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Speaker 1: out for you every single night. So uh, the Knicks

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Speaker 1: are getting worked by the Kings right now.

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Speaker 3: But it's fine. You can't stop him. You can only

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Speaker 3: hope to contain them.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a five or six point game in

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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. The Knicks will take over in the

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Speaker 1: final four minutes. That's what's gonna happen tonight. I'd just

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Speaker 1: like every Knicks game, every Knicks game, right, you don't

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Speaker 1: out execute the Knicks in the final four minutes of

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Speaker 1: the game, everything is fine.

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Speaker 4: Just like the theory that you punch yourself out a right,

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Speaker 4: if you're in a boxing ra it's like, keep going,

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Speaker 4: keep swinging. There a tough ger, sure, and then you

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Speaker 4: get ready for the knockout blow in the final round.

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Speaker 4: Is that what you're doing now?

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Speaker 1: If you thought the Ja Moran stuff was fun, well,

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Speaker 1: the drama with Lebron James the last twenty four hours

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Speaker 1: has been It's been even for Lebron. It's been over

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Speaker 1: the top. And that's saying something right for Lebron, who

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Speaker 1: loves controversy, loves it being about him all that this

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Speaker 1: is even over the top. Now. This manifests itself from

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Speaker 1: a podcast that Rich Paul did a few days ago

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Speaker 1: talking about what the Lakers should do with the trade

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Speaker 1: deadline and what Rich Paul again clutch Sports, Lebron's agent.

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Speaker 1: It's synonymous with Lebron James. Rich Paul's idea was to hey,

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Speaker 1: Lakers got to make a big trade at the deadline.

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Speaker 1: How about if it's Scottie Pippen. How about if they

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Speaker 1: trade the new number two guy? What if they trade

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Speaker 1: Austin Reeves.

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Speaker 5: First of all, if you watch the show, this was

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Speaker 5: a hypothetical conversation we were having if I was running

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Speaker 5: a team, not this is what's gonna happen, etc.

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Speaker 1: Secondly, I believe it's very.

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Speaker 5: Complementary two Ar because he's on a team with two

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Speaker 5: future Hall of famers and he happens to be as

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Speaker 5: set Right. Here's what I will say, and this is

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Speaker 5: complimentary to Ar. If you were sitting here and you said, Rich,

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Speaker 5: you take this one, I'll take that one. I'm not

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Speaker 5: saying an equal players. But what I am saying is,

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Speaker 5: however you want me to start to then build the

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Speaker 5: rest of my team, I'm fine either way.

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Speaker 3: With Luca or Austin.

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Speaker 5: I can build a team either way. Now you're talking

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Speaker 5: about hypotheticals. This does not mean you want somebody to

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Speaker 5: be traded. And there's some insider information in the locker

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Speaker 5: room and this is not a Lebron thing.

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Speaker 3: Uh Yeah, of course not. You know, here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: If I thought this was his first day doing a

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Speaker 1: would tell okay, But no, he knows what he's saying,

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Speaker 1: and Lebron did no favors when he was asked about

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Speaker 1: this last night following the Lakers game, by saying, Hey, Rich,

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Speaker 1: Paul's his own guy. That's his own opinion. I love ar.

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Speaker 1: He knows how I feel about him. This is such

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Speaker 1: an absolute mess. I almost feel like Lebron is now

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Speaker 1: sabotaging the Lakers. Like seriously, I'm not saying like like

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Speaker 1: I feel like he's sabotaged. How do I get back

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Speaker 3: What do I do?

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Speaker 1: I know my agent's gonna go out there and the

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Speaker 1: guy running the agency that I'm he's gonna say they

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Speaker 1: should trade that guy that's keeping me from being Luca's

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Speaker 1: loves at Austin Reeves is the number two guy with

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Speaker 1: with Luka Doncic. Everybody knows what they're saying. Rich Paul

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Speaker 1: knows what he's saying. Lebron James knows what he's saying

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Speaker 1: when he says, what do you want me to say?

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Speaker 1: He's his own guy. Right. This is Lebron again, and

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Speaker 1: part of he's done this throughout his career, choosing his

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Speaker 1: friends and his business partner over his teammate. Right. Because

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Speaker 1: I don't care if you hate the media and you

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Speaker 1: think the media is doing something to you, your team

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Speaker 1: mates need you to talk about this publicly and say, hey,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what Rich is saying. I love Austin Reeves,

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Speaker 1: We're going for a championship. We're great right where you

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Speaker 1: Whatever you believe behind closed doors is one thing, But

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Speaker 1: publicly you say, hey, I don't want my guy traded. No, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: you called Rich pugre Dude, you can't do that. Man,

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Speaker 1: you can't say that. You know that's gonna come back

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Speaker 1: and blow back on me. The only reason that said

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Speaker 1: is if Lebron's got his blessing, and it's got Lebron's blessing,

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Speaker 1: it's okay that he said that. Because Lebron wants to

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Speaker 1: sabotage the Lakers. I mean it because why else would

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Speaker 1: you have that go out there at a time when

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Speaker 1: things aren't going great. You've kind of hit the skids

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Speaker 1: after a strong start. Why are you doing that, right, Lebron?

