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Speaker 1: Welcome in side hour to the Jason Smith Show with

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Speaker 1: my bas friend Mike Harmon, live from the Fox Sports

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Speaker 2: We got Rick Bucker coming up in twenty minutes. All

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Speaker 2: the latest.

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Speaker 1: We get ready to tip off the second havel or

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Speaker 1: the first All Star Break of the NBA season. I

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Speaker 1: think that's the way you have to term it, the

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Speaker 1: host All Star Break.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, two wise, you're in that weird What is

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Speaker 2: twenty eight games remaining? Mean?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Ue, we're kicking off the rest of the NBA season.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you want to put into a percentage, It

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Speaker 3: just doesn't it's not gonna roll off the top, you.

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Speaker 2: Know, but it's a big stuff to get to.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 1: The reaction to the All Star Break, the Lakers say

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Speaker 1: they're gonna welcome Lebron James back if he wants to

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Speaker 1: come back next year.

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Speaker 2: You know, I really thought that was a headline.

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Speaker 3: It's always one where I had to make sure I

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Speaker 3: wasn't getting got.

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Speaker 1: You know, when I saw that the Lakers would welcome

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Speaker 1: him back, I'm like, this is are you kidding me?

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Speaker 1: First of all, what else are they going to say

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Speaker 1: at this point? If you're asked, what are they gonna say? No,

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Speaker 1: we can't wait. We're crossing nex Is off the calendar.

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Speaker 1: We don't know what we're gonna get the rest of

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Speaker 1: this season. We can't wait to get rid of that guy. No,

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Speaker 1: he's still playing. Uh. The other the other part is well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: of course it's easy to say when you know you're

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Speaker 1: not gonna bring him back, you're gonna you're making him

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Speaker 1: look like the bad guy for wanting to leave. I

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Speaker 1: mean it would be open to it. The Lakers and

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Speaker 1: Lebron have been at arm's length for a long time.

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Speaker 1: There each side is trying to find a way to

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Speaker 1: win the war. Lebron doesn't want to make it look

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Speaker 1: like he's getting pushed out of La, like he's in

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Speaker 1: charge of things. The Lakers want to make it seem like, Hey,

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Speaker 1: it's Lebron's idea. They're all fight. They're all fighting this

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Speaker 1: pr thing. The Lakers saying the welcome Lebron back is

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Speaker 1: easy because there's no way they're welcoming him back. They're

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Speaker 1: moving on from him. They're gonna be able to take

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Speaker 1: that fifty million dollars to bring it into another rim runner,

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Speaker 1: another three and D player that they need to be

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Speaker 1: able to go for a neck, Which is why said

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Speaker 1: I like the Lakers way much more for next year

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Speaker 1: can get that roster around Luca the way they need

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Speaker 1: to be, like, well, Okay, Lebron isn't coming back next year.

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Speaker 3: They're gonna need a guy to play d some semblance

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Speaker 3: of defense. Look, it's it's the exacerbated, mutated version of

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Speaker 3: what's going on in Milwaukee. Right, We've got the same

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Speaker 3: dance team probably is done with the Yannas stuff. Yannis

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Speaker 3: doesn't want to be the bad guy. They don't want

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Speaker 3: to get run out of town like you saw happen

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Speaker 3: in Dallas. Here with Los Angeles, like they're always gonna

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Speaker 3: have the plausible deniability as long as they don't write

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Speaker 3: everything down, because then someone from Clutch Sports could have

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Speaker 3: in terms of what those dollars and cents are, it's like, yeah,

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Speaker 3: we just couldn't come to terms. Hey he was unreasonable,

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Speaker 3: is gonna be sentimental. Oh you screwed Lebron James and

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Speaker 3: you made him go away.

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Speaker 1: He has always been at arm's length from the fans.

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Speaker 1: It's never been his town. He has been someone that

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Speaker 1: of you got to help us win. They won in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty. That's great, but you know, hey, it's not

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be just fine. I mean really, I mean,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's just kicked that can down down the road

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Speaker 3: himself for he's gonna be that, he's gonna be seventy

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Speaker 1: I'm just a kid from Akron. Okay, all right, get

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Speaker 2: It's like, oh wow, okay, just a kid from Akron.

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Speaker 3: And right before they click on the photo shoot, they

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Speaker 3: they change where his hairline is, like we got to

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Speaker 1: And of course the latest on tanking from Rick Buche, well,

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Speaker 1: he had some great ideas last week is what what

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Speaker 2: The teams with tanking.

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Speaker 1: But a big story out of the NFL today really

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Speaker 1: really you know, one you know, thumbs up and one

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Speaker 1: thumbs down for the Kansas City Chiefs. The first story

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Speaker 1: from the Chiefs today, and this is the main one,

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Speaker 1: is that they reworked Patrick Mahomes' contract to create a

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Speaker 1: massive out of salary cap space. Now, they converted fifty

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Speaker 1: four million, which again I don't know why all teams

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Speaker 1: that we're just convert. Why don't you just convert all

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Speaker 1: the salaries to a signing bonus and then we have

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Speaker 2: Everybody's salary is a signing bonus. Why not do it?

