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Speaker 1: It's me Jason McIntyre here on Fox Sports Radio. Happy

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Speaker 1: Easter weekend to one and all. I hope you guys. Uh.

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Speaker 1: You know a lot of people get the vaccine now

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Speaker 1: able to see friends and family a little more than

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Speaker 1: they had been previously. We just got more house guests.

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Speaker 1: And the last week I opened the show talking about

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Speaker 1: going to a comedy show the previous you know, right

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Speaker 1: there night before last week's show, and now we have

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Speaker 1: more people coming in town. Listen, you gotta see your

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Speaker 1: family right. Easter is a big, big holiday. Maybe perhaps

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Speaker 1: your kids are starting spring break, and um, that could

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Speaker 1: throw a monkey wrench in your Final four plans. This

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Speaker 1: his Final four weekend, It doesn't totally feel like it.

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Speaker 1: I'll say this MLB Opening Day has begun, and baseball

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Speaker 1: looks and feels like sports are fully back, does it not?

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Speaker 1: Because there's obviously more fans in the stands than there

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Speaker 1: were previously. I know the women's Final four, Isaac touched

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Speaker 1: on it. Yukon goes down that doesn't have yet the

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Speaker 1: vibe of basketball, and randomly I went down some Final

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Speaker 1: four rabbit hole where I was looking up um U

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Speaker 1: n l V games from the when they were in

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Speaker 1: their prime run. Whether you know whether or not they're

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Speaker 1: better than current Gonzaga, And like the fans at the

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Speaker 1: games in college basketball in the early nineties was incredible.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it was a un LV Arkansas game.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about it later, Todd Day verset Larry Johnson,

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Speaker 1: and like you know, Arkansas was jumping back then. But

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Speaker 1: big news on the basketball front, obviously, the Lakers announced

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Speaker 1: they will have some fans beginning April fift I'm friends

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Speaker 1: with a couple of Lakers season ticket holders. Instantly, instantly,

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Speaker 1: they are very, very excited about it. Everybody wants to

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Speaker 1: get in the games as soon as possible, and sports

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Speaker 1: are opening back. I mean, remember a year ago this time,

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Speaker 1: we were on total lockdown. I don't even know if

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Speaker 1: I did the radio show in the immediate weeks after

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Speaker 1: everything locked down in March, but finally getting back to

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Speaker 1: a sense of normalcy. I will say this, it was

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Speaker 1: a phenomenal week for weather out here in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: Just I mean, it was awesome. The Sweet sixth team

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Speaker 1: was the middle of the week. I do need to

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Speaker 1: brag a minute, allow me to injure my shoulder patting

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Speaker 1: myself on the back. Fox Sports Um has me picking

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Speaker 1: every game against the spread in the n c A tournament,

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Speaker 1: which is crazy because you know the old war in

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Speaker 1: buffet line, you have no edge if you try to

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Speaker 1: evaluate every horse. You only have an edge if you

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Speaker 1: pick your spots. Well, Fox is like, okay, Jason, you

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Speaker 1: know you're I think you're hot stuff at gambling. So

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Speaker 1: I'm picking every game thirty four and against the spread

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Speaker 1: fifty seven point six percent. That is profitable. So I

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Speaker 1: and listen. I'm I'm a March madness guy. I have

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Speaker 1: downshifted in the amount of college basketball I consume given

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Speaker 1: how big the NFL is, you know, given that I

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Speaker 1: have now have kids in sports and I'm coaching them

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Speaker 1: and all that fun stuff. So we'll talk a lot

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Speaker 1: about the final four. I did want to start the show,

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Speaker 1: and yes, we are going to talk a little NFL.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys saw the Tampa Bay

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Speaker 1: Buccaneers just announced they're returning all twenty two starters from

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Speaker 1: ever been done. I was trying to research that last night.

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Speaker 1: It is unclear if that's been done. All twenty to

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Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Buck starters are back. Okay, Tom Brady will

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Speaker 1: get all the credit for that because of the way

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Speaker 1: he structured his deal. And yes, we will talk about

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Speaker 1: the Major League Baseball All Star Game getting pulled out

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Speaker 1: of Georgia. Obviously it's a political issue. Damnit. Politics are

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Speaker 1: back in sports. Damn it to hell. We'll get to that.

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Speaker 1: I do want to say. I I think last year,

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Speaker 1: about this time, I had talked about a book when

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Speaker 1: there was a lot of uncertainty. A lot of people

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Speaker 1: were just we didn't know what the future was gonna hold.

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Speaker 1: I recommended a book that got me through tough times

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Speaker 1: in the millionaire next door. Like an idiot. I came

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Speaker 1: on the show, which is on so many affiliates, I

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Speaker 1: don't even know how much. With the total numb, I said,

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Speaker 1: oh yeah, And if anybody hasn't meant bought this book

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Speaker 1: or read it, just mentioned it to me, hit me

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Speaker 1: it for you. And I didn't think that many people

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Speaker 1: would want the book. I end up helling to shell

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Speaker 1: out a lot of money and mail it. I'm not

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Speaker 1: gonna do that now. But I am going to recommend

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Speaker 1: another book I just started reading. It's called The Inner

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Speaker 1: Game of Tennis, and it's obviously not a tennis book.

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Speaker 1: It was basically it came out in the seventies and

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Speaker 1: it's one of these books that it was like self

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Speaker 1: to do with essentially battle. You know, how body and

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Speaker 1: mind are kind of connected. And in sports we hear

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Speaker 1: a lot about, oh, this guy's in his head. Chuck

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Speaker 1: nab Block has the yips, He's in his head. He

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Speaker 1: can't throw from second base to first. John Starks is

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Speaker 1: in his head in Game seven for the Knicks, like

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Speaker 1: Rockets in that memorable loss. And The Inner Game of

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Speaker 1: Tennis kind of helps you control that voice your head

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Speaker 1: that's talking to you as you're taking the math test,

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Speaker 1: are getting ready to shoot a jumper and pick up basketball.

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Speaker 1: And this happens to me all the time. I run

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Speaker 1: you know, and you just start overthinking everything. And so

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Speaker 1: many athletes have talked about this book. Steve Kerr was

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Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks in the NFL. They've all talked about at

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Speaker 1: the Inner Game of Tennis. So I started reading it, folks.

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Speaker 1: It's good and just by chance, I played tennis yesterday

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Speaker 1: and it was a guy who have played before. And

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Speaker 1: to the inner game of tennis, because, as I say it,

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Speaker 1: this applies to lots of things in life. I highly

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Speaker 1: recommend the book. I was just on fire. I was

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Speaker 1: slowing down and thinking less and just focusing more, and

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Speaker 1: it to the Final Four just briefly. When you look

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Speaker 1: at the way Gonzaga plays basketball, they look like they've

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Speaker 1: read this book. There is absolutely no overthinking nerves. And

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Speaker 1: Ryan Hollins, on my Straight Fire podcast, and they actually

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you guys remember the meltdown at the end.

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Speaker 1: Gonzaga lost the nine point lead in like the final

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Speaker 1: end of that game. Just unbelievable game. And Ryan Holland

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Speaker 1: He's like, oh, well, you know, going on defeating not

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Speaker 1: I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa. Gonzaga is

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Speaker 1: go undefeated. This is a team that played Kansas and one.

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Speaker 1: mid major Gonzaga program. They've been a real deal for

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Speaker 1: twenty years then. And I don't know how heavy into

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Speaker 1: college basketball you guys are. But the whole blue Bloods debate,

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Speaker 1: a crossroads. Michigan State had a rough year. North Carolina

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Speaker 1: they're they're a mid major Gonzaga. Other people are telling

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Speaker 1: me Gonzaga is now a blue blood because they they're

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Speaker 1: so good now, and it's I don't think we accurately

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Speaker 1: the final fours this weekend, I've heard more about the

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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball opening weekend. Deshaun Watson, Yes, there is

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Speaker 1: a small development. It's a tiny one. We're looking for

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Speaker 1: anything we can to talk NFL tiny development in Deshaun

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Speaker 1: idiotic stuff floating out there about Justin Fields. Will address

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Speaker 1: I'm like, people aren't giving them their respect and do

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Speaker 1: Gonzaga University on a map, they couldn't point out Spokane.

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Speaker 1: They don't know where it is. And there isn't just

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Speaker 1: there isn't that juice for Gonzaga in the Final four.

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Speaker 1: It was like VCU. What it's like, Let's talk about

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Speaker 1: UCL people know them. The Battle of Texas Baylor in Houston.

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Speaker 1: Not a ton of interests there. Neither of those guys

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Speaker 1: last thirty years. Now, the one question I have for

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Speaker 1: it two years ago. And it's like, how many fans

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Speaker 1: impact Gonzaga? Now? I already bet both games. Um. I

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Speaker 1: can't imagine a scenario where you Cee l A pulls

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Speaker 1: this upset. By the way, it is official, it would

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Speaker 1: be the biggest upset by point spread in Final four history.

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Speaker 1: There has never been a bigger spread of fourteen in

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Speaker 1: the final four as far back as the records go.

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Speaker 1: I personally don't give you cel much of a chance.

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Speaker 1: This would be way bigger than when Wisconsin and took

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Speaker 1: and frankly, that's a good thing. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: cool looking. You don't. Yeah, the sleeveless NBA you could rock.

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Speaker 1: to the grocery store to pick up some eggs and

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Speaker 1: milk and whatever. But I'm not gonna put on like

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Speaker 1: a baseball jersey. That's like a like a like a

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Speaker 1: big shirt. And I don't know. Fox Sports Radio has

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Speaker 1: the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all

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Speaker 1: of our shows at Fox Sports Radio dot com and

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Speaker 1: to listen live. Oh. I tried, by the way, to

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Speaker 1: find Space Jam, and you can't find it for free

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Speaker 1: on cable, Amazon, Netflix, Disney. They want you to pay

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Speaker 1: to watch Space Jam. I'm like, it's on HBO Max

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Speaker 1: if you have that. I have HBO, Yes, check check

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Speaker 1: that out. Thank you? Oh Kevin, all right, thank you,

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Speaker 1: Coming up right right now joining the show. John Paul Morosy,

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports MLB Network Reporter. How you doing this morning, Jp?

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Speaker 1: James and I am outstanding. And actually my kids have

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Speaker 1: wanted to watch Space Jam in the last year. We

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Speaker 1: watched it in multiple times. That original Space Jam has

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Speaker 1: stood the test of time, my friend, and it is

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Speaker 1: as great today as it was when it first came out. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we tried to show the kids god Zilla vers kingcong

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Speaker 1: My daughter was just like, no, thank you. My son

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Speaker 1: loved it. He loved it. Have you seen it, by

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Speaker 1: the way, god Zilla Kincong? I have not. I have

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Speaker 1: not seen that. What I can't say that I have

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Speaker 1: to It just came out on Wednesday. My son loved

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Speaker 1: it so much he watched the good fight scenes the

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Speaker 1: next or two days later. Because it's not I mean,

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Speaker 1: the fight scenes are good. The rest of the movie

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Speaker 1: is pretty bad. Anyways, let's talk baseball JP. I mean, listen,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you want to just start with

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Speaker 1: opening week overall, or you want to just get to

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Speaker 1: the All Star Game and get that out of the

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Speaker 1: way first. I'll let you because you're the guest, you're

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Speaker 1: the man. Well, I appreciate the question. Certainly, yesterday was

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Speaker 1: was huge news with the All Star Game. It's it's

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Speaker 1: a natural place to start. It's a it's a big

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Speaker 1: conversation topic around the sport. I think Evan Dreliic of

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Speaker 1: The Athletic put it very well that a couple of things.

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Speaker 1: Number One, no matter what decision Rob Manfred made, it

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Speaker 1: was going to be viewed through the prism of politics.

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Speaker 1: It was going to have a political dynamic to it.

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Speaker 1: And so to say that yesterday was in some way

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Speaker 1: injecting baseball into politics, I think is is a little disingenuous,

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Speaker 1: because it was going to be there no matter what,

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Speaker 1: because the game happened there and that was a statement,

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Speaker 1: or it didn't happen there and that was the statements.

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Speaker 1: I think that's number one. And I think Kevin also

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Speaker 1: pointed out that there are some real world ramifications in

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Speaker 1: the realm of sponsorships and would players boycott it. So

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Speaker 1: there was going to be, even if the game stayed

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Speaker 1: in Atlanta, a lot of conversation around it that would

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Speaker 1: generate some sensitive headlines, to say the very least, and

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Speaker 1: and some very important conversation along those lines too. So

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Speaker 1: I think in the end, Jason, I really believe the

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Speaker 1: commissioner made the right decision for the game, for the sport.

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Speaker 1: It was I think the right call on many levels,

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Speaker 1: and obviously the Braves released the statement they are disappointed,

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Speaker 1: to say the very least about it. The So you

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Speaker 1: have a an organization standing in opposition to the commissioner's decision,

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Speaker 1: which is a very rare circumstance in baseball, which has

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Speaker 1: always been sort of a fallen line kind of a sport.

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Speaker 1: And so I think that in and of itself is

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Speaker 1: an interesting storyline as well. But um a lot of

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Speaker 1: conversation around it. Ultimately, I believe the commissioner made the

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Speaker 1: right call. Yeah. Now, if if memory serves, the NBA

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Speaker 1: pulled an All Star game out of North Carolina over

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Speaker 1: some trend gender law a few years back. That was

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Speaker 1: one where Adam Silver had his sake. Was this just

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Speaker 1: Rob Manfred saying I'm doing this or did he consult

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Speaker 1: all the owners and take a straw pole vote? How

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Speaker 1: did Manford come about this decision? Well, again, according to

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Speaker 1: Evans reporting on this is very interesting that basically there

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Speaker 1: were some people within the game who were surprised by

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Speaker 1: this announcement yesterday who had not been consulted that the

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Speaker 1: Executive Council was very involved, which is their select group

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Speaker 1: of eight owners that they were they were very involved

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Speaker 1: in that decision process, but that broadly speaking, this was

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Speaker 1: not a um A situation where the full body of

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Speaker 1: all teams were consulted, where the union was intimately consulted.

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Speaker 1: This was a Rob Manfred decision. He consulted various people.

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Speaker 1: He spoke with Curtis Granderson, who leads the Players Alliance,

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Speaker 1: which has become a very influential body within the sport

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Speaker 1: to advocate for UM for social change and positive UM

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Speaker 1: social awareness in the sport since last summer, and so

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Speaker 1: he spoke with Curtis Granderson. He really involved, I think

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Speaker 1: a lot of conversations with multiple constituencies. And I thought

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Speaker 1: it was also very interesting that in in those who

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Speaker 1: really know Henry Aaron well say that the late Great

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Speaker 1: Henry Aaron would have approved the Commissioner's decision to pull

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Speaker 1: the game out of Atlanta, his town because of the

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Speaker 1: reasons for it. So I think it's a very poignant

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Speaker 1: situation on many levels, but that Rob Manfred made this

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Speaker 1: decision largely. Yes, he consulted others, but this was a

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Speaker 1: Rob Manford decision. And I really think this is far

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Speaker 1: down the list of um of ramifications here and why

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Speaker 1: this was the important decision to make. But there's no question, Jason,

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Speaker 1: in my mind that the union is going to remember this.

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Speaker 1: This was something where executive director Tony Clark had said

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Speaker 1: days ago that the union, the players themselves had real

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Speaker 1: concerns about having the game in Atlanta and the commissioner

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Speaker 1: taking the game out of Atlanta. I think it's a

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Speaker 1: real positive step toward the overall relationship between MLB and

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Speaker 1: the union. It is obviously does not this does not

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Speaker 1: supersed elements that are going to be part of the

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Speaker 1: bargaining process in months ahead. But this was a real statement.

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Speaker 1: This was not just a press release. This was a very,

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Speaker 1: very weighty decision that I think fundamentally reframes a lot

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Speaker 1: of the ways that baseball MLB is viewed by the

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Speaker 1: players and the players union itself. Interesting. Now we'll talk

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Speaker 1: about JP Morossi, Fox Sports and MLB Network. All right,

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Speaker 1: So you know, I guess the big question is cancel.

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Speaker 1: Culture is now run amok. You have Trump releasing a

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Speaker 1: statement basically saying, hey, let's cancel baseball. Nobody watch baseball. Uh,

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Speaker 1: this is where we are. If you go against the

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Speaker 1: grain or do something a lot of people want to cancel,

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Speaker 1: you do you think that this will have an impact

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Speaker 1: on major League Baseball at large? Where we see an

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Speaker 1: attendance dip, will we see a ratings dip? I don't

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Speaker 1: know how we would quantify that or how long we

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Speaker 1: would have to wait, given last year in baseball, But

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Speaker 1: do you see this impact in the sport in the

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Speaker 1: short term? Well, it's a fair question. And here's what

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Speaker 1: I think. If you're a Braves fan and you're upset

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Speaker 1: about the decision, I think it's interesting and noteworthy that

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Speaker 1: the Braves themselves released this statement in opposition to the decision.

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Speaker 1: So do you do you not support your own team,

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Speaker 1: which which obviously did not want this decision. I would

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Speaker 1: actually think in some ways you you might be more

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Speaker 1: inclined to support your team and say, hey, I'm standing

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Speaker 1: by my club, which which disagrees with this decision. If again,

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Speaker 1: this was your this was your disposition in the overall conversation,

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Speaker 1: it's a very personal choice. It's a very uh. I

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Speaker 1: understand the delicate nature of the issue, but I also

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Speaker 1: feel that if you're a baseball fan, you still love

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Speaker 1: your team. If you're a if you're a Colorado Rockies fan,

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Speaker 1: if you're a Texas Rangers fan. If you're a Detroit

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Speaker 1: Tigers fan and and you don't like this decision by

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Speaker 1: the commissioner, I'm not sure if you're going to really

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Speaker 1: have this enter into your calculus. And when it's time

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Speaker 1: to decide, do I want to watch my team which

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Speaker 1: plays two thousand miles away? I tend to think that

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Speaker 1: if you love the game, if you love your team,

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Speaker 1: you'll stand by your team whoever that team happens to

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Speaker 1: be UM On the national level, does this change the

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Speaker 1: way the sports perceived? We saw very strong statements from

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Speaker 1: people like Magic Johnson, Lebron James, Derek Jeter, luminaries in

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Speaker 1: American sports supporting MLB's move here. So does that win

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Speaker 1: you fans in other constituencies? Perhaps it's Jason, it's a

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Speaker 1: really it's a very fair question. And one of the

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Speaker 1: interesting parts about this conversation is we don't know once

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Speaker 1: the gates are fully open, once we see UM fewer

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Speaker 1: restrictions on capacity for attendance. Are there people who stay

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Speaker 1: home because of the virus concerns? Are there people who

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Speaker 1: stay home because they've just had their thoughts in in

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Speaker 1: in minds on other topics in the last year and

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Speaker 1: aren't quite ready to go back to baseball. There's a

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Speaker 1: lot of different reasons why people might not go to games,

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Speaker 1: and this might be another one, but I just think

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be Uh. There's a lot of factors here

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Speaker 1: that are wrapped into the larger conversation around who is

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Speaker 1: going to go back to American sporting events once there

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Speaker 1: are no attendants restrictions, And I think that it might

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Speaker 1: be difficult to separate this particular reaction from a lot

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Speaker 1: of other reactions that are happening around the sport right now.

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Speaker 1: And real quick to wrap up jump Paul Um. You know,

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Speaker 1: I I look at the COVID cancelation of of the

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Speaker 1: Mets series. You know, this political issue. I don't want

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Speaker 1: to say it marred opening week, but it certainly has

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Speaker 1: taken a little bit away from the games, just a

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Speaker 1: little bit, which is an ideal. But again, people are

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Speaker 1: just happy to have baseball. The stands are open, people

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Speaker 1: are going to games. Um, what's your guess right now

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Speaker 1: as to where this heads for the All Star Game?

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Speaker 1: We headed towards California for the All Star Games, and yeah,

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Speaker 1: how are they going to decide it? It's a great question.

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Speaker 1: It was it was mentioned again in the Athletics reporting

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Speaker 1: that perhaps UH Colorado to be one of the leading candidates.

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Speaker 1: It would seem to me that you would have to

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Speaker 1: pick a place that either as infrastructure already in place

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Speaker 1: or was preparing for big events, maybe something like the

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Speaker 1: World Baseball Classic other things that were around that was

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Speaker 1: already in line in que so to speak, for a

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Speaker 1: for a big event. So who knows where that ends

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Speaker 1: up being. The Dodgers, of course, notably, are are expected

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Speaker 1: to host in two so I would say Dodger Stadium

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Speaker 1: is gonna stay where it is and it's in its

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Speaker 1: current lineup. But this is obviously not ideal to plan

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Speaker 1: an All Star Game in three months. It's gonna be

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Speaker 1: expressed to get this thing ready and then that narrow

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Speaker 1: amount of time. But I think certainly people can do it.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a different feeling event in general because

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Speaker 1: of uh COVID times, and I think we're at a

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Speaker 1: very fair point about the fact that the with the

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Speaker 1: Nationals in their situation, there there are some concerns away

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Speaker 1: from the field of play that have maybe overshadowed the

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Speaker 1: games on the field. But I think one thing that

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Speaker 1: we've realized in the last year, Jason, is that it's

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Speaker 1: really hard to separate sports from other aspects of American society.

