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Speaker 3: That's right. Final hour of the Ben mala Show with

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Speaker 3: Kevin Figures at kfig one is where you can find

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Speaker 3: me on X. Adam at follow Adam A is where

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Speaker 3: you can find him on X. Thank you guys for

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Speaker 3: joining us here, and Happy New Year to all of

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Speaker 3: you listening in the air everywhere around the vast Fox

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Speaker 4: In the air everywhere, right, Yeah, we miss Ben too,

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Speaker 4: all right. We love him very much as an honor

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Speaker 4: to get to fill in for him tonight, He's not in.

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Speaker 2: The air everywhere.

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Speaker 4: I'm sorry. What was that? Ben said that? A little

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Speaker 4: bit off English?

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Speaker 5: Mother, He sounds like our callers.

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Speaker 4: It was the caller earlier, Bree. Do we have this

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Speaker 4: because this is an all time sound drop that I

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Speaker 4: think we generated in our first drink much night, Kevin,

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Speaker 4: that's a drop.

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Speaker 3: It is Bree.

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Speaker 4: Who is that again? Is that hey? Seabas blind?

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Speaker 6: SeaBASS in Nashville?

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Speaker 4: So why blinde? Okay, he's actually blind?

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Speaker 3: Is that? Am I? Am?

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Speaker 4: I blind?

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Speaker 5: And not seeing the blind listeners?

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Speaker 4: Tell me about the seven Toad Woman? That is that

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Speaker 4: a real caller here on the Ben.

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Speaker 5: Mallerads Felexus, the seven Toad drag queen.

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Speaker 3: A lot going on to that name in that title's.

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Speaker 6: She's based out of New York and she's a Vikings fan.

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Speaker 4: So we had the nine Told Woman in The Big

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Speaker 4: Lebowski and he just had to get one toe for

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Speaker 4: this person. It would be three toes. That's a lot.

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Speaker 4: That's asking a lot. I don't know. You have to

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Speaker 4: lose a few different gambling bets for the Sharks to

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Speaker 4: take off three toes with you. But all right, Kevin,

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Speaker 4: let's get back into it. Here our college football forecast.

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Speaker 2: College football forecast with FNA.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, one more ball remaining of consequence at least coming

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Speaker 3: up later this afternoon. The Sugar Bowl the Ole Miss

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Speaker 3: in Georgia, a rematch from earlier in the season, a

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Speaker 3: shootout was that thirty five to forty two. I believe

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Speaker 3: thirty five. Excuse me.

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Speaker 4: Ole Miss was up in this game and scored on

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Speaker 4: their first five possessions until the fourth quarter, where they

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Speaker 4: were outscored seventeen to nothing. Which is kind of the

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Speaker 4: calling card with Georgia this year with them dogs, They

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Speaker 4: are resilient, they come back. They trailed in six of

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Speaker 4: their seven regular season SEC victories, only loss, of course, Tobama,

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Speaker 4: which they got back in the SEC Championship against them.

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Speaker 3: Similar to the rolls ball, I think this is kind

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Speaker 3: at the time when these two teams played, Georgia was

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Speaker 3: this is no disrespect to ole Miss and Trinidad. Chambliss

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Speaker 4: just it's ingrained with me that Georgia. I always think

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Speaker 4: But for a while, they kept knocking on the door

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Speaker 4: lot of faith in them dogs, especially in this matchup,

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Speaker 3: But I just don't think that's gonna happen. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 4: Ago, Georgia's defense has allowed just thirty four points in

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Speaker 4: So when it comes down to conch time in winning time,

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Speaker 4: But they have been at their best when their best

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Speaker 4: especially if you have the pedigree like they do, and

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Speaker 4: maybe the best coach left, Kurt Signetti's knocking on the door.

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Speaker 4: We'll see what happens in this playoff run. But Kirby smart,

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Speaker 4: he is proven, he is bona fide, and so is Georgia.

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Speaker 3: You said something last hour about this playoff in general

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Speaker 3: if they don't advance, if Oregon loses to Texas Tech.

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Speaker 4: And man, well that's not forbid. Come on now, well,

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Speaker 4: I'm just saying, that's not go crazy here. My Ducks

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Speaker 4: losing to Texas Tech. Okay, it could happen.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And if Alabama somehow, as I never thought i'd

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Speaker 3: never thought i'd say this. If Alabama pulls the upset

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Speaker 3: about no Big Ten representation, no in the final four.

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Speaker 4: That would be okay. First of all, the Big Ten

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Speaker 4: and as the SEC, they haven't even made it to

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Speaker 4: So maybe you could say between them and the Big

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Speaker 4: ten when it comes to conference supremacy going on, they're

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Speaker 3: To a certain degree. I mean, also, will you talk

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Speaker 3: doesn't matter. If you look at our conference is better

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Speaker 3: isn't this what matters most? When you talk about this.