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Speaker 1: But instead of the same fog, it's fuzzy math, right,

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Speaker 1: we get back into that same thing, right, is all right?

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Speaker 3: It doesn't count against whatever it's it's silliness. But we

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Speaker 3: knew this was gonna come and that Mahomes would clear

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Speaker 3: space because they were up against it. Yeah, if everybody

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Speaker 3: this year they went status quo, it's like.

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Speaker 2: What can they do? They can sign, Well, they can

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Speaker 2: sign an eleven year old and for a million like

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Speaker 1: This creates forty three million dollars in salary cap space

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Speaker 1: for the Chiefs. Now, the same day that we get

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Speaker 1: An ex girlfriend of Rice filed a civil lawsuit in

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Speaker 1: be our number one wide receiver for the next decade.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna be the next Tyreek Hill when it comes

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Speaker 1: even gonna have him for this year. But the whole

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Speaker 1: thing for the Chiefs now is that I look at

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Speaker 1: this story and I go, this is they're doing exactly

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Speaker 1: what we said they were gonna do. Right. What do

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Speaker 1: we say middle last year? Get the Chiefs now, right

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Speaker 1: the old Deion Sanders, Get us now because we're gonna

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Speaker 1: win to Colorado. Yeah, the on they're still getting you.

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Speaker 1: It's years later. But to get the Chiefs this year,

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Speaker 1: get them now because in the off season they're gonna

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Speaker 1: reboot reset and you see the number of star players

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Speaker 1: they're gonna bring in for the back half of Patrick Mahomes' career. Right,

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Speaker 1: they got as far as they could with this strategy

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Speaker 1: of Holmes is our guy. We turn a little bit

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Speaker 1: into a game manager. We go out and we just

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Speaker 1: because Mahomes is that good. Well, what we saw last

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Speaker 1: year is that doesn't work. The Chiefs tried the reset

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Speaker 1: just have a bunch of guys. They never went all in. Hey,

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Speaker 1: when were the Chiefs the best? Tyreek kill was the

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Speaker 1: best receiver in the NFL, and when Travis Kelsey's best

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Speaker 1: tight end in the NFL. Right, Travis Kelsey is no

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Speaker 1: longer the best tight end. They don't have a receiver

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Speaker 1: even close to what Tyreek Hill was when he was there.

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Speaker 1: So I told you last year, get them now, because

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Speaker 1: in the offseason they're gonna free up all kinds of

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Speaker 1: gonna get a star running back. They're gonna get a

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Speaker 1: You gotta get Mahomes a little bit more help than

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Speaker 2: You gotta go out.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you can go out and get a number one

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Speaker 1: there's lots of teams that were looking for Hey, maybe

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Speaker 1: Chiefs are gonna go out with a vengeance this offseason

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Speaker 1: and go get guys. Maybe it's Breessee Hall, maybe it's

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Speaker 1: Kenneth Walker to be their lead running back. But big

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Speaker 1: sure they'll make a run for a guy like Alec Pierce,

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Speaker 1: who's a free agent. That's a big deep threat. But

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Speaker 1: I see them trades going bigger. They're gonna buy out

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Speaker 1: other contracts, right Jones can give them like twenty million

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Speaker 1: They're gonna have money and they're gonna have assets to trade.

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Speaker 1: You watch what that Chief's weapons room looks like next year,

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Speaker 1: and it's gonna be absolutely incredible. And you think, well,

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs are on their way back Mahomes, I'm sure

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Speaker 1: he'll be ready to play week one, you know, doing

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Speaker 1: a surgery coming back, I'm not gonna doubt for a

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Speaker 1: second the guy's gonna be ready for week one. But

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Speaker 1: when he does, it's gonna be with a room of weapons.

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Speaker 1: You can say these are Pro bowlers now at the

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Speaker 1: for the Chiefs.

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Speaker 3: Well, I'll tell you why I feel a little more

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Speaker 3: confident on Patrick Mahomes coming back in that first week,

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Speaker 3: second week either way. First month of the season, they're

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Speaker 3: over under for wins is ten and a half, which

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Speaker 3: tells me in that division that also has the Chargers

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Speaker 2: It's the Chiefs, though, Mike. What's that means? You probably

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Speaker 1: The NBA season set to tip off post All Star

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Speaker 2: Wait a minute, Wait a minute, Wait a minute.

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Speaker 1: Nobody better to talk to you about this than Fox

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Speaker 1: Sports won Insider Extraordinay everyone, He's on Twitter.

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Speaker 2: At Rick Buker, That is at Rick Buker.

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Speaker 1: The new book Coachable, How the Knicks Went from Losers

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Speaker 1: to Winners. I think that's the title by Rick Buker,

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Speaker 1: coming out How the Greatest Performers Reached their Highest potential

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Speaker 1: Coachable by Rick Buker.

