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Speaker 2: What the fuck is going on with the Cooper Flag?
Speaker 2: With this Cooper Flag kit? Who is he? If you
Speaker 2: don't know him? I don't blame you. I don't blame
Speaker 2: you because it's you know, you're not in the recruiting cesspool.
Speaker 2: You're not looking at YouTube highlights of the main White
Speaker 2: Claws or where the fuck his team is. It's okay.
Speaker 2: In eighteen months you'll know all about him. There's gonna
Speaker 2: be a ton of outlets saying the Cooper Flags the
Speaker 2: next best thing since sliced white wonderbread, six eight, sixteen
Speaker 2: year old wing from Maine. Many people think is him?
Speaker 2: Recruitment was a big deal. Where's he gonna go to school?
Speaker 2: Where's gonna go to school? Wherever he landed? Was gonna
Speaker 2: get the number one coveted recruiting class in college? Hoops?
Speaker 2: Then I also mentioned that Cooper Flag was whitee of
Speaker 2: course he's white. Of course his name is Cooper, his
Speaker 2: first name is Cooper. I didn't have to tell you that, though,
Speaker 2: did I let's be real, there's not a guy with
Speaker 2: a first name Cooper that's ever been anything but white.
Speaker 2: The only Coopers I know are either white or Golden Retrievers.
Speaker 2: Those are the type of dogs that love the water.
Speaker 2: We're not done, though. There hasn't been an American born
Speaker 2: white player that has been selected number one since Kent
Speaker 2: fucking Benson in nineteen seventy seven. Nope, you don't know him.
Speaker 2: I don't know him. I had to get into the
Speaker 2: lab research. So pop quiz time number one hyped wing
Speaker 2: white boy, best next thing, blah blah blah, gonna be
Speaker 2: first overall in the NBA Draft. Where do you think
Speaker 2: he decided to go to school? Think it was Grambling,
Speaker 2: Think it was Kentucky. Thenk goes Louisville. You know where
Speaker 2: the fuck Cooper Flag decided to go to school, don't you?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: You know where he went to school. If you followed basketball,
Speaker 2: you know you know. Say it. Just say it for me,
Speaker 2: Just say it for me. It's Duke. You know there
Speaker 2: was no other place on the planet Earth that he
Speaker 2: could go other than Duke. The pipeline is intact even
Speaker 2: after coach k. But that's not what the fuck moment.
Speaker 2: Cooper Flag going to Duke was obvious, right, it's obvious.
Speaker 2: But what the fuck started with the cover Slam where
Speaker 2: Cooper Flag is right there, sitting there on the cover.
Speaker 2: There's nothing untoward at first glance with it, right, it's like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: he's posing on the cover. He's got his little finger
Speaker 2: in his jersey, like, oh yeah, what's up. I'm Cooper Flag,
Speaker 2: I'm going to Duke. And then then you look at
Speaker 2: the bottom and it says Cooper Flag pledges his allegiance
Speaker 2: to the brotherhood Duke the brotherhood? What kind of brotherhood
Speaker 2: are we talking about? Uh? What the fuck? Slam? What
Speaker 2: the fuck? If that's not nothing for you to be like,
Speaker 2: I don't know about this? Go ahead, go over to
Speaker 2: the Duke basketball Instagram page. Where do you find? You
Speaker 2: find Cooper Flag standing in the dark with a pitchfork
Speaker 2: in his hand. That's on fire, that's on fucking fire.
Speaker 2: You can't make it up. You cannot make it up.
Speaker 2: What the fuck, Duke? What are you doing? What is
Speaker 2: happening right now? White player, dark gym, burning pitchfork? My
Speaker 2: first question was who proved this? Who you run this through?
Speaker 2: Who decided yes? What were the ideas you turned down.
Speaker 2: It's like Cooper Flag holds a noose, like, what are
Speaker 2: we doing? This is horrible, Like, we can't do that.
Speaker 2: This is insane. This is literally insane. Do you guys
Speaker 2: want to make Cooper Flag the most unpopular number one
Speaker 2: pick we've seen. It's not Cooper Flag's fault either. I
Speaker 2: like Cooper Flags. Like the first thing's like, oh, that's bad.
Speaker 2: The second thing is like, oh, that's Charlottesville. Oh they
Speaker 2: had to say, hey, Cooper, pose with your arm out,
Speaker 2: why cause we're gonna photoshop you with a pitchfork that's
Speaker 2: on fire. The whole thing's bizarre. It really is. This
Speaker 2: is one of those things where he's gonna be like
Speaker 2: in ten years from now. Yeah, like in hindsight, probably
Speaker 2: not great, probably not an ideal, like entrance to the world.
Speaker 2: Hopefully Cooper Flag doesn't get caught by any shrapnel. All
Speaker 2: of that to say, what the fuck were they doing
Speaker 2: with the Cooper Flag rollout