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Speaker 1: This is straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. What is up,

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Speaker 1: straight Fire, fam, It's me Jason McIntyre. Straight Fire for Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: September twenty eight. Cowboys fans were the Happy Dance this morning,

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Speaker 1: feeling good. I mean goodness, gracious what I beat down

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Speaker 1: of your rivals. I thought I would start gassing up

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys here, but I assume everybody's gonna come here

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Speaker 1: for that, So I'm gonna go counterintuitive and be like, hey,

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Speaker 1: remember in the opening week when the Eagles curb stomped

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Speaker 1: winning at the line of scrimmage. Well two weeks later,

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Speaker 1: what do we have a lot of Eagles injuries? Jalen

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Speaker 1: Hurts camp moved to football to save his life. And

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Speaker 1: I've just got to call out Nick Sirianni, first time

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Speaker 1: head coach of the Eagles. Okay, he had what six

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Speaker 1: months to prepare for the Falcons? Well done? Okay, next

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Speaker 1: week against the four nine is a tough opponent. You

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Speaker 1: lost your clothes, but you lost. You walk around the

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Speaker 1: or maybe I hate Dallas or a beat whatever the

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Speaker 1: shirt was, focus on Dallas, and I thought the stat

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Speaker 1: of the night maybe the stat of Week three. Philadelphia

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Speaker 1: Eagle running backs had three carries in the football game.

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Speaker 1: That's it. And I know this because I had Miles

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Speaker 1: Sanders in fantasy and I needed him to deliver and

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Speaker 1: alas he did not. He had two carries for twenty

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Speaker 1: Eagles running backs barely touched the football and they weren't

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Speaker 1: playing the eighty five Bears or even last year's Tampa

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Speaker 1: don't know what this game plan was from the Eagles

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Speaker 1: at any rate, it was horrendous and if not for

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Speaker 1: a flukey touchdown in the first quarter, when Dak Prescot

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Speaker 1: know it's something something embarrassing towards Dr Prescott's awareness. He

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Speaker 1: the arms of I think Fletcher Cox. Uh no, who's

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Speaker 1: inn who who called? I forgot who caught it? But

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Speaker 1: bottom line is Um, Jalen Hargrave or Javon Hargrave, whatever

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Speaker 1: we don't. That was their only touchdown of the first half.

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Speaker 1: They didn't get on the board again until it was

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Speaker 1: twenty seven seven seven in the third quarter. Like this,

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Speaker 1: Eagles offense was brutal to watch. I think they had

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Speaker 1: three first downs in the first half. They had twelve

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Speaker 1: else do the math of stripping out the garbage time

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Speaker 1: numbers when thank Jalen Hurts for getting to the window

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Speaker 1: on the props thanks to his two late drives where

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Speaker 1: he's just putting up garbage stats. But he was terrible. Um,

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Speaker 1: the Eagles overall were awful, and this is who we

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Speaker 1: felt they were. Do you remember when Dennis um what's

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Speaker 1: Night performances ever. Uh they punted I think it was

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Speaker 1: the score and and and killed him and Dennis Green

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Speaker 1: He screamed and he blasted the podium. Was awesome. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, the Eagles too, are who we thought they were.

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Speaker 1: This looks like a team with a preseason win total

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Speaker 1: of six and a half, a mistake prone team. Thirteen penalties,

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Speaker 1: the way, the Dallas Cowboys were able to revitalize their

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Speaker 1: Pollard five point five. Now, they didn't have a carry

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Speaker 1: but this is the Dallas team that I said was

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Speaker 1: Is it? Chase Um? Chase Thomas? Is that the edge

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Speaker 1: rusher on Washington? Rob Chase Young? Geez? I'm sorry, Chase Young? God,

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Speaker 1: are who we thought they were. This is the team

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Speaker 1: we thought was headed towards six and a half wins

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Speaker 1: and Jalen Hurts looked totally lost happy feet all over

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Speaker 1: the pocket. Um, I'm surprised we didn't see Gardner minshew.

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Speaker 1: the Eagles host Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs this weekend,

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Speaker 1: coming off a Chief's home loss. The Chiefs are one

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Speaker 1: this was a smash spot for the Chiefs. Yesterday on

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Speaker 1: the pod. I did the show with Cowherd the Fox

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Speaker 1: I love the Chiefs, maybe my biggest bet of the year.

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Speaker 1: You know, sadly the five and a half is long gone.

