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Speaker 1: big NFL story coming because tonight was the Pro Bowl.

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Speaker 1: Game games games, game game games games. They played the games,

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Speaker 1: they played the game games, game games games. Anyway, the

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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl's over, I was gonna say let it go

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Speaker 1: because you know, being able to conjugate things properly that

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Speaker 1: that went out the door a long time ago, along

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Speaker 1: with handwriting. Yeah, I mean, it's one game, but it

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Speaker 1: was the Pro Bowl games and they said the games

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Speaker 1: and it was I mean, I really am particular about

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Speaker 1: syntax and vocabulary and spontex don jails. It's it's you know,

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Speaker 1: it's a it's a thing. It's a thing for me.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I like to think that I am, you know,

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Speaker 1: starting to you know, come off it a little bit.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, I don't know something like that.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, okay, game game, just like Josh gadd As

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Speaker 3: he was dancing around in Wonder Man, you gotta you

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Speaker 3: gotta let it go, you know.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I think it might be right now. Big stuff

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Speaker 1: in the NBA today. Again, we talked about this last

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Speaker 1: night when we thought it was going to happen. It

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Speaker 1: broke about twenty four four hours ago that the Clippers

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Speaker 1: were looking to trade James Harden and they were down

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Speaker 1: the road in conversations with the Cleveland Cavaliers, which would

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Speaker 1: see Darius Garland get dealt to the Clippers. Well, it happened.

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Speaker 1: James Harden is dealt. Tonight hardened for Garland. The blockbuster happens,

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Speaker 1: and it's going to likely. Well, we'll come to a

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Speaker 1: head tomorrow because you're not gonna see both guys playing

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Speaker 1: against each other tomorrow night, because the Cavaliers played the Clippers.

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Speaker 1: But Harden says he's excited to join the Cavaliers because

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Speaker 1: he's an opportunity to win the East. They have a

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Speaker 1: really good team. He wanted to stay in La, but

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Speaker 1: he never won one before. I think we have a

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Speaker 1: bit better chance. He said. He did not request a

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Speaker 1: trade from the Clippers, that this is a situation that

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Speaker 1: came about because both sides were looking for a way

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Speaker 1: for Garland and a second round pick. That is the

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Speaker 1: official trade. And I got to say right off the bat,

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Speaker 1: it's not and you can say the phrase the Clippers

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Speaker 1: win one, but wow, did they win win with this

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Speaker 1: for a long time, you can't win an NBA title

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Speaker 1: building around guys in their mid thirties. For the Clippers

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Speaker 1: to still do that is insane and it makes no sense. Right,

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Speaker 1: You're not gonna continuing to give money to Kawhi and

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Speaker 1: James Harden is not going You're not getting close to

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Speaker 1: stars in their mid thirties don't win. Why do you

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Speaker 1: think the Warriors don't win anymore? Right, you don't win

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Speaker 1: with guys in your mid thirties. Why the Lakers not

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Speaker 1: you don't win that way. It doesn't happen. So you know, yes,

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Speaker 1: finally the Clippers made a good move because they moved

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Speaker 1: this was a good risk for the for the Clippers,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you look at the opportunity for Darius Garland to

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Speaker 3: come play where his daddy did once upon a time

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Speaker 3: nineteen ninety nineteen ninety one La Clipper Winston Garland Warrior, Clippers, Nuggets, Rockets, Benetton, Treviso,

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Speaker 3: a cheap option. But again you're hoping that the toe

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Speaker 3: But for the Cavaliers part of it, they take on

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Speaker 3: all of those things, knowing his playoff history.

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Speaker 4: But he's got the player option for next year.

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Speaker 3: So your hope is you get the best basketball he

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Speaker 1: Months, right, fine, March, April, May, June, Yeah, June, because

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Speaker 3: Right, we haven't gotten to July with basketball yet, so

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Speaker 3: still eventually, right, like the World Series being played in Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 3: But all of that to say, you have the hope

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Speaker 3: He and Mitchell get along great, and then he exceeds

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Speaker 3: all expectations, so he triggers that player option, and then

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Speaker 4: You can say, all right, we got the best out

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Speaker 1: Now here's the thing about why this trade, why the

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Speaker 1: Clippers win it, and why James Harden. He's fools gold, right,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna get James Harden now, we're gonna get Lebron

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna go all around. They're gonna barnstorm around

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Speaker 1: the NBA has ever been a James Harden away from

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Speaker 1: And plenty teams have tried, and we've all found out

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Speaker 1: that in his heyday, in his best days with Houston.