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Speaker 3: Really?

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Speaker 1: I don't know if Lebron wants to try to find

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Speaker 1: a way to get traded, he wants to try to

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Speaker 1: find a way off the Lakers. He's just mad the

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Speaker 1: Lakers to do it, But I feel like he's sabotaging

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Speaker 1: them with this. What would happen if Austin Reeves said, Hey,

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Speaker 1: you know what, I'm doing a podcast, Yeah, maybe we

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Speaker 1: should trade Lebron?

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Speaker 3: Like, what would happen? What happen if that? If that happened?

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Speaker 3: What if you what if his agent went on and.

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Speaker 1: Say, y, hey, what what if you know, hypothetically, just hypothetically,

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Speaker 1: you know, since you know what if we traded Lebron

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Speaker 1: to Cleveland and we got what?

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Speaker 7: Like?

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Speaker 3: How do you think that would go?

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Speaker 8: Man?

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Speaker 3: First off, it would be great to watch all the

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Speaker 3: national media sycophants come to his defense. How dare you

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Speaker 3: talk about trading Lebron? Lebron?

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Speaker 4: James is mad that he's currently in lebron spot on

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Speaker 4: the Metal stand uh, you know how much I love

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Speaker 4: the movie. The other guys, Uh huh, Right, I'm a

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Speaker 4: peacock captain. You gotta let me fly, don't go chase

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Speaker 4: and water all sorts of quotes. The best was from

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Speaker 4: Samuel Jackson where he says, I'm gonna take my fist

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Speaker 4: dot dot dot and I'm gonna work him off like

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Speaker 4: a puppet. That's kind of what we got here. Lebron James,

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Speaker 4: no matter how much he does protest that he's not

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Speaker 4: part of this. This is like going back to when

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Speaker 4: Luca got traded there and they tried to sell the

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Speaker 4: whole thing. If Lebron had no knowledge this was gonna

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Speaker 4: go down. Nobody on that then. Okay, some of those

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Speaker 4: that want to just take everything that Lebron says and

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Speaker 4: does as gospel and the greatest because they don't want

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Speaker 4: to lose access, right, they don't want to be seen

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Speaker 4: as the the against the foes of the Lebron James

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Speaker 4: hype experience. But you know, from the twenty three patch,

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Speaker 4: that's fine, that's a deal with tops and fanatics. Folks

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Speaker 4: just have to get over that forty six games. He's

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Speaker 4: gonna wear this patch about his career. But this whole thing, right,

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Speaker 4: The agent's actually got together, right Rich Paul and Austin

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Speaker 4: Reeves agent For a couple of minutes they were seen

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Speaker 4: having a bit of an animated discussion, so they clearly

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Speaker 4: did not take it as a he's his own man

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Speaker 4: on a podcast just throwing out hypotheticals.

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Speaker 3: No, nobody buys.

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Speaker 4: That for a second, that it's not a calculated ploy to.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if they're trying to get JJ reddicks

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Speaker 4: the head to explode like he's in Scanners. There you go,

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Speaker 4: eighties movie, Go watch that horror movie. That's a great

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Speaker 4: one star look at him twitch. Maybe maybe it's to

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Speaker 4: try to help you. Maybe you're the Svengali of it

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Speaker 4: all because it gets JJ Reddick to not hate you

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Speaker 4: for a minute.

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Speaker 1: I mean, really, JJ, on the least of your problems. Man,

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Speaker 1: You guys got you gotta start. This is I mean

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Speaker 1: really it is. It's like sabotage. It's okay again. And

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Speaker 1: I told you would be awkward because Lebron is not

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Speaker 1: gonna be happy playing this whole season as the third week.

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Speaker 1: He chose it, right, But it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 3: He's not good.

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Speaker 1: This is the reality. He still chose it. He doesn't care.

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Speaker 1: He's not gonna go back and go, well, I chose you.

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Speaker 1: I gotta keep my mouth shut. No, he wants everything, folks,

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Speaker 1: he wants all of it. Right, but Lebron doesn't care.

