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Speaker 1: Welcome in What's Driving the Grand Episode four point thirty one.

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Speaker 1: This episode of What Driving the Grid is always is

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Speaker 1: presented to you by boost Mobile. Demand's good morning, good

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Speaker 1: to see you. Good A lot to do today. Even

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Speaker 1: though this is the slow there are a few ebbs

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Speaker 1: in the sports calendar. I consider early March one of them.

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Speaker 1: I think early March undeniably, and then late July to

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Speaker 1: early August. Those are the two kind of target ones,

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Speaker 1: because late March we get March Madness. Then April May

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Speaker 1: into early June we have the NBA Playoffs, right into

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Speaker 1: NBA free agency, and then we have another eb and

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Speaker 1: then NFL training camp gets going, and in the midst

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Speaker 1: of all the things that I just said, from late

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Speaker 1: March into April, we have NFL free and see in

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Speaker 1: the draft right now, this really just this week because

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Speaker 1: free agency gets going in not too long. It's a

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Speaker 1: bit of an ad but luckily we have one I think,

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Speaker 1: really good NFL story, and it's really a sports media story.

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Speaker 1: It's a little it's thirty NFL seventy percent sports media

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Speaker 1: and a bunch of good interesting NBA stories, and we

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Speaker 1: will get to all of them in the next forty

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Speaker 1: five minutes to an hour or so. First though, things

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Speaker 1: we are not getting to straight. The voicemail brought to

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Speaker 1: you by our friends at boost Mobile. Trey Young supposed

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Speaker 1: to suit up for the Wizards this week. He was

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Speaker 1: ejected from a game. Also, that's sometimes the coming off

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Speaker 1: of bench stuff leads to a suspension, So could he

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Speaker 1: be ejected and suspended before ever playing in a game? VJ.

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Speaker 1: Edgecombe kicks a fan in the face accidentally. I'm always

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Speaker 1: surprised there's not more uh things like that because courtside

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Speaker 1: seats are so good and so close, feels like they're

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Speaker 1: always kind of flirting with disaster. And Doug Christie does

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Speaker 1: smelling salts demands, do yourself a favor and spend fifteen

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Speaker 1: minutes today during your lunch break at work or whenever,

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Speaker 1: just doing a not a deep dive, a medium dive

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Speaker 1: into Doug Christie's playing career and most notably, and this

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Speaker 1: is not being misogynistic, this is just a retelling of

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Speaker 1: the history. Just google Doug Christie wife and it's for

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Speaker 1: someone who is your age and is unfamiliar with the

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Speaker 1: story of one Doug Christie and his wife when he

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Speaker 1: was playing who went with him on all the road

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Speaker 1: trips and may or may not have even gotten into

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Speaker 1: a bit of a fight with a player that tried

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Speaker 1: to fight him in the tunnel. It was a very

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Speaker 1: unique and I think I remember some Then again, maybe

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Speaker 1: I need to do a medium dive on it as well.

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Speaker 1: But whatever I think of Doug Christie, the first thing

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Speaker 1: I think of is the very public and very protective relationship.

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Speaker 2: That is right now.

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Speaker 1: That said, I am, I can. I have no idea

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Speaker 1: the currents. I even't kept up on that relationship, so

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Speaker 1: I don't know what I don't know what that is.

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Speaker 1: But when I saw him do the smelling salts, that's

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Speaker 1: what I thought of, all right. Reminder, everybody like rate

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Speaker 1: We By the way, happy one year anniversary to us.

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Speaker 1: all the folks of the volume, everyone involved in the show,

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Speaker 1: We partnered with Volume when once I bought the pod

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Speaker 1: one year anniversary and I remember that because a year

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Speaker 1: March first, it's March third. That money is in the mail, Well,

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Speaker 1: been open all right. Time to get to the show, demons,

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Speaker 1: Let's get to Celtics box.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 3: So Gianni's returned from his five week hiatus and lost

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Speaker 3: to my Celtics with Noah Jalen Brown. The Bucks are

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Speaker 3: currently three and a half games out of the plane.

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Speaker 2: What is the goal for the Bucks at this point?

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Speaker 1: All right? First, I do want to say this. I've

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Speaker 1: been very high on Jalen Brown and his MVP chances

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Speaker 1: and you know, giving him a lot of respect. I'm

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Speaker 1: now gonna say something totally unfair. His first team All

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Speaker 1: NBA slash MVP ballot consideration took a bit of a

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Speaker 1: hit last night, just a tiny one. Not because he

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Speaker 1: missed the game, because the guy is basically an iron

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Speaker 1: game and it was and it was just like Peyton

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Speaker 1: didn't know Hugo Gonzalez had an eleven and sixteen in him,

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Speaker 1: a Baylor's Shireman with double All the starters were in

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Speaker 1: double figures. They're twenty to fifty from three, and they

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Speaker 1: just annihilate the Bucks. And again I should give a

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Speaker 1: shout out to the weirdest coach in the NBA, Joe Missoula,

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Speaker 1: because he's cooking. The guy's cooking and so will get

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Speaker 1: to more of the Celtics piece in a moment. I

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Speaker 1: do think the end of this season will have at

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Speaker 1: least some impact on whether or not Jannis stays. So

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Speaker 1: I think we can all agree that the Bucks have

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Speaker 1: no even if they were to make the play in,

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Speaker 1: and making the play in is going to be hard

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Speaker 1: because they're three and a half back, having lost the

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Speaker 1: and the team they're chasing, Charlotte, has been flatly an

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Speaker 1: it would be because they catch Charlotte, who's the ten.

