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Speaker 1: Straight Fire, fam, It's beat Jason McIntyre, Straight Fire for Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: December eight. Fun night in the Association. Huh yeah, the

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Speaker 1: to you in a minute, Charles Barkley. But I gotta say,

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Speaker 1: And it's funny because every year we have a superstar

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Speaker 1: Ben Simmons um dalliance in um, in the locker room,

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Speaker 1: health and is he faking it? All this garbage. Finally

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Speaker 1: they just shut up, They just stopped talking about it,

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Speaker 1: to the public. That's it. We don't care about anything else. Um,

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Speaker 1: I do want to start with the Lakers. It's weird, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, obviously is an NFL heavy podcast. Our numbers

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Speaker 1: were massive November year over year, Up tent, Thank you

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Speaker 1: for subscribing, rating and reviewing. And I guess the interesting

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Speaker 1: standard among podcasts unless you're an NBA centric just because

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Speaker 1: the people love football, they love picks, they love gambling,

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Speaker 1: tough sell when you're twenty five games in, which leads

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Speaker 1: me to the Lakers, and I see all these Laker

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Speaker 1: fans freaking out, Um, should we trade for? Should we

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Speaker 1: they need to unload Russ? Do they need another star?

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Speaker 1: Like what? I just don't really under stand what the

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Speaker 1: They look like as last night that stinks. They look

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Speaker 1: at they look great, putting putting away the Celtics who

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Speaker 1: next one, like this is all about the playoffs. And

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Speaker 1: again for the people who don't really understand, who just

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Speaker 1: know Jack squat, the Lakers incorporated into their their depth

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Speaker 1: start their top ten. Okay, they're starting point guard. Westbrook

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Speaker 1: the Lakers two years ago. Then he went to chase

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Speaker 1: a big pay day. Remember that that was fun, That

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Speaker 1: our Westbrook and Rondo neither on the team last year.

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Speaker 1: Avery Bradley. Do we remember every Bradley Do you guys

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Speaker 1: remember was on the Lakers the bubble season, decided to

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Speaker 1: and I'm including Charles Barkley in this. He is a

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Speaker 1: is here to amuse you. The Lakers starting backcourt, Russell

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Speaker 1: Lebron has scored a hundred fifty five points in the

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Speaker 1: Like again, Charles Barkley is funny. You love him all.

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Speaker 1: a quarterback. And you know, you look at the guy,

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Speaker 1: what's to Day Cohen who bought the Mets, big hedge

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Speaker 1: fun guy. He's willing to throw around the money. So

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Speaker 1: I'm kind of into it. These guys extremely wealthy, you

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Speaker 1: got I mean, really, how many people can legitimately buy

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Speaker 1: a four billion dollar NFL team? No, I mean the

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Speaker 1: numbers is so so incredibly small. Now, you maybe get

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Speaker 1: a group, I don't know if there's you know, I

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Speaker 1: know John Elway has ties in the community. Can he

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Speaker 1: spearheaded group of rich guys, and he's he's the big

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Speaker 1: face behind it. You know, maybe something along those lines.

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Speaker 1: But um, I don't know. Four billion dollars for the

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Speaker 1: Denver Broncos. What do you think the Cowboys? Where do

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys go from the open market? Five? Six? There's

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Speaker 1: certainly worth more than the Broncos. I mean, if the

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Speaker 1: Broncos are worth four, yeah, you gotta say the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: are at least five or six billion, folks. Um, we

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Speaker 1: have a former NFL player joining the pot tomorrow. I'll

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Speaker 1: just tease it with that former NFL player. He played,

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Speaker 1: that's what you would say. And he played this this

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Speaker 1: century obviously, Um actually played this decade. Pretty big game.

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Speaker 1: I'll tease it and leave you with that. We'll see

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Speaker 1: you tomorrow