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Speaker 1: He has remember and now what do I do? We

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Speaker 1: said it was going to be awkward, we said it

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Speaker 1: was gonna be really, it was gonna be difficult. I

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Speaker 1: don't know how Lebron finishes the season on the Lakers.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how this happens. But this is I

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Speaker 1: mean the Lakers. We've already heard how upset they are. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they should be pissed that the agent of a guy

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Speaker 1: that you know doesn't say anything or have things said

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Speaker 1: unless it's been talked about. And the fact that Lebron

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Speaker 1: didn't say whoa, whoa, whoa, This is not right. This

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Speaker 1: is not true. He needed to be stronger standing up

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Speaker 1: to do that publicly, and he didn't.

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Speaker 8: Right.

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Speaker 3: This is I mean really?

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Speaker 1: I mean I feel like it's we want to push

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Speaker 1: the guy out that's taking his taking his spots as

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Speaker 1: the other guy with Luca. I can be okay being

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Speaker 1: Luca's other guy. I'm okay with that, but now that

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Speaker 1: I'm the third guy. And as I've come back, it's

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Speaker 1: not my team and I'm not it's not nearly close

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Speaker 1: to me, and people can't wait for me to go.

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Speaker 1: How do I grease the skids on this?

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Speaker 6: Right?

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Speaker 1: I feel like now he's moving, he's trying to find

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Speaker 1: a way to get traded at the deadline?

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Speaker 3: Where?

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Speaker 1: How?

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Speaker 7: Where?

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Speaker 1: Because now now, how tenable is it for Lebron to

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Speaker 1: stay on this team and play with Austin Reeves when

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Speaker 1: his agency I would trade him. I don't care, it

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter. Oh, this is in some sort of you know,

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Speaker 1: in an absolute world. It's not not what I would do. No,

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Speaker 1: you know what you're doing when you say trade Austin

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Speaker 1: reed you know exactly what you're doing and what you're

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Speaker 1: trying to get out.

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Speaker 4: The Babe of the Woods thing doesn't work. You've been

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Speaker 4: around for twenty three years, You've been the business partner

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Speaker 4: in and a mouthpiece all these years, and just own it, right,

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Speaker 4: you put it out there if this is what I

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Speaker 4: would do. Well. A couple of years ago, I think

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Speaker 4: we all believed, and I think we were right and

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Speaker 4: Like he just kept going and circling back to he's

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Speaker 1: You're ahead of the curve with the whole John Moran stuff.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and Lebron James. Hey, he's his own man.

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Speaker 7: in it or that I knew anything about it. First

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Speaker 7: of all, even if that was somehow the case that

436
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Speaker 7: rich Paul was talking out of turn, Lebron shouldn't be

437
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Speaker 7: looking at it as Hey, just want to be clear,

438
00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:30,120
Speaker 7: you know how I feel about Austin Reeves, et cetera,

439
00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:30,879
Speaker 7: et cetera, et cetera.

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Speaker 9: It would be you know.

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Speaker 7: What, I need to have a talk with my agent

442
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Speaker 7: because this is out of line what he said, as

443
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Speaker 7: opposed to, Hey, I.

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Speaker 9: Don't know, you know, he's his own man or whatever it.

445
00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:48,600
Speaker 7: Lebron should be holding Rich Paul accountable because there's no

446
00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:54,000
Speaker 7: question that this is does not do anything positive for

447
00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:58,159
Speaker 7: the Lakers and their chemistry. In fact, I don't know

448
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Speaker 7: if you guys saw it, But because Rich Paul's podcast

449
00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:07,600
Speaker 7: is under the umbrella of Bill Simmons, who is a

450
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Speaker 7: noted Boston Celtics fan, die hard Boston Celtics fan, and

451
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Speaker 7: thereby a arch enemy of the Lakers, the feeling is

452
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Speaker 7: that this is all the conspiracy theory is that this

453
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Speaker 7: is all a plot by Bill Simmons knowing that Rich

454
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Speaker 7: Paul is going to talk out of turn, and that's

455
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Speaker 7: going to screw up the Lakers, and that's better for

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Speaker 7: the boiself.

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Speaker 1: Well, Rick, I gotta I got a different path. I'm

458
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Speaker 1: gonna throw this by you tell me the tell tell

459
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Speaker 1: me the probably you think this is what it is? Right?

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Speaker 7: So, Rich Paul, is this a shocker that we're getting this? No?

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Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, no no.

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Speaker 9: Oh. I have a different path.

463
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Speaker 3: No no, this has nothing to do with the Nicks,

464
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Speaker 3: nothing to do with it.

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Speaker 4: It actually doesn't doesn't want to Rick, I don't think

466
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Speaker 4: unless he's changed his mind.

