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Speaker 1: Welcome in What's Right with Nick Red Episode three thirty seven,

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Speaker 1: Live from I'll just be honest, one of my favorite

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Speaker 1: places in the entire world. The World Series of Poker

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Speaker 1: Events Center were at Horseshoe Resort and Casino, which is

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Speaker 1: connected to the Paris Casino, which is in Las Vegas,

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Speaker 1: one of the five greatest.

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Speaker 2: Cities in the world.

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Speaker 1: Now, you might say, Nick, sounds like you crushed in

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Speaker 1: your poker tournaments yesterday. You're in such a good mood.

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Speaker 1: That's actually the opposite of what happened.

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Speaker 2: Uh. I.

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Speaker 1: You know, nobody likes a bad beat story, so I

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Speaker 1: won't tell them, but I gotta tell you they listen

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Speaker 1: if you know they got a bad beat me to

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Speaker 1: beat me, it's just what happens.

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Speaker 2: It's just what happens.

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Speaker 1: But despite all that, Demonse, I gotta tell you, I've

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Speaker 1: been in Vegas for thirty six hours, and I it

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Speaker 1: feels like seventy two, but in a great way, in

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Speaker 1: a great in the greatest way, I had been here.

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Speaker 1: And listen, Game one of the finals is tonight. We

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Speaker 1: will get to that. You guys haven't heard my thoughts

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Speaker 1: on the Knicks firing Tom Thibodeau, So We're gonna get

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Speaker 1: to all of that just momentarily, but I just want

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Speaker 1: to set the scene for what we're doing.

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Speaker 2: Uh And by the way, if you.

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Speaker 1: Guys can't say, we are in the Thunderdome is what

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Speaker 1: they call it. This is where I am doing this

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Speaker 1: show from. Is the table that I envisioned that I

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Speaker 1: would have been playing on yesterday going for a bracelet

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Speaker 1: in the ten K Dealer's Choice. Unfortunately, I did not

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Speaker 1: last that long in that tournament, and in order to

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Speaker 1: be able to play at this table you need to

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Speaker 1: advance further in the tournaments than I have yet advanced.

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Speaker 1: But again, it's only been one day. Despite all of that,

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Speaker 1: it's been amazing because and I'm not gonna do too

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Speaker 1: much poker stuff because I know some listeners don't care,

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Speaker 1: but anyone who has seen Rounders knows who Johnny f

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Speaker 1: and Chan is.

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Speaker 2: The world's back to World Series of Poker.

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Speaker 1: Main evant champion legend, the guy that Matt Damon just

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Speaker 1: had to go play at the Mirage and I think

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Speaker 1: four hundred eight hundred or whatever it was limit poker

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Speaker 1: and put a bluff on him within ten minutes of

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Speaker 1: being in Las Vegas, after landing around midnight Tuesday night,

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Speaker 1: I was in a game where sitting on my left

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Speaker 1: was Johnny Effing Chant.

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Speaker 2: It's just the greatest. I mean, I gotta.

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Speaker 1: Say, the single greatest, maybe the single most gratifying part

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Speaker 1: about whatever little bit of fame or notoriety I have

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Speaker 1: is that I get to play in all these card games. Now,

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Speaker 1: maybe the people in the card games are like, the

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Speaker 1: single best thing about Nick Wright making some money is

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Speaker 1: that he plays in our card games.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know what they think. I

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Speaker 2: just know it is.

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Speaker 1: An absolute dream. So we will get to more of

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Speaker 1: that at the tail end of the show. But the

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Speaker 1: final start tonight we're not gonna be on TV because

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Speaker 1: the euro Soccer Championship is not bocking us off TV.

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Speaker 1: So I'm here and we will get to that. But

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Speaker 1: first we have to do what we always do. What missed

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Speaker 1: the cut? Miles Turner, A man after my heart wants

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Speaker 1: a Lego Larry O'Brien trophy.

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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, Demonte, did you know that?

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Speaker 1: I I So I bought the car I have the

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Speaker 1: They make a Lego version of it, and so I

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Speaker 1: and he said someone had gotten his kids like five

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Speaker 1: thousand piece lego version of the car they have, but

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Speaker 2: And I'm I'm just building it for him. I'm building

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Speaker 1: Jack Kagleon goes over five in his Royals debut and

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Speaker 1: people are like, oh, Nick, he went over for five

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Speaker 1: Royal scored ten runs just because of the threat of

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Speaker 1: Shiloh Sanders used a sword in an Oklahoma drill.

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Speaker 2: I don't. I'll be honest.

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Speaker 1: I am not that interested in any of the Shiloh

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Speaker 1: Sanders content. But there's a cool video, all right, demanse,

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Speaker 1: Let's get to what was the shocking news of Tuesday

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Speaker 1: afternoon a few hours after the pod, and that's what

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Speaker 1: the New York Knicks did.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so, after two games away from the NBA Finals,

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Speaker 3: the New York Knicks have fired TIBs. We talked on Tuesday.

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Speaker 3: You seem to think that his job was pretty secure.

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Speaker 3: Myself as well. I couldn't see them fire and TIBs

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Speaker 3: but here we are. They fired him. Where did they

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Speaker 3: go from here? What's the assessment?

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Speaker 2: Okay, so.

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Speaker 1: I react, this happened ten minutes before the TV show started, right,

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Speaker 1: And I actually said on the air, sometimes the reacting

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Speaker 1: because I'm like, gosh, darn it, I just didn't have

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Speaker 1: so everything that we said ends up becoming irrelevant a

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Speaker 2: I think the TIBs show might end.

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Speaker 1: Up falling into the former category my favorite shows, and

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Speaker 1: here's why. So my snap reaction to the TIBs firing

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Speaker 1: Like, there's only three, I guess rationales to the firing.

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Speaker 1: Rationale one was they So let me back up. The

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Speaker 1: reason I'm framing it like this is because everyone is

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Speaker 1: framing it the way you did, Demonse, which is it

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Speaker 1: was the best season in twenty five years. You made

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Speaker 1: your first conference finals in twenty five years, you were

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Speaker 1: two games away from the NBA Finals, you were favored

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Speaker 1: to go to the finals, and you fired your coach.

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Speaker 1: So logically speaking, that would mean one of two things

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Speaker 1: The end of the regular season, they had determined we're

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Speaker 1: moving on from Tom Thibodeau. Anything short of a championship

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Speaker 1: were kind of like the Nuggets were with Michael Malone.

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Speaker 2: But the Nuggets just did it.

