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Speaker 1: Welcome in Welcome Back to Me, episode four thirty three

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Speaker 1: of What's Right with the Great, presented to you by

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Speaker 1: boost Mobile Demons. So I have a bit. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if it's an embarrassing confession, but it's a confession.

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Speaker 1: I thought that I had solved jet lag, and I

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Speaker 1: heard I was like, man, I flew to I flew

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Speaker 1: fifteen hours straight to Japan and landed at five am,

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Speaker 1: like Sunday morning, Japan time. The first day started, My

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Speaker 1: day went out, went, you know, went to bed at

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Speaker 1: a reasonable time that night. I guess it was Saturday morning,

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Speaker 1: whatever doesn matter. And then just had had eight straight

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Speaker 1: normal days in Japan. Wasn't napping during the day. I

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Speaker 1: was like, man, I just slept well enough on the plane.

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Speaker 1: I'm fine. Came back, got back Sunday night, thirteen hour

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Speaker 1: flight back, slept like ten hours on that flight. Then

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Speaker 1: till like five but I had slept ten hours on flight.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, man, I'm fine. It's like, man, all this

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Speaker 1: jet these folks talking about jet lag. Going New York

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Speaker 1: to la we went halfway around the world. I said,

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Speaker 1: I have to say this. I've been up since one

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Speaker 1: in the morning. I am right now just a little.

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Speaker 1: I have no idea how many cups of coffee I've had.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm tired or not. I'm a

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Speaker 1: little discombobulated.

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Speaker 2: And you different type of feeling.

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Speaker 1: That's just stone sleep deprivation. That's what you were going through.

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Speaker 1: This is different and so nothing really challenges you as

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Speaker 1: a professional broadcaster. Then basically being on going on like

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Speaker 1: a thirty hour because I have been up since one.

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Speaker 1: I was watching the Laker game, so I fell asleep

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Speaker 1: for like an hour. So I'm on, like I don't know,

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Speaker 1: I'm something around like thirty straight hours. I'm about to

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Speaker 1: do in the next five hours three hours of just

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Speaker 1: live talking. So we're really gonna see, you know, how

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Speaker 1: sharp I really am. And then after the show tonight,

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Speaker 1: your baby sister has the school musical, so then I

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Speaker 1: have to you know, so I got a lot going on. Well,

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Speaker 1: if I fell asleep during her musical, man, she would

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Speaker 1: never speak to me again. All right, So let's get

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Speaker 1: right to it though, because we have a ton to

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Speaker 1: get to. We have the Laker game, from last night.

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Speaker 1: Durant's kind of odd commentary after last night's game, NCAA

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Speaker 1: tournament stuff, World Baseball classic stuff, and a bunch of

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Speaker 1: topics that happened while I was in Japan that I

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Speaker 1: want to get to here. So before we do any

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Speaker 1: of that, straight to the voicemaw brought to you by

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Speaker 1: our friends at boost Mobile. USA Hockey completes the Hockey

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Speaker 1: Triple Crown, which means Olympic Men, Olympic Women, and the

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Speaker 1: Paralympic sled hockey. So that's pretty sweet. Jason Tatum came

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Speaker 1: back while I was gone, and now the minutes restriction

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Speaker 1: has lessened while since I've been gone, And I think, yeah,

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Speaker 1: my last day before I left on TV, I picked

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Speaker 1: your Celtics Deman's to win the whole damn thing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's very fair at this point. He

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Speaker 2: came back in the perfect time. If everything goes smoothly

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Speaker 2: from here on out, we should win the title.

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Speaker 1: What will you sirt? Listen, I just said I'd picked it.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna now, nugget, but you certainly should be

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Speaker 1: in the finals exactly at this point. It's now if

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Speaker 1: OKC is you know, has really just been hanging out

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Speaker 1: in third gear and it's just a great team with

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Speaker 1: the great title defense. Is no shame in that. If

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Speaker 1: Wimby keeps elevating, there's no But at this point, if

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Speaker 1: you don't make the finals and you can win a championship,

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Speaker 1: and that'd be so great for Tatum. I'd be so

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Speaker 1: happy for him. And also, the Hawks have now won

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Speaker 1: ten in a row. Somehow. I think they started this

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Speaker 1: winning streak in ninth place, and I think ten wins later,

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Speaker 1: they're still in ninth place. But and a lot of

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Speaker 1: those wins came against tankers. Oh no, they moved up

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Speaker 1: to they're now tied for eighth with UH with Philadelphia,

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Speaker 1: and so they're moving up a little bit, trying to

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Speaker 1: let's get to the seven eight line is valuable, all right.

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Speaker 1: a week, all right, tomnse, Let's catch us up on

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Speaker 1: some things.

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Speaker 2: All right, So a lot is transpired since sure Japan trip.

