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Speaker 1: Beat writer Mike Curtis on today's episode, I'm Miles Gray

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Thank you for having me Fellas.

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Speaker 1: It's always good to get on here and talk a

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Speaker 1: that we're we improve That's all I want. I just

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Speaker 1: want to see some kind of incremental improvement and then

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Speaker 1: I'll probably get to the New Year and then completely

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Speaker 1: lose my mind as a fan and then be like,

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Speaker 1: how come we're not in the playoff type like playoff

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Speaker 1: race right now? But for right now, it is nice

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Speaker 1: to see and it is nice see Lebron still, I

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Speaker 1: think showing people that he is he's still Lebron because

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Speaker 1: I know, like as of this recording, we're gonna be

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Speaker 1: playing the Pacers and Matherin if you remember, he was like,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if anybody is better than me right now. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: uh so that has a potential to be a very

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Speaker 1: interesting game. But yeah, it's nice to see and Matthew

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Speaker 1: is playing extremely well, like he's definitely in a running

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Speaker 1: for Rookie of the Year, especially if Paolo can come

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Speaker 1: back and kind of get back healthy and j Nivey

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Speaker 1: has to come back and get healthy. So but I

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Speaker 1: feel like that's three man race right there for Ricky

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Speaker 1: of a Year. Yeah, it'll it'll be interesting to see

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Speaker 1: if Lebron comes out with a chip on his shoulder

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Speaker 1: right because the Ricky has been kind of talking trash

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Speaker 1: and start to even played an NBA game, which I like,

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Speaker 1: you know a lot of people are like, man, he's

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Speaker 1: out of he's all he's lost his mind saying stuff

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Speaker 1: like that. But part of me's like, you know, let

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Speaker 1: these young guys come in there with their chest thusand

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Speaker 1: maybe if Lebron has to remind him of his age

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Speaker 1: or whatever, then so be it. And if not, then

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Speaker 1: we have a fun moment. But I'm not I'm not

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Speaker 1: as mad because I'd rather see people be a little

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Speaker 1: more arrogant than humble. Sometimes it helps inspire others. Um.

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Speaker 1: This also makes Lebron both the youngest player to ever

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Speaker 1: go thirty ten with seven May threes, and the oldest

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Speaker 1: to ever do it. Which yeah, they don't go. But

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Speaker 1: Lakers started on five, seven and six. Since then, UM,

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Speaker 1: seven and six with Russ coming off the bench. Uh,

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Speaker 1: shot from beyond the arc through the first five of games,

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Speaker 1: and I don't know, Lebron's Lebron's three looked really like

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Speaker 1: the best I've ever seen it in that game. You

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Speaker 1: guys were saying that that was an anomaly, but just

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Speaker 1: like the stroke felt like very smooth and all one motion.

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Speaker 1: And I don't know if he could if he could

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Speaker 1: put it together, that would be that would be some

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Speaker 1: Bron James guy can put it together. Just Lebron got

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Speaker 1: here right together. I think there. I think he might

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Speaker 1: be making some noise later this season. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: we'll see. Remember there was a point in time where

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Speaker 1: we didn't even talk about Lebron in the regular season

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Speaker 1: up until a certain point, maybe until March April when

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Speaker 1: the playoffs were starting, right kind of get going. But

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Speaker 1: since he's been in l a Barn title. UM it's

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Speaker 1: always a conversation about our Lakers gonna make the playoffs

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Speaker 1: and Lebrian get it together? Does he have enough help?

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Speaker 1: M and I feel like we have that conversation every year. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and we'll continue to, especially when Lebron is just in

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Speaker 1: the papers too. It's like, write this part out, say, um,

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Speaker 1: Lakers now believe they are two players away from potentially

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Speaker 1: being contenders. Yeah, right, that right? The right? That okay? Think? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: super producer Ary just said he's currently at twenty eight

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Speaker 1: point seven percent from deep but rising, So that would

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Speaker 1: have been good in the eighties. That's right. League average,

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Speaker 1: um zoo bach. So, uh, this feels more like the

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Speaker 1: season we've been seeing, which is people like the league average,

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Speaker 1: the players who I think we're perceived as replacement level

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Speaker 1: just coming through and wrecking people Like for a gamer

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Speaker 1: two put up a thirty one and twenty nine first

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Speaker 1: Indiana thirty one points, twenty nine board three, three blocks,

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Speaker 1: first player to do that in an NBA game since

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Speaker 1: Kareem in. So that's a compliment to say, like you're

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Speaker 1: putting up Kareem in the seventies numbers, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean? Wow, Yeah, that's okay, okay wow. I definitely