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Speaker 1: Would we're going through, whether it's positive or negative? And

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Speaker 1: I think that that's certainly a reminder that we've all

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Speaker 1: had in the last forty hours or so. All Right,

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Speaker 1: thank you, John Paul Morossi, Fox Sports MLB Network. Have

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Speaker 1: a good one, John, and we'll obviously be following all

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Speaker 1: this closely. Thank you, be staying touch anytime you want

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Speaker 1: to talk baseball days and look forward to catch up

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Speaker 1: in the course of the season. Alright, great stuff. He's

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Speaker 1: just plugged in as anybody. Fox Sports Radio has the

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Speaker 1: Day on cable. Vanilla Sky came on, followed by Cocktail.

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Speaker 1: Two awesome movies. I just want to say, and this

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Speaker 1: is super duper random. If you asked me, Jason, what

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Speaker 1: are like three of the best movies the first forty

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Speaker 1: five minutes that we're just engrossing and amazing. The three

643
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Speaker 1: that come to mind for me Vanilla Skies first forty

644
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Speaker 1: five minutes are amazing, awesome. I will always watch it

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Speaker 1: if it's on cable and I happen to see wedding

646
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Speaker 1: crashers for sure. I mean, wedding is amazing. Just the

647
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Speaker 1: forty five minute, first forty five minutes and the last one.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give the edge to super Bad, which I

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Speaker 1: still think holds up. Not a lot of these, like

650
00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:28,759
Speaker 1: early two thousand comedies do super Bad for my money

651
00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:33,239
Speaker 1: is incredible. I just always laugh at that. You know,

652
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:34,920
Speaker 1: I'm getting to the point where my kids can like

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00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:36,960
Speaker 1: text me. Now they don't have phones, but they are

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Speaker 1: on their iPads. So if I'm here at the studio

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00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:44,040
Speaker 1: or wherever, they can text me from their iPad. And

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Speaker 1: you know, they're growing up, and I'm like, oh, I

657
00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 1: can't wait to show them super Bad. But it's like,

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Speaker 1: I mean a lot of obscene language that's you know,

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00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:57,160
Speaker 1: it's just not there anyways, Um, let's quickly do some

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Speaker 1: more college basketball before we get back to Page League baseball,

661
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:03,760
Speaker 1: and we have an interesting guest coming up in ten minutes.

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00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 1: If you listen to my podcast straight Fire, I've had

663
00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:10,240
Speaker 1: this guy on his name on social media is Cuffs

664
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Speaker 1: the Legend. He is famously friends live friendly with Lebron.

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00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:19,600
Speaker 1: He knows Kevin durant Um. They both like are in

666
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:23,799
Speaker 1: his Instagram comments. He's connected. He's a North Carolina guy,

667
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:25,919
Speaker 1: and he's gonna come on talks a little talk about

668
00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 1: the NBA here in ten minutes, just for fun um.

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Speaker 1: He does have some good insights and he's always ahead

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Speaker 1: of stories. I will say that much, but I want

671
00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:36,799
Speaker 1: to quickly touch on this North Carolina things. So Roy

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Speaker 1: Williams decides, I'm seventy, I'm out. I don't like the

673
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:45,440
Speaker 1: direction college basketball's headed, which is interesting, and all of

674
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:46,920
Speaker 1: a sudden it's like, oh, well, this is one of

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00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:50,839
Speaker 1: the best jobs in America. Who's gonna get it? And

676
00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:53,760
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, well, what about the guy from Loyola

677
00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:58,280
Speaker 1: Porter Moser, I mean just took Loyola to amazing heights.

678
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Speaker 1: He took him to the Final four a few years ago,

679
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Speaker 1: and all these people online are like, no way, he's

680
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:08,200
Speaker 1: got no shot, like why, And somebody's smart pointed out, well,

681
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Speaker 1: some of these guys who excel at the small, smaller

682
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Speaker 1: schools a ka Shaka smart at VCU. They're great with overachieving,

683
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Speaker 1: and I think Brad Stevens almost falls into this bucket

684
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Speaker 1: from his Butler days. But when you get them the

685
00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:28,200
Speaker 1: major stars at a big spotlight school, they can't do it.

686
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Speaker 1: Shaka Smart did not win one game at Texas during

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Speaker 1: his tenure. Now they wont like the big one n

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Speaker 1: c A tournament game. I should say, Um, they won

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Speaker 1: the Big twelve tournament. Whoopie, damn do what are you

690
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:45,400
Speaker 1: doing in March? And he didn't do anything. So he

691
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Speaker 1: down shifts this week and goes over to Marquette. I

692
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:51,680
Speaker 1: think that's a great spot for but phenomenal spe you'll

693
00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:54,239
Speaker 1: do great. And now North Carolina, the names I'm hearing

694
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Speaker 1: are like, oh, we're gonna go to keep it in

695
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Speaker 1: the family. Hubert Davis famously humor Davis went to my

696
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:02,080
Speaker 1: high schoo cool. I was not even at the school yet.

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00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:06,600
Speaker 1: Um he's a little older uh NBA player. He was

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00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:09,000
Speaker 1: on TV talking about college basketball. Now he's been at

699
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:11,840
Speaker 1: UNC forever and it's like, Okay, you can keep it

700
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:14,440
Speaker 1: in the family or go outside. And then you look

701
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:17,120
Speaker 1: at Indiana this week, so they get rid of Archie

702
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:20,120
Speaker 1: Miller and it's like Oh, are they going to go

703
00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:22,879
Speaker 1: after Porter Moser? Are they? Who are they going to get?

704
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:27,240
Speaker 1: And what do they do? They hire Mike Woodson keeping

705
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Speaker 1: it in the families. Not the greatest move Lakers fans

706
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:33,960
Speaker 1: out here and know what I'm talking about this whole like, Oh,

707
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:38,600
Speaker 1: we gotta keep keep Lakers in the mix. Fox Sports

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Speaker 1: s R to listen live. Ten K's had a no

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Speaker 1: hitter going through six innings in his Dodgers debut. I'm

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Speaker 1: Isaac law and Kron. Hey, what is up everybody? It's

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Speaker 1: me Jason Mcutar. Hour two here on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: Beautiful morning out here in Los Angeles. We have a

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Speaker 1: phenomenal guest coming up. You guys may or may not

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Speaker 1: know him. I have to start this hour with some

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Speaker 1: pretty crappy news. The t m uh TMZ just dropped

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Speaker 1: the legendary Yes he is a legend rapper d MX.

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Speaker 1: He overdosed last night and he's in quote grave condition

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Speaker 1: according to TMZ. That is just terrible news. D MX

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Speaker 1: obviously one of my favorite rappers of the last generation

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Speaker 1: may not top five, but he's top ten for sure.

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Speaker 1: I would saying we may need to go into d

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Speaker 1: m X bumper music for the rest of the show

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Speaker 1: in honor of the goat. He's not the goat, but

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Speaker 1: I like just throwing around the goat. Alright, our next guest.

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Speaker 1: He's turning into something of an NBA goat. You may

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Speaker 1: know him from his handle on Twitter and I g

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Speaker 1: as cuffs the legend. His name is Brandon. I had

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Speaker 1: him on my Straight Fire podcast I don't know a

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00:38:57,120 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 1: few months ago because I just found him interesting. Naturally,

733
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Speaker 1: he's totally blown up and now people are in the

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Speaker 1: sports media checking his mentions every day to see what

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Speaker 1: Kad has to say in Lebron Brandon, how you doing

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Speaker 1: this morning, man? Man? I'm good, beautiful afternoon man. How

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Speaker 1: are you doing? J oh yeah, I forgot you're you're

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Speaker 1: on the East Coast, Yeah, yeah, you're yeah, yeah, North Carolina. Hey,

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Speaker 1: I gotta start with a guy who you know pretty well.

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Speaker 1: Uh you know, I've seen him in your comments and

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Speaker 1: uh he is Mr Internet. Kevin durant Um got in

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00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:28,239
Speaker 1: a bit of a I don't know, kerfuffle if you

743
00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:31,400
Speaker 1: will with Michael Rappaport. Um, I'm just curious, like, what

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00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:34,040
Speaker 1: do you view this as? For me? I was like,

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00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:36,560
Speaker 1: that's not a great look for Kad, but I understand

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Speaker 1: why he's ticked off. But how do you kind of

747
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:41,200
Speaker 1: view that, um, And what do you think people out

748
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:46,960
Speaker 1: there saying about him in the NBA? Man, Kevin Durant is, Uh,

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Speaker 1: Kevin duran is one of the most polarizing figures, not

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Speaker 1: just in the NBA, man, but just in sports. Like

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00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:57,279
Speaker 1: I actually I have a conversation with Katie quite often. Man.

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00:39:57,320 --> 00:39:59,719
Speaker 1: We we've grown to have a pretty cool uh, and

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00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:04,640
Speaker 1: you a cool and unique type of friendship. Man. Um,

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Speaker 1: I just think he's very He's a very cerebral guy.

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00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:10,319
Speaker 1: Like he loves basketball. So a lot of people don't

756
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:14,440
Speaker 1: understand his emotion sometimes, but um, at the core of

757
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:16,640
Speaker 1: his heart, man, it's all coming from a good place.

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Speaker 1: Man like Kevin. Kevin is Kevin is a fascinating figure.

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00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:24,640
Speaker 1: Man like he I think so, I think he's given

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Speaker 1: the world a different a different vantage point of NBA

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Speaker 1: players as far as their their day to day life,

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Speaker 1: Like these guys are not robots. Man, Like we see

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Speaker 1: we see him play basketball, we we admired the skill

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Speaker 1: set and their talent, but at the same time they're

765
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Speaker 1: normal guys. They're regular guys. I know it's hard for

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Speaker 1: people to understand that. I mean, some guys are arrogant,

767
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Speaker 1: some guys are you would say, like divas. But Kevin

768
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Speaker 1: Durant is the is the polar opposite of that. Man.

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Speaker 1: He's a real genuine guy. Um. And like you said,

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Speaker 1: we get into a little spats here and there, but

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Speaker 1: it's it's all for the over the game man. So

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Speaker 1: the little situation that happened with him and Michael Rappaport

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Speaker 1: was actually funny to me, um, because the fact that

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Speaker 1: you know, guys have conversations behind closed doors or in

775
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:15,319
Speaker 1: the d M all the time. But for somebody to

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Speaker 1: try to make that, to put that on front Street,

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Speaker 1: to try to quote unquote expose the NBA player like that,

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Speaker 1: I think it was a clown move on. Michael rapp

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Speaker 1: reports bad. Really, I'm not a huge fan of rapp Report.

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Speaker 1: I want to say, it feels cuffs like Lebron and

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00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:33,040
Speaker 1: Durant are changing the narrative about athletes. Usually they're supposed

782
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:36,319
Speaker 1: to be buttoned up corporate. Michael Jordan's doesn't want to

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00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:40,880
Speaker 1: comment on shoes because Republicans wear shoes. And you know,

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Speaker 1: Katie's breaking that mold. He's saying, what is it? How

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Speaker 1: can people come in my mentions and drop f bombs

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Speaker 1: on me every hour of every day? But I can't

787
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Speaker 1: fire back. That doesn't feel fair. We should be able

788
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Speaker 1: to say what we want without repercussions. And I can

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Speaker 1: understand where he's coming from the cuffs. Do you think

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Speaker 1: that long term is a smart move for Kevin Durant,

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Speaker 1: a guy who's you know, probably worth I don't know,

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Speaker 1: five hundred million dollars. I mean, you gotta look at

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Speaker 1: it from a corporate standpoint. I get that standpoint where

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Speaker 1: you've got certain brands behind you, you you got certain corporations,

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Speaker 1: you've got certain businesses, So you don't want to offend

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Speaker 1: your uh, like j D say, your your political connects.

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Speaker 1: You don't want to offend certain people. But I think

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Speaker 1: the world is changing, Jason, like the corporate America is changing. Um.

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Speaker 1: I've seen Steve Stout mentioned this on a recent interview.

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Speaker 1: I think it was on The Breakfast Club or might

801
00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:34,160
Speaker 1: have been Joe Budden podcast, but he was saying, like, uh,

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00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:37,719
Speaker 1: companies are not canceling players anymore. Like back in the day,

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00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:40,440
Speaker 1: you know, whether Rick Ross or certain guys say certain

804
00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:42,680
Speaker 1: remarks on the song, you know, Rebok might drop you

805
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:45,279
Speaker 1: or this company might drop you immediately. But I think

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Speaker 1: people are are realizing that, you know, people got different

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Speaker 1: views now, and these athletes are more vocal than they've

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Speaker 1: ever been. And Kevin Durant and Lebron James are two

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Speaker 1: two guys in the forefront of that, And I think

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Speaker 1: it's very repressing to see guys, you know, get into

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Speaker 1: it with other celebrities or even sometimes clasping back at

812
00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:09,160
Speaker 1: fans because you got to realize, these guys comments are

813
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:14,200
Speaker 1: full of negativity, squinting for all the day. So it

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Speaker 1: takes a lot of mental fortitude for you to sit

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Speaker 1: back and just read negative things about you or see

816
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:23,640
Speaker 1: negative things about you, like every time you pick up

817
00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:27,080
Speaker 1: your phone, somebody saying something about so the one time

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00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:30,320
Speaker 1: you say something back, it's like, oh, man, Kevin Durant

819
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Speaker 1: a jerk, Like, no, Kevin Durant is a human being.

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Speaker 1: Lebron Change is a human being. So I reached I

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Speaker 1: actually like I'm fascinated by that aspect of it, where

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Speaker 1: guys are able to speak and and it's and it's

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Speaker 1: still like they're they're they're not gonna be held, you know,

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Speaker 1: in a in a certain regard for speaking up that

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Speaker 1: you can't there's you can't walk down the street and

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Speaker 1: nobody's just dropping of bombs on you every second. That's

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Speaker 1: what it's like on social media. And I'm trying to

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Speaker 1: get a small taste of it is I'm just a

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Speaker 1: sports media guy. Lebron's got hundreds of millions of followers

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Speaker 1: across all platforms, like he doesn't need that crap. Let

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Speaker 1: me just ask you this, where are you currently on

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Speaker 1: the state of the Lakers. Lebron is hurt, a D

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00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:13,399
Speaker 1: is hurt. They had a big win last night over

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Speaker 1: the Kings, but this is a team now that feels

835
00:44:15,719 --> 00:44:19,840
Speaker 1: a little vulnerable. Denver got significantly better. Phoenix is you know,

836
00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:22,960
Speaker 1: nobody's paying attention to Phoenix is just dusting people. I

837
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:25,399
Speaker 1: still think the Clippers are frauds. Jazz are pretty good.

838
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Speaker 1: Do you still think the Lakers are the team to

839
00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:30,600
Speaker 1: be in the West Cuffs? Yes, I think once. I

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Speaker 1: think once we see the cohesive unit together, you know,

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Speaker 1: once a d comes back healthy, once Lebron comes back healthy.

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Speaker 1: Soon uh, Andre Drummond and he had a little tonel issue,

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Speaker 1: but he's gonna be fine. I think once the whole

844
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Speaker 1: world gets a chance to see the whole unit together,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna understand that the Lakers are the most complete

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Speaker 1: team in the NBA because you've got guys like Shrewder

847
00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:56,400
Speaker 1: cal KOs. But those guys have been playing great in

848
00:44:56,440 --> 00:44:58,560
Speaker 1: the absence of a D and Lebron. But now when

849
00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:00,680
Speaker 1: you put it all back together and everybody come to

850
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:04,279
Speaker 1: the table together, I think, guy, who's gonna they're gonna miss?

851
00:45:04,480 --> 00:45:06,719
Speaker 1: They're gonna miss. And I think, um, I think, I

852
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:08,960
Speaker 1: think all of this is just stiller for the Championship

853
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:13,359
Speaker 1: DVD days. So this is all just you know how

854
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:15,520
Speaker 1: you watch you know how you watch certain parts of

855
00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:19,000
Speaker 1: a movie or or or like the Tampa Bay Buccaneers

856
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:21,360
Speaker 1: for example, you see how promotive was their season was

857
00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:23,879
Speaker 1: in the middle part of the season where they were

858
00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:26,840
Speaker 1: like seven and five and everybody was saying, oh, no,

859
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:29,880
Speaker 1: Brady's washed or Brady's done. He should have stayed in

860
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:32,120
Speaker 1: New England. And then they hit that little stretch and

861
00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:34,400
Speaker 1: the next thing you know, they're holding up the Libarty Trophy.

862
00:45:34,680 --> 00:45:37,640
Speaker 1: So I just see I just I just wanted the

863
00:45:37,719 --> 00:45:40,800
Speaker 1: fans and everybody just watching the game just to just relax.

864
00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:43,439
Speaker 1: And like I said, it's a marathon. The NBA season

865
00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:45,560
Speaker 1: is a marathon and it's not a sprint. Yeah. Now

866
00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:47,719
Speaker 1: I do want to bring this up again. We're talking

867
00:45:47,719 --> 00:45:51,080
Speaker 1: with Cuffs, the legend that's his handle on social media. Cuffs,

868
00:45:51,239 --> 00:45:53,440
Speaker 1: I will say, you put out some stuff that I

869
00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 1: feel like it's coded. You know, you put out like

870
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:58,319
Speaker 1: a hint and we have to kind of decode your

871
00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:01,160
Speaker 1: Easter eggs. And I'm trying to gas you up here.

872
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:04,080
Speaker 1: But I did see something you wrote over All Star

873
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:07,480
Speaker 1: Weekend about Curry and Lebron, and I was like, huh,

874
00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:10,400
Speaker 1: because everybody knows you are friendly with Lebron, and some

875
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:13,640
Speaker 1: people think anything you say on social media comes from Lebron.

876
00:46:14,239 --> 00:46:16,640
Speaker 1: You put out something about Curry and Lebron joining forces,

877
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:19,640
Speaker 1: and I guess, like two weeks later you hear other

878
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:23,360
Speaker 1: media members talking about it, Oh well, Lebron's recruiting Curry.

879
00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:26,040
Speaker 1: And I just want to say, when what are we

880
00:46:26,080 --> 00:46:28,080
Speaker 1: supposed to make of this stuff? Be honest, man, you

881
00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:31,160
Speaker 1: can come clean. Is there any chance Curry ends up

882
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:34,600
Speaker 1: on the Lakers. It feels like no shot. I mean

883
00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:37,680
Speaker 1: maybe you could never say never. We learned we learned

884
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:41,239
Speaker 1: that watching the Goonies movie Kid and never say. So

885
00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:45,400
Speaker 1: you gotta like, I look at it this way, man. Uh.

886
00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:47,480
Speaker 1: A lot of the things I say, I say. Most

887
00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:50,080
Speaker 1: of the things I say, it's me, Like it's not

888
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:54,520
Speaker 1: coming from Lebron or or somebody else. Like these are

889
00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:56,719
Speaker 1: my basketball opinions that I when I sit back and

890
00:46:56,719 --> 00:47:00,640
Speaker 1: watch the games evaluate things. But um of Curry thing,

891
00:47:00,680 --> 00:47:02,960
Speaker 1: I think it can be an interesting situation in the

892
00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:06,919
Speaker 1: summer two because if you look at the Warriors right now,

893
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:11,360
Speaker 1: we were it's a lot of uncertainty with Clay Thompson's

894
00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:14,400
Speaker 1: returning and being healthy. We don't know how Clay Thompson's

895
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:17,839
Speaker 1: gonna return, um, and that team is not. I don't

896
00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:20,560
Speaker 1: really see their championship window being as big as it

897
00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:24,680
Speaker 1: once was before all these different injuries, and you never know,

898
00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:27,480
Speaker 1: Like the Lakers win this year, which I think they will.