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Speaker 1: It's because they catch Atlanta, who's the nine. And that's

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Speaker 1: gonna be hard. They've played sixty games, They've got twenty

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Speaker 1: of that is Jannis, you know, doesn't. I don't think

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Speaker 1: he wants to leave, but I also don't think he

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Speaker 1: to have something that does not exist, the ability to

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Speaker 1: remainder of his prime, and that that is not a

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Speaker 1: if Milwaukee could fight its way into the play in

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Speaker 1: play good basketball the remainder of the season, then maybe

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Speaker 1: he doesn't force the Bucks hand. Now, there is a

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Speaker 1: very strong argument to be made. He shouldn't have to

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Speaker 1: from you, honest this summer to see what if the

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Speaker 1: Spurs have a disappointing postseason, if the Rockets have a

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Speaker 1: disappointing postseason, if the thunder have a disappointing postseason, what

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Speaker 1: those teams would give us for a guy who is

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Speaker 1: still unequivocally a top five, almost assuredly a top four,

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Speaker 1: the stomach demons to want to be the one to

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Speaker 1: wonder if if in the final twenty three games of

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Speaker 1: they don't say, Okay, it's been an amazing run. Jannie

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Speaker 1: is Giannis has been there a long time. Yiannis came

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Speaker 1: into the league in twenty thirteen, which remarkably means this

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Speaker 1: is his thirteenth year with Milwaukee, thirteen years with Milwaukee.

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Speaker 1: That is like context on that Lebron played fifteen with

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Speaker 1: unbelievable run. That's as many years as Michael Jordan played

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Speaker 1: he won a championship. It's been an unbelievable career. But

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Speaker 1: I do think that if if the Bucks go, what

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Speaker 1: Hold on, what am I? Oh? They have twenty two left,

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Speaker 1: run it back one more year, which I think would

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Speaker 1: just be a mistake for all parties involved.

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Speaker 3: Do you think a bad postseason would be or a

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Speaker 3: bad ended season would be more eye opening for Yiannis

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Speaker 3: or the Bucks front office.

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Speaker 1: I think the Bucks front office has basically decided we're

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Speaker 1: only trading him if he tells us to trade him.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that's necessarily the right thing to way

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Speaker 1: So I guess the answer would be for you honest,

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Speaker 1: all right, let's talk Celtics on this.

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Speaker 3: Uh So, Yeah, that Tatum return is looking likely. Looks

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Speaker 3: like it's coming later this week actually, And he was

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Speaker 3: talking to the doctor and saying he's not coming back

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Speaker 3: to be a role player. How deep are you reading

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Speaker 3: into that or where do you see it from?

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Speaker 1: So that clip, correct me if I'm wrong, is from

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Speaker 1: very early in his rehab. It was just released, but

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Speaker 1: think what Tatum is saying to the doctor is we need,

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Speaker 1: you know, this process to welcome. I don't so. I

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Speaker 1: don't think I think people are That's not how I

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Speaker 1: read it. I don't think Jason Tatum is saying the

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Speaker 1: That everybody knows. I think what Jason Tatum is saying,

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Speaker 1: I need to rehab in a way so that once

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Speaker 1: I'm all the way back, rust is off. I've played

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Speaker 1: you know, once I am back to whatever the peak

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Speaker 1: version of me is, it's the same as the version

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Speaker 1: from before the injury. Do you understand the distinction there? No?

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Speaker 2: I get it.

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Speaker 1: So I think he's saying we need to approach this

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Speaker 1: some point it's like Kevin Durant, where you see no

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Speaker 1: difference in the player pre and post achilles on a

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Speaker 1: long enough time horizon that we are not you know,

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Speaker 1: I will you know, mix metaphors massively here, you tour,

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Speaker 1: your achilles is different type of Achilles tear, and you

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Speaker 1: actually didn't have surgery, and one of the things they

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Speaker 1: told you flatly was if you don't have surgery, you

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Speaker 1: will never regain one hundred percent of the athleticism you

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Speaker 1: had before. You're not a pro athlete. And you know

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Speaker 1: what I mean, you were, you know, you were like,

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Speaker 1: that's fine. I think what Jason Tatum is saying, we

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Speaker 1: need to approach this rehab so at some point I

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Speaker 1: am one hundred percent of the guy I was before,

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Speaker 1: and go ahead.

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Speaker 3: And say that he give him where the Celtics are

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Speaker 3: right now and when he is going to be coming back,

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Speaker 3: that he is more likely to be a role player

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Speaker 1: I think he will definitively. So I think he's coming

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Speaker 1: back in the next ten days, right, the next ten

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Speaker 1: to fourteen days. I think he obviously will be a

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Speaker 1: What does that mean?

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Speaker 3: Talking about how if Jordan Loved this year over this season,

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Speaker 3: Demanse Uh Luca turned twenty seven over the over the

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Speaker 2: JJ Reddick seemed to be trying to approach him. He

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Speaker 1: Well, listen, JJ Redick is a little petty. We all

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Speaker 1: Jokers won a championship, Luca hasn't again. I think Joker's

432
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Speaker 1: the best player in the world, and I think Luca

433
00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:11,000
Speaker 1: not evolving his game at all has been a little

434
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Speaker 1: disappointing the fact that this year, with Lebron and Austin Reeves,

435
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Speaker 1: he has a higher usage rate than any year he

436
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Speaker 1: had with Dallas his bananas. But he is still thirty two,

437
00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:31,840
Speaker 1: eight and nine every night and just a uniquely gifted

438
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:38,040
Speaker 1: offensive player, which brings us to Draymond uhh yeah.

439
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:39,680
Speaker 2: So Draymond added his thoughts.

440
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Speaker 3: He said, now when I turn on the TV, all

441
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Speaker 3: I see is the media that crushed Nico Harrison, which

442
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:48,840
Speaker 3: essentially aided in him getting fired, regurgitating the same things

443
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Speaker 3: that Nico Harrison was saying about Luca.

444
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Speaker 1: So I I don't I don't know how many in

445
00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 1: the media are regurgitating the same exact things Niko was

446
00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:10,880
Speaker 1: saying about Luka. I also, we don't need for the

447
00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:16,600
Speaker 1: fifteenth time to relitigate the Lukadancich trade, but it does

448
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:22,479
Speaker 1: warrant reminding Draymond and others. Yes, part of it was

449
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:28,400
Speaker 1: it was inconceivable to trade Lukadnic. But what made it

450
00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:33,840
Speaker 1: the worst trade in NBA history was that you traded

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Speaker 1: luk Adncic with four pennies on the dollar without seeing

452
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Speaker 1: if you could get Yiannis and some picks, without seeing

453
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Speaker 1: what you know, if you could what his actual market

454
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Speaker 1: value was. And we now know it because you traded

455
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Speaker 1: him for Anthony Davis, who you then gave away for nothing.

