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Speaker 2: Welcome back, What's Right with Nick Wright? Episode two forty

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Speaker 2: after a week of some technical difficulties and we apologize

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Speaker 2: for those uh To be honest, I would take accountability

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Speaker 2: for my fault, and I would have no problem throwing

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Speaker 2: the folks at Blue Dog under the boss if it

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Speaker 2: were their fault. But instead, like most issues with America

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Speaker 2: these days, who's some nameless, faceless mega corporation that should

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Speaker 2: have been broken down by our antitrust laws we used

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Speaker 2: to have once upon a time, thanks a lot, Reagan. Instead,

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Speaker 2: it's some giant conglomerate that controls our cell phones, our TVs,

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Speaker 2: our internet, all of it. They're like, ah, we'll get

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Speaker 2: to your block when we can get to it. The

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Speaker 2: block was having issues, it was, but we are I

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Speaker 2: don't know what buttons. The Blue Dock people pushed what

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Speaker 2: to get it a tech not even on site necessarily

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Speaker 2: for this space at Trentage and Harlem, but to fix

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Speaker 2: the internet for the block. So the great people in

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Speaker 2: thank for the internet finally working back up here. However,

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Speaker 2: demand's a funny story. So they did after fixing, after

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Speaker 2: do like double and triple checks or whatever. Right, And

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Speaker 2: I'm just going to I am just gonna tell you

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Speaker 2: at seven. I call Danielle and I'm like, Hey, there's

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Speaker 2: Maybe it's not that company. Who knows there's gonna be

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Speaker 2: he said, oh, I should be done before seven, like

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Speaker 2: So then it's seven twenty. I get the side eye

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Speaker 2: I'm already a little anxious about how this is gonna go.

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Speaker 2: And I'm like, do you want me to come up

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Speaker 2: And he's like, oh, less than ten minutes. So she's like, no,

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Speaker 2: it's less than ten minutes. This seven twenty ish when

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Speaker 2: I tell you, demanse. I get a phone call at

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Speaker 2: And again, this is no one's fault, but I want

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Speaker 2: to let everyone know. Demanse, who do you whose fault?

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Speaker 2: Do you think your mom thought it was? Of all

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Speaker 2: I don't think he's strolling. I think he's an old

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Speaker 3: But go ahead, all right, no faith, all right, Minnesota survives.

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Speaker 3: History tells us that no team has ever come back

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Speaker 3: So with that said, do you think Luca and the

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Speaker 2: Well, I do I think you make the exact This

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Speaker 2: Chris STAPs had never been to Round two. Before Chris

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Speaker 2: Those two guys are clearly good friends. They work really

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Speaker 2: is I don't even want to tease what it is

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00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:05,720
Speaker 2: because when we debut it, it'll blow your mind. But

428
00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:09,600
Speaker 2: this guy is brilliant and is doing this, you know,

429
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:12,600
Speaker 2: on his own time, and I really appreciate it. So

430
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:17,480
Speaker 2: the point that I was trying to make is, I

431
00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:24,520
Speaker 2: think it's very clear that Yannis had been the best

432
00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:29,040
Speaker 2: player from call it. I know, Lebron won the title

433
00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:31,960
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty and won a finals MVP. I know,

434
00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:36,000
Speaker 2: but I think Giannis have been the best player from

435
00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:39,760
Speaker 2: nineteen to twenty one, and I think Jokich has been

436
00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:43,760
Speaker 2: the best player from twenty two to twenty four. Right,

437
00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:49,280
Speaker 2: But what if we are talking about nineteen to twenty

438
00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:54,720
Speaker 2: four this six year stretch. Who has had the better run.

439
00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:59,280
Speaker 2: They have both been to one finals and one finals MVP.

440
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:04,800
Speaker 2: They both have been to one other conference finals they

441
00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:10,760
Speaker 2: have they they both have been to round two twice.

442
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:14,400
Speaker 2: They are the Oh, I'm sorry. Yoga's been around two

443
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:18,200
Speaker 2: three times, Yiannis twice. Yanni's has made the playoffs more.

444
00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:22,679
Speaker 2: He's also played a little bit longer. Their career numbers

445
00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:25,680
Speaker 2: are very similar, twenty three to ten and five versus

446
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:31,280
Speaker 2: twenty one to eleven and seven. They're all NBA's Yannis

447
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:37,400
Speaker 2: has six, Jokicic has sure go ahead said, the career

448
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:39,560
Speaker 2: is so very very similar.

449
00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:41,399
Speaker 3: But weren't there do you think their paths to the

450
00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:44,840
Speaker 3: finals were a little bit easier different in each other?

451
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:53,000
Speaker 2: Well, so here's the thing. I think in general, Jokic

452
00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:56,639
Speaker 2: has had to face tougher competition in the Western Conference.

453
00:27:57,280 --> 00:28:02,199
Speaker 2: I think in their championship run, Yanna's faced far tougher competition.

454
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:05,280
Speaker 2: That Suns team was the best team in the league

455
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:07,080
Speaker 2: that year. People was gonna win the title. They were

456
00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:10,600
Speaker 2: up two zero. That Brooklyn team was peak Kevin Durant,

457
00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:17,440
Speaker 2: and so I can we uh, I'm sorry, no, Durant

458
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:21,359
Speaker 2: was fully healthy. Durant was fully healthy. Kyrie got injured

459
00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:24,359
Speaker 2: at the end of Game four, and Harden got injured

460
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:26,080
Speaker 2: before at the very beginning of the series and then

461
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:29,879
Speaker 2: came back, and I misstated the All NBAS. My apologies.

462
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:34,880
Speaker 2: Yanni's has eight All NBAS, Jokic has six, Yanni's has

463
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:38,479
Speaker 2: two MVPs, Jokicic has three. I think it's a real debate.

464
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:42,480
Speaker 2: I think because of what happened in the postseason this year,

465
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:45,760
Speaker 2: that debate opened back up. And here's the other piece

466
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:50,880
Speaker 2: of it. Luka is five wins away from entering that

467
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:56,720
Speaker 2: debate himself. And so the Lucas stuff. People don't believe

468
00:28:56,720 --> 00:29:01,280
Speaker 2: me when I demon say Luca's made first team All NBA.

469
00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:04,880
Speaker 2: He's been in league six years. He's made first Team

470
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:10,880
Speaker 2: All NBA five times. Steph Curry has four. Steph Curry

471
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:14,760
Speaker 2: has four First Team All NBAS, Luca has five. Luca's

472
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:19,240
Speaker 2: individual statistical resume is why I put him where I

473
00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:22,960
Speaker 2: put him, projecting it on that top fifty list. And now,

474
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:26,920
Speaker 2: and if you look at Luca's basketball life, here's what

475
00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:32,080
Speaker 2: it is. At sixteen years old, he was playing in

476
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 2: the second best league in the world. At eighteen years old,

477
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:41,720
Speaker 2: he was the MVP of the second best league in

478
00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:46,120
Speaker 2: the world and won the championship. At twenty years old,

479
00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:49,719
Speaker 2: he was the NBA's Rookie of the Year. At twenty

480
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:52,880
Speaker 2: one years old, he was first team All NBA and

481
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:56,000
Speaker 2: scored forty two in his first career playoff game. At

482
00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 2: twenty two years old, he took the Clippers to seven

483
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:04,120
Speaker 2: games with no other even fringe all star on his roster,

484
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:08,400
Speaker 2: averaging thirty six eight and eight I think or something

485
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:10,360
Speaker 2: like thirty six ten and I'm not sure exactly what

486
00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:14,840
Speaker 2: is insane. At twenty three years old, he beat the

487
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:18,880
Speaker 2: number one seed en route to the conference finals. At

488
00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:23,320
Speaker 2: twenty four years old, had a weird down team's success year,

489
00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:25,480
Speaker 2: and at twenty five years old, he's about to be

490
00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:30,160
Speaker 2: in the finals. It is an unbelievable run to start

491
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:30,560
Speaker 2: his career.

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Speaker 3: Go ahead, he had those guys that were kind of

493
00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 3: dragging him down. I think you said when he.

494
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Speaker 4: Was twenty two, do you hold Yokic's twenty one and

495
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:42,160
Speaker 4: twenty twenty twenty one and twenty twenty two exits against

496
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:44,880
Speaker 4: him when he's playing with Austin Rivers.

497
00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:50,080
Speaker 2: Well, so, I don't so again there's an imagetween holding

498
00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:54,720
Speaker 2: it against you and acknowledging that it happened. I don't

499
00:30:54,720 --> 00:31:00,640
Speaker 2: hold it against you. But when Yannis was trying to

500
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:05,360
Speaker 2: defend his title and lost in seven in round two,

501
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 2: he didn't have Chris Middleton. It's again, we're not holding

502
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:13,160
Speaker 2: that against Giannis, but it is a real part of it.