899
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:29,480
Speaker 1: I mean, you're sitting there with her back to back

900
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:33,319
Speaker 1: champion the next year. I mean, Steph Curry is gonna

901
00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:36,879
Speaker 1: have to make a very big decision man, because he's

902
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:39,360
Speaker 1: gonna be right there on you know, right there in

903
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:41,000
Speaker 1: his prime and it's like, do you want to get

904
00:47:41,040 --> 00:47:43,840
Speaker 1: some more championships or do you want to stay And

905
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:46,439
Speaker 1: Golden stayed in and be a you know, a mid

906
00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:49,480
Speaker 1: a mid pack team or fifth, six, seven seed every year,

907
00:47:49,840 --> 00:47:52,080
Speaker 1: and that's what he's gonna have to And you know

908
00:47:52,360 --> 00:47:57,840
Speaker 1: those guys were born in the same hospital, Jason several

909
00:47:57,960 --> 00:48:00,160
Speaker 1: years apart. Though, well, I don't even I gotta cup

910
00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:02,279
Speaker 1: of Curry's age. Lebron is thirty six. Let me just

911
00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:04,600
Speaker 1: ask you that you say Lakers win the title, and

912
00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:06,279
Speaker 1: they they they I think they're still one of the

913
00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:08,040
Speaker 1: favorites to win, if not the Nets. We'll talk about

914
00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:10,719
Speaker 1: the Nets in the SEC. But I look at the

915
00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:13,120
Speaker 1: Lakers and I listen, Lebron was hurt the first year

916
00:48:13,120 --> 00:48:14,879
Speaker 1: he was with the Lakers. He was fine. Last year

917
00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:16,720
Speaker 1: they did have a four month layoff win the title.

918
00:48:17,080 --> 00:48:19,480
Speaker 1: He's hurt again this year. Lebron is thirty six. I

919
00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:22,520
Speaker 1: know he's a cyborg, but the reality is he's thirty six.

920
00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:26,680
Speaker 1: And at this time, Cuffs Bird had retired, Isaiah had retired.

921
00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:29,680
Speaker 1: I mean, we see Blake Griffin and LaMarcus Aldridge are

922
00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:33,440
Speaker 1: like ring chasers, and they're younger than Lebron. When do

923
00:48:33,520 --> 00:48:36,359
Speaker 1: we start need to accept like, hey, Lebron is old

924
00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:38,719
Speaker 1: and he's not gonna be what he was, even though

925
00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:40,719
Speaker 1: two months ago this guy was the m v P leader.

926
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:44,279
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's gonna sound funny, but I'm not

927
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:47,239
Speaker 1: saying this because me and Brown are are cool. Like

928
00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:50,480
Speaker 1: Lebron is really created in the lab, Like this is

929
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:53,160
Speaker 1: this is like some this is like some Charles that

930
00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:56,240
Speaker 1: Xavier ex Man stuff we watched in a year eight teens.

931
00:48:56,520 --> 00:48:59,239
Speaker 1: So the fact that he hurt his ankle and we're like,

932
00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:01,520
Speaker 1: oh my god, he out for a few weeks, Like

933
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:04,799
Speaker 1: that's like, that's so abnormal to say Lebron is out

934
00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:08,200
Speaker 1: for a couple of weeks, right, Like it's very rare

935
00:49:08,239 --> 00:49:10,120
Speaker 1: that we see him off the court. So I just

936
00:49:10,160 --> 00:49:12,799
Speaker 1: feel like with with so much, he puts so much

937
00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:15,960
Speaker 1: into his body, man, so much, so much time, energy,

938
00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:18,680
Speaker 1: resources and money into his body that I think I

939
00:49:18,680 --> 00:49:22,960
Speaker 1: think Lebron is gonna I think Lebron's Remember when Jordan

940
00:49:23,080 --> 00:49:25,880
Speaker 1: was like thirty seven, thirty eight on the Bulls, and

941
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:28,880
Speaker 1: I mean it was pretty much give Michael Jordan the

942
00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:32,040
Speaker 1: ball in the low post, fadeaway jumper every shot pretty

943
00:49:32,120 --> 00:49:35,560
Speaker 1: much like yeah, he wasn't. He wasn't taking guys off

944
00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:38,239
Speaker 1: the dribble, He wasn't doing the same explosive stuff in

945
00:49:38,320 --> 00:49:41,000
Speaker 1: his mid to late thirties with the straight fadeaway mode

946
00:49:41,040 --> 00:49:45,759
Speaker 1: pretty much the whole playoff series. But Lebron is gonna

947
00:49:45,800 --> 00:49:47,840
Speaker 1: be able to get the ball in those same spots

948
00:49:47,840 --> 00:49:50,480
Speaker 1: on the court when in his late thirties, like thirty seven,

949
00:49:50,480 --> 00:49:53,480
Speaker 1: thirty eight, forty, But he's gonna be more of a

950
00:49:53,560 --> 00:49:56,200
Speaker 1: Magic Johnson. And I don't like to compare him to Magic,

951
00:49:56,360 --> 00:49:59,080
Speaker 1: but I'm saying the the court vision aspect of his

952
00:49:59,200 --> 00:50:01,400
Speaker 1: same that part of his game. I think that's going

953
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:04,799
Speaker 1: to extend his career if he choose to play in

954
00:50:04,920 --> 00:50:07,719
Speaker 1: his forties, like he will still be able to average,

955
00:50:08,400 --> 00:50:10,560
Speaker 1: you know, he still can average twenty point just off

956
00:50:10,560 --> 00:50:14,479
Speaker 1: his skill set points a game, but his court vision

957
00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:16,719
Speaker 1: is going to extend his career. And I think that's

958
00:50:16,760 --> 00:50:18,640
Speaker 1: when you're gonna see a d start to take over.

959
00:50:18,760 --> 00:50:21,960
Speaker 1: Is that main is that main thoroughbred player for the Lakers,

960
00:50:21,960 --> 00:50:24,319
Speaker 1: and then you know the role player is gonna step up.

961
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:26,480
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna add like a third star. They

962
00:50:26,560 --> 00:50:28,720
Speaker 1: know they have to add a third star, so hopefully

963
00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:32,279
Speaker 1: like Drummond. He'll probably stay around after this season. But

964
00:50:32,520 --> 00:50:36,160
Speaker 1: I just think Lebron's prime is gonna be longer than

965
00:50:36,239 --> 00:50:38,400
Speaker 1: some of the greats we've ever seen, like the Magic

966
00:50:38,440 --> 00:50:41,359
Speaker 1: and Birds and and Jordan's of the world. Similarly to

967
00:50:41,360 --> 00:50:46,600
Speaker 1: Tom Brady sticking around, he Brady, Brady is gonna play

968
00:50:46,800 --> 00:50:49,080
Speaker 1: like Brady is so petty man, Like Brady is gonna

969
00:50:49,120 --> 00:50:51,200
Speaker 1: play He's really trying to. He's trying to play that.

970
00:50:51,320 --> 00:50:54,200
Speaker 1: He's like like like forties man. Yeah, it's crazy, all right,

971
00:50:54,280 --> 00:50:56,680
Speaker 1: So quickly on the nets cuffs. Um, you know, I

972
00:50:57,080 --> 00:51:00,080
Speaker 1: look at the situation. I have noticed you don't have

973
00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:02,239
Speaker 1: said much about Kyrie Irving lately. This is a guy

974
00:51:02,280 --> 00:51:05,200
Speaker 1: who's going a wall twice this season. Hey man, I

975
00:51:05,239 --> 00:51:07,239
Speaker 1: need to take some time off for personal reasons. I

976
00:51:07,239 --> 00:51:09,239
Speaker 1: guess it was to celebrate his birthday. It's still is

977
00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:12,920
Speaker 1: unclear what he did earlier this season, just checked out,

978
00:51:13,080 --> 00:51:15,200
Speaker 1: went on like you know, a sabbatical or a week

979
00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:16,799
Speaker 1: or whatever it is. How are we How do we

980
00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:18,640
Speaker 1: know Kyrie is not gonna pull this stuff in the

981
00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:21,719
Speaker 1: playoffs if things aren't going his way? We don't know.

982
00:51:21,880 --> 00:51:25,160
Speaker 1: And that's that's the most unpredictable thing. About Kyrie Irgan,

983
00:51:25,280 --> 00:51:28,240
Speaker 1: We don't know. Like, let's said he took some PTO

984
00:51:28,400 --> 00:51:32,600
Speaker 1: time last week for his birthday. You know, I respect that.

985
00:51:32,680 --> 00:51:35,120
Speaker 1: You know, people do that at their regular jobs, Like yeah,

986
00:51:35,160 --> 00:51:37,440
Speaker 1: I need a day off so they could go party.

987
00:51:37,480 --> 00:51:40,840
Speaker 1: But like, I just think it's fascinating watching the Brooklyn

988
00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:43,320
Speaker 1: Nets right now with with some of the moves they made.

989
00:51:43,920 --> 00:51:46,080
Speaker 1: Uh you know, I'm on record as calling him to

990
00:51:46,120 --> 00:51:49,479
Speaker 1: stack debt two point oh um, Like we we've never

991
00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:52,200
Speaker 1: seen a team this stack and like me and Kevin

992
00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:55,759
Speaker 1: Durant discussed this almost every day. Like the fact that

993
00:51:55,800 --> 00:51:57,920
Speaker 1: he comes to me when I say that lets me

994
00:51:57,960 --> 00:52:00,239
Speaker 1: know it's true. You get what I'm saying. Like if

995
00:52:00,239 --> 00:52:02,200
Speaker 1: I if I call y'all the stack deck and you

996
00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:04,400
Speaker 1: and you're not the stack deck, then you would just

997
00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:06,440
Speaker 1: sit there and say, Okay, it doesn't apply to matter.

998
00:52:06,480 --> 00:52:08,440
Speaker 1: But are wait wait when you say stack do you

999
00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:12,560
Speaker 1: think this team is better than the Warriors with KD.

1000
00:52:12,800 --> 00:52:17,120
Speaker 1: Curry Clay and all that, Oh, without a doubt? No, no, no,

1001
00:52:17,120 --> 00:52:19,960
Speaker 1: no, no no, no no no, They're better than the Warriors.

1002
00:52:20,239 --> 00:52:22,479
Speaker 1: They're better than the war the seventy three and nine

1003
00:52:22,480 --> 00:52:26,400
Speaker 1: Warriors without kdre better than that. Thing the team the

1004
00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:31,160
Speaker 1: seventy three and nine Wars when they added Kevin Durant, seen,

1005
00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:34,520
Speaker 1: I think it was when they added Kevin Durant. That's

1006
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:37,200
Speaker 1: the greatest team that's ever been assembled in the NY

1007
00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:41,680
Speaker 1: The starting five, the bench, the iguadal was coming off

1008
00:52:41,680 --> 00:52:45,120
Speaker 1: the bench, the role players, it was. It was perfectly executed.

1009
00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:49,319
Speaker 1: They only lost one playoff game, yeah, exactly. So we've

1010
00:52:49,320 --> 00:52:51,879
Speaker 1: never seen anything like that. But this team right here

1011
00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:54,239
Speaker 1: is very stacked because the reason I say that you

1012
00:52:54,320 --> 00:52:58,440
Speaker 1: have you have two m vps in the starting lineup,

1013
00:52:59,239 --> 00:53:02,200
Speaker 1: not not asked m vps like five Keen years ago.

1014
00:53:02,239 --> 00:53:04,600
Speaker 1: You have guys that won the MVP pretty currently like

1015
00:53:04,680 --> 00:53:08,640
Speaker 1: pretty currents so and Kyrie was an MVP candidate this

1016
00:53:08,719 --> 00:53:11,239
Speaker 1: year before he took you know, his sabbaticals here and there. So,

1017
00:53:11,920 --> 00:53:14,440
Speaker 1: like we've never seen a team a roster like this

1018
00:53:14,480 --> 00:53:18,560
Speaker 1: because LaMarcus Alridge is still a very good player, but

1019
00:53:18,719 --> 00:53:21,960
Speaker 1: he's he's not the player he was in his Miss twinnies,

1020
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:24,160
Speaker 1: but he still can give you twenty and team on

1021
00:53:24,200 --> 00:53:27,560
Speaker 1: any given night. And Blake Griffin, I mean, he's nowhere

1022
00:53:27,640 --> 00:53:29,600
Speaker 1: near the same player he was, but that's still a

1023
00:53:30,760 --> 00:53:32,960
Speaker 1: very good pro compared to some of the guys who're

1024
00:53:32,960 --> 00:53:35,799
Speaker 1: gonna face in the playoffs. And like I said, when

1025
00:53:35,920 --> 00:53:39,200
Speaker 1: Jeff Green, who's a very good player in the playoffs,

1026
00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:42,520
Speaker 1: he's proven that. Um, when Jeff Green is like your

1027
00:53:42,680 --> 00:53:47,000
Speaker 1: ninth option, man, your team is set. Is that? Yeah? Alright,

1028
00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:49,040
Speaker 1: so listen, there's a lot more to talk about the cuffs,

1029
00:53:49,040 --> 00:53:51,000
Speaker 1: but we gotta get to commercial cuffs. I know you're

1030
00:53:51,040 --> 00:53:54,799
Speaker 1: a big anti Brad Stevens guy. Uh, Danny Ainge as well.

1031
00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:56,600
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that when they're in the playoffs. That

1032
00:53:56,600 --> 00:53:58,439
Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now. If they face the nets,

1033
00:53:58,480 --> 00:54:00,760
Speaker 1: they will push them to at least six A fully

1034
00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:03,759
Speaker 1: Healthyns Celtics team. I like the Celtics team a lot.

1035
00:54:04,640 --> 00:54:06,279
Speaker 1: I know you're laughing. I know you don't. You don't

1036
00:54:06,320 --> 00:54:09,720
Speaker 1: believe it. We'll talk to you during the playoffs. Cuffs,

1037
00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:13,080
Speaker 1: we can do it again. Thanks for taking the time, man,

1038
00:54:14,320 --> 00:54:17,480
Speaker 1: all right, that was ak It cuffs the legend. He

1039
00:54:17,640 --> 00:54:19,400
Speaker 1: is a North Carolina guy. He tries to stay a

1040
00:54:19,440 --> 00:54:21,400
Speaker 1: little bit anonymous. I know a little bit about him,

1041
00:54:21,440 --> 00:54:24,120
Speaker 1: but uh, he's got some good stuff on the NBA.

1042
00:54:24,760 --> 00:54:27,920
Speaker 1: I like it. Um, I know even an NBA I

1043
00:54:27,960 --> 00:54:30,040
Speaker 1: don't want to say hater, because Kevin's not an NBA haater.

1044
00:54:30,120 --> 00:54:32,880
Speaker 1: He just doesn't love regular season NBA. I just like

1045
00:54:32,960 --> 00:54:36,000
Speaker 1: some of the stuff insights he brings. Oh yeah, you know,

1046
00:54:36,600 --> 00:54:42,560
Speaker 1: and just castually dropping a curse word in there. Fox

1047
00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:45,680
Speaker 1: Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation.

1048
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1049
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1050
00:54:52,280 --> 00:54:57,399
Speaker 1: s R to listen live listen. Shout out to d MX.

1051
00:54:57,440 --> 00:55:02,319
Speaker 1: Hope he pulls through. TMZ reporting the DMX is in

1052
00:55:02,520 --> 00:55:07,360
Speaker 1: really really, really really bad shape after an overdose. Obviously

1053
00:55:07,400 --> 00:55:10,120
Speaker 1: a big DMX fan here, I'm not going to speak

1054
00:55:10,120 --> 00:55:13,800
Speaker 1: about him outside of the rap booth. He's donical, a

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Speaker 1: bunch of bad things. But you know who hasn't and

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Speaker 1: and he's still pretty young. How old is DMX liketive? Maybe? Um?

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Speaker 1: And anyway, I hope he pulls through. Uh. DMX is

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Speaker 1: Oh he's fitty wow okay, um, hardcore rapper MX in

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Speaker 1: trouble um alright, so real quick, we're button up cuffs.

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Speaker 1: The legend. I think his Curry thing is fascinating, and

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Speaker 1: you know, you think about Curry and he's one of

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Speaker 1: the seminal athletes in I think you can now say

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00:55:49,719 --> 00:55:52,120
Speaker 1: Bay Area history Gavin. I don't know that he's there

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Speaker 1: with Montana, but Curry I think, I mean, I'm just

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Speaker 1: talking overall Bay Area. You think of the biggest names

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Speaker 1: out there, whatever, guy from the San Francisco Giants, forty Niners.

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Speaker 1: Like what he's done to the Warriors. Remember, think about

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00:56:07,239 --> 00:56:10,359
Speaker 1: the Warriors before he did got them a title. Yeah,

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00:56:10,680 --> 00:56:13,399
Speaker 1: they were nothing. They never want anything. I don't think

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Speaker 1: they even maybe in the seventies they went to the finals,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, and Curry put them on the map.

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Speaker 1: They get a new stadium. I don't know if you

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00:56:20,960 --> 00:56:23,480
Speaker 1: saw this, but they have a they just sold us

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Speaker 1: like five percent minority stake for and the franchise is

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00:56:27,800 --> 00:56:30,719
Speaker 1: valued at five point five billion. That's like right there

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Speaker 1: with the Lakers and Knicks. Like that's all driven by Curry. Now,

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00:56:33,880 --> 00:56:36,399
Speaker 1: I know he hasn't win, but well, I will say

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Speaker 1: also the Bay Area of San Francisco particularly, that's a

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Speaker 1: that'll never not be a Niners town like that. The

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Speaker 1: number one the Warriors, great story. Um. I think a

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Speaker 1: lot of people nationally look at it as oh, well

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Speaker 1: he was on a stack team with four All stars.

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00:56:52,719 --> 00:56:55,080
Speaker 1: But um, but yeah, I know he means a lot

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Speaker 1: to that area. Um where whether or not Curry ends

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00:57:00,440 --> 00:57:02,600
Speaker 1: up on the Lakers is fascinating. I can't imagine the

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00:57:02,600 --> 00:57:05,719
Speaker 1: Warrior's letting him go, and it would probably be a

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00:57:05,719 --> 00:57:07,440
Speaker 1: bit of a selfish look for Curry, who has been

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Speaker 1: like a stand up guy's entire career. But you gotta

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00:57:10,440 --> 00:57:12,480
Speaker 1: do what you gotta do. All right, let's move to

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Speaker 1: the NFL. So I'm gonna play some audio for I'm

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Speaker 1: not gonna impact what you here listening to this with

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00:57:20,880 --> 00:57:25,160
Speaker 1: my thoughts. I'll let you here first and then I'll

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00:57:25,240 --> 00:57:28,760
Speaker 1: chime in. So Justin Fields, the Ohio state quarterback, there

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Speaker 1: was something negatively reported about him this week. It came

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00:57:33,200 --> 00:57:37,040
Speaker 1: courtesy of Dan Orlovsky, who's not a reporter, but he

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00:57:37,040 --> 00:57:40,920
Speaker 1: hears things. Here is what Dan Orlovski, former Detroit Lions quarterback,

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00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:44,000
Speaker 1: heard about Justin Fields. I have heard that he is

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Speaker 1: a last guy in, first guy out type of quarterback,

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Speaker 1: like not the maniacal work ethic. I've even heard it

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Speaker 1: compared to Justin Herbert, where it was like dude. When

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Speaker 1: Justin Herbert showed up, it was like a psychopath. When

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Speaker 1: it came to working to get ready for the draft

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Speaker 1: or even at school, like give me more. I want

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Speaker 1: to work NonStop. And I've heard that there are some

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Speaker 1: questions with Justin fields work ethic. Mhm, okay, we all

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Speaker 1: hear stuff. Is it fair to Justin Fields to put

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Speaker 1: that out there? If you're Daniel Latsky, listen, part of

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Speaker 1: your job in the media is to get people talking.

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00:58:23,720 --> 00:58:28,200
Speaker 1: At what cost? Is the question? So first of all,

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Speaker 1: you've got Justin Fields throws six TVs against Clemson and

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00:58:32,280 --> 00:58:37,600
Speaker 1: all of a sudden January whatever day, that was January one, too, whatever, Oh,

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Speaker 1: Justin Fields could be the number one pick. Fast forward

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Speaker 1: three months, the Justin Fields slander begins. Is it slander?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Oh how state coaches can vouch for that?

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00:58:49,720 --> 00:58:52,840
Speaker 1: The players they're there or Lasky wasn't there. He don't know.

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00:58:52,920 --> 00:58:56,520
Speaker 1: He's just hearing things that second hand, third hand. He

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00:58:56,560 --> 00:59:02,760
Speaker 1: didn't clarify just Fields. Now the chatter at three is

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00:59:02,840 --> 00:59:08,080
Speaker 1: mac Jones or Trey Lance and Justin Fields just slip

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00:59:08,080 --> 00:59:11,120
Speaker 1: sliding down to eight, nine, ten, maybe fifteen, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: And it's it's just it's got to suck to be

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Speaker 1: Justin Fields right now, you know that the character assassination

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00:59:21,200 --> 00:59:25,400
Speaker 1: is coming and you can't jump up or and say

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Speaker 1: stuff where you got thin skin? Now, Kevin Durant can

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00:59:28,640 --> 00:59:32,520
Speaker 1: because he is in I don't I d g F

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Speaker 1: or whatever the letter is acronym is for I don't

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00:59:35,440 --> 00:59:39,440
Speaker 1: you know give a hoot um? And in the NFL,

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00:59:39,520 --> 00:59:42,800
Speaker 1: you just that's not done. That's not how things are done.