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Speaker 3: People are not gonna be arguing about who's better between

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Speaker 3: Mississippi State and Michigan State. All due respect to those programs.

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Speaker 3: This is the heavy hitters, the best of the best.

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Speaker 3: What happens when your best face is my best and

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Speaker 3: right now you know who knows? I mean, it's very

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Speaker 3: possible that that the big bad Big ten who's been

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Speaker 3: talking about playoff realignment and who should get automatic bids

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Speaker 3: and a lot of stuff I agree with, but yeah,

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Speaker 3: it does take your prestige to a certain degree. Takes

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Speaker 3: don't even make it into the Final four with a

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Speaker 4: Having said that, though Indiana's favored and Oregon is favored,

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Speaker 4: the ACC, Hey don't underestimate that ACC speed. We used

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Speaker 4: ACC needs a little bit more respect. After tonight, that was.

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Speaker 3: ACC power is what that was given. It to O

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Speaker 3: House stay over and over again, especially in that first half.

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Speaker 4: I thought I saw Sean Taylor out there, one of

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean that Miami defense was hitting on Friday night.

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Speaker 3: Some of the hits their land on those guys was incredible.

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Speaker 3: They were fired up.

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Speaker 4: I thought I saw Jonathan Wilma out there. I thought,

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Speaker 4: I ray Lewis out there, Okay, ray Lewis out.

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Speaker 3: There was a nice suit, real nice suit.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I hope he doesn't have to throw that one away. Okay,

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Speaker 4: let's uh, and it was our last time feeling on

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Speaker 4: the show, Adam Ashley, but.

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Speaker 3: An impressive performance by Miami. Nonetheless, I mean for a

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Speaker 3: was ridiculous. The whole Notre Dame argument shouldn't have been

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Speaker 3: to be an argument, it should have been between Notre

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Speaker 3: Dame and Alabama. You're right now, I am brilliant, You're right.

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Speaker 3: And by the way, I also said I would have

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Speaker 3: taken Alabama to make the playoff over Notre Dame too,

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Speaker 3: so Notre Dame still would have been pissed off of

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Speaker 4: Dame, I gotta say. And maybe we can veer in

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Speaker 4: because we haven't touched upon the follow up with Lincoln

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Speaker 4: Riley here in his comments this week, But as much

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Speaker 4: as we have gone after USC, and rightfully so, and

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Speaker 4: had Petros Papadakas on too to talk about.

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Speaker 2: It, but trying to bite a real show, we.

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Speaker 3: Pretty much ripped into USC for twenty minutes.

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Speaker 4: I'm also a little bit sick of having to accommodate

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Speaker 4: why they won't. They got the big TV deal, why

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Speaker 4: would they want to share it with anyone. But at

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Speaker 4: the same time, they want this level of respect and

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Speaker 4: the season. I'm thinking, like, isn't it two way street?

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Speaker 4: Shouldn't it be with Notre Dame? Last time I checked,

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Speaker 4: they haven't won a national championship since nineteen eighty eight,

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Speaker 4: is correct? Why do we talk about it's almost a

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Speaker 4: mid off with them in USC and subways. I know

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Speaker 4: Notre Dame was just their last season. They they were.

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Speaker 3: Competitive as title game couple been there.

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Speaker 4: But okay, yeah, they got there and got wiped out

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Speaker 4: Like, I'm sorry, but I see a lot of problems

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd always fell more on the side than the

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Speaker 4: I'm kind of tired of everyone acquiescing to them.

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Speaker 4: Because I've had to watch them so much and underperform

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Speaker 3: You swept the Panthers this year. It's a big deal.

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Speaker 9: He's an Eagle?

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Speaker 4: Is he one of the Eagles?

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Speaker 5: Is he not one of the Eagles?

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Speaker 9: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: He was a beach boy. Okay, I was you were close.

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Speaker 4: You were in the zip code of the time period,

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Speaker 4: somewhat maybe sort of Wow, all right, Kevin, we started

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Speaker 4: this thing talking about basketball here as I played that

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Speaker 4: Bobby Knight clip. Here's another one. But we've had some

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Speaker 4: h I don't want to say breaking news here, but

476
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Speaker 4: with getting hurt earlier tonight. They're calling it a light

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Speaker 4: hyper extension of his left knee.

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Speaker 3: Like whoever called it light probably has never hyper incented

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Speaker 3: their knee before. I'll put it that way.