503
00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:17,280
Speaker 2: And so there that was the series that Tatum had

504
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:19,680
Speaker 2: the forty six in game six and then they won

505
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:23,080
Speaker 2: game seven. Chris Middleton did not play one second in

506
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 2: that series. Yes, games are harder if you don't have

507
00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:30,600
Speaker 2: your best supporting cast. When Lebron lost in the finals

508
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:34,480
Speaker 2: to the Warriors the first time, Kevin Love didn't play

509
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:37,040
Speaker 2: one minute in that series, and Kyrie got hurt in

510
00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:40,520
Speaker 2: the game one of that series. Like that, those are

511
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 2: real factors here, and so it's just part of the

512
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:50,560
Speaker 2: I don't hold it against him, but he has not

513
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:56,480
Speaker 2: in my opinion, because of the loss this year with

514
00:31:56,600 --> 00:32:02,640
Speaker 2: a fully healthy team is not. Giannis's title defense ended

515
00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:05,480
Speaker 2: in round two in game seven to a team that

516
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:10,080
Speaker 2: didn't win the championship. Jokic's title defense ended in round

517
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:12,400
Speaker 2: two in game seven to a team that's not gonna

518
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:17,400
Speaker 2: win the championship, Like, it's just a lot of it

519
00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:22,240
Speaker 2: is what whoever you have leading that race, it's close.

520
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:27,440
Speaker 3: Say that is a basketball mastermind and Giannis is not.

521
00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 3: I know, the question or the topic here is which

522
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 3: which players better?

523
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:39,200
Speaker 2: And yeah, but yeah, that's true. That is true. Yannis

524
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:42,360
Speaker 2: is also arguably year in, you're out, the best defensive

525
00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:45,320
Speaker 2: player in the sport. And Jokis just you know, was

526
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:47,880
Speaker 2: a part of letting Karl Anthony Towns finally for the

527
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 2: first time in his career, have a good playoff series.

528
00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:54,560
Speaker 2: So it's just it's all the the I mean, that

529
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 2: is true. I thought Jokic's defense last postseason was excellent.

530
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:03,160
Speaker 2: I thought this postseason wasn't quite as good. And so

531
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:07,600
Speaker 2: those are those those are true stories. And so it's all.

532
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 2: And I know people talk about Yanni's not having a bag. Well,

533
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:18,360
Speaker 2: bagless Yannis won a championship by scoring fifty points in

534
00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:24,840
Speaker 2: Game six of the finals, and bagless Yannis, also, after

535
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:29,560
Speaker 2: it looked like he had blown out his knee, responded

536
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:35,360
Speaker 2: in those finals Game one, he was mediocre. When people

537
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:36,720
Speaker 2: thought he was going to be out for the year.

538
00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:41,720
Speaker 2: The rest of the finals, what he did was average.

539
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:44,480
Speaker 2: Let me give it to you exactly for games two

540
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:48,360
Speaker 2: through six of the finals thirty eight, twelve and five

541
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:54,640
Speaker 2: on sixty three percent shooting. So I again, Jokics is

542
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:58,000
Speaker 2: obviously you know, there are a lot of things Jokic

543
00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:01,200
Speaker 2: does better than Yannis shoot and pass, there's no question

544
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 2: about it. But he's not a more efficient scorer because

545
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:10,000
Speaker 2: Giannis has afficient of a high volume scorers we've ever seen,

546
00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:15,760
Speaker 2: and he's not in the same region defensively. I'm simply

547
00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:19,400
Speaker 2: saying it is a real argument. All right, let's move on.

548
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:24,640
Speaker 3: So finally, Negro League stats are officially being added into

549
00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 3: the MLB record books. The Negro League Hall of Fame

550
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:30,600
Speaker 3: is in Kansas City and has always been a big

551
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:33,239
Speaker 3: part of your life. What does this mean to the

552
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:36,400
Speaker 3: sport of baseball and also on a personal level to you?

553
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:39,279
Speaker 2: Okay, So I talked about this a bit on the

554
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:41,759
Speaker 2: TV show yesterday, So I don't want to be in

555
00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:46,040
Speaker 2: reruns here, but I fact of matter is this. I

556
00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:49,840
Speaker 2: was at the opening of the Negro League Museum when

557
00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 2: I was a little kid, and I really think it helped.

558
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:58,719
Speaker 2: It partially helped shape who I am. I really believe that,

559
00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:05,080
Speaker 2: Like I uh, I found it so captivating. I also

560
00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:10,160
Speaker 2: was so lucky to become friends with the legend and

561
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:15,799
Speaker 2: actual friends with the legendary Buck O'Neill, who passed in

562
00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:19,640
Speaker 2: two thousand and six, but was the voice and the

563
00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:25,200
Speaker 2: representative of the Negro leagues worldwide forever. To the point

564
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:30,040
Speaker 2: to where my dad demands when I was a teen,

565
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:33,319
Speaker 2: you know, I met Buck when I was twelve, I

566
00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:36,279
Speaker 2: think is when the when the museum opened where it

567
00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:39,520
Speaker 2: is now, it's on eighteenth and Vine. It's big, beautiful space.

568
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:44,640
Speaker 2: And then I would see him every year at the

569
00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:46,840
Speaker 2: galas and the things or whatever. I became really a

570
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:49,520
Speaker 2: big part of that museum. I was one of the

571
00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:52,200
Speaker 2: only kids who was in, you know, there all the time.

572
00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:56,839
Speaker 2: And Bob Kendrick, who's the president of museum, I've known

573
00:35:56,920 --> 00:36:01,160
Speaker 2: him forever, and so it's just been a big part.

574
00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 2: And Buck always remembered me to the point to where

575
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 2: Buck was doing a something, my dad was either speaking

576
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 2: at an event Buck was at, or Buck was speaking

577
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:16,080
Speaker 2: at an event my dad was at, and my dad

578
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:19,960
Speaker 2: went over to him and said, Hi, my name's Louis Wright.

579
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:24,560
Speaker 2: I think you know my son, And Buck said, oh,

580
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:28,000
Speaker 2: you're Nicky's father, and gave him a bit, like, so,

581
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:30,839
Speaker 2: I love that place and I love that man, and

582
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:37,120
Speaker 2: I think it is real history. And so I I

583
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:43,000
Speaker 2: talked about on the TV show, and I'm not gonna

584
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:45,400
Speaker 2: get fully into all of it right here. What I

585
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:48,400
Speaker 2: am going to do, though, is tell an unrelated story,

586
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:53,080
Speaker 2: because damn it, I want to. So on the TV show,

587
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:56,000
Speaker 2: I talked about the people who are upset about this

588
00:36:57,040 --> 00:37:02,879
Speaker 2: and how they're either just acting in faith or just racists,

589
00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:04,960
Speaker 2: like it's one of the two. And if you're like,

590
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:07,160
Speaker 2: I'm upset about this and I'm not a racist, well

591
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 2: then you're just acting in bad faith. And if you're like,

592
00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 2: I'm not acting in bad faith and I'm not a racist, Okay,

593
00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:14,839
Speaker 2: that's fine. You're just dumb, Like you pick the hat

594
00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:16,640
Speaker 2: you want to be in. You either dumb, acting in

595
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:19,320
Speaker 2: bad faith or a racist, I don't really care which whatever.

596
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:25,920
Speaker 2: And we can talk about why, like again, they're only

597
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:30,400
Speaker 2: including the stats that were in officially recognized Negro League games.

598
00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 2: That's why Josh Gibson is only getting one hundred and

599
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:35,759
Speaker 2: fifty some home runs. And it's like, oh, well, it's

600
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:39,279
Speaker 2: not fair because they weren't playing against the best competition.

601
00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:43,279
Speaker 2: The idea Okay, sure they weren't playing against all of

602
00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:46,160
Speaker 2: the best competition, but neither were the white guys in

603
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:49,160
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball. You know why, because the best black

604
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:52,240
Speaker 2: players weren't in that league. And we've recognized those stats forever.

605
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:55,600
Speaker 2: So all of these arguments are easily dismissed if you

606
00:37:55,719 --> 00:37:57,400
Speaker 2: really want to have them. But I don't want to

607
00:37:57,440 --> 00:37:59,360
Speaker 2: have them, and I told people on Twitter not to

608
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:03,560
Speaker 2: have them. But then I saw one guy who's in

609
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:08,280
Speaker 2: the media who is angry about this and chirping about

610
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:10,480
Speaker 2: this and on the wrong side of all these issues.

611
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:15,240
Speaker 2: And that guy's name is Mike North. Mike North hosted

612
00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:18,040
Speaker 2: a radio show in Chicago for thirty years and then

613
00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:23,440
Speaker 2: he hosted a talk show on Fox Sports Radio. And

614
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:30,000
Speaker 2: I am uh, I am here to say to Mike North,

615
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:40,520
Speaker 2: thank you, Mike, because if not for your truly unlistenably

616
00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:44,919
Speaker 2: awful radio show, I wouldn't have the job I have now.

617
00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:50,520
Speaker 2: So a story I've never told. I used to drive

618
00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:56,080
Speaker 2: in to do mornings in Houston at five in the morning,

619
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 2: Houston time to go do the radio show I did there.