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Speaker 1: Was a great player, right, but he's someone that got

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Speaker 1: his And what happened when he got to the playoffs, Hey,

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Speaker 1: James Harden would get tired in the fourth quarter of

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Speaker 1: it's not even been that way. Having been there that

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Speaker 1: They think, Okay, we can make a move in the

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Speaker 1: found out the same thing. Oh, he didn't help us

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Speaker 1: have fifteen years of evidence to show me that. Right,

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Speaker 1: And it's not even like he's been not like say,

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Speaker 1: the Rockets because he has played better. Right, I did

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Speaker 1: but overall, I mean, you still see the teams He's

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Speaker 1: when he was carrying the mail for the Rockets, he

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Speaker 1: and what happened. I'm tired, I'm missing shots. I'm getting

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Speaker 1: at the end of his best playoff games. Now suddenly

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Speaker 1: to take the big shots and I'm gonna do this

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, go back to a few years ago.

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Speaker 3: But for the clown shoes Kevin Durant was wearing, maybe

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Speaker 3: have seen that, but alas, uh no, Uh, here we are.

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Speaker 3: And it's a guy that puts up massive numbers and

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Speaker 3: you get these spurts where he's unconscious right from the

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Speaker 3: his evolution over over time, and there's been marvelous runs

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Speaker 3: at his career aggregated numbers, they're amazing. Problem is come

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Speaker 3: playoff time, if suddenly he's got to be the guy

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Speaker 3: narrative every year, Right, he's got nothing left because he

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Speaker 3: had to do dot dot dot during a regular season.

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Speaker 3: So Cleveland pushing in on this as their what back

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Speaker 3: up to the fourth or fifth seed right now?

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Speaker 3: Or and there's a little bit of a jumbled mess

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Speaker 3: there in the Eastern Conference playing well of late. To

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Speaker 3: You know, leads to a lot of questions about Darius Garland.

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Speaker 3: What are we missing in this equation? But to say

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Speaker 3: that he's the guy that puts him over the top,

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Speaker 3: this is really I inch ump at the edge of

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Speaker 3: when they play your Nicks.

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Speaker 3: ACL tear. Come on, let's see what kind of rig

430
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Speaker 3: and control they put on the leg.

431
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Speaker 1: Let's go exit out bout a Fresca exit Swallen Dome,

432
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Speaker 1: Jason Smith, Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Now,

433
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Speaker 1: as we get closer to the NBA trade deadler, right,

434
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Speaker 1: just two days await, let me less and two days

435
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Speaker 1: away tomorrow is NBA trade deadline. Eve Rick Buker's gonna

436
00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:18,600
Speaker 1: join the show the next couple of nights with us.

437
00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:25,359
Speaker 1: We know Lebron James isn't isn't isn't going to be

438
00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:29,880
Speaker 1: traded by the deadline? Why report tonight that Lebron will

439
00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:32,600
Speaker 1: be with the Lakers through the deadline and through the

440
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Speaker 1: end of this season. Uh, big question to ask, big,

441
00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:40,320
Speaker 1: just one question to ask with Lebron, James, all of

442
00:21:40,359 --> 00:21:42,200
Speaker 1: a sudden, Hey, wait a minute, this story gets out.

443
00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:44,240
Speaker 1: Lebron's gonna be with the Lakers all the way through.

444
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Speaker 1: This is not the Lakers saying we're not trading him.

445
00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:51,200
Speaker 1: This was not Rob Polinka saying Lebron's a Laker, We're

446
00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:53,680
Speaker 1: not moving him. This is not JJ Reddick saying that.

447
00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:57,280
Speaker 1: This is sources saying that Lebron's gonna be with the

448
00:21:57,359 --> 00:21:59,879
Speaker 1: Lakers through that. So, you know, or at least I

449
00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:02,960
Speaker 1: like to think, I know, this is a leak to

450
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Speaker 1: stay ahead of the embarrassing storyline of all the Lakers

451
00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:09,399
Speaker 1: couldn't trade Lebron at the deadline. They tried, Other teams

452
00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:13,520
Speaker 1: have called bottom feeder teams have called they couldn't do it. So, yeah,

453
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Speaker 1: Lebron is one thing. You know how crafty he is,

454
00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:17,520
Speaker 1: you know how smart he is. Hey, let's stay ahead

455
00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:20,720
Speaker 1: of the message here, let's tamp down all this trade talk.

