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Speaker 1: Welcome in. We'll driving Nick Gride episode four sixty one,

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Speaker 1: our semi monthly mail bag episode. This episode of What's

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Speaker 1: mail bag episodes. Also Thursday's show, we did not get

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Speaker 1: to Lebron's future. So before we get to the questions

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Speaker 1: just off the top of the show, Demon's good to

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Speaker 1: see you again, let's talk a little bit about Lebron

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Speaker 1: and money and his future.

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Speaker 2: So when Horse reported that Lebron wants the Lakers to

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Speaker 2: come to him and offer him the max, and if

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Speaker 2: they don't give him the Max, he wants them to

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Speaker 2: explain why and how it would make sense and what

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Speaker 2: they would do with the extra cap space. What justification

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Speaker 2: could the Lakers give for paying him anything less than

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Speaker 2: the max.

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Speaker 1: Listen, if you remember last year, he was willing to

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Speaker 1: take a pay cut if it meant they could bring

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Speaker 1: in I think it was Klay Thompson or Demarta Rosen

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Speaker 1: and then they couldn't. He was like, all right, just

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Speaker 1: running my money then like go ahead, Like go ahead,

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Speaker 1: I'll take it. Here is why find the Lebron money

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Speaker 1: discussion so frustrating because the general, the general conventional wisdom

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Speaker 1: by nearly everyone in the media I guess other than me,

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Speaker 1: is Lebron should just do charity work with his contract

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Speaker 1: this year. Now, let me make this clear. If he

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Speaker 1: wants to leave the Lakers, he will have to take

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Speaker 1: far less, you know, a huge discount. He might have

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Speaker 1: to play for the minimum somewhere. If he wants to

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Speaker 1: leave the Lakers because nobody cap space, he maybe could

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Speaker 1: get the mid level or the taxpayer mid level, but

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Speaker 1: way less money than he's ever made in the NBA.

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Speaker 1: If he wants to leave the Lakers and that, you know,

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Speaker 1: he would then be weighing what is important to him.

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Speaker 1: I've said on this show one hundred times nobody can

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Speaker 1: have everything in life. That so you have to make

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Speaker 1: tough decisions, and that would be a decision he wants

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Speaker 1: to make. The Lakers, on the other hand, are in

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Speaker 1: a unique position because they have his bird rights because

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Speaker 1: he's already there. They can go over the cap to

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Speaker 1: bring him back. And so if he were to take

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Speaker 1: a huge discount, it would just be out of generosity

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Speaker 1: to give the team the best chance possible to add

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Speaker 1: of people think, well, obvious, he should do that, and

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Speaker 1: maybe he will, and maybe that's what he wants. My

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Speaker 1: frustration comes from this place. Next year, I'm gonna give

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Speaker 1: you some guys names and how much money they are

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Speaker 1: going to be making next year. And you tell me

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Speaker 1: if you think that guy is better than Lebron James,

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Speaker 1: healthier than Lebron James, more available than Lebron James, demanse,

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Speaker 1: Who do you think the highest paid player in the

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Speaker 1: entire NBA next year is going to be?

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Speaker 3: Do you know it might be like James Harden or

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Speaker 3: something like that.

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Speaker 1: No, Harden's on him because Harden's kind of screwed up

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Speaker 1: his contract a few times. But you're the right You're

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Speaker 1: in the right draft class. The answer is Steph Curry. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Steph Curry's gonna make the only player in the league

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Speaker 1: next year that's gonna make more than sixty million dollars. Now,

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Speaker 1: it's not the NFL, and you can't rework your deal,

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Speaker 1: and so he can't even really take a pay cut

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Speaker 1: if he wanted to. But nobody, not a single ounce

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Speaker 1: of ink has been spilled or podcast Mike has been

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Speaker 1: rattled by the take of you know, the reason the

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Speaker 1: Warriors can't compete for championships? Step makes too much money.

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Speaker 3: They got nobody like on their squad.

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Speaker 1: So the step makes sixty two and a half million

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Speaker 1: next year? Was did he look better in the playoffs

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Speaker 1: this year than Lebron? No, No, nobody minds that Steph

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Speaker 1: do criticize Embiid's contract like that's an albatross fund albatross

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Speaker 1: He had an awesome year nobody thinks Kawhi Leonard's contract

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Speaker 1: is an albatross. Nobody Jaron Jackson Junior is gonna make

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Speaker 1: forty nine million dollars next year. Zach Levine's gonna make

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Speaker 1: Rant better than Lebron James? Certainly wasn't when it mattered

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Speaker 1: most Certainly not a better leader, Certainly not a better teammate.

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Speaker 1: That Darius Garland makes forty two million dollars like, and

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Speaker 1: I'm not even trying to point like Zion makes forty

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Speaker 1: two million people the job makes forty two million people.