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Speaker 1: Beforehand, and they weren't going to let this playoff run

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Speaker 1: dissuade them. That's kind of option A, option be if

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Speaker 1: if that's not the case, if at the end of

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Speaker 1: the regular season his job was safe, then that would

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Speaker 1: mean option B, which is somehow this playoff run hurt

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Speaker 1: TIBs in the front office er ownership's eyes, right if

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Speaker 1: That they looked at it and they were like, you

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Speaker 1: know what, Demons was right. That victory over the Celtics

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Speaker 1: was a fluke. Shouldn't have happened down fifteen in every game.

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Speaker 1: We're actually not that good, you know what. I Like,

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Speaker 1: and so like those are in theory, the only.

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Speaker 2: Two viable paths.

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Speaker 1: And this is why I'm kind I feel like Tuesday's

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Speaker 1: TV show is going to age. Well, I said that,

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Speaker 1: and then I said, there is, however, a third path,

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Speaker 1: a third rationale I should say, which is they are

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Speaker 1: firing Tom Thibodeaux because there is a player they are

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Speaker 1: trying to acquire that they think they will be more

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Speaker 1: what I was implying without really saying, is was it

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Speaker 1: possible that someone from Giannie's camp said, Hey, you know,

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Speaker 1: would it push Janis closer to asking for a trade,

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Speaker 1: Nick specifically. So I just kind of threw that out

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Speaker 1: there as a possibility. I don't think you would have

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Speaker 1: better chance to get Kevin Durant Yannis is the other

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Speaker 1: there on Tuesday and then demanse, did you see the

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Speaker 1: Knicks might want to go after?

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Speaker 2: Because I did.

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Speaker 1: It was a coach who currently has a job, and

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Speaker 1: it was Jason Kidd. And if people remember Jason Kidd

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Speaker 1: coached Janice in Milwaukee, and when Jason Kidd was fired, Yannis,

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Speaker 1: the reporting was he called Jason Kidd and said, is

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Speaker 1: can I fix it? Should I call ownership and say,

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Speaker 1: unfire you? I'm paraphrasing, so again I'm not I am

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Speaker 1: I'm literally I could not be further away from reporting

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Speaker 1: anything here. I have been gambling NonStop for the last

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Speaker 1: thirty six hours. I've not been working the phones. I've

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Speaker 1: been playing poker. I'm simply saying the firing TIBs. It

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Speaker 1: And then when I because the reporting Demanse was there

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Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, well, emy Udoka is not going to

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Speaker 2: Me and again maybe maybe I'm wrong, like.

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Speaker 3: Like, but it's really that one name.

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Speaker 2: It's just that it was really about exactly.

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Speaker 1: And then this morning on the walk over from Aria

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Speaker 1: poker is. I was listening to Brian windhorse Show The

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Speaker 1: Hoop Collective and anybody, by the way, who tweeting me

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Speaker 1: or asking me or whatever about Lebron once again going

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Speaker 1: at Wendy, I would please. What I would like to

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Speaker 1: say about that is it makes me very sad and

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Speaker 1: I wish he wouldn't do it, and I you know,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you respecting my privacy at this time, I

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Speaker 1: and Tim McMahon, Tim McMahon who covers all the Texas

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Speaker 1: teams for ESPN, and the Jason Kidd thing came up,

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Speaker 1: and Tim McMahon did not who just wrote a book

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Speaker 1: on Luca, who's very close to the MAVs. When the

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Speaker 1: Jason Kidd thing came up, Tim McMahon did not say, Oh,

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Speaker 1: no chance, there's no way the MAVs are letting him leave.

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Speaker 2: There's no that didn't happen.

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Speaker 3: So Jason Kidd might want to leave Dallas. I sat

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Speaker 3: they have.

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Speaker 1: Cooper Flag coming, but it's still kind of a toxic situation.

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Speaker 1: And here's the other thing. Even if like it wasn't

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Speaker 1: a toxic situation, so much easier to win in the East.

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Speaker 1: Right now, right now, I'm gonna add one other piece

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Speaker 1: of this because obviously Jim Dolan was involved to some level.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how much of a level, but to

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Speaker 2: To get to this point.

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Speaker 1: Somebody I DIDNN interview a couple of weeks ago, and

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Speaker 1: that silly like face of the network thing came up

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Speaker 1: again when the guy asked me about FS one and

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Speaker 1: me and I answered what I've always answered, which is,

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Speaker 1: for the last almost decade, Colin Cowhard has been an

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Speaker 1: hat for every single day, the face of FS one,

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Speaker 1: and he will be until he stops broadcasting for us.

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Speaker 1: And people think, like, that's just you know me, you know,

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Speaker 1: idol and friend, and you know all that, and some

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Speaker 1: of that's true whatever, but it's also it's not like

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Speaker 1: So here's now here's what I think is a fair

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Speaker 2: Well, again, this is just a this is just a

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Speaker 2: It's it's not even close to one hundred percent, just

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Speaker 3: likely that Blank will get the job, but maybe Blank

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Speaker 1: Okay, so the I mean Brrew kept Bruce kept saying,

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Speaker 1: All right, Demanse, let's get to you know, kind of

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Speaker 1: part two of our NBA Finals preview. We did a

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Speaker 1: big part one on Tuesday. Let's keep it going.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so Game one of the finals is tonight. Okay,

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Speaker 3: AC is minus nine and a half. What are your thoughts?

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Speaker 3: How do you think? How do you see this game going?

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Speaker 1: So there's been at these card games, obviously not I

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Speaker 1: mean particularly the cash games I've been playing.

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Speaker 2: All these guys are.

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Speaker 1: Somewhere between degenerate to semi pro sports betters, like they're

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Speaker 1: all they're all you know, the they're just all. I

457
00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:32,200
Speaker 1: shouldn't say all, but most are just betting sports all day.

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Speaker 1: And so the number one thing people are wanting to

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Speaker 1: talk to me about is you know, what do I

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Speaker 1: you know?

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Speaker 2: What do I like?

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Speaker 1: Which the finals? Whatever it is? And so and I

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Speaker 1: you know, I've told everyone Bat of the Year. Okay,

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Speaker 1: see minus a game and a half again. I well,

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Speaker 1: I guess we can get more of the bet stuff

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Speaker 1: in a second. I don't want to step on it,

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Speaker 1: but somebody yesterday made who was it that made this

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Speaker 1: case to me? I'm trying to remember. I don't remember

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Speaker 1: who it was. One of the guys I was playing

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Speaker 1: with made the case essentially that Indiana, if you were

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Speaker 1: going to construct a team to give OKAC problems, it

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Speaker 1: would look a lot like Indiana, where their best player

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Speaker 1: is not the like overpowering wing, that the scoring wing,

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Speaker 1: that the thunder have, all these guys to throw at

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Speaker 1: right in Dorton, Carusoe and Wallace.

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Speaker 2: And all that.