456
00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:23,680
Speaker 1: I'm not getting traded. I'm not going anywhere. But the

457
00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:28,440
Speaker 1: biggest question to ask is this do you really think

458
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Speaker 1: teams at this point after seeing how this season's gone

459
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Speaker 1: for the Lakers? Right, it was different from the beginning

460
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Speaker 1: of the year. But do you really think after seeing

461
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Speaker 1: how things have gone with Lebron the last couple of months,

462
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Speaker 1: do you really think anybody, any contenders even were interested

463
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Speaker 1: in trading for him, Nigen having him on the team.

464
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Speaker 1: They're not, They're not looking. We mentioned this last night,

465
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Speaker 1: We said, look, overall the NBA fans, NBA nation has

466
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Speaker 1: moved past Lebron being the big superstar that he was,

467
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Speaker 1: right being the end be all to every NBA conversation.

468
00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:03,639
Speaker 1: I mean, twenty year run. No one's gonna have a

469
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Speaker 1: run like that again in sports ever, twenty years of

470
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Speaker 1: stirring the drink and being the number one superstar. Everything

471
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Speaker 1: he did, if he liked something on social media, if

472
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Speaker 1: he said something in his postgame press conference, what he

473
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Speaker 1: wore to his postgame press conference, if he went to

474
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Speaker 1: the opening of a pizza shop, or not. Like everything

475
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Speaker 1: Lebron did. Oh sorry, I just sideswiped them there.

476
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Speaker 4: Well, I mean that was one that really affected you personally.

477
00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:31,399
Speaker 1: Everything Lebron did made news. Now we've moved past that.

478
00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:34,000
Speaker 1: Now still a big star still somebody we talk about,

479
00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:38,159
Speaker 1: but not to the point where he overwhelms and overshadows everybody.

480
00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:42,560
Speaker 1: And now you're seeing that on the court too, because

481
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Speaker 1: off the court point he made last night. Look at

482
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Speaker 1: the point on the court tonight, you would think, oh,

483
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Speaker 1: Lebron James gotta go. Yeah, let's make a move to

484
00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:51,680
Speaker 1: go get him. He can turn us into a championship team. Well,

485
00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:55,000
Speaker 1: what's happened since the beginning of the season. Lebron was

486
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Speaker 1: injured and the team coalesced around Luca and Austin Reeves

487
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Speaker 1: and the Laker one big out of the gate, and

488
00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:04,520
Speaker 1: they beat good teams and it was boy, with no

489
00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:08,480
Speaker 1: Lebron here, defensively they're better, Luca moves the ball around

490
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Speaker 1: a little bit more. This is hey, the Lakers really

491
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Speaker 1: have it going on. And then what happened. Lebron came back.

492
00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:16,760
Speaker 1: They won a little bit, but then they started losing.

493
00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:19,480
Speaker 1: Austin Reeves got hurt, and now where are they They've

494
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Speaker 1: gone from second place in the West to now they're

495
00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:24,760
Speaker 1: trying to stay in the top six. Right, So this

496
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Speaker 1: is what the Lakers have done since Lebron James came back.

497
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Speaker 4: You tell me.

498
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Speaker 1: Teams are gonna say, oh yeah, we're gonna upset the

499
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Speaker 1: Apple cart to go get Lebron. We think he can

500
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Speaker 1: turn us into a championship team. Not happening, not happening now,

501
00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:38,159
Speaker 1: no way, whoa, whoa, We're not doing this now on

502
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Speaker 1: the fly, or we have no idea if Lebron James

503
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Speaker 1: is gonna be any good with us, if he's gonna

504
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Speaker 1: fit in, how it's gonna go whoaa W. I guarantee

505
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Speaker 1: you there was zero interest in Lebron James. Forget about

506
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Speaker 1: the money. Forget I mean yeah, opting in for fifty

507
00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:53,800
Speaker 1: one million, because you could even look at Lebron and say, well,

508
00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:56,320
Speaker 1: expiring contract, we can go for it now, not have

509
00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:58,480
Speaker 1: to worry about his money and go get players in

510
00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:01,879
Speaker 1: the offseason. Not even not happening. No one was gonna

511
00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:05,080
Speaker 1: say we're gonna even trade the money that we need

512
00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:07,520
Speaker 1: to make this deal work to bring Lebron to a

513
00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:09,520
Speaker 1: team that feels like they have championship hopes.

514
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Speaker 4: Right.

515
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Speaker 1: You read the list of teams earlier in the show

516
00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:16,320
Speaker 1: that made at least small inquiries. None of them are contenders.

517
00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:18,600
Speaker 1: It was all, hey, can you help us sell tickets?

518
00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:21,360
Speaker 1: That's the interest level of Lebron. We are so moved.