620
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:06,680
Speaker 2: And the live radio show on Fox Sports Radio was

621
00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:12,920
Speaker 2: hosted by Mike North and someone else and I'm trying

622
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 2: to remember who it was. If one of the producers

623
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:19,040
Speaker 2: can try to google the who Mike North did the

624
00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:22,239
Speaker 2: radio show with on Fox Sports Radio State in my

625
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:24,960
Speaker 2: ear if you get it. But when I tell you,

626
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:31,960
Speaker 2: it was consistently the worst radio show in America, I

627
00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:35,520
Speaker 2: mean that every morning. But it was the only thing

628
00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:39,239
Speaker 2: that was like ESPN Radio at that time was basically

629
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:42,160
Speaker 2: replaying the audio version of Sports Center, so it was

630
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:45,040
Speaker 2: the only people talking, and it was just what was

631
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:47,400
Speaker 2: on on my way in. There's no local radio on

632
00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:49,080
Speaker 2: it that early in the morning, so I heard it

633
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:54,680
Speaker 2: every morning and every morning. Oh yeah, Andy Furman, Andy,

634
00:39:54,719 --> 00:40:00,480
Speaker 2: this is this is You were an unfair casualty in this. Now,

635
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:04,400
Speaker 2: maybe you listen, maybe you should have taken control of

636
00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:07,000
Speaker 2: the steering wheel a bit, But this is not about you, Andy,

637
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:10,600
Speaker 2: this about Mike. And I'm just telling you it was

638
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:14,560
Speaker 2: such a terrible show, and it was such a terrible

639
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Speaker 2: show Tomanse that I was like, you know what, I

640
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Speaker 2: should just have that job. And so I, on my

641
00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:31,160
Speaker 2: own dime, flew to Los Angeles in the fall of

642
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Speaker 2: twenty fifteen and set up a meeting with the two

643
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Speaker 2: guys who run Fox Sports Radio and I'm not going

644
00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:42,040
Speaker 2: to say their names, but they're great guys. I just

645
00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:44,080
Speaker 2: don't want them to be drawn into this because it's

646
00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:47,960
Speaker 2: a little unfair to them. They're great guys. And I

647
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:50,560
Speaker 2: had done some fill in work for them, and I

648
00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:54,440
Speaker 2: had just negotiated a new contract in Houston that allowed

649
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Speaker 2: me to leave mid contract for a national opportunity. And

650
00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:04,080
Speaker 2: I walked into their office and I said, and they're like,

651
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:07,960
Speaker 2: they were so nice, like Nick, you know, you know

652
00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:10,000
Speaker 2: we love you. We you know we have you fill

653
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:13,680
Speaker 2: in on our network and we didn't want it when

654
00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:15,560
Speaker 2: you said you wanted to come out. We didn't want

655
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:18,239
Speaker 2: to say no. But you know, you've come a long way.

656
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:22,040
Speaker 2: It's on your own dime. And you know, we don't

657
00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:24,880
Speaker 2: have any jobs, Like there's no like you can you know,

658
00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:28,600
Speaker 2: I don't. If you want a weekend show, we can

659
00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:30,719
Speaker 2: talk about that, but that's you're not gonna get. You know,

660
00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:32,799
Speaker 2: we could have done that on the phone. I'm like, no,

661
00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:38,520
Speaker 2: here's the deal. You guys know and I know your

662
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:42,200
Speaker 2: morning show is the worst radio show in the country,

663
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:47,720
Speaker 2: and you it can't be inexpensive. You have two guys,

664
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:51,560
Speaker 2: one of whom has done radio for thirty years. So

665
00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:55,360
Speaker 2: I'm telling you right now, I don't know what you

666
00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 2: are paying to do that show, but cut it in

667
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:03,000
Speaker 2: half and let me do it, and you will have

668
00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:05,600
Speaker 2: a show that is five times better for half the price.

669
00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:11,520
Speaker 2: I should have that job. And they were, I think,

670
00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:15,360
Speaker 2: taken aback, but they also knew I was right. And

671
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:20,360
Speaker 2: they they said, and I didn't know at the time

672
00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:27,120
Speaker 2: that they were had just that Colin had just agreed

673
00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:32,160
Speaker 2: to move from ESPN TV and radio to FS one

674
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:36,600
Speaker 2: TV and Fox Sports Radio, and this part of the

675
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:40,839
Speaker 2: story I've told before. And they said, well, listen, we're

676
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:43,600
Speaker 2: about to have some major things going on with Fox

677
00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:48,000
Speaker 2: Sports Radio and more of a direct partnership with Fox,

678
00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:50,520
Speaker 2: with Fox Sports One, which is what f S one

679
00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:53,520
Speaker 2: was called at the time. So we're not we don't

680
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:58,960
Speaker 2: want to launch any new shows without you know, that

681
00:42:59,040 --> 00:43:02,720
Speaker 2: show potentially having the real chance of being simulcast on TV.

682
00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:08,960
Speaker 2: So you know, if you can get a meeting with

683
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Speaker 2: the guy who just got hired to run Fox Sports

684
00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:15,759
Speaker 2: one and he like, you know what I mean, he

685
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:19,320
Speaker 2: thinks your show could potentially be simulcast, we can have

686
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:23,719
Speaker 2: a real conversation about this. So I ended up finagling

687
00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:25,719
Speaker 2: a meeting with the guy who used to run Fox

688
00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:31,680
Speaker 2: Sports One, Jamie Horowitz, and pitched him on, Hey, I

689
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:34,719
Speaker 2: just want you to sign off on if I get

690
00:43:34,719 --> 00:43:37,840
Speaker 2: a radio show, it you simulcasting it, because these guys

691
00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:39,400
Speaker 2: I think will give me a radio show because the

692
00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:42,919
Speaker 2: radio show they have currently hosted by Mike North is unlistenable.

693
00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:45,680
Speaker 2: And at the end of that meeting, Jamie said to me,

694
00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:47,719
Speaker 2: he was like, I just have one question for you.

695
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:50,719
Speaker 2: He's like, why have you not has asked me to

696
00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:52,719
Speaker 2: give you a job? And I'm like, well, I don't

697
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:55,040
Speaker 2: do TV. And he's like, well, I think you can

698
00:43:55,040 --> 00:44:00,080
Speaker 2: do TV, buddy, And that ended up being, you know,

699
00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:08,240
Speaker 2: ten auditions and eight months later, this job. So Mike North,

700
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:14,799
Speaker 2: God bless you man for consistently having the worst opinions

701
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:19,120
Speaker 2: in the world. If not for that, I'm not here.

702
00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:23,480
Speaker 2: And I had not thought of this guy in years.

703
00:44:24,239 --> 00:44:28,520
Speaker 2: And then I saw when Major League Baseball announced the

704
00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:34,239
Speaker 2: negro league stats we're gonna be incorporated that who's there

705
00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:38,920
Speaker 2: firing off tho, Oh my god, the woke mind virus

706
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:42,959
Speaker 2: is infiltrating our beloved baseball statistics. I'm like, it's my guy,

707
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:49,600
Speaker 2: my guy that changed my life. Shout out, buddy, quick break,

708
00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:57,920
Speaker 2: right back, What's right? All right? Welcome back in What's

709
00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:01,320
Speaker 2: Right with Nick? Right. We have a brand new segment

710
00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:07,919
Speaker 2: debuting in the C block, and I will explain that

711
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:10,320
Speaker 2: when we get there. We'll also get to your listener

712
00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:14,080
Speaker 2: questions and comments. But right now, demons, it's time for

713
00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:16,240
Speaker 2: a game we've done before. Go right ahead.

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Speaker 3: We are gonna be playing right in today. And first off,

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00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:25,719
Speaker 3: we got our guy Bronni here. It's new animation each time. Yes, yeah,

716
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:28,440
Speaker 3: So reports are that Bronni has had over ten workout

717
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Speaker 3: invites but has declined most of them. It will visit

718
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Speaker 3: at least the Suns and the Lakers. Weird move for

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00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:38,239
Speaker 3: somebody averaging less than five points per game. Bronni is

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Speaker 3: declining these invites because.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's not a one word answer. I'll say it again.

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Speaker 3: His dad is Lebron James. That's why he's declining the inlets.

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Speaker 2: So it's partially that it's partially because Clutch, for Good

724
00:45:56,800 --> 00:45:59,440
Speaker 2: or for Bad, does business a little differently than the

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00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:05,000
Speaker 2: last spot. Rich Paul and Clutch tried to steer clients

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Speaker 2: to certain spots where they think is best for them,

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Speaker 2: even if it annoys people in Ruffles Feathers. Clutch once

728
00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:15,360
Speaker 2: upon a time a few years ago, held their own

729
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:20,000
Speaker 2: basically NBA Combine just for clutch clients. They do things

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Speaker 2: and make a lot of other agents mad, but they

731
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Speaker 2: have seemed to be effective for their clients. Now, I

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Speaker 2: also want to clear up some misinformation about Bronni because

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00:46:29,239 --> 00:46:31,960
Speaker 2: Rich said Bronni is not going to take a two

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00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:35,560
Speaker 2: way contract, and a lot of people in the media

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Speaker 2: took that to mean Rich is saying Bronnie won't play

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Speaker 2: in the G League. That is not what a two

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Speaker 2: way contract means. That a two way contract is a

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Speaker 2: financial designation. It means you are paid half the league

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00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:54,360
Speaker 2: minimum and you can go back and forth between the

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Speaker 2: NBA team and the G League team if you can

741
00:46:58,200 --> 00:47:02,720
Speaker 2: be on a regular NBA contract and spend your whole

742
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:05,839
Speaker 2: rookie season in the G League. So, when Rich said

743
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:08,399
Speaker 2: Bronnie won't be signing a two way contract, it does

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00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:11,280
Speaker 2: not mean that he won't play in the G League.