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Speaker 1: That they play such a fast pace so you can't

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Speaker 1: set the defense. That they played kind of different. All

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Speaker 1: of those, all of those things I thought were good points.

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Speaker 2: The point that I made back to him was.

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Speaker 1: I I don't I think that is. I think Indiana

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Speaker 1: is built and stylistically built like a team and plays

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Speaker 1: a style of a team that could give OKAYC some

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Speaker 1: real trouble.

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Speaker 2: I just think they.

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Speaker 1: Need a little more talented roster. So if like I

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Speaker 1: right now, Demonte, you tell.

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Speaker 2: Me if you think this is disrespectful.

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Speaker 1: I think the Pacers have on like a school grading

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Speaker 1: scale A plus AA minus.

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Speaker 2: I think the Pacers overall talent.

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Speaker 1: Is about a B level, and I think they're coaching

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Speaker 1: and style of play elevates them up.

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Speaker 2: To an A minus a team.

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Speaker 1: But I think they have the overall talent of like,

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Speaker 1: you know, that ninth best team in the NBA, the

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Speaker 1: eighth best team in the NBA, but because of their

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Speaker 1: coaching and their style, they play like they are the

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Speaker 1: fourth or.

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Speaker 2: Fifth best team in the NBA, which and you might

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Speaker 2: be like, they're in the finals.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but the conferences to me are stacked a little differently,

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Speaker 1: so you could make the finals still be the fourth

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Speaker 1: or fifth best team. So my point is this EVE,

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Speaker 1: instead of having B talent overall, they were like an

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Speaker 1: A minus talent with this coaching and this style, that

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Speaker 1: could be maybe enough.

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Speaker 2: To throw a real scare in Oklahoma City.

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Speaker 1: I just don't think they I don't think they have

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Speaker 1: the horses, and I would be.

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Speaker 2: I can't. I'll be honest.

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Speaker 3: I can't imagine the Spaces winning this series.

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Speaker 2: Well no, not.

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Speaker 1: Only that, I can't imagine the Pacers winning this series.

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Speaker 1: I can't imagine it going seven games. But I also

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Speaker 1: I almost said, I you know, I hope I'm wrong,

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Speaker 1: but I've placed a sizeable wager on this, on this,

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Speaker 1: so I don't. I no longer hope i'm wrong. I

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Speaker 1: now hope I'm very correct. And well, I mean it's

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Speaker 1: just is the truth. Like I picked Okay c to

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Speaker 1: beat Minnesota. I was, I was truly rooting for Minnesota

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Speaker 1: because I like Aunt and I that was but I

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Speaker 1: since I never bet Okay, See, that was like a

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Speaker 1: pure honest rooting that I was doing. This is I

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Speaker 1: you know, if not for the bet, I probably be

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Speaker 1: rooting for the Pacers.

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Speaker 2: But I can't, you know, I just I just can't.

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Speaker 1: All right, asked before we get to the bets, ask

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Speaker 1: some the follow ups here if you will.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So, what are you personally most excited about this series?

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Speaker 3: I mean it sounds like maybe cashing in on your bet.

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Speaker 1: No no, no, no, the the actual Well, there's two

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Speaker 1: things I'm most excited about.

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Speaker 2: I want to see if Shae.

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Speaker 1: Can elevate in my eyes and in the eyes of

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Speaker 1: the country because and I don't think this is unfair.

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Speaker 1: I don't think this is disrespectful. I think this is

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Speaker 1: just how it works. I think Shae so Shae is

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Speaker 1: right now, pardon me. If they win the championship, Demonse,

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Speaker 1: it's the most points per game in the regular season

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Speaker 1: a player has averaged that won the championship. Ever, it

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Speaker 1: will beat Michael Jordan's record. Right now, the record for

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Speaker 1: that is Michael Jordan thirty two point six. Second place

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Speaker 1: on that is Kareem thirty one point seven. Those are

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Speaker 1: the two highest single season point averages that you then

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Speaker 1: won the championship. And you might be like, no, that

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Speaker 1: can't be right. No, the year Kaream average thirty five,

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Speaker 1: they didn't win the title. The year Michael average thirty seven,

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Speaker 1: they didn't win the title. The year's the year Michael

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Speaker 1: average thirty three, they didn't win the title. The year

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Speaker 1: Kobe average thirty five or thirty one or even thirty,

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Speaker 1: they didn't win the title. Obviously, Harden never won the title.

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Speaker 1: The Durant never averaged more than this, So like that

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Speaker 1: would Lebron his highest scoring year, which was like year

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Speaker 1: three or four in Cleveland, they obviously didn't win the title.

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Speaker 2: So that that's a.

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Speaker 1: Record that has stood for thirty two years that Jordan

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Speaker 1: has had, and that that's kind of anecdotal and just

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Speaker 1: a small little piece. But the point I'm making is

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Speaker 1: I still think there's a lot of people.

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Speaker 2: That feel like Shay is.

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Speaker 1: On the Anthony Edwards Tatum tier and not the joker

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Speaker 1: Yiannis tier. And when I say a lot of people

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Speaker 1: like I'm I've been one of them, Right, a great

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Speaker 1: finals performance and a championship has to elevate him, and

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Speaker 1: you might say it didn't for Tatum. Well, Tatum didn't.

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Speaker 1: That's why I said a great fight. Tatum had a

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Speaker 1: good finals, but Tatum also wasn't the league MVP that year.

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Speaker 1: So that I'm excited to see. The Other thing I'm

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Speaker 1: most excited to see is, uh, how Halliburton tries to

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Speaker 1: deal with this Okac defense. And I'll add another kind

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Speaker 1: of fact piece to it, okay, se I wonder if

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Speaker 1: they're going to be a little caught off guard in that.

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Speaker 1: So like Dort, Dort, utility is, Hey, who's your big,

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Speaker 1: powerful wing who scores you know, can score thirty. I'm

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Speaker 1: going to be just as strong as him, even though

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Speaker 1: I'm undersized, and get into him, right, Caruso can guard.

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm going to be as strong as anybody.

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Speaker 1: Halliburton's never trying to overpower anyone, and so like well,

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Speaker 1: Halliburton's kind of style be a little difficult for them

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Speaker 1: to adjust to.

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Speaker 2: I don't think so, but I'm excited to watch that.

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Speaker 2: All Right, what's the next.

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Speaker 3: Uh, what do you think the rest of the league

585
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Speaker 3: can learn from these two teams you know making it

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Speaker 3: to the finals team basketball emphasis, I feel like from

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Speaker 3: these two teams.

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Speaker 2: So I think that I think the quick answer is demonse.

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Speaker 1: That in the in today's era of the NBA, you

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Speaker 1: should not simply try to you know, to go after the.

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Speaker 2: You know three superstar and then like you.