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Speaker 2: Rick, what's happening, man? How are you?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 7: I'm doing well, I could have just said the Jason

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Speaker 7: Smith and Mike Harmon story, but you know they didn't

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Speaker 2: Okay, I feel like I'm coachable. I mean I'm pretty good.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Nick Show, So a guy writing a book on

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Speaker 2: I think that's ironic. I think wow.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's got a lot of interviews with very

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Mike, I was.

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Speaker 7: Not talking about you. I was asking you if you

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Speaker 7: what you thought of Jason Smith's statement, and you paused,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, speaking.

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Speaker 1: Now, what I'm gonna do when people ask me about

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Speaker 1: your book Coachable, I'm gonna say, what does it sound like?

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Speaker 1: It's a book about Tom timbe Thoughs last season with

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Speaker 1: the Knicks. That's what it's about. Okay, go read it,

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Speaker 1: go buy it.

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Speaker 2: It's called Coachable, all right?

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Speaker 7: Yes, you know what I should have I should have

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Speaker 7: Buker's got that this is I'm gonna be coachable. I'm

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Speaker 1: So all right, I'll be all right, all right, So

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Speaker 1: let's let's let's learn from what we've seen the last

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Speaker 7: Well, I am not a billionaire, but I sometimes think

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Speaker 7: I'm all for being straightforward and saying, yeah, you know what,

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Speaker 7: And so I'm i'm I'm for the honesty. I'm for

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Speaker 7: You know, Mark Cuban, former owner, wants to be an

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Speaker 7: that would eliminate tanking. I'm not so sure about that,

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Speaker 7: but it would eliminate teams in small markets from ever

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Speaker 7: I don't think that that is ever going to happen.

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Speaker 7: But this is the beauty of the NBA. We have

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Speaker 2: But other than I got them, see I got Rick

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Speaker 2: I get ready.

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Speaker 7: I'm trying to I'm trying to make a comeback here.

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Speaker 7: I need coachable push here. Okay, So I'm doing what

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Speaker 7: I can.

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Speaker 2: That was really well done.

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Speaker 3: I like that, and Jason'll clip that off and he'll

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Speaker 2: All right, So All.

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Speaker 1: Star Game weekend came and went the world the two

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Speaker 7: So you got somebody from the other side of the

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Speaker 7: the oldest guy here? I guarantee you Jalen Brunson would

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Speaker 1: The Yeah.

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Speaker 7: Anyway, I can.

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Speaker 1: Also guarantee you you are not in co writing the

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Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson autobiography Coachable.

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Speaker 2: You are not going to be co writing that.

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Speaker 7: The sad thing is that Jalen actually is and was

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Speaker 7: guys that, you know, undersized physically, not gifted, but because

436
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Speaker 7: they were coachable, because they learned the game, because they

437
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Speaker 7: were able to accept their weaknesses and work around them,

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Speaker 7: they've both excelled far, far beyond what anybody would have expected.

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Speaker 7: So I kid, I did about jailing. I'm channeling my

440
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Speaker 7: inner Josh Hart right now, but I have I have

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Speaker 7: the utmost respect for what Jalen has done and who

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Speaker 7: he is.

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio Rick Bucker with US, Jason Smith Mike Harmon,

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Speaker 1: live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. All right, So overall,

445
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Speaker 1: like we thought we said this at the time we

446
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Speaker 1: talked about it last week, Hey got a feeling we're

447
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Speaker 1: going to get a great All Star Game. The players

448
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Speaker 1: know they got to give the fans something they want

449
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Speaker 1: to turn the conversation on this. The USA versus the

450
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Speaker 1: World is the right thing. I honestly think Rick, they

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Speaker 1: fixed the All Star Game for the next two or

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Speaker 1: three years, some kind of version of USA Versus the World,

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Speaker 1: and maybe you add some money, you add something to it.

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Speaker 2: But I think the next two three years the game

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Speaker 2: is going to be in good hands.

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Speaker 7: I think they did, but I think it's it has

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Speaker 7: to do more with the hands that it's in than

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Speaker 7: the format. The format of twelve minute games. Certainly, no

459
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Speaker 7: doubt it helps, and the US USA Versus World grudge match,

460
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Speaker 7: particularly the Old Head some of the Old Heads that

461
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Speaker 7: were on Team USA that beat France for the in

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Speaker 7: the Paris Olympics and Wemby being on the other side

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Speaker 7: of the equation, I have no doubt. I mean, the

464
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Speaker 7: old guys, the old guys put everything into knocking off

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Speaker 7: Team World to the point where they had nothing left

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Speaker 7: for the final, and I don't know that they really

467
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Speaker 7: cared as much about that as they did. Is not

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Speaker 7: just not letting Wemby and Team World knock them off.

