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Speaker 1: Welcome in What's driving Nick Great? Episode three eleven, including

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Speaker 1: on today's show for new viewers, the Glorious Return, and

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Speaker 1: you know what I'm gonna We're gonna have a little

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Speaker 1: Nick Great story time, the origin story, the true origin

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Speaker 1: story of the F one minute with Sierra Fidel and

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Speaker 1: the glorious return from a brand new studio. So that

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Speaker 1: coming later in the show. And this year, unlike last year,

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Speaker 1: we as a we're gonna actually cover F one. It's

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Speaker 1: it's the listen. It has just enough qualities of a

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Speaker 1: open to actually getting into it. You know what I've

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Speaker 1: grown to like demons over the last few years, and

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Speaker 1: that you're gonna laugh at me. Opulent wealth, opulent displays

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Speaker 1: of wealth where it's just like crazy rich people flaunting

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Speaker 1: the Monaco Grand Prix, here's the super yachts, the all

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Speaker 1: of it. And one little spoiler before we get to

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Speaker 1: the meat of the show and last night's basketball, I really,

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Speaker 1: without asking anyone for permission, this is one of the

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Speaker 1: bright sides I suppose of owning the podcast. Now, Sierra

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Speaker 1: our F one correspondent filled out a credential request for

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Speaker 1: the Miami Grand Prix to be our on the ground

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Speaker 1: F one correspondent for the Miami Grand Prix. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: now it might get denied. I'm not certain. They asked

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Speaker 1: for like, you know, business letterhead and how many viewers

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Speaker 1: we have and things. They're like, you need at least

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Speaker 1: that number and so and so. Yeah, so hopefully you

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Speaker 1: know we're expanding. It asked where our business was located,

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Speaker 1: and I'm like, well, best I can tell, it's located

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Speaker 1: than New York, LA and Miami. We have people everywhere.

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Speaker 1: We're try Corystal at this point right boots on the ground.

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Speaker 1: So that coming later in today's show. Here is what

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Speaker 1: is not going to be in today's show, but kind

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Speaker 1: of in today's show because I'm saying it's on today's show.

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Speaker 1: Cavs winning streak ends at sixteen. Multiple fifteen game winning

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Speaker 1: streaks for them, Though wildly impressive baseball season officially underway

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Speaker 1: as of this morning show. He Otani and the Dodgers

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Speaker 1: won a baseball game that counted in Tokyo this morning,

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Speaker 1: and the producers are you know this is they're twisting

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Speaker 1: my arm, and so I will start the show with

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Speaker 1: this my annual March Madness bracket rant, which is very simple.

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Speaker 1: Fill out as many brackets as you'd like, enter as

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Speaker 1: many contests as you'd like. Have a mascot bracket, have

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Speaker 1: a best looking head coach bracket, Have a who would

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Speaker 1: win in a fight bracket? I have a coolest sororities bracket,

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Speaker 1: have a favorites bracket, of an underdog's bracket. Do whatever

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Speaker 1: the hell you want, but understand the rules, and the

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Speaker 1: rules are simple. If you fill out more than one bracket,

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying if you enter more than one contest,

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Speaker 1: but if you have for the sixty four tournament games,

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, sixty three tournament games, anything other than the

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Speaker 1: exact sixty three winners of those games. If you have

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Speaker 1: any variation of your original bracket, you're never allowed to

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Speaker 1: say the following words. I picked that upset, I have

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Speaker 1: that team in the final four. No, these are just

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Speaker 1: the rules. I understand that our society is fraying day

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Speaker 1: by day and that established norms are going by away side. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: you know what, I don't even really you know, I

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Speaker 1: have varying opinions on participation trophies. My buddy Laslo used

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Speaker 1: to say, adults get them all the time. It's called

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Speaker 1: your weekly paycheck. You think you were the best at

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Speaker 1: your job this week. No, you just showed up. You

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Speaker 1: That's not what I mean. I'm just talking about. We

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Speaker 1: I'm all for bragging about picking a sweet upset, and

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Speaker 1: being like, no, they were the lower seeded team. I'm

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Speaker 1: not a gambler. Fine, all, that's fine. What I am

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Speaker 1: not okay with is folks who fill out six different

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Speaker 2: Yeahs, toy, do you do you think that the Lakers

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Speaker 2: have navigated Lebron's absence the best they possibly could and

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Speaker 1: Yeah? So, but he's day to day now and he

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Speaker 1: as is quite often the case when it comes to Again,

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Speaker 1: March twenty seventh. It now appears might that my updated

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Speaker 1: March twenty seventh, maybe a few days earlier, thankfully for

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Speaker 1: March twenty ninth, which is the game against the Grizzlies.

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Speaker 1: Now went as far as them navigating it. When I

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Speaker 1: But that and that Brooklyn game was, you know, a

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Speaker 1: highly problematic loss, especially because Luca did play, and so

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Speaker 1: and I will take it a step further. What Austin

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Speaker 1: None of them are red hot now. The Rockets have

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Speaker 1: The Warriors given the loss last night to a Nuggets

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Speaker 1: they've been fine. We are seeing how important it is

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Speaker 1: oh man, is Austin Reeves a hell of an asset

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Speaker 1: and a hell of a player, And I understand the

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Speaker 1: internet on my behalf this week, you know, took a

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Speaker 1: They called me a madman? Guys, here's one of the

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Speaker 1: benefits of watching basketball. You know more than people who don't,

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Speaker 1: he doesn't really fit within that team needed strong point

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Speaker 1: has made it really clear he could be a second

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Speaker 1: And here is my real question about what. Because Lebron

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Speaker 1: how Luca is playing, but how Austin is playing as

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Speaker 1: before they got Luca. I do wonder if when Lebron

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Speaker 2: You going to say, Well, here's we're of You're almost

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Speaker 1: I was going to say a lot more reps as

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Speaker 1: and the NBA has changed so that role now kind

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Speaker 1: of is out on the wing, not in the low post.

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Speaker 1: be a scorer, defender, and rebounder and not so much

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Speaker 1: his hands, and Austin's been so good, and so the Lakers.