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Speaker 2: First off, we got Bam scoring eighty three against the

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Speaker 2: Wizards and how the media and everybody reacted to.

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Speaker 1: That, so, believe it or not, I saw the fourth

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Speaker 1: But this is just how my brain works. I thought.

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Speaker 1: The the general reaction to a player with as cool

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Speaker 1: unpolarizing as Bam out of Bio scoring eighty three goddog

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Speaker 1: Like if I was maybe on a little more sleep

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Speaker 1: Oscar or Sinners and Michael B. Jordan's performance, comparing it

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Speaker 1: it's eighty three, but when you really think about it.

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Speaker 1: Only seventy six of those points were ethical by my standards.

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Speaker 1: And everybody knows he's not Kobe Bryant. And I mean

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Speaker 1: even though nobody's ever seen the you know, Wilt scoring

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Speaker 1: Somebody scored eighty three points in a basketball game, regulation

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Speaker 1: NBA game. If somebody scored eighty three points in a

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Speaker 1: this shit. I someone's gonna clip this and say I'm

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Speaker 1: making it up, hand to God. The next day after this,

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Speaker 1: I'm walking around one of the fish markets, not one

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Speaker 1: on I'm sure you know, on his phone talking about

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Speaker 1: the NBA and says to me, sorry, I just have

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Speaker 1: to ask BAM's game ethical or unethical, And I'm like, man,

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Speaker 1: sports debate kind of sucks right.

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Speaker 3: Now, Oh, this guy scored eighty three points, and and

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Speaker 3: what it was The immediate conversation was.

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Speaker 1: Was that actually good or not? Guy scored eighty three

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Speaker 1: fucking points in an NBA game? And the immediate not like,

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Speaker 1: all right, we're four days into the Bam at a

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Speaker 1: bio just a just scored the most points anyone has scored,

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Speaker 1: you know, since Vietnam, And and it's like, all right,

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Speaker 1: a sixth layer? The first topic? Should he have tried?

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Speaker 1: This was a topic. Should he have done the NBA

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Speaker 1: walked off the What are we doing?

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Speaker 2: I think I I think I saw Bam telling the

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Speaker 2: complete other direction.

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Speaker 1: I will set the record.

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Speaker 2: I'm not on the unethical side, but I do think

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Speaker 2: and you're like a big basketball historian when you go

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Speaker 2: back in the future, when you go to the future

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Speaker 2: and you look back at this game, it's like, wait,

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Speaker 2: this guy dropped eighty three points. What the hell happened?

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Speaker 2: I mean they played the Wizard.

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Speaker 1: Yes, but that's there. There's There was a famous David

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Speaker 1: for a scoring record game eighty two got to seventy.

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Speaker 1: Will They by the way, in the game when Will

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Speaker 1: got one hundred, they were fouling the other team to

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Speaker 1: So and now listen, Kobe got his eighty one for

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Speaker 1: the most part within the flow of the game, and

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Speaker 1: it was in a comeback. And Kobe a few weeks

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Speaker 2: These sixties, you're mentioning these are like, these are these

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Speaker 2: are legends?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I understand, But Bam scored thirty one in the

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Speaker 3: first quarter.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he had fifty in the first half, he had seven.

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Speaker 1: He was at seventy with like nine minutes left. That

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Speaker 1: was all within the flow. Yeah, it was playing a

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Speaker 1: bad team. Yes, you have to be playing a bad

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Speaker 1: team to score it and right, and it has to

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Speaker 1: be a blowout because if it's a close game, they're

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Speaker 1: gonna force the body, your hands. All those things have

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Speaker 1: to happen. And so I I am not sitting. If

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Speaker 1: someone wants to say I was more impressed by Kobe's

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Speaker 1: eighty one than BAM's eighty three. Sure, fair, totally legitimate opinion.

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Speaker 1: But that wasn't the conversation I saw from half way

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Speaker 1: around the world. It was actually, this was not good. Actually,

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Speaker 1: when you really think about it, he shouldn't have tried

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Speaker 1: to do it. Shut up.

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Speaker 2: Any announces have been salty about it ever since too.

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Speaker 2: I heard it on the broadcast at the end of

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Speaker 2: the game, they're like, oh, maybe we should go for fifty.

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Speaker 1: I mean, bam Adebayo. We can play the NBA for

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Speaker 1: eighty years, there have been a totally different eras, totally

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Speaker 1: different styles, rule changes, everything. One person has ever scored

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Speaker 1: more points in a game than Bamadabayo. That's cool, And

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Speaker 1: I maybe if he was like a guy that people

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Speaker 1: really was, like a very controversial figure like the.

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Speaker 2: Peak, like if Draymond dropped three five six years ago.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I wasn't even I was thinking like controversial in

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Now we've never we've never really seen Waddle as you know,

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Speaker 2: Like that.