456
00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:06,720
Speaker 1: So it h A verdict is in on the Luca trade,

457
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:11,040
Speaker 1: and that verdict is it is an f triple minus

458
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:14,840
Speaker 1: even if Luca is out of the league in two years,

459
00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:19,600
Speaker 1: which he obviously won't be. He was still a guy

460
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 1: coming off a thirty four to nine and nine season

461
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Speaker 1: where his team went to the NBA Finals. Now on Draymond,

462
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Speaker 1: I am surprised that Draymond has found the time to

463
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:48,960
Speaker 1: still be, you know, his real passion sports media critic,

464
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Speaker 1: while he is in the midst of an unspeakably bad

465
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Speaker 1: year and where shockingly, ever since Steph went out, his

466
00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 1: team has fallen apart. And Draymond just completed a month

467
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Speaker 1: of February where he shot thirty eight percent from the

468
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Speaker 1: floor thirty eight percent, and that was coming off a

469
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:33,880
Speaker 1: month of January where he shot forty percent from the floor.

470
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Speaker 1: And he started off March in a bad loss last

471
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Speaker 1: night when they blew a seventeen point lead to lose

472
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Speaker 1: by thirteen shooting twenty percent. I mean, Draymond, who is

473
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Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame player and a unique person in

474
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Speaker 1: NBA history, and people can say, like, oh, it's you know,

475
00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 1: his numbers have never told the story of him. That's

476
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:13,400
Speaker 1: definitely true. I totally get that, But that was because

477
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:19,640
Speaker 1: he wasn't one of the single least efficient offensive players

478
00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:24,480
Speaker 1: in the entire league. When you're that then the numbers

479
00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:28,400
Speaker 1: do kind of tell the story. And when your team

480
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Speaker 1: is no longer the best defense in basketball, no longer

481
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Speaker 1: a top five, no longer even a top ten defense,

482
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Speaker 1: and for the year you're at forty thirty one seventy

483
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:52,960
Speaker 1: splits on eight five and five averages, I maybe wouldn't

484
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Speaker 1: be casting too many stones at anybody doing anything, but

485
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Speaker 1: that's me all right. Now, Let's talk about lou Dort, Nikola,

486
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Speaker 1: Jokic and unhinged Oklahoma City fans.

487
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Speaker 3: Uh so, yeah, you seemed really bothered by George's cheap

488
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:16,319
Speaker 3: shadow of Jokic and said it could even impact their

489
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:20,719
Speaker 3: ability to repeat. OKAYC fans really didn't like that and

490
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:22,040
Speaker 3: are now demanding you.

491
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Speaker 2: Go after Jokic and his antics last night. Where you

492
00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:26,560
Speaker 2: at on both of those cases.

493
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Speaker 1: Let's start with Jokic last night. Jokic did a kind

494
00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:33,960
Speaker 1: of a bunch of flopping like a fish last night,

495
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:37,600
Speaker 1: There's no denying it. And that was a terrible game.

496
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:41,480
Speaker 1: But for the Nuggets against Utah, Jamal Murray was awesome

497
00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:44,239
Speaker 1: and you damn near lost to a Jazz team that

498
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:46,759
Speaker 1: don't want to win. Yeah, that would have been an

499
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:53,080
Speaker 1: awful loss. And Joker wasn't that good, and he seemed

500
00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:58,560
Speaker 1: to be bothered by how he was being defended, so

501
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:01,680
Speaker 1: he responded by just kind of leaning on guys when

502
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:04,399
Speaker 1: they were essentially boxing them out, but boxing them out

503
00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:15,480
Speaker 1: not on a rebound. The idea that anybody would compare

504
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:28,440
Speaker 1: that to lou Dort's mixtape of obviously dirty seeming like

505
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:36,400
Speaker 1: trying to injure the opponent plays is laughable. It's it

506
00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:42,960
Speaker 1: almost doesn't warrant a response. But I find some of

507
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:47,799
Speaker 1: the OKC fans so delusional that I will respond to

508
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 1: them because they found a clip of me saying I

509
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:58,319
Speaker 1: from I don't know sometime on this pod with you.

510
00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:01,520
Speaker 1: You're on the clip of me saying I don't like okay,

511
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:05,400
Speaker 1: see like this guy's always had it out for us. Listen.

512
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:14,080
Speaker 1: I'm very very open about teams, players, styles of basketball

513
00:37:14,239 --> 00:37:19,680
Speaker 1: I like or don't like that. I found this Shay

514
00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:26,560
Speaker 1: falbating stuff to be an unesthetically pleasing style of hoop.

515
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:32,040
Speaker 1: That's it, so I so. And I also think I

516
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:34,920
Speaker 1: found some of their stuff a little corny, the commercials

517
00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:38,520
Speaker 1: and the group of interviews or whatever. But I never

518
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:45,680
Speaker 1: once denied them credit. I never once said their fraudulent

519
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:50,520
Speaker 1: team I never want. I they are objectively excellent. They

520
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 1: have been incredibly well built, they're well coached, and Shay

521
00:37:55,920 --> 00:38:01,520
Speaker 1: and Shay's ascension to this level of all time great

522
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:10,680
Speaker 1: player is utterly remarkable. So all that's true, are you

523
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:11,960
Speaker 1: Are they the team I root for?

524
00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:12,279
Speaker 2: No?

525
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:19,400
Speaker 1: Is there? Do I find anyone on their team a

526
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:25,440
Speaker 1: uniquely captivating personality? Honestly? I think my favorite personality on

527
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 1: the team is Caruso. Do I you agree with me

528
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:37,040
Speaker 1: on that? Yeah? I think he's funny, I think, yeah,

529
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Speaker 1: I like Crusoe. Do I think they have any guys

530
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 1: that are even by for today's era, like truly great

531
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:56,960
Speaker 1: players other than Shay? Not yet. We'll see what Chet

532
00:38:56,960 --> 00:39:00,320
Speaker 1: turns into right now, he's a very good player who's

533
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:03,640
Speaker 1: great on defense and limited on offense despite the shot.

534
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:07,759
Speaker 1: We'll see what Jadob turns into, you know, We'll see.