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Speaker 1: I thought the best loss of the NBA season was

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Speaker 1: the Lakers, clearly, I thought, you know, from their own play,

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Speaker 1: last night, and now they're gonna get Lebron back in

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Speaker 1: the next ten days at the latest, and the stretch

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so it would be.

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Speaker 1: I've never in my life watching the NBA, I've never

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Speaker 1: seen a team have to forfeit games because they didn't

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Speaker 1: have eligible players. It would be kind of the crowning

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Speaker 1: achievement of what has been six weeks of just a

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Speaker 1: fever dream of terror for MAVs fans, starting with the

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Speaker 1: Luca trade, then the added pain of Ad getting hurt,

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Speaker 1: then the real pain of Kyrie blowing out his knee,

436
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Speaker 1: then the like, oh, you've got to be kidding me.

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Speaker 1: Quinton Grimes all of a sudden is a star player

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Speaker 1: in this league. We gave him away for Aleb Martin

439
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Speaker 1: for no reason whatsoever, and now we're gonna have to

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Speaker 1: maybe forfeit games. Unprecedented, just unpressed in it. But flip

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Speaker 1: side of that is AD's ramping up and they might

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Speaker 1: make the playoffs or the play in over the damn Suns,

443
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Speaker 1: who desperately want to win and are incredibly healthy. So

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Speaker 1: let's talk Suns here.

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Speaker 2: So since the start of February, they are seven and fifteen,

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Speaker 2: and like you just said, they have no injuries.

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Speaker 3: So it's kind of weird whatever's going on over there.

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Speaker 2: Their preseason projected win total was set at forty six

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Speaker 2: and a half games, and it seemed like they might

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Speaker 2: miss the play in. Do you think that the do

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Speaker 2: you think the Sons are going to try to actually

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Speaker 2: go on a run or are they going to tank here?

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Speaker 1: Well, the coach and the owner want them to go

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Speaker 1: on a run. I think the players might be over Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Every term I see him just seems more and more

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Speaker 2: pissed these days.

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Speaker 1: He see Yeah, Katie doesn't seem happy. Coach Bud told

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Speaker 1: Devin Booker basically to shut up the other day. That

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Speaker 1: didn't go over well. I mean, they are not trying

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Speaker 1: at all. On the defensive end, Luca was miked up

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Speaker 1: against the Suns, and Luca just said, kind of in passing,

462
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Speaker 1: I've never had so many open looks in my life.

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Speaker 1: Luka have been playing professional basketball since he's fifteen. He's

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Speaker 1: like the worst defense I've ever seen. And Lebron wasn't

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Speaker 1: even out there to open stuff up and so uh.

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Speaker 1: But the Suns, I don't know that this is a

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Speaker 1: hot take. The Suns are in the worst position moving

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Speaker 1: forward of any team in the league because Mattishpia came

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Speaker 1: in and bought the team and traded away everything for

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Speaker 1: Kevin Durant and then traded away everything they had left

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Speaker 1: for Bradley bial Bial has a no trade and is

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Speaker 1: not good. Durant is approaching thirty seven and not going

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Speaker 1: to get you a ton in return, and is gone

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Speaker 1: this summer. And then you have Devin Booker, who's a

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Speaker 1: real asset. But it doesn't really make sense to trade

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Speaker 1: Booker because you would then be tanking, and you don't demanse.

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Speaker 1: They do not have their own pick until twenty thirty two.

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Speaker 1: Twenty thirty two, it's twenty twenty five, so they they

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Speaker 1: traded their picks away, and then they swapped picks, and

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Speaker 1: then as part of the Beal trade, they swapped the swaps.

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Speaker 1: This is like a mortgage crisis, but in the NBA.

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Speaker 1: So they over the next seven drafts, they either simply

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Speaker 1: give their pick away or they are in a three

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Speaker 1: way swap with other teams where of the three teams

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Speaker 1: they get the worst draft pick, so even if they're

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Speaker 1: the worst team in the league, that doesn't help them.

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Speaker 1: And they traded away most of their second round picks,

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Speaker 1: so it was again I used to this is sorry

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Speaker 1: for all these kind of non sequiturs. Today's a show.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be totally honest. Today's show that is not

491
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Speaker 1: necessarily going to go viral for a lot of things.

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Speaker 1: But real folks that are real, what's right or as

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Speaker 1: awkward as this is to say, like Nick Wright fans

494
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Speaker 1: are going to really be enjoying today because we talked

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Speaker 1: hard cap softcap. I did my basketball March Madness rant.

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Speaker 1: I'm now going to talk about Ted Steppien for a second.

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Speaker 1: So Ted Stepien was an owner in the NBA in

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Speaker 1: the eighties and he was so bad and so disastrous

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Speaker 1: for them calves. The NBA made a rule that's called

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Speaker 1: the Stepian Rule. That's about how many draft picks you

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Speaker 1: can and cannot trade. You can't trade draft picks in

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Speaker 1: consecutive years. That's why teams have to like, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'll trade you my twenty five and my twenty seven

504
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Speaker 1: because you can't just trade away all your picks and

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Speaker 1: you can only trade draft picks like six years out.

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Speaker 1: You know, those seven years out. Those are the rules

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Speaker 1: they put in to prevent an owner from just destroying

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Speaker 1: a team. And there has been a lot of frustration

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Speaker 1: from GM since then of like, man, I would like

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Speaker 1: full flexibility to you know, run my team as I

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Speaker 1: see fit and not have these guardrails in there. And

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Speaker 1: I think at one point there was a little momentum

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Speaker 1: in the league, like all right, we're not in the

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Speaker 1: tape delayed era of the eighties. It's smarter people running

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Speaker 1: the teams. It's big money. Maybe we don't need to,

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Speaker 1: you know, have these guardrails in. And then Manishbia came

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Speaker 1: along and is like Ted Steppian holding my beer. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna show you, I'm gonna speed run, absolutely wrecking a

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Speaker 1: decade of a team that again, the Suns right before

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Speaker 1: you took over, made the finals, and then we're the

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Speaker 1: number one seed sixty four win or sixty some win team.