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00:47:11,320 --> 00:47:15,480
Speaker 2: It does mean he's not going to agree to it's

746
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:19,279
Speaker 2: a financial basically demand. And now, if people want to

747
00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:22,839
Speaker 2: argue that a player in Brownie's position is not in

748
00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:27,240
Speaker 2: position to be making any demands, I understand people saying

749
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Speaker 2: that and thinking that, but this is a unique situation.

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Speaker 2: The Lakers have the fifty to fifth pick of the draft.

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00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:37,360
Speaker 2: There are only fifty eight guys that are going to

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Speaker 2: be taken in this draft. It's a fifty eight pick draft.

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00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:44,319
Speaker 2: If Bronni is there at fifty five, they are taking him.

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00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:49,000
Speaker 2: So when you have that built in floor, you then

755
00:47:50,040 --> 00:47:54,759
Speaker 2: can try to, you know, play a little more aggressive.

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00:47:55,640 --> 00:48:00,160
Speaker 2: And I don't think Lebron James is now I'm talking

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00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:02,880
Speaker 2: about Lebron now, Bronni is going to sign with the

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00:48:03,040 --> 00:48:06,879
Speaker 2: Sons for the league minimum. I don't think that's going

759
00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:08,640
Speaker 2: to happen, and that's the only way they could get him.

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00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:12,839
Speaker 2: I do think it's on the board that the Suns,

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00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:19,120
Speaker 2: because they are not well run, might spend the twenty

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Speaker 2: second pick of the draft on Bronni at hopes Lebron

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00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:29,680
Speaker 2: signs with them for the league minimum, and when he doesn't.

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Speaker 2: If and when he doesn't, well you just spend a

765
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:35,560
Speaker 2: first round pick on this guy. It's a guaranteed contract.

766
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:41,000
Speaker 2: You're invested in his success. So people cannot like the

767
00:48:41,120 --> 00:48:45,760
Speaker 2: fairness or optics or any of this. That's everyone's own.

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00:48:45,880 --> 00:48:50,440
Speaker 2: I'm obviously a little conflicted. You know, I have bias

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00:48:50,520 --> 00:48:54,160
Speaker 2: this year because I don't know Bronni, but I know

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00:48:54,200 --> 00:48:57,440
Speaker 2: people very close to him. I also think that while

771
00:48:57,480 --> 00:49:00,839
Speaker 2: people don't like the way Rich always does business, incredibly

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00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:04,839
Speaker 2: effective at advocating for his clients in a way better

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00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:07,960
Speaker 2: than almost any NBA agent that I can remember, and

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00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:10,000
Speaker 2: not worried about hurting people's feelings.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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00:49:12,280 --> 00:49:16,839
Speaker 2: The reality is that what they are doing everything they

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00:49:16,880 --> 00:49:21,440
Speaker 2: can to set Bronnie up for success, and the bigger

778
00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:24,640
Speaker 2: investment a team has in him, the more invested that

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00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:26,920
Speaker 2: team than is in his success.

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00:49:27,719 --> 00:49:27,839
Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Do you want to chime in on this or do

782
00:49:29,160 --> 00:49:31,839
Speaker 2: you want to move on to Monsey? No?

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00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:33,239
Speaker 3: I mean I thought I was a little crazy that

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00:49:33,280 --> 00:49:36,000
Speaker 3: he was declining invites, but I get like he's probably

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00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:38,160
Speaker 3: they're probably going about it so, like you said, it's

786
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Speaker 3: a unique situation, like going about it a.

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Speaker 2: Different Yeah, I mean it wouldn't be the case for

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00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:47,160
Speaker 2: other for other guys with his draft profile, there's no

789
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:49,040
Speaker 2: doubt about it. But he's not other guys with his

790
00:49:49,120 --> 00:49:51,560
Speaker 2: draft profile, So it just kind of is what it is,

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00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:52,280
Speaker 2: all right? Next?

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00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:55,880
Speaker 3: Uh, So the Pacers were swept in the Eastern Conference

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00:49:55,920 --> 00:49:58,440
Speaker 3: Finals by my Celtics, but hey, they had a pretty

794
00:49:58,440 --> 00:49:58,839
Speaker 3: good run.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot.

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00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:01,880
Speaker 3: There's a lot the so the East had a bunch

797
00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:04,160
Speaker 3: of injuries this year, and some young teams are ready

798
00:50:04,160 --> 00:50:07,200
Speaker 3: to take the lead. Boston's largest future threat in the

799
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Speaker 3: East is.

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Speaker 2: I think a healthy Yannis is the answer. I mean,

801
00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:17,279
Speaker 2: Yannis didn't play in the playoffs this year, and last year,

802
00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:20,680
Speaker 2: you know, got hurt in the playoffs and it wasn't

803
00:50:20,719 --> 00:50:23,800
Speaker 2: the same guy. I think the answer to healthy, honest

804
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:27,920
Speaker 2: if Philly, if they were to get Lebron is an

805
00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:30,239
Speaker 2: interesting one. And while I would like that to happen,

806
00:50:30,280 --> 00:50:32,160
Speaker 2: I don't think it's going to. We got Philly's got

807
00:50:32,200 --> 00:50:34,560
Speaker 2: all this cap space, so we got to see. I

808
00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:37,400
Speaker 2: don't look at the Pacers as like all the Pacers

809
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Speaker 2: they're the thunder of the West of the East. I

810
00:50:40,360 --> 00:50:42,360
Speaker 2: don't look at them like that at all. And I

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Speaker 2: don't think Halli Burton as close to the player Shay

812
00:50:44,680 --> 00:50:49,560
Speaker 2: is so a healthy Yiannis or the Knicks if they

813
00:50:49,600 --> 00:50:54,439
Speaker 2: add another real piece. I respect what the Knicks have done,

814
00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:56,680
Speaker 2: but they they don't as good as jalen Is. They

815
00:50:56,680 --> 00:50:58,319
Speaker 2: are still a piece away, all right.

816
00:50:58,400 --> 00:51:03,359
Speaker 3: Next, Alan Clark dropped a career high thirty points versus LA,

817
00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:06,400
Speaker 3: but it came to another loss, So the Fever at

818
00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:09,480
Speaker 3: now one in seven, despite Clark being the league's thirteenth

819
00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:15,520
Speaker 3: highest score after her first few games. Clark's adjusted adjusted

820
00:51:15,600 --> 00:51:17,160
Speaker 3: year one expectations are.

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Speaker 2: For me the same as that they were, that she

822
00:51:21,480 --> 00:51:25,200
Speaker 2: will be an All Star caliber player, that by the

823
00:51:25,480 --> 00:51:29,680
Speaker 2: end of the year she will be playing at the

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00:51:29,800 --> 00:51:32,240
Speaker 2: level of one of the ten best players in the league.

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00:51:32,480 --> 00:51:35,239
Speaker 2: I think that's going to happen now. I am not

826
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:39,760
Speaker 2: going to pretend as if I have watched the Fever

827
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:43,640
Speaker 2: closely enough to talk about why they're one in seven,

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00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:45,920
Speaker 2: what their biggest issues are. I know the number one

829
00:51:45,920 --> 00:51:49,480
Speaker 2: overall pick from last year who was who's also on

830
00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:51,120
Speaker 2: the Fever because they had the number one big back

831
00:51:51,239 --> 00:51:55,200
Speaker 2: back years Aleah Boston, after being awesome last season, had

832
00:51:55,200 --> 00:52:00,600
Speaker 2: struggled considerably. But Caitlin has been fine. Guys, Caitlyn has

833
00:52:00,640 --> 00:52:05,320
Speaker 2: been the only other rookie averaging more than seven points

834
00:52:05,320 --> 00:52:09,320
Speaker 2: a game. Is angel like in Angels, shooting like thirty

835
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Speaker 2: five percent as a big Caitlyn is playing, she does

836
00:52:15,239 --> 00:52:18,359
Speaker 2: she look like the best player in the league. No did.

837
00:52:18,520 --> 00:52:21,160
Speaker 2: I didn't. I was as high on Gitlan as anybody.

838
00:52:21,840 --> 00:52:23,279
Speaker 2: I didn't think she was gonna come in and be

839
00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:25,640
Speaker 2: better than Asia Wilson. I didn't think she was gonna

840
00:52:25,680 --> 00:52:28,200
Speaker 2: come in and be better than the very best player

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00:52:28,239 --> 00:52:32,799
Speaker 2: in the WNBA. Does she look like she is on

842
00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:36,160
Speaker 2: track to being one day the best player in the league?

843
00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:39,560
Speaker 2: I think so. Does she look like she is already

844
00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:42,040
Speaker 2: one of the better players in the league? I think so.

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00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:45,640
Speaker 2: The team stinks.

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00:52:44,320 --> 00:52:48,359
Speaker 3: Next Yeah, so the seventy six ers only have three

847
00:52:48,400 --> 00:52:50,600
Speaker 3: players roster for next year. In a ton of cap

848
00:52:50,640 --> 00:52:55,520
Speaker 3: space they have accumulated quite the wishless with it seems

849
00:52:55,520 --> 00:52:59,000
Speaker 3: like they're interested in Paul George Lebron or even trading

850
00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:03,719
Speaker 3: for Jimmy Butler again. Butler's feelings on a Philadelphia return.

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00:53:03,480 --> 00:53:06,560
Speaker 2: Would be Oh. I think that he would love it.