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Speaker 7: That was that to me, was a pride game. And

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Speaker 7: so yeah, I do think they have it. But I

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Speaker 7: think the big reason, the biggest reason is because you

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Speaker 7: have Victor Webbanyana leading the parade, and you have guys

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Speaker 7: like Cade cunning Cunningham and Jail and Durham and and

474
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Speaker 7: a whole group of young stars coming up who are

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Speaker 7: looking to compete. And I believe this that the when

476
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Speaker 7: when we had Michael Jordan leading the way, when we

477
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Speaker 7: had Kobe Bryant leading the way, guys, guys had to

478
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Speaker 7: compete the All Star Games. Guys have to show up

479
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Speaker 7: because otherwise they were going to be embarrassed. And they

480
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Speaker 7: were really you know, one of the one of the

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Speaker 7: best things about it is when you get the one

482
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Speaker 7: on ones, when somebody calls somebody out out or a

483
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Speaker 7: great defender decides now that guy's going off, I'm going

484
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Speaker 7: to shut him down. We got that with Victor wen

485
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Speaker 7: Minyama and Kawhi Leonard and A and A and a

486
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Speaker 7: number of other matchups. So Karl Anthony Towns versus Jalen Brunson,

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Speaker 7: that to me, I mean, look I was. I was

488
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Speaker 7: in an airport, uh and I tuned it. I turned

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Speaker 7: it on, and it was almost like you know, the

490
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Speaker 7: commercial or the guys watching the Buffalo Bills game and

491
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Speaker 7: his flights delayed, and everybody cheers because they get to

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Speaker 7: continue to watch the game. That was met with the

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Speaker 7: All Star Game in the terminal. It was like my

494
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Speaker 7: flight was delayed another hour, and it meant that I

495
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Speaker 7: could watch the entire All Star Game without having to

496
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Speaker 7: worry about the Wi Fi on the plane. I was

497
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Speaker 7: ecstatic about it. That's how good it was and how

498
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Speaker 7: I fully expect because of why it was good, that

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Speaker 7: it's going to continue that way for the next couple

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Speaker 7: of years. Now, you guys have any ideas about how

501
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Speaker 7: we fixed the dunk contest, I'm all ears on that.

502
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Speaker 7: I'm not sure I got them. Well, we're not letting

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Speaker 7: Jackson Hayes compete again. That's no, he's the modern day

504
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Speaker 7: bird man.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: One of those things I guess you can take from

507
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Speaker 3: the women's game. They had the one on one contest

508
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Speaker 3: that got pretty heated for a large cash prize, so

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Speaker 3: that was kind of fun. Yeah, I mean the old

510
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Speaker 3: heads also didn't want to lose to a world team

511
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Speaker 3: that didn't have Giannis or Sga. I did like Anthony

512
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Speaker 3: Edward saying he like cooking the old guys. All that

513
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Speaker 3: to say, So let's talk about one of those old

514
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Speaker 3: guys on Lebron James. The report now after he has

515
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Speaker 3: his own press conference on Sunday morning. Hey, the Lakers

516
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Speaker 3: would be open. I knew him coming back for season

517
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Speaker 3: twenty four. That's really just the hey prove we didn't

518
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Speaker 3: kind of line, right.

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Speaker 7: Yeah. I mean, look, it's getting ahead of it's getting

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Speaker 7: ahead of the storyline. And I do think on some

521
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Speaker 7: level that they would welcome him back on a minimum

522
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Speaker 7: contract or some I mean, if the number was right,

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Speaker 7: I think there's a way in which they would have

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Speaker 7: him back. But even if they're not, But I think

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Speaker 7: they also know that if the number's too low, he's

526
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Speaker 7: not going to want to come back, and so Lebron

527
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Speaker 7: James not playing for the Lakers next year now doesn't

528
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Speaker 7: fall on them now as well, That's all we had

529
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Speaker 7: to you know. I mean, that's what we could realistically

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Speaker 7: pay him, and he wouldn't go for it. So it's

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Speaker 7: not on us that Lebron's James isn't back. We would

532
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Speaker 7: love to have him back, you know, in parentheses or

533
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Speaker 7: you know, maybe they said under the breath at the

534
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Speaker 7: right price, but that I think is just this is

535
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Speaker 7: just smart. It's getting out in front of the story

536
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Speaker 7: and saying, hey, we'd love to have Lebron James back,

537
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Speaker 7: and then ultimately make him an offer that he can

538
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Speaker 7: absolutely refuse and probably will, and then they're not the

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Speaker 7: ones holding the bag, all right.

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Speaker 1: Rick, outside of Lebron James. And the next question to repeat,

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Speaker 1: give me one or two storylines you're really looking forward

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Speaker 1: to over the last twenty eight games of the season.

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Speaker 1: I'll give you a couple.

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Speaker 7: First and foremost. It's Victor Winmbanyama. He didn't get his

545
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Speaker 7: satisfaction in the All Star Game. Is he now going

546
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Speaker 7: to be looking for I don't know if it's revenge

547
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Speaker 7: or it's simply a statement, but is this going to

548
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Speaker 7: carry into the playoffs. Is he going to be looking

549
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Speaker 7: for vengeance in the same way that he clearly did

550
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Speaker 7: in the All Star Game? I mean he was he

551
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Speaker 7: was coming after it, and he was looking and didn't

552
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Speaker 7: care who was guarding him. He was going for it.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 7: I fully expect that that's going to be the case,

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Speaker 7: but I want to see it.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 7: The other one is, uh, is the Boston Celtics. What

558
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Speaker 7: are they going to do with with Jason Tatum? It's

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Speaker 7: kind of tricky because they're they're they're really good. Uh

560
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Speaker 7: can they you know, can they incorporate him back in?