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Speaker 1: It's a little old school. So what is Fields to do?

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Speaker 1: I mean, if I'm a coworker of Justin Fields, if

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Speaker 1: I'm a former coach of Justin Fields, I probably step

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00:59:52,360 --> 00:59:54,800
Speaker 1: up and say something like this is total who who nanny?

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00:59:54,880 --> 00:59:57,919
Speaker 1: I think I said that right. I really struggle understanding

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00:59:57,960 --> 01:00:00,760
Speaker 1: this thing where athletes can't be criticis sizes to anymore.

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01:00:01,040 --> 01:00:04,640
Speaker 1: You followed sports in the nineties, a sportswriter used to

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Speaker 1: bash their own players. Now you cannot get a job

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01:00:07,600 --> 01:00:10,080
Speaker 1: on a beat. If you do that, you won't get access,

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01:00:10,360 --> 01:00:14,440
Speaker 1: especially in college. You will get shunned if a coach

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01:00:14,720 --> 01:00:18,520
Speaker 1: sees where you wrote and doesn't like it. Justin Herbert

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01:00:18,560 --> 01:00:22,120
Speaker 1: got slandered all offseason last year about his leadership. You

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01:00:22,120 --> 01:00:24,200
Speaker 1: know what, he bawled out. Had the best rookie season

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01:00:24,280 --> 01:00:26,600
Speaker 1: or quarterback has ever had? No one's saying anything bad

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01:00:26,640 --> 01:00:30,040
Speaker 1: about him. So justin fields, do you want to prove

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01:00:30,120 --> 01:00:33,040
Speaker 1: Dan Orlovski or anyone slandering you wrong, go do it

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Speaker 1: on the field. That's very good point. Where we have

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Speaker 1: a guest coming up now we'll get back to this.

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01:00:37,520 --> 01:00:40,080
Speaker 1: I like this topic. So coming up next we have

1147
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Speaker 1: a lawyer coming to check in on the Deshaun Watson,

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01:00:45,080 --> 01:00:47,520
Speaker 1: I said, more asked, I don't know if that's the

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01:00:47,640 --> 01:00:52,040
Speaker 1: right word for it. It's certainly a disaster, debacle, a mess.

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Speaker 1: That's next, But first there's Isaac Lowen Krown with what's

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01:00:56,160 --> 01:00:59,000
Speaker 1: trending Jason. The countdown is on of the start of

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01:00:59,040 --> 01:01:02,760
Speaker 1: the Final four in Indianapolis. It tips off this evening five,

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01:01:02,880 --> 01:01:07,720
Speaker 1: fourteen Eastern All Texas matchup between Baylor and Houston that

1154
01:01:07,760 --> 01:01:11,400
Speaker 1: will be followed at eight thirty four Eastern by Gonzaga,

1155
01:01:11,480 --> 01:01:14,880
Speaker 1: taken on u c L a big upset Friday night

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01:01:15,000 --> 01:01:18,160
Speaker 1: in the n c Double A Women's Final four Arizona

1157
01:01:18,280 --> 01:01:21,480
Speaker 1: stunning one seed uk On sixty nine to fifty nine

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Speaker 1: and making it an all Pack twelve national championship game.

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01:01:25,240 --> 01:01:28,320
Speaker 1: They'll be taking on Stanford after the cardinal knocked off

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01:01:28,400 --> 01:01:32,280
Speaker 1: South Carolina sixty six to sixty five in Major League

1161
01:01:32,320 --> 01:01:35,360
Speaker 1: Baseball on Friday night, the world champion Los Angeles Dodgers

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01:01:35,400 --> 01:01:39,440
Speaker 1: wedding at Colorado eleven to six. Trevor Bauer ten strikeouts,

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01:01:39,520 --> 01:01:42,320
Speaker 1: had a no hitter going through six innings. It is

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Speaker 1: Dodgers debut in the NBA. On Friday night, Janice antea

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01:01:46,320 --> 01:01:49,960
Speaker 1: Coon post scored forty seven points on eighteen of twenty

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Speaker 1: one shooting from the field as Milwaukee what at Portland

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Speaker 1: by eighteen. The Jazz knocked off the Bulls one thirteen

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Speaker 1: to one oh six of franchise record twenty one game

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Speaker 1: home winning streak for Utah, a five game winning streak,

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Speaker 1: four Phoenix Suns over the Thunder one forty two, one

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01:02:06,480 --> 01:02:10,200
Speaker 1: oh three, Kyle Kuzma Season I thirty points in the

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles Lakers one fifteen to nine victory at Sacramento.

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Speaker 1: And finally, in case you missed it earlier, right now,

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01:02:18,160 --> 01:02:22,560
Speaker 1: it's the number one trending topic on Twitter in America

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01:02:22,760 --> 01:02:27,160
Speaker 1: this morning. The first trailer dropping for Space Jam two

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01:02:27,840 --> 01:02:31,200
Speaker 1: starring Lebron James. Are gonna play you the first thirty

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Speaker 1: seconds and to describe the scene for you, it's Lebron

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Speaker 1: getting into an argument with his son in the movie.

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01:02:38,120 --> 01:02:41,040
Speaker 1: Then they get on an elevator that turns out to

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Speaker 1: transport them to an alternate universe. Listen, basketball campus next weekend.

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01:02:47,920 --> 01:02:49,840
Speaker 1: You got a maze the potential on the court, and

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01:02:49,920 --> 01:02:53,240
Speaker 1: I can help you get there. That's not what I want.

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01:02:54,680 --> 01:02:56,240
Speaker 1: You never let me do what I wanted to do.

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01:02:56,480 --> 01:03:05,400
Speaker 1: You never let me just do me. Hold up, Smith,

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01:03:05,400 --> 01:03:15,240
Speaker 1: I gotta deal with this. What in the matrix hair.

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01:03:16,960 --> 01:03:20,600
Speaker 1: Also later in the trailer, there's a screenshot of Lebron

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Speaker 1: making out the roster of the characters he wants as

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01:03:24,320 --> 01:03:29,320
Speaker 1: his teammates, including Superman, Gandolf, King Kong, and the Iron Giant,

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Speaker 1: and that led to such comments on Twitter as this

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Speaker 1: one from Travis who posts quote typical Lebron asking for Superman,

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01:03:39,240 --> 01:03:42,400
Speaker 1: Gandalf the Iron Giant because he can't win with a

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Speaker 1: hometown team. Michael Jordan took it to the mon Stars

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Speaker 1: with Bugs, Daffy and a half drunk Bill Murray unquote.

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01:03:50,320 --> 01:03:55,160
Speaker 1: So Lebron even getting criticism in the Imaginary Space Jam universe.

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Speaker 1: Jason Well said, Isaac, thank you back here on Fox

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Speaker 1: It's Radio. It's be Jason McIntyre. Our next guest coming

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01:04:03,280 --> 01:04:10,080
Speaker 1: up on the show. He has a podcast, conduct detriment, detrimental.

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01:04:10,240 --> 01:04:12,480
Speaker 1: He knows all things law and you know it just

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Speaker 1: so happens. Deshaun Watson's going through something right now. Dan

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Speaker 1: lust sports attorney joining the show. Dan, how are you man?

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Speaker 1: I'm good, Jason. Yeah, this is uh, we'll say, it's

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01:04:22,520 --> 01:04:24,840
Speaker 1: quite the time to be in sports law with everything

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Speaker 1: going on. Yeah, you are going to be in high

1204
01:04:26,560 --> 01:04:28,560
Speaker 1: demand here for I don't know the next month two

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Speaker 1: months as this Deshaun Watson saga plays out. Let's start

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Speaker 1: with the latest news in that one. Okay, so twenty

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Speaker 1: one civil suits filed against Deshaun Watson. One finally came out.

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Speaker 1: A criminal investigation has been opened by the police into

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Speaker 1: Watson's behavior from a masseuse um. How do you read this?

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Speaker 1: One woman coming out with the criminal um case against Watson.

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Speaker 1: So it's it's a big development. I want people to

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Speaker 1: just keep in mind that up until this point we

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Speaker 1: have only civil charge of civil civil cases that are filed,

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Speaker 1: and as we say in the law, there is no

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Speaker 1: bar to the courthouse steps in the civil case. Anybody

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01:05:12,040 --> 01:05:14,720
Speaker 1: can sue anyone for anything. There is no bar. Right,

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01:05:14,760 --> 01:05:16,520
Speaker 1: there doesn't have to be a d a's office that

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01:05:16,560 --> 01:05:19,280
Speaker 1: puts their stamp up approval on a case. Now a

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01:05:19,600 --> 01:05:22,640
Speaker 1: police department, the d a's office, they can't really go

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01:05:22,840 --> 01:05:26,800
Speaker 1: forward with criminal charges until there's a cooperating witness and

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01:05:26,920 --> 01:05:29,320
Speaker 1: some of the you know, we'll say the problematic comments

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01:05:29,400 --> 01:05:32,200
Speaker 1: of Tony Buzzby, the victim or the attorney for these

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Speaker 1: twenty one victims, he essentially said this week that he

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Speaker 1: is not going to cooperate with the Houston Police Department.

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Speaker 1: So they can't start a formal investigation until someone, a

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Speaker 1: victim comes forward with a criminal police report, a criminal complaint. Um,

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Speaker 1: And that's what happens yesterday. I don't we don't know

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Speaker 1: who this individual is, if they're one of the twenty

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Speaker 1: one that has already retained Tony Buzby, or if it's

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01:05:53,320 --> 01:05:55,600
Speaker 1: now a twenty second individual that has tried to start

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Speaker 1: some type of legal proceedings. But this is now, as

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Speaker 1: of yesterday, the first time the Houston Police Department has

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01:06:01,320 --> 01:06:04,920
Speaker 1: actually opened up a criminal investigation in which criminal charges

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01:06:04,960 --> 01:06:08,360
Speaker 1: could result. So it's potentially the first domino to fall

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Speaker 1: on the criminal case being started. Okay, so you know,

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Speaker 1: and again I don't want to get myself in any

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01:06:14,320 --> 01:06:19,560
Speaker 1: trouble here, you know, Dan, it's it's just difficult for

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Speaker 1: me to come out with a strong opinion here. And

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Speaker 1: and I've said, um all week, like you don't need

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01:06:26,240 --> 01:06:28,080
Speaker 1: to have a strong opinion. It's okay to say I

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01:06:28,240 --> 01:06:30,840
Speaker 1: don't know what to make of this. Now you're the expert.

1242
01:06:30,920 --> 01:06:34,120
Speaker 1: You've been dealing with law for many, many years, decades

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01:06:35,240 --> 01:06:38,400
Speaker 1: When someone something wacky comes out like this, twenty one

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01:06:38,920 --> 01:06:41,960
Speaker 1: civil lawsuits against someone who best I could tell Deshaun

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01:06:42,000 --> 01:06:44,600
Speaker 1: Watson has ever had a parking ticket uh at Clemson

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01:06:44,720 --> 01:06:47,520
Speaker 1: in high school. In the pros. All of this has

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01:06:47,560 --> 01:06:51,160
Speaker 1: stemmed from like basically as the last like, I don't

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Speaker 1: know six to eight months. How do you read this

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Speaker 1: when you see twenty one civil lawsuits, no criminal until

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Speaker 1: the one that was came out yesterday. So I'll say,

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01:07:01,560 --> 01:07:04,000
Speaker 1: I'll say it's odd. And that's and I'm with you, Jason.

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01:07:04,040 --> 01:07:07,120
Speaker 1: I've done hits and I've just tried to be very clear, right,

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01:07:07,160 --> 01:07:09,960
Speaker 1: these are civil charges. This doesn't you know. No d

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01:07:10,120 --> 01:07:12,960
Speaker 1: a's officers put their stamp of approval on this case. Um.

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Speaker 1: And just so people are aware, in the best way

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Speaker 1: I explain this, there's the O. J. Simpson case, which

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01:07:17,280 --> 01:07:20,440
Speaker 1: is the easiest way to describe civil versus criminal charges.

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01:07:20,800 --> 01:07:23,000
Speaker 1: In order to get a criminal conviction, and there's something

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01:07:23,080 --> 01:07:26,360
Speaker 1: called proof beyond a reasonable doubt. And as we're sports fans,

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Speaker 1: I'm a you know, I'm a betting guy. You probably

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Speaker 1: have to win and like like a chance of winning.

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Speaker 1: That's the only way the d A is going to

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Speaker 1: take the case. And that's how O. J. Simpson can

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Speaker 1: lose in criminal court. Right, maybe it's not ninety percent,

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01:07:38,560 --> 01:07:42,040
Speaker 1: but he can. He can you know then basically get

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Speaker 1: made thank you found culpable in civil court because that's

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Speaker 1: like something called beyond it's a preponderance of the evidence.

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Speaker 1: So you know, if it's between fifty and ninety you

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Speaker 1: can lose on a civil case, but you can beat

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Speaker 1: criminal charges. So if and when a d a's office

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Speaker 1: takes the case, that'll tell you a lot. That'll tell

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Speaker 1: you that they think they can get a guilty conviction.

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Speaker 1: So right now, I think the odd thing Jason to

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Speaker 1: your question is that there are twenty one cases before

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Speaker 1: a criminal investigation was even started. Right, It's just it's

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Speaker 1: just odd. Um my firm just civil work. We do

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Speaker 1: criminal work. It's very few instances where if you have

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Speaker 1: a potential criminal case that you wouldn't want to go

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Speaker 1: to the police department. The police can be your best friend,

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Speaker 1: right and they can really help you in an investigation.

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Speaker 1: They could get penis, they can get a lot of

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Speaker 1: information that you can't get on the civil And so

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Speaker 1: I don't know what you want to read into it,

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Speaker 1: but it's odd that Tony Buzzby at no point went

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Speaker 1: to the Houston Police department. It's also odd that Tony

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Speaker 1: Buzby says he has a conflict with the Houston Police

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Speaker 1: Department because he ran for mayor and told the police

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Speaker 1: chief to step down. And you know, he's essentially saying, hey,

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Speaker 1: the Houston Police Department doesn't like me. So then it's

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Speaker 1: also odd that Tony Buzzby would take this case if

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Speaker 1: he knows that the Houston Police Department doesn't like it. Well,

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Speaker 1: a lot of oddities. It's it's totally fair to read

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Speaker 1: into that. And again, I I don't want to anger

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Speaker 1: any of the listeners. Although, but he's gonna get upset

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01:09:00,840 --> 01:09:06,080
Speaker 1: when you hear this. But when somebody says I'm filing

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Speaker 1: a civil suit, is that at the at the basis

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Speaker 1: nature he said versus she said, Um, yes, and no,

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Speaker 1: not necessarily. Um. But with these the nature of these allegations,

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Speaker 1: that's what it's going to come down to. It's it's,

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Speaker 1: you know, assuming that massages happened, and I think we

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Speaker 1: have d MS and text that will help establish that

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Speaker 1: that timeline. But then it's a matter of what will

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Speaker 1: happened behind closed doors. And I think Jason, just so

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01:09:32,080 --> 01:09:35,479
Speaker 1: people are aware, not necessarily he said, she said, it's

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Speaker 1: what the victims subjectively believes in their mind occurred. So

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Speaker 1: Watson can think something. But if the victim feels that

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Speaker 1: they were being coerced or forced, doesn't really matter what

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Speaker 1: Watson says. It's how the victim felt. So it doesn't

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01:09:48,000 --> 01:09:51,439
Speaker 1: matter if there's video, if the victim feels that something happened, Um,

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Speaker 1: it's going to be up to a jury to decide.

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Speaker 1: And this is why I've I've tried to be vocal

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Speaker 1: about this. I think Tony Budby is an odd choice

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01:09:58,560 --> 01:10:00,280
Speaker 1: for this case and the case that comes down to

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Speaker 1: write what the victim was subjectively thinking, because as the

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Speaker 1: public conscience, I don't think Tony has done so much

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Speaker 1: in the court of public opinion to engender credibility for himself.

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Speaker 1: If you go to a trial and Tony Buzzby gives

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Speaker 1: the opening argument, right, he's the mouthpiece for these alleged victims.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't really look that good, right, So he's not

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Speaker 1: really doing his victims or favor right. And if DeShawn

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Speaker 1: Watson gets off, maybe it's because Tony Buzzby put his

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Speaker 1: foot in his mouth too many times. And I don't

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Speaker 1: I don't think anyone's okay with that result. Right. We

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Speaker 1: want the truth to come out one way or the other.

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Speaker 1: But I guess the counter would be, well, and this

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Speaker 1: is everyone's you know, zoom out. Look at the Deshaun

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Speaker 1: Watson case. Why does a guy have forty different women

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Speaker 1: giving a massages? That's like the ob he's had eighteen

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Speaker 1: or so come out and say he I've given a massages.

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Speaker 1: It's no big deal. And then you have twenty one

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Speaker 1: saying I had a problem with it. And just based

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Speaker 1: on that alone, isn't Tony Buzby, you know, getting people

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Speaker 1: to think like something's up with Watson. We don't know what,

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Speaker 1: but something is a miss. If forty people give a

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Speaker 1: massage and half of them say it was a bad experience,

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Speaker 1: see this, I put the poll up on Twitter. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm curious to see what people think about that exact question,

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Speaker 1: because we only got to forty because Rusty Harden, who

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Speaker 1: was no stranger to high profile athletes taking on their cases.

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Speaker 1: He had James Harden, Roger Clemens, Adrian Peterson, the guy,

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Speaker 1: the guy who knows the handbook right, and his best

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01:11:26,000 --> 01:11:27,960
Speaker 1: shot that he's putting forward is, hey, wait a minute

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Speaker 1: before you you start taking the judgment of one victims

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Speaker 1: who you know, alleged victims who say that's something dead

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Speaker 1: happened here a team that say that they've given a

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Speaker 1: massage and nothing bad happened. But you know, to me,

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Speaker 1: looking at a very high level, I'm with you, I

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Speaker 1: don't really know if that helps this case. Hey, now

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Speaker 1: we have forty different missuses, So I mean, I don't

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Speaker 1: you know my my wife, you know, she's very particular

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Speaker 1: about who does her nails right, who gets her hair cut?

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Speaker 1: And I'm yeah, sure, you're like me. I like the

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Speaker 1: same barber, the same guy. Forty is a little bit

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Speaker 1: of a red flag. Does it mean the guy is guilty,

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Speaker 1: Does it mean he's culpable in civil court? No? But

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Speaker 1: these are gonna be human beings. That beside the case,

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Speaker 1: either as civil jury or criminal jury. And they're human beings, right,

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Speaker 1: they want to know that question. How does that make sense?

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Speaker 1: And everything? Is Watson very picky? Right? Or is it

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Speaker 1: something a little darker? And I think that's a totally

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Speaker 1: valid question. All right? So he he is Dan Lust

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Speaker 1: on Twitter. He's at Sports Law Lust. Dan, listen, great stuff.

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Speaker 1: I'm kind of with you. I don't know what to

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Speaker 1: make of this, but I'm sure this is not the

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Speaker 1: last time we'll have you on this thing. Seems like

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Speaker 1: it's going to play out over several months. Uh, take

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Speaker 1: care and good luck. Thanks always a pleasure, all right,

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Speaker 1: Dan Lust. It's a complicated case. I don't want to

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Speaker 1: say the wrong thing, and somebody listen to it on

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Speaker 1: the radio driving their kids to soccer practice, and then

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Speaker 1: you know, tries to blasphem like it's I'm gonna stick

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Speaker 1: with this. I don't know. I'm not ready to say

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Speaker 1: he's guilty, Arnest, and I don't think there's enough info.

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Speaker 1: podcasts back here on Fox Sports Radio. Well, I didn't

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Speaker 1: realize that Justin Fields topic was so polarizing. So the

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Speaker 1: studio works like I'm in one room. I have a

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Speaker 1: glass I can see through to Gavin and Sam and

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Speaker 1: sometimes they'll come in in between. Do we talk about stuff?

