WEBVTT - Omicron Is Spreading Like Omarion

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<v Speaker 1>No, no, come home.

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<v Speaker 2>Come on this episode of the Heat Check.

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<v Speaker 3>COVID.

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<v Speaker 4>Yes, COVID, it's everywhere. I have currently entered health and

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<v Speaker 4>safety protocols.

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<v Speaker 3>I don't have COVID, but I'm just out. I'm just

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<v Speaker 3>gonna be out for a few days.

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<v Speaker 4>Nobody is safe from COVID though, in the NBA or

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<v Speaker 4>in the NFL, especially role players, but even even Lebron James.

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<v Speaker 4>Games are being shut down. Star players are out. Teams

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<v Speaker 4>are having to field like six seven, eight players.

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<v Speaker 3>I mean, what are we doing? And guess what? Like

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<v Speaker 3>I don't think it's going away. I don't think. I

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<v Speaker 3>think this is a.

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<v Speaker 4>New reality, a new frontier, as they say, a new

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<v Speaker 4>hurdle to the game.

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<v Speaker 5>So go ahead, rock drop down on the beat.

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<v Speaker 3>O Marion, O Macron. I mean it's uh, it's here.

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<v Speaker 1>Uh.

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<v Speaker 3>O Marion is not he's somewhere. He's alive.

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<v Speaker 4>He's alive, O Marion, I've got an icebox where my

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<v Speaker 4>heart he hold on.

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<v Speaker 3>Hold on one second. If only Omicron was as fun

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<v Speaker 3>as Omarion. Not as fun.

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<v Speaker 4>Definitely spreading like wildfire, just like O Marion seed Uh.

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<v Speaker 4>Omaron was fucking with a bunch of entertainers and he

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<v Speaker 4>was I've.

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<v Speaker 3>Got an ice fox. Anyway, I'm just fucking around. I'm

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<v Speaker 3>trying to make COVID funny. It's not easy. It's not easy.

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<v Speaker 4>Apologies for folks who recognize that I missed Monday's episode.

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<v Speaker 4>I was too out with COVID, so I was out

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<v Speaker 4>with the COVID booster. I got maderna mRNA. Apparently the

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<v Speaker 4>FDA EPA DHA, whoever is saying CDC I think, is

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<v Speaker 4>saying the mRNA booster is the best.

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<v Speaker 3>Why is it the best?

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<v Speaker 4>Well, it put me on my ass, and you can

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<v Speaker 4>tell that means it's working. There's something in there. It's

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<v Speaker 4>given you something. I don't know what it's doing in there,

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<v Speaker 4>but it's like Omarion is in there with all kinds

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<v Speaker 4>of screws and like like a needle nosed pliers handling

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<v Speaker 4>my immune system, trying to make sure that the next.

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<v Speaker 3>O Marion that comes. My wife is like, hey, bitch,

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<v Speaker 3>get out the way. I know who you are. I've

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<v Speaker 3>seen you before.

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<v Speaker 4>So there's the actual protection of COVID, which is the

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<v Speaker 4>O'mion booster.

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<v Speaker 3>Uh.

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<v Speaker 4>But maybe maybe we should have seen this outbreak coming.

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<v Speaker 4>I mean, NBA has been clamping down on testing since

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<v Speaker 4>Thanksgiving and Lebron has been the first domino to fall.

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<v Speaker 4>I mean, they could not even find a way to

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<v Speaker 4>protect This is how we know that the NBA doesn't

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<v Speaker 4>know what they're doing with COVID is because they didn't

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<v Speaker 4>even find.

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<v Speaker 3>The loophole for Lebron James.

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<v Speaker 4>Like they hadn't created they hadn't planned for Lebron James

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<v Speaker 4>getting Omari on like they didn't know. You know, they're

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<v Speaker 4>like hadn't found the Lebron James rule, Like Lebron James

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<v Speaker 4>close contact. We all know we protect Lebron James at

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<v Speaker 4>all costs. He hits a guy in the face, he's

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<v Speaker 4>out one game, that's it. Like he gets COVID, You

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<v Speaker 4>test him and test him and test him and test

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<v Speaker 4>him some more, and then you test some other guy

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<v Speaker 4>and then that's his test, Like right, like that's that's

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<v Speaker 4>what should have happened. But they didn't even know to

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<v Speaker 4>do that. So to me, that proved that the NBA

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<v Speaker 4>has no idea how to handle COVID. This's a new

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<v Speaker 4>frontier for them because when it came to Broun did

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<v Speaker 4>not only not get special treatment, I think he got

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<v Speaker 4>royally fucked. I think actually, even if he was a

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<v Speaker 4>role player, I'd feel bad for him.