519
00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:24,119
Speaker 1: They moved past on the off the court with fans

520
00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:25,960
Speaker 1: and how we think about him and the and the

521
00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:29,480
Speaker 1: overall perception, and now on the court, URC teams are

522
00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:31,720
Speaker 1: moving past Lebron James just as quickly.

523
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we've talked about this since Lebron came back into

524
00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:38,800
Speaker 3: the fold and they struggled and the defensive lapses and

525
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:42,320
Speaker 3: everything else. And now you get Austin Reeves back finally

526
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Speaker 3: twenty one minutes tonight as he gets back in for

527
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Speaker 3: the Lakers in a big win over Brooklyn. Thirteen win Brooklyn.

528
00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:54,080
Speaker 3: So they beat up and on a lesser than team

529
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Speaker 3: and Lebron has a good stat night. But it's always

530
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Speaker 3: been just that consideration for a contender at that salary.

531
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Speaker 3: To make it work, you've got to upset your core,

532
00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:08,280
Speaker 3: you've got to upset whatever your your rotation is. And

533
00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:12,720
Speaker 3: it's just not worth the old bang for the buck

534
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:16,960
Speaker 3: kind of mentality to it when you know he still

535
00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:19,720
Speaker 3: needs the basketball, right because as much as he can

536
00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:22,680
Speaker 3: say hey, this is Luca's team, whatever, eh, and I

537
00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:24,760
Speaker 3: don't think it's quite as passive. And you give up

538
00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:28,119
Speaker 3: so much defensively, right, you give up so much defensively

539
00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:31,360
Speaker 3: that it still takes up the oxygen in the room.

540
00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:37,159
Speaker 3: So for Lebron, it became a as I look at it,

541
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Speaker 3: and I said so with the tongue planted firmly in

542
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:42,919
Speaker 3: my cheek, of all right, here's a bunch of.

543
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Speaker 4: Bottom feeders, but a competitor.

544
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Speaker 5: No.

545
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Speaker 3: I mean, look, you want to trade bad salaries on

546
00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:51,520
Speaker 3: a bad team and a couple of draft picks, you know,

547
00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:54,800
Speaker 3: that become maybe a roll of the dice that something

548
00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:57,800
Speaker 3: hits great. I'm sure there were plenty of teams down

549
00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:00,240
Speaker 3: at the bottom of the standings in either conference that

550
00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:02,920
Speaker 3: would have been interested in that regard. Sure, we're not

551
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:06,520
Speaker 3: going anywhere anyway, so fine, we'll put some extra ducats

552
00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:10,639
Speaker 3: in our pockets in the interim. But in terms of

553
00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:14,320
Speaker 3: competitors and contenders for a title, it just didn't make

554
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:14,920
Speaker 3: any sense.

555
00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:19,080
Speaker 1: No. I mean, beginning of the season, I could see

556
00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:21,520
Speaker 1: it because, okay, well here we can get Lebron and

557
00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:24,160
Speaker 1: hey played really well with Luca last year. He's still

558
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:26,680
Speaker 1: going strong, still a top ten player in the game,

559
00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:29,400
Speaker 1: but a lot has happened in the last few months,

560
00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:33,720
Speaker 1: and just seeing where the Lakers are, how he doesn't

561
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:36,920
Speaker 1: fit with what they're doing. Defensively, he's not there anymore,

562
00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:41,560
Speaker 1: and he doesn't play as consistently offensively as he did

563
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:43,520
Speaker 1: even a year ago. Just take a look at some

564
00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:45,840
Speaker 1: of the games he has. Yeah, he'll have a twenty

565
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:48,680
Speaker 1: seven to nine and eight game, and then I'll I'll

566
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:50,720
Speaker 1: have a fourteen and seven game, and then I'll have

567
00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:53,560
Speaker 1: a sixteen and ten game, and then I'll have a

568
00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:56,360
Speaker 1: fifteen and four game, but then I'll have a twenty seven.

569
00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:59,119
Speaker 1: He doesn't do it consistently anymore. So if he's not

570
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:01,920
Speaker 1: doing it that consent instantly, like, you're not going to

571
00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:04,040
Speaker 1: make that move for him. Now. The silver lining for

572
00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 1: Lebron is that after this year, when there's no money

573
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:11,160
Speaker 1: owed to him and teams can take a breath and say,

574
00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:15,159
Speaker 1: all right, can Lebron come in with this kind of

575
00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 1: role and be great for us? And that team is

576
00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:20,119
Speaker 1: going to be Cleveland. I guarantee you who's going to

577
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:21,920
Speaker 1: find a way to go back there. And the best

578
00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:23,880
Speaker 1: thing he can do is just say, hey, I don't

579
00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:25,639
Speaker 1: need any more money. I don't even give me the

580
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:27,760
Speaker 1: veterans minimum. I'll do the right thing, because that's what

581
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:29,560
Speaker 1: I would tell him. Dude, if you say I still

582
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:31,520
Speaker 1: need thirty million a year. You're going to wind up

583
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:33,160
Speaker 1: playing your last game at the end of this year.

