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Speaker 2: Sometimes when we go live on Amazon AM, I like

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Speaker 2: to just wait a couple of seconds before I start talking,

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Speaker 2: just to stress Jackson out, Just so Jackson's sitting there.

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Speaker 3: Like people are thinking it's broken. Someone has to start talking.

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Speaker 3: We are welcome to Jenkins and Jones. We are live on.

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Speaker 2: Wednesday morning, April fifth, as always Jenkus and Jones, hosted

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Speaker 2: by Dragonfly Jones, the Jethro Jenkins, myself, Mike, and today

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Speaker 2: we are joined at the top of the show by

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Speaker 2: our our besties, the grid Iron gals. Rita and Chelse

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Speaker 2: are here.

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Speaker 3: Thanks with us, Yes, thanks, thank you.

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Speaker 4: Hey, cousin.

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Speaker 2: Hold all right, well, you guys actually hit us up

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Speaker 2: and we're like, please let us talk about Angela Clark

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Speaker 2: and we could not be happier to have you on

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Speaker 2: to talk about that. Chelsea's got angel Reese's the zoom background.

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Speaker 3: We're all ready to go. That's right.

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Speaker 2: So how excited are you guys to see l s

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Speaker 2: U and Iowa together in a friendship circle at the

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Speaker 2: White House?

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Speaker 3: You know, let me tell you something.

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Speaker 5: Besides, I mean, we already know how angel Rees feels

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Speaker 5: about that. She said, you know what a joke, but

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Speaker 5: don't think for one second that Kim is going up

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Speaker 5: there to that White House with another team. Don't think

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Speaker 6: Anyway there's another guy was the president, then she would

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Speaker 4: But that guy is an indictment.

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Speaker 1: And troubles in that motherfucker, Kim will be there with

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Speaker 1: bells on literally literallyware she would literally have bells mother

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that was just you know, and I'm a

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Speaker 5: Joe Biden fan. I think that she was just you know,

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Speaker 5: being a kombay y'all white lady. I think she was like, oh,

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Speaker 5: it's so much trauma, there's so much drama around this.

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Speaker 5: Let me see if I can make it a peacemakers, ma'am,

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Speaker 5: this is sports. I don't even know if your husband

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Speaker 5: would have been cool with that, because you know how

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Speaker 5: Joe does. I mean, you know, you let him off

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Speaker 5: I was just like, y'all, we don't need to do this.

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Speaker 5: The champions need to go to the White House like

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Speaker 5: it's always been. We don't need to do something different

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Speaker 5: now because everybody is all in their feelings about it

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Speaker 5: and think that they have to stand up and protect

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Speaker 5: Kaitlyn Clark, who has made it clear that she doesn't

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Speaker 6: I agree, and I'm glad Caitlyn Clark came out and said,

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Speaker 6: you know, I winners should go to the White House,

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Speaker 6: because she's right, Like, I don't hear any other runner

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Speaker 4: That makes no sense to me.

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Speaker 6: I'm glad somebody has enough sense to say that that

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Speaker 6: is to see Iowa even just say let's just do

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Speaker 6: it just because and ruin the moment. So forget about

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Speaker 6: all this angel reefs talk about ruining the moment, which

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Speaker 6: isn't true. It's just something that you guys made up.

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Speaker 6: But really ruining a moment is allowing the runner up

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Speaker 6: But ultimately, I'm glad she said it out loud because

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Speaker 4: They lost. Get your ass down.

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Speaker 6: Thank you Joe Biden for trying to be nice, but

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Speaker 6: on understand how this goes. Okay, Winners sit over here,

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Speaker 5: I don't know about her not being a sports lady,

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Speaker 5: because she is an Eagles fan and she sure ain't

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Speaker 6: Here's and there's It's very possible that the aspect of

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Speaker 7: So I got a question. I got a question for y'all.

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Speaker 7: If ls you were to have lost, would she beat

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Speaker 7: the losing end and it was Caitlin over there tapping

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Speaker 5: Absolutely not, I do not think so.

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Speaker 3: She was being a white lady. That's what she was,

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Speaker 5: She was being a well meaning white lady. We know

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Speaker 5: how the liberals are. She was being a well meaning

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Speaker 5: And she was not thinking about a team full of

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Speaker 5: She was like, how can I make this this team

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Speaker 5: of people feel better in this big controversy. They would

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Speaker 5: have been fine if they had scored more points in one.

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Speaker 4: Yep.

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Speaker 3: Right now we're.

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Speaker 6: Having a different controversy, which I'm glad. Actually we're away

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Speaker 6: from the original controversy because to me, there is none

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Speaker 6: right which people talk shit, that's what they do.

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Speaker 7: And Angela she loses next year, she's gonna have to

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Speaker 7: deal with the same consequences. It sart you feel me,

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Speaker 7: and she won't be trying about it. She ready to

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Speaker 3: You know what I mean?

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Speaker 6: And you know what it is that she already got

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Speaker 3: Come next, she's gonna drop fifty. She's gonna drop fifty.

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Speaker 4: You feel me, Carolina, so that you look, she knows

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Speaker 6: This is probably to feel her and to be like

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Speaker 6: a Tasmanian double white lady out there.

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Speaker 3: Uh huh.

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Speaker 7: It was two bullies. It was two bullies out there

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Speaker 7: playing basketball. Bro, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 5: And absolutely, and that's what Rita and I were watching together.

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Speaker 5: We were out at brunch and watching watching it together

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Speaker 5: know every time that that's what I call a white lady.

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Speaker 5: Steph Curry. How many three is y'all gonna let her shoot?

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Speaker 5: In your eyeballs. Oh no, just hit her with the

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Speaker 5: the only thing I can think of to compare Caitlyn

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Speaker 5: somebody gonna do something about that? But somebody did?

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Speaker 3: You know?

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Speaker 5: And and and you know she I mean, you know,

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Speaker 5: I think that they were like the whole team allied

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Speaker 5: Mike Greenberg said, they ran into a buzz saw.

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Speaker 3: That's the perfect way to be feeling.

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Speaker 4: And she still looks. She still put up thirty points.

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Speaker 6: So it wasn't like she was stoppable, but that that

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Speaker 4: Filed out.

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Speaker 3: Right right right right.

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Speaker 4: Hey man, that's where the game was over.

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Speaker 6: And I was like, and she was at four to

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Speaker 6: She was pushing herself to the limit. But look, that

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Speaker 3: Oh my god. Yeah.

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Speaker 6: And she doesn't need she looks she ain't in no

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Speaker 6: She can probably make more money on the college level.

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Speaker 6: She ain't flying the same class fights me, you, and

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Speaker 1: I want to go back to you know, when you

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Speaker 1: You know, she wouldn't have invited the loser Eagles to

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Speaker 1: it's it's uncharted territory because this country does not did

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 4: That's the part that irritates me, the fake outrage. But

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Speaker 6: Too, Tyler, Like, look, angel is she a Baltimore girl.

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Speaker 6: She said, she said that's where when she's from. When

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Speaker 6: she talked shit, she's not wrong. She went to Saint

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Speaker 6: She's used to the guys talking shit. You know why,

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Speaker 6: because Saint Francis can back it up. They're that good.

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Speaker 6: They can play that well amongst anybody. So she's adapted

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Speaker 2: And you had all this stuff happening in one moment

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Speaker 3: That inject I can't wait next season. What have you

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Speaker 5: I'm just like, how long we gotta wait till we

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Speaker 6: And for it to be more competitive. Well, March Madness

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Speaker 4: They said it was going to hurt the brand. What

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Speaker 6: They drew nine point nine million people at one point

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Speaker 3: A couple of NFL, NBA finals, right, you know, the finals,

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Speaker 6: Quite a few NBA basketball games on top of that.

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Speaker 6: So what are y'all want to say now? Because now

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Speaker 6: Obviously the competitiveness is all the way live. Y'all ain't

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Speaker 5: And I don't know if y'all watched the men's game,

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Speaker 4: A quit at halftime, I went to watch Time Seeking

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Speaker 2: It was less predictive least, it was less predictable least

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Speaker 7: I think one thing too, is they didn't know Angel

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Speaker 7: LISU took Kaitlyn Clark, they pulled the receipts, you know

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Speaker 3: The energy was in credible.

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Speaker 7: It was so much better than the men's tournament, and

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Speaker 3: As a whole thing. I was like, do men play

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Speaker 7: I'm not even paying it, I'm not paying no attention

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Speaker 3: And the quality of basketball was better too, you feel me.

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Speaker 7: I even feel like how they play with like a

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Speaker 7: is played better than the men's college game, you know

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Speaker 7: what I'm saying, Like, the women's college basketball game looks

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Speaker 5: But yeah, I heard someone else say that, John. I

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Speaker 3: I mean, there was.