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Speaker 1: think it was a mistake for the Lakers to trade

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Speaker 1: away zo oh my. I think that was one of

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Speaker 1: their biggest mistakes in terms of kind of the Lebron era,

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Speaker 1: because you had a solidified center who could score in

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Speaker 1: the post, he could rebound black shots. I think they

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Speaker 1: definitely missed out by training him aways some clip. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I don't know they got good return, right who they they? Oh? No,

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Speaker 1: they did. They didn't get which I don't even remember

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Speaker 1: who was involved in that trade. I mean, first of all,

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Speaker 1: it was against Miles Turner, right exactly. He put up

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Speaker 1: those numbers against Miles Turner when the headline previously was

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Speaker 1: like maybe clippers. Now. I think there's two theories. One

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Speaker 1: is that zoo Box was like, okay, watch this is this?

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Speaker 1: Is this your God? Is this your king? Like when

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Speaker 1: he comes through and he's like this is who you wanted?

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Speaker 1: Or did Miles Turner be like I don't want to

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Speaker 1: play over there? Yeah? Yeah, bro, do what you want,

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Speaker 1: Do what you want. I don't want. I don't want

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Speaker 1: to play for the clip. That's a very Laker brand

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Speaker 1: interpretation what he did. He was just trying to put

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Speaker 1: him off. Man that's what. But yes, it could be

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Speaker 1: and I think, but yeah, it was. That's I mean again,

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Speaker 1: it's impressive, and I think it's a moment to where

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Speaker 1: it inspires another player to perhaps be like, oh I

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Speaker 1: hold on, this person may take my spot. Let I mean,

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Speaker 1: there's been there's been a lot of like Job versus

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Speaker 1: Brunson was a lot of fun that back and forth.

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Speaker 1: Jah ended up having a triple double and ten Bronson

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Speaker 1: had thirty nine. Is this five rebounds? Brunson has been

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Speaker 1: his last four games as this recording like thirty seven.

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Speaker 1: So he's who they thought he was. I guess, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I just like I saw this headline that apparently the

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Speaker 1: first time ever John Morand's dad, like ever in Jaw's career.

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Speaker 1: This is the first time his father asked for his

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Speaker 1: jersey from a game. Yeah, And it was just like,

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Speaker 1: I guess And because I think he said his dad

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Speaker 1: has like he has like a very special feeling about

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Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden and the fact that he had a

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Speaker 1: triple double there, he was like, Okay, okay, Son, you

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Speaker 1: know what, I believe the hype. Now, I guess you

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Speaker 1: are good at basketball. My dad once asked for my

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Speaker 1: jersey after a game. But it was more the way

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Speaker 1: that like a police captain asks for someone's bead and

540
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Speaker 1: they really screw up, Just be like, hey, man, I

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Speaker 1: need your jersey on my desk in the morning. Hold on, man,

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Speaker 1: how did you put the ball back a defensive rebound

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Speaker 1: or in a free throw? And you just put it

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Speaker 1: back at what was that? And it was a three? Somehow?

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Speaker 1: I mean, look, I gotta tell you, man, that step

546
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Speaker 1: back three was cold. But I need your jersey and

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Speaker 1: your sneakers now on my dead So free from three

548
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Speaker 1: on your own basket, but two for three on the

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Speaker 1: opponent's basket? How how? Yeah? Oh man? And then Jeremy

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Speaker 1: to also porn forty four? Uh, he's And I know

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Speaker 1: we're looking back on our predictions in a later episode,

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Speaker 1: but I feel like, very early on, I think we

553
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Speaker 1: were saying why look out for Jeremy Grant this season,

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Speaker 1: weren't we? Jack? I was saying that. I'm saying he's

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Speaker 1: liable to put up thirty and twelve. Sorry I was

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Speaker 1: reading the wrong spec He's liable to put up forty

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Speaker 1: four points against the nixt in an O T win

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Speaker 1: without Damian Lillard exactly. Yeah, he's in a really good

559
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Speaker 1: position now that he's um kind of out in Detroit.

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Speaker 1: I think um he was kind of tasked with being

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Speaker 1: the guy when he was here, and it kind of

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Speaker 1: led to what kind of didn't fit, especially the way

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Speaker 1: Detroit wanted to have their roster with k coming in.

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Speaker 1: Now Kay gets to kind of shoulder that offensive production

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Speaker 1: and Jeremy kind of gets to play. He's I think

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Speaker 1: he's the third option behind Damian Lillard and signments, so

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Speaker 1: he gets to kind of play free in a way

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Speaker 1: that I don't think he had the opportunity to when

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Speaker 1: he was in Detroit because so much attention was on him.