535
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:10,040
Speaker 1: But the no, I mean, that's what I think of that.

536
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:12,960
Speaker 1: But they are so deep and so well coached, and

537
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:18,600
Speaker 1: so strategic and such a terror defensively. They absolutely can

538
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:21,480
Speaker 1: win the title again and still be set up. And

539
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:28,280
Speaker 1: so all of that is true. Here's what's also true.

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00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:38,120
Speaker 1: The current undisputed Unified Universal Champion of the world of

541
00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:42,799
Speaker 1: dirty ass basketball is on your team, Oklahoma City, and

542
00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:52,160
Speaker 1: his name's Lou dor and he this is a well

543
00:39:52,400 --> 00:40:01,600
Speaker 1: earned reputation because there have been so many ooh that

544
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:10,080
Speaker 1: didn't look good. But maybe it was accidental that we

545
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:14,920
Speaker 1: just needed the one that looked awful. And there's no

546
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:24,799
Speaker 1: way it's accidental for us to retroactively reindict some of

547
00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:31,280
Speaker 1: the previous crimes. So I've always I've always defended dort

548
00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:33,960
Speaker 1: on the play Jah got hurt on I think in

549
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:37,040
Speaker 1: the playoffs, like where was he supposed to go? But

550
00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 1: Grizzlies fans thought it was dirty. I was a neutral

551
00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:46,520
Speaker 1: party on the play where he ran full speed into

552
00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:49,680
Speaker 1: Wimby's leg, whereas like, I don't know the guy, just

553
00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:52,120
Speaker 1: maybe he's a little out of control. I can see

554
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:56,400
Speaker 1: how that looks bad, but I'm also not sure. I

555
00:40:56,440 --> 00:41:01,279
Speaker 1: have been pretty convinced that his tendon of when he

556
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:05,880
Speaker 1: shoots a three, just sticking his own foot out to

557
00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 1: try to have the defender land on his foot, to

558
00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:13,839
Speaker 1: be I put it in the same bucket as when

559
00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:16,920
Speaker 1: Draymond used to kick people in the groin when he

560
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:18,560
Speaker 1: was going up for layups. And he's like, I don't

561
00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:20,359
Speaker 1: know what you want me to do, Like, I don't know,

562
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:23,960
Speaker 1: bro literally anything else. No other player in the league

563
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:29,840
Speaker 1: does it as dirty but not provable provably dirty, But

564
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:39,320
Speaker 1: I believe dirty. That shit on Jokic was an embarrassment

565
00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 1: to basketball. That was a player who was not expecting contact,

566
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:49,600
Speaker 1: who did not have the ball, who was going up

567
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:54,319
Speaker 1: the court seventy five feet from the rim, and you

568
00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:58,799
Speaker 1: stopped your motion, you backed up, and you threw your

569
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:02,879
Speaker 1: legan hip into it. Now, I'm not gonna go as

570
00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:07,279
Speaker 1: far as to say you targeted his previously injured leg,

571
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Speaker 1: but I think that's why he reacted that way, because

572
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:15,480
Speaker 1: whether he thought you were targeting that leg or just

573
00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:20,120
Speaker 1: being dirty for the sake of being dirty, you could

574
00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:29,400
Speaker 1: have really heard it. And it is. There are way

575
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:35,440
Speaker 1: more demands impactful or violent things that happen in a

576
00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:39,560
Speaker 1: basketball game than the dirt play that are not nearly

577
00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:45,120
Speaker 1: as dangerous. And here's what I mean. You can see

578
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:51,160
Speaker 1: a fifteen minute cut up of Lebron driving to the

579
00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:57,840
Speaker 1: basket and guys doing full blown swings that end up

580
00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:00,400
Speaker 1: hitting him in the head or the eye to the

581
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:02,000
Speaker 1: head or the back of that or whatever it is.

582
00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:12,839
Speaker 1: None of those are as dangerous as what Dort did

583
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:18,319
Speaker 1: because when you are and I obviously aim not, but

584
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Speaker 1: I know this from talking to guys. When you are

585
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:29,920
Speaker 1: a pro athlete, when you know contact might be coming,

586
00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 1: you have a way to brace yourself and protect yourself,

587
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:39,279
Speaker 1: even if it's you know you're doing something else. And

588
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:42,760
Speaker 1: every time a guy drives to the basket in traffic,

589
00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:48,160
Speaker 1: he knows might get hit here. That is so different

590
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:54,040
Speaker 1: than someone jogging up the court who you snipe from behind,

591
00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:58,440
Speaker 1: which is what Dort did, which is why demand's a

592
00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:02,840
Speaker 1: Joker flipped out. That's why you saw the fury in

593
00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:07,280
Speaker 1: Joker's eyes. And I am consistent on this because Joker

594
00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:11,840
Speaker 1: once did something like this to Mark Keith Morris.

595
00:44:12,360 --> 00:44:14,239
Speaker 2: Well, Mark Keith Morris started it, but.

596
00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:16,360
Speaker 1: Yes, Mark Keith Moore started it.

597
00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:18,520
Speaker 3: But I'm saying he hit him when he was It.

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00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:22,000
Speaker 1: Was a total cheap shot. He hit him when he

599
00:44:22,080 --> 00:44:24,920
Speaker 1: wasn't looking, and Morris got whiplash, was out for a

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00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:28,400
Speaker 1: long time. And I really went after Joker for that

601
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:34,080
Speaker 1: because when a guy is not it's not prepared for

602
00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:39,359
Speaker 1: the hit. It's so different than a super impactful hit

603
00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:44,520
Speaker 1: you are prepared for. It's the again, I'm mixing a

604
00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:48,920
Speaker 1: lot of dumb metaphors here, but it's the walking into

605
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:52,600
Speaker 1: a door in the middle of the night, yeah, thing

606
00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:55,720
Speaker 1: where you have no idea you're not even going that fast,

607
00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:58,160
Speaker 1: but you had no idea it was coming, and you're like,

608
00:44:58,280 --> 00:45:00,880
Speaker 1: oh my, is that the worst pay I've ever been in?