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Speaker 1: What we have coming up? Thoughts? Blah blah blah, how's

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Speaker 1: your weekend? Gavin got engaged? I was Sam blah blah blah,

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Speaker 1: and Iowa. Sam is mostly close to the vest on

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Speaker 1: a lot of these topics. He likes to stay out

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Speaker 1: of the discourse and he doesn't like when I bring

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Speaker 1: his name up. So he comes in in between he's like,

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Speaker 1: I don't get this Justin Fields thing. And I know

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Speaker 1: when Iowa Sam does that, like, oh we've got some

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01:14:16,720 --> 01:14:19,200
Speaker 1: red meat here, because he's like the listener you want

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01:14:20,120 --> 01:14:23,519
Speaker 1: who's rolling through and like like sports and he's into

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01:14:23,600 --> 01:14:26,320
Speaker 1: it and you've gotta it's tough to find topics that

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Speaker 1: really get him fired up. It's fair to say Justin

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01:14:28,680 --> 01:14:31,120
Speaker 1: Fields has he fired up? I will just say that

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01:14:31,880 --> 01:14:33,759
Speaker 1: a couple of last couple of weeks, you've been bringing

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Speaker 1: up my personal life, which can can remain off the air.

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Speaker 1: But otherwise I love charming and I love when you

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Speaker 1: bring me up. But uh, I just think of it

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Speaker 1: as this that every year we have former quarterbacks who

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Speaker 1: do a lot of talking, a lot of writing about

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Speaker 1: prospects in the field. And it's a little bit of

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Speaker 1: hearsay here from Dan Orlovsky. But this is this is

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01:14:53,000 --> 01:14:54,439
Speaker 1: run of the mill stuff for me. I mean, he's

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Speaker 1: just reporting on and talking about stuff that he's heard

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Speaker 1: through the grapevine. I don't think it's that big of

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01:14:58,840 --> 01:15:00,680
Speaker 1: a deal to say this type of st off. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it's it's it shines a poor light on the Fields's

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01:15:03,920 --> 01:15:05,719
Speaker 1: work ethic but I think this is you know, Daniel

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Speaker 1: Orlovsky does a lot of talking and a lot of

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Speaker 1: writing at this time of year. So here is. And

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Speaker 1: again I'm not saying I believe this. I just think

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Speaker 1: the other side of the vantage point is this. How

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Speaker 1: many days is dani Orlovsky spent in Ohio in Columbus

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Speaker 1: monitoring this? Probably zero, but it doesn't have to. He

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Speaker 1: talked to a lot of people, Danilowski obviously white, Justin Fields,

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Speaker 1: obviously African American. And we're in an error right now

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Speaker 1: where if you say the wrong thing on social media,

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Speaker 1: everybody's gonna flip out and call you a racist. Bill

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01:15:36,320 --> 01:15:39,360
Speaker 1: Simmons was painted as a racist for something like a

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Speaker 1: year ago. I don't remember what it was, but it

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Speaker 1: was like, oh, remember the New York Times wrote about

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Speaker 1: something Bill Simmons said, and like the amount of podcasters

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Speaker 1: he has something something nonsense. I'm like, I know, Bill Simmon,

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Speaker 1: he's not racist. Come on, and the little I know

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Speaker 1: about Dan Orlovski, he's not racist. I don't think this

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Speaker 1: was a racist statement. He clearly he heard this from

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Speaker 1: some team. And then the question becomes its like, well,

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Speaker 1: was there an agenda behind why this was said, Justin

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Speaker 1: Fields has been a quarterback for three years. He was

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Speaker 1: at Georgia, he transferred to a House state. He's been

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Speaker 1: the starter for two years at a house state. This

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Speaker 1: has never come out Justin Fields. By the way, I

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Speaker 1: don't think he pushed back, did he? I didn't. Honestly, Jason,

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Speaker 1: I didn't know this was even becoming a racist thing.

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Speaker 1: That's it. That's embarrassing anyone who thinks that criticism in

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Speaker 1: your own medium. Dan Orlovsky works in sports media. He

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Speaker 1: is talking about an athlete in sport. If they cannot

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Speaker 1: be criticized, then this shouldn't even be an industry. That's insane.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's Fields or his people. It's probably

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Speaker 1: just a fans. Think about it this way. Remember when

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Speaker 1: Stephen A. Smith said that, uh um, he said something.

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Speaker 1: Dwayne Haskins was a running quarterback. Now, the truth is

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Speaker 1: that if a white guy says that, that's racist, right.

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01:17:03,200 --> 01:17:05,519
Speaker 1: The truth is that Stephen A. Smith didn't know what

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Speaker 1: he was talking He had no idea what he was

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01:17:07,800 --> 01:17:12,599
Speaker 1: talking about with with Dwayne Haskins, sometimes the obvious answer

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Speaker 1: is the correct one. Dan Orlovsky is repeating what he heard.

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Speaker 1: That's it. There's nothing more I will say. I. I

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Speaker 1: just don't understand how Justin Fields is all of a

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Speaker 1: sudden like damaged Goods. Did you also see that? I

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Speaker 1: am surprised by that as well. He was the number

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Speaker 1: two quarterback the entire season, and now all of a

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Speaker 1: sudden he's like number five. Zack Wilson is without a

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Speaker 1: doubt going number two. Yes, no doubt. And I guess

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Speaker 1: the weird part of this is the rise of Mac Jones.

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01:17:48,400 --> 01:17:51,320
Speaker 1: And yes, listen, Iowa, Sam I, I already asked you this,

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01:17:51,520 --> 01:17:54,080
Speaker 1: Matt Jones. You watch a lot of college football. At

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01:17:54,200 --> 01:17:58,200
Speaker 1: any point did you think Mac Jones looks better than

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01:17:58,280 --> 01:18:01,559
Speaker 1: Justin Fields in the last You're in change. He doesn't

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01:18:01,560 --> 01:18:04,400
Speaker 1: have the wheels, is anything? He has nothing, He does

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01:18:04,560 --> 01:18:07,519
Speaker 1: nothing better than Justin Fields. So why all of a

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01:18:07,560 --> 01:18:10,000
Speaker 1: sudden is he may be going through to Stanford fit

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01:18:10,160 --> 01:18:15,200
Speaker 1: for the scheme? Is it something Mac Jones has shown

1475
01:18:15,280 --> 01:18:18,840
Speaker 1: at his pro day? Like this idea that Justin Fields

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01:18:18,840 --> 01:18:22,200
Speaker 1: didn't look great at his pro day? Dude, you've got

1477
01:18:22,680 --> 01:18:25,280
Speaker 1: twenty I think twenty two games or twenty seven games

1478
01:18:25,320 --> 01:18:29,519
Speaker 1: that he started as a starter in college football, like

1479
01:18:29,600 --> 01:18:34,080
Speaker 1: games that actually matter against Clemson and the like, and

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01:18:34,160 --> 01:18:35,840
Speaker 1: you're saying he didn't look good at his pro day.

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01:18:37,479 --> 01:18:40,759
Speaker 1: It just does something doesn't add up. And Justin Fields

1482
01:18:40,800 --> 01:18:44,120
Speaker 1: is a dog. Hey, maybe he's a dog. Now why

1483
01:18:44,160 --> 01:18:48,800
Speaker 1: didn't he win the starting topic at at Um? Where?

1484
01:18:48,840 --> 01:18:51,200
Speaker 1: Where is he Georgia? Why didn't he win the starting

1485
01:18:51,280 --> 01:18:52,920
Speaker 1: job at Georgia? I don't know. We'll talk about it

1486
01:18:53,120 --> 01:18:57,720
Speaker 1: next hour. Fox Sports Radio. Fox Sports Radio has the

1487
01:18:57,800 --> 01:19:00,680
Speaker 1: best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of

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01:19:00,720 --> 01:19:04,200
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01:19:04,280 --> 01:19:06,760
Speaker 1: the I Heart Radio app. Search f s R to

1490
01:19:06,880 --> 01:19:11,800
Speaker 1: listen live. Hi noon on the East Coast, Boys and girls,

1491
01:19:11,840 --> 01:19:15,479
Speaker 1: It's me Jason McIntyre, Fox Sports Radio. It's nine am

1492
01:19:15,520 --> 01:19:19,800
Speaker 1: out here on the West Coast. I hope everybody's having

1493
01:19:19,840 --> 01:19:24,640
Speaker 1: a phenomenal Easter weekend. My dad was texting me. He's like,

1494
01:19:24,720 --> 01:19:27,240
Speaker 1: you need to watch the movie Ben Her this weekend.

1495
01:19:27,960 --> 01:19:30,120
Speaker 1: Have you guys seen Ben Hurt. The weirdest thing is

1496
01:19:30,240 --> 01:19:33,720
Speaker 1: my dad texted me about Ben Her last week and

1497
01:19:33,840 --> 01:19:36,439
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, there is an Easter connection. Yes, there

1498
01:19:36,439 --> 01:19:38,840
Speaker 1: are certainly is. And then I was like, listen, that's

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01:19:39,240 --> 01:19:43,600
Speaker 1: that's a I think Charlton Heston right, Yes, yes, So

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01:19:43,640 --> 01:19:45,920
Speaker 1: it's like a three hour movie. A long movie, but

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01:19:46,000 --> 01:19:48,040
Speaker 1: you know what, you know what's longer is Justice League,

1502
01:19:48,120 --> 01:19:50,960
Speaker 1: and Justice League is terrible, So don't Zack Snyder, Zack

1503
01:19:51,040 --> 01:19:57,320
Speaker 1: Snyder four hour? Was that me saying garbage or someone else?

1504
01:19:57,800 --> 01:20:04,360
Speaker 1: That was Mr Gundy? Jeff Gundy. Um? Yeah, So my

1505
01:20:04,479 --> 01:20:06,160
Speaker 1: dad's like, okay, fine, Well, if you don't want to

1506
01:20:06,200 --> 01:20:10,560
Speaker 1: watch the full Charlton Heston movie, you can watch the

1507
01:20:10,640 --> 01:20:14,479
Speaker 1: one scene where they refused to give ben her water

1508
01:20:15,360 --> 01:20:18,479
Speaker 1: and then Jesus you don't see his face, he doesn't

1509
01:20:18,479 --> 01:20:21,280
Speaker 1: say anything, comes up and gives him water and it's

1510
01:20:21,320 --> 01:20:23,240
Speaker 1: like a powerful scene. And I did watch it on

1511
01:20:23,320 --> 01:20:27,640
Speaker 1: YouTube and it was pretty cool. Um, I don't know,

1512
01:20:27,760 --> 01:20:30,080
Speaker 1: it's Easter weekend. I just thought i'd kind of bring

1513
01:20:30,160 --> 01:20:32,719
Speaker 1: that up. Gather and I were having an Only Fans

1514
01:20:32,800 --> 01:20:37,080
Speaker 1: discussion during the I don't know if that's suitable for radio.

1515
01:20:37,120 --> 01:20:38,960
Speaker 1: I don't know if that came out right. Yeah, no, no,

1516
01:20:39,080 --> 01:20:41,680
Speaker 1: I listen. I'm not subscribed to any of that. I'm

1517
01:20:41,680 --> 01:20:44,360
Speaker 1: not paying for that stuff. But I will just say

1518
01:20:45,160 --> 01:20:48,599
Speaker 1: the world is changing, and there is a connection between

1519
01:20:48,680 --> 01:20:52,439
Speaker 1: the Justin Field stuff and Only Fans. I don't really

1520
01:20:52,520 --> 01:20:55,720
Speaker 1: know what it is yet. It's an unrefined take, but

1521
01:20:57,680 --> 01:21:01,679
Speaker 1: just the world is changing, that's rapidly, and social media

1522
01:21:01,840 --> 01:21:04,880
Speaker 1: is doing a ton of it. And it's so funny

1523
01:21:04,880 --> 01:21:08,200
Speaker 1: because when the Internet came out, it was the coolest

1524
01:21:08,280 --> 01:21:10,040
Speaker 1: thing ever. Oh my gosh, you could just go into

1525
01:21:10,120 --> 01:21:13,040
Speaker 1: chat rooms and yell at people and say whatever you want. Oh,

1526
01:21:13,200 --> 01:21:15,400
Speaker 1: it's so funny. You can just go and just say

1527
01:21:15,439 --> 01:21:17,200
Speaker 1: whatever the heck you want to people on the internet.

1528
01:21:18,200 --> 01:21:20,000
Speaker 1: And then, you know, the Internet started to grow up

1529
01:21:20,000 --> 01:21:22,560
Speaker 1: a little bit, and that's when I realized, oh, I

1530
01:21:22,600 --> 01:21:26,800
Speaker 1: can capitalize on this, and I started a blog as

1531
01:21:26,880 --> 01:21:30,760
Speaker 1: newspapers were kind of trending downward and I was able

1532
01:21:30,800 --> 01:21:33,600
Speaker 1: to get in. Now. Remember I started the blog anonymously,

1533
01:21:34,600 --> 01:21:37,880
Speaker 1: but that was before Twitter and not before Facebook. Twitter

1534
01:21:37,920 --> 01:21:41,600
Speaker 1: and Instagram hadn't popped yet, and anonymity was kind of

1535
01:21:41,640 --> 01:21:43,800
Speaker 1: cool because I was doing it, I thought the right way.

1536
01:21:43,920 --> 01:21:48,559
Speaker 1: I wasn't slandering. I was using my anonymity to report stuff,

1537
01:21:49,600 --> 01:21:53,160
Speaker 1: mostly on sports media, what I had heard. And then eventually,

1538
01:21:53,240 --> 01:21:54,760
Speaker 1: you know whatever, I put my name on the site

1539
01:21:54,800 --> 01:21:58,479
Speaker 1: Sports Illustrated wrote about it, blah blah blah, sold the site.

1540
01:21:59,520 --> 01:22:02,280
Speaker 1: Then the other I started to like, grow up. I'm

1541
01:22:02,560 --> 01:22:07,240
Speaker 1: I'm still using as a base point for the Internet,

1542
01:22:07,280 --> 01:22:09,600
Speaker 1: but that's probably still not right. It would probably be

1543
01:22:09,680 --> 01:22:13,599
Speaker 1: what because then in two thousand there was the crash

1544
01:22:13,680 --> 01:22:17,640
Speaker 1: and all that. So I don't know. The way I

1545
01:22:17,800 --> 01:22:20,880
Speaker 1: view it is the Internet is kind of growing up

1546
01:22:20,960 --> 01:22:25,400
Speaker 1: and maturing, and we kind of need to grow up

1547
01:22:25,439 --> 01:22:29,599
Speaker 1: and mature with it, and I it's a it's weird

1548
01:22:29,640 --> 01:22:35,120
Speaker 1: how the maturation is happening, because you know, and Gavin,

1549
01:22:35,320 --> 01:22:37,680
Speaker 1: this is a this is a great point that he

1550
01:22:37,800 --> 01:22:41,559
Speaker 1: made to me. And I don't know how to say

1551
01:22:41,600 --> 01:22:46,160
Speaker 1: this if I don't hope this doesn't come off disingenuous.

1552
01:22:46,960 --> 01:22:51,040
Speaker 1: But he asked me, can you be the same on

1553
01:22:51,240 --> 01:22:54,160
Speaker 1: the radio and say the same stuff on social media?

1554
01:22:55,160 --> 01:22:59,240
Speaker 1: And I told him straight up, no, I can say

1555
01:22:59,280 --> 01:23:03,320
Speaker 1: stuff on this show that I would not tweet out.

1556
01:23:04,360 --> 01:23:07,400
Speaker 1: And why is that? Because on the radio you can

1557
01:23:07,520 --> 01:23:11,040
Speaker 1: use this thing called context, and you can explain your

1558
01:23:11,080 --> 01:23:14,360
Speaker 1: thoughts for three or four minutes and use analogies and

1559
01:23:15,040 --> 01:23:19,240
Speaker 1: you can go deep. Tweets are short and they're flipping,

1560
01:23:19,800 --> 01:23:22,960
Speaker 1: and if you put it out there, it can be

1561
01:23:23,160 --> 01:23:27,240
Speaker 1: misconstrued so easily because of one word you used or

1562
01:23:27,320 --> 01:23:35,160
Speaker 1: didn't use character limit and without providing context some stuff. Yeah,

1563
01:23:35,240 --> 01:23:39,080
Speaker 1: it's gonna sound really stupid and bad, and people just

1564
01:23:39,200 --> 01:23:43,400
Speaker 1: see it and have a visceral, instant reaction. And this

1565
01:23:43,600 --> 01:23:45,559
Speaker 1: is why I think about two years ago I started

1566
01:23:45,680 --> 01:23:52,600
Speaker 1: using Twitter Less. You can get fired for tweets. I

1567
01:23:52,680 --> 01:23:55,719
Speaker 1: mean on the radio, I can take stuff back instantly.

1568
01:23:55,760 --> 01:23:59,080
Speaker 1: Oh I'm it's come off like an idiot. You can

1569
01:23:59,160 --> 01:24:04,280
Speaker 1: provide context, you can go deeper, right, and you can't

1570
01:24:04,400 --> 01:24:07,679
Speaker 1: do that on social media. There is nuance does not exist.

1571
01:24:07,800 --> 01:24:11,479
Speaker 1: Social media is black and white. That's it. There's no

1572
01:24:11,600 --> 01:24:15,920
Speaker 1: in between. There's no gray area. And I you know,

1573
01:24:16,320 --> 01:24:22,200
Speaker 1: when this Atlanta All Star Game thing happened yesterday, I

1574
01:24:22,600 --> 01:24:25,120
Speaker 1: you know, I saw the statement and I said, you know,

1575
01:24:25,240 --> 01:24:29,280
Speaker 1: good for MLB, they made their decision. And so many

1576
01:24:29,400 --> 01:24:33,200
Speaker 1: people took this as I can't believe you're saying that

1577
01:24:33,680 --> 01:24:36,679
Speaker 1: cancel culture, blah blah blah, and I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa,

1578
01:24:37,280 --> 01:24:40,320
Speaker 1: And instantly it was a flurry of what about the

1579
01:24:40,520 --> 01:24:43,240
Speaker 1: NBA in China, you know, and like all this nonsense,

1580
01:24:44,600 --> 01:24:49,320
Speaker 1: and I'm like, guys, can we take a deep breath.

1581
01:24:49,400 --> 01:24:51,280
Speaker 1: And then I realized, oh, it was the tweet and

1582
01:24:51,360 --> 01:24:54,479
Speaker 1: people reacted to it and like we can have a

1583
01:24:54,560 --> 01:24:56,880
Speaker 1: real discussion about Atlanta in the All Star Game here

1584
01:24:57,280 --> 01:24:58,920
Speaker 1: and go back and forth and bring on a guest

1585
01:24:59,000 --> 01:25:01,680
Speaker 1: and provide new wants in depth and context, and like,

1586
01:25:02,040 --> 01:25:04,920
Speaker 1: you just can't do that on social media. You could

1587
01:25:04,920 --> 01:25:07,800
Speaker 1: do it on Facebook and write like seven paragraphs about it,

1588
01:25:07,840 --> 01:25:11,960
Speaker 1: but nobody reads that. It's Facebook. You're just scrolling through

1589
01:25:12,000 --> 01:25:14,840
Speaker 1: looking for birthday pictures and you know, photos of kids

1590
01:25:14,880 --> 01:25:16,680
Speaker 1: and weddings and stuff like that. That's all they're doing.

1591
01:25:17,400 --> 01:25:21,800
Speaker 1: And like, I'm of the firm belief that you know,

1592
01:25:22,000 --> 01:25:24,880
Speaker 1: major League Baseball has it's right. It's it's it's a league.

1593
01:25:25,000 --> 01:25:27,680
Speaker 1: It can cow tow to the corporate sponsors and do

1594
01:25:27,760 --> 01:25:33,040
Speaker 1: whatever the hell it wants. It can decide we're gonna

1595
01:25:33,080 --> 01:25:36,000
Speaker 1: pull the All Star Game out. Good for them. They

1596
01:25:36,120 --> 01:25:38,680
Speaker 1: made a decision. Guess what they've got to live with

1597
01:25:38,800 --> 01:25:43,720
Speaker 1: that decision. The teams Atlanta Braves are ticked. Are there

1598
01:25:43,760 --> 01:25:45,280
Speaker 1: fans in Atlanta who are excited to go to the

1599
01:25:45,280 --> 01:25:48,280
Speaker 1: All Star Game? You're damn right there are are there

1600
01:25:48,320 --> 01:25:51,000
Speaker 1: a bunch of Republicans who are ticked off that they

1601
01:25:51,080 --> 01:25:53,920
Speaker 1: did this, and they're good at an event about it,

1602
01:25:54,000 --> 01:25:57,880
Speaker 1: of course, So MLB like, good for them, they made

1603
01:25:57,920 --> 01:26:01,000
Speaker 1: a decision they now have to live with fit was

1604
01:26:01,080 --> 01:26:03,200
Speaker 1: it the right decision? You know? I gotta be honest.

1605
01:26:04,080 --> 01:26:06,439
Speaker 1: One are the open tabs I have right here on

1606
01:26:06,600 --> 01:26:11,479
Speaker 1: my computer? Is the New York Times breakdown of Georgia's

1607
01:26:11,560 --> 01:26:14,839
Speaker 1: voting law. I'm not gonna lie, guys. I'm not reading

1608
01:26:15,800 --> 01:26:19,280
Speaker 1: nine pages on voting law. Zero chance I'm doing that.