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Speaker 4: It looked painful. Yeah, not as bad as Nikola Jokic

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Speaker 4: is considering how he had to walk off the floor,

482
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Speaker 4: and that was a scary scene, especially for Denver Nuggets.

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Speaker 4: Fans who are without five of their six top paid players,

484
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Speaker 4: like top bread winners on the team.

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Speaker 3: Is that an issue?

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Speaker 4: It could be, it could end up dropping them. I

487
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Speaker 4: think this is a situation right now where Denver had

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Speaker 4: a chance to be the two seed in the Western

489
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Speaker 4: Conference because Jamal Murray's been playing like an All Star

490
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Speaker 4: and will be an All Star this season. Finally, mind

491
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Speaker 4: but Nikola Jokich has been mister reliable for them and

492
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Speaker 4: has been able to get them where they need to

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Speaker 4: go regardless of who's around him. Well, this season they

494
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Speaker 4: actually built a team a little bit better. But now

495
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Speaker 4: Cameron Johnson is hurt, Aaron Gordon is out, Christian Brown

496
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Speaker 4: don't call him Braun is also out, and Jokich was

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Speaker 4: the one supposed to save them when they have all

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Speaker 4: these injuries and now he's out.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's tough sledding. It's still relatively early, although he's

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Speaker 3: going to be out for a month, so they say

501
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Speaker 3: about four weeks is when he's gonna be reevaluated for

502
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Speaker 3: his k the issue. I mean, so that's a large stretch.

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Speaker 3: I mean you can easily right now they find themselves

504
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Speaker 3: sitting in the three seed. I mean they can fall

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Speaker 3: to five or six by then who knows, and they're

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Speaker 3: one of those teams. I will say, I think they're

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Speaker 3: good enough if they are healthy. I don't know if

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Speaker 3: home court necessarily matters. It takes. It's obviously an advantage

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Speaker 3: for them in the Mile High City, but just generally speaking,

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Speaker 3: they're so good and so talented and Yoki is such

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Speaker 3: a dominant player. Would you prefer to have home court advantage, Absolutely,

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Speaker 3: but I don't know if it's necessary for them. I

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Speaker 3: think the important thing for a team like them is

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Speaker 3: to be as healthy as possible getting into the postseason.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if it necessarily matters that they have

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Speaker 3: to be in the top two or three.

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Speaker 4: What it does do is open up a possibility for

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Speaker 4: San Antonio, who right now is a game up on them.

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Speaker 4: They are in the two spot. We don't know how

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Speaker 4: long Wemby will be out, if at all, because they're

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Speaker 4: calling it a light hyper extension. Even if he is, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: maybe it's a week at most.

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Speaker 3: But even if he is, I'm not gonna it sounds

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Speaker 3: like I'm downplaying his impact, which I'm not going to do.

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Speaker 3: But does it really matter. They've been They played their

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Speaker 3: asses off, even when Winby hasn't been there. Yeah, they've

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Speaker 3: been amazing.

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Speaker 4: They Wemby defensively, they're like ten points better per one

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Speaker 4: hundred possessions when he's on the floor because he guards

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Speaker 4: half the floor out there. If you thought Revis Islands

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Speaker 4: was something or Ed Reid back in the day taking

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Speaker 4: away half the field, well, in basketball terms, that's what

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Speaker 4: Wemby does out there on the court. There's nothing else

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Speaker 4: like it.

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Speaker 3: No.

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Speaker 4: I think it was JDub recently for the OKC Thunder

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Speaker 4: who put it really matter faculty after they lost to

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Speaker 4: them three times in twelve days, when nobody else could

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Speaker 4: beat the Thunder. It's like, yeah, well they have this

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Speaker 4: guy who you know, is like seven five and guards

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Speaker 4: half the court out there. It's kind of tough.

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Speaker 3: He's not wrong, but it's not just Wemby and Winby

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Speaker 3: does raise their ceiling. They go from a very good

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Speaker 3: defensive team to a dominant defensive team when he's in there.

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Speaker 3: But they have a bunch of other guys who have

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Speaker 3: been who contributed to them playing as well as they played,

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Speaker 3: so they if he had to miss a week or two,

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Speaker 3: I think it kind of lessens a little bit of

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Speaker 3: the impact. More So, than sant Nicole Yokish being out

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Speaker 3: for a month for the Denver Nunbers. I think the

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Speaker 3: Spurs can weather that storm more than Denver.