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Speaker 1: Rich Rich Paul knows what he's doing when he goes

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Speaker 1: on a podcast and posits trading Austin Reeves Lebron James

469
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Speaker 1: knows what he's doing when he doesn't come out and say, hey,

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Speaker 1: Rich Paul, I don't know what he's saying. I love

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Speaker 1: Austin Reeves. He's here, I'm here, We're winning a championship.

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Speaker 1: They both know what they're doing when they're not saying that.

473
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Speaker 1: I knew this year was going to be awkward, with

474
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Speaker 1: Lebron coming back and the Lakers shunting him to the side.

475
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Speaker 1: I knew it would be awkward, But this is almost

476
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Speaker 1: to the point where Lebron's kind of sabotaging the Lakers, right,

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Speaker 1: I don't know how he stays on the team following

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Speaker 1: this where, yeah, my agent, who you know, we are close,

479
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Speaker 1: is throwing out there trading a guy who was kind

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Speaker 1: of usurped me as being the number two guy on

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Speaker 1: the roster. And I wonder if this is Lebron just

482
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Speaker 1: continuing to do this to to just dare the Lakers

483
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Speaker 1: and make them trade him at the deadline or get

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Speaker 1: him somewhere else where. He doesn't look like he's got

485
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Speaker 1: to be the bad guy because this doesn't make any

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Speaker 1: There's no star that would ever had their agent say, yeah,

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Speaker 1: another guy in the team has to get traded. Everybody

488
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Speaker 1: knows what they're doing in this situation, and it just

489
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Speaker 1: seems like Lebron is sabotaging the Lakers to get out.

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Speaker 7: Well it's not. I mean, if it's getting out, it

491
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Speaker 7: would be we're just letting you go. He's not going

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Speaker 7: to get traded because no one's given up fifty million

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Speaker 7: plus worth of assets in order to get Lebron James

494
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Speaker 7: at this point that for for a rental.

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Speaker 9: So, but is there the possibility that.

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Speaker 7: You know that he just doesn't like being Essentially, if

497
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Speaker 7: Austin Reeds is healthy, he's the third He's the third option.

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Speaker 7: He's the third wheel. There's a couple of different ways

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Speaker 7: to go.

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Speaker 8: One.

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Speaker 7: I'll give you some plausibility.

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Speaker 9: There in terms of this is just so uncomfortable.

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Speaker 7: I don't know that it's necessarily the once he like

504
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Speaker 7: he's intentionally wants out as much as he just doesn't

505
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Speaker 7: like being in this position, so he's going to act

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Speaker 7: this way. But let's say that there is intention behind it,

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Speaker 7: and the idea is that that he wants out. I

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Speaker 7: would imagine know that Lebron James could simply go to

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Speaker 7: the Lakers and say, hey, I'm done with this, release me,

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Speaker 7: and and they would I would. I would think the

511
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Speaker 7: other option or possibility here, for if we're just spitballing,

512
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Speaker 7: is that there's no chance if the Lakers retain Austin

513
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Speaker 7: Reeves and sign Austin Reeves, there's no possible way that

514
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Speaker 7: you're bringing Lebron James back on almost any kind of

515
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Speaker 7: contract and certainly not want anything anywhere close to what

516
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Speaker 7: he's making now. So unless they move Austin Reeves for

517
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Speaker 7: something that is going to open up more cap flexibility.

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Speaker 7: Then the writing is already on the wall that this

519
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Speaker 7: is it for Lebron and he's going to go out,

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Speaker 7: and he's going to go out.

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Speaker 2: As as the.

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Speaker 7: Third wheel, that's another possibility here, but in any case,

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Speaker 7: it doesn't look.

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Speaker 9: Good for someone.

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Speaker 7: It feels like we're at odds here because on one hand,

526
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Speaker 7: the NBA is created the patch that is now on

527
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Speaker 7: his uniform about the twenty three seasons, and and there's

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Speaker 7: talk about how they're going to involve him in the

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Speaker 7: All Star Game or All Star Weekend even if he

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Speaker 7: isn't voted or chosen to be part of the team,

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Speaker 7: which is which is a good possibility at this point.

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Speaker 7: And yet on the other hand, it's it's he's going

533
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Speaker 7: out and being a malecontent on the Lakers. It's just

534
00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:20,679
Speaker 7: you're trying to celebrate someone and at the same time

535
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:25,000
Speaker 7: there they're being petty. That's not a good look and

536
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Speaker 7: it and it muddies the waters as far as Lebron

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Speaker 7: James going out the right way based on the kind

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Speaker 7: of career that he's had.