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Speaker 1: That was out there Sunday night. I would imagine it's

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Speaker 1: Like they are a garbage team. And the Cowboys are

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Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence will be back, Michael Parsons looking pretty good.

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Speaker 1: the secondary? Solid performance out of him. Um, it's a

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Speaker 1: I don't know if they'll have much of a chance

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Speaker 1: I don't want to say the division is locked up

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Speaker 1: Well we didn't know, however, was that the Washington football

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Speaker 1: Like you mentioned, the sirianni uh Jalen Hurts combo was

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Speaker 1: the door opened right up for Dallas of waltz right

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Speaker 1: having We're not even gonna have to bash from McCarthy, right, Um,

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Speaker 1: now he's should roll in this division. And we talked

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Speaker 1: not going to happen. But Cliff Kingsbury could end up

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Speaker 1: get to Shaun Watson and flip it. But right now,

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Speaker 1: this is Dallas's division to lose. And again it's I

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Speaker 1: don't think Dallas is a top four team in the NFC.

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Speaker 1: But the problem though is, like you mentioned, their division

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Speaker 1: is the best division in football. I don't think they've

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Speaker 1: Dallas because you know they gotta live. I'm glad you

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Speaker 1: brought up Mike McCarthy though, because we're led to believe

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Speaker 1: an offensive coach, does not actually run the offense. That

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Speaker 1: much talent on that team. Kellen Moore is a great

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Speaker 1: bigger than just being the guy who hit the game

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Speaker 1: seven shot um to beat the beat the seventy three

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Speaker 1: win Warriors. He's a better player than that. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he's done nothing to back it up other than some

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Speaker 1: awesome Instagram ilight reels. But the reality is Kyrie's gotta

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Speaker 1: like clean his act up. He's just saying ship to

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Speaker 1: say ship. He doesn't have anything to back it up.

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Speaker 1: And in this Rolling Stone story, this is really disturbing

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Speaker 1: and I I don't know if it's but the Rolling

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Speaker 1: Stone story said Kyrie Irving, who is the VP of

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Speaker 1: the Players Union, is liking Instagram posts that talk about

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Speaker 1: secret societies implanting vaccines in a plot to connect black

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Speaker 1: people to a master computer for a land of Satan.

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Speaker 1: That's a real statement in the Rolling Stone story. I'm

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Speaker 1: not making this up, like they're actually talking about this. Like, Kyrie,

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Speaker 1: what on earth are you doing liking these Instagram posts.

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Speaker 1: The Korean abdul Jabbar the Legend came out and absolutely

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Speaker 1: blasted uh Kyrie and all these uh anti VAXX people. Listen,

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Speaker 1: you guys can have a vaccine discussion if you want.

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Speaker 1: But currently the New York and San Francisco laws require

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Speaker 1: pro athletes to show proof of one vaccine dose to

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Speaker 1: play indoors. However, there's an exemption for approved medical or

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Speaker 1: religious exemptions. Now, I am not any expert on whether

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Speaker 1: or not Kyrie is going to play the religious card

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Speaker 1: or a medical blah blah blah. I'm sure some people

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Speaker 1: are gonna cook that up. And we talked about Andrew

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Speaker 1: Wiggins briefly, um in in Golden State, and um, some

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Speaker 1: of that's coming. I'm short and certain of it. And listen, guys,

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna just sit here. And you've heard it.

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Speaker 1: You know it's over a year and a half of

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Speaker 1: this COVID crap. You know I've got doctor friends on

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Speaker 1: the front line. Um, just please don't be I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: do my own research. Guy, just don't just don't do that.

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Speaker 1: And in the Rolling Stone article, Kareem Abdul Jabbar mencin's

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Speaker 1: a good point. It's like your kid has a major problem.

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Speaker 1: You brushed him into the hospital. Please help my son.

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Speaker 1: You know what can we do help him? Please my kid,

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Speaker 1: my daughter or whatever. And it's like, but when it

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Speaker 1: comes to COVID, it's like, you know, you guys are experts.

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Speaker 1: I get it, but I'm gonna do my own research.

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Speaker 1: Like there is a big disconnect. It's disturbing to see.