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<v Speaker 3>And Braun is not used to getting.

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<v Speaker 4>Less than star treatment. So here's what happened. This is

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<v Speaker 4>the first shoe to drop in the age of COVID.

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<v Speaker 4>First and foremost, Lebron James is vaccinated. I don't know

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<v Speaker 4>what his booster status is. Don't ask me, I don't know.

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<v Speaker 4>But due to close contact on November thirtieth, Lebron James

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<v Speaker 4>had to test for a breakthrough case. He tested negative

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<v Speaker 4>at first, and then the second test came back positive,

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<v Speaker 4>which then put him into the league's COVID protocol COVID protocol.

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<v Speaker 4>So this is what happened, and then all hell broke loose.

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<v Speaker 4>So apparently Lebron James had to figure out a way

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<v Speaker 4>to get back to LA from Sacramento himself that tuesday

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<v Speaker 4>that he tested positive, and he wasn't allowed to have

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<v Speaker 4>anyone travel with him either.

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<v Speaker 3>And then when he returned.

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<v Speaker 4>To LA he basically had to isolate himself away from

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<v Speaker 4>his family as well. So had to find accommodations for

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<v Speaker 4>his family, all the peeps, and find a way.

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<v Speaker 3>To isolate himself. And I know he's rich. I know

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<v Speaker 3>he's a billionaire, but like that's annoying, Like that is stressful.

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<v Speaker 4>You're all of a sudden gone from the king to

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<v Speaker 4>like a pariah in like an instant, you know, like

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<v Speaker 4>you're a lepard.

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<v Speaker 3>Now, hey, you got COVID. Have you ever seen anyone

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<v Speaker 3>that you know and you know.

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<v Speaker 4>Them personally and then they tell you they've got COVID?

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<v Speaker 4>Like you, it changes how you see them for a while.

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<v Speaker 4>Like I lived with someone who got COVID and they

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<v Speaker 4>had to quarantine the basement while I was moving to DC.

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<v Speaker 3>And like she's young girls, twenty and I'm like, I.

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<v Speaker 4>Don't care that you've tested negative sixteen times.

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<v Speaker 3>Like you can't sleep anywhere near me?

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<v Speaker 4>Get off that couch, no, Like, uh, you stay over there,

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<v Speaker 4>Like give me spray some light style.

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<v Speaker 3>That was Lebron James though, And this is what Lebron said.

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<v Speaker 3>He was pissed. He was super pissed.

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<v Speaker 4>That's probably an understatement, actually, he said, Yo, it was

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<v Speaker 4>a big time inconvenience. Usually when you have a positive test,

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<v Speaker 4>I'll test you right away to make sure.

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<v Speaker 3>This was not that.

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<v Speaker 4>There was not a follow up test after my first positive.

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<v Speaker 4>It was straight to isolation and then you go into protocol.

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<v Speaker 4>That was the part that angered me. He never felt sick,

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<v Speaker 4>never had any symptoms, he had already tested negative, and

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<v Speaker 4>yet draconian COVID rules it was for the king. He

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<v Speaker 4>was like, I will if it was like, oh, I

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<v Speaker 4>had a positive COVID test, if what I had, by

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<v Speaker 4>the way, it was a false positive, Like this was

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<v Speaker 4>a false positive. He had tested negative eight consecutive times,

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<v Speaker 4>never really even had COVID, still had to go through

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<v Speaker 4>the ringer, And he said, if what I had was

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<v Speaker 4>a positive COVID test, then what are we even doing here?

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<v Speaker 3>Like what is this?

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<v Speaker 4>What are we even talking about? I thought they handled

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<v Speaker 4>it extremely poorly, and like they did, they did. He

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<v Speaker 4>did not have COVID at all, and he, like I said,

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<v Speaker 4>was clear to play. Before he was clear to play,

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<v Speaker 4>he had to test positive eight separate tests, eight separate times,

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<v Speaker 4>which is why he got on Twitter and tweeted all

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<v Speaker 4>those fishial emojis and the thinking emoji like something's fishy.