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Speaker 4: F s one NBA analyst on the Ball podcast host

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Speaker 4: It's our Guy, Rick Buker, George is each it every

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Speaker 4: week here the Jason Smith Show with Me, Mike Armin

542
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Speaker 4: here Fox Sports Radio, at Rick Buker, where you find

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Speaker 4: him in the twitter verse. Okay, Rick, how did you

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Speaker 4: respond when Yannis started booing the home fans in a

545
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Speaker 4: blowout lost yesterday?

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Speaker 1: I loved it.

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Speaker 7: I mean, you never know, you never know what you're

548
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Speaker 7: gonna get from Yannis. But if this is what is

549
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Speaker 7: interesting to me, If Yanni's truly wanted out of Milwaukee,

550
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:06,359
Speaker 7: like he could use this as the perfect forum to say, see,

551
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Speaker 7: this is why, you know, maybe it's time for me

552
00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:10,359
Speaker 7: to move on, would be really easy for him to

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Speaker 7: do that.

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Speaker 2: But he's not.

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Speaker 7: He's not approaching it that way. He's he's enjoying it.

556
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:22,639
Speaker 7: He's having fun with it, you know, booing the fans

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Speaker 7: back and the way he's talked about like, I mean,

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Speaker 7: the one clip that I saw was, uh that you

559
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:32,760
Speaker 7: know that he kind of enjoys the fans being up

560
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Speaker 7: about the team not playing as well as they are.

561
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Speaker 7: I guess the person that I keep thinking about is Humps,

562
00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:43,480
Speaker 7: because Shams is as practically staked to his reputation on no, no, no,

563
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Speaker 7: don't no, matter what Yannis says or the Bucks say

564
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:50,040
Speaker 7: or doc Rivers say, or anybody says like, no, you know,

565
00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:54,800
Speaker 7: Jannest wants out. And Jannis has repeatedly said I've never

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00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:58,560
Speaker 7: asked for that, and and and he's being given every

567
00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:03,679
Speaker 7: opportunity to publicly say, hey, I want out. If the

568
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:06,240
Speaker 7: fans don't think I'm good enough or we're not good enough,

569
00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:06,960
Speaker 7: then maybe it is.

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Speaker 9: Time for me to go on.

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Speaker 7: When you boo the fans, you're not you're not saying

572
00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:16,840
Speaker 7: that you're You're just you're engaging them. And so I

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Speaker 7: feel like I just I feel for chance, all right.

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Speaker 7: So at this at this point, at this point, I

575
00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:29,600
Speaker 7: feel like he's just got to take you.

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Speaker 3: Hell, all right.

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Speaker 1: So so let's let's finish here. Then one word answer

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Speaker 1: the last two topics you talked about. Let's use the trade.

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Speaker 1: Let's use the trade deadline as as are as our

580
00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:44,640
Speaker 1: mark after the trade deadline. Lebron James is where the

581
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Speaker 1: Lakers after the trade deadline? Giannis is where.

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Speaker 9: Milwaukee.

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Speaker 1: All right, there we go. I'm not leaving, that's it

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Speaker 1: just just just that, I mean, let's just have Lakers,

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Speaker 1: right If.

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Speaker 4: I mean Rix, you gotta be chesty too, because he's

587
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:05,240
Speaker 4: the last guy in the division that has his head coach,

588
00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:07,080
Speaker 4: this is true, have his NFL team?

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, well yeah, congratulations Rick on Zach Taylor being

590
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:11,720
Speaker 1: the last man standing in the AFC North.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I know.

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00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:17,800
Speaker 7: That's a whole other story.

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Speaker 9: Man.

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Speaker 7: You guys gotta you gotta hit me with that at

595
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Speaker 7: the start.

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Speaker 1: He's on Twitter, right, Rick Buker, Hey, hit him up

597
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:28,000
Speaker 1: on Twitter. Congratulate him on the fact that Zach Taylor

598
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Speaker 1: is the only coach right now in the AFC North.

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Speaker 9: Is this what it's like to be a Jets fan?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:33,640
Speaker 3: Yes, every day.

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Speaker 1: What you just went through in the last thirty seconds,

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00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:37,800
Speaker 1: but every day, exactly every day.

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Speaker 4: If you and he had a guy go back to

605
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:43,080
Speaker 4: college to avoid them, come on, tell you an easy buddy.

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Speaker 3: We'll talk to you next week. Rick, There goes Rick Buker.

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Speaker 1: I really, it's it's the honest stuff is so we look,

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Speaker 1: we got into this a lot at the end of

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Speaker 1: the show last night. But like if you're at the

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Speaker 1: point where you're booing fans like are you really gonna stay?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:02,400
Speaker 4: And no, I got it, but but are you really

613
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Speaker 4: gonna kid let me talk about yesterday?