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Speaker 1: And I'm just the NBA's got some problems right here, now, Rob,

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Speaker 1: I just put a bunch out there. I'm sure a

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Speaker 1: lot of people are gonna hate what I said. We

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Speaker 1: have a lot of uh kyrie, irving fans who listen

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Speaker 1: to this pod. We have a large NBA audience. Uh

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Speaker 1: we'll'll let you, let you take the baton here, so

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Speaker 1: I don't hate myself. Well, I think you said a

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Speaker 1: lot of interesting things there, and a lot of it

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Speaker 1: I agree with. Um. I've rather just focus on the

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Speaker 1: basketball portion of this discussion and Kyrie Irving. You know,

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Speaker 1: they had the the Nets media day on Monday, and

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Speaker 1: of course he was not there. He had to do

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Speaker 1: a via zoom because he's not vaccinated and the law

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Speaker 1: in New York is gonna be vaccinated. And somebody asked

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Speaker 1: him about his status. He says, the personal decision. Okay, fine.

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Speaker 1: Someone says later, you know, given the current laws in

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Speaker 1: that area, should we expect you then not to be

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Speaker 1: playing any home games. That's a personal decision. Please respect

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Speaker 1: my privacy. And it's like, look, dude, if you don't

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Speaker 1: want to get the vaccine, then just say it. Man

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Speaker 1: up and be like, you know what, man, I don't

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Speaker 1: believe in it. I have my reasons. It is what

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Speaker 1: it is. I'm choosing not to agree with the doctors,

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Speaker 1: even though I got what to see a doctor multiple

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Speaker 1: times from my knee, from my foot, from my shoulder

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Speaker 1: for all these different injuries that he's had. But he

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Speaker 1: doesn't trust doctors and discstance whatever. Fine, but to say

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Speaker 1: that this is now a personal respect, my privacy decision,

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Speaker 1: knowing full well that in two and a half weeks

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Speaker 1: when Brooklyn opens up a preseason game and Kyrie is

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Speaker 1: not there, is that still private? Is that still a

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Speaker 1: privacy decision because now everybody knows it's not, you know,

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Speaker 1: And and if it comes down to the regular season,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure eventually he's going to get it. I think

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Speaker 1: the peer pressure is gonna get to him, because would

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Speaker 1: peer pressure come on? It shouldn't be peer pressure. Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm saying the fact that he would not be able

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Speaker 1: to play in any you know, home games, Like his

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Speaker 1: situation is so much different than like a D'Angelo Russell

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Speaker 1: or a Bradley bal who I'll get you later. Bradley

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Speaker 1: Bill made the dumbest comment possible. I didn't see this.

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Speaker 1: Tell me where on tangent. Bradley Bale is also not vaccinated.

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Speaker 1: He famously got COVID prior to the Olympic Games and

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Speaker 1: that's why he had to sit out. If you recall,

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Speaker 1: so brad Beale's doing his media availability in d C.

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Speaker 1: They don't have the same laws in d C as

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Speaker 1: they do in New York. So even without being vaccinated,

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Speaker 1: he will be able to play this season. He goes

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Speaker 1: off about why he's choosing not to get vaccinated. It again,

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Speaker 1: personal private decision, that's what he says. Eventually he gets

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Speaker 1: the talking and he says, I would ask the question

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Speaker 1: to those who are getting vaccinated, why are you still

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Speaker 1: getting COVID? Now? For all the people who say I'm

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Speaker 1: going to do my own research, I'm going to do

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Speaker 1: my own research. I don't trust the doctor. I'm doing

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Speaker 1: my own research, that tells me immediately you did not

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Speaker 1: do any damn research on your own. Because anybody who

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Speaker 1: who knows anything about how vaccines work, or how condoms work,

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Speaker 1: or how birth control works, or how seatbelts work, look,

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Speaker 1: they are going to help you to prevent serious injury

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Speaker 1: or in this you know, pregnancy, It's going to help

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Speaker 1: prevent effective That does not mean that you are completely

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Speaker 1: immune from getting pregnant. If you're on birth control, getting

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Speaker 1: the COVID vaccine does not mean that you're completely the

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Speaker 1: immune from getting COVID. It just gives you a greater chance.

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Speaker 1: At number one, I'm not getting it. At number two,

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Speaker 1: if you do get it, not getting seriously Still, and

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Speaker 1: the fact that you have guys like Bradley Beale and

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Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving who like to think that they're smarter than

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Speaker 1: everybody else without having anything to say behind it. It's

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Speaker 1: just really disappointing. And like you mentioned, Howard Bride said

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Speaker 1: it perfectly, he's a contrarian without a cause. He he

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Speaker 1: wants to be different and think like he's on this

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Speaker 1: different plane than everybody else, that he's looking down at

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Speaker 1: all the peasants below him, which he called the media

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Speaker 1: peasants at one point, Kyrie Irving. Yet he doesn't have

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Speaker 1: anything of substance behind his actions or his vague comments,

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Speaker 1: Like you can't be in that position of power and

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Speaker 1: influence and choose to be contrarian. And that's fine. If

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00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:54,120
Speaker 1: you want to be that way, then fine, but you

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Speaker 1: need to have something to back it up. Man. It's brutal.