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Speaker 1: Don't want a team that is too top heavy and

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Speaker 1: because of that you don't have enough depth. I do

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Speaker 1: think that is a real learn I also think that

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Speaker 1: the we are how do I how do I phrase

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Speaker 1: this right? I think the skill level demanse has gotten

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Speaker 1: so high. There was a time in the NBA not

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Speaker 1: that long ago where can you get me a bucket?

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00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:08,680
Speaker 1: Was the single most valuable thing, and that still is

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Speaker 1: the most valuable thing for the superstar, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean, can even when the whole defense is built

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Speaker 1: to stop you, can you get me a bucket?

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Speaker 2: Right? But now for the role players, I think.

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Speaker 1: The can you get me a bucket being the most

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Speaker 1: important thing has been replaced by can you.

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Speaker 2: Defend? In big like?

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Speaker 1: Are you let me rephrase it, are you a good

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Speaker 1: enough defender to where the other team doesn't see you

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Speaker 1: out on the court and say we're gonna target him?

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Speaker 2: Every time until he's off the court.

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Speaker 1: And I think what the Pacers and the thunder have

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Speaker 1: is a bunch of different five man lineups they like

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Speaker 1: where nobody out there is get him in a pick

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Speaker 1: and roll every single time.

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Speaker 2: And I think that because you know, I don't.

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Speaker 1: It's not true that everyone, but more guys in the

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00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:23,560
Speaker 1: modern NBA can shoot than ever before, Demonse, more guys,

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Speaker 1: you know, are skilled than ever before. So you can

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Speaker 1: find guys that can come off the bench and bury

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Speaker 1: three like you can like Campaign, that guy's a veil like.

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Speaker 1: There's a million of those guys. But Campaign couldn't play

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Speaker 1: in these playoffs later for the Knicks because he would

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Speaker 1: just be relentlessly targeted defensively, and they ended up going

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Speaker 1: to Delon Wright, who really is not a great example

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Speaker 1: because he couldn't really hit a shot. But because it's can't,

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Speaker 1: can we put a five man lineup out there? And

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Speaker 1: this wasn't my theory, but I loved it that we

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Speaker 1: have entered the weak link era. And I don't know

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Speaker 1: if it's forever, but it's just or even if it's

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Speaker 1: long term, but with it where it is, as long

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Speaker 1: as your best player is good enough to get you

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Speaker 1: in the club. To get in the room, that you

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Speaker 1: cross that barrier of entry, then it becomes all right,

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Speaker 1: who's your worst guy that you're gonna play real minutes for?

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Speaker 1: And is he, you know, a competent, good enough two

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Speaker 1: way player. So that's kind of what I would take.

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Speaker 2: Away from it.

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Speaker 1: Now we can do a little bit on these finals

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Speaker 1: bets if you'd like.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so we talked last last show about your bet

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Speaker 3: of the year. You wanted OKAYC minus one and a

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Speaker 3: half at.

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Speaker 1: Minus one and a half games. Well, listen, it was

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Speaker 1: minus two sixty five. There's minus two seventy five. It's

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Speaker 1: now minus two ninety. I'm not saying and I moved

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Speaker 1: that line, but I'm actually here to tell you if

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Speaker 1: you move that line, I'm I'm I'm certain I did,

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Speaker 1: and I don't even necessarily mean from Tuesday's pod and

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Speaker 1: the TV show, I think that had something to do

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Speaker 1: with it. But I think what had more to do

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Speaker 1: with it is me talking about it so much amongst

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Speaker 1: some of the biggest sports betters in the world the

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Speaker 1: last thirty six hours, and I think people have been

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Speaker 1: walking up to the window and basically saying, give me

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Speaker 1: the nick right special and so yeah, I mean I

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Speaker 1: think this thing will be minus three hundred by the

657
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Speaker 1: time the series starts.

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Speaker 2: Uh, go ahead.

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Speaker 3: So and you also just we also discussed an exact

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Speaker 3: series bet you had. Okay, see game one, okay, see

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Speaker 3: game two, Indy Game three, okay, see game four, Indy.

662
00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:55,360
Speaker 3: Game five, okay, see game six. That's at plus thirty

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Speaker 3: five hundred.

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Speaker 2: Are there five to one?

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Speaker 3: Right? Go ahead?

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Speaker 1: Uh, here's the thing on that. I I think I'm

667
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Speaker 1: making that bet.

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Speaker 2: Just a little. It's thirty five to one. So just

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Speaker 2: this a little bit with the intention demands.

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Speaker 1: That I might that would be a hard one to hedge,

671
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Speaker 1: but it's the first four games. I feel that it's

672
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Speaker 1: Game five in that that's tricky that you.

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Speaker 3: Talk a lot about like hedge potential, and I can't

674
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Speaker 3: hedge here. It can't edge there. Aren't you like the

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Speaker 3: non hedging guy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that that is correct. I am. I absolutely am

677
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Speaker 2: the non hedging guy.

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Speaker 1: And I've said this before and the producers. I don't

679
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Speaker 1: even think that's a question from Deman. I think by

680
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:05,160
Speaker 1: the producers trying to trying to catch me in something.

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Speaker 1: I there the caveat two. I don't hedges unless I

682
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Speaker 1: make a bet with the intention of hedging, like I'm

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Speaker 1: betting to hedge it.

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Speaker 2: But here's the point I'm making.

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Speaker 1: I think the probably the the smarter way to make

686
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Speaker 1: that bet and not really act instead of hedging or

687
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Speaker 1: whatever is to take I think okay See game one,

688
00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 1: okay See game two, Indie game three, okay See game

689
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Speaker 1: four is how those first four games are going. It's

690
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Speaker 1: the game five that's the tipping point game. But I

691
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Speaker 1: don't see. I think okay See is winning the first

692
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Speaker 1: two and then when a team's up to AH and

693
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:54,600
Speaker 1: the other team goes home and we've seen it from

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Speaker 1: OKAC already this playoffs, they relax a bit and then

695
00:41:57,480 --> 00:41:59,440
Speaker 1: okay See takes back control of the series.

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Speaker 2: I will say.

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Speaker 1: One other thing, as long as if you just wanted

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Speaker 1: to bet Okac for the series, I do think just

699
00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:17,920
Speaker 1: betting Shaye to win finals MVP is smarter. And you

700
00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 1: might say, like, well, what if Shae gets hurt. If

701
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Speaker 1: Shae gets hurt, they're not winning the series anyway, probably,

702
00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:26,239
Speaker 1: so like the bet, you know what I mean, the

703
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Speaker 1: BET's dead and I do think that I do think

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Speaker 1: that you are like the OKC is like minus seven

705
00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:37,839
Speaker 1: hundred and Shay's minus six hundred. Again, those are significant.