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Speaker 1: And then Luca eviscerated him, and then they trade for KD.

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Speaker 1: Then they trade for Beal, and now they're just ruined,

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Speaker 1: absolutely ruined to a point to where they even though

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Speaker 1: the Mavericks are two and eight in their last ten,

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Speaker 1: don't have any healthy players, their fans have turned on them.

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Speaker 1: The Mavericks still have a cushion in the standings. It's

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Speaker 1: really a remarkable, remark arkable turn of events. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's talk one more basketball thing before we get to

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Speaker 1: NFL stuff.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, so the Nuggets struggled to beat that depleted

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Speaker 2: Lakers team and then they went on to lose to

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Speaker 2: the Wizards.

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Speaker 3: All the party, yes, yes, sir.

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Speaker 2: After that game, Jokis was asked if Denver could step

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Speaker 2: it up come playoff time, and he said, I think

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Speaker 2: who you are in the regular season, that's who you

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Speaker 2: are in the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: I think you cannot flip a switch. Flip a switch.

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Speaker 2: But they obviously just beat the Warriors without and Murray

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Speaker 2: and Christian Braun, So are you counting them out as

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Speaker 2: contenders or how do you feel about them?

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Speaker 1: So yesterday was a weird one. And if people don't know,

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Speaker 1: our Ace producer, Daniel is a die hard Nuggets fan,

545
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Speaker 1: and you know, his Nuggets fandom almost once upon a

546
00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 1: time cost him his producership of this show. Because Daniel,

547
00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:52,880
Speaker 1: before you know, he and I had the great relationship

548
00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:55,800
Speaker 1: we have now thought it would be smart to troll

549
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Speaker 1: me during the Nuggets Lakers Conference finals a couple of

550
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:02,640
Speaker 1: years ago and send me brooms. And again we joke

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00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:08,799
Speaker 1: about it now, but Demonse knows to say I was

552
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 1: legitimately angry, probably under sells it. I was irate. Now

553
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Speaker 1: was that me being a little sensitive? Sure? But because

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Speaker 1: Daniel and I got through that rough patch, I have

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Speaker 1: now I have a bit of an affinity for the Nuggets.

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Speaker 1: In this regard and their fans. I respect the fact

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00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:38,520
Speaker 1: that they were right and I was wrong about how

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Speaker 1: great jokicch is. I respect it like I you know,

559
00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:44,920
Speaker 1: I pat myself on the back all the time when

560
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 1: I'm right and when I see things other people don't.

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Speaker 1: And I was adamant. While I stand by a lot

562
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Speaker 1: of what I've said about the actual MVP votes, one

563
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Speaker 1: of my general premises was, you know, we are elevating

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Speaker 1: Yokage to all time legendier when he's not that, and

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Speaker 1: I was wrong. He is an all time legend. And

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Speaker 1: because I have such a steadfast belief that anytime you

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Speaker 1: have an all time legend in his prime in this league,

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Speaker 1: you're a viable championship contender. I have disregarded a lot

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Speaker 1: of the Nugget struggles, but this past weekend was jarring.

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Speaker 1: They were trying in theory against the Lakers, who again

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Speaker 1: were without six of their top eight players, and Austin

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Speaker 1: Reeves and Dalton connect lit them up for sixty five points,

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Speaker 1: and the Lakers had a three point lead with a

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Speaker 1: minute left. And what made the the fact that they

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Speaker 1: didn't take that game seriously at all and almost lost

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Speaker 1: to me was should have been a Okay, guys, we

577
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Speaker 1: gotta show up if we're gonna win. And to follow

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Speaker 1: that up with a loss to the war to the Wizards,

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Speaker 1: is I was just I said it on TV show,

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Speaker 1: I'm out on the Nuggets, and it seemed like Jokic

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00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:26,000
Speaker 1: was out on the Nuggets.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean with that that answer, but.

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Speaker 1: Then they beat the Warriors without all their guys and

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Speaker 1: so like that does is that a rallying moment? I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I here's what I do know, And Daniel

586
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:45,960
Speaker 1: don't get mad at me, especially because you know I'm right,

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Speaker 1: Joker better have a playoff defensive gear or else they're

588
00:38:55,040 --> 00:39:02,520
Speaker 1: drawing dead. I can't be subjected to years of Twitter

589
00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:08,839
Speaker 1: cutups of Luca on the perimeter playing Maddador defense and

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Speaker 1: then accept Joker as your rim protector, just being like,

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00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:15,200
Speaker 1: I go ahead, like I just want to inbound the

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Speaker 1: ball anyway, I can't have it. And I'm gonna say

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Speaker 1: another thing to Nuggets folks. I saw, we all saw

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00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:29,359
Speaker 1: when it was all good with Ross early in the year.

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00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:35,520
Speaker 1: Folks be like, oh, why couldn't Lebron get this version

596
00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:38,720
Speaker 1: of Russell Westbrook the Joker can get and listen, Russ

597
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:42,240
Speaker 1: was good last night, and Russ has had some nice moments.

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Speaker 1: But I also know everyone that watches Nuggets games. Every

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Speaker 1: once in a while you have these moments where like, Russ,

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Speaker 1: what are you doing? Or where you see how the

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Speaker 1: offense can get a little gummed up because the smart

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Speaker 1: teams are like, hey, Russ, shoot the ball, got shoot it?

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Speaker 3: Go ahead.

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Speaker 1: And I also think one of the reasons the Lakers,

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Speaker 1: after the Nuggets have owned them for years, the Lakers

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Speaker 1: having a little success against the Nuggets is Russ sees

607
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Speaker 1: those Lakers and is like, I'm gonna and that's not

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Speaker 1: good for them. And so I I'm not dismissing them,

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Speaker 1: but I have downgraded. I had thunder Lakers Nuggets, as

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Speaker 1: you know, the top tier in the West. I've downgraded

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Speaker 1: the Nuggets. H a spot on that. You have a

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Speaker 1: follow up here.

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Speaker 3: Man, Uh yeah.