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Speaker 1: It's funny. I talked about how um Steve Nash used

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Speaker 1: to live where I do, and he spent his you know,

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Speaker 1: he's back here in the office season. I saw him

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Speaker 1: playing tennis over the summer. I didn't have the balls

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Speaker 1: to ask him, you know, you know how much of

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Speaker 1: a headache is Kyrie Irving. I couldn't do that, but

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Speaker 1: I will say this, and I'll wrap up on this.

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Speaker 1: I did not share this with Rob before. I haven't

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Speaker 1: shared it on social media and I'm not going to. UM.

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Speaker 1: So I did an Instagram stories um post where I

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Speaker 1: showed an image of Yeah, I'm sure you guys have

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Speaker 1: seen that Lebron is so upset with Kyrie on the

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Speaker 1: bench in the Cleveland Days. He's like staring at Kyrie

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Speaker 1: with his mouth open and Kyrie's looking forward like whatever.

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Speaker 1: Have you seen that image? Drop? Yeah? Okay, So I

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Speaker 1: joked on Instagram stories that somebody needs to photoshop Kevin

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Speaker 1: Durant's face onto Lebron's head, and I tagged Kevin Durant

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Speaker 1: because you know we had our little uh I G

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Speaker 1: I G D ms bromance like three years ago. Um,

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Speaker 1: within fift minutes, Kevin Durant saw it and replied. And

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say his reply because I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: be Michael Rappaport, that bozo who runs out, who look

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Speaker 1: at look at me? Governor return all this stuff. Um. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's doing an inappropriate word uh, name calling. Whatever. It's fine,

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Speaker 1: I get it, um. And he's defensive as well he

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Speaker 1: should be, but KD, you need to realize, dude, this

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Speaker 1: is the this is the path you chose. You could

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Speaker 1: have stayed with the Warriors. You went down the Kyrie

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Speaker 1: Irving rabbit hole. Now, maybe James Harden's healthy, but Rob,

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Speaker 1: can you imagine a world where Kyrie says all season,

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Speaker 1: I'm not doing home games, and the Nets have a

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Speaker 1: game seven at home and Kyrie doesn't have the facts

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Speaker 1: he said I'm not playing and they lose. Can you

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Speaker 1: imagine that? Now? Listen, that's probably a bridge too far.

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Speaker 1: I can't imagine it goes that far. Um, But man,

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Speaker 1: this I feel bad. I feel bad for Kevin Durant.

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Speaker 1: wanting to be your own person and march to the be,

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Speaker 1: to your own drum and do your thing. I get that,

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Speaker 1: But basketball is a team sport. Michael Jordan's famously did

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Speaker 1: everything he wanted in Chicago in the first floor at

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Speaker 1: five six years. He didn't win Jack Squat until he

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Speaker 1: became a team player. He win MVP scoring titles, Dunk Contest,

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Speaker 1: whoop did you damn do? Didn't win jack Squat until

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Speaker 1: Phil Jackson came in and said, you know what, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna run this. Michael Jordan did not have an option.

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Speaker 1: Michael Jordan had to fall in line and be part

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Speaker 1: of a team and run an offense if you wanted

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Speaker 1: to win championships. And what was the result? Six titles

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Speaker 1: like what does Kyrie want? I mean, you can be

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Speaker 1: an iconoclass. You can do that. Good luck? You know

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Speaker 1: I it doesn't feel like he's long for the NBA

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Speaker 1: at this point, but all right, that's I don't know,

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Speaker 1: twenty more minutes than I thought we'd do on the NBA.

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Speaker 1: But I'm this topic. Man, oh man, this Guyrier. Just

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Speaker 1: when you think, like, hey, guess what, it's the fall.

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Speaker 1: We don't have a presidential election this fall. Awesome, Hey COVID,

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00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:20,400
Speaker 1: we're slowly but truly getting past it, like we're getting

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Speaker 1: back to normal, and then we get dragged back in.

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Speaker 1: It just doesn't stop. All right, that'll be it for today. Tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: I got a good guest booked. I think you guys

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Speaker 1: are like him a lot. We'll talk to you then