706
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:40,759
Speaker 1: Obviously you're laying a ton of juice there, but I

707
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:44,600
Speaker 1: do think that that would be the better way to

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Speaker 1: play it. All right, let's talk a little. Let's quickly

709
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Speaker 1: get through some of these other things.

710
00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:53,480
Speaker 3: So the Sun's hired former Cleveland assistant Jordan not as

711
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:57,240
Speaker 3: their new head coach, and they also lowered the asking

712
00:42:57,320 --> 00:43:02,120
Speaker 3: price for Kevin Durant. So what's what's going on?

713
00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:05,880
Speaker 1: Here's what I read this morning that I let me

714
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Speaker 1: find this exact story, and I want to make sure

715
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Speaker 1: that I'm not getting bad aggregation.

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Speaker 2: Okay, No, this is from.

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Speaker 1: Phn X Suns, which you might be like, what the

718
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:24,000
Speaker 1: hell is that that? So, uh, there's a company that

719
00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:27,880
Speaker 1: started like four different cities. It's called All City and

720
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:33,160
Speaker 1: they basically do media for sports teams in Denver, Philly,

721
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Speaker 1: Chicago and Denver Philly, Chicago, Oh, and Phoenix obviously, and

722
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Speaker 1: they do a good job. Our buddy KRN Demons works

723
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Speaker 1: for the Chicago on Hgo, So it's Chgo in Chicago,

724
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Speaker 1: d n v R and Denver, pH l Y in Philly,

725
00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:58,200
Speaker 1: and phn X in Phoenix.

726
00:43:58,320 --> 00:43:59,920
Speaker 2: Like you guys get it. How they're doing it.

727
00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:10,160
Speaker 1: So here is what Gerald, I apologize. Gerald Borges, is

728
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Speaker 1: I assume how you pronounced this b o U r

729
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Speaker 1: g u e t. Borget is how it's spelled. But

730
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Speaker 1: Borget Borges, I don't know.

731
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Speaker 2: In the story about Jordan Att.

732
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Speaker 1: This is what he writes, and this is the because

733
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Speaker 1: keep in mind, Uh, he's a Michigan State alone. Mattishviia,

734
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Speaker 1: their new owner, was a Michigan State walk on, and

735
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Speaker 1: I am going to read you directly from pieces of

736
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Speaker 1: his article. As a Michigan State alum, there will own

737
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Speaker 1: doubtedly be pressure on this first year head coach proved

738
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Speaker 1: that The Sun's exhaustive interview process is more than just

739
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Speaker 1: an inevitability. Similar cries of sparty favoritism rang out after

740
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Speaker 1: owner mattish Via hired Brian Gregory, a foreigner Michigan State

741
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Speaker 1: assistant with limited NBA front officis appearance, as the Sun's

742
00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:04,400
Speaker 1: new GM. That will only grow louder now that Phoenix

743
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Speaker 1: has hired Ott, who graduated from Michigan State and serves

744
00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:11,799
Speaker 1: as video coordinator under Rizzo from twenty eight to thirteen. Uh,

745
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:17,399
Speaker 1: let me go on further from here. This is the

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Speaker 1: part that I uh not for nothing. Devin Booker also

747
00:45:21,719 --> 00:45:24,760
Speaker 1: approved of the higher ESPN sham Sharani reported that Booker

748
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Speaker 1: was involved in the final stages of the Sun's interview

749
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Speaker 1: process and stamped Ott as his top choice, while another

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Speaker 1: source conformed confirmed that to pH and X Sports that

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Speaker 1: Booker loved him, having love and support of book You know,

752
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Speaker 1: the face of the franchise matters. That's not the part

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Speaker 1: of this that I am most interested in. Let me

754
00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:50,920
Speaker 1: let me find Okay, here we go. According to another source,

755
00:45:51,640 --> 00:45:56,160
Speaker 1: Ishbia emailed the Sun's basketball operations team internally on Wednesday,

756
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Speaker 1: taking accountability for not doing enough to establish a cult

757
00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:05,160
Speaker 1: in identity in Phoenix. The Sun's owner stated that quote

758
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:10,480
Speaker 1: or is that he tried quote running the typical NBA

759
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:14,799
Speaker 1: owner playbook of hiring experts, signing checks and getting out

760
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:18,839
Speaker 1: of the way, but no one was happy with that outcome.

761
00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:23,640
Speaker 1: In other words, Matt Ashbia is like, you know what,

762
00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:30,359
Speaker 1: this situation needs more, Mattishbia, that's a problem, boys and

763
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Speaker 1: Mattshbia has surveyed the Phoenix Suns, who were fucking fine.

764
00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:40,320
Speaker 1: They had made the finals, they had the best record

765
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Speaker 1: in the league. The next year he bought the team,

766
00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:47,239
Speaker 1: it's been nothing but disaster, and he has surveyed it

767
00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:54,520
Speaker 1: and he's like, you know what, I after some real

768
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Speaker 1: soul searching.

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Speaker 2: You know what.

770
00:46:56,400 --> 00:47:01,759
Speaker 1: This organization needs more of this guy. So I mean,

771
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Speaker 1: I'm just here to tell you I feel really bad

772
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Speaker 1: for Suns fans.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it is you're.

774
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Speaker 1: Gonna get sixty cents on the dollar for Durant unless

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Speaker 1: I mean the Towns thing would be probably one hundred

776
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Speaker 1: and twenty five cents on the dollar, but that's probably

777
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Speaker 1: not happening.

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Speaker 2: And I just don't.

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Speaker 3: What do you think is a worse fan situation right now?

780
00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:32,439
Speaker 3: Between being a Suns fan or a Mavericks fan.

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00:47:33,480 --> 00:47:42,200
Speaker 1: Oh well, it's they're so different. If you're a MAVs

782
00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:51,440
Speaker 1: fan and you could just Men in Black neuralizer again,

783
00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:53,520
Speaker 1: that's a now its Men in Black, a thirty year

784
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Speaker 1: old movie. If people don't if people don't know Men

785
00:47:56,120 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 1: in Black, they had these little they look like pens,

786
00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:03,560
Speaker 1: little lights called a neuralizer I think, where if they

787
00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:07,760
Speaker 1: flashed it at you, they could erase you know, whatever

788
00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:10,600
Speaker 1: they wanted from your memory, like the last five minutes,

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Speaker 1: the last year, or whatever it is. That was for

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Speaker 1: some reason, I referenced the Men in Black neuralizer thing

791
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Speaker 1: all the time. And now I'm realizing I'm an old

792
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:24,359
Speaker 1: man and I don't know that everyone's seen the movie,

793
00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:26,680
Speaker 1: but yeah, I.