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Speaker 4: Camp They've already been used to getting by without him,

553
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Speaker 4: going back to last season two and even his rookie year,

554
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Speaker 4: because he's been injury prone unfortunately. But this could open

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Speaker 4: up a chance for the Houston Rockets, or the Lakers

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Speaker 4: if they could ever get it together, or the Minnesota Timberwolves,

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Speaker 4: like I say the same for them right now, as

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Speaker 4: Anthony Edwards was upset earlier and just left the bench

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Speaker 4: during the game tonight. But the Houston Rockets are really

560
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Speaker 4: the team in the driver's seat to take advantage of

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Speaker 4: these injuries and get a top three seed, because right

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Speaker 4: now they're game and a half behind Denver, in two

563
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Speaker 4: and a half games behind San Antonio. This is their

564
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Speaker 4: opportunity to really flex their muscles and shoot up the

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Speaker 4: Western Conference standings. That's we're forty percent of the way

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Speaker 4: through the season right now. People think it's too early

567
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Speaker 4: to be talking about this. No, no, no, remember Christmas. I

568
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Speaker 4: know you guys think that's the annual unofficial tip off

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Speaker 4: to the NBA season. But we're pretty far along now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, now, And I believe I brought this up on

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Speaker 3: our show that we do here on Friday nights on

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Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio, just talking about the standings and when

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Speaker 3: you start scoreboard watching and people talking about games in

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Speaker 3: November and December and even January for a lot of

575
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Speaker 3: people not mattering that much. I just take you back

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Speaker 3: to the Western Conference standings at the end of last

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Speaker 3: season and the fact that two games separate at the

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Speaker 3: three seed from the nine seed. Two games. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 3: I mean. So you sit here and tell me that

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Speaker 3: at two or three game losing streak, are losing four

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Speaker 3: out of five and November doesn't matter. I will fast

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Speaker 3: forward you to April and tell you the reason why

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Speaker 3: your team is in a play in contest as opposed

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Speaker 3: to you know, having home field or home court advantage

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Speaker 3: in the first round, is because they lost four or

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Speaker 3: five games in December. These games matter.

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Speaker 4: I'll take it a step further with the regular season

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Speaker 4: with people that just think it's garbage, and they garbage.

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Speaker 4: I think it's inconsequential. Now that we're in twenty twenty six,

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Speaker 4: there has not been a team outside of the top

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Speaker 4: three in either conference over the last thirty years that

592
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Speaker 4: has won the championship. Everybody who has won a championship

593
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Speaker 4: the last thirty years has been a top three seed.

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Speaker 4: Because the last team to do it was in nineteen

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Speaker 4: ninety five with the Houston Rockets. Now we're in twenty six,

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Speaker 4: you can say it's been thirty years since we've had

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Speaker 4: anybody outside the top three.

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Speaker 3: In their conference.

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Speaker 4: If you aren't a top three team in your conference,

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Speaker 4: history will say you're unserious, You're not winning at all.

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Speaker 4: You don't have an opportunity to do that. Will somebody

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Speaker 4: probably breakthrough at some point. You bring up the Denver

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Speaker 4: Nuggets and how talented they are with the top end

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Speaker 4: talent with Nikol Jokic when they get healthy. Yeah, I

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Speaker 4: do feel like they're one of those teams that could

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Speaker 4: buck that trend. And because we have teams coming out

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Speaker 4: of the play in the league, the parody all these things,

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Speaker 4: But so far, it's held true that chock wins in

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Speaker 4: the end in the NBA, so the regular season and

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Speaker 4: seeding purposes really matter.

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Speaker 3: And I'm say for like the last few games that

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Speaker 3: the three straight wins that the San Antonios persons have

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Speaker 3: had overly Oklahoma City Thunder, I guess I wonder if

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Speaker 3: that that's really gonna hold true if these two teams

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Speaker 3: actually do me end up meeting in the postseason. I

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Speaker 3: do think Oklahoma City is one of those teams and

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Speaker 3: look as look as great as they've been this year,

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Speaker 3: when they get to the playoffs, they're a team that

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Speaker 3: can take it to an extra year offensively and defensively,

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Speaker 3: especially as good as Wimby is. I don't know. I

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Speaker 3: guess I give them credit for having for having such

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Speaker 3: success against them so far here in their three matchups

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Speaker 3: in the regular season, but I still think it's Oklahoma

624
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Speaker 3: Cities to lose. Again. It's Oklahoma City versus the field,

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Speaker 3: and that field includes San Antonio.

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Speaker 4: Well, up until two weeks ago, I would have said,

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Speaker 4: as long as they're healthy, okc is fine. There's nobody

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Speaker 4: else that can compete with them. And I was gonna

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Speaker 4: talk about more of this tomorrow night too, But there's

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Speaker 4: something about the way San Antonio matches up with them,

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Speaker 4: and it reminds me of back in nineteen ninety nine,

632
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Speaker 4: the Jacksonville Jaguars lost three games. They lost all three

633
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Speaker 4: games to one team in the Tennessee Titans beat them twice.