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Speaker 5: One point when I was in South Carolina game, I say,

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Speaker 2: Number one, the talent is definitely still you know, there's

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Speaker 2: six months from now for women's basketball to start up

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Speaker 2: because I know who the teams are, I know who

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna be rooting for them.

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Speaker 4: What I mean?

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Speaker 3: That, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 7: And also like the like, bro, there are people drafted

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Speaker 3: Those rosters are so fucking competitive, and I don't think

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Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. You know what I mean.

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Speaker 4: And she agreed with you too, Josh. She admitted that

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Speaker 6: Feel like she's ready to take the next step, that

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Speaker 6: But ultimately she does. Like you said, she doesn't have

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Speaker 2: Have screens in the back of the seat on the

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Speaker 4: They are living the life.

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Speaker 6: And she's instill in a college culture which allows her

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Speaker 5: Would absolutely mad me graduating from college at twenty two

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Speaker 3: I know nothing, Oh.

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Speaker 1: God, I thought, please collegation because you got all the

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Speaker 5: And right right, right, right right, And it's so she

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Speaker 3: It's not to be fun.

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Speaker 7: And then look at like the professional career of a

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Speaker 3: You know what I mean.

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Speaker 7: Fuck that, I'm staying LSU making more money. You know

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Speaker 5: have to step this up because you're you know, people

439
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Speaker 5: are going. You want to see the product of the

440
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Speaker 5: women's college basketball. You want to see that transition into

441
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Speaker 5: a great, even better product with the w n b A,

442
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Speaker 5: And you got to make that work. You got to

443
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Speaker 5: make it worth their while. Right now that it's not

444
00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:02,800
Speaker 5: worth it while and they're staying they're staying in school.

445
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Speaker 5: And I like the fact that they're staying in school.

446
00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:07,199
Speaker 5: Like if you have an opportunity to play under the

447
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Speaker 5: tutelage of Don Staley for five years, of course you

448
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Speaker 5: take it.

449
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Speaker 3: What You're a better human each of that, you know

450
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Speaker 3: what I mean? Right? Yeah?

451
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Speaker 5: And I mean you saw how Aliah Boston was in

452
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Speaker 5: tears talking about Don Staley, like how much she means

453
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Speaker 5: to her. She's like a mother to her, Like, you know,

454
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Speaker 5: but Don has done it all, you know, so like

455
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Speaker 5: you know, of course you want to stay there for

456
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Speaker 5: a few more years there, but you can't stay there forever.

457
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Speaker 5: And what does that mean when when they go on,

458
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Speaker 5: you know, they should have the opportunity to cash that check,

459
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Speaker 5: just like the guys do.

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Speaker 4: Yep.

461
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, something something that jumped out to me when

462
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Speaker 1: I was watching that game was I was like, I'm

463
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Speaker 1: watching this game as a fan of college basketball right now,

464
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Speaker 1: and I felt like I hadn't watched men's hoops like that,

465
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Speaker 1: and Moore, I think so many of us now when

466
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Speaker 1: we watch men's college shops, we are watching it as scouts.

467
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Speaker 1: We are watching it to see how good these prospects

468
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Speaker 1: are going to be in the NBA. And that was

469
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Speaker 1: not the lens that I was watching this game. Do

470
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Speaker 1: like like you, when you watch women's college ball, you

471
00:20:59,359 --> 00:21:01,760
Speaker 1: just get fully immersed in women's college ball. You're not

472
00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:04,000
Speaker 1: thinking of the pros, how good is this prospect gonna

473
00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:05,520
Speaker 1: be in the league, Like you're just fully lost in

474
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Speaker 1: that moment. And I think that's something that works, you know,

475
00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:12,679
Speaker 1: extremely well to their benefit there. Absolutely, I do think.

476
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Speaker 7: This follows him into the league too, just follows him

477
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Speaker 7: into the league too. Like Tyler, you talked, We talked

478
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Speaker 7: about this. We will never root against Andreuries a day

479
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Speaker 7: in our fucking life. Fuck you mean, bro, you know

480
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Speaker 7: everybody for L s U.

481
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Speaker 3: This is me.

482
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Speaker 4: Do you know how unknowingly Gators and ls you hate

483
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Speaker 4: each other too. And guess what, I'm a roof FORUL.

484
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Speaker 4: I'm gonna always root the whole team. I'm always going

485
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Speaker 4: to root for the black girl with that.

486
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Speaker 3: See.

487
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Speaker 2: But but you guys hit on it exactly. And that's

488
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Speaker 2: where I hope Tyler is right. But the w n

489
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Speaker 2: b A could still very easily fuck this up and

490
00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:46,960
Speaker 2: they need to. They need to not because they have

491
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Speaker 2: a head start here. We just said that these girls

492
00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:52,159
Speaker 2: aren't coming out into the draft next month. You have

493
00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:54,560
Speaker 2: a year or two to get your ship together. But

494
00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:57,480
Speaker 2: like the year that I covered, the year I covered

495
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Speaker 2: the Sparks, Candice Parker really opened my eyes because I

496
00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:03,200
Speaker 2: didn't understand. I just it's like there's a WNBA, there's

497
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Speaker 2: NBA in the WNBA. WNBA is newer, that'll make as

498
00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:08,320
Speaker 2: much money, the audience isn't as big. I like it,

499
00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:11,520
Speaker 2: I you know, cover and enjoy women's and girls basketball.

500
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Speaker 2: But that was sort of the paradigm I thought, and

501
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Speaker 2: Kndas Parker explained, like, you know, I'm out there covering

502
00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:17,520
Speaker 2: the first game of the season. I'm like, where's all

503
00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:20,080
Speaker 2: the people I've heard of? You know, And the coach

504
00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:23,159
Speaker 2: is going, well, they're still in Russia and fucking and

505
00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:25,879
Speaker 2: Germany and Turkey and shit because they're because they're in

506
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Speaker 2: the playoffs and that's their day job. So Candas Parker

507
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Speaker 2: gets in and you know, it comes in and I'm

508
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Speaker 2: asking about that. I didn't realize that you guys were

509
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Speaker 2: all playing overseas. And she's like, the entire league is

510
00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:39,480
Speaker 2: playing overseas, right, and so if you're in the playoffs,

511
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Speaker 2: it runs into the start of the WNBA season. She said, Look,

512
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Speaker 2: I'm capped here. There's a max player cap at two

513
00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:48,160
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty thousand dollars. You could be the face

514
00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:49,760
Speaker 2: of the league, you could be whatever, it doesn't matter

515
00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:52,560
Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. So these players literally

516
00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:55,600
Speaker 2: are making more money the top players in college, than

517
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Speaker 2: they're even allowed to in the WNBA. And so Candas says,

518
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Speaker 2: she's like, all of the players you see here, the

519
00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:05,920
Speaker 2: elite players are almost like donating a portion of their

520
00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:09,040
Speaker 2: time and volunteering to be here because they're trying to

521
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Speaker 2: support the growth of the sport in this country. You know,

522
00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:14,440
Speaker 2: they're trying to support the league. You want a WNBA

523
00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:16,919
Speaker 2: to be there to dream about. Girls aren't dreaming of

524
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Speaker 2: playing in Slovakia when they're fourteen years old. You want

525
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Speaker 2: um dreaming about playing in arenas in their country, right.

526
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Speaker 2: But like, I didn't realize, you know, until I was

527
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Speaker 2: really in there, how truly unequal it was, and the

528
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Speaker 2: WNBA like, you can't say this is an audience or

529
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Speaker 2: a money issue when you look at the reaction to

530
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Speaker 2: these two girls, and I don't care if it's basketball

531
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Speaker 2: or boxing or Battle of the Sexes with tennis.

532
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Speaker 3: With fifty million people watch.

533
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Speaker 2: If you have conflict between genders or races in this

534
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Speaker 2: country and you can't figure out a way to sell

535
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Speaker 2: that shit and make money off it, you're the stupidest

536
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Speaker 2: motherfucker on her period.

537
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Speaker 3: Easy money back, Damn.