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Speaker 7: How much time are they going to have if they

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Speaker 7: go that direction? Or do they have him sit out

563
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Speaker 7: the year? And if they if he does and they're great,

564
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Speaker 7: you know, then then what happens next? So those, i'd

565
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Speaker 7: say are are at the very top. I mean, there's

566
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Speaker 7: some smaller ones, being the Berry I'm really curious to

567
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Speaker 7: see whether Christaps Porzingi's plays and what he's able to

568
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Speaker 7: give the Warriors to the Houston Rockets. And so is

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Speaker 7: Kevin Durant's burner account or alleged burner account. Is that,

570
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Speaker 7: you know, is that a factor in all of this?

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Speaker 7: And then the Detroit Pistons. I believe in them, but

572
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Speaker 7: but they need to prove it. I think they are.

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Speaker 7: I don't think their last year's Cleveland Cavaliers. I think

574
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Speaker 7: they're legit. But they've got to take that next step

575
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Speaker 7: in the playoffs and I'm looking forward to see if

576
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Speaker 7: they do.

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Speaker 2: He's on Twitter at Rick Buker. That is at Rick Buker.

578
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Speaker 1: The new book coming out, Coachable, all about Jalen Brunson's

579
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Speaker 1: relationship with Tom Thibodeau, coming out, various eight hundred pages,

580
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Speaker 1: many interests. Coach Bull is coming out. Rick's got interviews

581
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Speaker 1: with all kinds of players in and outside of the NBA.

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Speaker 1: Phenomenal stuff. Rick, congratulations on the book again. We'll talk

583
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Speaker 1: to you next week as the Knicks continue to roll

584
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Speaker 1: towards back to back.

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Speaker 2: There we go, You're the best.

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Speaker 1: See you, Rick, Exit out out of Fresca, Exit swollen

587
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Speaker 1: down the Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike

588
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Speaker 1: Carbon Like we you know, we talked about the Celtics thing,

589
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Speaker 1: and it is going to be fascinating because Jason Tatum's

590
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Speaker 1: coming back to a team that's not his it's Jalen

591
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Speaker 1: Brown team. Well, I told you last week I'd have

592
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Speaker 1: Jalen Brown number one with a bullet for MVP wembet.

593
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Speaker 1: I'd have second, but Jalen Brown number one because it's

594
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Speaker 1: now become his team and the Celtics are the same

595
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Speaker 1: team in the standings, they'd be with Jason Tatum. And

596
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Speaker 1: now what happens now? Is it going to be awkward?

597
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Speaker 1: Is he going to be able to come back and

598
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Speaker 1: be more of a secondary role. Will he have his

599
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Speaker 1: minutes restricted? Will he come off the bench? Might he

600
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Speaker 1: say screw this, I'm not coming. This was my team

601
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Speaker 1: and now it's not. You're training me in the offseason

602
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Speaker 1: and we don't see him at all. Oh, but it's

603
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Speaker 1: hidden behind I can't come back. I don't feel like

604
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Speaker 1: I can do it. Like this really is a fascinating

605
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Speaker 1: storyline because when Tatum does come back, it's not going

606
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Speaker 1: to be his team.

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Speaker 3: Well, and that's one of the things addressed. You obviously

608
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Speaker 3: had whatever that event was that got canceled in Beverly Hills,

609
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Speaker 3: and that'll get adjudicated over time. People have picked their

610
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Speaker 3: sides in terms of that Brown event that got shut down.

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Speaker 3: But he also had a thing where he put up

612
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Speaker 3: the standings of you know, this team against the championship

613
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Speaker 3: team and whatever else at this point in the year,

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Speaker 3: and folks are like, well, is he trying to push

615
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Speaker 3: himself ahead? So he had to kind of explain that away,

616
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Speaker 3: but also to the point of people have been trying

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Speaker 3: to break those two guys up for how many years now?

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Speaker 2: A long time, right, It's see.

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Speaker 3: Hey, we don't like Jalen Hurts, you know as a quarterback.

620
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Speaker 3: We don't like this guy, like, you know, he's pretty good,

621
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Speaker 3: and these guys they may not see and a lot

622
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Speaker 3: of things. They played pretty good basketball together and it

623
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Speaker 3: may not look like it works. There might be internal

624
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Speaker 3: strife like we talk about with the Eagles in the

625
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Speaker 3: NFL side of things, but they played pretty well and

626
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Speaker 3: he's been absolutely amazing thus far this season. We'll see

627
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Speaker 3: if the role players could keep it going and if

628
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Speaker 3: he keeps ramping up po Tatum towards health. It'd be

629
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Speaker 3: a fun stretch, especially those games down the stretch. I

630
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Speaker 3: think they played the Knicks several times in the final

631
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Speaker 3: two and a half three weeks.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, it's gonna look like a mini playoff series.