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Speaker 4: Division rival in the NFC or what was the AFC.

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Speaker 4: Was that South back then? Now it was before that

636
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Speaker 4: Central maybe. So they lost the two regular season games

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Speaker 4: against them, and then they lost the AFC championship game

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Speaker 4: against them. They had their number. And I'm not saying,

639
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,320
Speaker 4: like you know, the San Antonio Spurs they can't beat

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Speaker 4: anybody but Oklahoma City. No, they're good, but they're also

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Speaker 4: perfectly constructed to beat OKAC because OKC and their major advantage,

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Speaker 4: and I've been saying this for years, is the one

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Speaker 4: thing you can rely upon more than most anything else

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Speaker 4: in sports is their defense, and particularly on the perimeter. Well,

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Speaker 4: San Antonio has the guards to get by those guys

646
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Speaker 4: like nobody else. It doesn't affect them nearly as much.

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Speaker 4: You look at the amount of turnovers they have against

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Speaker 4: okay See versus everybody else, as I think okay See

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Speaker 4: is turning people over like eighteen times per game. Well,

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Speaker 4: when you have Fox, when you have Harper, when you

651
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Speaker 4: have Castle, when you have Devin Faselle, I mean, they

652
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:15,440
Speaker 4: just come at you in waves and they can get

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Speaker 4: by those defenders. I haven't seen anybody else do it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there will be an intriguing seven game

655
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:22,920
Speaker 3: series to watch. I will still take Oklahoma City in

656
00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 3: that matchup, but San Antonio's coming. They're probably a year

657
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:29,720
Speaker 3: ahead of schedule for as far as I'm concerned. Oh,

658
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:31,560
Speaker 3: with how good they've been and how dominant they've been

659
00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:31,960
Speaker 3: this year.

660
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 4: It remarkable the step that they took. Just being okay

661
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 4: See three times in twelve days is insane to me, honestly,

662
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 4: because at some point okay See has a ton of pride.

663
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 4: They say they want to win every game. Shake giggles,

664
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 4: Alexander's talking about, Yeah, we're fine with breaking the record

665
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:50,480
Speaker 4: seventy three wins. We'd be good with that. And it

666
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:52,640
Speaker 4: looked like they were just gonna walk into seventy wins

667
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 4: this season. And then within less than two weeks a

668
00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:58,400
Speaker 4: team finally punched them in the mouth. And it was

669
00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:01,040
Speaker 4: this young, up and coming San Antonio team that is

670
00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:02,000
Speaker 4: way ahead of schedule.

671
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:04,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe they got humbled a little bit too. When

672
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 3: they go back, they circle the wagons. I don't know

673
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 3: if and when they play again this year. The NBA

674
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:11,200
Speaker 3: schedule is kind of funky when it comes to conferences.

675
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:12,960
Speaker 3: They used to play everybody played each other four times,

676
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,320
Speaker 3: and now sometimes you play somebody three times. So I

677
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:17,479
Speaker 3: don't know how many more matchups they have this season,

678
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 3: but that's certainly a playoff matchup I'm looking forward to. Yeah,

679
00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:22,960
Speaker 3: and hopefully they're all healthy when we get there.

680
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:25,360
Speaker 4: We might be seeing this over the next five to

681
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:28,400
Speaker 4: ten years. Yeah. Like I know, we shouldn't look too

682
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 4: far out. Injuries and sports guys could regress, but this

683
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:36,840
Speaker 4: could be a real rivalry. As you see Wemby and Chet,

684
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:40,960
Speaker 4: it's really not from Chet's side, but Wemby just absolutely

685
00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:44,440
Speaker 4: loves to irritate him. Every time Chet misses a free throw,

686
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:48,200
Speaker 4: he's out there clapping. Wenby's trying to embrace the villain role.

687
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:51,040
Speaker 4: It's almost like he realized, you know what, the NBA

688
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:53,680
Speaker 4: is missing great rivalries and a guy that will just

689
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 4: go out there and be a dog and be an

690
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,080
Speaker 4: irritant And I'm here for it. I love it.

691
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:01,440
Speaker 3: I just need the guy stay on the court. That's

692
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:04,400
Speaker 3: my biggest fear with Wemby. And then maybe it's his build,

693
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 3: or maybe he just had some bad luck, maybe it's

694
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:10,000
Speaker 3: a combination of both, but just I have not been

695
00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:14,600
Speaker 3: encouraged by the returns of his the early start to

696
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:17,160
Speaker 3: his career, the amount of games that he's missed because

697
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:19,200
Speaker 3: usually you don't get healthier as you get older. When

698
00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:21,920
Speaker 3: you have a body that's built that way, you're probably

699
00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 3: more prone to getting injured. So I do fear that.