609
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:05,799
Speaker 1: As opposed to if one of your you know, if

610
00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:08,920
Speaker 1: you're slack boxing or something with one of your buddies

611
00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:10,960
Speaker 1: and one gets through and hits you when you kind

612
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:14,600
Speaker 1: of know that might happen. One has more force behind it.

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00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:17,439
Speaker 1: The other hurts way more and stuns you way more.

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Speaker 1: And so here's why I think this.

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Speaker 4: Matters, because Okasee gets away with a lot, and this

616
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Speaker 4: I do not begrudge them. Do business as business is

617
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:37,880
Speaker 4: being done. If the referees are going to let Cason

618
00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:42,000
Speaker 4: Wallace and Lou Dort and j Dubb and every and

619
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Speaker 4: Caruso play rugby out by mid court with the opposition

620
00:45:50,320 --> 00:45:52,360
Speaker 4: because the refs don't want to call a foul on

621
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Speaker 4: every play, don't want the game to grind to a halt,

622
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Speaker 4: So be it. Your guys play hard enough. They're good

623
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Speaker 4: enough defenders, they get way with enough. It's a huge

624
00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:10,200
Speaker 4: edge do it, but having your best defender, your most

625
00:46:10,239 --> 00:46:16,640
Speaker 4: physical defender, your biggest, strongest, toughest defender, who's always had

626
00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:21,479
Speaker 4: a reputation for being at least a little dirty, take

627
00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:27,240
Speaker 4: a blatant, obvious, cheap shot in a nationally televised game

628
00:46:27,640 --> 00:46:32,359
Speaker 4: against the best player in the world. Now the spotlights

629
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Speaker 4: on you, and I think OKAC will now be officiated tighter,

630
00:46:38,719 --> 00:46:41,720
Speaker 4: and I think that damages their ability to repeat.

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Speaker 1: The comp I used on TV, and I'll use it again.

632
00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:53,280
Speaker 1: The Eagles tush push was unstoppable. And then one game

633
00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:58,719
Speaker 1: early last season, I forget which broadcast crew it was.

634
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:04,040
Speaker 1: I think it might have been Brady, but it doesn't.

635
00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:07,880
Speaker 1: I think it was Brady. But regardless, they show the

636
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:11,760
Speaker 1: overhead view and they show all the guys false starting,

637
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:17,080
Speaker 1: and the announcers like, well, I don't know what you

638
00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:23,200
Speaker 1: do with that. The officiating expert in the booth is like,

639
00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:27,200
Speaker 1: I'm done with this play, and all of a sudden,

640
00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:32,239
Speaker 1: couple times the Eagles got called for a false start.

641
00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:37,319
Speaker 1: A couple times, they didn't whistle the play dead and

642
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:40,839
Speaker 1: Jalen ended up fumbling, and all of a sudden, the

643
00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:44,640
Speaker 1: tush push was way less effective. They were less comfortable

644
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Speaker 1: using it, and it stopped being such a devastating weapon.

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Speaker 1: And the tipping point was the extra scrutiny from the

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Speaker 1: live broadcast and then the talk show and discussions afterwards. Okay,

647
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:03,160
Speaker 1: season now under massive, screwtiny and they play Don't they

648
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Speaker 1: play Denver again in a few days.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was about to say it as an extra

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Speaker 3: like hate factor some other teams around the league, especially

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Speaker 3: Denver team that you might end up having to see

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Speaker 3: to get somewhere.

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Speaker 1: So they play Denver on the ninth Monday, they play, Oh,

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00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:25,919
Speaker 1: they play here in New York tomorrow night. Maybe I'll

655
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Speaker 1: go garden crowd will be upholding that, and I I

656
00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:45,359
Speaker 1: think that you are going to see Oka se get

657
00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:50,759
Speaker 1: a much more similar whistle to the rest of the

658
00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:53,360
Speaker 1: league the rest of the year. And I think Dort

659
00:48:53,360 --> 00:48:57,879
Speaker 1: better watch himself on I'm not talking about other guys

660
00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:01,600
Speaker 1: cheap shotting him, because there is something to be said.

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00:49:01,719 --> 00:49:04,759
Speaker 1: First Door doesn't do a lot of stuff where he's

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00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:08,319
Speaker 1: cheap shottable, like he's not flying through the lane, and

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Speaker 1: there is something to be said to just being yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm probably the strongest toughest guy in this game. So

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Speaker 1: do you have at it no, but I think the

666
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Speaker 1: referees are gonna be on high alert for his bullshit

667
00:49:24,239 --> 00:49:30,840
Speaker 1: and it was just so unnecessary and it's so much different,

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Speaker 1: right so that I mean Draymond, I mean there, He's

669
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Speaker 1: not the first guy to do stuff like this. Draymond

670
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Speaker 1: pat Bev was the first team All World at this.

671
00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:53,920
Speaker 1: Dylan Brooks guy that graceon Allen like tripping and kicking.

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Speaker 1: But Dylan Brooks is the best comp I would have

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Speaker 1: because Draymond also not Dylan Brooks. Dylan Brooks a couple

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Speaker 1: of years ago. Draymond, also in his prime, was the

675
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Speaker 1: best defensive player in the league and a very useful

676
00:50:09,760 --> 00:50:14,960
Speaker 1: offensive player like dort is a better defender than Dylan

677
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:19,080
Speaker 1: Brooks was, but a worse offensive player than Dylan Brooks.

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Speaker 1: And there to be the enforcer type, you can be

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Speaker 1: the enforcer type without throwing it in reverse and taking

680
00:50:29,600 --> 00:50:35,360
Speaker 1: out the three time league MVP on Denver just quickly

681
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Speaker 1: to Monsey. I still think they can win the title,

682
00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:45,000
Speaker 1: and getting Peyton Watson and Aaron Gordon back is an

683
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Speaker 1: utter necessity, but they have been decidedly mid for months.

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00:50:55,719 --> 00:51:02,600
Speaker 1: They were twenty one and six December eighteenth, so two

685
00:51:02,640 --> 00:51:07,400
Speaker 1: and a half months of basketball later, they have gone

686
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:11,040
Speaker 1: from twenty one and six to thirty eight and twenty four,

687
00:51:11,640 --> 00:51:17,360
Speaker 1: which means over their last what is that thirty five games,

688
00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:23,960
Speaker 1: they are seventeen and eighteen and needed to escape against

689
00:51:24,040 --> 00:51:27,800
Speaker 1: Utah last night. They have the twenty first ranked defense.