633
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Speaker 1: Pretty backloaded there. Yeah, time how to find out what's

634
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Speaker 1: trending in the wide world of sports, speaking of the

635
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Speaker 1: Knicks from the biggest Macal Bridges fan in the world ever,

636
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Speaker 1: it's Bree Bureau.

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Speaker 4: That is so accurate. It's so beyond accurate. I need

638
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:15,400
Speaker 4: a T shirt, I need a jersey, I need a

639
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:16,480
Speaker 4: fat head in my room.

640
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Speaker 1: I need all of it. You know, she got mad

641
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Speaker 1: at me text I'm wearing my Knicks sweatshoes. Oh that's

642
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:22,160
Speaker 1: a pretty cool sweat and she goes, oh and walks away.

643
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Speaker 1: Go what she goes? I thought that might like have

644
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Speaker 1: a picture of Michel Bridges on it somewhere. I go,

645
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Speaker 1: they don't make those. And the daggers that she's staring

646
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Speaker 1: at me when I.

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Speaker 2: Say that's a sweater, it looks like a dirty rag.

648
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Speaker 2: So this is NBA Champion Knicks hoodie. Okay, I just.

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Speaker 1: Watched it in November. I just watched it happen. I

650
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Speaker 1: saw the confetti drama and what are you raising.

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Speaker 2: Your voice to me? Are you raising your voice to me?

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Speaker 2: The incredulity just dripping all right, Brea, you God, what

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Speaker 2: do you got for us?

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Speaker 1: Alrighty guys?

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Speaker 4: In college basketball, only two games going on right now,

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Speaker 4: Number ten Illinois killing USC sixty three to forty fifteen

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Speaker 4: minutes left to go in the second half. There Number

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Speaker 4: three again Zaga on top of San Francisco twenty four

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Speaker 4: nineteen five minutes left to go in the first half. Earlier,

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Speaker 4: unrank Creighton took down Number five yukon final score ninety

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Speaker 4: one eighty four. Number twenty five Alabama knocked out Number

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Speaker 4: twenty Arkansas one seventeen to one to fifteen in double

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Speaker 4: overtime thanks to thirty five points from labarn Filon. Razorbacks

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Speaker 4: freshman Darius Acuff scored forty nine points in the loss.

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Speaker 4: Number eight Kansas defeated Oklahoma State eighty one sixty nine.

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Speaker 4: Darren Peterson finished with twenty three points in eighteen minutes,

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Speaker 4: and Number four Arizona beat Number twenty three BYU seventy

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Speaker 4: five to sixty eight. A Major League Baseball I know

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Speaker 4: you guys talked about this little bit earlier. Bruce Meyer

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Speaker 4: has been unanimously selected as the executive director of the

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Speaker 4: MLB Players Association. He had been number two at the

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Speaker 4: union and becomes the sixth executive director in the union's history.

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Speaker 4: And in the Winter Olympics Men's hockey quarterfinals, US survived

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Speaker 4: and overtime defeated, defeating Sweden two to one thanks to

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Speaker 4: a goal by Quinn Hughes. USA will face Slovakia in

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Speaker 4: this my finals. Well, Canada will face Finland.

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Speaker 1: Back to you, guys, NICs A bunch free Jason Smith

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Speaker 1: Mike Harmon, live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Now

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Speaker 1: speaking of the land, we got more NBA. We got

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Speaker 1: big NBA story coming up about twenty minutes. But straight ahead,

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Speaker 1: the two things the Olympics needs to fix and one

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Speaker 1: thing needs to get fixed before tomorrow. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if they'll do it, but it's got to get fixed

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Speaker 1: before tomorrow. Urgency, It's next right here, Jason and Mike

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Speaker 1: Fox Sport.

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Speaker 5: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

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Speaker 5: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

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Speaker 5: pm Pacific.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back in Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with

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Speaker 3: my best friend Mike Harmon.

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Speaker 1: We are tonight one hundred percent. Big NBA story come

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Speaker 1: on your way in a few minutes. Apparently NBA teams

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Speaker 1: didn't get the memo that hey, you know, we really

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Speaker 1: we don't want to put tanking top of mind anymore.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no problem.

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Speaker 1: Wait at me tell you what one team's got out

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Speaker 1: there for their get getting back to the rest of

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Speaker 1: the season lineup for.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, there's there's some doozies going on if you

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Speaker 3: go through the laundry list of notices starting to hit

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Speaker 3: my phone.

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Speaker 2: But for the Olympics, now here we are.