1609
01:26:20,160 --> 01:26:22,400
Speaker 1: Will I read a cliff Notes version? You're damn right

1610
01:26:22,439 --> 01:26:24,479
Speaker 1: I will. So I looked at the New York Times

1611
01:26:24,520 --> 01:26:27,280
Speaker 1: cliff Notes version, and I know you're gonna stop me,

1612
01:26:27,360 --> 01:26:29,120
Speaker 1: and you're in your car and you're saying, j J

1613
01:26:29,320 --> 01:26:32,840
Speaker 1: stop stop. It's the New York Times. Of course they're

1614
01:26:32,840 --> 01:26:36,720
Speaker 1: gonna be slanted. Well, can you really be slanted on

1615
01:26:36,960 --> 01:26:40,160
Speaker 1: voting law? Okay? Fine? Where am I going to read

1616
01:26:40,160 --> 01:26:43,360
Speaker 1: the cliff Notes version? That's unslanted? Who's got that for me? Anybody?

1617
01:26:43,640 --> 01:26:46,599
Speaker 1: What about the Wall Street Journal? Is that fair enough?

1618
01:26:46,760 --> 01:26:49,000
Speaker 1: Do I need to go to BuzzFeed? Like? What is

1619
01:26:49,040 --> 01:26:50,479
Speaker 1: the site where I'm gonna get it? Because I'm not

1620
01:26:50,520 --> 01:26:52,519
Speaker 1: reading the voting law? And neither are you? So don't

1621
01:26:52,560 --> 01:26:56,280
Speaker 1: lie to me. You're not. Now we have some audio.

1622
01:26:56,439 --> 01:27:01,080
Speaker 1: This is the audio, right, Mike, McCarthy Front Office Sports

1623
01:27:01,920 --> 01:27:04,400
Speaker 1: and you know, full disclosure. I know, Mike, he's written

1624
01:27:04,400 --> 01:27:06,840
Speaker 1: about me before when he's written about the media. Um,

1625
01:27:07,760 --> 01:27:09,639
Speaker 1: I know, I don't talk to him or feeding stuff.

1626
01:27:09,640 --> 01:27:16,360
Speaker 1: I don't. Here's his thoughts on Atlanta losing the MLB

1627
01:27:16,360 --> 01:27:19,720
Speaker 1: all staring. I think absolutely we're gonna see sports and

1628
01:27:19,800 --> 01:27:23,080
Speaker 1: politics entwined even more. You're gonna have you know, groups,

1629
01:27:23,280 --> 01:27:25,880
Speaker 1: And I mean Joe Barden was on ESPN the other night,

1630
01:27:26,040 --> 01:27:29,120
Speaker 1: you know, speaking out about it. However, you know what

1631
01:27:29,160 --> 01:27:30,479
Speaker 1: I mean, and one of the few people in the

1632
01:27:30,560 --> 01:27:32,479
Speaker 1: media who's willing to say this. I do think this

1633
01:27:32,600 --> 01:27:36,680
Speaker 1: blowback from it. Anytime you delve into politics as corporation

1634
01:27:36,880 --> 01:27:40,880
Speaker 1: or corporate entity, you risk alienating half the audience. And

1635
01:27:41,040 --> 01:27:43,080
Speaker 1: I think there was a recent surveying, like the last

1636
01:27:43,120 --> 01:27:46,080
Speaker 1: week or two ago that said, you know, viewers have

1637
01:27:46,200 --> 01:27:50,400
Speaker 1: stopped watching certain sports or stopped participating as much because

1638
01:27:50,520 --> 01:27:54,040
Speaker 1: they were sick of the creeping intrusion of politics and sports.

1639
01:27:54,240 --> 01:27:56,960
Speaker 1: I think the league's recognized this. I mean, you know,

1640
01:27:57,200 --> 01:27:59,519
Speaker 1: Adam Silver has come out and said they're going to

1641
01:27:59,600 --> 01:28:02,280
Speaker 1: tone down in the politics. You know, when Joe Biden

1642
01:28:02,320 --> 01:28:04,280
Speaker 1: has been in office for a month, you know gets

1643
01:28:04,360 --> 01:28:06,320
Speaker 1: up and starts saying, you know, sports should do this,

1644
01:28:06,439 --> 01:28:10,920
Speaker 1: and that what it adds up is to an insufferability factor.

1645
01:28:11,280 --> 01:28:16,120
Speaker 1: Uh TP Viewers and Americans are tired of rich, insufferable

1646
01:28:16,240 --> 01:28:19,640
Speaker 1: Hollywood celebrities lecturing them how to live their lives. You know,

1647
01:28:19,720 --> 01:28:22,160
Speaker 1: the moral high ground gets kind of slippery, particularly when

1648
01:28:22,160 --> 01:28:24,719
Speaker 1: you're not saying the same thing about China in other countries.

1649
01:28:24,760 --> 01:28:28,360
Speaker 1: You're just criticizing our own country. He's Mike McCarthy said

1650
01:28:28,400 --> 01:28:32,439
Speaker 1: that on David Gascon's podcast. It's a Fox Fox Sports

1651
01:28:32,560 --> 01:28:35,880
Speaker 1: radio podcast called The Fifth Hour with Ben Mallor as well.

1652
01:28:35,920 --> 01:28:39,400
Speaker 1: Gascon good guy. I know him. He's been with the

1653
01:28:39,520 --> 01:28:41,960
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio family. Awhile, so check that check out

1654
01:28:42,000 --> 01:28:46,200
Speaker 1: that podcast. Um. Where I didn't like what McCarthy said

1655
01:28:46,600 --> 01:28:48,880
Speaker 1: was like he's like, oh, but they're silent on China.

1656
01:28:49,040 --> 01:28:51,400
Speaker 1: Time out, Mike. The China stuff is really starting to

1657
01:28:51,439 --> 01:28:54,439
Speaker 1: irk be guys, it is. And I know Clay Travis

1658
01:28:54,479 --> 01:28:56,519
Speaker 1: who have known well where buddies haven't talked a lot

1659
01:28:56,600 --> 01:29:00,519
Speaker 1: in the last year, but he's been banging on the

1660
01:29:00,600 --> 01:29:03,960
Speaker 1: China stuff. To listen, I need everybody to be consistent.

1661
01:29:04,160 --> 01:29:06,360
Speaker 1: That's fine. You want to bash the NBA for China. Great,

1662
01:29:07,320 --> 01:29:10,000
Speaker 1: Then look at your iPhone, Tell me where that was

1663
01:29:10,120 --> 01:29:13,200
Speaker 1: manufactured because he answers China. And then look at the

1664
01:29:13,280 --> 01:29:16,719
Speaker 1: jeans you're wearing. Where were those made? Oh yeah, China.

1665
01:29:17,240 --> 01:29:21,200
Speaker 1: And the bag you got your girlfriend or wife, or

1666
01:29:21,320 --> 01:29:23,719
Speaker 1: your baby mama, or your jump off or your side piece,

1667
01:29:24,960 --> 01:29:26,800
Speaker 1: where was that bag made? If it was a high end,

1668
01:29:26,840 --> 01:29:31,639
Speaker 1: fashionable fashion bag mark Jacobs, Burberry, that stuff made in China.

1669
01:29:32,200 --> 01:29:34,719
Speaker 1: And the running shoes you're wearing also made in China.

1670
01:29:34,920 --> 01:29:38,679
Speaker 1: So keep that same energy blasting the NBA for China

1671
01:29:39,160 --> 01:29:42,439
Speaker 1: as you do for Apple and Microsoft and all these

1672
01:29:42,479 --> 01:29:44,320
Speaker 1: companies that I don't know about Microsoft, I shouldn't have

1673
01:29:44,320 --> 01:29:48,519
Speaker 1: said that Nike. A million companies operate out of China, too,

1674
01:29:49,200 --> 01:29:52,240
Speaker 1: So it stopped with the China stuff. I get it.

1675
01:29:52,360 --> 01:29:54,800
Speaker 1: What they're doing. The human rights stuff, it ain't good.

1676
01:29:55,880 --> 01:29:58,240
Speaker 1: I'm with you on that. But as I've said, and

1677
01:29:58,280 --> 01:30:01,080
Speaker 1: I've been consistent on this, you want to change the world, right,

1678
01:30:01,120 --> 01:30:04,439
Speaker 1: you want to change what's happening in China. Good, let's

1679
01:30:04,520 --> 01:30:09,480
Speaker 1: start here. Change yourself, fix your life. Then work, wonder

1680
01:30:09,520 --> 01:30:12,639
Speaker 1: about your relatives, make sure they're good. Then go outside

1681
01:30:12,720 --> 01:30:14,640
Speaker 1: your house. Okay, then go to the neighborhood, go to

1682
01:30:14,760 --> 01:30:18,360
Speaker 1: the local level, go to the regional, the state, national.

1683
01:30:18,560 --> 01:30:20,200
Speaker 1: We got a lot of stuff we gotta clean up

1684
01:30:20,360 --> 01:30:22,040
Speaker 1: before we can worry about what's going on in China.

1685
01:30:22,040 --> 01:30:23,840
Speaker 1: And if you want to try to police the entire world,

1686
01:30:24,200 --> 01:30:26,600
Speaker 1: that's fine, good luck with that. But we got a

1687
01:30:26,680 --> 01:30:29,719
Speaker 1: lot of crap we got to sort out here before

1688
01:30:29,720 --> 01:30:32,280
Speaker 1: we worry about China. And we can't worry about you

1689
01:30:32,320 --> 01:30:34,280
Speaker 1: want to worry about China, what what about other parts

1690
01:30:34,320 --> 01:30:36,760
Speaker 1: of the world. We're bad. Stuff is happening, and that's

1691
01:30:36,800 --> 01:30:40,320
Speaker 1: happening all over. So this whole like NBA in China,

1692
01:30:40,439 --> 01:30:45,800
Speaker 1: it's just so disingenuous and silly, Like, yes, it's bad,

1693
01:30:46,160 --> 01:30:48,960
Speaker 1: there's a million bad things going on. Can we get

1694
01:30:49,080 --> 01:30:51,719
Speaker 1: some perspective. But the thing is is that the NBA

1695
01:30:52,000 --> 01:30:58,599
Speaker 1: is bashing America, but they're not bashing does not mean

1696
01:30:58,960 --> 01:31:02,679
Speaker 1: they're basticizing our policies. But they are not even close

1697
01:31:03,080 --> 01:31:06,320
Speaker 1: to as bad and as oppressive as China. But they

1698
01:31:06,400 --> 01:31:10,479
Speaker 1: are proudly touting their new relationships with China, expanding in China,

1699
01:31:10,840 --> 01:31:13,719
Speaker 1: MLB expanding in China. Well, why are you not talking

1700
01:31:13,760 --> 01:31:17,360
Speaker 1: about what they're doing? Well, because they would like to

1701
01:31:17,600 --> 01:31:21,679
Speaker 1: try try to fix what's going on here in America.

1702
01:31:21,920 --> 01:31:23,559
Speaker 1: And I don't know about you. I think America right

1703
01:31:23,600 --> 01:31:26,360
Speaker 1: now the last year. I know it's been a pandemic,

1704
01:31:26,520 --> 01:31:30,519
Speaker 1: but between riots and cities, UM, a lot of ugly

1705
01:31:30,560 --> 01:31:33,840
Speaker 1: stuff went on in the Northwest. UM, not only race,

1706
01:31:33,960 --> 01:31:37,920
Speaker 1: but culture and the gap between the haves and the

1707
01:31:37,960 --> 01:31:39,680
Speaker 1: have nots. There's a lot of problems here. And I

1708
01:31:39,760 --> 01:31:44,200
Speaker 1: know this decision saved, this fixed everything. It was not

1709
01:31:44,320 --> 01:31:49,000
Speaker 1: a divisive decision. It was certainly okay. So then how

1710
01:31:49,040 --> 01:31:51,559
Speaker 1: did it help. I don't know that it helped. Okay.

1711
01:31:51,640 --> 01:31:53,600
Speaker 1: So MLB is sending a signal that we are so

1712
01:31:53,800 --> 01:31:56,160
Speaker 1: disgusted with you, Atlanta, that we are going to give

1713
01:31:56,400 --> 01:31:58,519
Speaker 1: we are you are not allowed to have an officer game,

1714
01:31:58,560 --> 01:32:01,599
Speaker 1: but you can still have a team. You can't take

1715
01:32:01,680 --> 01:32:03,679
Speaker 1: the team away. Why not? The team didn't do anything.

1716
01:32:03,720 --> 01:32:05,479
Speaker 1: The team didn't make the decision the team. It's not

1717
01:32:05,600 --> 01:32:08,799
Speaker 1: the team's fault that the But the team doesn't control

1718
01:32:08,880 --> 01:32:13,080
Speaker 1: who gets the All Star Game. The league decides where

1719
01:32:13,120 --> 01:32:15,000
Speaker 1: the All Star Game rotates. So it goes to San

1720
01:32:15,040 --> 01:32:18,200
Speaker 1: Diego and then Colorado. I think John Paulmirossi said, maybe

1721
01:32:18,240 --> 01:32:20,760
Speaker 1: it's going to Colorado, like the league is running that

1722
01:32:20,840 --> 01:32:23,599
Speaker 1: the team Atlanta, the Braves got shafted. They put out

1723
01:32:23,600 --> 01:32:26,040
Speaker 1: a statement, They're ticked off. They're unhappy with this. And

1724
01:32:26,160 --> 01:32:30,080
Speaker 1: I get that. You know, when MLB wades into this,

1725
01:32:30,200 --> 01:32:33,400
Speaker 1: Gavin like you instantly alien and had a half to

1726
01:32:33,400 --> 01:32:38,960
Speaker 1: the audience, right, And I would say in Atlanta, I

1727
01:32:39,040 --> 01:32:40,880
Speaker 1: don't know the baseball makeup of the fans there, but

1728
01:32:41,280 --> 01:32:44,240
Speaker 1: isn't the Atlanta Stadium in the burbs. I'm not, I'm not,

1729
01:32:44,560 --> 01:32:47,519
Speaker 1: I'm not certain, um, but I know that one thing

1730
01:32:47,840 --> 01:32:52,000
Speaker 1: is um, how much money and All Star Game brings

1731
01:32:52,040 --> 01:32:54,560
Speaker 1: to the city. They hurt a lot of black and

1732
01:32:54,640 --> 01:32:58,720
Speaker 1: brown businesses down there because of this policy. So now

1733
01:32:59,280 --> 01:33:01,559
Speaker 1: you know to go and again you know the politics

1734
01:33:01,640 --> 01:33:07,320
Speaker 1: if I don't like, but at this point, so we've

1735
01:33:07,560 --> 01:33:10,080
Speaker 1: I read this story recently about you know, where the

1736
01:33:10,160 --> 01:33:12,360
Speaker 1: Republican Party is headed and all this stuff, and like

1737
01:33:12,520 --> 01:33:14,479
Speaker 1: people want to know, they don't know. They're trying to guess.

1738
01:33:15,160 --> 01:33:17,040
Speaker 1: I guess you can use history as something of a

1739
01:33:17,120 --> 01:33:21,120
Speaker 1: guide in that the two party system has gone up

1740
01:33:21,160 --> 01:33:25,720
Speaker 1: and down. You go back hundred years in America, it's

1741
01:33:25,760 --> 01:33:28,160
Speaker 1: not always been two parties. There were three, and there

1742
01:33:28,200 --> 01:33:31,719
Speaker 1: were four and we've had a long two party system

1743
01:33:31,720 --> 01:33:34,480
Speaker 1: for a while. And it seems like as you see Virginia,

1744
01:33:34,760 --> 01:33:41,799
Speaker 1: which used to be a deeply read state, North Carolina, Texas, Arizona, Georgia,

1745
01:33:41,920 --> 01:33:44,679
Speaker 1: all these used to be heavily read states, and they're

1746
01:33:44,760 --> 01:33:47,760
Speaker 1: all starting to skew a little bit more blue, a

1747
01:33:47,840 --> 01:33:50,400
Speaker 1: little bit not all, but they're starting to get bluer.

1748
01:33:50,520 --> 01:33:56,200
Speaker 1: And it feels like Atlanta, I don't maybe Texas there

1749
01:33:56,240 --> 01:33:59,280
Speaker 1: are it's gonna start to become political. And where can

1750
01:33:59,320 --> 01:34:01,439
Speaker 1: you gain the coach is the sports fans. They can

1751
01:34:01,520 --> 01:34:04,240
Speaker 1: swain an election. We know Nick Saban is the most

1752
01:34:04,320 --> 01:34:08,439
Speaker 1: powerful man in the state. For a while, Urban Meyer,

1753
01:34:08,560 --> 01:34:11,800
Speaker 1: right was the most powerful guy in Ohio. If he said,

1754
01:34:11,880 --> 01:34:14,400
Speaker 1: I'm voting this way. There's a lot of Buckeyes fans.

1755
01:34:14,439 --> 01:34:17,519
Speaker 1: They don't care about the policy. They're listening to Urban

1756
01:34:17,560 --> 01:34:20,680
Speaker 1: Meyer and sports. You know, for a while we had

1757
01:34:20,720 --> 01:34:22,760
Speaker 1: done good Gavin keeping this out, but I don't think

1758
01:34:22,800 --> 01:34:27,080
Speaker 1: it's possible going forward. It stinks, right, Yeah, I kind

1759
01:34:27,120 --> 01:34:29,240
Speaker 1: of hate it. Uh. And you know, being out here

1760
01:34:29,280 --> 01:34:31,120
Speaker 1: in California, I will say as weird I used to

1761
01:34:31,160 --> 01:34:34,760
Speaker 1: be in Pennsylvania, and you know, truth be told. I

1762
01:34:35,479 --> 01:34:37,439
Speaker 1: didn't vote, you know too, thoubt what was it two

1763
01:34:37,479 --> 01:34:39,720
Speaker 1: thousand I think I voted the Al Gore one. That

1764
01:34:39,800 --> 01:34:42,479
Speaker 1: was the butterfly ballot. I don't even remember if I

1765
01:34:42,600 --> 01:34:45,200
Speaker 1: voted in two thousand four or two thousand eight, maybe

1766
01:34:45,240 --> 01:34:47,639
Speaker 1: not even two thousand twelve. I just didn't really care.

1767
01:34:47,800 --> 01:34:51,720
Speaker 1: It's a thing. Now. Fox Sports Radio has the best

1768
01:34:51,760 --> 01:34:54,599
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1769
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1770
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1771
01:35:02,240 --> 01:35:04,479
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1772
01:35:04,600 --> 01:35:07,760
Speaker 1: is it? Come on Iowa Sam. D m X is

1773
01:35:07,840 --> 01:35:12,120
Speaker 1: on his deathbed. No, I do. I do like Young Jeez.

1774
01:35:12,320 --> 01:35:14,960
Speaker 1: I am a fan of Young jeezs work. I got

1775
01:35:15,040 --> 01:35:19,759
Speaker 1: a good guest coming up here. Uh about five minutes

1776
01:35:19,840 --> 01:35:23,599
Speaker 1: talk gambling on the Final four. Uh Final four is today.

1777
01:35:23,680 --> 01:35:26,600
Speaker 1: I still find it odd that being out here in

1778
01:35:26,840 --> 01:35:30,760
Speaker 1: l A, the gate the first games at two to

1779
01:35:31,920 --> 01:35:34,080
Speaker 1: like in the afternoon, so like that's the middle of

1780
01:35:34,200 --> 01:35:38,360
Speaker 1: the day. You know, kids got sports, People want to

1781
01:35:38,360 --> 01:35:40,360
Speaker 1: go to the beach. It is spring break, so a

1782
01:35:40,439 --> 01:35:42,720
Speaker 1: lot of people are traveling by the way, and I

1783
01:35:42,760 --> 01:35:47,000
Speaker 1: shouldn't care. So at spring break, this is how backward

1784
01:35:47,200 --> 01:35:50,640
Speaker 1: l A County is with the school stuff. You're not

1785
01:35:50,880 --> 01:35:56,360
Speaker 1: allowed for spring break to travel outside the state. If

1786
01:35:56,400 --> 01:35:58,080
Speaker 1: you travel outside the state, you have to quarantine for

1787
01:35:58,160 --> 01:36:03,479
Speaker 1: ten days. We have that policy here as well. Uh well, okay,

1788
01:36:03,520 --> 01:36:07,080
Speaker 1: okay that that I didn't even know that. Okay, Um,

1789
01:36:08,600 --> 01:36:11,960
Speaker 1: even if you're vaccinated, you still need the ten day quarantine.