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Speaker 2: If the Nuggets have another early exit, do you since that,

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Speaker 2: do you think they'll have some major changes to come?

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Speaker 1: Well, Listen, they as much as Michael Malone can annoy me,

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Speaker 1: he's obviously an excellent coach, So you can't. You wouldn't

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Speaker 1: change the coach. The change needs to be. They need

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Speaker 1: to recognize we have one of the greatest players ever

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Speaker 1: in his prime. So how about this for an offseason

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Speaker 1: instead of losing a key contributor, let's add one.

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Speaker 3: Like they they.

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Speaker 1: Let guys walk out the door. They let Bruce Brown

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Speaker 1: walk out the door over money. They didn't let CACP

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Speaker 1: walk out the door over money. The move they could

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Speaker 1: make is Michael Porter junior. But the that's the move.

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Speaker 1: And I'll say one other thing. Here's another change I

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Speaker 1: think would be good for the Nuggets. Can someone convince

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Speaker 1: Jamal Murray that the season starts in October? And that

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Speaker 1: does mean as a fifty million dollar a year professional athlete,

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Speaker 1: it would be nice if your season started in October

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Speaker 1: not Christmas? Can someone convince Jamal Murray to be in

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Speaker 1: shape in the offseason.

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Speaker 2: Dan Michel, the Nuggets fan, agrees with you heavily there,

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Speaker 2: He says.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, anyone that watches the games knows this stuff. Like,

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Speaker 1: here's the deal, Yokich is allowed to be Dowe. No

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Speaker 1: one else is like the You're just it's like here,

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Speaker 1: I have a non PC take Dowe.

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Speaker 3: Wait wait yeah, is that like a Tubby reference?

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Speaker 1: Well, Tubby's too strong, but like not ripped allowed to

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Speaker 1: in elite shape. I don't know. Maybe it's the tough

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Speaker 1: where they grew up. It's tough. They just can deal

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Speaker 1: point is this. I don't judge yo Ki, your Luca

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Speaker 1: American athletes I do like that's the like I'll tell,

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Speaker 1: I'll give you a guy. It's right. It's not a

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Speaker 1: as he is.

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Speaker 3: He taking contacts.

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Speaker 1: No, he just no. Again, he's great at it. Uh,

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Speaker 1: he's he's an excellent player, very good player. But Austin

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Speaker 1: Reeves looks less physically impressive in a Laker jersey than you.

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Speaker 1: Not Okay, you're pro athlete, and so I only allow.

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Speaker 3: Just look like a normal guy, like a normal guy.

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Speaker 3: He's just a normal.

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Speaker 1: You can see his muscles, they're just not you know

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Speaker 1: what I mean, because he's super thin. But the like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: not Eastern Europe. I know, man who Like again, now

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Speaker 1: I'm really just talking about the foreign guys. So it's

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Speaker 1: not just Eastern European guys. But for some reason I

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Speaker 1: deal with it more. But I the where did they?

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Speaker 1: Oh it was about Jamal Murray. Jamal Murray, I need

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Speaker 1: you to be a little more in shape. I think

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Speaker 1: that's totally fair.

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Speaker 2: Last Onion says that Jack Dawson Reeves would be lights

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Speaker 2: out for the rest of the league.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Caruso got jacked in his excellent. Now now

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Speaker 1: But I was thinking of and again, I don't mean

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Speaker 1: And I guess I'm not doing white guy white guycause

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Speaker 1: of the subject of this conversation, Shimal mart But yeah,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, right now, Joker and Luca are the only

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Speaker 1: ones who are like, eh, whatever everyone else.

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Speaker 3: I mean, he's not like looking at all, like swollen.

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Speaker 1: But correct Lucas. Lucas slimmed down a bit, but he's.

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Speaker 3: Not looking right jack Jacket.

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Speaker 1: But like I I did, let me look at it

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Speaker 1: and this is where I came out. First Team Shay Donovan, Tatum,

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Speaker 1: Jannis Jokic, second Team Cade steph Aunt, Lebron Triple J,

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Speaker 1: fourth Team Harden Brunson, Jalen Brown, Mobiley, Karl Anthony Towns

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Speaker 1: and so because Luke is not eligible because he hasn't played.

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Speaker 1: He's not going to play enough games. So just looking

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Speaker 1: at it, Guys on there who have been on the

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Speaker 1: you know, awesome player but a little dowie over the

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Speaker 1: course of their career at different times. Joker obviously, Harden, Brunson,

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Speaker 1: and Cat. That's the list of those guys. Okay, and

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Speaker 1: what do you disagree?

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Speaker 2: I think this is runs And I look at it

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Speaker 3: And maybe you're kind of build.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and Jamal Murray would be on would be on

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Speaker 2: Bengals Bengals bangalsman so Jamar Chase and T Higgins are

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Speaker 3: Put your gam hat on. How would you fix this? Oh?

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Speaker 3: My goodness, they're screw me.

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Speaker 1: They don't, well, I mean they don't think they're screwed.

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Speaker 1: I think it's an insane way to run a team,

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Speaker 1: and I think it's a low So here's what Higgins becomes,

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Speaker 1: as Demant said, the highest paid wide receiver two in

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Speaker 1: the league. Chase becomes the highest paid non quarterback in

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Speaker 1: the league, and Burrow's got a huge salary as well.

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Speaker 1: It's not that you can't win with three huge contracts.

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Speaker 1: It's that having all of your huge contracts just be

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Speaker 1: and having all of your resources debt like it's a

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Speaker 1: low key insult to Burrow. And I know it's what

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Speaker 1: Burrow wanted, so he doesn't view it this way. But

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Speaker 1: here's what I mean. It operates as if you're not

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Speaker 1: gonna have an elite passing game unless you have both

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Speaker 1: of these elite weapons. And I think Joe Burrow's better

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Speaker 1: than that. I think Joe Burrow would be just fine

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Speaker 1: with just one of these guys. And I think that again,

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Speaker 1: the example people use as a defense of this is

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Speaker 1: Peyton's cults. But here's the problem with you. Because Peyton's

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Speaker 1: calls had Reggie Wayne, and Marvin Harrison. The problem with

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Speaker 1: using that as an example is they also had Dwight

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Speaker 1: Freenian Robert Mathis as bookend defensive ends. But the other

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Speaker 1: problem with that is Peyton's with respect underachieved. You had

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Speaker 1: thirteen years of Peyton Manning, eleven of those are peak

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Speaker 1: Peyton Manning years. You made two Super Bowls one to one.