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Speaker 1: Fair is fair. That's a good trade for Denver. I

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Speaker 1: So listen, Denver trades the thirtieth pick of the draft

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Speaker 1: I like that for bon Nicks, and I like Miami

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Speaker 1: Malik Willis. Oh yeah, yeah, I keep forgetting that they

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Speaker 1: So they're gonna they're gonna run into next year with

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Speaker 1: well in Malik Washington. That's not great for Malik Willis,

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Speaker 1: a disaster. But okay, so the Dolphins Dolphins. Now, So

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Speaker 1: I No, I don't know. I think he I don't

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Speaker 2: ago that you gave up on the Los Angeles as

645
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Speaker 2: a contender. They now sit in the three seat. Have

646
00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:49,960
Speaker 2: you changed your tune on that at all?

647
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:57,280
Speaker 1: Well, yes and no. So here's here's what I think.

648
00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:04,760
Speaker 1: I think. I think that it is unrealistic to think

649
00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:13,360
Speaker 1: this Lakers team, with its pretty obvious roster construction, flaws

650
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:20,960
Speaker 1: and limitations defensively, is going to win four consecutive rounds

651
00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:25,719
Speaker 1: in the playoffs and that's how you win a championship.

652
00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:33,560
Speaker 1: But I also think demons right now, it's pretty unrealistic

653
00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:41,319
Speaker 1: to think anyone other than three teams max can win

654
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:46,320
Speaker 1: four straight rounds. And it's really two teams, right because

655
00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:53,040
Speaker 1: Oklahoma City can win four straight rounds, Boston can win

656
00:44:53,120 --> 00:45:00,440
Speaker 1: four straight rounds, and I guess San Antonio can, but

657
00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:04,640
Speaker 1: they would they are bucking all of NBA history. Yeah,

658
00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:10,680
Speaker 1: that they can have no playoff experience at all, none

659
00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:16,240
Speaker 1: at all and then win the title their first year playing.

660
00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:23,040
Speaker 1: But so here is here is where I am at

661
00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:28,200
Speaker 1: on the Lakers as contenders go. If you believe there

662
00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:35,480
Speaker 1: are only three contenders Thunder, Celtic Spurs, then by that metric,

663
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:39,440
Speaker 1: then the Lakers are not a contender totally fair. But

664
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Speaker 1: if you are including literally any other team in the league,

665
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:47,879
Speaker 1: you must include the Lakers. If you think that. If

666
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:50,120
Speaker 1: you think the Knicks can win the title, then the

667
00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:53,400
Speaker 1: Lakers can. If you think the Nuggets can win the title,

668
00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:56,400
Speaker 1: then the Lakers can. If you think the Timberwolves can

669
00:45:56,400 --> 00:46:00,640
Speaker 1: win the title, then the Lakers can. And here is

670
00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:05,200
Speaker 1: the other interesting thing. And tomorrow night's Lakers game Sneaky

671
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:11,879
Speaker 1: is just a massive game because they have the tiebreaker

672
00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:15,560
Speaker 1: with the Nuggets. Already, they finish the same record as

673
00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:18,560
Speaker 1: the Nuggets. They get the higher seed. They have the

674
00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:21,759
Speaker 1: tiebreaker with the Timberwolves already, they finished with the same

675
00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:25,560
Speaker 1: record as the Timberwolves. They get the higher seed. They

676
00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:28,200
Speaker 1: have played the Rockets twice, they beat them last night.

677
00:46:29,080 --> 00:46:32,399
Speaker 1: They are one and one against the Rockets. They play

678
00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:35,640
Speaker 1: them for the final time of the year tomorrow. So

679
00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:41,239
Speaker 1: if they win tomorrow, they then have the tiebreaker with

680
00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:45,520
Speaker 1: every team that is fighting for the three seed. Right.

681
00:46:47,360 --> 00:46:51,120
Speaker 1: You then add this to the math a bit. The

682
00:46:51,200 --> 00:47:02,600
Speaker 1: Lakers have five games left against Tankers, Pacers, Wizards, Nets, Jazz, MAVs.

683
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:08,480
Speaker 1: That's five wins. You can't lose those games. It's not like, oh,

684
00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:11,440
Speaker 1: they might sneak up and beat you. If those teams

685
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:14,680
Speaker 1: are like sneaking up and beating you, their coaches just

686
00:47:14,840 --> 00:47:19,040
Speaker 1: bench their good players. They want to lose. So the

687
00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:26,240
Speaker 1: Lakers are not actually sitting at right now at forty

688
00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:29,440
Speaker 1: three and twenty five. In my head they're forty or

689
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:32,160
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, forty yeah, forty three and twenty five. They're

690
00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:37,560
Speaker 1: forty eight and twenty five. So in their their there

691
00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:42,239
Speaker 1: are other nine games. There are games against non tankers.