1790
01:36:12,520 --> 01:36:15,240
Speaker 1: Now the parents vaccinte. Obviously kids aren't vaccinated. But here's

1791
01:36:15,280 --> 01:36:19,559
Speaker 1: the kicker. What if you're doing a park tour, going

1792
01:36:19,720 --> 01:36:25,000
Speaker 1: to Grand Canyon, Rice Canyon, Uh what yellow Stone? These

1793
01:36:25,040 --> 01:36:28,439
Speaker 1: are all outdoors, I still have to quarantine for ten days.

1794
01:36:28,760 --> 01:36:31,599
Speaker 1: So I'll just say I know more than a handful

1795
01:36:31,640 --> 01:36:35,400
Speaker 1: of people who are leaving the state. They ain't telling

1796
01:36:35,479 --> 01:36:37,320
Speaker 1: the school exactly, Like, how do how do they how

1797
01:36:37,360 --> 01:36:39,439
Speaker 1: does the school even know? Well, here's where here's the risk.

1798
01:36:39,479 --> 01:36:41,360
Speaker 1: Are they tracking? You know they're not. They're definitely not.

1799
01:36:42,040 --> 01:36:45,040
Speaker 1: The fear is your kid? Oh it was just bring

1800
01:36:45,120 --> 01:36:51,519
Speaker 1: break and your kids as Hawaii was awesome or whatever. Well, yeah,

1801
01:36:51,520 --> 01:36:53,200
Speaker 1: that's the thing. I said, Oh, you can't post any

1802
01:36:53,200 --> 01:36:54,880
Speaker 1: of the picks on the Graham and or Facebook, and

1803
01:36:54,880 --> 01:36:56,519
Speaker 1: they're like no, no, no, I think we'll do a

1804
01:36:56,600 --> 01:37:00,200
Speaker 1: throwback Thursday in like, you know, a month or never

1805
01:37:00,240 --> 01:37:04,000
Speaker 1: really went to Hawaii that one time. And I mean, listen,

1806
01:37:05,320 --> 01:37:08,839
Speaker 1: the vaccination stuff is happening, like if the parents are vaccinated,

1807
01:37:08,880 --> 01:37:12,600
Speaker 1: there's almost little or no evidence of kids getting it,

1808
01:37:12,720 --> 01:37:14,439
Speaker 1: much like spreading. And I said little to know, I'm

1809
01:37:14,439 --> 01:37:17,599
Speaker 1: not saying none at all. Um, you guys don't. We've

1810
01:37:17,600 --> 01:37:19,960
Speaker 1: been running these pick up basketball games for fourth graders

1811
01:37:20,000 --> 01:37:25,080
Speaker 1: and second graders from my kids friends. Zero instances of

1812
01:37:25,360 --> 01:37:28,120
Speaker 1: the of COVID spreading. Now we do temperature checks, which

1813
01:37:28,320 --> 01:37:30,919
Speaker 1: or whatever. Some of the kids were masks, but it's outdoors.

1814
01:37:31,840 --> 01:37:35,679
Speaker 1: Come on, Jason. I think that the ten day quarantine

1815
01:37:35,760 --> 01:37:38,040
Speaker 1: thing for traveling it has to do with the children

1816
01:37:38,120 --> 01:37:41,000
Speaker 1: because the CDC now says that if you've been vaccinated,

1817
01:37:41,040 --> 01:37:43,000
Speaker 1: you don't need to quarantine, or after you if you've

1818
01:37:43,040 --> 01:37:45,320
Speaker 1: been exposed. Maybe actually I don't know so much about

1819
01:37:45,360 --> 01:37:47,439
Speaker 1: the traveling thing, but they say that if you've been exposed,

1820
01:37:47,880 --> 01:37:49,840
Speaker 1: you can just go about your daily life. Right, So

1821
01:37:50,120 --> 01:37:53,240
Speaker 1: I guess that Navy kids, because they're not vaccinated yet,

1822
01:37:53,400 --> 01:37:55,080
Speaker 1: it throws a wrench into all of this in terms

1823
01:37:55,120 --> 01:38:00,360
Speaker 1: of travel. And I'm very pro vaccine, but I'm not

1824
01:38:00,479 --> 01:38:02,720
Speaker 1: letting my kids get it anytime soon. You know, I'm

1825
01:38:02,760 --> 01:38:05,439
Speaker 1: not getting they're still testing the vaccine. And by the way,

1826
01:38:05,439 --> 01:38:07,320
Speaker 1: I think children can and do spread it. I mean

1827
01:38:07,439 --> 01:38:09,280
Speaker 1: I think that they can, but there's not a lot

1828
01:38:09,320 --> 01:38:12,800
Speaker 1: of examples a right which I'm much about this, aren't

1829
01:38:12,800 --> 01:38:16,960
Speaker 1: we I did read a doctor say this week that

1830
01:38:17,720 --> 01:38:21,200
Speaker 1: there has been no data that a person vaccinated can

1831
01:38:21,360 --> 01:38:25,360
Speaker 1: get COVID. That I saw that right now. Yeah, So

1832
01:38:25,520 --> 01:38:27,320
Speaker 1: that's a very positive because that was one of our

1833
01:38:27,439 --> 01:38:30,240
Speaker 1: major concerns with Easter coming up, is hey, look, if

1834
01:38:30,439 --> 01:38:33,519
Speaker 1: if I have it, can I not get that kind

1835
01:38:33,560 --> 01:38:35,200
Speaker 1: of a thing because you don't want to spread it

1836
01:38:35,240 --> 01:38:37,479
Speaker 1: to your other family members. One of the big problems

1837
01:38:37,520 --> 01:38:40,160
Speaker 1: that we we were on this early is the messaging

1838
01:38:40,240 --> 01:38:43,400
Speaker 1: from the CDC has been total garbage. And of course

1839
01:38:43,479 --> 01:38:47,280
Speaker 1: that's government screwing up big time again. And listen, you

1840
01:38:47,320 --> 01:38:50,400
Speaker 1: guys know, I'm team Fauci. Obviously. I like that he's

1841
01:38:50,400 --> 01:38:51,920
Speaker 1: stepped in it a couple of times, and we're all

1842
01:38:51,920 --> 01:38:53,680
Speaker 1: gonna step in it when you're step when you're out there,

1843
01:38:53,840 --> 01:38:56,560
Speaker 1: just like NBA players after every game they're on a

1844
01:38:56,640 --> 01:38:59,599
Speaker 1: zoom call and when you've got to talk about stuff

1845
01:38:59,680 --> 01:39:01,519
Speaker 1: every re single and of course you're going to step

1846
01:39:01,560 --> 01:39:04,360
Speaker 1: in and say something, and the CDC you expect a

1847
01:39:04,439 --> 01:39:07,240
Speaker 1: little more out of these guys, and the messaging is

1848
01:39:07,320 --> 01:39:10,800
Speaker 1: just not consistent, you know. And I saw that, Gavin,

1849
01:39:10,840 --> 01:39:13,519
Speaker 1: the same thing you did about once you're vaccinated, you

1850
01:39:13,840 --> 01:39:16,559
Speaker 1: basically can't get it or spread it. And then someone

1851
01:39:16,640 --> 01:39:19,720
Speaker 1: else in the CDC said, well, there's a there's a

1852
01:39:19,760 --> 01:39:22,040
Speaker 1: small chance you can or something. It's just there's a

1853
01:39:22,120 --> 01:39:24,040
Speaker 1: weird thing. And then there was someone that went on

1854
01:39:24,080 --> 01:39:27,200
Speaker 1: the news basically saying we need to dangle the carrot

1855
01:39:27,479 --> 01:39:30,880
Speaker 1: of opening up states as a as a you know,

1856
01:39:31,000 --> 01:39:32,360
Speaker 1: this is why you need to get a vaccine. So

1857
01:39:32,400 --> 01:39:35,479
Speaker 1: there's like there's like motives and stuff. But I will

1858
01:39:35,520 --> 01:39:37,320
Speaker 1: say one thing that was funny. We had our first

1859
01:39:37,400 --> 01:39:41,479
Speaker 1: indoor dining experience year and there was a moment where

1860
01:39:41,520 --> 01:39:43,000
Speaker 1: I went up to go to the bathroom and I

1861
01:39:43,080 --> 01:39:45,400
Speaker 1: didn't have my mask on and it was such a

1862
01:39:45,600 --> 01:39:48,160
Speaker 1: weird feeling and I went back and got it. But

1863
01:39:48,240 --> 01:39:51,040
Speaker 1: it's just there's gonna be a time where we don't

1864
01:39:51,080 --> 01:39:53,840
Speaker 1: have to wear masks anymore, and it's gonna be a

1865
01:39:53,960 --> 01:39:55,760
Speaker 1: learning thing of like, oh wait, I don't need to

1866
01:39:56,080 --> 01:39:58,240
Speaker 1: I can just go into this place without it. Well,

1867
01:39:58,280 --> 01:40:01,000
Speaker 1: the weird part is, Okay, you're in the restaurant eating

1868
01:40:01,479 --> 01:40:04,160
Speaker 1: no mask, you're not wearing a master in the conversation

1869
01:40:04,240 --> 01:40:06,800
Speaker 1: at the table, but you've got to then put a

1870
01:40:06,840 --> 01:40:08,120
Speaker 1: mask on to go to the bathroom. What does that

1871
01:40:08,200 --> 01:40:11,680
Speaker 1: mean that COVID could be in the bathroom to me,

1872
01:40:12,040 --> 01:40:16,120
Speaker 1: like a comfortablelitty thing for the other persons moving around,

1873
01:40:16,920 --> 01:40:19,000
Speaker 1: moving from zone to zone of the restaurant. You know, yeah, no,

1874
01:40:19,120 --> 01:40:23,760
Speaker 1: I agree, it's just logically sounds well. And that was

1875
01:40:23,880 --> 01:40:25,920
Speaker 1: what was driving me crazy over the summer was they

1876
01:40:25,960 --> 01:40:28,759
Speaker 1: were saying, wear a mask even if you're walking alone

1877
01:40:28,800 --> 01:40:32,080
Speaker 1: outside and there's no science there. I think. I told

1878
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Speaker 1: you guys. My brother came in town. He was in Pennsylvania,

1879
01:40:35,000 --> 01:40:38,760
Speaker 1: and he's like, whoa, people are walking their dog wearing

1880
01:40:38,800 --> 01:40:40,479
Speaker 1: a mask and they're not like, there's not Like. We

1881
01:40:40,560 --> 01:40:43,000
Speaker 1: don't live in a city area in l a where

1882
01:40:43,040 --> 01:40:45,719
Speaker 1: there's people walking by on the sidewalk. People are courteous.

1883
01:40:45,960 --> 01:40:48,720
Speaker 1: If there's someone walking a dog, maybe walk into the

1884
01:40:48,720 --> 01:40:51,120
Speaker 1: street and go around him. We don't live where there's

1885
01:40:51,120 --> 01:40:53,880
Speaker 1: a million cars driving around. And my brother was just

1886
01:40:54,040 --> 01:40:57,760
Speaker 1: stunned at the level of mask wearing out here. He's like, Dude, Pennsylvania,

1887
01:40:58,000 --> 01:41:00,200
Speaker 1: nobody's wearing a mask. They should roll into home deep.

1888
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Speaker 1: Former former NFL offensive lineman Jeff Schwartz, who has a

1889
01:41:03,760 --> 01:41:05,920
Speaker 1: show on this network now, he was he lives in

1890
01:41:06,000 --> 01:41:08,040
Speaker 1: North Carolina and he came to l A. He's from

1891
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Speaker 1: l A. He's from the l A area, and he's like, Yeah,

1892
01:41:09,920 --> 01:41:12,600
Speaker 1: that's the whole wearing masks outside thing. It's just he's like,

1893
01:41:12,640 --> 01:41:14,559
Speaker 1: nobody's doing that really in North Carolina? Who were doing

1894
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Speaker 1: get anywhere in the country, I mean, not anywhere, but

1895
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Speaker 1: I'm with you on all right. Coming up next, good

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Speaker 1: guests Greg Peterson visa host. Um, I'm gonna talk about

1897
01:41:23,040 --> 01:41:27,160
Speaker 1: gambling and the Final four later today, but first there's

1898
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Speaker 1: Isaac Loewen Crawn with What's Friending Jason. The countdown is

1899
01:41:31,560 --> 01:41:34,760
Speaker 1: on to the start of the Final four five four

1900
01:41:34,920 --> 01:41:38,879
Speaker 1: teen Eastern time from Indianapolis. That's when Baylor and Houston

1901
01:41:38,920 --> 01:41:41,640
Speaker 1: will tip off. Followed an eight thirty four Eastern by

1902
01:41:41,760 --> 01:41:44,559
Speaker 1: Gonzaga against u C. L A. We had a big

1903
01:41:44,720 --> 01:41:48,200
Speaker 1: upset in the women's final for last night, Arizona stunning

1904
01:41:48,280 --> 01:41:51,200
Speaker 1: one seed Yukon sixty nine to fifty nine. So it's

1905
01:41:51,240 --> 01:41:54,240
Speaker 1: gonna be an all Pack twelve national championship game. They'll

1906
01:41:54,240 --> 01:41:57,240
Speaker 1: take on Stanford, which defeated South Carolina sixty six to

1907
01:41:57,320 --> 01:42:00,559
Speaker 1: sixty five in Major League Baseball. The Athlete are reporting

1908
01:42:00,720 --> 01:42:04,280
Speaker 1: the Washington Nationals do not have any new positive COVID

1909
01:42:04,360 --> 01:42:06,960
Speaker 1: results from their latest round of testing. Remember, their first

1910
01:42:07,080 --> 01:42:09,760
Speaker 1: four games of the season against the Mets were postponed

1911
01:42:10,360 --> 01:42:16,120
Speaker 1: after four Nationals players tested positive. USA Basketball has just

1912
01:42:16,240 --> 01:42:20,440
Speaker 1: announced that Grant Hill is going to succeed Jerry Colangelo

1913
01:42:20,840 --> 01:42:24,720
Speaker 1: as the next managing director of the USA men's basketball

1914
01:42:24,880 --> 01:42:28,919
Speaker 1: national team after the upcoming Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo.

1915
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Speaker 1: Really big and intriguing news. They're just announced by USA

1916
01:42:32,280 --> 01:42:38,360
Speaker 1: Basketball again Grant Hill succeeding Jerry Colangelo. Finally, it remains

1917
01:42:38,439 --> 01:42:42,360
Speaker 1: the number one Twitter trending topic in America right now.

1918
01:42:42,560 --> 01:42:46,040
Speaker 1: This morning, the first trailer dropped for the Space Jam

1919
01:42:46,439 --> 01:42:50,400
Speaker 1: sequel starring Lebron James. The trailer has already gotten four

1920
01:42:50,560 --> 01:42:55,040
Speaker 1: point eight million views, including two hundred thousand views in

1921
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Speaker 1: the last ten minutes alone. So we're gonna play the

1922
01:42:58,200 --> 01:43:00,519
Speaker 1: first thirty seconds for you right here and again to

1923
01:43:00,600 --> 01:43:03,799
Speaker 1: describe it for you. Lebron James is having an argument

1924
01:43:03,920 --> 01:43:06,200
Speaker 1: with his son. His son, oddly enough, by the way

1925
01:43:06,280 --> 01:43:09,479
Speaker 1: portrayed by Kevin Hart, which I thought was now I'm

1926
01:43:09,520 --> 01:43:12,160
Speaker 1: just kidding. Come on, I'm just being mean to Kevin Hart.

1927
01:43:12,400 --> 01:43:15,599
Speaker 1: But anyway, he's having an argument with his son. They

1928
01:43:15,720 --> 01:43:19,439
Speaker 1: get on an elevator and the elevator transports them to

1929
01:43:19,560 --> 01:43:25,040
Speaker 1: an alternate universe. Listen, basketball campus next weekend. You got

1930
01:43:25,120 --> 01:43:27,000
Speaker 1: a made a potential on the court, and I can

1931
01:43:27,080 --> 01:43:31,640
Speaker 1: help you get there. That's not what I wouldn't You

1932
01:43:31,800 --> 01:43:33,720
Speaker 1: never let me do what I wouldn't do. You never

1933
01:43:33,800 --> 01:43:42,280
Speaker 1: let me just do me hold up raw floor, Smith,

1934
01:43:42,320 --> 01:43:52,120
Speaker 1: I gotta deal with this. What in the matrix hell?

1935
01:43:54,960 --> 01:43:58,400
Speaker 1: The reaction Jason pouring in on social media. This from

1936
01:43:58,840 --> 01:44:02,880
Speaker 1: at the Goaded One, y'all hold space Jam up like

1937
01:44:03,040 --> 01:44:06,719
Speaker 1: it's a cinematic masterpiece. Bra It had like a fort

1938
01:44:07,360 --> 01:44:11,599
Speaker 1: on rotten tomato and was mild a F. I'll leave

1939
01:44:11,640 --> 01:44:13,920
Speaker 1: it to you to figure out what a F stood

1940
01:44:13,960 --> 01:44:17,479
Speaker 1: for there. And this from Roger who tweeted MJ took

1941
01:44:17,520 --> 01:44:20,479
Speaker 1: the roster of cartoon animals he was dealt and built

1942
01:44:20,560 --> 01:44:24,439
Speaker 1: them into a team capable of beating space aliens. Lebron

1943
01:44:24,560 --> 01:44:27,880
Speaker 1: needs to recruit all the most powerful characters from every

1944
01:44:28,000 --> 01:44:32,080
Speaker 1: movie in the Warner Brothers catalog. To win absolutely changes

1945
01:44:32,320 --> 01:44:37,400
Speaker 1: the goat convo. That the reaction from social media Jason, Yes,

1946
01:44:37,760 --> 01:44:42,040
Speaker 1: thank you, Isaac. Unbelievable stuff. Isaac. You love this Space jams.

1947
01:44:42,400 --> 01:44:45,600
Speaker 1: Uh this this trailer. I just watched the trailer. It

1948
01:44:45,640 --> 01:44:47,600
Speaker 1: looks okay. I haven't seen the original Space dam so

1949
01:44:47,640 --> 01:44:50,040
Speaker 1: I'm late to it. Back, I believe the phrases, Matt.

1950
01:44:50,439 --> 01:44:52,320
Speaker 1: That was my reaction. Now, all right back here on

1951
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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio. I'm joined now by Greg Peterson, visa

1952
01:44:56,160 --> 01:44:59,240
Speaker 1: in host. He's also on the hoop In with Hoops podcast,

1953
01:44:59,320 --> 01:45:01,960
Speaker 1: big college basketball guy trying to get in some final

1954
01:45:02,040 --> 01:45:05,400
Speaker 1: bets to win some money. Greg. How are you this morning, Jason,

1955
01:45:05,439 --> 01:45:07,400
Speaker 1: I'm doing great. Thank you so much for having men. Yeah,

1956
01:45:07,439 --> 01:45:09,840
Speaker 1: hey man, thanks for taking the time. I'll start with

1957
01:45:09,920 --> 01:45:13,760
Speaker 1: the lines. It looked like Baylor was trending upward, but

1958
01:45:14,040 --> 01:45:16,960
Speaker 1: I still see it at five Gonzaga at fourteen. Do

1959
01:45:17,120 --> 01:45:19,360
Speaker 1: you see any value on either side, either with the

1960
01:45:19,439 --> 01:45:23,720
Speaker 1: dogs or the favorites. I really like both favorites in

1961
01:45:23,800 --> 01:45:25,960
Speaker 1: this thought. I mean, we've all been wanting to big

1962
01:45:26,040 --> 01:45:30,400
Speaker 1: Gonzaga versus Baylor match up, really since the year twenty twenty,

1963
01:45:30,520 --> 01:45:32,320
Speaker 1: because we thought we were gonna be able to get

1964
01:45:32,400 --> 01:45:35,880
Speaker 1: this in the non conference. It just want I've never materializing.

1965
01:45:36,200 --> 01:45:38,439
Speaker 1: And I do think that Taylor is just a bad

1966
01:45:38,560 --> 01:45:41,160
Speaker 1: matchup for Youthton in general because you've got so much

1967
01:45:41,280 --> 01:45:43,519
Speaker 1: size with the wings. You've got a Baylor team that

1968
01:45:43,600 --> 01:45:46,200
Speaker 1: leaves off college basketball when it comes to three point shooting.

1969
01:45:46,240 --> 01:45:49,000
Speaker 1: Preside Jack with both of these teams with regard to

1970
01:45:49,080 --> 01:45:52,320
Speaker 1: a points per possession basis basis for both Taylor and

1971
01:45:52,479 --> 01:45:55,640
Speaker 1: Gonzaga one and to this season and for you c

1972
01:45:55,800 --> 01:45:58,240
Speaker 1: l A. Give them credits. They've been able to make

1973
01:45:58,360 --> 01:46:00,960
Speaker 1: a tremendous run in a sense double a tournament, but

1974
01:46:01,240 --> 01:46:03,640
Speaker 1: they've got no way download and really guard against your

1975
01:46:03,800 --> 01:46:06,360
Speaker 1: Timmy and even out there in the back work guys

1976
01:46:06,439 --> 01:46:09,400
Speaker 1: like jal and So guys like Joey. I mean, these

1977
01:46:09,479 --> 01:46:12,920
Speaker 1: guys are athletes, tremendous for Gonzaga of t c l A.