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Speaker 1: Compare that to the Broncos who had four years of

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Speaker 1: Peyton Manning only three of those peak Peyton Manning years.

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Speaker 1: They also went to two Super Bowls and one to

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Speaker 1: one by building a well rounded team. Compare it to

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs who had a choice to make a few

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Speaker 1: years ago. We are not going to be able to

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Speaker 1: pay Tyrek and Chris Jones, so you know what, We're

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Speaker 1: gonna move Tyreek to save the money for Chris and

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Speaker 1: to every Super Bowl since then. And so and yeah,

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Speaker 1: mahomes last two years as numbers of DIP. Now his

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Speaker 1: most yards of any player in the season ever, first

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Speaker 1: player win League MVP and Trouper Bowl MVP since Kurt Warner,

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Speaker 1: but set that aside. Uh, it is just to me

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Speaker 1: the wrong approach to building a team. So what would

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Speaker 1: I have done. I would have a year ago, a

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Speaker 1: year ago traded t Higgins when I could have gotten

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Speaker 1: a first round pick for him and dedicated more resources

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Speaker 1: to the defense. But here is what I'll say about it,

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Speaker 1: demonse I Burrow wanted this, and it's fine. But he's

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Speaker 1: a smart guy and he understands the resources are limited.

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Speaker 1: He understands what this means. It kind of removes a

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Speaker 1: little bit of the If next year goes how last

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Speaker 1: year went, where Burrow's numbers are unbelievable, the Bengals offense

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Speaker 1: is excellent and they missed the playoffs because the defense

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Speaker 1: is terrible. It's not quite as an accomplishment for Joe

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Speaker 1: Burrow as this year he got MVP votes because it

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Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, he's doing his job. What

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Speaker 1: can he do about the defense being awful? Well, when

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Speaker 1: you go on every talk show imaginable and say you

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Speaker 1: need Higgins and Chase back and you understand what that

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Speaker 1: means about your ability to improve your offensive line in

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Speaker 1: your defense, well now it probably is a little more

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Speaker 1: fair to at least put some of potential Bengals struggles,

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Speaker 1: even if they're defense related at the feet of their quarterback.

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Speaker 1: I know that sounds odd, but I just think it's

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Speaker 1: I think it's probably the wrong approach to building a

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Speaker 1: certainly not the right place approach to win that division.

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Speaker 1: And the problem with that is, I don't think you

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Speaker 1: games that'll probably be outdoors, probably in cold weather cities,

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Speaker 1: with a defense that looks like the Bengals is going

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Speaker 1: to look for the near future. So I just think

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Speaker 1: I think it's a mistake, even though it's fun. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's talk Aaron Rodgers.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Aaron Rodgers still does not know where he

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Speaker 2: The talks are if the Vikings don't want him, he

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Speaker 1: I mean, probably the Steelers. But Rapaport reported this morning

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Speaker 1: that he might not decide until after the draft.

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Speaker 3: The draft.

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Speaker 1: Draft's in like forty days, and I understand actually why

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Speaker 1: three like who knows? But I am I'm over the

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers story in this regard. I just I don't

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Speaker 1: think the twentieth best quarterback in football is worth this

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Speaker 1: time or attention. And I really don't understand why the

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Speaker 1: Vikings would be entertaining this demon's unless they are unless

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Speaker 1: they have undisclosed news about JJ McCarthy's injury that they sum.

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Speaker 1: But the only way that even makes sense is if

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Speaker 1: they got this news somehow in the short window of

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Speaker 1: time between when they let Darnold walk and you know,

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00:56:58,520 --> 00:57:01,600
Speaker 1: this last week, which is only a few days. Because

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00:57:01,920 --> 00:57:05,759
Speaker 1: now that we have the actual Sam Donald contract details,

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00:57:06,239 --> 00:57:08,720
Speaker 1: chalk another one up to the sports media on Budsman

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00:57:08,760 --> 00:57:11,920
Speaker 1: by the way, who said, instead of all these tweets

864
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Speaker 1: just giving love to the agents that negotiated the deals,

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Speaker 1: can we please get accurate contract info. For a week,

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Speaker 1: we were told Sam Darnald got fifty five million guaranteed.

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Speaker 1: Turns out he got thirty seven million guaranteed. Turns out

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Speaker 1: the contract Sam Donald got is essentially one year, thirty

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Speaker 1: seven and a half million dollars and then two team

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Speaker 1: options afterwards. Who de thunk it? If that's all it

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Speaker 1: was going to take to keep Donald, they could have

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Speaker 1: gotten him essentially for one year forty million bucks. If

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00:57:42,680 --> 00:57:47,360
Speaker 1: you're worried about JJ McCarthy, then do that. Yeah, he's

874
00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:52,280
Speaker 1: better than Rogers at this point.

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Speaker 3: Like why would any team want it?

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Speaker 2: Like just not even a football standpoint, just him as

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Speaker 2: a I'm not trying to attack his character or anything,

878
00:57:58,560 --> 00:58:00,000
Speaker 2: but he just he ruined stuff.

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Speaker 1: Well yeah, I mean I think it's fair to attack

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00:58:03,120 --> 00:58:08,440
Speaker 1: his football character and like leadership, and also like why

881
00:58:08,520 --> 00:58:11,640
Speaker 1: is he taking this long? I think because he can,

882
00:58:12,440 --> 00:58:15,240
Speaker 1: and because it is a good way to make it

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00:58:15,400 --> 00:58:19,040
Speaker 1: clear who has the upper hand in the relationship from

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00:58:19,080 --> 00:58:24,520
Speaker 1: the moment the relationship starts, like if if you can

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Speaker 1: make some an entire organization, Wait, poor Russell Wilson's like,

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Speaker 1: I can't even sign with a team until this guy does,

887
00:58:32,680 --> 00:58:37,720
Speaker 1: like and so it's just asserting asserting dominance, I guess

888
00:58:37,800 --> 00:58:42,000
Speaker 1: is what some would say. All right, time for Nick

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Speaker 1: Write's storytime. Unless you've got something else, demanse you wanted

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Speaker 1: to do?