794
00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:27,160
Speaker 2: Would think so.

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Speaker 1: But here's the thing, Demons, you're kind of an old

796
00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:36,280
Speaker 1: man too. As you said the other day, you're pushing thirty,

797
00:48:36,640 --> 00:48:40,240
Speaker 1: like we got we got kids out here that haven't

798
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Speaker 1: There are people watching the podcasts that haven't walked inside

799
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Speaker 1: a movie like.

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Speaker 2: You know what I mean.

801
00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:47,640
Speaker 3: If it's not on.

802
00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:50,960
Speaker 1: TikTok or YouTube shorts, they're like, that's whack Will Smith?

803
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:51,359
Speaker 2: Get out?

804
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:53,239
Speaker 1: All they know of Will Smith is that he got

805
00:48:53,239 --> 00:48:56,000
Speaker 1: punched in the face of the oscars or no, I'm

806
00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:59,239
Speaker 1: sorry that, yeah he did the slapping. My apologies, all right,

807
00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:03,719
Speaker 1: but that's not the point. Back to the topic. If

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00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:06,759
Speaker 1: you were a MAVs fan and you could get men

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00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:12,120
Speaker 1: in Black neuralizered into forgetting that Luca was ever on

810
00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:15,960
Speaker 1: your team, it's kind of fun and exciting. It's like, oh,

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Speaker 1: we got this generational prospect coming up. Anthony Davis is good,

812
00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:25,880
Speaker 1: Kyrie's coming back? Like who maybe who knows the problem

813
00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:31,600
Speaker 1: is that just like panging regret at all times that

814
00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:34,799
Speaker 1: you used to have Luka Doncic and this madman got

815
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:37,080
Speaker 1: rid of him. I would never be able to get

816
00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:40,640
Speaker 1: over that. But there's still good basketball to come. The

817
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:51,480
Speaker 1: Suns are objectively screwed for the next five to seven years,

818
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:55,840
Speaker 1: and there's just no way around it. And so I

819
00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:59,799
Speaker 1: just think it's the worst situation imaginable and I don't

820
00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:04,719
Speaker 1: and Manash bea looking at it and being like, I'll

821
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Speaker 1: fix this with more of me is one of the

822
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Speaker 1: craziest things I've ever heard.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's talk USA versus the World.

824
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, so Adam Silver confirmed. I think this is

825
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Speaker 3: on breakfast ball. Actually that the next Olympics, the next Olympics,

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Speaker 3: or the next All Star Game, I'm sorry, will be

827
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Speaker 3: team World versus Team USA. How do you feel about this?

828
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Speaker 3: Do you think this will change or fix the the

829
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Speaker 3: lackluster All Star Games?

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Speaker 1: So, to be fair, he said, some form of US

831
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Speaker 1: against the World. So here's the only way I.

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Speaker 2: Think you could do it.

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00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:46,120
Speaker 1: I think, because as people have pointed out, you're not gonna.

834
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Speaker 2: Have twelve and twelve.

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Speaker 1: I I think the way you have there. I'll just

836
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Speaker 1: be honest, I don't know that this is going to work,

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Speaker 1: because I think this is the only way you can

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Speaker 1: do it. I think you have to pick your twenty

839
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Speaker 1: four all stars, and what you're gonna end up with is,

840
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Speaker 1: you know, eight international and sixteen American, and then you're

841
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Speaker 1: gonna have to figure out which four Americans are gonna

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00:51:18,920 --> 00:51:20,680
Speaker 1: have to play on the international team.

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00:51:20,800 --> 00:51:24,359
Speaker 2: And that's gonna be weird. I think that's how it's

844
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Speaker 2: gonna work.

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Speaker 3: It's like, where are your roots at? Well? But hey,

846
00:51:28,320 --> 00:51:29,640
Speaker 3: back into your ancestors.

847
00:51:30,440 --> 00:51:33,799
Speaker 1: No, no, well, I mean I don't know what they're

848
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Speaker 1: I don't so I I like the idea. The problem

849
00:51:40,560 --> 00:51:44,120
Speaker 1: is the numbers on it. I do think that. Here's

850
00:51:44,160 --> 00:51:49,560
Speaker 1: the other thing. All of our MVPs now are international guys,

851
00:51:51,040 --> 00:52:00,400
Speaker 1: but it's also uh exkews to not the best roster build.

852
00:52:00,800 --> 00:52:09,600
Speaker 1: And here's what I mean. It's Shae, Luca, and then

853
00:52:09,680 --> 00:52:16,120
Speaker 1: a bunch of bigs Joker, Giannie, Embiid and they if

854
00:52:16,320 --> 00:52:19,520
Speaker 1: you know Embiid were to get back to form s

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00:52:19,719 --> 00:52:22,560
Speaker 1: Bonus Rudy, you know what I mean.

856
00:52:22,719 --> 00:52:26,200
Speaker 2: Like, so you it's you don't have.

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00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:31,920
Speaker 1: Thank goodness, Shay's Canadian, you know, like, and Luca obviously

858
00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:38,719
Speaker 1: is uh Slovenian. But it's so I don't really wilds

859
00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:42,800
Speaker 1: is right, that it used to work, it can work again.

860
00:52:42,960 --> 00:52:45,960
Speaker 1: It's just on the players to play defense. And Wilds

861
00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:51,840
Speaker 1: is also right that the best plays and highlights anyone's

862
00:52:51,880 --> 00:52:56,880
Speaker 1: ever seen all have something in common and attempted awesome defense,

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00:52:58,120 --> 00:53:01,440
Speaker 1: and that's what makes the highlight great, and they've just

864
00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:04,000
Speaker 1: kind of lost their way on.

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Speaker 2: It a bit.

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Speaker 1: I do want to do quickly one NFL story before

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Speaker 1: we go, and then we can talk a little World

868
00:53:13,120 --> 00:53:14,360
Speaker 1: Series of Poker stuff at the end.

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00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:18,000
Speaker 2: But I do want to talk to CJ. Stroud story quickly. CJ.