692
00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:46,879
Speaker 1: Here's what they've got the Rockets tomorrow, as I said,

693
00:47:47,480 --> 00:47:50,600
Speaker 1: then in Miami on a back to back, that's probably

694
00:47:50,640 --> 00:47:57,640
Speaker 1: a loss, in Orlando, in Detroit, and then just this

695
00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:04,000
Speaker 1: what a great three game set Indiana, Brooklyn, Washington good

696
00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:08,840
Speaker 1: shape there, Home for Cleveland at OKAC at Dallas. That

697
00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:11,839
Speaker 1: was one of the games I said, Home Okac at

698
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:16,440
Speaker 1: Golden State, which without Steph they might as well be

699
00:48:16,520 --> 00:48:19,120
Speaker 1: a tanker. Now he could be back by then home

700
00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:21,239
Speaker 1: for Phoenix, home for Utah at the end of the year.

701
00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:25,520
Speaker 1: So if we're giving them the five wins against the tankers,

702
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:34,799
Speaker 1: if they can just go four and five against those

703
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:40,480
Speaker 1: other teams, that would put them at fifty two wins,

704
00:48:41,080 --> 00:48:45,120
Speaker 1: which should be enough for the three seed and the

705
00:48:45,239 --> 00:48:52,040
Speaker 1: three seeds. Interesting because it sets up potentially around two

706
00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:57,320
Speaker 1: against the Spurs and it's all the playoff experience in

707
00:48:57,360 --> 00:49:00,239
Speaker 1: the world against none of the playoff experience in the world. World,

708
00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:06,239
Speaker 1: it's Luca and Wimby. That is a fun one. And

709
00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:09,240
Speaker 1: so again, I don't think the Lakers can win the title,

710
00:49:10,680 --> 00:49:15,959
Speaker 1: but I really only think two teams. I guess three

711
00:49:16,120 --> 00:49:20,959
Speaker 1: can win the title. But I if we're gonna act

712
00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:24,040
Speaker 1: like the Nuggets are real contenders, or the Timbrelves or

713
00:49:24,040 --> 00:49:26,239
Speaker 1: the Knicks of the Cavs. And I'm not trying to

714
00:49:26,680 --> 00:49:29,000
Speaker 1: disrespect the Pistons. They've had a hell of a year.

715
00:49:29,040 --> 00:49:31,840
Speaker 1: I don't think they can win four rounds. But those teams,

716
00:49:32,200 --> 00:49:34,799
Speaker 1: then the Lakers have to be included in that. All right,

717
00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:35,839
Speaker 1: what else do you have here?

718
00:49:36,680 --> 00:49:39,640
Speaker 2: How do you feel about Lebron setting settling into his

719
00:49:39,840 --> 00:49:41,919
Speaker 2: role as like kind of the third guy at this point?

720
00:49:44,760 --> 00:49:47,600
Speaker 1: Well, it's what's right now. It's what's best for the Lakers.

721
00:49:53,600 --> 00:49:57,520
Speaker 1: If Austin Reeves is not your either primary or secondary

722
00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:01,760
Speaker 1: ball handler or scorer, he doesn't have that much utility.

723
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:06,920
Speaker 1: If but Lebron being able all of a sudden to

724
00:50:07,040 --> 00:50:12,120
Speaker 1: deploy his energy instead of getting shots up on defense

725
00:50:12,239 --> 00:50:15,920
Speaker 1: and doing other things, because Luke, I mean the story, really,

726
00:50:16,400 --> 00:50:18,440
Speaker 1: I don't want to miss the forest for the trees here.

727
00:50:18,920 --> 00:50:24,400
Speaker 1: Lucas playing out of his gosh darn mind, and you know, everybody,

728
00:50:24,640 --> 00:50:26,840
Speaker 1: Luca was kind of the league's whipping boy for a

729
00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:29,560
Speaker 1: few weeks there, and then he reminded everyone, Hey, guys,

730
00:50:31,680 --> 00:50:37,719
Speaker 1: how about this demonse. The last three three full seasons

731
00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:41,360
Speaker 1: that Luca has played where he was not traded in

732
00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:45,680
Speaker 1: the middle, so three years ago, two years ago, in

733
00:50:45,760 --> 00:50:52,520
Speaker 1: this year, his averages over those three years averages thirty

734
00:50:52,560 --> 00:50:55,840
Speaker 1: three points, nine rebounds, nine assists. That's what he averages.

735
00:50:57,040 --> 00:51:01,160
Speaker 1: He's gonna win the scoring title this year. He is

736
00:51:01,160 --> 00:51:04,960
Speaker 1: scoring thirty three game and people just beating him up

737
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:09,480
Speaker 1: for weeks. He's been playing great, Austin's been playing really well,

738
00:51:09,960 --> 00:51:14,440
Speaker 1: and Lebron is getting in where he fits in, and

739
00:51:14,600 --> 00:51:18,440
Speaker 1: that plus Marcus Smart giving him a defensive stability, has

740
00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:19,880
Speaker 1: made him an interesting team.