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Speaker 3: It's like that big kid and it's like, oh, you

615
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Speaker 3: gonna boom me yeah, yeah, boo boo.

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Speaker 1: I mean, really, how much longer can you stay when

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Speaker 1: that's the case forever?

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Speaker 3: Maybe?

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Speaker 4: I mean, he become the anti hero that people clabor to.

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Speaker 4: Oh he's booing us, look at that. I'm a bigger

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Speaker 4: Yannish fan than I ever was. Now Doc rivers, they

622
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Speaker 4: can get rid of him, and the rest of the

623
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:29,840
Speaker 4: team stinks. Yannis, he gets it.

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Speaker 1: Time out of fun out what's trending in the wide

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Speaker 1: world of sports with someone who's been called the Yannis

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Speaker 1: of Fox Sports Radio. So a few minutes ago, sitting

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Speaker 1: down on the update booth booing all of us here

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Speaker 1: at Fox Sports.

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Speaker 8: Radio, it's uh, you know, Yannis, Anto tokomp and I

630
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Speaker 8: are really not that alike, considering how tall is he

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Speaker 8: and how tall am I?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's yeah. I mean it would be like

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Speaker 1: one in one and a half of you for one

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Speaker 1: of him.

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Speaker 4: You're right as a measuring yeah half boss like not yeah.

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Speaker 8: And also I would not be booing you. I would

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Speaker 8: be using a different finger, yeah you know.

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00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:12,160
Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: Of course. Course in the NBA, guys, let's get started here.

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Speaker 10: Uh.

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Speaker 8: I mentioned that Cooper Flagg hurt himself in the second

642
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Speaker 8: quarter did come back, how he sprained his ankle. He

643
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Speaker 8: was ruled out for the second half completely. The Mavericks

644
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:27,120
Speaker 8: are losing right now to the Nuggets at home, one

645
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Speaker 8: oh one to eighty five Jamal Murray twenty seven points.

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00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 8: Also a good news for Nuggets fans because apparently Nikola

647
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:36,960
Speaker 8: Jokic has resumed on court workouts still early in the

648
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Speaker 8: third quarter, but the Kings are rolling past the Knicks.

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Speaker 8: Sixty nine to forty eight is the score there. Late

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Speaker 8: in the second quarter where the Clippers are up on

651
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Speaker 8: the Wizard sixty eight to fifty one, James Harden leading

652
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 8: the way with sixteen points, while the Bulls edged the

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Speaker 8: Jazz at home one twenty eight to one twenty six.

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Speaker 8: In men's college hoops, Texas handed number ten Vanderbilt their

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Speaker 8: first loss of this season, coming out on top eighty

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Speaker 8: to sixty four. So there are three unbeaten teams left

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Speaker 8: in men's college hoops Miami, Ohio, Nebraska, and Arizona. Number

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Speaker 8: one Arizona right now losing to Arizona State thirty nine

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Speaker 8: to thirty eight at halftime. Number four Michigan, who just

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Speaker 8: suffered their first loss not long ago, is up on

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Speaker 8: Washington at halftime thirty nine to thirty and late in

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Speaker 8: the first half, Number six Duke is up on cal ninth,

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Speaker 8: California nineteen to eighteen. In the NHL, the Golden Knights

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Speaker 8: got a goal, so they're up on the Kings one

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Speaker 8: zero late in the second period. When it comes to

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Speaker 8: the NFL, Texans wide receiver Nico Collins, who was in

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Speaker 8: concussion protocol, was not seen at practice on Wednesday. Houston

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Speaker 8: takes on New England in the AFC Divisional Round on Sunday.

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Speaker 8: Former ravenside coach John Harbaugh met in person with the

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Speaker 8: Giants today, while The Athletic reports that he is set

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Speaker 8: to meet with the Titans on Thursday. And as Harmon mentioned,

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Speaker 8: he doesn't want to be a Jet or maybe a Raider,

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Speaker 8: so quarterback Aaron Or Oregon quarterback Dante Oregon quarterback Dante

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Speaker 8: More announced that he's going to return to the Ducks

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Speaker 8: next season.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if that's a good idea.

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Speaker 3: No, it's not.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't seem like what.

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Speaker 8: Is Dylan Riyola gonna do?

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Speaker 3: Uh hate him out for the job. Hit that portal again.

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Speaker 1: Man, You can't shot if you can't do the mahomes,

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Speaker 1: cause play in a green uniform.

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Speaker 3: You gotta go, you gotta go red uniform.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true.

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Speaker 3: Then you have a Christmas coloring.

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Speaker 10: Okay, already the clause, Sandy, clause exactly, Sandy, exactly.

