker 1: otherwise a terrific show.

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Speaker 3: As always.

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Speaker 1: Of course, we want to thank you good friends, our

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Speaker 3: If it isn't someone I want to take out Back and.

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Speaker 2: One, Oh produce it, Jay, What do you want?

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Speaker 6: Corrections?

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Speaker 3: What?

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Speaker 4: What?

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Speaker 2: Hurry up?

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Speaker 6: You said the eighty six Celtics were better than this

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Speaker 6: year's Nuggets because they had more Hall of Famers.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, bro, yeah totally.

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Speaker 6: But you do realize all those Celtics players weren't Hall

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well, I'd like to see you on a

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're going to be like most play is in

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Speaker 2: the Hall of Fame. Dead Yeah done, that's it. No more,

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Speaker 2: We're done.

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Speaker 6: No, you said Serbian athletes are so dominant because of

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Speaker 6: the nuclear effects of Chernobyl.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, bro, crazy, upsetting, but true.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, if that even was true. Nuclear radiation doesn't make

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Speaker 6: it stronger. You only see that happen in comic books,

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well you know what else you only see

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know what's also not in real life?

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Speaker 2: Your girlfriend. Yeah, he's done. Let's get out of it here,

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Speaker 2: we're done.

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Speaker 6: By the way, what you do realize why there's no

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Speaker 2: It's mysterious, bro, very mysterious.

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Speaker 6: Serbia was part of Yugoslavia, then it declared independence in

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well, speaking of surprises, wait until you start

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Speaker 2: Yeah, forget Yugo Slavia, it's gonna be you go kabu

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Speaker 2: You, Bully, another floorless show.

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Speaker 3: There you go. We'll see people next week.

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Speaker 2: See uh