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Speaker 1: We're getting set for a big day in the Olympics

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Speaker 1: are a big one today with the United States winning

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Speaker 1: and hockey and overtime, Canada winning and overtime. We'll have

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Speaker 1: that next hour. But a couple of things and and

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Speaker 1: I noticed it more. It's about hockey, especially today with

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Speaker 1: the way these games finished. Three out of the four

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Speaker 1: semi final games all went to overtime. They play three

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Speaker 1: on three. It's exciting. At some point, I think the

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Speaker 1: NHL sending players to the Olympics, and the Olympics has

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Speaker 1: to understand you want people to see your product. You

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Speaker 1: want people to be able to see it, especially like

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Speaker 1: right after it's over. I think you got to allow

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Speaker 1: people to put messages and put stuff up on social media,

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Speaker 1: especially when you're talking about the you know, a a

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Speaker 1: an Olympics where in the United States it's it's during

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Speaker 1: the day, it's not during our time, right, it's off

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Speaker 1: time for us, and so like, you want to grow

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Speaker 1: sports and you want people to grow more because that's

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Speaker 1: only better for the Olympics as it goes on, and

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Speaker 1: especially a sport like hockey that's always looking to fight

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Speaker 1: for every inch of real estate they can get. And

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Speaker 1: you get rare days like today where hockey is the

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Speaker 1: number one story in sports. Right, doesn't happen that often?

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Speaker 1: Once every couple of years, hockey gets a front page story.

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Speaker 2: And that's it. You want to be able to say, hey,

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Speaker 2: what did this goal look like? What happens?

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Speaker 1: But you know, with all the rights holding that's going on,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, we're in a different world than we

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Speaker 1: used to be when it comes to bidding on Olympics

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Speaker 1: and what you have the rights for, what you can show,

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Speaker 1: what you can't. Social media needs to be a part

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Speaker 1: of it because you want the Olympics to be something

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Speaker 1: everybody's talking about and growing the sports and growing specific

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Speaker 1: sports like hockey. You got to be able to find

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Speaker 1: a way around that so people can can see that

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Speaker 1: and can consume it on their largest way possible.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Right now, I'm working on a cartoon. It's a lot

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Speaker 3: of drawing though, to show that game winner, so I

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Speaker 3: can put it up. There's a lot I can't disseminate

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Speaker 3: the video and I'll get stricken with a Hey, you

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Speaker 3: don't have the rights to this, so beat it. And

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Speaker 3: I have to try to describe it in painstaking detail

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Speaker 3: to AI.

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Speaker 2: So it has really been tough. So I'm doing it

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Speaker 2: that way.

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Speaker 3: And then I'm drawing it like they used to do cartoons,

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Speaker 3: you know, hand drawn, you draw a picture of a

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Speaker 3: person jumping on a trampoline or falling or whatever.

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Speaker 2: Same thing here because the NHL can't get out of

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Speaker 2: its own way now.

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Speaker 1: Trulye just a missed opportunity. In so many ways, we

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Speaker 1: try to find storylines that break through and this, and

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Speaker 1: certainly there have been plenty of athletes that are specialized

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Speaker 1: for the sports of the Olympic game, hockey is one

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Speaker 1: that you get.

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Speaker 2: To pull from. While it's a smaller pool, right, but

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Speaker 2: it's the biggest.

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Speaker 1: Everybody representing their home nations and living and dying with

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Speaker 1: that team Sweden.

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Speaker 3: You watch the players as that puck clanked in. It

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Speaker 3: was like they were and someone unplugged them on their heads. Immediately,

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Speaker 3: all the Swedish fans in the stands drooped like as

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Speaker 3: if they were one and the power was cut.

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Speaker 2: That's how much of an emotional thing it is.

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Speaker 3: And to not be able to then say immediately like

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Speaker 3: we do with everything else, Hey, let's disseminate the highlights.

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Speaker 1: Here's some quick clips. Here's this, here's period two. Tune

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Speaker 1: in now, like just bad business. And look, and this

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Speaker 1: is also what's bad business is that tomorrow the two

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Speaker 1: biggest events on the schedule gold medal hockey game for

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Speaker 1: the women in the United States and Canada singles figure

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Speaker 1: skating long program for the women. Both of them are

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Speaker 1: on at the exact same time, both on at one

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Speaker 1: o'clock PM tomorrow. Why are you having this top two

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Speaker 1: events go up against each other at the same time. Now,

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Speaker 1: looking into research on this, the reason that was given

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Speaker 1: was that, well, the United States Canada hockey game is

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Speaker 1: not nearly and a ticket in demand event like figure

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Speaker 1: skating is, so they could put the hockey opposite to

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Speaker 1: figure skating.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, you know that makes sense if the.

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Speaker 1: Only bleep in people who were consuming the Olympics were there,

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Speaker 1: I understand that. But sometimes things are a much bigger

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Speaker 1: deal than they are in the actual place they're happening

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Speaker 1: on like television.

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Speaker 2: Wise, USA Canada women's hockey is a big deal.

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Speaker 3: Well, but that's your points a big deal since you

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Speaker 3: are that many hours ahead. People are at work so

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Speaker 3: they don't necessarily have to watch, but you can get

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Speaker 3: it in broad time.

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Speaker 2: Right, But you already know the results.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's hard to not know the result going on,

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Speaker 1: but why can't you have it one at one o'clock

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Speaker 1: and one at four o'clock?

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Speaker 2: Understand that?