538
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Speaker 6: I wonder how much the you know, the CDA came out,

539
00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:03,640
Speaker 6: the new CBA between and the NBA and the players

540
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:05,480
Speaker 6: came out, and one of the things I believe that

541
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Speaker 6: they were able to do is invest in w NBA

542
00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:11,680
Speaker 6: teams the players. So I am curious to know if

543
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Speaker 6: that will help jump start something going on because now

544
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Speaker 6: people have financial vested interests in w NBA, which means

545
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Speaker 6: that they're going to want their product to be profitable, right,

546
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Speaker 6: So that is something that when I heard that, I

547
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Speaker 6: was like, I'm kind of interested in that because I

548
00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:32,000
Speaker 6: do think that they could use as much backing as

549
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Speaker 6: they could, and obviously it helps to get the backing

550
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Speaker 6: from their big brother. But I'm curious to know in

551
00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:40,680
Speaker 6: terms of you know who invests, you know how that's

552
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Speaker 6: going to propel what I would like to think propel

553
00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:47,080
Speaker 6: the w n b A and to moving into a

554
00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:50,880
Speaker 6: better direction because the talent is there, obviously, and it's

555
00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:54,200
Speaker 6: not like that they're watching WNBA games are boring.

556
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Speaker 4: It's just something that's missing and somebody has.

557
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Speaker 2: To help, doesn't It doesn't have the billboard side the store.

558
00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:04,240
Speaker 2: No one's going Liberty Sparks. I can fuck you know

559
00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:05,960
Speaker 2: what I mean, Like, you don't have that. And that's

560
00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:10,080
Speaker 2: what this this college season for the women invested people

561
00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:13,320
Speaker 2: in that different way. All those stupid conversations Keith Oberman,

562
00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:15,360
Speaker 2: everyone being idiots after the game. That's the best thing

563
00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:18,200
Speaker 2: that can happen for women's basketball because now I'm mad

564
00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:21,119
Speaker 2: about it at them, and they're mad about it about

565
00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:24,360
Speaker 2: Angelies and like, okay, let's talk shit next year, right.

566
00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:26,040
Speaker 3: But I totally agree with you.

567
00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:28,800
Speaker 2: The games are great, but it is not put up

568
00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:31,040
Speaker 2: there in that way where you're like, if the Links

569
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:33,760
Speaker 2: win the title this year, I'm gonna fucking barf in

570
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Speaker 2: my backyard.

571
00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:39,520
Speaker 4: Need rock we need some of the rock stone cold.

572
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Speaker 5: Yes, we need some wwe introns.

573
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Speaker 3: All right. All right, guys, thank you so much for

574
00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:49,920
Speaker 3: hopping on with us. Really appreciate it.

575
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:53,800
Speaker 2: As always everyone subscribing the Gridiron gals, and uh it

576
00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:55,320
Speaker 2: was a nice having you guys on to talk about

577
00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:56,240
Speaker 2: something other than football.

578
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Speaker 3: It was good. John was much more knowledgeable you know

579
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Speaker 3: the game. Yeah, we ain't tap in whenever though, feel me.

580
00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:07,720
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. We need y'all long more.

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Speaker 4: Day about who why I think n is now on the.

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Speaker 3: M v P.

583
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Speaker 2: Let's talk about who are your guys NBA teams?

584
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Speaker 4: I do not have one. I have players.

585
00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:21,560
Speaker 3: Who's your players?

586
00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:24,920
Speaker 2: That's that's that's that's that's that's right there, that's the

587
00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:26,720
Speaker 2: who's your who's your players?

588
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Speaker 4: I love the most petty player of the planet, Kevin Durant.

589
00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:30,800
Speaker 4: I love him.

590
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Speaker 6: I don't care what you're saying about that boy Can

591
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Speaker 6: who he could be as sensitive and is his head,

592
00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:35,920
Speaker 6: could be as nappy as he wanted to be.

593
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:37,680
Speaker 4: That boy Can. I don't give a damn.

594
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Speaker 5: Big fat I'm I'm I'm riding with Steph Curry from

595
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Speaker 5: the his whole His mother is a wholesome woman from Virginia.

596
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Speaker 3: Like myself.

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Speaker 8: Light.

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Speaker 5: I tell you there is when you talk about trash talk,

599
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Speaker 5: there is no bigger asshole in the NDIA I love.

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Speaker 7: And that's his big that's his best characteristic and people

601
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Speaker 7: his fans run away from it, which is weird.

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Speaker 5: Nigga, This nice little choir Christian boy, that dude, that's

603
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Speaker 5: what they want.

604
00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:09,280
Speaker 7: Him to be a team and that's what makes him

605
00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:10,560
Speaker 7: so much fun to watch.

606
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Speaker 3: Bro. You know what I'm saying. I love that all If.

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Speaker 2: We get that h that warrior Son's first round that

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Speaker 2: it looks like we might have we got to have

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Speaker 2: you on one of the live shows, y.

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Speaker 3: For sure. All right, j'all thanks again for hopping on.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate you.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you all many family.

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Speaker 3: Bye. That was great. Thanks. Thanks always always great when

614
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Speaker 3: they hop on, Jackson.

615
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Speaker 2: Do we have anyone in the chat with anything for

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Speaker 2: us before we move on to the other segments today.

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Speaker 8: We had someone just said, I just want to know

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Speaker 8: how them Fibri Hill has been cheating Mike.

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Speaker 3: That's listen to me.

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Speaker 2: I guess I told you all this. I get so

621
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Speaker 2: many people talking to me about their poop on Twitter

622
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Speaker 2: at this point, is.

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Speaker 3: It's out rapist the way.

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Speaker 2: God, look, I've been I've been on the fiber pillars

625
00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:06,639
Speaker 2: for like two years now, so I like, like I

626
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:09,160
Speaker 2: told John and Tyler and my wife and everyone else,

627
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Speaker 2: I wipe just for shits, not even for shit, just

628
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Speaker 2: for giggles, for no shits.

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Speaker 3: So they're great for me.

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 2: Like, you know, I went and uh and and my

632
00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:22,359
Speaker 2: wife and I ran a five K last weekend. I

633
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:26,000
Speaker 2: got up early, took my poop, felt good. Five years

634
00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:29,720
Speaker 2: ago I ran a five K close call, couldn't go

635
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:33,600
Speaker 2: to the bathroom that early, just really white knuckling it

636
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:36,399
Speaker 2: down the last couple thousand meters, you know.

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Speaker 3: So it's I highly recommend it.

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Speaker 2: I've heard from like literally probably one hundred people about

639
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Speaker 2: the differences making in their life.

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Speaker 3: So salute happy for everybody's maker. No, I think that's incredible. Actually,

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Speaker 3: you know what I mean, that's incredible legacy, healthier poops.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's talk about Tyler had an awesome tweet yesterday.

643
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:02,440
Speaker 3: I wanted to talk.

644
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:07,080
Speaker 2: About about Luca and really all international athletes coming to

645
00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:11,360
Speaker 2: America and UH and just not knowing the stupid games

646
00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:14,080
Speaker 2: that we play in this country. Someone asked Luca basically

647
00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:16,800
Speaker 2: about why you know about his defense. You know, we

648
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:18,920
Speaker 2: talked about it on the last show, like that defensive

649
00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:24,400
Speaker 2: rating is a great predictor of playoff success, Luca yogat joker.

650
00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:26,720
Speaker 2: You know, I mean that's not necessarily the strong suit.

651
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:28,800
Speaker 2: And Luca basically said he's like, yeah, man, it's a

652
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:32,040
Speaker 2: lot of basketball games and I'm doing euro Basket in between,

653
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:33,280
Speaker 2: and I'm.

654
00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:35,840
Speaker 3: Tired, Like I don't I don't have the enough sixty.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if I need to be playing the.

656
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Speaker 2: One needs to drop sixty on this end of the court,

657
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:42,880
Speaker 2: but it might not need to be the same person.

658
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Speaker 3: And I tinly just.

659
00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:47,000
Speaker 2: Made a point like people come to America and it's

660
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:50,040
Speaker 2: like we have such a weird first of all, like

661
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:53,760
Speaker 2: cultural identity around work and then also around media narratives

662
00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:56,480
Speaker 2: that it's like the honesty. I mean, it's the same

663
00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:58,840
Speaker 2: thing with Yannis too, right. It just it almost like

664
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:02,160
Speaker 2: sticks out like hangnail or something. It's just weird to

665
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:04,440
Speaker 2: hear someone answer the question with like, yeah, I'm not

666
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:06,240
Speaker 2: trying very hard on defense.

667
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Speaker 1: I loved it, okay, right, So you know, I want

668
00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:13,040
Speaker 1: to be clear and upfront that what I'm about to say,

669
00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:15,120
Speaker 1: it's it's not an indictment. It's not a criticism, it's

670
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:17,640
Speaker 1: an observation because I love the honesty that Lucas showed

671
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:18,920
Speaker 1: us here and I wish we had more of it.

672
00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:22,720
Speaker 1: That quote by Luga, it was interesting to me. And

673
00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:24,880
Speaker 1: the main thing, you know, the interest in me, like

674
00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:28,280
Speaker 1: we discussed, is how being this honest seems to be

675
00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:29,880
Speaker 1: a trend with foreign athletes.