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Speaker 3: Strausen throwing a pass at OTA's. It seems like he's

871
00:53:21,320 --> 00:53:25,120
Speaker 3: got a shoulder injury thing going on. Demico Ryans is

872
00:53:25,280 --> 00:53:27,560
Speaker 3: reporting that he's not He's not worried at all, but

873
00:53:27,520 --> 00:53:29,320
Speaker 3: it also seems like it could be possible that he

874
00:53:29,360 --> 00:53:32,160
Speaker 3: had a surgery that they're trying not to highlight or

875
00:53:32,200 --> 00:53:37,560
Speaker 3: something like that. Is there a problem in Houston? Take

876
00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:40,160
Speaker 3: the Jacks to win the division? I'm sorry, it's the

877
00:53:40,200 --> 00:53:43,120
Speaker 3: perfect Jacks plus that's plus three hundred right now is

878
00:53:43,160 --> 00:53:46,239
Speaker 3: to take the Jackson. I've been all that for like

879
00:53:46,239 --> 00:53:50,120
Speaker 3: the last two and a half months. Yeah, you only

880
00:53:50,120 --> 00:53:52,560
Speaker 3: got to worry about the Texans. This guy's shoulders hurt, right,

881
00:53:52,560 --> 00:53:55,160
Speaker 3: now take the Jackson and for some reason the odds

882
00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:57,279
Speaker 3: went up since that information came out.

883
00:53:57,760 --> 00:53:59,160
Speaker 2: Well, I think the odds went up.

884
00:53:59,360 --> 00:54:02,840
Speaker 1: Actually was less about that and more maybe there was

885
00:54:02,880 --> 00:54:09,160
Speaker 1: a little Titan smoke because Cam wore but the.

886
00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:10,040
Speaker 2: But I that that's why I want to talk about

887
00:54:10,040 --> 00:54:10,560
Speaker 2: this story.

888
00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:16,160
Speaker 1: Well, you are right, buddy, That's why I wanted to

889
00:54:16,160 --> 00:54:21,120
Speaker 1: talk about this story. Was I do think the Jags

890
00:54:21,160 --> 00:54:25,040
Speaker 1: win the division is a good bet. Shoulder soreness, long

891
00:54:25,200 --> 00:54:30,200
Speaker 1: lingering shoulder soreness for quarterbacks and pitchers concerns the hell

892
00:54:30,239 --> 00:54:30,680
Speaker 1: out of me.

893
00:54:32,160 --> 00:54:34,800
Speaker 2: And c J.

894
00:54:35,920 --> 00:54:43,799
Speaker 1: I don't like it's it is odd enough that it

895
00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:46,760
Speaker 1: is raised in alarm. You then add to it demands

896
00:54:47,560 --> 00:54:48,839
Speaker 1: that the offensive line was.

897
00:54:48,760 --> 00:54:51,759
Speaker 2: Brutal last year. They traded away.

898
00:54:51,560 --> 00:54:55,160
Speaker 1: Tonsil, they have you know, Digs isn't there, which is fine.

899
00:54:55,239 --> 00:54:57,759
Speaker 1: Tank Dell's not going to be there all year. I

900
00:54:57,800 --> 00:55:02,360
Speaker 1: think there's real So yeah, yes, you got there before

901
00:55:02,400 --> 00:55:08,160
Speaker 1: I did. I think that the Jags to win the division.

902
00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:10,640
Speaker 1: I know this is a shock to no one, is

903
00:55:11,239 --> 00:55:17,279
Speaker 1: my takeaway on this. And I think Houston listen Houston's

904
00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:19,759
Speaker 1: past defense last year, by the end of the year

905
00:55:19,840 --> 00:55:23,600
Speaker 1: was the best in the league, and Dimiico's excellent and

906
00:55:23,640 --> 00:55:26,239
Speaker 1: that should be good enough to you know, keep them.

907
00:55:27,719 --> 00:55:31,040
Speaker 2: More than relevant. But you know, in the mix. But

908
00:55:31,120 --> 00:55:31,640
Speaker 2: I the.

909
00:55:31,640 --> 00:55:37,680
Speaker 1: Jags prove it here for Trevor, Travis Hunter, Brian Thomas,

910
00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:43,560
Speaker 1: Liam Cohen. I like all of it, all right. So

911
00:55:43,719 --> 00:55:48,040
Speaker 1: World Series of Poker we're here. We're like so we're

912
00:55:48,080 --> 00:55:51,319
Speaker 1: at the Horseshoe. The events are. This is one of them.

913
00:55:51,760 --> 00:55:54,920
Speaker 1: So if you guys look behind me, this is and

914
00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:56,920
Speaker 1: I'm gonna move out of the camera view for a

915
00:55:56,960 --> 00:55:58,680
Speaker 1: minute so you can.

916
00:55:58,640 --> 00:56:01,160
Speaker 2: See like that to one of the stages.

917
00:56:01,840 --> 00:56:06,680
Speaker 1: This is the you know, there's one hundred tables set

918
00:56:06,760 --> 00:56:13,600
Speaker 1: up in here. There are there are demand's a three

919
00:56:13,800 --> 00:56:19,680
Speaker 1: other far bigger like convention holes where these games are

920
00:56:19,719 --> 00:56:23,320
Speaker 1: being played. So it's just thousands and thousands of thousands

921
00:56:23,400 --> 00:56:30,400
Speaker 1: of players and if people are interested today, my plan is,

922
00:56:30,600 --> 00:56:33,960
Speaker 1: let me see when it starts. Let's see what the plan.

923
00:56:34,280 --> 00:56:37,719
Speaker 1: Let's see what's on the docket for today. Because I

924
00:56:37,880 --> 00:56:41,400
Speaker 1: expected to still be you know, today is the final

925
00:56:41,480 --> 00:56:44,360
Speaker 1: table for the ten K Dealer's Choice, which is the

926
00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:49,640
Speaker 1: tournament I was in yesterday morning that I'm no longer in.

927
00:56:50,200 --> 00:56:53,120
Speaker 1: So because I got knocked out, but that happens. So

928
00:56:53,160 --> 00:56:58,160
Speaker 1: the so the tournaments that get rolling today that I

929
00:56:58,200 --> 00:57:03,480
Speaker 1: am interested in is the fifteen hundred dollars Badogie, which

930
00:57:03,560 --> 00:57:09,719
Speaker 1: starts When does that start? So that starts at two pm, right, yeah,

931
00:57:09,920 --> 00:57:15,680
Speaker 1: two pm. The other one that is a possibility, let

932
00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:21,520
Speaker 1: me look and see, is well, there's a twenty five

933
00:57:21,680 --> 00:57:24,200
Speaker 1: K no limit hold on that I'm not playing in

934
00:57:24,320 --> 00:57:26,280
Speaker 1: and is going to be one of the hardest tournaments

935
00:57:26,320 --> 00:57:31,000
Speaker 1: of the summer. I'm not playing that. There is also

936
00:57:31,640 --> 00:57:35,560
Speaker 1: is today, oh today is the oh okay no, So

937
00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:39,280
Speaker 1: it's just the fifteen hundred dollars Doogie that is today,

938
00:57:39,440 --> 00:57:45,240
Speaker 1: and then over the weekend is the ten K seven

939
00:57:45,680 --> 00:57:50,240
Speaker 1: card stud So that so just one tournament today, which

940
00:57:50,280 --> 00:57:53,320
Speaker 1: means I need to play well in it or else

941
00:57:53,440 --> 00:57:54,440
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have nothing to do.