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<v Speaker 4>And I was like, wow, Lebron James is a conspiracy theorist. No,

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<v Speaker 4>he literally had a false positive. Couldn't play in a

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<v Speaker 4>game against Sacramento. If they did beat Sacramento without Lebron,

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<v Speaker 4>but who knows, Like they could have lost that game,

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<v Speaker 4>and that game was important.

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<v Speaker 3>And thank you to.

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<v Speaker 4>Lebron James for being one of the only people who

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<v Speaker 4>are speaking out against what we think. I think as

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<v Speaker 4>a collective is like, I don't even know what we're doing.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm not sure what's right. I'm not sure what's wrong.

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<v Speaker 4>I just know what you guys are doing is wrong.

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<v Speaker 4>Like I know pretty much everything that you guys are

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<v Speaker 4>doing is being handled poorly. If they can't handle Lebron jameson,

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<v Speaker 4>how do you think they handle like someone like Wayne

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<v Speaker 4>Ellington or Austin Reeves. Shout out to Austin Reeves, great shot,

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<v Speaker 4>and overtime they're calling him the new Crusoh. And then

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<v Speaker 4>you add in then you yeah, then you add in

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<v Speaker 4>the fact that you've got new omarion variant and you

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<v Speaker 4>have a new testing protocol where people not only have

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<v Speaker 4>to be vaccinated and now also have to be boostered.

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<v Speaker 4>And the NBA is just in a tailspin, like they

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<v Speaker 4>come back from Thanksgiving and everybody's got COVID, everybody's testing

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<v Speaker 4>positive for COVID. You've got omarion, which is the most

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<v Speaker 4>literally the omicron variant is the most transmissible variant we've

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<v Speaker 4>ever seen. It's mild, but it's transmissible as hell. Like

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<v Speaker 4>like Omarion and Adam Silver said, he's a mild mannered guy.

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<v Speaker 3>Adam Silver said before the season he was.

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<v Speaker 4>Positive, he was confident they would not have to postpone games.

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<v Speaker 4>He scheduled the entire season upfront, unlike last season where

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<v Speaker 4>he only scheduled half and was like, we'll see how

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<v Speaker 4>things are going with how many postponements and where we

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<v Speaker 4>put everyone in.

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<v Speaker 3>The back half of the season.

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<v Speaker 4>I think this is probably a miscalculation on his part,

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<v Speaker 4>like truthfully, because I don't know how they're going to

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<v Speaker 4>deal with this at all moving forward, Like not even

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<v Speaker 4>like you to leave. It's not even fully vaccinated. And

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<v Speaker 4>now they're like, yo, you also need to have boosters.

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<v Speaker 4>Like you not only need to be fully vaccinated, you

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<v Speaker 4>need to also have boosters. Bulls have now lost two

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<v Speaker 4>thirds of their team in three days. They've had to

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<v Speaker 4>cancel their last two games, So I'd say that was

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<v Speaker 4>a miscalculation on Adam Silver's part. All of sports are

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<v Speaker 4>having some trouble with this.

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<v Speaker 3>Currently.

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<v Speaker 4>As I walked into the studio, they've already moved a

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<v Speaker 4>couple of NFL games around as well.

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<v Speaker 3>Kings.

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<v Speaker 4>Sacramento Kings, of course, hilariously are in full protocol, like

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<v Speaker 4>all of them. Alvin Gentryes in protocol, like Daviondaron Fox,

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<v Speaker 4>Marvin Bagley, like the bag.

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<v Speaker 3>Boy, the fans, the whole city.

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<v Speaker 4>I think actually Sacramento as a whole was in protocol.

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<v Speaker 4>Like the Sacramento radio guy, Damien Barling, He's in protocol.

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<v Speaker 4>I mean.

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<v Speaker 3>Nets also had to play with eight players. Just the

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<v Speaker 3>other night. It was just Kadie and Patty Mills out

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<v Speaker 3>there rocking out. It was just that was the only

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<v Speaker 3>two that I knew.

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<v Speaker 4>Even when you've got guys like DeAndre Bembrie that are

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<v Speaker 4>in protocol like everyone. You had a guy David Duke

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<v Speaker 4>Junior playing on the Brooklyn Nets. Do you think right

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<v Speaker 4>now in these times we want to be rolling out

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<v Speaker 4>David Duke in Brooklyn. Not in these times or any times,

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<v Speaker 4>black kid named David Duke.

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<v Speaker 3>No, No like that.