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Speaker 1: So he's at year and that's when when you add

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Speaker 1: a score like that, sometimes it can be you know,

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Speaker 1: they need the ball too much. It's like their gravitational

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Speaker 1: force and like the the offense kind of collapses around them,

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Speaker 1: and it's not it's not as helpful or is not

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Speaker 1: as good a fit. But like to add somebody who

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Speaker 1: is just like yeah bye, by being the third option,

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00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 1: it actually helps my game is is pretty Uh you

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Speaker 1: know that that worked out nicely for them. Yeah, alright,

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Speaker 1: let's take another break and we will come back with

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Speaker 1: the fastest segment in podcasting, The Rapid Fire, and we're back. Ah,

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Speaker 1: Mike Curtis, you thought you were ready. Well, the great

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Speaker 1: state of Michigan can only prepare you so much for

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Speaker 1: what you're about to endoor. I know the winters can

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Speaker 1: get cold over there, but nothing is colder than this

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Speaker 1: segment more unforgiving than this segment called the rapid Fire

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Speaker 1: Round of questioning. Now we're gonna ask you a question.

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Speaker 1: You just give us your answer, just reflectively, don't think

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Speaker 1: about it too much. Just keep keep it moving, okay,

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Speaker 1: because we want to keep our title as the fastest

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Speaker 1: segment in sports podcasting. Uh with the show that starts

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Speaker 1: with a M. And I do just want to clarify

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Speaker 1: that the seat, your seat will be hot. The the

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Speaker 1: fire is rapid, but but the our responses will be

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Speaker 1: called and unforgiving, just so because I know it can

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Speaker 1: get confusing sometimes. Oh yeah, yeah, yes, sorry, he's still working.

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Speaker 1: I'm kind of working that. I was just gonna say,

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Speaker 1: because you know, Mike, you're you're paid to right words,

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Speaker 1: How would do you have any notes for that? How

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Speaker 1: was that? That was pretty good? Okay? Good, that's what

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Speaker 1: I thought, Jack. You see, Mike Curtis said, it was okay,

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Speaker 1: So I will no longer believe you when you so

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Speaker 1: hate on my name. Well, it sounded like you said

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Speaker 1: it was pretty good based on what I heard or

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Speaker 1: how I interpreted enthusiastic. Um. Anyway, let's get to this.

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Speaker 1: This is the rapid f irenic questioning start the clock

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Speaker 1: Jackson's you want you want to go first? Yeah? I

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Speaker 1: would love to go first. Thank you for asking. Good,

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Speaker 1: go ahead? Oh Joy, I thought you said, oh first, Okay, no,

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Speaker 1: but I'm going first, right? Yeah, Mike, you can pick

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Speaker 1: any three sharpshooters from history for the ultimate three point

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Speaker 1: shooting contest. What's your three play? Thompson, Steph Curry and

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Speaker 1: by Allen Ray? Now, what is it about Ray? Allen

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Speaker 1: that made you say that? I think it's just because

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Speaker 1: his consistency. He releases it the same way every time.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter how it catches, it doesn't matter where

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Speaker 1: he is on the floor. I think it's pretty much consistent. Um.

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Speaker 1: With Steph, it doesn't matter how it comes off. Pretty much.

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Speaker 1: He got has that muscle memory down pretty much. Um,

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Speaker 1: always going in. And then with Clay, we've seen him

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Speaker 1: as one of the best stand if not the best

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Speaker 1: stand sale shooter um in league history. So who wins

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Speaker 1: between them? I'm gonna say, Clay, Yeah, on a on

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Speaker 1: a hot night, you gotta keep I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

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Speaker 1: You know Jack, I know what you're about to say.

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Speaker 1: On a hot night, this segment has to be going

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Speaker 1: faster exactly hot night like this. Please please, man, we

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Speaker 1: gotta we gotta keep this. I was ready. Yeah, yeah, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay,

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Speaker 1: Mike Curtis, how about this one? Now you have the

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Speaker 1: chance to win ten thousand dollars to make a layup

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Speaker 1: with each hand, twenty five thou dollars to make at

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Speaker 1: least four or five free throws, or a hundred thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars to make at least three of five from deep.

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Speaker 1: Which challenge are you taking? I'm taking a free throw challenge? Wow? Okay?

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Speaker 1: Confidence last week got the same answer four out of five.