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Speaker 4: Hey.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of college football, now the two teams are left standing,

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Speaker 1: Radio dot Com.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 1: Coming up next, we have that big NFL story on

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Speaker 1: the way, a story that is about heartache and tears

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Speaker 1: that also has got a little bit of a hot

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Speaker 1: take to it as well.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

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Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

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Speaker 2: pm Pacific.

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio the Jason Smith Show with my best

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Speaker 1: friend Mike Harmon. So, uh, the end of season Hard

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Speaker 1: Knocks brought us something pretty fun, pretty fun with Jalen

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Speaker 1: Hurts and Nick Sirianni. And it's a weird Uh it's

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Speaker 1: watching this today was really really strange because it was

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Speaker 1: just such an awkward back and forth. But you're gonna

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Speaker 1: hear it, and then we're gonna break it down because yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's I got a big hot take coming off this,

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Speaker 1: so Hard Knocks ends, uh, you know this year talking

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Speaker 1: and the final scene is Jalen Hurts and Nick Sirianni

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Speaker 1: in the in the end of season meeting they have

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Speaker 1: in a big empty room, uh, talking about next year, right,

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Speaker 1: and here's Hurts and Sirianni and here's the quick exchange

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Speaker 1: they had. This ended Hard Knocks was the end of it,

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Speaker 1: Like obviously the champs go out. What's gonna you know what,

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Speaker 1: what's the future. There's all this talk that Sirianni and

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Speaker 1: Hurts and aj Brown who likes each other, who doesn't?

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Speaker 1: And here's the exchange the two of them had with

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Speaker 1: each other.

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Speaker 3: That was actually the terminator.

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Speaker 1: They said, Sarah Connor, well, yes it's me ah, I'll

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Speaker 1: be back. You really think a sixty year old woman

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Speaker 1: is Sarah Connor? Come on, man, dude, come on advancements

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Speaker 1: and technology of terminators. Uh, that was such an awkward

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Speaker 1: exchange with Jalen Hurts standing there, Nick Sirianni sitting in

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Speaker 1: the in the in the the the auditorium, and Jalen

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Speaker 1: Hurt saying we'll be back, and Sirianni looking at him saying,

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Speaker 1: I have no doubt that it was such an awkward moment.

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Speaker 1: I know that it's trying to be pushed as oh,

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Speaker 1: it's an optimistic exchange. No, it was just so awkward.

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Speaker 1: It was like, and I go back to this all

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Speaker 1: the time in the wire and a spoiler alert, but

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00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 1: that's okay. Like Avon and Stringer were business partners the

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Speaker 1: entire time, right running the corners, running their drug business,

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Speaker 1: everything else, and at the end you knew they they

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Speaker 1: were they were even though they were still tight all

743
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:41,680
Speaker 1: growing everything else, you knew they each wanted to get

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Speaker 1: the other one because they both had different ideas of

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Speaker 1: how they wanted to run things. And there was a

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Speaker 1: big scene of them on a on a on a

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Speaker 1: balcony where they're talking about growing up and everything else,

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Speaker 1: and like what's being not said there is that I'm

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Speaker 1: trying to kill you, You're trying to kill me. You know, yes,

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Speaker 1: we're you know we were brothers, gwing up and everything else,

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Speaker 1: and we were tight. But this is business or this

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Speaker 1: is the this is the life. And then you know,

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Speaker 1: it goes out one of them in case you haven't

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Speaker 1: seen him, won't spoil it. One of them winds up

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Speaker 1: getting killed and one of them wins. And I kind

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Speaker 1: of thought about that with Sirianni and Hurts like they're

757
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:17,759
Speaker 1: Hurts isn't even looking at him, and Sirianni steering at him, going,

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Speaker 1: I have no doubt we will, and I go. These

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Speaker 1: two absolutely hate each other. These two can't stand to

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Speaker 1: be around each other, whether A. J. Brown is in

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Speaker 1: how much he's involved, and Sirianni hates him. Like you

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Speaker 1: can just see how palpable it was, how awkward this

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Speaker 1: situation is where the quarterback and the head coach of

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Speaker 1: the champs that did themselves in because they couldn't figure

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Speaker 1: stuff out this year, they couldn't get their their stuff

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Speaker 1: in order, and they're going home because of that. That

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Speaker 1: it's it's just so it was it was uneasy watching him, like,

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Speaker 1: is something gonna happen in this?

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Speaker 3: Like what what?

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Speaker 1: Like I feel like I'm watching a fictional television show,

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Speaker 1: Like what's gonna happen here between these two guys?

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Speaker 4: Well, as we talked about, you know, all the different

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Speaker 4: missteps over the course of the season, Patulo gets his

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Speaker 4: walking paper the video of this just to pull it out.