741
00:51:20,719 --> 00:51:24,200
Speaker 2: Sea and Luca Reddick's sidelined a Bottles, things have been

742
00:51:24,239 --> 00:51:24,880
Speaker 2: pretty smooth.

743
00:51:25,120 --> 00:51:30,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I also think Lebron missing those couple games

744
00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:35,319
Speaker 1: with injury and Luke and Austin really getting it going

745
00:51:35,560 --> 00:51:37,480
Speaker 1: and then Lebron coming in and kind of playing a

746
00:51:37,480 --> 00:51:41,839
Speaker 1: different role has been good for them. And I think

747
00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:48,480
Speaker 1: he listened. I I don't think Lebron's gonna be on

748
00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:50,759
Speaker 1: the Lakers next year, and I think whatever team he's on,

749
00:51:50,920 --> 00:51:53,920
Speaker 1: he's gonna have more of a scoring role again, and

750
00:51:54,160 --> 00:51:56,800
Speaker 1: he'll remind people that he can still do it. But

751
00:51:56,920 --> 00:52:02,080
Speaker 1: it's just such an advantage if Lebron scoring twenty five

752
00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:04,279
Speaker 1: as a bonus rather than a necessity.

753
00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:05,239
Speaker 2: Yeap, And.

754
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:09,759
Speaker 1: You know, and I think he's he's into it, man,

755
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:16,320
Speaker 1: he's I mean, not a Lebron run. I mean, people,

756
00:52:16,640 --> 00:52:20,040
Speaker 1: the Lebron playoff runs were it was just he would

757
00:52:20,080 --> 00:52:25,160
Speaker 1: go three literally he would have one bad playoff game

758
00:52:25,320 --> 00:52:30,480
Speaker 1: every three years. Like that's not gonna like that's not there.

759
00:52:30,560 --> 00:52:34,840
Speaker 1: But I do think he can cause problems, and I

760
00:52:34,960 --> 00:52:39,000
Speaker 1: think that. I'm just very curious how all those guys

761
00:52:39,080 --> 00:52:43,680
Speaker 1: on the Spurs, if that's a round two matchup handle

762
00:52:44,640 --> 00:52:47,560
Speaker 1: Lebron James standing across the court from him plus Luca

763
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:51,960
Speaker 1: all right, Uh, all right, I know that You've got

764
00:52:52,040 --> 00:52:52,399
Speaker 1: more here.

765
00:52:53,160 --> 00:53:02,800
Speaker 2: Any thoughts on Barkley's latest comments on the Lakers. I

766
00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:04,880
Speaker 2: want to be.

767
00:53:08,640 --> 00:53:16,160
Speaker 1: Careful with what I say here because the single best

768
00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:23,680
Speaker 1: compliment that First Things First Ever gets is when people

769
00:53:23,880 --> 00:53:28,000
Speaker 1: say the show reminds them of inside the NBA. And

770
00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:30,200
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna act like we get that compliment a lot,

771
00:53:30,360 --> 00:53:33,440
Speaker 1: but we've gotten it. And the reason that is such

772
00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:38,440
Speaker 1: a great compliment is because that's one of, if not

773
00:53:38,760 --> 00:53:42,480
Speaker 1: the it might be the greatest sports TV show ever

774
00:53:43,120 --> 00:53:53,000
Speaker 1: inside the NBA. It really might be. With that said,

775
00:53:56,520 --> 00:54:00,719
Speaker 1: I wish this year it felt like they enjoyed basketball

776
00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:06,800
Speaker 1: more than it feels like and I mean they that

777
00:54:07,200 --> 00:54:13,600
Speaker 1: the that Lakers Nuggets. Before the game, Chuck sang like,

778
00:54:15,120 --> 00:54:17,680
Speaker 1: I hope the Lakers lose because I can't, you know,

779
00:54:17,760 --> 00:54:21,880
Speaker 1: because he was preemptively angry at talk shows that were

780
00:54:21,920 --> 00:54:24,400
Speaker 1: gonna take the Lakers seriously, like, well, if they're the

781
00:54:24,480 --> 00:54:27,640
Speaker 1: three seed and what's considered the tougher content the conference,

782
00:54:28,200 --> 00:54:31,920
Speaker 1: are people allowed to take them a little seriously? And

783
00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:36,040
Speaker 1: then after the game when they win with Austin making

784
00:54:36,120 --> 00:54:39,160
Speaker 1: that unbelievable play and then Luca hitting the game winner

785
00:54:39,680 --> 00:54:45,279
Speaker 1: and Shack saying good teams don't need that, like what

786
00:54:45,400 --> 00:54:48,320
Speaker 1: are we doing? Like that was one of the best

787
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:53,080
Speaker 1: games of the year. Everybody was playing, nobody was sitting.