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Speaker 1: You're feeling real confident. So you're I don't trust my

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Speaker 1: left hand um with the left wow? Yeah, and my

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Speaker 1: range is kind of limited since I'm five for six,

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Speaker 1: so to shoot any three pointers? Yeah? The lay up, man,

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Speaker 1: I remember layup lines on the left side. I'm almost

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Speaker 1: had a had panic attacks like I would pray I

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Speaker 1: would go up with that left I'm like, please let it, yes,

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Speaker 1: thank you, I'm still on the team. I would do

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Speaker 1: like a reverse layup on the right side, but then

644
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Speaker 1: I'd accidentally run into the rebounder and then you know,

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Speaker 1: I'd sho and one but it would never go in.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean this goes back to the pitch

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Speaker 1: that we've been sending to the NBA. I guess we

648
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Speaker 1: might as well say it on the thing. Replace the

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Speaker 1: three point shooting contest and the dunk contest with free

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Speaker 1: throw shooting contests. You know, thank you. That's what people

651
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Speaker 1: want to see. They don't want to see anything else.

652
00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:59,720
Speaker 1: They want to see who's consistent over and over again.

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Speaker 1: I would like to say that with the worst free

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Speaker 1: gar shooters in the league, yeah, wow, better viewing experience

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Speaker 1: and like yeah, and then like people who have no

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Speaker 1: business dunking in the dunk contest, like just invert all

657
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Speaker 1: of them, you know what I mean, Like, the worst

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00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:18,400
Speaker 1: three point shooters in the league are now also going

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Speaker 1: to be in the three point contest, so like to

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Speaker 1: add some fun to their dunks, they have like choreographed

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Speaker 1: dances ahead of each one, and then do you see

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Speaker 1: like a little like one handed dunk whatever they gotta do,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, and they get more props.

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Speaker 1: I think these are all fantastic ideas. These are great ideas. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so I think I'm up. Is that correct? Yeah? I

666
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Speaker 1: think I get to ruling them from the judges. What

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Speaker 1: is the new rule, Mike. They like to see implemented

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00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:48,040
Speaker 1: or altered effective immediately. And this can be as you know,

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Speaker 1: serious as outlawing defensive three second or you know, as

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Speaker 1: silly as taking the air out of the ball for

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00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:58,880
Speaker 1: a quarter and every everybody just has to play with

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Speaker 1: a floppy basketball. Okay, I'm gonna semi serious and say

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Speaker 1: I want the NBA to implement the feeble rule, where

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Speaker 1: you can touch the ball when it's on the when

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Speaker 1: it's on the rim, pretty much blocking it. So I

676
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Speaker 1: think that would be pretty pretty entertaining, especially when guys

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00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:19,759
Speaker 1: aren't as used to it and everyone probably thinks his

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00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:23,319
Speaker 1: golden especially if you haven't watched the international game, right,

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00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:25,800
Speaker 1: I'll say that one that feels like something that if

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00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:29,239
Speaker 1: somebody was good enough at it, you could just time

681
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:32,839
Speaker 1: it so perfectly that like you just get somebody who

682
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:35,120
Speaker 1: is one of the best volleyball players in the world

683
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:37,960
Speaker 1: and just come and spike every shot the second it

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00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:40,960
Speaker 1: gets to the rim. I like that, yeah, and that

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00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:42,920
Speaker 1: they need to introduce the staff for it. How many

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00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:47,719
Speaker 1: how many men shot block off right? Or if one

687
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:50,319
Speaker 1: of the best players in the league already happened to

688
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:53,399
Speaker 1: be a great volleyball player when they were young, Like

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Speaker 1: I don't know, Joe l embiid uh, I like this idea. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he was a volleyball play, a multi hyphen a. This man, Mike,

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Speaker 1: I said, man, what do we say? We gotta keep

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Speaker 1: this going. I gotta ask you one of the most

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Speaker 1: important questions I've ever asked anybody on this podcast, which

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Speaker 1: is Mike Curtis, what are your top three throwback jerseys

695
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Speaker 1: of all time? Um? The Royal Blue, Kobe Bryant eight,

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Speaker 1: Lebron's Brookie jersey, the white one. H um U, let's

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Speaker 1: go with m Red black. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, that's a

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Speaker 1: jersey I always wanted. And I remember the shorts. I

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Speaker 1: could not find the shorts anywhere in l A. I

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Speaker 1: remember that, like that year that was like the hottest

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00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:54,560
Speaker 1: whooping item you could own. Where the Black Bulls shorts

702
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:58,360
Speaker 1: couldn't find them anywhere. They say, to this day, I

703
00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:02,640
Speaker 1: haven't recovered, and that's why I got into podcasting. I

704
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:05,920
Speaker 1: believe them, all right. And finally, most important question of

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Speaker 1: the night. I know Myles like to say that the

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Speaker 1: last one is the most important, but this is really

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Speaker 1: it on arrogant? Is it Jack Miles or supersound engineer

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Speaker 1: Brian Miles? Mhm, yeah, that's right, that's the right answer.