852
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:10,200
Speaker 2: I listen, Jimmy Butler wears out as welcome. I love Jimmy,

853
00:53:10,239 --> 00:53:13,680
Speaker 2: but the Heat seem annoyed with him. Chicago got everywhere

854
00:53:13,719 --> 00:53:16,160
Speaker 2: gets sick of Jimmy. Jimmy's a lot to deal with,

855
00:53:16,239 --> 00:53:18,520
Speaker 2: and now he's getting older and he's not as available.

856
00:53:19,520 --> 00:53:24,880
Speaker 2: I think that the Sixers obviously targeting Lebron would be amazing.

857
00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:28,719
Speaker 2: I think it is. I don't think it is guaranteed

858
00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:31,200
Speaker 2: Lebron is going back to the Lakers, but I think

859
00:53:31,239 --> 00:53:34,360
Speaker 2: it is likely he's going, you know, better than eighty

860
00:53:34,400 --> 00:53:36,880
Speaker 2: five percent of going back to the Lakers. Paul George

861
00:53:36,920 --> 00:53:40,399
Speaker 2: would be a great fit on that team, perfect fit,

862
00:53:40,960 --> 00:53:43,799
Speaker 2: and they've got the money. And so we'll see if

863
00:53:43,800 --> 00:53:47,240
Speaker 2: Paul George wants to leave the Clippers. All right, let's

864
00:53:47,280 --> 00:53:47,680
Speaker 2: go to.

865
00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:51,160
Speaker 3: The Obviously, still some hard feelings there with the whole

866
00:53:51,200 --> 00:53:52,839
Speaker 3: Tobias Harris over me thing.

867
00:53:53,080 --> 00:53:56,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, but again that was a different front office when

868
00:53:56,960 --> 00:53:59,160
Speaker 2: it's a different coach and it from front office, and

869
00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:02,000
Speaker 2: the only player who's still there is Embiid and Embiid

870
00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:04,880
Speaker 2: has been writing you love letters for years, like you

871
00:54:04,920 --> 00:54:08,280
Speaker 2: know what I mean. So the fans loved him, Embiid

872
00:54:08,320 --> 00:54:11,520
Speaker 2: loved him, and the guys who picked Tobias Hairs over

873
00:54:11,600 --> 00:54:14,279
Speaker 2: him are all gone, so that, you know, So it's

874
00:54:14,280 --> 00:54:17,120
Speaker 2: not quite to me. It wouldn't make sense, Like what

875
00:54:17,160 --> 00:54:20,440
Speaker 2: are you mad at the Liberty Bell? Like it's all different,

876
00:54:20,480 --> 00:54:22,480
Speaker 2: You're mad at the arena, all right?

877
00:54:22,560 --> 00:54:26,440
Speaker 3: Next, so the Vikings were allegedly trying to trade up

878
00:54:26,480 --> 00:54:29,399
Speaker 3: to draft theleak neighbors with the plan to trade Justin

879
00:54:29,440 --> 00:54:33,880
Speaker 3: Jefferson was looking for a record contract extension. The next

880
00:54:33,880 --> 00:54:35,960
Speaker 3: team Justin Jefferson will play for will be.

881
00:54:37,960 --> 00:54:40,040
Speaker 2: I think he's gonna keep playing for the Vikings. But

882
00:54:40,680 --> 00:54:45,480
Speaker 2: this was an underrated story that the Vikings you know,

883
00:54:45,560 --> 00:54:49,320
Speaker 2: were open to potentially trading Justin Jefferson, and they seem

884
00:54:49,480 --> 00:54:58,200
Speaker 2: to be legitimately, you know, anxious about giving him. Yeah,

885
00:54:58,239 --> 00:55:00,759
Speaker 2: I mean, but the way to fix it. Listen, Justin

886
00:55:00,800 --> 00:55:03,160
Speaker 2: Jefferson's gonna get thirty five million dollars a year as

887
00:55:03,160 --> 00:55:06,520
Speaker 2: a wide receiver. It's what's gonna happen. Now, you can

888
00:55:06,600 --> 00:55:09,000
Speaker 2: argue that's not smart money, but it's what's gonna happen.

889
00:55:09,320 --> 00:55:11,840
Speaker 2: The Vikings are gonna have to pay it. They just

890
00:55:11,960 --> 00:55:14,440
Speaker 2: drafted their quarterback. They you know what I mean there,

891
00:55:14,719 --> 00:55:17,760
Speaker 2: it's I don't know why they haven't paid it already,

892
00:55:18,080 --> 00:55:20,080
Speaker 2: but that's what's going to end up happening. All right,

893
00:55:20,080 --> 00:55:22,000
Speaker 2: I hear we have a bonus one.

894
00:55:22,320 --> 00:55:22,520
Speaker 3: Yeah.

895
00:55:22,840 --> 00:55:22,920
Speaker 5: Uh.

896
00:55:23,040 --> 00:55:25,840
Speaker 3: Nick Wright is doing blank. If not for the great

897
00:55:25,920 --> 00:55:26,799
Speaker 3: Mike North.

898
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:37,680
Speaker 2: I'm right now doing a show, probably a radio show

899
00:55:37,880 --> 00:55:43,319
Speaker 2: only on ESPN Radio. That's what I think. I think

900
00:55:43,400 --> 00:55:48,840
Speaker 2: that if if not for those dominoes, I think what

901
00:55:49,080 --> 00:55:52,480
Speaker 2: ended up would have happened would have been this. I

902
00:55:52,520 --> 00:55:56,040
Speaker 2: would have found out that Colin was going leaving ESPN

903
00:55:56,480 --> 00:56:00,640
Speaker 2: when everyone else did, and that ESPN Radio was doing

904
00:56:00,719 --> 00:56:04,600
Speaker 2: a reshuffling, and that you know LeBatard and you know

905
00:56:04,600 --> 00:56:07,359
Speaker 2: Bamani and then le Levatar and the Bimani. I don't

906
00:56:07,360 --> 00:56:10,040
Speaker 2: remember the order we're going to take over that time slot,

907
00:56:10,040 --> 00:56:12,480
Speaker 2: and there was a reordering there, and I think I

908
00:56:12,520 --> 00:56:16,319
Speaker 2: would have ended up, honestly, Demanse, I think we all

909
00:56:16,400 --> 00:56:22,880
Speaker 2: would have ended up moving probably to Bristol, Connecticut, and

910
00:56:22,960 --> 00:56:27,800
Speaker 2: I would have been doing like nights on ESPN Radio

911
00:56:28,640 --> 00:56:32,600
Speaker 2: and you know, eventually parlayed that into a bigger time

912
00:56:32,680 --> 00:56:36,439
Speaker 2: slot on the radio. I really believe that I had

913
00:56:36,520 --> 00:56:40,160
Speaker 2: never when I say I had never planned on doing TV. Guys,

914
00:56:40,480 --> 00:56:45,440
Speaker 2: when I was in college at Syracuse, the broadcast journalism

915
00:56:45,440 --> 00:56:49,200
Speaker 2: major the vast majority of his TV stuff, and I

916
00:56:49,320 --> 00:56:53,200
Speaker 2: remember saying, like in one of my TV classes, they

917
00:56:53,200 --> 00:56:55,160
Speaker 2: were like, so that you know, we're going to learn

918
00:56:55,200 --> 00:56:58,640
Speaker 2: to read off the prompter and I totally blew it off,

919
00:56:58,920 --> 00:57:00,839
Speaker 2: and the professor was kind of annoyed with me because

920
00:57:00,840 --> 00:57:04,480
Speaker 2: they're like, we know you're like you're into broadcasting, Like

921
00:57:04,560 --> 00:57:07,759
Speaker 2: this is you know, we know this is what you

922
00:57:07,880 --> 00:57:10,680
Speaker 2: want to do. And I just remember saying to them like,

923
00:57:11,040 --> 00:57:13,239
Speaker 2: I'm never gonna be on TV. I don't want to

924
00:57:13,239 --> 00:57:15,520
Speaker 2: be on TV. I'm not gonna be on TV. This

925
00:57:15,560 --> 00:57:18,240
Speaker 2: is kind of a waste of my time. Like uh

926
00:57:18,320 --> 00:57:20,760
Speaker 2: And and by the way, that's a lesson for young

927
00:57:20,800 --> 00:57:23,040
Speaker 2: people out there, because to this day I'm not good

928
00:57:23,080 --> 00:57:25,240
Speaker 2: reading now. Luckily, for my job, I don't really ever

929
00:57:25,280 --> 00:57:29,080
Speaker 2: have to read off a prompter, but sometimes I do. Uh.

930
00:57:29,120 --> 00:57:31,000
Speaker 2: And you never know where things are gonna take you.

931
00:57:31,040 --> 00:57:33,960
Speaker 2: But yeah, I would have just kept doing rad you

932
00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:38,800
Speaker 2: know what I mean, kept doing radio. I And so yeah,

933
00:57:38,880 --> 00:57:40,880
Speaker 2: you said, I mean, life's weird.

934
00:57:41,520 --> 00:57:44,919
Speaker 3: TV more than radio, Like do you enjoy doing TV more?