788
00:54:53,360 --> 00:54:58,879
Speaker 1: It went to overtime, tied the game, and then Luca

789
00:54:59,000 --> 00:54:59,799
Speaker 1: hit a buzzer beater.

790
00:55:00,200 --> 00:55:02,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, and like I just.

791
00:55:04,600 --> 00:55:08,279
Speaker 1: You you watch the World Baseball Classic and that's it.

792
00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:10,640
Speaker 1: You know, it's not an exhibition, but it's not the Olympics,

793
00:55:10,719 --> 00:55:13,000
Speaker 1: like it's a you know, a created thing. And I'm

794
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:15,920
Speaker 1: going to talk more about that in a second. And

795
00:55:16,120 --> 00:55:19,239
Speaker 1: everyone involved in the broadcast is so excited about it

796
00:55:19,320 --> 00:55:22,520
Speaker 1: and so happy about it, and I just wish there

797
00:55:22,680 --> 00:55:27,160
Speaker 1: was more of that from my favorite sports show ever.

798
00:55:28,560 --> 00:55:31,600
Speaker 1: And so I'm not I'm not talking shit, and I

799
00:55:31,680 --> 00:55:35,200
Speaker 1: don't want this like we won't clip this and send

800
00:55:35,280 --> 00:55:39,680
Speaker 1: this out, but you know it could be I'm saying,

801
00:55:39,760 --> 00:55:41,520
Speaker 1: and I will stand by what I'm saying. I would

802
00:55:41,600 --> 00:55:45,080
Speaker 1: like it to be put in full context. But it's

803
00:55:45,239 --> 00:55:49,480
Speaker 1: just a bummer when it seems like some of your

804
00:55:49,640 --> 00:55:52,920
Speaker 1: favorite people to watch don't like what they're watching.

805
00:55:54,719 --> 00:55:59,920
Speaker 2: And do you think I I saw a Yokics talk

806
00:56:00,120 --> 00:56:04,640
Speaker 2: about jealousy and stuff with like the the next NBA players.

807
00:56:04,680 --> 00:56:06,960
Speaker 2: Do you think that, like with social media and stuff,

808
00:56:07,040 --> 00:56:10,880
Speaker 2: stuff is so televised that like maybe people.

809
00:56:13,600 --> 00:56:17,800
Speaker 1: Yeah it is. You do see more from the NBA

810
00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:23,520
Speaker 1: than any other sport of the guys just talking about

811
00:56:23,560 --> 00:56:28,239
Speaker 1: how their era was the better era, Like you don't

812
00:56:28,280 --> 00:56:31,880
Speaker 1: see Terry Bradshawn Howie Long on the Fox NFL pregame

813
00:56:31,960 --> 00:56:33,840
Speaker 1: being like, none of these guys could cut it in

814
00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:36,600
Speaker 1: the seventies or eighties. It's not what it is. It's

815
00:56:36,640 --> 00:56:41,480
Speaker 1: not it's a celebration of the games. All right, let's

816
00:56:41,480 --> 00:56:42,960
Speaker 1: talk rockets just for a second.

817
00:56:43,440 --> 00:56:46,719
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, what did you think of Durant's comments after

818
00:56:46,840 --> 00:56:47,200
Speaker 2: the game?

819
00:56:48,480 --> 00:56:54,040
Speaker 1: Do you think if we didn't so listen he if

820
00:56:54,080 --> 00:56:56,359
Speaker 1: we had more time, we could probably do an hour

821
00:56:56,480 --> 00:56:58,719
Speaker 1: on this. It's really so at the beginning he's like, yeah,

822
00:56:58,760 --> 00:57:01,920
Speaker 1: maybe I just need to stand in the corner, uh

823
00:57:02,560 --> 00:57:05,759
Speaker 1: and you know do and that that would be better

824
00:57:05,800 --> 00:57:08,120
Speaker 1: for the offense. And then he was like, no, it's

825
00:57:08,160 --> 00:57:12,279
Speaker 1: all on me. I am the offense. That's the problems.

826
00:57:13,120 --> 00:57:15,040
Speaker 1: Press conference worth saying again.

827
00:57:14,880 --> 00:57:16,800
Speaker 2: To Manse that's I mean, I feel like that's the problem.

828
00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:19,080
Speaker 2: They're a little bit too dependent on Katie for offense.

829
00:57:20,160 --> 00:57:21,520
Speaker 1: And Shingoon wasn't playing.

830
00:57:21,280 --> 00:57:24,520
Speaker 2: With wasn't in the game. That's fair, but he is there.