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Speaker 1: Recognize those contracts are underwater. I Jalen Ja Dubb Jalen

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Speaker 1: Williams for the Oklahoma City Thunder, It's gonna make forty

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Speaker 1: one million dollars next year. Is he healthier, more available,

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Speaker 1: more reliable than Lebron James. I don't think so. Michael

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Speaker 1: Porter makes forty one million bucks. Brandon Ingram was he

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Speaker 1: more reliable, healthier, better makes forty million dollars. So again,

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Speaker 1: Lebron might take a pay cut. He might give an

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Speaker 1: act of charity to the Los Angeles Lakers so they

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Speaker 1: can better fill out the roster. But as Lebron showed

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Speaker 1: you in this postseason, he is still when the chips

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Speaker 1: are down, without a shadow of a doubt, one of

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Speaker 1: He's played forever. You know who's also not better than

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Speaker 1: Lebron James that nobody thinks should you know, get a

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Speaker 1: good contract, but not a great one. He shouldn't put

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Speaker 1: the Lakers to the limit, Austin reeves, And I would

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Speaker 1: not if I'm Lebron, I would not blame Lebron if

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Speaker 1: there's a little bit of him that's like, wait a minute,

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Speaker 1: you need me to take ten million bucks because you

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Speaker 1: And so it is just really it's a you unique

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Speaker 1: Lebron no longer can carry the load of being the guy,

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Speaker 1: and then they were gone in the playoffs, and he's

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Speaker 1: Lakers got swept by Okac. I think every team in

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Speaker 3: But it is.

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Speaker 1: I find the conversation surrounding Lebron's contract to be frustrating.

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Speaker 1: So there's my Lebron take. Now Demond's e Let's get

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Speaker 2: NBA, starting off with we got witnesses ask or witness

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Speaker 2: asks Nick. As a fellow Lebron fan myself, I frequently

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Speaker 2: get asked where my rooting interest goes post Lebron, and

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Speaker 2: I normally say across that bridge when it comes.

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Speaker 3: So what say you?

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Speaker 2: Is it Luca a different player or a team or what.

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Speaker 1: Uh so I have for me? I always assumed it

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Speaker 1: also am kind of excited to not be attached fandom

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Speaker 1: wise to the Lakers post Bron like, I I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I don't now ownership has changed, and maybe the front

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Speaker 1: but I can't do that. I can't do that if

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Speaker 2: The well Lebron leaves, you know, maybe they are one

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Speaker 3: And so if he went to the Knicks, would you

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Speaker 1: If he went to the Knicks, yeah, it'd be perfect.

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Speaker 1: But he's but he can't go to the Knicks now

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Speaker 1: there's you know, they their roles, they're going to win

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Speaker 1: whatsoever if they you know, and if you're as much

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Speaker 1: I'd be like, no, no, no, we're good if they win

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Speaker 1: I just realized, this is my answer. I will be teamless.

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Speaker 1: I will be a stateless fan post Lebron until Las

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Speaker 1: Vegas gets a team. That'll be my squad. I'm there

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Speaker 1: I've decided Kansas City's never getting a team. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: I do listen. I I like Minnesota, but I no,

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Speaker 1: I couldn't see myself living and dying with him. I

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Speaker 2: We got Gene asked, if Lebron returns to Cleveland and

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Speaker 2: wins his fifth will that will that move a significant

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Speaker 2: the goat. I feel confident that if he went to

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Speaker 2: the Knicks, assuming they don't win this year, that will

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Speaker 2: move a lot of old heads.

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Speaker 1: Listen, I watch Skip go On First Take a few

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Speaker 1: Lebron making a couple more finals, winning another championship is

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Speaker 1: breaking all of the records. Didn't move it at all.

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Speaker 1: And so I don't, you know, I just don't think

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Speaker 2: Next original Boot asked who won the Luca trade. I

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Speaker 2: think the MAVs did. They got flag and other assets

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Speaker 1: Deman's a last question.

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Speaker 2: Uh Nick, what do you what do you most like

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Speaker 2: about Wild's and what qualifies him as being such a

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Speaker 2: great leader on the show. Feel free to share a

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Speaker 1: Here's what I There's a lot that I really respect

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Speaker 1: it up if there is one, whatever it is, there

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Speaker 1: are certain days where for or you know, like the

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Speaker 1: if Brew is cooking or if I'm cooking, or if

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Speaker 1: Bru and I are going back and forth, if if

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Speaker 1: he always puts what's best for the show ahead of

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Speaker 1: like the host of the show, that's really important, but

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Speaker 1: So like in theory, he should be able to say

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Speaker 1: when do we go back and forth? And it's just

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Speaker 1: a very selfless way to broadcast. So I really appreciate that.

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Speaker 1: I also, you know, he he has a really obviously

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Speaker 1: he's really funny, but he adds a great levity to

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Speaker 1: on yesterday's episode, I didn't you know cape for him

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Speaker 1: to win the Emmy for Best Studio Host, I did

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Speaker 1: it for Scott Van Pelt. Once Scott wins his OK

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Speaker 1: for k W to get his thank you to everybody,

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Speaker 1: great job, Demand's a great job, Blue Dock, great job Volume,

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Speaker 1: Everyone enjoy the weekend, subscribe to the show. So you know,

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Speaker 1: if we go live this weekend. Uh, you guys will

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Speaker 1: know right now. If there's gonna be a Game seven.

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Speaker 1: I don't know because we're recording this before Game six,

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Speaker 1: But if there's a Game seven, we might drop an

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Speaker 1: extra episode this weekend. Talk to you guys soon.

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