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Speaker 1: And this is where NBC's got to say, Hey, so

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Speaker 1: you're gonna make us fight with the two biggest things

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Speaker 1: that the people want to see. And obviously the figure

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Speaker 1: skating will get a bigger audience than the hockey will,

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Speaker 1: but it's still something that could be a big deal

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Speaker 1: for NBCA. Let's put that. Why can't you put two

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Speaker 1: big women's sports on in their own windows?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 1: It's a big enough dealsa people don't even know who

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Speaker 1: any of the players are United States and Canada.

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Speaker 2: Maybe you know Hillary Night, maybe you don't, but.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. It's a big deal. This is a

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Speaker 1: big game, and it's television television. Trump's everything you could see.

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Speaker 1: I can't tell you how many times you have seen

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Speaker 1: events at the Olympics the last twenty some odd years,

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Speaker 1: or boy, boy, how is there nobody there? Because it's

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Speaker 1: all everybody is watching here in the United States, But boy,

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Speaker 1: there's nobody there for this game. Okay, it's just a

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Speaker 1: quirk with the Olympics that that happens. But if you're NBC,

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Speaker 1: you have to go, hey, wait a minute, we're not

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Speaker 1: putting these two events on up against each other. We

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Speaker 1: were figuring out a way because the Olympics is a

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Speaker 1: television show, right, we say it all the time.

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Speaker 2: Yes, the Olympics is a.

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Speaker 1: Big event, but it's a television show. The super Bowl

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Speaker 1: is a television show. They're not saying, well, we have

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Speaker 1: to put the halftime show here here at because well

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Speaker 1: that's what. No, it's a television show for everybody to watch. Right,

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Speaker 1: It's not as big a deal for the people at

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Speaker 1: the game, but it's a television event, like this is

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Speaker 1: a big global event. And I don't know why you

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Speaker 1: would make it difficult for people to have to choose

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Speaker 1: between two things they really want to see.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think it's a fun little choice that you

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Speaker 2: have to do.

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Speaker 3: You split screen, quad box, multiple televisions, monitors, anything, quad

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Speaker 3: has not.

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Speaker 2: Worked out well this Olympics.

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Speaker 3: Just so you know, I just said, and then I mean,

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Speaker 3: you run that at your own risk to try to

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Speaker 3: bring that up and see if it can come to fruition.

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Speaker 3: But it's also the you know, the old rule of thumb.

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Speaker 3: It's not always about us, right the United States obviously

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Speaker 3: big marketplace for at all is the Olympics, the bigger

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Speaker 3: thing here globally.

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Speaker 1: But it's also but if you're putting two things on

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Speaker 1: at the exact same time, no, I get it, But

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Speaker 1: it's two big events. It's on at the exact same time.

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Speaker 1: But maybe they're mutually exclusive groups.

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Speaker 3: The people that are gonna watch hockey don't necessarily care

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Speaker 3: about the long form skating.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know the market research to

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Speaker 2: get to this end.

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Speaker 1: I think if you're spending that much money on the Olympics,

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Speaker 1: you can have a saying, hey, all right, maybe we

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Speaker 1: move this by a couple hours.

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Speaker 2: Maybe we can we can sort.

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Speaker 1: Of stagger the end of the hockey game with the

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Speaker 1: beginning of the women's figure skating, so we can have

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Speaker 1: two really big events that people want to watch. Really,

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Speaker 1: I don't understand how that that's cause and I unders

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Speaker 1: say it sucks for women's sports that here's two big

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Speaker 1: women's sports events. I guess what, you gotta fight to

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Speaker 1: watch one of the two. What if I want to

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Speaker 1: watch both of them? No, you can't. You gotta pick well.

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Speaker 3: To be fair, most people have multiple uh viewing opportunities

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Speaker 3: between their television's devices, et cetera. So you can technically

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Speaker 3: watch both off of your apps. Why should you have

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Speaker 3: to do that, though?

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Speaker 1: Why should you have to make a choice between two

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Speaker 1: really important things? I get that, it's all, Hey, you

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Speaker 1: have a different story every other aspect of our life.

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Speaker 1: It's a two hour viewing window.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think if you're NBC, you want to be able

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Speaker 1: to say, hey, we get the viewership for this game,

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Speaker 1: and then we get the viewership for this game. We're

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Speaker 1: pretty excited about having that go back to back. It

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Speaker 1: would be on TV if it wasn't it wasn't the case.

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Speaker 3: No, But that's the thing is that how many people

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Speaker 3: are coming in and watching instead of curling will actually

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Speaker 3: get hockey tomorrow night?

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Speaker 2: Oh man.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they gotta take curling off a little bit. That's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a tough one, just saying that time time.

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Speaker 1: If they can move it for tomorrow. I'd love it,

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Speaker 1: but they're not gonna be able to be able. They should,

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Speaker 1: they should.

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Speaker 2: There you go.

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Speaker 1: Big programming by Jason and Mike coming up next, we

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Speaker 1: get back into the beginning of the rest of the

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Speaker 1: NBA season and a big story already coming out