676
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:30,800
Speaker 3: Right.

677
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Speaker 1: So, you know, because in this quote, Luca didn't really

678
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:35,520
Speaker 1: tell us anything we didn't already know, right. You know,

679
00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:37,960
Speaker 1: energy is a finite resource, and when you're a high

680
00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:41,240
Speaker 1: usage offensive player like Luca, you cannot exert that type

681
00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:43,120
Speaker 1: of effort on both ends. We all know this, it's

682
00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:45,080
Speaker 1: nothing new, but I just don't know if we've ever

683
00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:47,720
Speaker 1: seen a player just flat out come out and say that. Right,

684
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:49,880
Speaker 1: And like I said, you know, being this open, being

685
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:53,960
Speaker 1: this honest, it seems to be way more common with

686
00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:56,720
Speaker 1: foreign players than it is with American players in the NBA.

687
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Speaker 1: You know, you see, you take a look at guys

688
00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:02,360
Speaker 1: like Luca, Yannis, yoke Embid, they are all straight shooters.

689
00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 1: You know, we all remember how Yannis got killed, you know,

690
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 1: for saying that that KD was better than him during

691
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:10,520
Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Brooklyn series. I remember when when when it

692
00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:12,480
Speaker 1: Embiid was asked, you know, what do you think about

693
00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:14,800
Speaker 1: the six or Celtics robbery and it b was like, Bro,

694
00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:17,160
Speaker 1: this shit ain't a robbery. They beat our ass every time,

695
00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:19,560
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, And the beach just recently

696
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:22,160
Speaker 1: kicked up so some dust when he was like, yes,

697
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:25,320
Speaker 1: I absolutely want MVP and these advanced stats that are

698
00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:27,560
Speaker 1: telling you that these guys are good on defense, they're

699
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:30,120
Speaker 1: lying to you, which was a direct shot at Yokic, right,

700
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:32,280
Speaker 1: and we saw Yokic also say that he doesn't even

701
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:34,720
Speaker 1: care about winning MVP anymore because all the noise around it,

702
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 1: and it would be so rare to get that type

703
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:39,480
Speaker 1: of honesty from American players, like, you know, especially around

704
00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:41,200
Speaker 1: something like the MVP award. If you asked an American

705
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:43,360
Speaker 1: player how they felt about being in the MVP race,

706
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:45,520
Speaker 1: you're gonna get that cliche ass. You know, this is

707
00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:48,280
Speaker 1: a great you know, that's a great distinction that puts

708
00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 1: you up there with the legends. But I'm just focusing

709
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:52,600
Speaker 1: and going about this game by game, just trying to

710
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 1: win it win with my guys. Every time I lays

711
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:56,320
Speaker 1: them up, right, you'd get that cookie cutter win one

712
00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:57,240
Speaker 1: for the gibber bullshit.

713
00:31:57,720 --> 00:31:59,280
Speaker 3: And I think.

714
00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 1: That that foreign players they seem to be more candid

715
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:07,480
Speaker 1: and honest with us because they are not indoctrinated with

716
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:12,240
Speaker 1: the American ideals of what competitiveness should look like. And

717
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:14,160
Speaker 1: good for them, because I think a lot of American

718
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 1: ideals of what being a competitor looks like are bullshit.

719
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 1: Like perhaps the foundation of the American ideal of what

720
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:23,440
Speaker 1: being a competitor looks like it's based on you need

721
00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:26,080
Speaker 1: to be better than the next guy. And it seems

722
00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:29,200
Speaker 1: like the foreign guys who have not been indoctrinated with

723
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:32,400
Speaker 1: with that American shit, it's like they focus their focus

724
00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:35,440
Speaker 1: seems to be on being the best they personally can be.

725
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:37,960
Speaker 1: And I think that's the distinction there, you know, Like

726
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:40,800
Speaker 1: we saw recently Yanna say, Yo, I'm not a skilled

727
00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 1: as Steph for KD, but I'm gonna work my ass

728
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:44,280
Speaker 1: off to be the best that I can be. And

729
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 1: that's a great outlook to have. But I feel like

730
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:49,560
Speaker 1: that's not good enough for Americans. We're results oriented. We've

731
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 1: all seen the anti participation trophy movement in this country.

732
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,640
Speaker 1: It's not good enough for Americans. To be your best,

733
00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:57,640
Speaker 1: you need to be better than the next man. And

734
00:32:57,720 --> 00:32:59,120
Speaker 1: you know, like I said, a lot of American ideas

735
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:01,480
Speaker 1: or what being a competitor are bullshit to me, and

736
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:02,840
Speaker 1: I think that is for sure one of them. I'm

737
00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:05,239
Speaker 1: a firm believer of running your own race at your

738
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:07,840
Speaker 1: own speed. A mantra or is we repeat to myself

739
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:10,080
Speaker 1: to stay ground. It is the race is long, and

740
00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:12,000
Speaker 1: it's not with anyone but yourself, right, Like That's something

741
00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:13,960
Speaker 1: I've been holding it in my heart for years, and

742
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 1: that shit gives me perspective, you know, whenever her mamaself?

743
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:16,920
Speaker 2: Who told me?

744
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:18,440
Speaker 3: Who told you that? Who told you that? First?

745
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:21,440
Speaker 1: I got it from that that song where sunscreen? You

746
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:24,280
Speaker 1: remember that shit? Where it was it was?

747
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:24,600
Speaker 3: It was.

748
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:26,440
Speaker 1: It was just a dude just talking, just giving advice.

749
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:29,120
Speaker 1: It was like a graduation speech that they put on

750
00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:32,680
Speaker 1: on a beat. You remember that shit, Like here to

751
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:34,560
Speaker 1: the graduating class of nineteen ninety nine, If I want

752
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:36,280
Speaker 1: to thing of advice for you would be to wear

753
00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:39,000
Speaker 1: sunscreen that has been medically proven. The rest is just

754
00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:40,680
Speaker 1: my advice. You remember that shit?

755
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:44,480
Speaker 3: I don't think I heard that now I gotta dropped that.

756
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:46,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll drop that in the group chat.

757
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:48,320
Speaker 1: But you know, going back to what I said about

758
00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:49,880
Speaker 1: how I feel like a lot of American ideas of

759
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:52,080
Speaker 1: being a competitor or a bullshit that's that is one

760
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:55,280
Speaker 1: that sticks out to me, you know, it seems and

761
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 1: it seems like, you know, the mentality of a lot

762
00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:59,280
Speaker 1: of foreign and player that a lot of foreign players

763
00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:02,440
Speaker 1: embrace is is yo, I'm trying to be the best

764
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 1: that I can be. Fuck everybody else. And I think

765
00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:06,320
Speaker 1: that a lot of us can learn from that, especially

766
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 1: those of us who are not professional athletes, which is

767
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:10,239
Speaker 1: damn near all of us. So shout out to the

768
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:11,920
Speaker 1: foreign players. I feel like they get it, and I

769
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:14,800
Speaker 1: wish we saw more everyday regular people embrace that philosophy,

770
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:16,640
Speaker 1: and I wish we had more athletes who are as

771
00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 1: honest and open as now.

772
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:21,120
Speaker 7: I think part of it is marketability too, Like we

773
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:24,680
Speaker 7: have this idea that being marketable is being perfect, you

774
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:27,160
Speaker 7: know what I mean, And they have proven that wrong.

775
00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying. American players love Luca love.

776
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:32,920
Speaker 7: I mean, let American fans love Luca love Yiannis, you know,

777
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:35,160
Speaker 7: love and Beid. You know what I'm saying. Like so

778
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:38,440
Speaker 7: like Joker, obviously too, you feel me so, like, I

779
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 7: think the honesty is actually endearing because we don't hear

780
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:43,359
Speaker 7: it from American players, you know what I mean where

781
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:45,280
Speaker 7: we get these I mean, as much as we love Lebron,

782
00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:48,000
Speaker 7: he's gonna give you the exact answer he's supposed to

783
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:50,160
Speaker 7: give you, you know what I mean, because that's what

784
00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:53,160
Speaker 7: a marketable man does, a man who is a business

785
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:56,600
Speaker 7: not just a basketball player. You feel me, But like

786
00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:59,680
Speaker 7: hearing like a Yianni is a guy that is as.

787
00:34:59,320 --> 00:34:59,800
Speaker 3: Good as he is.