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Speaker 1: I won't write them off, but I'd be a little

691
00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:38,360
Speaker 1: concerned about them. All Right, before we get to a

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Speaker 1: Nick Spurs, I'm gonna remind you, guys something you might

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Speaker 1: before we do a little NFL.

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Speaker 3: So you were in intendance to watch the Knicks snap

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00:52:31,640 --> 00:52:34,919
Speaker 3: the spurs eleven game win streak. New York also beat

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00:52:34,960 --> 00:52:37,440
Speaker 3: San Antonio in the NBA Cup Final. Do you think

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Speaker 3: the Knicks have the blueprint?

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00:52:39,719 --> 00:52:41,560
Speaker 1: No, I don't think they have the blueprint, but I

712
00:52:41,719 --> 00:52:46,040
Speaker 1: was really impressed by what they did. Wimby was really good,

713
00:52:46,800 --> 00:52:51,680
Speaker 1: but they also Cat and Og and anob who guarded

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00:52:51,760 --> 00:52:56,680
Speaker 1: him some, and Mitchell Robinson just leaned on just you know,

715
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Speaker 1: he played physical basketball with him. And I'm not saying

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00:53:00,760 --> 00:53:04,640
Speaker 1: you can't handle physical basketball, but it seemed to bother

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00:53:04,760 --> 00:53:08,480
Speaker 1: him a bit. And the bigger problem was the Spurs

718
00:53:08,520 --> 00:53:15,399
Speaker 1: couldn't hit threes, and the the Spurs not being able

719
00:53:15,440 --> 00:53:18,759
Speaker 1: to hit threes could be their undoing in the postseason.

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Speaker 1: Stefan Castle is under thirty percent, Dylan Harper is under

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Speaker 1: thirty percent. Luke Cornette obviously doesn't shoot him, so you're

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Speaker 1: gonna have at least one and very often two non

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Speaker 1: shooters on the court, which can just make things tough

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Speaker 1: over a seven game series. And so listen that Spurs

725
00:53:41,200 --> 00:53:44,480
Speaker 1: didn't lose in February. So You're not gonna panic about them.

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00:53:44,520 --> 00:53:49,160
Speaker 1: They've been awesome. It was more about the Knicks, who

727
00:53:50,760 --> 00:53:55,000
Speaker 1: were awesome to start the year, had a miserable three

728
00:53:55,040 --> 00:53:58,960
Speaker 1: weeks going to and nine, and are now fourteen and

729
00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:02,800
Speaker 1: four in their last eighteen with the number one defensive

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00:54:02,840 --> 00:54:10,239
Speaker 1: basketball find I think the Knicks are legitimate contenders. If

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Speaker 1: we were to find out Jason Tatum wasn't coming back,

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00:54:13,480 --> 00:54:16,160
Speaker 1: I'd be picking the Knicks to win the East. With

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Speaker 1: respect to Detroit, could.

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Speaker 2: You and San Antonio be in a finals matchup?

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Speaker 1: Sure? Yeah, it could be. I mean the again, the

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Speaker 1: Spurs making the finals would be way ahead of schedule,

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00:54:32,200 --> 00:54:34,840
Speaker 1: but they could do it. And I think the Knicks

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Speaker 1: right now have the second best shot of anybody in

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Speaker 1: the East. Not being disrespectful to Detroit, uh and nick Spurs,

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00:54:41,960 --> 00:54:45,600
Speaker 1: by the way, was one of the saddest finals matchups

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Speaker 1: of my life because as a teenager, I was partial

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Speaker 1: to the Knicks because the first NBA game I ever

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00:54:52,960 --> 00:54:55,520
Speaker 1: went to was a Knicks game, and I loved Ewing,

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00:54:55,600 --> 00:54:59,480
Speaker 1: and I loved Latrell Spreewell and the ninety nine Knicks

745
00:55:00,120 --> 00:55:03,840
Speaker 1: the lockout year, made the finals and then just got

746
00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:07,719
Speaker 1: dog walked by young Tim Duncan and David Robinson in

747
00:55:07,800 --> 00:55:14,279
Speaker 1: those finals. All Right, some NFL news, Breeze Hall has

748
00:55:14,360 --> 00:55:18,520
Speaker 1: been franchised tagged by the Jets. That's shocking to me,

749
00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:21,520
Speaker 1: but I guess schefter is saying they're going to try

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Speaker 1: to work out a long term deal. And speaking of

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00:55:25,960 --> 00:55:29,160
Speaker 1: running backs, there was a running back traded yesterday, so

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Speaker 1: let's get to that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, David Montgomery was traded from the Texans. From the

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00:55:34,160 --> 00:55:37,319
Speaker 3: Lions to the Texans. Sorry, something tells me that you're

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Speaker 3: more interested in the reporting of this trade and not

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Speaker 3: the trade itself.

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Speaker 2: What's that so?

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Speaker 1: Well, first, let me just do something on the actual

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Speaker 1: trade quickly.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 1: I think this is an because they gave up a

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Speaker 1: reserve offensive lineman, a seventh round pick, and a fourth

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Speaker 1: round pick for David Montgomery. I think that is a

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00:55:58,960 --> 00:56:03,680
Speaker 1: wild pay for the Texans. It is shocking to me

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Speaker 1: that that's what they gave up for David Montgomery, who

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Speaker 1: I think is twenty nine years old, or he will

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Speaker 1: be twenty nine in a few months, and is a

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00:56:15,600 --> 00:56:21,360
Speaker 1: good player, but has never been great. And I think

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Speaker 1: that if you're the Lions, and this just frees up

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Speaker 1: more touches for Jamior Gibbs. That's awesome, and the fact

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Speaker 1: that you got a fourth round pick and stuff for

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00:56:33,680 --> 00:56:36,799
Speaker 1: him is even better. But I have to and I'm

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Speaker 1: sorry I have to, and I won't be anonymous on

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Speaker 1: this one. And I'm sure he wasn't the only perpetrator

775
00:56:50,760 --> 00:56:56,600
Speaker 1: of this, but Ian Rappaport had one of the most

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Speaker 1: ridiculous tweet sequences I've ever seen in any type of reporting.