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Speaker 2: Uh?

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Speaker 1: Before I get to it. Okay, time for Nick writes.

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Speaker 1: Story time. So, twenty years ago one of my friends

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Speaker 1: had a baby and I was twenty years old, and I,

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Speaker 1: you guys, some of you guys might know this, some

896
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Speaker 1: of you guys don't. I don't have any cousins. Really,

897
00:59:13,680 --> 00:59:17,800
Speaker 1: I had no nieces and nephews growing up. My my

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00:59:18,280 --> 00:59:22,000
Speaker 1: dad has a sister that we didn't see all that

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Speaker 1: much when I was growing up. And my mom brother

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00:59:24,320 --> 00:59:27,320
Speaker 1: died before I was born, so I didn't come you know,

901
00:59:27,560 --> 00:59:31,800
Speaker 1: Demans's mom's side of the family, huge family, a bunch

902
00:59:31,840 --> 00:59:35,720
Speaker 1: of cousins, nieces, nephews running around everywhere. I didn't have.

903
00:59:35,880 --> 00:59:38,520
Speaker 1: I didn't have that. And so the only reason I'm

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Speaker 1: even including that story is I had like no experience

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Speaker 1: around babies like I was. You know, my sister's a

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Speaker 1: year older than me. The I had. I never baby sat.

907
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Speaker 1: I didn't have you know, cousins or anything. And so

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Speaker 1: when my friend uh had a baby, it was and

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Speaker 1: he and I over a summer where I was damn

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Speaker 1: near living with him. She it was like, you know,

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Speaker 1: I call her, I said, even though I wasn't, I

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Speaker 1: think officially named her godfather that I was her godfather,

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Speaker 1: and it was my first experience ever with little kid

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Speaker 1: with babies. And then I watched this little girl, you know,

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Speaker 1: turn into a toddler as you know, as happens, and

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Speaker 1: then and this is why this is this is a

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Speaker 1: really touching kind of story for me. So again, the

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Speaker 1: sports were f one minutes coming, but that the just

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Speaker 1: stay with me here. And when I met Demanse's mom,

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Speaker 1: my wife, Danielle, and I then first met Demonse and Diora.

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Speaker 1: Diora was the exact same age as my goddaughter, and

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Speaker 1: I had like a little experience orience of dealing with

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Speaker 1: a child Diora's age because of my relationship with my goddaughter.

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Speaker 1: And I've always kind of felt that one of the

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Speaker 1: reasons I was comfortable and kind of knew how to

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Speaker 1: interact with Diora when she was a baby, when she

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Speaker 1: was when I met her, she wasn't even three, was

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Speaker 1: because of my my experience with my goddaughter. And then

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Speaker 1: our families became super close. My goddaughter had an older

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Speaker 1: sister who was almost exactly Sorry, if you're listening on

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Speaker 1: the pot, I promise I'm not crying, but it does

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Speaker 1: sound like this would be a time where I would

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Speaker 1: cry the same age as Demanse, and they became close

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Speaker 1: and then they had another baby, this baby boy, who

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Speaker 1: was just a bowling ball of energy, yeah monster. And

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Speaker 1: our families in Kansas City, you know, grew up together. Essentially,

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Speaker 1: Danielle and I ended up getting engaged, and you know,

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Speaker 1: our families grew up together. And in fact, when I

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember this part, you probably wouldn't,

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Speaker 1: but there was two months when I got the job

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Speaker 1: in Houston, or six weeks when I was in Houston

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Speaker 1: by myself before you guys came, and I drove from

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Speaker 1: Kancity to Houston. I drove from their house like we

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Speaker 1: were all together at their house, and then I got

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Speaker 1: on the road with my car packed up, like the

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Speaker 1: last place I saw you guys before you guys came

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Speaker 1: to Houston was their house, and because everyone was hanging

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Speaker 1: out together. And then, you know, kind of sadly we

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Speaker 1: didn't fall out of touch, but we moved to Houston

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Speaker 1: and they were in Kansas City, and then part of

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Speaker 1: the family ended up moving. Their family moved to California,

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Speaker 1: in another part moved to Miami, and we were, you know,

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Speaker 1: we went from seeing each other all the time and

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Speaker 1: talking all the time, not seeing each other that often.

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Speaker 1: I kind of, you know, it was bad, a bad

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Speaker 1: godfather in those times. And then Demandse moved back out

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Speaker 1: to California, and I was moved to California briefly, and

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Speaker 1: we kind of reconnected, and Diora and my goddaughter became

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Speaker 1: super close again, and I actually and I the had

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Speaker 1: a did an event in Vegas and Diora and her

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Speaker 1: came and everybody kind of reconnected again, and then reconnected

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Speaker 1: again at our wedding. Vower knew all about a year ago.

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Speaker 1: Well, we didn't get see each other all that often, And

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Speaker 1: there I found out, because I didn't know this, that Sierra,

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Speaker 1: who is the girl in this story, wanted to be

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Speaker 1: a sports broadcaster, and that her the sport she loves

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Speaker 1: is F one, which is the sport I know almost

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Speaker 1: nothing about. And so the culmination of this for the

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Speaker 1: longtime viewers or listeners of the pod was the F

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Speaker 1: one minute that we created last year. And a few

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Speaker 1: months ago, Sierra called me and said she had enrolled

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Speaker 1: at Jacksonville University in Florida, that she was majoring in

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Speaker 1: broadcasting and was going to have a studio for the

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Speaker 1: F one Minute. And I do this podcast because it's

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Speaker 1: good for me professionally and it's good to you know,

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Speaker 1: grow my brand in these different things. But I do

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Speaker 1: this podcast because I want it to be ultimately my

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Speaker 1: family business. It's why Demanse is my co host. It's

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Speaker 1: why I will at some point do a show behind

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Speaker 1: us with my wife, and it's why it is so

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Speaker 1: thrilling to me to watch the first baby I ever

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Speaker 1: held twenty years later be this wildly impressive young woman

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Speaker 1: who is our F one correspondent for the second season,

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Speaker 1: Sierra Fidel. And so here is the F one minute

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Speaker 1: with Sierra Fiddel. Take it away.