584
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:35,399
Speaker 1: No one's going to bring you back. But that kind

585
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:38,160
Speaker 1: of situation, Yeah, then I could see a team saying, yeah,

586
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:40,920
Speaker 1: we can go get Lebron. We can go get Lebron

587
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:42,480
Speaker 1: and bring him in and he can fill this kind

588
00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:44,160
Speaker 1: of role where he can wave goodbye and he can

589
00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 1: have the whole big year where where everybody honors him

590
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:50,280
Speaker 1: every city he goes to. Cleveland's that place. I've said

591
00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:52,520
Speaker 1: it for a long time, congratulates everybody else saying, oh

592
00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:55,440
Speaker 1: it's Cleveland' Cleveland. But in the off season it's much

593
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:57,600
Speaker 1: easier to see that trade getting done than it is

594
00:28:57,720 --> 00:28:59,760
Speaker 1: right now. And that's why there's no interest for him.

595
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:02,560
Speaker 3: You've been trying to talk that thing into existence forever.

596
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:05,560
Speaker 3: And you know what, he had his opportunity this offseason.

597
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:07,360
Speaker 3: They probably could have given him a couple of million

598
00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:09,960
Speaker 3: dollars to show up in Cleveland. Now he would have

599
00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:14,400
Speaker 3: had to swallow the other fifty It's awful tough to

600
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 3: look away from fifty three million dollars, right, especially if

601
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:20,480
Speaker 3: you have aspirations of owning a team or the major

602
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:22,560
Speaker 3: be the majority owner of a team one day.

603
00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:24,320
Speaker 4: You might want that in your conference.

604
00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:30,000
Speaker 1: Of course, of course you want that. Of course, Look

605
00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:34,240
Speaker 1: you're gonna need Look, the strategy is gonna outweigh any

606
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:37,800
Speaker 1: sort of emotional attachment. But that's why if Lebron just,

607
00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:40,000
Speaker 1: you know, he would, he could find it very easy

608
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:42,200
Speaker 1: to say, hey, listen, Lakers, buy me out or something else.

609
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:43,680
Speaker 1: He could find a new team at the deadline. But

610
00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:45,760
Speaker 1: I don't even know, like I said, because of the fit,

611
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 1: because if everything goes along with it, Lebron not playing

612
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:51,000
Speaker 1: like I don't, I don't know that that even if

613
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:52,880
Speaker 1: he said, yeah, I'm buying out and I'm just available

614
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:55,240
Speaker 1: for anybody at the deadline, you're gonna see a team

615
00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:58,040
Speaker 1: like the Knicks or the Calves or the Celtics or

616
00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:00,520
Speaker 1: whoever it is, say yeah, come on, Lebron, let's go play.

617
00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:02,400
Speaker 1: The only team I could see happening was would be

618
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:04,600
Speaker 1: the Warriors. That's the only team I could see. And

619
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:07,440
Speaker 1: would he turned the Warriors all of a sudden into contenders? No,

620
00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:07,959
Speaker 1: he wouldn't.

621
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Speaker 4: No, I could see that.

622
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Speaker 1: I could see that team saying yeah, we'll take you

623
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:13,200
Speaker 1: with a buyout. Why not?

624
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:15,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, Because the other thing This also tells me is

625
00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:18,520
Speaker 3: going back to rewind it before the season, when the

626
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:21,440
Speaker 3: negotiations and the opt in all had to happen. Is

627
00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:23,719
Speaker 3: that they sent out the fielders and everybody told them

628
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:27,480
Speaker 3: to pound sand so he opts in for the money

629
00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:31,800
Speaker 3: instead of going and trying to be on a contender exit.

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Speaker 1: Ou about a Fresco exit Swallen Dome, Jason Smith, Mike

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Speaker 1: Harbon Live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Time not

632
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Speaker 1: how to find out what's trending in the wide world

633
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Speaker 1: of sports. Some special delivery, Steve de Sager, Steve, O,

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Speaker 5: Everything's just final in the NBA because the Lake games

636
00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:49,280
Speaker 5: concluded at Portland. The Blazers have lost six in a row.