788
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:02,040
Speaker 7: Who want I think two MVPs that up to that

789
00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:04,879
Speaker 7: point and uh and and was and was saying he's

790
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:07,520
Speaker 7: not the best player in the world. That is sacrilege

791
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:09,840
Speaker 7: for something, you know what I'm saying, but not that honesty,

792
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:12,160
Speaker 7: and we actually I think that was actually endearing. Most

793
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:14,600
Speaker 7: people I know thought that was endearing too. I mean

794
00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:18,040
Speaker 7: the media, they you know, you can't say that, not whatever,

795
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:20,200
Speaker 7: But you know, most basketball fans I know it is like, yeah,

796
00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:24,360
Speaker 7: I get that you are the most valuable player in

797
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 7: the league, but you are not the best player in

798
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:28,080
Speaker 7: the league right now with KD being who he is.

799
00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:29,840
Speaker 3: So I think that's interesting.

800
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:30,680
Speaker 7: Too, And I think we can take a look, we

801
00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 7: could we should peak that too, like, bro, like you.

802
00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:35,480
Speaker 3: Could still be marketably and be honest.

803
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 7: Also, like maybe it's more endearing and fans would like

804
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:42,120
Speaker 7: that more if you were to be more yourself and

805
00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:45,040
Speaker 7: not the person that you've been, you know, trained to

806
00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:46,040
Speaker 7: be on camera.

807
00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:46,440
Speaker 3: You feel that.

808
00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:51,960
Speaker 2: I think it's an interesting like paradox because fans and

809
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:56,359
Speaker 2: uh people in this country connect to those who come

810
00:35:56,360 --> 00:36:00,640
Speaker 2: off as genuine above all else, whether it's politics, whether

811
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:05,640
Speaker 2: it's sports, whether it's entertainment. You know, I'm not a

812
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:08,400
Speaker 2: fan of Donald Trump, but like his fans think that

813
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 2: like he's the most connected in the world. I felt

814
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:14,239
Speaker 2: that way about Barack Obama, like the people who are

815
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:16,839
Speaker 2: like politicians you care about, you have that feeling about.

816
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:19,600
Speaker 2: It's the same thing with athletes. Like the reasons I've

817
00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:22,560
Speaker 2: connected with that I've felt connected with Braun have nothing

818
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:24,759
Speaker 2: to do with the way that he answers questions because

819
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:25,560
Speaker 2: of exactly.

820
00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:26,000
Speaker 3: What you just said.

821
00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:28,719
Speaker 2: It has to do with the personality that you see

822
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:31,200
Speaker 2: on the court and that we see like the dorky

823
00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:33,440
Speaker 2: dad stuff. That means so much more to me as

824
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 2: a fan of sports than any of the like you know,

825
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:38,440
Speaker 2: sort of can answers even on stuff that I care

826
00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:40,479
Speaker 2: about social issues and stuff, you know what I mean.

827
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:45,080
Speaker 2: So I think both of what you're talking about comes

828
00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:48,959
Speaker 2: out of you know, Tyler talking about the competitiveness, John

829
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:52,160
Speaker 2: talking about the marketability. It both comes from this really

830
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:57,800
Speaker 2: uniquely American obsession in our capitalist society with like work

831
00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:00,879
Speaker 2: and with profit and like what you but because you're

832
00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:03,640
Speaker 2: both talking about the exact same thing, just different sides

833
00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 2: of that same coin, right, And like we all see,

834
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:08,560
Speaker 2: like we all grow up in that. Like when I

835
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 2: talk to Vinnie about wanting to be a pro baseball player,

836
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:14,000
Speaker 2: he's talking about being on the cover of video games

837
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 2: and in commercials and stuff, you know, and I'm I'm

838
00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:19,120
Speaker 2: always sort of nudging him away from that, Like, look

839
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:22,520
Speaker 2: how much fun Mookie Bets is having. That's what That's

840
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 2: what you you know what I mean?

841
00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:25,919
Speaker 3: Like bet right, you know what I mean.

842
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:29,520
Speaker 2: But that is just not what we're sort of driven to.

843
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:32,320
Speaker 2: And I love the idea that what Luca is doing

844
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:35,320
Speaker 2: is both being honest but also it's the European ideal

845
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:37,880
Speaker 2: of taking a little siesta. You know, he's going on

846
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:40,040
Speaker 2: holiday on the defensive end of the court, you know,

847
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:43,000
Speaker 2: Like and we don't feel comfortable with that. We're bringing

848
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:45,920
Speaker 2: our laptops on vacation as shit. But the European players

849
00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:48,400
Speaker 2: are like, no, this is my afternoon nap is on

850
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:49,640
Speaker 2: the defensive side of the.

851
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:52,200
Speaker 1: Court, right we are. We are the biggest fucking hustle

852
00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:55,239
Speaker 1: culture country on the planet. Like every other country on

853
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:57,960
Speaker 1: the planet does not take working as seriously as we do. Like,

854
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:00,640
Speaker 1: like you mentioned, whole ass towns shut down in the

855
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:02,920
Speaker 1: middle of the day for like two hours so motherfuckers

856
00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:05,080
Speaker 1: can take a nap and a break from work. It's different.

857
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:07,200
Speaker 1: And there was a dude who hit me on Twitter,

858
00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 1: Rod Benson. He played overseas and he said, when I

859
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:12,200
Speaker 1: played in Korea, I realized part of it is a

860
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:14,920
Speaker 1: lack of synonyms in other languages, meaning we have one

861
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 1: hundred ways to say someone put on weight in the

862
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:19,319
Speaker 1: off season in English, but Koreans would just be like,

863
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:26,360
Speaker 1: so you're fat now, huh no other translation. So yeah,

864
00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:28,960
Speaker 1: I appreciate how foreigner. A foreigner's just just to not

865
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:31,600
Speaker 1: play the little passive aggressive bullshit that Americans have to

866
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:34,359
Speaker 1: play that we've been indoctrinated to play. So shots to them, man,

867
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:34,840
Speaker 1: they get it.

868
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:39,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, I think was it Rita mentioned the

869
00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 2: new NBA CBA we didn't talk about in the last show.

870
00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:45,800
Speaker 2: I wanted a chance to read about four hundred thousand

871
00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:47,440
Speaker 2: words about this shit so I could not sound like

872
00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:50,360
Speaker 2: idiot talking about it. Big changes to the NBA. I

873
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:52,279
Speaker 2: don't know how much you guys have tapped in on it.

874
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:55,359
Speaker 2: We could have Nate Jones come in and explain in

875
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:59,440
Speaker 2: great detail this new second luxury tax apron. I think

876
00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:02,560
Speaker 2: I could do it decent job, but basically for teams

877
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:05,120
Speaker 2: like the Warriors and the Bucks that have really been

878
00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:07,759
Speaker 2: spending deep into the luxury tax, I know Lakers fans

879
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 2: really want Genie Buzz to.

880
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:09,719
Speaker 3: Do this even more.

881
00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 2: There is now a sort of really actually kind of

882
00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:15,160
Speaker 2: the first hard cap that the NBA has had that

883
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:18,200
Speaker 2: if you're seventeen and a half million over that luxury tax,

884
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:21,680
Speaker 2: you actually lose privileges of being able to sign bought

885
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:25,040
Speaker 2: out players and use other exceptions and stuff. And that's

886
00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:26,839
Speaker 2: really the first time they've said, hey, if you're over

887
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:30,759
Speaker 2: this line you were, we're not fully handcuffing you, but

888
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:32,920
Speaker 2: we're going to tie one arm behind your back in

889
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:34,640
Speaker 2: terms of how you're allowed to navigate.

890
00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:37,200
Speaker 3: I think There's two schools.

891
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:39,320
Speaker 2: Of thought here that I think are both correct about

892
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:43,240
Speaker 2: huge spending teams being good for sports, but also parody

893
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:46,360
Speaker 2: being good for sports, which huge spending teams reduces the

894
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:48,319
Speaker 2: amount of parody you have. So what do you guys

895
00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:50,600
Speaker 2: think of this? Do you think the best version of

896
00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:54,480
Speaker 2: the NBA is a you know, European soccer style thing

897
00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:57,399
Speaker 2: where it's just like we're we're in a spending race

898
00:39:57,480 --> 00:39:59,399
Speaker 2: and if you get the right owner, is working out

899
00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:01,839
Speaker 2: for you? And or do you think it's more like

900
00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:04,600
Speaker 2: the NFL model of you're gonna have a different you're

901
00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:08,000
Speaker 2: gonna have six seven different championships a decade because there's

902
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:10,200
Speaker 2: more parody off of a hard cap Like which direction

903
00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:12,879
Speaker 2: would you, just as fans rather see the league going?

904
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:16,040
Speaker 1: I think I think parity is actually great for the NBA, especially,

905
00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:17,800
Speaker 1: you know if you look historically, like you know, the

906
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 1: NBA was booming when Magic and Bird were you know,

907
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:22,479
Speaker 1: in the finals every damn year. You know, we saw

908
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:25,239
Speaker 1: you know, MJ winning six out of eight, had the

909
00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:28,800
Speaker 1: NBA at the most popular it's it's ever been globally.