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Speaker 4: Cc Hey, guys, welcome back to F one Minute. We're

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Speaker 4: in season two because the twenty twenty five F one

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Speaker 4: season has officially kicked off in Melbourne, Australia. There are

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Speaker 4: any conditions single handedly through this race into chaos. But

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Speaker 4: before it even began, rookie Isaac Hajar crashed into the

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Speaker 4: barriers during the formation lap, which delayed the start of

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Speaker 4: the race. But if you love the thrills, don't fret,

993
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Speaker 4: because this only set the stage for five of the

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Speaker 4: drivers to eventually spin off and crash. Luckily, nobody was

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Speaker 4: seriously harmed in the making of this Grand Prix, and

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Speaker 4: so the jama begins with a front row lockout for McLaren,

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Speaker 4: Norris and p One and p Astree behind him. Norris

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01:06:24,080 --> 01:06:28,000
Speaker 4: manages to protect his position despite some dicey action between

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Speaker 4: Verstappen and Pastry and the opening meters, but things slowed

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Speaker 4: down once rookie Jack Doing from Alpine collided into the

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Speaker 4: barriers during the first lap of the race, bringing out

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Speaker 4: the first of.

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Speaker 3: Four safety cars.

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Speaker 4: But here's where the chaos really unleashed on pretty much

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Speaker 4: everyone involved, even me at home watching. So after the

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Speaker 4: next DNF on the list from Fernando Alonso, many teams

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Speaker 4: decided to make a pit stop under this safety car.

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Speaker 4: From that crash, however, around laps forty four to forty

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Speaker 4: seven is where heavy rain began to hit, and virtually

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Speaker 4: nobody had the right tires for these conditions, which made

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Speaker 4: everything a little bit more exciting. Both McLaren's slid off

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Speaker 4: the track and we had two different race leaders within

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Speaker 4: this timeframe. Now it's important to note that it's a

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Speaker 4: huge challenge to race with the wrong tires and heavy rains,

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Speaker 4: so drivers like for Stappin and Hamilton led the race,

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Speaker 4: but only for a moment because they sort of gambled

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Speaker 4: on thugging it out. Should I stay out, should I

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Speaker 4: go in the pits? But eventually they caved and they

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Speaker 4: switched to eat eat intermediate tires and so oh, I

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Speaker 4: forgot to mention there was another crash between Liam Lawson

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Speaker 4: and Gabriello, not together, they just crashed on the same lap.

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Speaker 4: And so with that crack, with those crashes, the last

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Speaker 4: safety cars were out. In the closing moments of the race.

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Speaker 4: Max stalked Norris right unto the end. But big props

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Speaker 4: to Lando Norris because despite the other changing conditions, the

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Speaker 4: safety cars and the pressure run behind and he started

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Speaker 4: and ended the Australian GP in first place for a

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Speaker 4: stapp And ended in p two, and we're also at

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Speaker 4: Mercedes ended in p three. Now I'm going to introduce

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Speaker 4: something that's kind of new and it's my twiste on DRS.

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Speaker 4: So normally DRS stands for Drag Reduction System, but here

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Speaker 4: on the four minute DRS stands for disastrous race Shenanians

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Speaker 4: and for the Australian JP. I have to hand it

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Speaker 4: to our friends at forts of Ferrari because we had

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Speaker 4: Charles L Kirk complaining on the radio that his seat

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Speaker 4: was full of water. And then we have Lewis Hamilton

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Speaker 4: who just joined the team, only to see both Mercedes

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Speaker 4: in front of him, not only a Mercedes though also

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Speaker 4: a Sober and also Williams. So he ended this race

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Speaker 4: with one point. So welcome to the team, I guess, Lewis,

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Speaker 4: but it's only up from here. It's the first race.

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Speaker 4: It was pretty tricky. You're not going to hit it

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Speaker 4: out of the park every race, so we'll see. But

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Speaker 4: we've had a fascinating season open in Australia and now

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Speaker 4: it's off to Shanghai, China for round two this Sunday.

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Speaker 4: That's it for four minute and I'll see you next time.

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Speaker 1: Great one, love it and brought one of the one

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Speaker 1: of the cool things about the F one season is

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Speaker 1: how dope it would be to be one of these

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Speaker 1: drivers all the different places you race. So they're just

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Speaker 1: in Australia this weekend. She mentioned there in Shanghai a

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Speaker 1: few weeks A couple weeks later, it's there in Japan,

1053
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Speaker 1: then they're in Bachran, then Saudi Arabia, then down in

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Speaker 1: Miami then like it's just the whole world. It's so cool.

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Speaker 1: All right. So news that I took away from it

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Speaker 1: is Verstapping got some work to do. Is in second, Lando,

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Speaker 1: Norris uh in first, and Team Ferrari had Lewis Hamilton.

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Speaker 1: He came in tenth, Charles Leclerk came in eighth. All right, good,

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Speaker 1: great f one minute with Sierra. All right, let's do

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Speaker 1: a couple listener questions to monsday before we go.

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Speaker 2: Uh So, last week a listener had asked if he

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Speaker 2: could uh he asked for the rights to put your

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Speaker 2: name or hit your face on a shirt, and he

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Speaker 2: did it, and he tweeted us out, I think we're

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Speaker 2: gonna show it for the Yeah, there it is.

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Speaker 3: They came at him for the font.

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Speaker 1: But I okay, yeah, I saw you had a funny reply.

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Speaker 1: So this is a great if you're not watching, it's

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Speaker 1: me wearing the Louis Vatan fleece and says mister consistency.

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Speaker 1: And somebody asked him about the font choice and demonse

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Speaker 1: Snap replied, you were expecting Times new Roman question mark.