700
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:27,200
Speaker 3: I hope that's not the case, and I hope he

701
00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:29,440
Speaker 3: ends up having a great career and play seventy plus

702
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:31,760
Speaker 3: games a year, But so far he's not trending in

703
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 3: that direction. So that's an area of concern for.

704
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 4: Me as a basketball fan. I pray for Wemby to

705
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:37,080
Speaker 4: stay healthy.

706
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:39,120
Speaker 3: We all do, yeah, we all do.

707
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:44,360
Speaker 4: I know Adam Silver is all right. Coming up next

708
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:47,880
Speaker 4: final segment, we got Breeze three here on the f

709
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:49,880
Speaker 4: and a takeover of the Ben Maller Show on Fox

710
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:58,960
Speaker 4: Sports Radio, and a Cotton welcome back in f and

711
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:02,240
Speaker 4: a in for Ben. I met a Mosley s kipn figures.

712
00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:05,040
Speaker 4: Remember with the iHeartRadio app. You know what I did

713
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:06,800
Speaker 4: that one last hour. We don't have to do another

714
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:09,160
Speaker 4: read here, but I do love the iHeartRadio app. You

715
00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:12,240
Speaker 4: should use it and you could stream us there. Final

716
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:16,040
Speaker 4: segment of the show, What a save. It's breebree segment,

717
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:19,080
Speaker 4: not one, not.

718
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:28,600
Speaker 2: Two, but three. It's entertainment. It's good, it's Breeze three.

719
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:30,600
Speaker 3: All right, breath what we got, guys.

720
00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:33,319
Speaker 9: So we talked a lot about bowl games, and I'm

721
00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:35,840
Speaker 9: sure you guys saw the pop tart spool last week.

722
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:39,359
Speaker 9: Did you guys see that last weekend of Everybody?

723
00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:40,799
Speaker 6: Okay, well whatever.

724
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 4: I will after this segment, okay.

725
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:44,680
Speaker 9: Yes, And so you obviously saw it on Twitter, and

726
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:46,480
Speaker 9: it just kind of got me thinking, like, well, if

727
00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:49,120
Speaker 9: you could make your up your own bowl game, like,

728
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 9: what would you do?

729
00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:50,920
Speaker 4: Okay?

730
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:54,399
Speaker 9: So I said, you could do your favorite like TV show,

731
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:56,759
Speaker 9: your favorite food, your fourth grade teacher, I don't know,

732
00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:59,040
Speaker 9: just based on anything that you really really like. So

733
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 9: the first one that I went with, I did a

734
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:04,480
Speaker 9: nineties bowl. Okay, so I did like throwback uniforms for

735
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:07,799
Speaker 9: the teams. Light brights line the field. Do you remember

736
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:08,440
Speaker 9: light brights?

737
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:11,680
Speaker 4: I saw a bleeping car on the way over that

738
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:16,959
Speaker 4: actually was wrapped in Christmas lights. Yes, that happens, that's normal.

739
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:18,040
Speaker 6: I've seen like five of them.

740
00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:20,279
Speaker 4: I couldn't believe it. Actually thought it was cool. Okay.

741
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 6: So like, yeah, he's like a French.

742
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:27,720
Speaker 9: Yeah, easy bake oven goodies like sold in the stands,

743
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:29,560
Speaker 9: you know kind of thing like it was that kind

744
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:34,080
Speaker 9: of rapping a Blockbuster kind of like rapping over like

745
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:37,280
Speaker 9: the big screens and they show like old movie clips

746
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:38,719
Speaker 9: being played during timeouts.

747
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:40,160
Speaker 5: Yeah you really thought about this?

748
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:42,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, I didn't take it that far. Okay, Okay, okay,

749
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:44,640
Speaker 4: is there a Hollywood video too? No?

750
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:45,719
Speaker 6: I just did Blockbuster.

751
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:48,799
Speaker 9: And then my second bowl, I did a Spotify bawl

752
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:50,319
Speaker 9: so green goalpost.

753
00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:51,120
Speaker 6: Okay.

754
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:54,160
Speaker 9: There's a playlist of songs for each team every time

755
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:57,400
Speaker 9: they take the field, black and green uniforms and concerts

756
00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:05,600
Speaker 9: in between each quarter, okay, for each genre. Okay, Okay,

757
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 9: Well it's like, you know, just play like one song.

758
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:12,920
Speaker 4: It's fine, it's weird, It's bon Jovi every quarter cruisy actually.

759
00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:14,920
Speaker 9: Boys, it's fine, okay. And then my last one, I

760
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:15,880
Speaker 9: went a little basic.