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Speaker 4: Just like they did in terms of how they frame

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Speaker 4: this is that you get a shot of the meeting room,

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Speaker 4: the mini auditorium, and they've got the power point as

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Speaker 4: the twenty twenty five end of Year team meeting with

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Speaker 4: the Eagles logo, and it's hurt standing there and Sirianni's

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Speaker 4: sitting down, so not sitting together, not standing together, just

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Speaker 4: you're trying to talk about power dynamics and you know,

782
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Speaker 4: you got Sirianni look at Oh, I've got no I

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Speaker 4: got no doubt. And that's it seven words of this exchange.

784
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Speaker 4: Like what the hell else was said? Why are you

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Speaker 4: cutting it off? There is there an extra bonus episode,

786
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Speaker 4: like everybody thought there was gonna be of stranger things

787
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Speaker 4: the end of year meeting extra bonus feature, but you

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Speaker 4: pull back and those they're the only two guys in

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Speaker 4: the room and.

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Speaker 1: It's so it's such an awkward scene, and it made

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Speaker 1: me think that, Okay, the first domino that fell was

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Speaker 1: Kevin Patullo is fired as offensive coordinator, reassign, They're gonna

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Speaker 1: have somebody else new in there, Okay, and maybe it's

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Speaker 1: not this offseason, and because maybe it's gonna be, We're

795
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Speaker 1: gonna try it one more year with a new OC

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Speaker 1: and new offensive system to probably move on from aj Brown,

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Speaker 1: which I think is a fade accomplete at this point.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna try something new. Maybe Saquon Barkley will bounce back,

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Speaker 1: because you know, coming off a five hundred touch year,

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Speaker 1: you knew it wasn't gonna be a great year for him.

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Speaker 1: But I gotta be honest. The next domino that will

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Speaker 1: fall for the Eagles if it doesn't go better next

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00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:37,960
Speaker 1: year is Jalen Hurts will get traded just because of

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Speaker 1: you think, well, the coach is gonna get fired. The

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Speaker 1: fire Siriani. Well, you've heard reports teammates don't really like

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Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts all that much. Jalen Hurts is regressed. He

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Speaker 1: signed the big contract where he was last year at

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Speaker 1: this time, coming off the Super Bowl and looking like

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Speaker 1: he's one of the top five to six quarterbacks in

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Speaker 1: the NFL to where he is now, where you keep

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Speaker 1: him in the pocket and he struggles downfield, couldn't throw

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Speaker 1: the football, miss the open receivers down the stretch. One

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Speaker 1: more year. If it goes like this, that's the guy

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Speaker 1: that's gonna go. That's gonna be a big trade. It's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a big shocking move that another team will

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Speaker 1: feel like, hey, Jalen Hurts needs a fresh start. We

817
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Speaker 1: got him here, We've seen him win super Bowl winning

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks still on the right side of thirty. Yes, make

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Speaker 1: a move for him. But the next big domino to

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Speaker 1: fall if things don't get better this time next year,

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Speaker 1: we're talking about Jalen Hurts getting traded.

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Speaker 4: You attempted nearly one hundred more passes this year. They

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Speaker 4: went away from the run game early, which to some degree,

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Speaker 4: you're like, Okay, you'll be judicious with the use of

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Speaker 4: Saquon Barkley, but it's not like you went and decided, hey,

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Speaker 4: let's stick with what works and has worked in the past.

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Speaker 4: You went acquired Tanks Bigsby and then put him on

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Speaker 4: moth balls. Yeah, Like, if you're not gonna go to

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Speaker 4: the twenty to twenty five touches, which is what we've

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Speaker 4: seen Barkley in that run game dominate with. Then okay,

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Speaker 4: then fine, use him sixteen times. But why isn't Bigsby

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Speaker 4: seen at ten to twelve right and keeping that offense

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Speaker 4: moving in the same direction and hurts the air yards

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Speaker 4: and attempted air yards. We talked about it a lot,

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Speaker 4: the complete opposite of what Aaron Rodger was. It was

836
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Speaker 4: working downfield, It was betrayed routinely by his receivers. Think

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Speaker 4: there's a bounce back to be had there, They'll be back.

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Speaker 2: I have no doubt.

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Speaker 1: Get ready this time next year, we're talking about Jalen

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Speaker 1: Hurts getting traded, right, clip it, write it down things.

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Speaker 3: Don't get it down and write it good. You went,

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Speaker 3: Dusty Rhodes.

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Speaker 1: Now coming up next, it looks like the first coaching

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Speaker 1: domino and the NFL cycle is going to fall. We

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Speaker 1: have a coach and a destination that's next.

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Speaker 3: Fox