910
00:40:29,080 --> 00:40:31,560
Speaker 1: You know, the Warriors went on that run and and

911
00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:33,560
Speaker 1: you know we saw another ratings boost there when we

912
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:35,759
Speaker 1: knew they were going to, you know, just run away

913
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:37,640
Speaker 1: with shit every year. I think parody is good for

914
00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:39,359
Speaker 1: the NBA. You know, kind of goes back to what

915
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:42,239
Speaker 1: we discussed, you know about how how fans want familiarity.

916
00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:45,240
Speaker 1: You know how we just had that discussion with Rita Minchell's,

917
00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:47,040
Speaker 1: you know, about how that benefits the WNBA. So I

918
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:50,400
Speaker 1: think that parody is actually good for the NBA. I'm

919
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 1: just concerned about how did they come to this. You know,

920
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:56,439
Speaker 1: I know that owners are cheap, you know, the owners

921
00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:58,239
Speaker 1: who will spend our a rarity. I guess that they

922
00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:01,720
Speaker 1: got boxed out on this, But but I'm just curious,

923
00:41:01,719 --> 00:41:05,160
Speaker 1: like I would like an exposa whatever behind the scenes shit,

924
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:07,600
Speaker 1: don't like you know, the negotiations on this and now

925
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:08,800
Speaker 1: this is all exactly happened.

926
00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:11,239
Speaker 3: I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna be honest with you.

927
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:14,720
Speaker 2: I think that the NBA, the NBA Players Association, fucked

928
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:17,760
Speaker 2: up horrendously on this. And if I were an NBA player,

929
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:22,439
Speaker 2: because you allowed you allowed the twenty to twenty five

930
00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:26,120
Speaker 2: owners that are the cheaper owners, to limit the amount

931
00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:29,319
Speaker 2: of money that your labor pool is allowed to make.

932
00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:32,200
Speaker 3: Without making that an issue. No, no, are you not

933
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:34,040
Speaker 3: parody or against parody?

934
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:37,480
Speaker 2: Well, I'm I would say I'm for parody, but I'm

935
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:40,360
Speaker 2: also for labor, and so just as someone who covers

936
00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:42,719
Speaker 2: like in our educational system, alum beach, I, one of

937
00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:46,240
Speaker 2: the things I report on is contract negotiations the teachers

938
00:41:46,239 --> 00:41:48,120
Speaker 2: in the school is you are going through it right now.

939
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:52,840
Speaker 2: I'm shocked that the NBA Players Association allowed a hard

940
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:54,760
Speaker 2: cap to be put on their sport for the first

941
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:58,160
Speaker 2: time without here. I didn't hear about this. I didn't

942
00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:00,479
Speaker 2: know this was something they were pushing for. I didn't

943
00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:02,200
Speaker 2: I don't know if this is something that was a fight,

944
00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:06,320
Speaker 2: but I think without them necessarily realizing what was happening,

945
00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:10,919
Speaker 2: you've really fundamentally changed the nature of the sport by

946
00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 2: putting this hard cap on, because now you're saying the

947
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:15,440
Speaker 2: richest people can't give us more money.

948
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 3: Like that's what you're.

949
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:19,560
Speaker 2: Saying, you know, And as a union, that is not

950
00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:22,040
Speaker 2: what you That is not the approach that I think

951
00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:24,799
Speaker 2: anyone would want their union if they're a member of one,

952
00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:26,360
Speaker 2: taking with with ownership.

953
00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:29,320
Speaker 7: I mean, I don't know as far as with parody,

954
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:32,160
Speaker 7: I don't know if parody, I think for the same

955
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:34,759
Speaker 7: reasons I didn't give a fuck about the National Championship,

956
00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:35,560
Speaker 7: you know what I mean.

957
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:37,960
Speaker 3: Like, I want to see the dogs playing each other,

958
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:40,840
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. I want to see Brian

959
00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:42,960
Speaker 3: Is stuff back to back, back to back like that.

960
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:43,920
Speaker 3: That's not parody.

961
00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:47,680
Speaker 2: You want to see the King's test a big before

962
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:48,920
Speaker 2: they get to the finals?

963
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:51,799
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, So I mean it's it's cool to have

964
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:55,280
Speaker 7: an OKC being good or the Grizzlies giving.

965
00:42:55,080 --> 00:42:57,359
Speaker 3: People, you know, trouble, you know what I mean.

966
00:42:57,480 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 7: But like as far as when it comes to the chip,

967
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:01,600
Speaker 7: I want to see the gods dueling.

968
00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:03,919
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. I don't need the cute shit.

969
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:06,560
Speaker 7: I want to see the big dogs being big dogs

970
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:08,000
Speaker 7: and let's make them prove themselves.

971
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:09,160
Speaker 3: You feel what I'm saying.

972
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:11,319
Speaker 7: So, I mean, I'm not necessarily I don't know if

973
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:14,719
Speaker 7: I'm necessarily for parody. You know, I guess I'm four

974
00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:18,160
Speaker 7: parody to an extent, you know what I mean. But yeah, well,

975
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:22,040
Speaker 7: I mean, Draymond talked about this, like the sixty five

976
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:24,040
Speaker 7: the game minimum.

977
00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:26,120
Speaker 2: So one of the other changes that they put in

978
00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:29,000
Speaker 2: is to be eligible for the Big Postseason Award.

979
00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:31,799
Speaker 3: The big enviers against sixty five games.

980
00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:34,400
Speaker 2: That you have to play to be eligible for MVP,

981
00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:36,839
Speaker 2: dp O Y et cetera, et cetera, and they're doing

982
00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:39,800
Speaker 2: they put that in obviously as an anti load management tactic.

983
00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:42,200
Speaker 2: The three of us have talked about this. Load management

984
00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:44,760
Speaker 2: comes from the ownership, it doesn't come from the players.

985
00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:48,000
Speaker 2: So I'm not necessarily sure. Maybe this is just a

986
00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:49,960
Speaker 2: way that they can have there be a headline saying

987
00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:51,800
Speaker 2: they're trying to do something about load management.

988
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:53,600
Speaker 3: But I don't see this.

989
00:43:53,560 --> 00:43:55,680
Speaker 2: Moving the needle on it that much. Do you guys

990
00:43:56,160 --> 00:43:57,880
Speaker 2: have any feelings whatsoever about it?

991
00:43:57,920 --> 00:43:58,759
Speaker 3: I don't know, what do you think.

992
00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:01,400
Speaker 1: I think I saw somewhere where they looked at like

993
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:03,879
Speaker 1: the last fifteen MVPs, and all of them had played

994
00:44:03,880 --> 00:44:05,400
Speaker 1: like sixty five games anyway, So I feel like that

995
00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:07,880
Speaker 1: was more of an unspoken rule regardless, you know that

996
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:11,120
Speaker 1: they just kind of you know, substantialized there. So so yeah,

997
00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:14,279
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm not too you know, to to up

998
00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:15,200
Speaker 1: in arms about that one.

999
00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:16,279
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1000
00:44:16,719 --> 00:44:19,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, But but I mean the whole thing is is,

1001
00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:21,960
Speaker 1: you know, besides the MVP, you know, when you talk

1002
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:24,680
Speaker 1: about like all defense bonuses, all the you know, all

1003
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:26,600
Speaker 1: in the first team NBA incentives.

1004
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:27,839
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know.

1005
00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:29,520
Speaker 1: That's where shit can get tricky because that shit might

1006
00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:31,759
Speaker 1: fuck some money, but shit that's beyond their control. Like

1007
00:44:31,800 --> 00:44:33,920
Speaker 1: if they tweak an ankle in they're out, you know,

1008
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:35,160
Speaker 1: of a few games or whatever.

1009
00:44:35,239 --> 00:44:39,560
Speaker 3: You So, I mean, Draymond talked about how I said, Yo,

1010
00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:41,200
Speaker 3: all NBA. You know what I'm saying.

1011
00:44:41,239 --> 00:44:44,120
Speaker 7: You got a dude that's at eighty million dollar. Dude

1012
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:46,719
Speaker 7: was asking for a max you know, you want a

1013
00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:49,440
Speaker 7: two hundred million dollar contract because he was All NBA.

1014
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:52,120
Speaker 3: Because a lot some of the players had, like I

1015
00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:52,600
Speaker 3: mean do a lot.

1016
00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:55,239
Speaker 7: A lot of the all NBA caliber players this year

1017
00:44:55,440 --> 00:44:58,319
Speaker 7: have missed significant time, not because they were you know,

1018
00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:01,160
Speaker 7: load managing, because they were hurt, you know what I mean.