935
00:57:45,160 --> 00:57:50,400
Speaker 2: Well, so more? It's so different. It's I don't think

936
00:57:50,440 --> 00:57:53,640
Speaker 2: I love it more. I think that. Listen, since I've

937
00:57:53,640 --> 00:57:56,800
Speaker 2: been doing the TV show, I either have had the

938
00:57:56,920 --> 00:57:59,600
Speaker 2: radio show, because remember then I did do a radio

939
00:57:59,600 --> 00:58:02,760
Speaker 2: show for two years, maybe longer a mad dog was

940
00:58:02,760 --> 00:58:04,640
Speaker 2: it three years? Two years, I don't remember how long

941
00:58:04,960 --> 00:58:08,120
Speaker 2: at nights, and now I do this, which is like

942
00:58:08,200 --> 00:58:11,040
Speaker 2: a radio show to me. This is way closer to

943
00:58:11,080 --> 00:58:15,720
Speaker 2: a radio show than a TV show. And so I

944
00:58:16,520 --> 00:58:21,800
Speaker 2: love the the The cool thing about radio is the

945
00:58:21,840 --> 00:58:24,560
Speaker 2: audience gets to know you as a human being. They

946
00:58:24,560 --> 00:58:26,360
Speaker 2: get to know your whatever you want to share of

947
00:58:26,360 --> 00:58:29,280
Speaker 2: your personal life and your family. You can have long

948
00:58:29,560 --> 00:58:33,760
Speaker 2: form discussions, right, and so all of that's cool. Cool

949
00:58:33,760 --> 00:58:36,320
Speaker 2: thing about TV is you get to be famous and

950
00:58:36,360 --> 00:58:38,200
Speaker 2: they pay you a lot of money and so, like

951
00:58:38,280 --> 00:58:42,920
Speaker 2: you know, there's a I mean it and you can

952
00:58:43,040 --> 00:58:45,800
Speaker 2: see so there's a give and take to all of it.

953
00:58:46,560 --> 00:58:51,520
Speaker 2: But I don't think intellectually I would. I don't think that.

954
00:58:51,720 --> 00:58:55,080
Speaker 2: I think that I and again, I have never had

955
00:58:55,160 --> 00:58:58,040
Speaker 2: more fun. The most fun I've ever had in my

956
00:58:58,200 --> 00:59:04,040
Speaker 2: career doing my show is the number one draft pick

957
00:59:04,160 --> 00:59:07,760
Speaker 2: is First Things First, right Now with Bruin Wilds. And

958
00:59:07,800 --> 00:59:11,040
Speaker 2: the number two draft pick is What's Right with Nick

959
00:59:11,080 --> 00:59:14,960
Speaker 2: Wright When I was on in the afternoons in Kansas

960
00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:20,640
Speaker 2: City with Carmen Carrington and Jared Carter the producer, you

961
00:59:20,720 --> 00:59:22,960
Speaker 2: know what I mean, like that crew, you know, So

962
00:59:23,080 --> 00:59:27,000
Speaker 2: that was so like those So those are the two

963
00:59:27,120 --> 00:59:33,080
Speaker 2: most fun I've ever had. Uh, And so I love, love,

964
00:59:33,200 --> 00:59:35,520
Speaker 2: love what I'm doing. I was joking about it just

965
00:59:35,560 --> 00:59:38,800
Speaker 2: being about the you know them that come along with TV.

966
00:59:39,120 --> 00:59:41,960
Speaker 2: But it's just different. It's different to being like, Hey,

967
00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:46,720
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give a thirty minute atman like things that

968
00:59:46,760 --> 00:59:52,440
Speaker 2: go along with something like added benefits is I guess

969
00:59:52,480 --> 00:59:56,040
Speaker 2: the way the word that is what it would mean. Um,

970
00:59:57,040 --> 01:00:00,840
Speaker 2: but uh, they're just very, very different animal. And I

971
01:00:00,880 --> 01:00:04,960
Speaker 2: would say to anybody that wants to do anything in

972
01:00:05,160 --> 01:00:09,600
Speaker 2: media sports media in particular, there is no better training

973
01:00:09,640 --> 01:00:13,240
Speaker 2: than solo radio. You're out there with just your words.

974
01:00:14,040 --> 01:00:18,640
Speaker 2: You've got to create compelling, long form thoughts and arguments

975
01:00:18,920 --> 01:00:23,280
Speaker 2: with just your words. And if you can successfully do

976
01:00:23,440 --> 01:00:28,240
Speaker 2: a listenable, much less captivating radio show, there's you can

977
01:00:28,240 --> 01:00:31,560
Speaker 2: do almost anything in media, in my opinion, A brand

978
01:00:31,600 --> 01:00:38,200
Speaker 2: new segment involving motor sports next plus listener questions, What's right?

979
01:00:44,320 --> 01:00:47,040
Speaker 2: All right? Welcome back in What's Right? With Nick rat Okay,

980
01:00:47,120 --> 01:00:52,640
Speaker 2: So like a year ago demanse maybe longer. The producers

981
01:00:52,720 --> 01:00:56,000
Speaker 2: mostly I think Kara tried to get me to start

982
01:00:56,000 --> 01:00:59,840
Speaker 2: incorporating f one into the show. That that that that

983
01:01:00,320 --> 01:01:03,240
Speaker 2: Netflix show was it Drive to Survive or Drive for

984
01:01:03,360 --> 01:01:05,560
Speaker 2: five or I don't know. I haven't watched it. I'm

985
01:01:05,560 --> 01:01:09,480
Speaker 2: gonna watch it. Though now had taken the world by storm.

986
01:01:09,960 --> 01:01:13,280
Speaker 2: Everybody loved people were super into F one, it was

987
01:01:13,280 --> 01:01:17,120
Speaker 2: getting bigger ratings, and I simply said, I don't know

988
01:01:17,160 --> 01:01:19,560
Speaker 2: anything about it and I don't watch it, and I

989
01:01:19,600 --> 01:01:22,120
Speaker 2: also kind of thought it would go away, but it's

990
01:01:22,120 --> 01:01:29,000
Speaker 2: not going away. People like it. And so I was like, Okay,

991
01:01:29,040 --> 01:01:31,479
Speaker 2: but if I can't talk about it, and demons can't

992
01:01:31,520 --> 01:01:34,400
Speaker 2: talk about it, and Diora when she's here, she can't

993
01:01:34,400 --> 01:01:37,760
Speaker 2: talk about it, what are we gonna do? Little did

994
01:01:37,800 --> 01:01:44,240
Speaker 2: I know that the first I don't know if you

995
01:01:44,320 --> 01:01:49,280
Speaker 2: know this about me, the first infant I ever held,

996
01:01:50,080 --> 01:01:54,560
Speaker 2: my goddaughter, Sierra, who is the one of the only

997
01:01:54,640 --> 01:01:58,240
Speaker 2: people still in my life that I've known longer than

998
01:01:58,240 --> 01:02:01,920
Speaker 2: I've known you. That I'm I've known her her entire life,

999
01:02:03,040 --> 01:02:06,680
Speaker 2: and she is now not much longer than I've known you.

1000
01:02:06,720 --> 01:02:09,120
Speaker 2: But she's nineteen, you know what I mean, So a

1001
01:02:09,120 --> 01:02:13,280
Speaker 2: little bit, you know, a few years longer. So my

1002
01:02:13,400 --> 01:02:16,560
Speaker 2: goddaughter and I again, I should be fair because you'll

1003
01:02:16,560 --> 01:02:20,120
Speaker 2: probably see this. I don't think technically she's my goddaughter,

1004
01:02:20,160 --> 01:02:26,280
Speaker 2: but she's my goddaughter, Sierra Faddel. She is an aspiring

1005
01:02:27,120 --> 01:02:33,320
Speaker 2: sports journalist and a huge F one fan. So here

1006
01:02:33,440 --> 01:02:36,800
Speaker 2: is what we are going to do. There are races

1007
01:02:36,840 --> 01:02:40,480
Speaker 2: evidently every couple of weeks. They're not every week, but

1008
01:02:40,640 --> 01:02:44,400
Speaker 2: on Thursday shows, before a race, she's going to have

1009
01:02:44,560 --> 01:02:48,080
Speaker 2: sent in an F one minute, and on Tuesday shows

1010
01:02:48,200 --> 01:02:52,080
Speaker 2: after a race, she's gonna give us an F one recap. Also,

1011
01:02:53,080 --> 01:02:57,320
Speaker 2: I am not going to I am whatever coaching or

1012
01:02:57,360 --> 01:03:00,320
Speaker 2: critiquing I have on her an aspiring night ten year

1013
01:03:00,360 --> 01:03:06,040
Speaker 2: old broadcaster is only going to come after the clips air.

1014
01:03:07,040 --> 01:03:12,360
Speaker 2: So every time she sends something in, it's what's getting aired.