761
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:16,200
Speaker 6: I went.

762
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:19,680
Speaker 9: I went with like a Tito's vodka bole Okay, so,

763
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:22,359
Speaker 9: like the goalposts are made out of the vodka bole,

764
00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:27,400
Speaker 9: like the vodka bottles, Okay, free vodka drinks for the fans,

765
00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:29,319
Speaker 9: like obviously they'd have to get cut off like really

766
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:32,480
Speaker 9: really early, but like cute Moscow mules and like you know,

767
00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:36,400
Speaker 9: things like that little shots a beige field because like Tito's.

768
00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:38,680
Speaker 6: That's kind of like their you know, like scheme.

769
00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:39,880
Speaker 4: Are they sponsoring this segment?

770
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:43,040
Speaker 3: How many free drinks did you say these for the fans?

771
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:46,600
Speaker 9: I think like three, Tito's three, you know, and then

772
00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:49,480
Speaker 9: like beige uniforms, beije in white uniforms. So those are

773
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:51,560
Speaker 9: my three. I did like a nineties bowl. I did

774
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:54,600
Speaker 9: a Spotify bowl like very like music, and then Tito's

775
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:58,720
Speaker 9: because obviously like booze. Alright, so I'll go Lorena next.

776
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:02,800
Speaker 5: Yeah, minor much simpler than that. I was thinking a

777
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:04,280
Speaker 5: top ramen bowl would be fun.

778
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:06,960
Speaker 10: They could do like a big hot tub full of hot,

779
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 10: fresh top ramen and the players can get inside and

780
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 10: they can all, you know, slurp some ramen together.

781
00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:12,279
Speaker 4: This is not sanitary.

782
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:16,279
Speaker 10: I didn't think the beans eating out like I thought

783
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:17,719
Speaker 10: all of them eating out of the same bowl was

784
00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:18,800
Speaker 10: a little, a little much.

785
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:21,320
Speaker 4: I don't even like the tur duck and stuff sometimes

786
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:22,279
Speaker 4: like I grossed.

787
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:25,800
Speaker 5: Out too much tur duckan. I also thought a chocolate

788
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:28,640
Speaker 5: bowl would be fun, kind of similar to your martini bowl.

789
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:31,320
Speaker 4: I thought about that. Yeah, I definitely thought about a

790
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:31,799
Speaker 4: chocolate bowl.

791
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:34,000
Speaker 10: And I think the costumes could be really cute, like

792
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:36,680
Speaker 10: the uniforms, because you could do like melted chocolate gone

793
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 10: all of them.

794
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:38,920
Speaker 5: Oh, it looks so cool. My last one would be

795
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:40,760
Speaker 5: Boosy's beaver Bowl.

796
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:43,400
Speaker 10: I love Boosies and I think we could do like

797
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:44,600
Speaker 10: beaver tails everywhere.

798
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:50,520
Speaker 5: That'd be super fun. Brisket for everybody.

799
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:53,440
Speaker 4: You know the Oregon state. They tend to be in

800
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 4: some of.

801
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:57,440
Speaker 5: These lame Beaver's Baby go Beavers.

802
00:37:57,320 --> 00:37:58,399
Speaker 4: Kevin, what do you got?

803
00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:00,879
Speaker 3: All right? So this will never happen, and they don't

804
00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 3: advocate a legal drug use of where the substance is

805
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:05,040
Speaker 3: not particularly legal.

806
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:07,919
Speaker 4: God, I like where this is going. The best bowl

807
00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:09,720
Speaker 4: like a weed mass bowl.

808
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:12,960
Speaker 3: Can we do that? How do you have time concert

809
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:14,440
Speaker 3: with Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson?

810
00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:14,680
Speaker 4: Yeah?

811
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 3: H the dual mascot could be a giant doobie and

812
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:21,120
Speaker 3: maybe a pipe or something crack at it. And so

813
00:38:21,239 --> 00:38:23,440
Speaker 3: at the end of the game, the prize, you know,

814
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:25,120
Speaker 3: the Orange Bowl, they give a bowl of oranges to

815
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:27,440
Speaker 3: a bunch of guys rolls. Well, they toss them. Yeah,

816
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:29,160
Speaker 3: I know what you're saying, Adam. You think I'm telling

817
00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:30,480
Speaker 3: them to throw blunts to all the players.

818
00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:31,160
Speaker 4: Yes, I too.

819
00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:34,959
Speaker 3: No, there's a ginormous blunt that all the players smoke.

820
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:35,160
Speaker 4: Through.

821
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:39,440
Speaker 3: It's it's a giant puff puff pass session, and then

822
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:41,200
Speaker 3: they get to walk out with a giant bowl of

823
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 3: snacks in their hand as they head to the locker room.