1019
00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:04,160
Speaker 7: Like you feel me like STEP's getting older, Kd's getting older,

1020
00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:05,240
Speaker 7: Bronze getting older.

1021
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:07,680
Speaker 3: Well, I mean that's what says, you know what I mean.

1022
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:10,800
Speaker 7: So like so, so I'm just saying, like, like I

1023
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:15,759
Speaker 7: don't know if that's necessarily beneficial to I mean, not

1024
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:18,080
Speaker 7: MVP race. That's not a that's not a question. You know,

1025
00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:20,719
Speaker 7: like you said, there's there's a minimum, there's a cap.

1026
00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:22,959
Speaker 7: You know, there's a there's a minimum amount of games

1027
00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:24,840
Speaker 7: that's expected, you know. I mean, if you miss a

1028
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:26,879
Speaker 7: third of the season, you're not in the MVP race.

1029
00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:28,319
Speaker 3: Point blak. I don't give a fuck how good you

1030
00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:30,000
Speaker 3: were in that two thirds of the season.

1031
00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:32,000
Speaker 7: But like for all NBA, man, you know, I think

1032
00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:34,239
Speaker 7: there's con squitches for you know, the players as well

1033
00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:34,840
Speaker 7: as owners.

1034
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:37,280
Speaker 2: So yes, and that was Draymond's point was the owners

1035
00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:39,279
Speaker 2: aren't gonna be real happy if the pool of these

1036
00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:42,279
Speaker 2: players gets limited to not the people that they're in

1037
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:44,960
Speaker 2: their front offices, but they should be giving two hundred

1038
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:46,760
Speaker 2: million dollars to a million dollars.

1039
00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:50,600
Speaker 8: I did the the counting on last year's All NBA teams.

1040
00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:53,120
Speaker 8: There were four of the of the fifteen players played

1041
00:45:53,160 --> 00:45:56,279
Speaker 8: fewer than sixty five games. Two more played exactly sixty five.

1042
00:45:56,520 --> 00:45:59,240
Speaker 8: So if those two players had played one fewer games

1043
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:01,520
Speaker 8: than the sick Like if you go down the list

1044
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:03,840
Speaker 8: about the voting, who is like the sixth guy that

1045
00:46:03,880 --> 00:46:06,440
Speaker 8: would be coming into a place, It would be Desmond

1046
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:08,879
Speaker 8: Bay not a bum but by Draymond's words, but also

1047
00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:10,280
Speaker 8: not a super max player.

1048
00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:12,799
Speaker 3: And he and yeah he didn't mean bum as if

1049
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:14,800
Speaker 3: they were bumbs. He's just saying bumbs in the States.

1050
00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:18,480
Speaker 3: You're playing you all NBA, You're you're amongst the gods.

1051
00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:21,319
Speaker 2: Look, I might have sator that works really well, but

1052
00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:23,399
Speaker 2: if I paid two hundred million dollars for it, it's

1053
00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:24,440
Speaker 2: a shitty refrigerator.

1054
00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:25,560
Speaker 3: You know what I mean? You feel me?

1055
00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:28,759
Speaker 7: Facts? Facts, facts, facts, You know what I'm saying. It's

1056
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:31,440
Speaker 7: about value, it's not you know what I mean? And

1057
00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:34,719
Speaker 7: uh yeah, So I'm like, I mean, if if if

1058
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:37,880
Speaker 7: it was one or two players, the replacements will be

1059
00:46:37,880 --> 00:46:39,600
Speaker 7: two hundred million dollar players, do you know what I mean?

1060
00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:43,799
Speaker 2: No one felt like the All NBA team got half

1061
00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:45,200
Speaker 2: a dozen people wrong.

1062
00:46:45,840 --> 00:46:46,640
Speaker 1: Right, you feel me?

1063
00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:49,239
Speaker 3: That's that's where we're at. And so that's what I'm saying, Like,

1064
00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:51,200
Speaker 3: I don't know, you know, I don't uh.

1065
00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:53,640
Speaker 2: A lot of a lot of other changes, a lot

1066
00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:56,560
Speaker 2: of other changes in the CBA. Players will no longer

1067
00:46:56,600 --> 00:46:59,160
Speaker 2: be tested for weed and are now allowed to endorse

1068
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:04,000
Speaker 2: do endorsements with cannabis companies as well as gambling companies.

1069
00:47:04,760 --> 00:47:07,400
Speaker 2: Those are two very big issues that only get lumps to.

1070
00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:09,520
Speaker 3: Is we'd allowed to advertise yet? Because I know they

1071
00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:11,399
Speaker 3: couldn't advertise, Like.

1072
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:13,719
Speaker 2: The players are now allowed to do endorsement deals. I

1073
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:16,759
Speaker 2: think that weed is still not allowed to like, you know,

1074
00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:20,560
Speaker 2: I think they're still in the same commercial, but the

1075
00:47:20,640 --> 00:47:25,680
Speaker 2: player could do it. Yeah, right, right right, But you know,

1076
00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:28,440
Speaker 2: high long past time obviously for some of the changes

1077
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:30,960
Speaker 2: on the weed stuff. What are your thoughts on that?

1078
00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:33,000
Speaker 2: And then on the gambling thing. First of all, I

1079
00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:34,440
Speaker 2: do think it's good if the league's going to make

1080
00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:36,520
Speaker 2: as much money off gambling as they will be, it's

1081
00:47:36,560 --> 00:47:38,200
Speaker 2: good to let the players have a share of that.

1082
00:47:39,239 --> 00:47:45,360
Speaker 2: It will be interesting as we move forward where you know,

1083
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:47,640
Speaker 2: a guy misses a free throw at the end of

1084
00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:50,080
Speaker 2: the game, you know, or or whatever, and then is

1085
00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:53,680
Speaker 2: on a commercial right afterwards going such and such.

1086
00:47:57,160 --> 00:48:01,879
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, the the incorporation of legalized gambling into

1087
00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:05,520
Speaker 1: into the NBA, it's I don't know, man, like, Like,

1088
00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:07,440
Speaker 1: you know, we all saw the report that came out

1089
00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:09,400
Speaker 1: with when Bradley Bill slapped the dude's hat off his

1090
00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:11,920
Speaker 1: head because he said, you fucked up my parlay. You know, like,

1091
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:15,480
Speaker 1: first of all, your motherfucking parlay. Second all to the

1092
00:48:15,520 --> 00:48:18,400
Speaker 1: cops because your hat got smacked off. But but I mean,

1093
00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:21,640
Speaker 1: it's it's it is a tricky situation in corporatez, you know,

1094
00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:26,040
Speaker 1: incorporating legalized gambling. You know, I get if if it's

1095
00:48:26,040 --> 00:48:27,719
Speaker 1: okay it's legal to bet on this league now, but

1096
00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:29,359
Speaker 1: when you incorporate the players, I think she's just gonna

1097
00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:29,880
Speaker 1: get tricky there.

1098
00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:34,440
Speaker 7: Though he went to the cops because Bradley Bill smacked

1099
00:48:34,440 --> 00:48:36,399
Speaker 7: his hat off, not because his hat got smacked off.

1100
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:39,880
Speaker 7: He was trying to, like, nigga, run me some of that, please,

1101
00:48:40,560 --> 00:48:42,440
Speaker 7: Bradley Bill paid the smart You ain't gonna get no

1102
00:48:42,560 --> 00:48:45,000
Speaker 7: damn damages, you know, forgetting.

1103
00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:45,280
Speaker 3: Your hand.

1104
00:48:46,560 --> 00:48:49,680
Speaker 7: Like dumb for ridiculous. But yeah, you know, like Thomerson,

1105
00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:50,400
Speaker 7: don't get interesting.

1106
00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:52,759
Speaker 3: I'm into. I mean, we'll see how that, you know,

1107
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:55,600
Speaker 3: plays out. But I'm glad. I mean, they weren't. They

1108
00:48:55,600 --> 00:48:56,480
Speaker 3: already weren't.

1109
00:48:56,200 --> 00:48:58,880
Speaker 7: Even testing these players for tree. We already know what

1110
00:48:58,960 --> 00:49:01,200
Speaker 7: tom it is. You know, I'm saying like it's it's

1111
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:04,440
Speaker 7: you know, it's it's it was. It's unnecessary to prevent

1112
00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:06,960
Speaker 7: them from making bread, you know, promoting that.

1113
00:49:07,040 --> 00:49:08,239
Speaker 3: We know, we know what players are doing.