1015
01:03:12,720 --> 01:03:15,880
Speaker 2: This is the best training and practice for her possible,

1016
01:03:16,480 --> 01:03:19,440
Speaker 2: and so the audience will get to see her evolution

1017
01:03:19,600 --> 01:03:23,520
Speaker 2: and growth as a broadcaster. Now it turns out there

1018
01:03:23,640 --> 01:03:27,240
Speaker 2: is not a race this weekend, but so what I

1019
01:03:27,320 --> 01:03:30,640
Speaker 2: thought made sense was for those of us that haven't

1020
01:03:30,680 --> 01:03:34,320
Speaker 2: been following or don't know anything about it, and eventually

1021
01:03:34,360 --> 01:03:36,720
Speaker 2: in the summer we might want something to gamble on,

1022
01:03:37,080 --> 01:03:39,240
Speaker 2: which is another benefit from this that we could learn

1023
01:03:39,320 --> 01:03:43,040
Speaker 2: a little bit and do something with it. So what Sierra,

1024
01:03:43,560 --> 01:03:47,080
Speaker 2: our F one correspondent is doing in her debut video

1025
01:03:47,520 --> 01:03:51,200
Speaker 2: is giving us. I told her I needed a ninety

1026
01:03:51,400 --> 01:03:55,200
Speaker 2: second recap of the season. That's not an easy task,

1027
01:03:55,600 --> 01:03:59,600
Speaker 2: but so I'm going into this blind as are you.

1028
01:04:00,320 --> 01:04:04,000
Speaker 2: This is catching us up on the twenty twenty four

1029
01:04:04,200 --> 01:04:08,040
Speaker 2: Formula One season in ninety seconds or less by our

1030
01:04:08,200 --> 01:04:12,760
Speaker 2: F one correspondent, the lovely and talented Sierra Fidel take

1031
01:04:12,800 --> 01:04:13,200
Speaker 2: it away.

1032
01:04:14,440 --> 01:04:16,720
Speaker 5: Since the twenty twenty four from the one season has

1033
01:04:16,720 --> 01:04:19,120
Speaker 5: already started, we have eight out of the twenty four

1034
01:04:19,120 --> 01:04:21,720
Speaker 5: Grand Prix under our belts already. But out of these

1035
01:04:21,760 --> 01:04:25,400
Speaker 5: eight races, Max Verstappen has won all but three, because

1036
01:04:25,480 --> 01:04:29,200
Speaker 5: Max Verstappen is the world champion and has been since

1037
01:04:29,240 --> 01:04:32,080
Speaker 5: twenty twenty one. Now these three races that he hasn't

1038
01:04:32,120 --> 01:04:35,000
Speaker 5: won have been won by the Ferrari driver Carlos Signs

1039
01:04:35,000 --> 01:04:37,880
Speaker 5: in Australia, and then the second is by Lando Norris

1040
01:04:37,880 --> 01:04:41,040
Speaker 5: at McLaren he won his maiden win in Miami. And

1041
01:04:41,080 --> 01:04:44,080
Speaker 5: then the third is the other Ferrari driver, Charles the Clerk,

1042
01:04:44,080 --> 01:04:46,280
Speaker 5: who won for the first time in Monaco as his

1043
01:04:46,360 --> 01:04:48,840
Speaker 5: home race. In the duration of EP one season, we

1044
01:04:48,960 --> 01:04:53,120
Speaker 5: have two championships happening simultaneously. We have the Drivers Championship

1045
01:04:53,320 --> 01:04:56,240
Speaker 5: for the drivers obviously, and then we have the Constructors Championship,

1046
01:04:56,280 --> 01:04:59,640
Speaker 5: which is for the teams. Now, after a Grand Prix weekend,

1047
01:04:59,720 --> 01:05:02,200
Speaker 5: a set of points are rewarded to the teams and

1048
01:05:02,240 --> 01:05:05,640
Speaker 5: the drivers based on their performance. Now, the current stats

1049
01:05:05,640 --> 01:05:08,200
Speaker 5: for the drivers championship is of course max Or Sappin

1050
01:05:08,320 --> 01:05:10,680
Speaker 5: leading with one hundred and sixty nine points, and then

1051
01:05:10,760 --> 01:05:13,600
Speaker 5: Charles Leclerk with one hundred and thirty eight, Landa Norris

1052
01:05:13,600 --> 01:05:15,840
Speaker 5: with one hundred and thirteen, and Carlos Signs with one

1053
01:05:15,920 --> 01:05:19,240
Speaker 5: hundred and eight points. Now for the constructors championship, we

1054
01:05:19,320 --> 01:05:21,560
Speaker 5: have Red Bull Racing of course leading with two hundred

1055
01:05:21,600 --> 01:05:24,400
Speaker 5: and seventy six points, and then we have Ferrari with

1056
01:05:24,400 --> 01:05:27,520
Speaker 5: two hundred and fifty two. Third place is for McLaren

1057
01:05:27,560 --> 01:05:30,000
Speaker 5: with one hundred and eighty four, and then fourth place

1058
01:05:30,120 --> 01:05:32,640
Speaker 5: is Mercedes with ninety six. Now these are just the

1059
01:05:32,680 --> 01:05:35,200
Speaker 5: top four in both the drivers and the constructors, but

1060
01:05:35,240 --> 01:05:38,600
Speaker 5: they go all the way to the entire grid.

1061
01:05:39,800 --> 01:05:43,080
Speaker 2: There. It is our first ever f one minute. I

1062
01:05:43,120 --> 01:05:46,120
Speaker 2: think I'm officially now a Carlos signs guy. I don't

1063
01:05:46,120 --> 01:05:47,560
Speaker 2: know who he is, but I like the cut of

1064
01:05:47,560 --> 01:05:50,800
Speaker 2: his jib. It sounds like he won a race first.

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01:05:50,800 --> 01:05:53,360
Speaker 2: Stappen just wins every year and wins every race. That's

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01:05:53,400 --> 01:05:56,520
Speaker 2: no fun. I'm gonna be a Carlos signs guy. I

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Speaker 2: don't know where the next race is or when it is,

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Speaker 2: but we'll hear from it again. What'd you think think?

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Speaker 2: What do you think? Demand?

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Speaker 3: I thought that was awesome. She did great.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's and Demand grew up with. That's her first

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01:06:09,640 --> 01:06:11,520
Speaker 2: time doing it for us, and that was her first take.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if it was her first take, but

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Speaker 2: she sent me one video. I told I was like,

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01:06:16,000 --> 01:06:17,880
Speaker 2: do whatever you want to do, but send me one

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Speaker 2: video and so and Karen Daniel, who seemed to know

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Speaker 2: about f one, said she did a good job. Here's

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Speaker 2: the other thing I'm gonna tell you, guys, I'm not

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01:06:27,280 --> 01:06:30,520
Speaker 2: fact checking these that could have all been wrong. I

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01:06:30,560 --> 01:06:33,520
Speaker 2: have no idea. I'm gonna need you guys to be

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01:06:33,600 --> 01:06:36,560
Speaker 2: our arm budsman because in the meantime, I know nothing

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01:06:36,600 --> 01:06:41,200
Speaker 2: about it, and so I hope it's accurate, but I

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01:06:41,280 --> 01:06:43,520
Speaker 2: know nothing about it. All right, Demante, quickly, let's do

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01:06:43,600 --> 01:06:44,480
Speaker 2: some questions here.

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Speaker 3: We love you. Cecie Justin Justin Field probably ask why

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01:06:51,160 --> 01:06:54,120
Speaker 3: am I doing running back drills? We think we're gonna

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01:06:54,160 --> 01:06:56,480
Speaker 3: show the video for those watching them on YouTube.

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Speaker 2: So I'm not gonna kill him for this. I think

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01:06:59,400 --> 01:07:02,360
Speaker 2: that's smart. I see see here's the thing. I think

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01:07:02,400 --> 01:07:06,280
Speaker 2: that's smart because he's doing quarterback drills as well, but

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01:07:06,360 --> 01:07:10,040
Speaker 2: running a big part of his game. Yeah, well, that

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01:07:10,080 --> 01:07:14,560
Speaker 2: part's true. I mean that parts. Know that part's true,

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01:07:14,800 --> 01:07:15,120
Speaker 2: all right?

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01:07:15,240 --> 01:07:20,800
Speaker 3: Next, Jack Fisher, as is the thunder ceiling around what

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01:07:20,840 --> 01:07:23,920
Speaker 3: the Celtics are now a lot of really good players,

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01:07:23,920 --> 01:07:27,120
Speaker 3: but nobody who is truly great Top fifteen ever or

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01:07:27,120 --> 01:07:29,200
Speaker 3: do you think SGA can be that guy?

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01:07:30,200 --> 01:07:32,520
Speaker 2: Well, listen, I don't think SGA can be top fifteen ever.

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01:07:34,000 --> 01:07:40,960
Speaker 2: But can SGA be a consistent frontline MVP candidate in

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01:07:41,000 --> 01:07:45,040
Speaker 2: the way Tatum hasn't been. I'll be honest, I don't

1101
01:07:45,080 --> 01:07:49,320
Speaker 2: think so, but everyone else does. I think SGA is

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01:07:49,360 --> 01:07:54,360
Speaker 2: exactly in that Tatum tier of like not actually uh

1103
01:07:54,600 --> 01:07:57,480
Speaker 2: consistent top five best player in the league, but right

1104
01:07:57,520 --> 01:08:01,080
Speaker 2: in that six seven eight range. But the under I

1105
01:08:01,120 --> 01:08:04,800
Speaker 2: mean the thunder. I have so many assets and chats

1106
01:08:04,840 --> 01:08:07,800
Speaker 2: good and Jalen Williams is good, and they have a

1107
01:08:07,800 --> 01:08:10,640
Speaker 2: smart coach and the smart front office. So I don't

1108
01:08:10,640 --> 01:08:13,160
Speaker 2: know what they're this is. You know, they're just getting started.