824
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:46,480
Speaker 4: Okay, I mean the concessions would be great. I mean

825
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:48,680
Speaker 4: they would They would make so much money at this ball.

826
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:52,320
Speaker 5: They could call it the Munchie Bowl, My missile.

827
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:54,759
Speaker 3: Too much marijuana, they know, And if you play like

828
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:57,000
Speaker 3: where the Tampa Bay Buccaneers player Raymond James, they can

829
00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:59,040
Speaker 3: fire off the cannons and the cannons just blow out

830
00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:00,880
Speaker 3: a bunch of weed smoke. But that might be a

831
00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:02,239
Speaker 3: little bit too much, and there might be kids in

832
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:03,960
Speaker 3: the stands. I don't know if we want to smoke,

833
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:06,000
Speaker 3: So we can't go that far.

834
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:07,080
Speaker 5: Leave your kids at home.

835
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:11,839
Speaker 4: I mean, was that just your first option? Yes?

836
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:12,920
Speaker 3: So what's my first option?

837
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:14,319
Speaker 4: Do you got two more?

838
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:14,560
Speaker 9: Then?

839
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:17,040
Speaker 3: Yeah? So I have another. I'll go I'll go with

840
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:19,439
Speaker 3: one more because runny short on time. No, no, no, no,

841
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:21,799
Speaker 3: I don't know if you guys are familiar with the Luther,

842
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:27,800
Speaker 3: It's a burger, one burger patty, five slices of bacon, cheese,

843
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:31,840
Speaker 3: fried egg, and the bread for the burger. Two donuts.

844
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:36,240
Speaker 3: How about the Luther Bowl, named after Luther van Drass.

845
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:38,640
Speaker 3: They can play a bunch of Luther Vandrass tracks throughout

846
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:42,080
Speaker 3: the game and whoever wins in order for their team

847
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:44,440
Speaker 3: to get the swag bag, they have to finish an

848
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:46,720
Speaker 3: entire Luther in less than two minutes.

849
00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:50,040
Speaker 4: There goes with my diet in twenty twenty six. You're bowl, You're.

850
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:50,560
Speaker 3: Done at them?

851
00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:52,120
Speaker 4: Not bad?

852
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:53,520
Speaker 3: You got all right?

853
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:58,279
Speaker 4: I'll go, uh the Mookie Bets Bowl Bowl where I

854
00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:01,440
Speaker 4: don't know to win the coin, Like they set up

855
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:03,680
Speaker 4: some big ass pins out there and they have a

856
00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:07,840
Speaker 4: little bowling showdown. My thing is just the alliteration here,

857
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:12,920
Speaker 4: Like I'm thinking the bull Bull Bull, the former Phoenix

858
00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:16,200
Speaker 4: Sun Bull Bul and he comes out for the coin

859
00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:18,680
Speaker 4: flip and he's really tall, so like you're gonna get

860
00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:21,720
Speaker 4: great rotation on that. It's gonna be the most random

861
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:25,120
Speaker 4: coin flip of all time. And then also I need

862
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:29,080
Speaker 4: this in my life. The jim Boys Taco Bowl. I

863
00:40:29,080 --> 00:40:31,960
Speaker 4: don't even know if they have taco bulls at jim Boys,

864
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:34,000
Speaker 4: but I need jim Boys to stay around, so I

865
00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:35,919
Speaker 4: need more people to eat them, So I need them

866
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:39,000
Speaker 4: to sponsor a bowl. And it just rolls right off

867
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:40,880
Speaker 4: the Tongue, jim Boys Taco Bull.

868
00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:41,920
Speaker 3: Jim Boys Tacos.

869
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:42,759
Speaker 2: I love that.

870
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:44,120
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah that'll work.

871
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:47,680
Speaker 4: Gotta work the last great American classic taco I think

872
00:40:47,719 --> 00:40:48,319
Speaker 4: they call it.

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Speaker 3: You know, I was getting ready to call the wheat

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Speaker 3: Maps Bowl just the smoke a Bowl Bull, but I

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Speaker 3: was like, I gotta get an actual, like you know,

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Speaker 3: business in there, you know what I mean. And I

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Speaker 3: don't want necessarily encourage smoking like that.

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Speaker 4: These ideas say a lot about us. I would say, yeah,

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Speaker 4: I don't even smoke weed. That's the crazy part.

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Speaker 3: I I was gonna believe that now they're they're not,

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Speaker 3: but it's but it's damn near true.

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Speaker 4: So thanks Lireina, Thanks to Brebris. I'm at a Masley's

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Speaker 4: getting figures. Fox will trade you