637
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:51,800
Speaker 5: Now Phoenix came back to beat him one thirty to

638
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Speaker 5: one twenty five. Philadelphia won at Golden State. Both Joel

639
00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:58,720
Speaker 5: Embid and Steph Curry sent that one out wins for Boston,

640
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Speaker 5: Milwaukee and Oakland Hooma City. That Boston win was at

641
00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:04,720
Speaker 5: Dallas one ten to one hundred. The MAVs have lost

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00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:07,120
Speaker 5: five in a row, even though Cooper Flags scored thirty

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Speaker 5: six points. The Lakers won easily at Brooklyn. Atlanta got

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Speaker 5: another triple double from Jalen Johnson in a win at Miami.

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Speaker 5: Victories for Utah, Detroit and the Knicks, who've won seven

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Speaker 5: in a row. The NBA trade deadline is Thursday. The

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Speaker 5: Clippers are trading James Harden to Cleveland for Darius Garland.

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Speaker 5: The Cavs play at the Clippers on Wednesday night. Garland

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Speaker 5: was listed as out for that game with a tow injury.

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Speaker 5: Memphis traded Jaron Jackson to Utah as part of an

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Speaker 5: eight player deal. Grizzlies get three first round draft choices.

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Speaker 5: Jackson is a former Defensive Player of the Year. The

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Speaker 5: Celtics acquired Nikola Vucevich from the Bulls for Anthony Simons.

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Speaker 5: Detroit picked up Kevin Herder from Chicago in a three

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Speaker 5: team trade. Kawhi Leonard of the Clippers was added to

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Speaker 5: the NBA All Star roster. No Clipper had been selected.

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Speaker 5: The game is at their arena in less than two weeks.

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Speaker 5: There's a new format for the All Star Game. Two

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Speaker 5: teams of US players, one team of Internet in a

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Speaker 5: round robin tournament for twelve minute games that day. Well,

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Speaker 5: on the one US team, it's not only Kawhi Leonard,

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Speaker 5: but on the same roster Lebron James, Steph Curry, Jalen Brunson,

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Speaker 5: Jalen Brown, Kevin Durant, and Donovan Mitchell. College hoops still undefeated,

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Speaker 5: is twenty third rank Miami, Ohio twenty three to zero

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Speaker 5: after a seventy three seventy one victory at Buffalo Tampa

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Speaker 5: Bay and the NHL got an overtime win against the

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Speaker 5: Buffalo Sabers four to three, Carolina four to three over Ottawa.

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Speaker 5: The NFC won the Pro Bowl Flag football game in

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Speaker 5: the Bay Area sixty six fifty two. The New York

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Speaker 5: Giants new offensive coordinator is Matt Naggy. Patriots owner Robert

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Speaker 5: Craft was reportedly not voted into the Hall of Fame

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Speaker 5: this year, same as Bill Belichick. The class will be

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Speaker 5: announced Thursday, when the NFL Honors take place. Craft was

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Speaker 5: a contributor finalist. Belichick was the coach finalist. The three

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Speaker 5: senior candidates, so at least one will get in, either

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Speaker 5: Roger Craig, else Greenwood or Ken Anderson. The College Football

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Speaker 5: Playoff will not hold a core final on New Year's

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Speaker 5: Eve this year to avoid going against an NFL Thursday game.

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Speaker 5: The Baseball Hall of Fame will indugt Carlos Beltron in

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Speaker 5: a Mets cap This summer, the Diamondbacks agreed to a

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Speaker 5: one year deal with first baseman Carlos Santana. The World

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Speaker 5: Golf Ranking for the first time, will award ranking points

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Speaker 5: to the top ten finishers in live golf events, but

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Speaker 5: it will be fewer points than the PGA top ten

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Speaker 5: guys get NASCAR's Clash is Wednesday night on Fox TV

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Speaker 5: after last weekend snowstorm in North Carolina. This is the

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Speaker 5: annual exhibition opener Cup Series. Practice and qualifying will be

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Speaker 5: Wednesday afternoon. The two hundred lap main event, which is

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Speaker 5: twenty three drivers, starts at six pm Eastern Time Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: Back to you, Thank you, Steve l. The Jason Smith

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Speaker 1: Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Coming up next,

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Speaker 1: we'll get to the biggest NFL story of the day

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Speaker 1: where most people, most NFL fans, oh, one quarterback a

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Speaker 1: huge apology. Yeah no, no, no, no, no stop, It's

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Speaker 1: not Sam Darnold. It's coming up next right here, Jason

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Speaker 1: and Mike Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 4: I'm behalf of Jason Smith.