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Speaker 1: That's correct, that's correct. With flying colors, I knew you

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Speaker 1: were intelligent. I knew you're an upstanding journalist who had

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Speaker 1: just the sense of and judgment of character like I knew.

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Speaker 1: And also remind me your vemo against I. I can

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Speaker 1: send you that on an unrelated, unrelated thing, unrelated thing, Jack,

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Speaker 1: completely unrelated. We even gave him the out of Brian

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Speaker 1: when he picked Miles. I don't even know what I

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Speaker 1: just answered, yeah, but you did answer. Confidently, you did answer,

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Speaker 1: and you answered some thought we did. And look, we

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Speaker 1: like to have him pick you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: We just and it's totally fair, and that's that would

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Speaker 1: be my pick as well. No no offense to engine

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Jack, thank you so much. You honor me,

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Speaker 1: You honor me. But Mike Curtis, Thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for honoring us by appearing on our show. Where can

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Speaker 1: people you know find you? A read you follow you,

725
00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:22,800
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff? Yeah, thanks for having me again, guys.

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Speaker 1: Um it was really fine. On my Twitter is Mike A.

727
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:29,839
Speaker 1: Curtis too. Um. You can find me on there, at

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Speaker 1: least while Twitter is still active. I don't know if

729
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:35,880
Speaker 1: it's gonna be here tomorrow, but if not, then you

730
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:38,200
Speaker 1: can find me at the Detroit News. I'm pretty much

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Speaker 1: writing stories pretty much every day, so check me out

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Speaker 1: there subscribing. Thanks for all to support. And we asked

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Speaker 1: a listener which game you would travel back in time

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Speaker 1: to experience, and our boostis listener of the Week Aaron

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Speaker 1: and mix c, who said, as I heard the intro

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Speaker 1: music today, I thought this is Jack's week to finally

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Speaker 1: get chosen during Rapid Fire, and then he wasn't even there.

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Speaker 1: Won't um in reference to the last episode where I

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Speaker 1: was missing because I was, you know, working with my

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Speaker 1: therapist about the fact that I'm oh and thirty. I think, look,

741
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Speaker 1: records aren't records. No, It's okay, And you know, my

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Speaker 1: therapist was like, just walk walk into it. Prepare for

743
00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:24,160
Speaker 1: the fact that you're never gonna get picked. She was like,

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00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:26,879
Speaker 1: You're never gonna get picked. And I also like that.

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Speaker 1: We're like, which game would you travel back in time?

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Speaker 1: And then Aaron's like, man, I can't believe Jack took

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Speaker 1: an L and he wasn't even then have some have some?

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Speaker 1: Just yeah yeah, And I like to anyway, make sure

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Speaker 1: you give us a follow on Twitter at mad boost

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Speaker 1: these yeah b O S T I E s. And

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Speaker 1: you know, I'll continue to keep improving and getting uh

752
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:57,120
Speaker 1: you know better. So maybe one day I I get

753
00:41:57,160 --> 00:42:00,280
Speaker 1: a win, but even if not, I'm gonna be happy

754
00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:03,000
Speaker 1: and good with good attitude. That's what I like about you, guys,

755
00:42:03,080 --> 00:42:05,359
Speaker 1: hustle players, you know what I mean, just flying all

756
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:07,399
Speaker 1: over the court given heart, you know what I mean.

757
00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:09,440
Speaker 1: May not have all the talent, you know, but you've

758
00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:11,759
Speaker 1: got the heart and nuts what matters a lot of you.

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Speaker 1: Ever invite me back on I'll be sure to take you. Jack, Oh,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much that and it sounds like it

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00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:19,440
Speaker 1: would be genuine and totally earned. And you know what,

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00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:21,880
Speaker 1: why don't we invite you back right now and do that?

763
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:26,800
Speaker 1: Like no, no, no, it's okay. This is this is

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00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:30,080
Speaker 1: what we talked about therapist, talk about you right here

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Speaker 1: right Well, shout out Dr Phil, Yeah, yeah, Dr Hey,

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Speaker 1: at least you're listening to Tim mcgirl. Thanks shout out

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Speaker 1: to you man. Well, thanks so much for listening this week.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back next week and tune in for the

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Speaker 1: mysteries that surround the league and whether or not our

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00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:48,920
Speaker 1: guests will make the right choice during the rapid round question.

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Speaker 1: Until then, we'll be us and you'll be you. Bye

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Speaker 1: bye fo