831
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Speaker 1: They are still very dependent on Kevin Durant counterpoint, that's

832
00:57:28,680 --> 00:57:31,560
Speaker 1: why they traded for him. Yes, when great scores. Ever,

833
00:57:35,160 --> 00:57:39,880
Speaker 1: Katie needs this to work. Man I don't. I'm not

834
00:57:39,960 --> 00:57:43,840
Speaker 1: saying he needs to win a title there, even though

835
00:57:43,920 --> 00:57:46,040
Speaker 1: going into the year I thought I might pick them

836
00:57:46,080 --> 00:57:48,400
Speaker 1: to win the title. Now the Van Vliet injury heard

837
00:57:48,480 --> 00:57:51,200
Speaker 1: him and then the Steven Adams injury might have killed him.

838
00:57:52,240 --> 00:58:00,720
Speaker 1: But Katie can't go out and round one again. And

839
00:58:00,840 --> 00:58:08,720
Speaker 1: that's what they're staring at like such a I've talked

840
00:58:08,760 --> 00:58:11,680
Speaker 1: about this before, so I don't want to labor it,

841
00:58:12,400 --> 00:58:15,520
Speaker 1: but it does look like we're looking at another year

842
00:58:16,800 --> 00:58:23,840
Speaker 1: of You know, Kevin Durant not wasted, is great player,

843
00:58:24,120 --> 00:58:26,960
Speaker 1: great player, one of the greatest scorers ever, one of

844
00:58:27,040 --> 00:58:31,240
Speaker 1: the twenty greatest players of all time. But this is

845
00:58:31,320 --> 00:58:36,720
Speaker 1: where I just remind people. Kevin Durant age twenty two

846
00:58:37,200 --> 00:58:40,480
Speaker 1: in the conference finals, Kevin Durant age twenty three in

847
00:58:40,600 --> 00:58:47,440
Speaker 1: the NBA Finals, Kevin durant age twenty five in the

848
00:58:47,600 --> 00:58:52,280
Speaker 1: conference finals, Kevin Durant age twenty seven in the Conference finals,

849
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Speaker 1: Kevin Durant age twenty eight in the NBA Finals, Champion,

850
00:58:58,000 --> 00:59:02,040
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant age twenty nine in the NBA Finals. Champion

851
00:59:02,400 --> 00:59:06,160
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant age thirty in the NBA Finals, gets hurt

852
00:59:07,160 --> 00:59:16,560
Speaker 1: leaves Golden State, so age twenty three to thirty's. He

853
00:59:16,760 --> 00:59:26,000
Speaker 1: plays in four NBA finals and six conference finals right

854
00:59:27,320 --> 00:59:30,880
Speaker 1: twenty three to thirty every year that he's not injured,

855
00:59:31,240 --> 00:59:37,200
Speaker 1: basically they're in the conference finals or further. Kevin duran

856
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Speaker 1: Age thirty one misses the season with injury. Kevin duran

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Speaker 1: Age thirty two the Foot on the Line Series Round

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Speaker 1: round one. Kevin durant Age thirty four loses in round two.

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Speaker 1: Kevin durant eight, age thirty five swept in round one.

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Speaker 1: Kevin durant Age thirty six misses the playoffs. Kevin durant

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Speaker 1: age thirty seven. Right now, man to live in the

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Speaker 2: And then to be.

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Speaker 1: The entire this entire decade play seven thirteen total playoff

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Speaker 1: games post round one. That's rough man, And like last

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Speaker 1: night was a tough game for him, and he didn't

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Speaker 1: look good, and it just doesn't seem like it's gonna

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Speaker 2: You think all that burner stuff, all that stuff that

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Speaker 1: It certainly didn't help team chemistry. Yeah, I mean that's

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Speaker 1: KD just a weird one of the weirdest careers ever.

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Speaker 1: All Right, I want to talk a little World Baseball

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Speaker 1: Classic before we go, But real quick, you ever notice

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Speaker 1: All right, I just want to say one thing about

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Speaker 1: the World Baseball Classic, which is really just a life

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Speaker 1: lesson started the show with kind of something you know,

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Speaker 1: not necessarily profound, but profound, ad Jason, I'll try to

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Speaker 1: end it with it as well, because I did go

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Speaker 1: to a World Baseball Classic game in Tokyo. It's unbelievable

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Speaker 1: to Tokyo, don't. I've also been super invested because I

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Speaker 1: am like legit friends with Vinnie Pasquentino, and he was

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Speaker 1: like one of these stories of the tournament. I really

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Speaker 1: thought Italy was gonna set up an unbelievable championship game

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Speaker 1: against the US. They lost to Venezuela last night. But

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Speaker 1: there's also been royals all over the tournament. Bobby Witt

902
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Speaker 1: might be tournament MVP. The MIKEL Garcia and Salvi Perez

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Speaker 1: played for the championship tonight. Passmentino and Jack cagleone we're

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Speaker 1: playing for Italy, like, it's awesome for my team. But

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Speaker 1: the World Baseball Classic has been around since two thousand

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Speaker 1: and six? Is that right? I think that's right. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna check to make sure two thousand and five is

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Speaker 1: when it started, and demand say, have you ever heard

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna this is I'm not quizzing you. This is

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Speaker 1: kind of and I might even be getting this wrong.