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Speaker 1: So wrap upboard tweets. The Lions are trading stand out

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Speaker 1: running back David Montgomery to the Texans, landing Houston a

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00:57:12,880 --> 00:57:18,840
Speaker 1: productive power back per the Insiders, Sure, no problem. It's

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Speaker 1: very important that we always in these tweets complement the

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00:57:21,760 --> 00:57:24,080
Speaker 1: players because the agents of the players are the ones

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00:57:24,120 --> 00:57:26,640
Speaker 1: giving us the info. We all know the rules, no problem.

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Speaker 1: So he's a standout running back and he's a productive

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Speaker 1: power back, no problem. I actually got no issue with that.

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Speaker 1: He then writes a fifth round pick goes back to

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Speaker 1: Detroit as Knuckles leaves Sonic. Okay, so Dave Montgomery for fifth.

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Speaker 1: He then tweets update on terms. The Texans are giving

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Speaker 1: up a fourth rounder, a seventh rounder, an offensive lineman

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Speaker 1: Juice Scrugs for David Montgomery. Oh, okay, so a little

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00:58:03,120 --> 00:58:07,160
Speaker 1: more than a fifth round pick, like kind of again,

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Speaker 1: but those things happen, like those things happen, like the

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Speaker 1: maybe it was going to be a fifth round pick,

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Speaker 1: and then when it got reported it was a fifth

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Speaker 1: round pick, a different team called and was like, don't

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Speaker 1: call that trade in. We'll give you a fourth round

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Speaker 1: pick for David Montgomery. So then the Texans called. The

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00:58:24,120 --> 00:58:25,920
Speaker 1: Lions called. The Texans are like, hey, now we've been

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Speaker 1: offered a fourth you gotta give us more. Whatever it

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Speaker 1: is that happens, that is not my issue. My issue

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Speaker 1: is with the second sentence of the updated tweet, which

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Speaker 1: I will read to you in a moment. But again,

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna read without commentary the tweet and the

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Speaker 1: first tweet was David Montgomery for a fifth The second

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Speaker 1: tweet is update on terms, it's the Texans fourth rounder

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Speaker 1: offensive lineman Juice Scruggs and the seventh rounder for David Montgomery.

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Speaker 1: So fifth round value but a complex deal, buddy, How

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Speaker 1: bad do you expect us to think Jew Scrugs is.

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00:59:23,920 --> 00:59:26,560
Speaker 1: It's the meanest fucking thing anyone's ever said about Jew

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Speaker 1: Scrugs in his whole life, Because you don't want to

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Speaker 1: just say I had the details wrong. Jew Scrugs is

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Speaker 1: a reserve offensive lineman who makes the minimum, and what

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Speaker 1: you're telling us is he's so bad on such an

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00:59:43,600 --> 00:59:48,560
Speaker 1: awful contract. Again, he makes the minimum that if you

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Speaker 1: take a fourth round pick, add a seventh round pick

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Speaker 1: to it, and then add the jew Scrugs tax, that

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Speaker 1: drags the value down to a fifth round pick. Get

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Speaker 1: out of here, bro, That is not what it is.

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Speaker 5: That is not fifth round value or a complex deal.

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Speaker 5: It's a mid round pick, a late pick, and a

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Speaker 5: backup player for the running back. There is no universe

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Speaker 5: where a fourth, a seventh and a player on the

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Speaker 5: minimum is fifth round value.

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Speaker 1: Why say that? I honestly don't understand it. What what

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Speaker 1: is people's inability to be like, oh little early on

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Speaker 1: that one, and it's not like it'd be one. I

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Speaker 1: would understand the embarrassment. If it's like David Montgomery to

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Speaker 1: the Texans for a fifth and it was actually David

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Speaker 1: Montgomery to the Vikings for a first, it's like, oh shit,

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Speaker 1: what the disastrously wrong? Instead, you got the team right,

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Speaker 1: you got the pick range issue, you know close. Why

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Speaker 1: would you say fifth round value? I don't understand it.

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Speaker 1: It's such a and it is so symptomatic of what

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01:01:16,040 --> 01:01:21,640
Speaker 1: so much of sports reporting is. Where I gotta be first.

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Speaker 1: I gotta make sure I pay tribute to the players,

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Speaker 1: so the agents let me continue being first. And when

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Speaker 1: that happens, sometimes you're gonna be wrong. Again. It's not

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Speaker 1: life and death. It's not that big of a deal.

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Speaker 1: But to then say just got.

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Speaker 6: A little excited, to then say fifth round value, it's

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Speaker 6: just on its face wrong.

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Speaker 1: And I can't believe that that tweet is still up,

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Speaker 1: that tweet is not edited. I I don't again, a

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Speaker 1: fourth round pick offensive lineman Jew Scruggs and a seventh

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Speaker 1: rounder for David Montgomery, So fifth round value jews scrug

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Speaker 1: who's Jew Scrugs agent? That guy should I'm finding out

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Speaker 1: if hold on? Uh? Jews Scruggs agent is gosh darn it? Uh? Oh.

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Speaker 1: Kenny Zuckerman Priority Sports Entertainment. Kenny demand an apology from Rapaport.

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Speaker 1: Rather than simply saying I got the compensation a little wrong,

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Speaker 1: he told the world your client is such a horrible

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Speaker 1: player that even though he's making the minimum, he drags

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Speaker 1: the value of a fourth round pick plus a seventh

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Speaker 1: round pick down to the value of a fifth round pick.

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Speaker 1: It's just such a first people are so funny. Man.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, I don't even I and I

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Speaker 1: keep calling him a reserve. I want to see if

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Speaker 1: I'm even right about that, because the Texas offensive line

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Speaker 1: was pretty shaky. Did I was spending too much time

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Speaker 1: on choosing I.

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Speaker 2: Say, though a reserve all lineman on the Texans.