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<v Speaker 6>Kids at the end of the bench, Poor Dante Devencenzo

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<v Speaker 6>rehabbed his high ankle sprain for six months, got cleared

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<v Speaker 6>to play this week for the Bucks, and they need him, boy,

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<v Speaker 6>because there's a bunch of other bucks that are in protocol.

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<v Speaker 3>And then boom dive Covid o Marion.

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<v Speaker 4>So I mean, the shit is having an impact, and

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<v Speaker 4>I think it's gonna change who's gonna make.

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<v Speaker 3>It to the playoffs and who's not.

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<v Speaker 4>Because in this league right now, with a significant level

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<v Speaker 4>of parody, one or two games in December, January February

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<v Speaker 4>is the difference between four seed and a six or

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<v Speaker 4>seven seed.

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<v Speaker 3>So this is Adam Silver's Nightmarre?

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<v Speaker 4>Is it not like we talked about how earlier this

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<v Speaker 4>year how COVID almost derailed the finals. What do you

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<v Speaker 4>think it's gonna do moving forward with new, more transmissible variants.

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<v Speaker 3>Are they just.

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<v Speaker 4>Gonna stop testing players because that's what happened earlier, Like

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<v Speaker 4>they weren't testing players at all that were vaccinated in bunniers,

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<v Speaker 4>vaccinated in bunniers.

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<v Speaker 3>Because we don't know, Like we don't really know.

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<v Speaker 4>We've got guys like Antonio Brown faking vaccine cards. My

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<v Speaker 4>sister sending me text messages being like can I see

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<v Speaker 4>your vaccination card? Like no, no, bitch, I do not

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<v Speaker 4>need you pulling off a fella knee off.

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<v Speaker 3>Of your sisters.

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<v Speaker 4>This isn't like a fake ID when I used to

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<v Speaker 4>drink when your ten years So this is not the

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<v Speaker 4>same I've been ten years older. She's it's like, it

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<v Speaker 4>is not the same as like I'm nineteen, Hey, sis,

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<v Speaker 4>can I borrow your your driver's license?

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<v Speaker 3>It's like no, I could go to jail. You could

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<v Speaker 3>go to jail, like for a very long time.

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<v Speaker 4>So I'm wondering this, are we going to get to

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<v Speaker 4>a point where the NBA just stops testing all together?

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<v Speaker 4>Because that's what was happening before. They weren't testing vaccinating

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<v Speaker 4>vaccinated players because they didn't know really anything.

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<v Speaker 3>They didn't know that.

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<v Speaker 4>These breakthroughs were going to happen at mass and then

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<v Speaker 4>guys who weren't vaccinated have like a higher quote unquote

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<v Speaker 4>viral load, paging doctor Crik, like higher viral load, and

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<v Speaker 4>then like, okay, what happens, Like now do fans need

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<v Speaker 4>to sign waivers if you go into an arena and

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<v Speaker 4>they're not testing players that are either not fully vaccinated

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<v Speaker 4>or not fully boosted, or what if someone has COVID

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<v Speaker 4>it's a breakthrough case and you're not vaccinated, you're wearing

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<v Speaker 4>a mask and you're on the sidelines right there on front,

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<v Speaker 4>in the front row. What if you get COVID because

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<v Speaker 4>you didn't know Marvin Bagley's bumb ass had COVID and

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<v Speaker 4>he falls on you with this sweat and his breath

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<v Speaker 4>and then all of a sudden you're on a ventilator.

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<v Speaker 4>Like our guys, like, these are real realities we need

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<v Speaker 4>to be calculating in our mind because this isn't just

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<v Speaker 4>like a seatbelt law. This isn't like, oh my body,

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<v Speaker 4>my choice, I can go through the windshield. It's like, well,

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<v Speaker 4>what if you could go through the windshield, And because

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<v Speaker 4>you went through the windshield, like ten others also went

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<v Speaker 4>through the windshield, it's.

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<v Speaker 3>Closer to that.

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<v Speaker 4>And that's where I think we're at is I'm not

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<v Speaker 4>sure that the NBA knows how to really calculate how

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<v Speaker 4>to move forward without possibly facing lawsuits. Maybe we're gonna

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<v Speaker 4>get to the point where everyone just has to sign releases.

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<v Speaker 3>Hey if you get COVID.