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Speaker 2: Sam here.

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Speaker 1: Sorry.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

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Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

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Speaker 2: pm Pacific.

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best

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Speaker 1: friend Mike Harmon. Everybody who melted down about Shador Sanders

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Speaker 1: going to the Pro Bowl, It's gonna ruin the Pro Bowl.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna watch what is going on here? This

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Speaker 1: is the worst thing I've ever seen. What does the

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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl become? After watching whatever that was tonight, which

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Speaker 1: was basically felt like it was, I'm eavesdropping on NFL

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Speaker 1: players vacations, Like they're just playing. They're playing a game

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Speaker 1: at two hand touch and Dak Prescott's wearing a bucket

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Speaker 1: hat throwing the ball, and Micah Parsons is scooting around

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Speaker 1: on some sort of suit up three wheeler rehabbing from

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Speaker 1: his injury. I mean, I feel like I'm eavesdropping on

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Speaker 1: their vacation after seeing whatever the hell that was. Aren't

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Speaker 1: you embarrassed as hell to say, oh, yeah, yeah, I

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Speaker 1: got no problem with you door Sanders playing and whatever

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Speaker 1: the hell this is? Like, really, you think the sanctity

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Speaker 1: of the game was ruined? The Pro Bowl's been terrible.

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Speaker 1: It's been this for a long time. They're just trying

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Speaker 1: to keep the doors open on the Pro Bowl and

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Speaker 1: keeping something that people watch year after year. I mean

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Speaker 1: what you saw tonight, Look, it wasn't great. It was

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Speaker 1: a load of crap. I mean, wherever you want to

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Speaker 1: you on that sliding scale. But it was an event,

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Speaker 1: it was on TV. It would have been okay if

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Speaker 1: Justin Fields was playing in this. It would have been

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Speaker 1: okay if anybody else that actually threw a pass in

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Speaker 1: the NFL quarterback this year was playing in this game

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Speaker 1: because it really didn't matter, because it was there were

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Speaker 1: zero stakes on any of this. And to really melt

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Speaker 1: down about your door, Sanders, I don't know what to say, man.

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Speaker 1: I just feel like you're just admitting I just don't

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Speaker 1: like the guy. I don't like him, I don't like Dion,

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Speaker 1: I don't like anything. And I'm really this is what's

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Speaker 1: really annoying me, because what you saw tonight, Man, anybody

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Speaker 1: could have played in this. They could have had they

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Speaker 1: could have had some some wide receivers play quarterback, and

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Speaker 1: nobody would have cared like that. That's how low stakes.

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Speaker 1: And again it felt like eavesdropping on someone's vacation.

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Speaker 3: Garrett Bowles, Superstar, UH Star Balls, Super Bowl, Jamar Chase

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Speaker 3: with the interception return for a touchdown and his little

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Speaker 3: uh vault into the end zone there, I mean, just

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Speaker 3: gone down. They had a tush bush and everything else

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Speaker 3: in the end. It's it's a spectacle, right, it's it

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Speaker 3: hasn't been.

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Speaker 1: A serious game.

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Speaker 3: And I know you'll you'll hear in my day, I mean,

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Speaker 3: Steve Young was on the sideline coaching here. You know,

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Speaker 3: he's hearkening back to the day is when he played,

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Speaker 3: and guys would look to get one last revenge lick

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Speaker 3: if you beat him in a playoff game or something

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Speaker 3: during the regular season that maybe kept them from making

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Speaker 3: the playoffs, and bonus moneys and whatever else. But at

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Speaker 3: this point, it's a TV show, it's an activation for sponsors.

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Speaker 3: I'm watching a replay of it now. I see the

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Speaker 3: gear Deli building where they've got the giant you know,

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Speaker 3: chocolate fountain and all that stuff, all the good things there.

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Speaker 3: But it's just the the idea of being mad about

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Speaker 3: this was ridiculous from the outset. The only the only

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Speaker 3: thing that I you know, had the pause on was

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Speaker 3: you know, we've separated forever Pro Bowls versus all pro teams.

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Speaker 3: We know that those are a wide, widely indifferently evaluated,

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Speaker 3: but at one point they weren't quite so distinct from

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Speaker 3: one another. Yeah, there was levels, but the Pro Bowl

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Speaker 3: still had some level. I don't want to say sanctity

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Speaker 3: because I don't want to take it that high, because

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Speaker 3: clearly we still also had second alternative, third alternatives or

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Speaker 3: whatever playing in the games, you know, injury substitutions, et cetera.