1978
01:46:13,240 --> 01:46:14,720
Speaker 1: I just don't know how they're gonna be able to

1979
01:46:14,760 --> 01:46:18,120
Speaker 1: stay within a Gonzega team in which one team ever

1980
01:46:18,280 --> 01:46:21,559
Speaker 1: since Gonzaga wanted to play against West Virginia in very

1981
01:46:21,640 --> 01:46:24,400
Speaker 1: early December and stayed with them fourteen points of this

1982
01:46:24,560 --> 01:46:26,880
Speaker 1: bunch that would be b y U. So I do

1983
01:46:27,040 --> 01:46:30,760
Speaker 1: see value of both favorites interesting. So I mean, listen,

1984
01:46:31,000 --> 01:46:32,479
Speaker 1: I don't know a lot of Vegas guys want to

1985
01:46:32,560 --> 01:46:37,280
Speaker 1: lay two touchdowns, uh with with anyone Wethers football, basketball, whatever.

1986
01:46:38,640 --> 01:46:40,000
Speaker 1: You know, we said a lot of the stuff you

1987
01:46:40,080 --> 01:46:42,760
Speaker 1: said about uh, you know U c l A not

1988
01:46:42,800 --> 01:46:45,120
Speaker 1: being able to hang with Gonzaga. I heard people saying

1989
01:46:45,160 --> 01:46:47,640
Speaker 1: about U c l A hanging with Alabama and then

1990
01:46:47,680 --> 01:46:51,280
Speaker 1: with Michigan, and they won both those outright. I know

1991
01:46:51,320 --> 01:46:52,719
Speaker 1: a lot of it had to do with the freeso

1992
01:46:52,800 --> 01:46:56,479
Speaker 1: shooting defense, which is comical. Um. But if if you

1993
01:46:56,640 --> 01:46:59,400
Speaker 1: had to pick a dog to lean toward, would it

1994
01:46:59,439 --> 01:47:02,080
Speaker 1: be Houston or you c l A. I think it

1995
01:47:02,120 --> 01:47:03,960
Speaker 1: would be Houston. I can see a little bit more

1996
01:47:04,000 --> 01:47:06,880
Speaker 1: of a passive victory for Houston because they're a team

1997
01:47:06,920 --> 01:47:08,320
Speaker 1: that they do a great job, would be able to

1998
01:47:08,360 --> 01:47:10,519
Speaker 1: shut down to three point. You've got one of the

1999
01:47:10,560 --> 01:47:13,440
Speaker 1: best on bold defenders and all calls bestballs de Genjiro.

2000
01:47:13,800 --> 01:47:15,639
Speaker 1: He has been dealing with a little bit of defense.

2001
01:47:16,160 --> 01:47:17,800
Speaker 1: He has been dealing a little bit of an injury,

2002
01:47:17,880 --> 01:47:20,559
Speaker 1: but the defense has still been there. From the offense

2003
01:47:20,800 --> 01:47:22,760
Speaker 1: has been a little bit more suspect that it's been

2004
01:47:22,800 --> 01:47:24,640
Speaker 1: a little bit of a bugga book are using in

2005
01:47:24,720 --> 01:47:27,120
Speaker 1: the tournament in general has been three point shooting. But

2006
01:47:27,439 --> 01:47:29,439
Speaker 1: this is a team that they're built on defense. That

2007
01:47:29,600 --> 01:47:32,040
Speaker 1: was Houston as well. They do if Baylor were there

2008
01:47:32,040 --> 01:47:34,559
Speaker 1: a little bit weak. With Houston, they do a great job,

2009
01:47:34,600 --> 01:47:36,960
Speaker 1: will be able to generate second and third chances, and

2010
01:47:37,320 --> 01:47:39,800
Speaker 1: with Baylor they're not necessarily the best team at being

2011
01:47:39,840 --> 01:47:42,200
Speaker 1: able to read on those business. It was Baylor in

2012
01:47:42,280 --> 01:47:45,200
Speaker 1: a road road in neutral court environment. They shoot in

2013
01:47:45,280 --> 01:47:47,960
Speaker 1: the neighbor road about at the free throw line, and

2014
01:47:48,360 --> 01:47:50,599
Speaker 1: that's something that could come back to haunt you if

2015
01:47:50,640 --> 01:47:52,920
Speaker 1: you wind up playing the points today that it's like

2016
01:47:53,040 --> 01:47:54,720
Speaker 1: a four point game with when it left to go.

2017
01:47:54,880 --> 01:47:57,720
Speaker 1: We've seen our free throws can wind up impacting that.

2018
01:47:57,920 --> 01:47:59,680
Speaker 1: So if I would be taking a look at it

2019
01:47:59,760 --> 01:48:03,120
Speaker 1: under Buck, I'll be looking at Houston before you see interesting.

2020
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Speaker 1: We're talking with Greg Peterson, a visa host. Greg, let

2021
01:48:06,360 --> 01:48:10,000
Speaker 1: me ask you this Houston's best defenders, Jarrow that the kid,

2022
01:48:10,360 --> 01:48:12,120
Speaker 1: he reminds me a little bit of Corey Brewer with

2023
01:48:12,240 --> 01:48:14,759
Speaker 1: his length. Hey, we saw him hold down buddy behind.

2024
01:48:14,840 --> 01:48:17,599
Speaker 1: We saw him can check the Kid Thompson from Oregon State.

2025
01:48:17,840 --> 01:48:20,920
Speaker 1: He's a great defender. If you're Kelvin Sampson, do you

2026
01:48:21,040 --> 01:48:24,720
Speaker 1: put Jaro on Mitchell? You put him on Fatigue, who

2027
01:48:24,760 --> 01:48:26,559
Speaker 1: had twenty two in the last game. Do you put

2028
01:48:26,600 --> 01:48:29,719
Speaker 1: him on Butler, who led the Baylor and scoring this season.

2029
01:48:30,040 --> 01:48:32,120
Speaker 1: Where do you think Jarro starts the game and do

2030
01:48:32,200 --> 01:48:35,320
Speaker 1: you think he ends up moving around? I do think

2031
01:48:35,360 --> 01:48:37,760
Speaker 1: that you start him on Mitchell, just because when you

2032
01:48:37,800 --> 01:48:40,120
Speaker 1: think a look at that matchup, Mitchell is really the

2033
01:48:40,160 --> 01:48:42,800
Speaker 1: guy that has been stirring the drink for Baylor all

2034
01:48:42,880 --> 01:48:45,600
Speaker 1: tournament long. Dishes out of five assists per games, so

2035
01:48:45,960 --> 01:48:48,880
Speaker 1: he really is the lifeblood everything that Baylor is doing.

2036
01:48:49,240 --> 01:48:51,439
Speaker 1: And you probably do move him around a little bit.

2037
01:48:51,680 --> 01:48:54,200
Speaker 1: Say that Jarro Butler becomes a high end. We've seen

2038
01:48:54,280 --> 01:48:57,800
Speaker 1: him with me at a tremendous game against Arkansas. Still

2039
01:48:57,840 --> 01:49:00,400
Speaker 1: go back to when the Baylor Bear a lot of

2040
01:49:00,439 --> 01:49:03,400
Speaker 1: growing up against Texas tex too and the regular season

2041
01:49:03,479 --> 01:49:06,120
Speaker 1: and he had a school record chen three. He's got

2042
01:49:06,160 --> 01:49:08,240
Speaker 1: that able seat up, so you'd be a little bit

2043
01:49:08,280 --> 01:49:11,200
Speaker 1: more versatile with him. But I would start about I'm

2044
01:49:11,280 --> 01:49:15,080
Speaker 1: Mitchell just because with Michell, he's probably the best defender

2045
01:49:15,160 --> 01:49:18,360
Speaker 1: as well. These two guys are feeling might cancecrew each

2046
01:49:18,439 --> 01:49:20,599
Speaker 1: other out a little bit towards the beginning of the game,

2047
01:49:20,800 --> 01:49:23,040
Speaker 1: and then as the game wells wrong if he comes

2048
01:49:23,080 --> 01:49:24,720
Speaker 1: a little bit more of a chess game between these

2049
01:49:24,760 --> 01:49:27,920
Speaker 1: two coaches. Uh, this is one more question on this tournament,

2050
01:49:27,960 --> 01:49:30,599
Speaker 1: and then I'm gonna surprise you with a final question there. Um,

2051
01:49:31,240 --> 01:49:34,680
Speaker 1: I just I'm curious about whether or not you you

2052
01:49:34,840 --> 01:49:37,439
Speaker 1: like the first half under in u C l A.

2053
01:49:37,479 --> 01:49:40,679
Speaker 1: Gonzaga first half unders have been extremely profitable this tournament,

2054
01:49:41,400 --> 01:49:43,920
Speaker 1: almost to the point that they're public now. I just

2055
01:49:44,120 --> 01:49:49,320
Speaker 1: wonder Final four Gonzaga undefeated. You see l A been

2056
01:49:49,439 --> 01:49:51,880
Speaker 1: hearing they're the biggest story in the Final four for

2057
01:49:51,960 --> 01:49:54,360
Speaker 1: the last four days. I'm sure you know you see.

2058
01:49:54,439 --> 01:49:56,080
Speaker 1: L A obviously has the largest fan base of any

2059
01:49:56,080 --> 01:49:59,679
Speaker 1: of the final four teams. I can see a slow

2060
01:49:59,760 --> 01:50:01,639
Speaker 1: star and I took a little nibble out of under

2061
01:50:01,720 --> 01:50:05,680
Speaker 1: sixty eight and a half. Any thoughts on that with Gonzaga,

2062
01:50:05,760 --> 01:50:07,560
Speaker 1: they are a team that they have started out a

2063
01:50:07,640 --> 01:50:10,600
Speaker 1: couple of games cold this season. We've noticed that in

2064
01:50:10,880 --> 01:50:13,680
Speaker 1: w c C play. I still remember games against like

2065
01:50:14,040 --> 01:50:17,240
Speaker 1: the Terreros of San Diego on Pacific in which they

2066
01:50:17,360 --> 01:50:19,559
Speaker 1: wind up getting all the gates a little bit cold,

2067
01:50:19,800 --> 01:50:21,960
Speaker 1: and then from there they wind up just going on

2068
01:50:22,040 --> 01:50:23,840
Speaker 1: a big run. I almost liked them a little bit

2069
01:50:23,920 --> 01:50:26,400
Speaker 1: to the Golden State Warriors back in there. At A one.

2070
01:50:26,680 --> 01:50:29,040
Speaker 1: You would see the Golden State Warriors wind up having

2071
01:50:29,040 --> 01:50:31,120
Speaker 1: a little bit of a cold start, but it always

2072
01:50:31,160 --> 01:50:33,680
Speaker 1: felt like with the Warriors in the third quarter it

2073
01:50:33,800 --> 01:50:36,120
Speaker 1: was really their time. It was Gonzega in the s

2074
01:50:36,280 --> 01:50:38,519
Speaker 1: C Double A tournament has not been an issue. They

2075
01:50:38,600 --> 01:50:41,960
Speaker 1: wind up just completely blessing USC. They wind up coming

2076
01:50:41,960 --> 01:50:45,400
Speaker 1: out against Craton at both teams were rating absolutely everything

2077
01:50:45,439 --> 01:50:47,519
Speaker 1: in those two games, but they're a little bit prone

2078
01:50:47,560 --> 01:50:50,360
Speaker 1: to that. I personally wanted taking this full game over.

2079
01:50:50,600 --> 01:50:54,200
Speaker 1: I wouldn't necessarily advocate for and under in either side,

2080
01:50:54,240 --> 01:50:56,479
Speaker 1: but I would look at a first half under rather

2081
01:50:56,560 --> 01:50:59,439
Speaker 1: than a full game under, just because with Gonzega, I

2082
01:50:59,560 --> 01:51:01,880
Speaker 1: do think that their main four D when it comes

2083
01:51:01,920 --> 01:51:04,519
Speaker 1: to being able to generate offense is that they just

2084
01:51:04,680 --> 01:51:06,920
Speaker 1: pulls off that first at strong and then they come

2085
01:51:07,000 --> 01:51:08,680
Speaker 1: on in the beginning part of the second half and

2086
01:51:08,760 --> 01:51:12,320
Speaker 1: they just bury opponent. Alright, Greg Peterson visa host, I'm

2087
01:51:12,320 --> 01:51:15,240
Speaker 1: gonna wrap up with this after the title. Every year,

2088
01:51:15,479 --> 01:51:18,360
Speaker 1: I like to lay some futures because I try to

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Speaker 1: read the tea leaves on what's happening for next year.

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Speaker 1: I do then the NFL, NBA, every sport. Have you

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Speaker 1: looked at futures for college basketball next year? Does any

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Speaker 1: team jump out or given this transfer situation where everybody's

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Speaker 1: in the portal because you don't have to sit out

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Speaker 1: a year, do you are you just waiting for the

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Speaker 1: dust to settle. I think this is a good year

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Speaker 1: to really want the dust settle, because what you're noticing

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Speaker 1: with all four final four teams that all four of

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Speaker 1: them have benefited in the back court, specifically from transferred.

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Speaker 1: With Taylor, You've got a guy in Mason Utique who

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Speaker 1: was the transfer, Adam Flagler, Jared Butler, Johnny Jusang who

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Speaker 1: has been the life blood of u c l A

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Speaker 1: all tournament long. He wins it coming over from Kid

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Speaker 1: tell Key with Gonzaga a couple of fewer transfers, but

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Speaker 1: it still ending our murders. The guys that wanted to

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Speaker 1: be getting his career at Flora and then with Uston Booster,

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Speaker 1: Genjarrow along Clinton Drives are guys that wanted to begetting elsewhere,

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Speaker 1: So I really do want to be taking a look

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Speaker 1: at where some of these transfers are going to flash from.

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Speaker 1: So I do think that it is very beneficial to

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Speaker 1: wait a little bit because if you're looking at some

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Speaker 1: of these dotty prices, they're gonna be there when it

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Speaker 1: comes times that a lot of these guys are gonna

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Speaker 1: be making their decisions in April May. So I think

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Speaker 1: that it's best just to hold off a little bit

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Speaker 1: more until you know just a little bit more about

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Speaker 1: the coaching situation as well, because we know that there's

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Speaker 1: some very high profile names out there that are gonna

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Speaker 1: be looking for some work at a very high profile jobs.

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Speaker 1: They're out there too, all right, good stuff, Greg Peterson.

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Speaker 1: Follow him on Twitter at g unite host and the

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Speaker 1: Hooping with Hoops podcast. Thanks a lot, Greg, good luck

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Speaker 1: this weekend. I appreciate it. Thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: X odd last night. He's in a vegetative state, obviously

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Speaker 1: not good. It's been a good show. I don't mind

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Speaker 1: going off the rails sometimes and we get into the

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Speaker 1: sports politics. I don't mind a little bit of it.

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Speaker 1: I won't do that on social media, but I don't

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Speaker 1: mind doing it on the show because Gavin is passionate

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Speaker 1: about it. Iowa Sam is like, I'm not that into it,

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Speaker 1: but do you First of all, here's one Gavin and Sam,

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Speaker 1: do you guys do any newsletters. Do you subscribe to any? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I do. Um, I do a couple of football ones.

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Speaker 1: I was, Sam, do you do any Do I subscribe

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Speaker 1: to newsletters? Um? I have a subscription to sports related stuff.

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Speaker 1: I meant, like, just free newsletters that open your inbox. No,

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Speaker 1: I just man, I really try to minimize that stuff's clutter.

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Speaker 1: I recently, so I saw something interesting about this thing

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Speaker 1: called Morning Brew, So I subscribe to it. It's free,

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Speaker 1: it just shows up in your in box. You don't

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Speaker 1: want to read it, you just hit the league and

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Speaker 1: I started to read it every day. And you know what,

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Speaker 1: it feels like a little like early Gawker. If you

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Speaker 1: guys remember Gawker. I was in New York in like

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Speaker 1: two thousand and four. I guess when Gawker popped, and

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Speaker 1: Gawker was a must read in New York every day.

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Speaker 1: It was awesome. You start the day, they're just smart

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Speaker 1: writing interesting stuff. Gawker end up going off the rails

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Speaker 1: and they're defunct now. Yes, um, but this I liked

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Speaker 1: early Gawker. Anyways, morning Brew has like a good catch

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Speaker 1: all of news and this jumped out at me as

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Speaker 1: it referred to um some of the political stuff we

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Speaker 1: talked about. At least fifty five of the largest companies

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Speaker 1: in the US, including Nike, FedEx, and Salesforce, paid no

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Speaker 1: federal corporate income tax in the most recent fiscal year. Now,

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Speaker 1: that to me is an issue. That's a major problem. Okay, Now,

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Speaker 1: I know that has nothing to do with sports, But

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Speaker 1: don't talk to me about the NBA in China when

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Speaker 1: we've got big issues like this looming in Amry. That

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Speaker 1: to me is a major issue. Biggest companies in the

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Speaker 1: US and they pay no federal income tax, but we

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Speaker 1: the little guy, gotta pay taxes out the nose. That

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Speaker 1: to me is a big issue. So once we tackle

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Speaker 1: that kind of stuff, I'm ready to dive into the

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Speaker 1: other global stuff. And I know we're a global marketplace now.

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Speaker 1: And the reason the NBA is awesome is because we're

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Speaker 1: getting players from Europe like Luka don Chech and Janice

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Speaker 1: from um Greece. And now we can get into a

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Speaker 1: Jordan debate because guess what, ain't nobody coming to the

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Speaker 1: league in the nineties from Europe except except for what

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Speaker 1: Tony Kukoch and Vladi Divac. Those guys couldn't sniff Luka

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Speaker 1: don che just jockstrapped. That's why Jordan played in the

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Speaker 1: downtrodden expansion era nineties. And I know that takes off

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Speaker 1: a lot of NBA people when I say that's just

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Speaker 1: truth telling, folks. Those are facts. You know, that's my wheelhouse.

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Speaker 1: I'll do. I mean, shucks. We might do have to

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Speaker 1: do Gavin this summer, a three hour Jordan Lebron special

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Speaker 1: where we just bringing b. J. Armstrong into the studio

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Speaker 1: and he and I argue for two hours. I do

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Speaker 1: like a listen. It's all in good fun. It's subjective,

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Speaker 1: so there's no wrong answer. It's basically a debate. It's fun.

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Speaker 1: And for whatever reason, we don't do this in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: We don't hold quarterbacks from the eighties or nineties in

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Speaker 1: regard that we hold NBA players from the eighties and nine.

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Speaker 1: It's very strange. I don't know the answer. Now college basketball,

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Speaker 1: we kind of do because those Duke Kentucky teams they

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Speaker 1: were loaded, but the game done changed, you know, like

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Speaker 1: Christian Lightner, Bobby Hurley, they had like four NBA guys

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Speaker 1: and they're starting lineup U and l V with Larry

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Speaker 1: Johnson and Augman Anderson Hunt, Greg Anthony go down a

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Speaker 1: rabbit hole of U and l V videos from I

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Speaker 1: think that team was low. They won forty five games

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Speaker 1: in a row. I would say, I'm gonna know you're

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Speaker 1: a college US guy. Will look at the U n

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Speaker 1: l V Arkansas game from like February, right before un

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Speaker 1: l V UM went into the tournament and lost to

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Speaker 1: Duke in the semifinals. That team was stacked. I'm talking

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Speaker 1: with like NBA players, and you look now like Gonzaga

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Speaker 1: is really good. But is Drew Timmy gonna be a

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Speaker 1: star an NBA? Like I like Corey Kissbergh. What is

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Speaker 1: he supposed to be? Jalen Suggs is awesome. I like him.

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Speaker 1: By the way, he's plus nine win most Outstanding player

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Speaker 1: in the Final four, which is stunning because there's like

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Speaker 1: three Baylor guys who are like plus five hundred. I

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Speaker 1: don't understand. Anyway, I bet Gonzaga. I went big on

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Speaker 1: minus thirteen and a half. Kind of regretted because that's

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Speaker 1: a huge number. I took the under first half. I

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Speaker 1: bet Baylor minus four and a half. Baylor minus five

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Speaker 1: in game betting is huge. If Houston goes up early,

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Speaker 1: I will be betting Baylor at a reduced number. Thanks everybody, Gavin,

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Speaker 1: Sam Isaac, everybody. Talk to you next week. Fox Sports

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