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Speaker 1: You were a second Times the Roman, weren't you. I

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Speaker 1: love it was funny. That's pretty good. All right, great

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Speaker 1: job by him. Shout out to him. Let me give home,

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Speaker 1: Let me give his Twitter a shout out. Oh he

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01:10:41,960 --> 01:10:44,040
Speaker 1: is kind of a bad Twitter handle, but that's fine.

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Speaker 1: It's not bad, like inappropriate. It's just hard to remember.

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Speaker 1: His Twitter handle is Dallas two one four, five, eight

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Speaker 1: eight three three. So there, shout out to him. All right? Next?

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Speaker 2: Uh, noah, Nick, what will the media says the Lakers

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Speaker 2: win at all but Luca's finals MV. Do you think

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01:11:01,160 --> 01:11:03,800
Speaker 2: of lebron ring where he's not finals MVP weighs any

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01:11:03,880 --> 01:11:04,920
Speaker 2: less than his other rings?

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Speaker 1: Well, listen, I don't know. Yes, not being finals MVP

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01:11:11,680 --> 01:11:16,080
Speaker 1: weighs a little bit less, but being the second best

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01:11:16,120 --> 01:11:19,280
Speaker 1: player in the finals in year twenty two at age

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Speaker 1: forty weighs a lot. You know what I mean. So

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Speaker 1: it kind of offsets it to a degree. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's go.

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Speaker 3: To justin if I made it.

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Speaker 2: If I make a bunch of brackets but the exact

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Speaker 2: same prediction for a specific upset and all of them,

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01:11:34,760 --> 01:11:37,720
Speaker 2: can I brag about that game? An example, picking Drake

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Speaker 2: to win round one every time?

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Speaker 1: Okay, So two things. One is I think that's allowable.

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Speaker 1: I think if you're going to do the multiple brackets,

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Speaker 1: and you want to be able to brag, you can

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01:11:56,080 --> 01:11:59,040
Speaker 1: only brag about things you had in every single one.

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Speaker 1: I picked this team to make the final four, in

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Speaker 1: every single one, or I picked this upset, and every

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Speaker 1: single one that one I will allow the other thing

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Speaker 1: is okay. So I so he wrote there because I

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Speaker 1: can see it.

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Speaker 3: I E.

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Speaker 1: And demondse just turned that into an example. And when

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Speaker 1: he said that, I was like, holy moly. I never

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Speaker 1: knew what I E stood for, and I think demands

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Speaker 1: just taught me that the game now, so you're not.

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Speaker 2: Gonna get You're.

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Speaker 1: Not No, you're not gonna get cooked now. As it

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Speaker 1: turns out, it's not what it stands for, but I

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Speaker 1: like it. No, it's uh. It's evidently an abbreviation for

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Speaker 1: a Latin phrase I S, which is I'm again. I'm

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Speaker 1: reading this from the why the Warnell School of Forestry

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Speaker 1: and Natural Resources. I don't know why they have that

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Speaker 1: this in there, but they example makes it makes perfect sense.

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Speaker 1: And id ST in Latin can mean for example, so

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Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna go ahead and say you

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Speaker 1: got it. I'm gonna say you got it here? Tell

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Speaker 1: me like the I like it I like it. Yeah, No,

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Speaker 1: that was good. I like that one a lot. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's do the last two quick, and then I.

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Speaker 3: Gotta gon nick.

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Speaker 2: Nick, you said before the third star with Lebron, Bosh

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Speaker 2: and Love have to sacrifice their numbers? Is that better

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Speaker 2: for this Lakers team? Since Austin Reeves was never a

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Speaker 2: star given his history.

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Speaker 1: So what I have said is because second stars with

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Speaker 1: Lebron thrive, and fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth man men thrive.

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Speaker 1: The third guy historically with Lebron, Bosh, Kevin Love have

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Speaker 1: seen their kuzma. With the Lakers, you could argue seeing

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Speaker 1: their numbers potentially drop because the third guy on a

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01:14:21,000 --> 01:14:23,720
Speaker 1: Lebron team is just the open guy. Like you're not

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Speaker 1: gonna We're not gonna force feed touches to a third guy.

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Speaker 1: In that regard, I do understand where like Austin Reeves

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Speaker 1: in a pinch, can be your second guy, hell can

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Speaker 1: be your best guy on certain nights, as he was

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Speaker 1: in one of the games the Lakers won, or well,

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01:14:37,040 --> 01:14:39,120
Speaker 1: they almost beat the Nuggets, but they also had a

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Speaker 1: game right after the Luca trade when Austin was that

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Speaker 1: against Boston. Boston that Austin was the top guy doesn't matter. Uh,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, I think that is smart. All right, let's

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Speaker 1: do the last one.

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Speaker 2: Jaton asked, how do you do this podcast and on

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Speaker 2: TV every weekday?

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01:14:55,400 --> 01:14:56,600
Speaker 3: How do you sleep?

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Speaker 1: I sleep fine, listen, it's the podcast is supposed to

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Speaker 1: be forty five minutes every day, it ends up being

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Speaker 1: an hour twenty.

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Speaker 3: But it's.

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Speaker 1: You know, I enjoy it, and I as long as

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01:15:12,680 --> 01:15:17,439
Speaker 1: I don't feel like I am giving less than full

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01:15:17,520 --> 01:15:21,120
Speaker 1: effort or attention to either thing, I'll keep doing both.

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01:15:21,479 --> 01:15:23,479
Speaker 1: Like if at any point I was like, I'm mailing

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Speaker 1: it in now, then it means it's time for me

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01:15:25,400 --> 01:15:30,840
Speaker 1: to only do one. But you know it as is.

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Speaker 1: I think it's fine. Oh and it was the Lakers

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Speaker 1: Pacers game that Austin had forty five Thank you producers,

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Speaker 1: all right, great job, de Mond's a great job. Our

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Speaker 1: friends at Blue Duck, thank you to our friends at

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Speaker 1: DraftKings in the volume, and I will see you guys

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Speaker 1: on Thursday. What's right