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Speaker 1: Maybe not great, but he was there. He was a

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Speaker 1: starter for them two years ago, and last year he

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Speaker 1: played for them but only started one game. But give

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Speaker 1: me a break. I mean, it's just so ridiculous. Speaking

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Speaker 1: of offensive lineman. Very quickly, the Chiefs made the most

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Speaker 1: predictable move of all time. They cut Juwan Taylor. Jawan

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Speaker 1: Taylor is not a bad player. He's a heavily penalized player,

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Speaker 1: but he's not a bad player.

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Speaker 2: He was a false start guy all the time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the illegal formation. He will be someone starting right

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Speaker 1: tackle this year and he'll make more than ten million

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Speaker 1: dollars a year. But he was gonna be twenty eight

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Speaker 1: million on the Chiefs cap and he's eight million dead.

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Speaker 1: To cut him, so you saved twenty million bucks. So

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Speaker 1: you have to do it. Of all my concerns for

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs going into next season, offensive line is not

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Speaker 1: on that list. Josh Simmons. So here's why I thought

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Speaker 1: you might say that, because they just dealt with a

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Speaker 1: ton of injuries last year is what happened. But left

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Speaker 1: tackle Josh Simmons is excellent now. His when he left

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Speaker 1: the team for a few games, that was not great,

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Speaker 1: but then he was great before you know, early in

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Speaker 1: the year. He was great when he came back, and

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Speaker 1: then he got his wrist broken by a teammate accidentally

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Speaker 1: on a block that's not on him. Left tackle is

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Speaker 1: set Kingsley. Suamantaia is a fine left guard. He's not great.

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Speaker 1: He's not Joe Tooney, but they traded away Joe Toney

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Speaker 1: because they're gonna pay other guys. He's fine. They have

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Speaker 1: the best center in the league, Creed Humphrey, and a

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Speaker 1: really good right garden, Trace Smith. Right tackle, you have

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Speaker 1: Jalen Moore, you have Asapoule, you have Janya Morris. You

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Speaker 1: have three guys who will compete for that job. Again,

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Speaker 1: I'm not acting like they have the best offensive line

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Speaker 1: in the league, but they have massive need at pass rusher,

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Speaker 1: massive need at running back, and they might have again

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Speaker 1: a need at receiver depending on Orsi Rice's status. So

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Speaker 1: it's just offensive line is not where they should be

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Speaker 1: picking at number nine. And I'm not surprised they cut

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Speaker 1: Juwan Taylor so and I would be. I would be

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Speaker 1: gobsmacked if they took an offensive lineman at nine. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's do a couple quick listener questions before we.

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Speaker 3: Go, Jason says, Nick people always say Lamar is a

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Speaker 3: future Hall of Famer. If Lamar retires tomorrow, is he

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Speaker 3: a Hall of Famer or is that just a projection.

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Speaker 1: No, he's a lock stock Hall of Famer because he

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Speaker 1: doesn't have to play another down. He's won two MVPs,

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Speaker 1: he's three time first team All Pro. I mean, that's

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Speaker 1: you're It's as simple as that, three time first team

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Speaker 1: All Pro, two MVPs. You're in the NFL Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 1: There's no no doubt about it. So I think that's

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Speaker 1: pretty simple. The trickier one is, so quarterbacks who are

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Speaker 1: active right now, who if they never did another thing,

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Speaker 1: are one hundred percent Hall of Famers. Is Mahomes Rogers Lamar?

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Speaker 1: I would say Josh is ninety five percent because he

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Speaker 1: does have.

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Speaker 2: The MVP mister Stafford.

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Speaker 1: Oh sorry, and Stafford is ninety five percent as well.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 1: And that's and after that it like Burrows nowhere close.

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Speaker 1: And I think Russ is probably on the outside looking

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Speaker 1: at And is there anyone else? Is there any other

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Speaker 1: really old guy?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 1: I think that's the list, all right?

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Speaker 3: Last one, Kage says, I love this Kaminga going crazy

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Speaker 3: thoughts on the Hawks with him?

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Speaker 2: What are they doing with him over there in Golden State?

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Speaker 1: Man?

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Speaker 2: That was crazy?

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is a bad look for Golden State

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Speaker 1: at the moment. I will admit I've never been a

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Speaker 1: Kaminga guy, but he has played well for the Hawks,

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Speaker 1: who all of a sudden have won three straight. I

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Speaker 1: will give the kid credit. Well, yeah, I mean Porzingis

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Speaker 1: has like a a disease or something, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: an illness. I don't want to seek. I know they've

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Speaker 1: talked about it. I don't want to get it wrong,

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Speaker 1: but Porzingis has some real medical issue that he just

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Speaker 1: can't stay on the court. It's it's pretty sad, actually,

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Speaker 1: but Kaminga has been awesome. All right. We will be

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Speaker 1: back on Thursday. Reminder to everybody like rate subscribe review

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Speaker 1: to the pod. I will be on with Coward in

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Speaker 1: a little over an hour. Also a reminder for you guys,

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Speaker 1: because I'm actually about to send them some videos on this.

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Speaker 1: Let me see where we're at on it. That that

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Speaker 1: Splash Sports March Madness contest is ripping already. It's March

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Speaker 1: Madness Survivor. H it's three million bucks up top first prize. Uh,

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Speaker 1: there's already you know, a few hundred entries and we're

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Speaker 1: ways away from March Madness, so you don't have to

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Speaker 1: worry about it filling up. But I jump in now

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Speaker 1: if you'd like again, three million bucks in the first place.

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Speaker 1: Person in that and they put my face on it

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Speaker 1: as well, one hundred fifty bucks and fifty one hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty bucks. Yeah, it's reasonable. It's enough to where

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Speaker 1: you'll know you care, but it's you know, not so

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Speaker 1: much to where it's cost prohibitive. And so yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: so if you want to do it, do it. I'll

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Speaker 1: buy half of an entry for you demon S if

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Speaker 1: you'd like her, But then you got to split the

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Speaker 1: money with me. You got plenty of money these days,

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Speaker 1: all right, Like great subscriber you to the pod. Thank you,

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Speaker 1: to Blue Duck and one year at the volume. Thank

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Speaker 1: you to you guys, huge thanks to hardroc Bet and Boost.

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Speaker 1: Talk to you guys on Thursday. What's right