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Speaker 3: But there was still you know, something too Pro Bowl

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Speaker 3: and you pull that trade guard the next year Pro Bowler.

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Speaker 3: Now it's you know, we move on entertainment. Shoudor Sanders

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Speaker 3: probably brought some extra eyeballs to the games.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, look, you can still be named a Pro Bowler,

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Speaker 1: and then whoever takes part takes part ro I mean nobody,

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Speaker 1: because look, so many people back out because I have

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Speaker 1: backed out because of injuries. Their team is still playing.

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Speaker 1: You know, get named the Pro Bowler. That's great, right,

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Speaker 1: a lot of people, you know, whether you have it

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Speaker 1: in your contract. I get this, I'm a Pro Bowl,

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Speaker 1: do that, right, have the Pro Bowler's name, that's what

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Speaker 1: you name the Pro Bowl team. And then whoever winds

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Speaker 1: up being in this whatever crazy ass touff like we

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Speaker 1: saw tonight That's who's in it. Man, That's all that matters.

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Speaker 1: I mean, what is it about. You're not gonna see

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Speaker 1: these guys going going crazy to go. The only guy

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Speaker 1: I even felt somewhat sorry for tonight was Joe Flacco.

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Speaker 1: Because this is Joe Flacco's first Pro Bowl. Right, he

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Speaker 1: came into the game eighteen years ago, the Pro Bowl

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Speaker 1: was different. You're still coming off of Sean Taylor's big hit, right,

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Speaker 1: you know, hey, this is when the Pro Bowl mattered.

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Speaker 1: We still played the game. Joe Flacco, who's been somewhat

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Speaker 1: elite for eighteen years, this is his first Pro Bowl experience,

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Speaker 1: and it's this stuff where no one's even wearing pads.

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Speaker 1: I'm not even wearing sneakers. I think he's wearing loafers

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Speaker 1: with tassels on them on the field. Like, that's who

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Speaker 1: I felt bad for going. He probably is, like, boy,

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Speaker 1: I could have, like, you know, one one real Pro

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Speaker 1: Bowl experience. But okay, all right, I am here. It's okay,

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Speaker 1: And now I got your door seven and ten. You know,

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Speaker 1: I couldn't get here years when I was like eighteen

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Speaker 1: and ten or twenty three and ten or twenty five

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Speaker 1: and twelve. No, no, no, but he's there with me,

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Speaker 1: So okay, only guy felt bad for a little bit,

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Speaker 1: only a.

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Speaker 3: Little bit, but he got to experience the pageantry of

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Speaker 3: it and celebrate it. I'm watching him on the field

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Speaker 3: now as the third quarter is underway in a replay.

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Speaker 4: That's how diseased I am. I'm still watching it in

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Speaker 4: the studio. But it's just that that notion for the

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Speaker 4: Pro Bowl game.

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Speaker 3: Look, the folks that yelled the loudest, I guarantee you

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Speaker 3: weren't gonna spend a minute on it any way. And

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Speaker 3: it goes back to Kevin Durant who gives us the

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Speaker 3: timeless line, you don't like it, don't watch. Yeah, and

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Speaker 3: I'm sure blenty of folks didn't. But you know what,

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Speaker 3: if they got anywhere close to numbers from the past,

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Speaker 3: which I'm sure they did, because people still watch, it's

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Speaker 3: still some bastardized version of football.

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Speaker 1: We're all in.

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Speaker 4: I mean this on the twenty fifth anniversary of the

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Speaker 4: first kickoff of the XFL and the rise of He

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Speaker 4: Hate Me. I mean, you'll watch.

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Speaker 1: Look, eventually it's gonna go away. It's not gonna be

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Speaker 1: here forever. Eventually it's gonna go But it's not now

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Speaker 1: and if this is what the Pro Bowl game.

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Speaker 4: Games, game games, game games, this is what it.

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Speaker 1: Is, and the over hits. Yeah, you knew the over

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Speaker 1: very quickly. Ten and a half.

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Speaker 4: I wonder minus one and a half.

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Speaker 1: I said, I wonder what the over is? You said

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Speaker 1: one hundred ten and a half. They just hit it.

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Speaker 1: I was like, wow, okay, all right, then I'm a

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Speaker 1: wizard or you bet it. Maybe the world they never know.

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Speaker 1: Exit out Valda Fresca, Exit Swallen down The Jason Smith

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Speaker 1: Show with my best friend Mike Carbon our best podcast

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