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<v Speaker 4>If you get COVID and die, we are not at

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<v Speaker 4>fault like that happens in America because we're so so

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<v Speaker 4>happy as it is, like you have to sign releases

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<v Speaker 4>for fucking everything. You go to six Flags, Hey, if

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<v Speaker 4>you fall out of our rollercoaster and die. It's not

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<v Speaker 4>our fault. Just want to let you know. You gotta

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<v Speaker 4>say this in advance, like who knows? And this illustrates

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<v Speaker 4>that what.

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<v Speaker 3>We know nothing?

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<v Speaker 4>No one knows anything. NBA doesn't know anything. I don't

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<v Speaker 4>know anything. The scientific community they sure as hell don't

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<v Speaker 4>know anything either, And that all trickles down because when

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<v Speaker 4>the smartest people in the world don't know anything, and

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<v Speaker 4>it's a developing situation, let me tell you this dumbass

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<v Speaker 4>is like me.

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<v Speaker 3>No negative amounts of things like, that's where we're at.

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<v Speaker 4>They're now saying that omicron could have mutated in one

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<v Speaker 4>single immunocompromised human being. So somebody with lupis or diabetes

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<v Speaker 4>or oh, what's it not lupus, lime limes immunocompromisation, that's

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<v Speaker 4>what I meant.

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<v Speaker 3>That person can now develop the crick variant, the crick variant,

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<v Speaker 3>the love variant exactly. Yeah, get out of here, crick,

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<v Speaker 3>stay out of here.

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<v Speaker 4>Trisk get So it seems impossible now to solve if

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<v Speaker 4>one human, one random immunocompromised human anywhere in the world,

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<v Speaker 4>can create a new variant inside of their body like

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<v Speaker 4>a little uh, like a test tube. I mean I

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<v Speaker 4>don't know what we're doing, and if that's the unknown,

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<v Speaker 4>the one thing that we do know is that there's

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<v Speaker 4>gonna be more things coming up, more variants.

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<v Speaker 3>Who knows what next?

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<v Speaker 4>R and B singer, I'll be joking around about what's

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<v Speaker 4>coming next. And as I went to air this WOJ bomb,

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<v Speaker 4>this is the bomb. Just as I suspected, the NBA

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<v Speaker 4>is trying to skirt around and trying to change the

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<v Speaker 4>rules cause they know what's up there. Like, as it stands,

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<v Speaker 4>our rules are gonna fuck us from getting money. So

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<v Speaker 4>the NBA and the NBPA are currently discussing modified COVID protocols.

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<v Speaker 4>The two had already agreed to start testing on testing

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<v Speaker 4>vaccinated players without booster shots on Friday, but there are

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<v Speaker 4>conversations around further testing in protocols with the uptick positive cases,

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<v Speaker 4>and then he followed the next day with this. The

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<v Speaker 4>increased testing will run December twenty sixth. The January eighth

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<v Speaker 4>mask will be required for players, coaches and staff on

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<v Speaker 4>the bench, in the locker, wait in training rooms, while

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<v Speaker 4>traveling with teams.

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<v Speaker 3>Per memo share with.

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<v Speaker 4>The teams fun times, uh, just in time for All

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<v Speaker 4>Star weekend. That's gonna be in one of the coldest,

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<v Speaker 4>most miserable places in the country.

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<v Speaker 3>Cleveland, the land. Not Miami, where you can do everything outdoors.

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<v Speaker 4>Nope, in a place like Cleveland in the dead of winter,

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<v Speaker 4>where you have to put yourself in a tiny, enclosed

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<v Speaker 4>space with a bunch of fucking thoughts. Because that's what

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<v Speaker 4>happens is a bunch of ratchet girls come to All

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<v Speaker 4>Star weekend, probably to pull a Britney Runner or two

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<v Speaker 4>and probably end up with Omicron. That's what we're gonna

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<v Speaker 4>You go want a baby and some child support, end

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<v Speaker 4>up with Omicron, and now our whole league is in

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<v Speaker 4>fucking shambles. They're probably never gonna stop testing. They're like, oh,

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<v Speaker 4>we're gonna wait for a down tick. Let me just

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<v Speaker 4>be very very clear, folks, I am a pessimist, but

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<v Speaker 4>I am a realist. The Downtick's not coming.

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<v Speaker 3>That's all the.

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<v Speaker 4>Time that we have for this heat check. We will

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<v Speaker 4>be back Monday, I know, optimism. We will be back

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<v Speaker 1>Secure, Sam, I'm so.

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<v Speaker 2>Liveries.

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<v Speaker 3>This is cra easy shame. Not like girls like

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<v Speaker 4>Mm hmm