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Speaker 1: Do you know the answer to this question? When is

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Speaker 1: the best time to plant a tree?

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Speaker 2: It's like a It's like a I do think that

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Speaker 2: I've heard that the best time to plant a tree

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Speaker 2: is the best.

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Speaker 1: Time to plant a tree is last year. Do you

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Speaker 1: know the second best meaning, the best time to plant

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Speaker 1: a tree is in the past because it takes so

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Speaker 1: long to you know, for you to for it to

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Speaker 1: pay dividends. Do you know the second best time to

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Speaker 1: plant a tree today?

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Speaker 2: Okay?

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Speaker 3: Me?

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Speaker 2: Right now?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right now, exactly, that's correct.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 1: That's the story of the World Baseball Classic, which is

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Speaker 1: creating trying to create a tradition pays no dividends immediately,

929
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Speaker 1: and in fact, you might take get mocked for it

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Speaker 1: is a little first cousin of the NBA in season tournament.

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Speaker 1: That's just why are we doing it? Who cares?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. In twenty years it might matter, and

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Speaker 1: it is it is hard like And the reason the

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Speaker 1: tree thing is so relevant to this is there is

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Speaker 1: and I think I've actually told talked about this. I

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Speaker 1: read that I read a book once that had a

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Speaker 1: whole long part of the book that not a study,

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Speaker 1: but talked about this phenomenon, if you will, and it

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Speaker 1: really resonated with me, which is there is almost no

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Speaker 1: better uh indicate how this is now all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: you guys can see I've been.

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Speaker 2: Up for thirty hours.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there is no better return on taxpayer money than trees.

945
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Speaker 1: Like cities and towns with trees, there is literally less pollution,

946
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Speaker 1: the air is cleaner, property values go up, crime goes down.

947
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Speaker 1: There's like they're incredibly inexpensive to play, you know, to

948
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Speaker 1: create all of these things. So why aren't there trees everywhere?

949
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Speaker 1: And the answer is because again short version, no politician

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Speaker 1: wants to Like, it's hard to run on or get

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Speaker 1: put real energy behind something. By the time it pays No,

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Speaker 1: by the time it pays dividends, you're.

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Speaker 2: Out of all gone. Yeah, exactly right, Yeah, this is

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Speaker 2: gonna be awesome.

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Speaker 1: Right, there's gonna be awesome ten years from now. Like, well,

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Speaker 1: that doesn't help me at all. And that is a

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Speaker 1: huge problem across in everything and demons. As you start

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Speaker 1: a family and have a like you know, your beautiful

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Speaker 1: baby girl, like the reminder of like create it is

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Speaker 1: the first time you create a tradition, it's just something

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Speaker 1: you did, and then it's just like no, this is

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Speaker 1: you know the the no, this is what we do.

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Speaker 1: I don't even remember when our family when I decided

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Speaker 1: on a Look, the picture on New Year's is a

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Speaker 1: good one. I was gonna say, Christmas dinner going out

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Speaker 1: to as a group when we're all together. We just

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Speaker 1: did it one year, and then I think your sister,

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Speaker 1: your younger sister, not your youngest sister. The next years,

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Speaker 1: that are we doing it again? And now it's just

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Speaker 1: a thing we do. And now I do think that

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Speaker 1: like that'll be something that you know, the generations that

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Speaker 1: follow like, oh, that's that's something our family does. And

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Speaker 1: so I am rambling a bit here. But the reason

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Speaker 1: I say all this is I think the World Baseball

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Speaker 1: Classic has been awesome and I now like look forward

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Speaker 1: to the next one. And I don't know when or

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Speaker 1: why or how that happened, but credit to baseball for

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Speaker 1: do you know, wanting to do something like that and

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Speaker 1: not caring that it maybe has taken twenty years for

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Speaker 1: it to really catch on, but it has caught on.

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Speaker 1: And I think it's been awesome and I've been and

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Speaker 1: is it's gonna be a great launching pad for this

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Speaker 1: upcoming baseball season because I think people are, you know,

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Speaker 1: now all of a sudden excited for the start of

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Speaker 1: the season, all right, with that said, I promise should

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Speaker 1: try to, you know, catch twenty minutes a sleep before

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Speaker 1: I go to three hours of TV. We will get

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Speaker 1: will save some of the listener questions for Thursday show

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Speaker 1: in for our mailbag episode. Apologies if we didn't get

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