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01:08:13,360 --> 01:08:16,200
Speaker 2: The weird thing is SGA is older than you think.

1110
01:08:16,880 --> 01:08:21,200
Speaker 2: Tatum's twenty six. SGA's twenty five Lucas twenty five SGA.

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01:08:21,240 --> 01:08:23,439
Speaker 2: I found that out on this show. I remember you

1112
01:08:23,520 --> 01:08:26,280
Speaker 2: guys corrected me that Sga is older than Luca, and

1113
01:08:26,280 --> 01:08:27,280
Speaker 2: I couldn't believe.

1114
01:08:27,000 --> 01:08:31,160
Speaker 3: It all right, Next, Austin Tatt is this the worst

1115
01:08:31,200 --> 01:08:34,879
Speaker 3: long term situation? Is this the worst long term situation

1116
01:08:35,000 --> 01:08:38,080
Speaker 3: for the Celtics to make the finals Eastern Conference finals

1117
01:08:38,080 --> 01:08:40,839
Speaker 3: every year, never get over the hump due to coaching,

1118
01:08:40,880 --> 01:08:44,280
Speaker 3: and then never have a reason to fire Missoula.

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01:08:44,600 --> 01:08:47,519
Speaker 2: Well, so listen, I think we're getting ahead of yourself there.

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01:08:47,600 --> 01:08:51,559
Speaker 2: I don't I'm not impressed consistently by Missoula. Let's see

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01:08:51,600 --> 01:08:53,479
Speaker 2: how he does in these finals. You're obviously not going

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01:08:53,520 --> 01:08:56,479
Speaker 2: to fire him if they lose in the finals. But

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01:08:57,400 --> 01:09:00,680
Speaker 2: I think that depending on how these finals go, A

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01:09:00,760 --> 01:09:04,280
Speaker 2: lot of guys like if the Celtics get this close again,

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01:09:04,840 --> 01:09:08,439
Speaker 2: I think it is very important for the Celtics. Obviously,

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01:09:08,479 --> 01:09:11,240
Speaker 2: if they win the championship, nothing matters, but if they

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01:09:11,240 --> 01:09:13,880
Speaker 2: don't win, it's very important for this to be a

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01:09:13,960 --> 01:09:17,720
Speaker 2: great series. What can't happen for the Celtics is for

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01:09:17,800 --> 01:09:21,000
Speaker 2: them to roll through the injured Eastern Conference and then

1130
01:09:21,040 --> 01:09:23,639
Speaker 2: get whacked by a team A lot of people think

1131
01:09:23,800 --> 01:09:25,960
Speaker 2: was maybe the fourth or fifth best in the West

1132
01:09:26,000 --> 01:09:28,960
Speaker 2: this year. That can't happen next yep.

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01:09:29,479 --> 01:09:32,600
Speaker 3: Carl Weezer asked, why hasn't the media killed Jokic for

1134
01:09:32,640 --> 01:09:35,880
Speaker 3: his playoff exit. He's supposed to be the best player

1135
01:09:35,880 --> 01:09:39,479
Speaker 3: in the league, and any other superstar best player would

1136
01:09:39,520 --> 01:09:40,120
Speaker 3: have been cooked.

1137
01:09:41,320 --> 01:09:43,680
Speaker 2: So I don't think that's really true. I think you

1138
01:09:43,800 --> 01:09:48,120
Speaker 2: only would get cooked if they had this exit because

1139
01:09:48,160 --> 01:09:52,240
Speaker 2: he played so poorly. I thought Jokic in this second

1140
01:09:52,360 --> 01:09:58,439
Speaker 2: round was overall and as I thought games four and five,

1141
01:09:58,640 --> 01:10:02,560
Speaker 2: he was a quadrue plus. He obviously wasn't great in

1142
01:10:02,600 --> 01:10:06,439
Speaker 2: the opening two games, and I don't put the last

1143
01:10:06,439 --> 01:10:09,320
Speaker 2: two games on him, but he wasn't, you know, getting

1144
01:10:09,360 --> 01:10:11,800
Speaker 2: beat by fifty in game six and then blowing a

1145
01:10:11,840 --> 01:10:14,200
Speaker 2: twenty point lead in game seven. It's gotta fall on

1146
01:10:14,280 --> 01:10:16,400
Speaker 2: him a bit. Again, I feel similar to how I

1147
01:10:16,400 --> 01:10:20,080
Speaker 2: felt about Giannis when he lost in round two. It

1148
01:10:20,200 --> 01:10:22,320
Speaker 2: is like it wasn't on him, So I don't. I

1149
01:10:22,320 --> 01:10:23,880
Speaker 2: don't think he needs to get killed for it. The

1150
01:10:23,920 --> 01:10:26,679
Speaker 2: only guy whoever would get by the way, Steph didn't

1151
01:10:26,680 --> 01:10:30,120
Speaker 2: get killed when he lost as the defending champ in

1152
01:10:30,280 --> 01:10:33,320
Speaker 2: round two last year and threw the ball away. The

1153
01:10:33,320 --> 01:10:35,599
Speaker 2: only guy who ever gets killed for this stuff is Lebron.

1154
01:10:36,040 --> 01:10:39,240
Speaker 2: Everybody else mostly gets passes unless it happens again and

1155
01:10:39,280 --> 01:10:39,960
Speaker 2: again and again.

1156
01:10:40,160 --> 01:10:45,880
Speaker 3: All right, next, Buffy, Lucky Choples. I know you said

1157
01:10:45,880 --> 01:10:47,960
Speaker 3: there's no chance in the three to zero comeback, But

1158
01:10:48,080 --> 01:10:50,519
Speaker 3: if it was to happen, would you pick who would

1159
01:10:50,560 --> 01:10:51,880
Speaker 3: you pick for the finals?

1160
01:10:54,080 --> 01:10:57,439
Speaker 2: Oh? I mean if Minnesota won fourth, I would say

1161
01:10:57,439 --> 01:11:00,479
Speaker 2: I think Minnesota would be out of gas. But also

1162
01:11:00,520 --> 01:11:02,599
Speaker 2: that would mean they were down three to two against

1163
01:11:02,600 --> 01:11:05,040
Speaker 2: the defending champs and one and then the first team

1164
01:11:05,080 --> 01:11:07,160
Speaker 2: ever to come back from down three to oh to win.

1165
01:11:07,479 --> 01:11:09,000
Speaker 2: It'd be hard to pick against some.

1166
01:11:08,920 --> 01:11:11,559
Speaker 3: Of the between the next series and they got to

1167
01:11:11,680 --> 01:11:12,320
Speaker 3: rest it with.

1168
01:11:12,360 --> 01:11:16,599
Speaker 2: Dallas right and during the series. But they're not gonna

1169
01:11:16,600 --> 01:11:19,559
Speaker 2: come back. Uh, they're not gonna come back to win it.

1170
01:11:19,680 --> 01:11:24,960
Speaker 2: All right, let's go to let's go to Sam Davison's question. Demonse.

1171
01:11:26,120 --> 01:11:29,880
Speaker 3: Sam Davison said, can't believe PJ. Washington does this podcast

1172
01:11:29,920 --> 01:11:31,080
Speaker 3: with Nick on a game day?

1173
01:11:32,400 --> 01:11:36,479
Speaker 2: Do you think you look like PJ. Washington? No, No,

1174
01:11:36,600 --> 01:11:36,840
Speaker 2: I don't.

1175
01:11:37,200 --> 01:11:39,640
Speaker 3: I don't see it.

1176
01:11:38,920 --> 01:11:41,240
Speaker 2: On Oh you've heard it before?

1177
01:11:42,360 --> 01:11:45,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I hear it. At work a little bit.

1178
01:11:45,680 --> 01:11:49,360
Speaker 3: Hear it at work from Maddy. Yeah, I've heard it

1179
01:11:49,400 --> 01:11:51,719
Speaker 3: from it, but I hear the most.

1180
01:11:53,040 --> 01:11:56,160
Speaker 2: But yeah, well the Jordan Poole thing, I do see.

1181
01:11:56,560 --> 01:11:59,479
Speaker 2: But I also think that's because I used to think,

1182
01:11:59,520 --> 01:12:01,919
Speaker 2: you guys when he was with the Warriors played similar

1183
01:12:01,920 --> 01:12:04,720
Speaker 2: styles of basketball, so like I didn't know if that

1184
01:12:04,880 --> 01:12:07,719
Speaker 2: was polluting my you know what I mean, polluting my brain.

1185
01:12:07,800 --> 01:12:10,639
Speaker 2: And again, Warriors Jordan Poole was peak Jordan Poole. I'm

1186
01:12:10,640 --> 01:12:13,479
Speaker 2: not talking about Wizards Jordan Poole. Goofy Jordan Poole game.

1187
01:12:15,840 --> 01:12:17,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah, I get what you said.

1188
01:12:17,680 --> 01:12:20,360
Speaker 2: What a great way to end the pod. That's perfect,

1189
01:12:20,360 --> 01:12:22,759
Speaker 2: all right to mon' say call me later. Great job everyone,

1190
01:12:22,840 --> 01:12:26,480
Speaker 2: Great job to the Internet people. I mean this was flawless.

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01:12:26,880 --> 01:12:30,040
Speaker 2: Talk to you guys on Tuesday. Great job CC as well.

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01:12:30,040 --> 01:12:34,120
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