942
00:57:55,040 --> 00:57:57,080
Speaker 2: So that's my plan for today.

943
00:57:57,400 --> 00:58:00,440
Speaker 1: Gotta lock in, man, I really gotta I got a

944
00:58:00,480 --> 00:58:05,600
Speaker 1: lock in yesterday. Now, I've been playing very well in

945
00:58:05,640 --> 00:58:08,919
Speaker 1: that post tournament cash games, but that's not the that's

946
00:58:09,000 --> 00:58:11,240
Speaker 1: so I'm people care.

947
00:58:11,880 --> 00:58:14,320
Speaker 2: That's not why I'm there. It's exactly right. I'm there

948
00:58:14,360 --> 00:58:16,959
Speaker 2: to I'm here to final.

949
00:58:16,680 --> 00:58:19,720
Speaker 1: Table a World Series of poker event and have a

950
00:58:19,760 --> 00:58:21,880
Speaker 1: shot at a bracelet. It's the only reason I'm here.

951
00:58:24,360 --> 00:58:27,200
Speaker 1: I need to play better. That's why I'm here to

952
00:58:27,200 --> 00:58:30,160
Speaker 1: tell you now. Did I play great yesterday?

953
00:58:30,200 --> 00:58:30,560
Speaker 2: Of course?

954
00:58:31,320 --> 00:58:35,600
Speaker 1: Did I get terribly, terribly unlucky in the pot limit

955
00:58:35,680 --> 00:58:37,040
Speaker 1: Omaha eight or better?

956
00:58:38,160 --> 00:58:38,600
Speaker 2: Yeah?

957
00:58:38,800 --> 00:58:42,680
Speaker 1: At one point, demons, out of the nine hundred and

958
00:58:42,840 --> 00:58:44,880
Speaker 1: eight players in the tournament.

959
00:58:45,320 --> 00:58:50,160
Speaker 2: Was I seventh in chips? I was? I have screenshot

960
00:58:50,240 --> 00:58:50,840
Speaker 2: to prove it, I do.

961
00:58:51,720 --> 00:58:55,480
Speaker 1: Shortly after that, did I play a pot that would

962
00:58:55,520 --> 00:59:00,520
Speaker 1: have put me second in chips where I needed to

963
00:59:00,520 --> 00:59:03,680
Speaker 1: fade six cards and I would have had the second

964
00:59:03,680 --> 00:59:06,200
Speaker 1: most chips out of this nearly thousand person field.

965
00:59:07,080 --> 00:59:10,280
Speaker 2: I did, but I didn't fade those six cards.

966
00:59:12,200 --> 00:59:15,240
Speaker 1: And I'll be honest, I didn't deal with that beat

967
00:59:15,720 --> 00:59:18,080
Speaker 1: the way I probably should have, and I kind of

968
00:59:19,080 --> 00:59:23,080
Speaker 1: tilted off from there. It's part of the listen, it's

969
00:59:23,160 --> 00:59:26,640
Speaker 1: part of the experience. I just got to stay locked in.

970
00:59:29,080 --> 00:59:32,320
Speaker 1: So I want to thank, by the way, all the

971
00:59:32,360 --> 00:59:35,200
Speaker 1: great people at the World Series of Poker for giving

972
00:59:35,240 --> 00:59:35,800
Speaker 1: me this.

973
00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:39,000
Speaker 2: Room. I don't know if you guys can see.

974
00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:41,080
Speaker 1: But the What's Right logos are set up in there,

975
00:59:41,080 --> 00:59:46,160
Speaker 1: which is so incredibly cool to me and I people

976
00:59:46,440 --> 00:59:48,480
Speaker 1: might be like, why didn't you know where were the

977
00:59:48,560 --> 00:59:53,200
Speaker 1: Instagram updates yesterday? I was too devastated by the beat

978
00:59:53,360 --> 00:59:57,280
Speaker 1: to update anybody. But that's you know what we're gonna

979
00:59:57,280 --> 00:59:57,680
Speaker 1: lock in.

980
00:59:58,000 --> 01:00:02,720
Speaker 3: We're gonna do so kind of clear your mind of

981
01:00:03,240 --> 01:00:05,440
Speaker 3: yesterday's loss so you can go.

982
01:00:06,560 --> 01:00:10,280
Speaker 1: Oh the mid and black neuralizer. Wow, what a fat

983
01:00:10,320 --> 01:00:12,800
Speaker 1: what a quick photoshop? You look fine.

984
01:00:12,920 --> 01:00:15,320
Speaker 2: Not the greatest picture of me I've ever seen, I

985
01:00:15,360 --> 01:00:18,800
Speaker 2: gotta tell you, but you look great. This is why

986
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Speaker 2: people should subscribe on YouTube.

987
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Speaker 1: This is why they should, you know, because if you're

988
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Speaker 1: listening to a podcast, you don't get this.

989
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Speaker 2: But also, by the way, subscribe on podcasts. All right, listen.

990
01:00:28,840 --> 01:00:30,920
Speaker 2: This was a lot of work for a lot of people.

991
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Speaker 1: So a huge thanks to Maries, Candani, Uh, Brent Hanks,

992
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Speaker 1: Ty Stewart, everyone involved with Poker Go and with the

993
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Speaker 1: World Series of Poker.

994
01:00:43,280 --> 01:00:45,040
Speaker 2: UH for helping me get this set up.

995
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Speaker 1: Obvious, huge thanks to everyone at the Volume and Blue

996
01:00:48,760 --> 01:00:52,040
Speaker 1: Duck for you know, getting this tech stuff set up

997
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Speaker 1: and DraftKings as always for all the support.

998
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Speaker 2: UH.

999
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Speaker 1: If there is a there is a chance we do

1000
01:00:59,680 --> 01:01:05,000
Speaker 1: a brief semi emergency pod sometime, but you know, over

1001
01:01:05,040 --> 01:01:07,280
Speaker 1: the weekend in relation to Game one of the finals.

1002
01:01:07,280 --> 01:01:11,479
Speaker 1: We'll see how that. We'll see how that goes. But yeah,

1003
01:01:11,640 --> 01:01:15,680
Speaker 1: demand's a great job. Like rate, subscribe, review, and send

1004
01:01:15,760 --> 01:01:20,040
Speaker 1: me good poker vibes because the fifteen hundred dollars Badugie bracelet,

1005
01:01:20,160 --> 01:01:22,520
Speaker 1: it's gonna look great on this risk right here, See

1006
01:01:22,520 --> 01:01:23,040
Speaker 1: you guys soon.

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Speaker 2: What's right,