1114
00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:10,360
Speaker 7: As long as they playing games and showing up, you know,

1115
00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:12,799
Speaker 7: doing their ship, we don't give a fuck. And you know,

1116
00:49:13,239 --> 00:49:16,720
Speaker 7: I just I think like it's just continuing to decriminalize

1117
00:49:16,719 --> 00:49:19,000
Speaker 7: that in the NBA, is you know, or are not

1118
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:21,600
Speaker 7: punishing people and allowing them to actually make bread in

1119
00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:23,160
Speaker 7: that way. I just I think it's it's moving in

1120
00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:25,400
Speaker 7: the way that society's moving in the same direction, you

1121
00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:25,799
Speaker 7: feel me.

1122
00:49:25,880 --> 00:49:27,920
Speaker 2: One of the one of the things I think a

1123
00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:30,919
Speaker 2: lot of people, including myself, expected, was that they would

1124
00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:32,520
Speaker 2: be getting rid of the one and done rule, which

1125
00:49:32,560 --> 00:49:35,440
Speaker 2: they did not do. And if I can put my

1126
00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:38,600
Speaker 2: Bill Simmons hat on here, my conspiracy theory had always

1127
00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:40,799
Speaker 2: been on this that the you could go straight from

1128
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:43,680
Speaker 2: high school to the pros. For bron then they put

1129
00:49:43,719 --> 00:49:45,279
Speaker 2: the one and done rule in and I thought they

1130
00:49:45,280 --> 00:49:48,600
Speaker 2: were going to rescind it for Bronni. And then maybe

1131
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:52,000
Speaker 2: maybe it's either because Bronni doesn't look like he's league

1132
00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:54,440
Speaker 2: ready or because Lebron looks like he'll be able to

1133
00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:57,000
Speaker 2: play a couple more years to where he can wait

1134
00:49:57,040 --> 00:49:58,680
Speaker 2: for his kids to get into the league.

1135
00:49:58,880 --> 00:50:01,319
Speaker 3: Maybe that's why they didn't change it. But what do

1136
00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:02,000
Speaker 3: you guys think?

1137
00:50:02,040 --> 00:50:05,479
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, there was so much hullabaloo about

1138
00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:07,440
Speaker 2: the one and done shit when it first started. I

1139
00:50:08,160 --> 00:50:10,600
Speaker 2: don't know I men's basketball as we just talked about

1140
00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:12,239
Speaker 2: at the collegiate level, it sort of needs to do

1141
00:50:12,280 --> 00:50:17,960
Speaker 2: some soul searching generally. But his nose and he's sick

1142
00:50:18,040 --> 00:50:21,200
Speaker 2: right now, So I know that didn't feel good. Right,

1143
00:50:21,400 --> 00:50:23,480
Speaker 2: What do you guys think? What would you do if

1144
00:50:23,480 --> 00:50:25,400
Speaker 2: you're in there voting? Do you think the one and

1145
00:50:25,440 --> 00:50:27,040
Speaker 2: done thing is good for the league?

1146
00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:29,879
Speaker 3: You know? Or or what do you think they should

1147
00:50:29,880 --> 00:50:30,640
Speaker 3: have done with that rule?

1148
00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:32,359
Speaker 1: I just don't know how the one and done rule

1149
00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:35,600
Speaker 1: benefits the NBA because these guys are not getting developed

1150
00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:37,759
Speaker 1: in college. Like coach k flatout came out and said,

1151
00:50:37,920 --> 00:50:39,520
Speaker 1: I am not here to help guys get ready for

1152
00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:41,480
Speaker 1: the league. I'm here to run my program, right like,

1153
00:50:41,680 --> 00:50:43,959
Speaker 1: that is not a focus of college programs is helping

1154
00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:45,839
Speaker 1: guys get league ready. So I honestly do not know

1155
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:49,279
Speaker 1: why they have that rule there. But I don't know.

1156
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:53,440
Speaker 2: It's it's weird, say say it feels like there's this

1157
00:50:53,600 --> 00:50:58,360
Speaker 2: squishy gray space in the American hoops is so like

1158
00:50:58,880 --> 00:51:02,400
Speaker 2: from youth travel team, high school and AAU culture, and

1159
00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:05,680
Speaker 2: then there's sort of college slash, the G League, elite

1160
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:08,920
Speaker 2: slash going overseas, and then there's the NBA, which is

1161
00:51:08,960 --> 00:51:11,520
Speaker 2: this very clearly defined thing, and it's like weird that

1162
00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:14,800
Speaker 2: it doesn't feel like there's a It doesn't feel like

1163
00:51:14,880 --> 00:51:17,759
Speaker 2: the bridge from being an elite fourteen year old to

1164
00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:20,600
Speaker 2: being an NBA player is made out of concrete anymore.

1165
00:51:20,920 --> 00:51:21,120
Speaker 3: You know.

1166
00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:23,319
Speaker 2: It's more so like you kind of jump off of

1167
00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:26,160
Speaker 2: one edge of a pool and you kind of thrash

1168
00:51:26,200 --> 00:51:28,280
Speaker 2: around and hopefully end up on the other side.

1169
00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:28,600
Speaker 3: Of the pool.

1170
00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:33,600
Speaker 2: I mean, maybe they'll be more aggressive with the G

1171
00:51:33,719 --> 00:51:35,160
Speaker 2: League elite shit, I have no idea.

1172
00:51:35,040 --> 00:51:36,719
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, I have no idea. But it's just

1173
00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:39,680
Speaker 1: a weird relationship that the NBA has with college basketball.

1174
00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:41,959
Speaker 1: It's not like the NFL in college football, like college

1175
00:51:41,960 --> 00:51:44,480
Speaker 1: football is the unofficial farm league of the NFL, right,

1176
00:51:44,560 --> 00:51:47,080
Speaker 1: like like they are locked in step and having guys

1177
00:51:47,120 --> 00:51:49,120
Speaker 1: ready to come to their league from college. That's not

1178
00:51:49,160 --> 00:51:51,880
Speaker 1: the case with basketball with the NBA.

1179
00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:54,279
Speaker 7: Yeah, I feel like, you know, like I don't know

1180
00:51:54,360 --> 00:51:57,719
Speaker 7: if the way that the game is played is so different,

1181
00:51:57,760 --> 00:51:59,759
Speaker 7: almost seems like two totally different games, you know what

1182
00:51:59,800 --> 00:52:02,800
Speaker 7: I'm I mean, Like college basketball in the NBA, I

1183
00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:05,400
Speaker 7: don't know if a player is more ready for the

1184
00:52:05,520 --> 00:52:07,960
Speaker 7: NBA being that playing a year in college, being that

1185
00:52:08,120 --> 00:52:11,319
Speaker 7: high school seems to mimic the NBA better for whatever

1186
00:52:11,360 --> 00:52:13,799
Speaker 7: reason as far as the style of play, And I mean,

1187
00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:15,239
Speaker 7: I guess it's obviously the.

1188
00:52:15,200 --> 00:52:16,880
Speaker 3: Talent level in college is way better.

1189
00:52:17,160 --> 00:52:18,880
Speaker 7: But I mean, these guys are playing each other in aau,

1190
00:52:19,280 --> 00:52:21,719
Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying, Like they're they're getting they're

1191
00:52:21,719 --> 00:52:24,840
Speaker 7: getting you know, bump with with with high level players

1192
00:52:24,840 --> 00:52:27,240
Speaker 7: as well as like the summer runs, like the UCLA

1193
00:52:27,320 --> 00:52:29,360
Speaker 7: runs and stuff like that. They're getting good bumped with,

1194
00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:32,760
Speaker 7: like with like quality quality players. So beano assessed themselves.

1195
00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:35,200
Speaker 7: I don't know if a year of college truly benefits

1196
00:52:35,480 --> 00:52:38,760
Speaker 7: these players, you know, you know, making them more prepared

1197
00:52:39,239 --> 00:52:39,800
Speaker 7: for the NBA.

1198
00:52:39,960 --> 00:52:41,840
Speaker 3: So, okay, there are a lot of changes.

1199
00:52:41,880 --> 00:52:44,799
Speaker 2: The last one will talk about congrats to Jackson and

1200
00:52:44,840 --> 00:52:48,080
Speaker 2: all other Celtics fans on the Jalen round brule rule

1201
00:52:48,160 --> 00:52:51,200
Speaker 2: being implemented. But let's talk about the mid season tournament

1202
00:52:51,239 --> 00:52:52,800
Speaker 2: they are going to go forward with that could be

1203
00:52:52,880 --> 00:52:55,480
Speaker 2: as early as the upcoming season. There will be a

1204
00:52:55,520 --> 00:52:58,560
Speaker 2: pool play stretch that will then be followed by an

1205
00:52:58,600 --> 00:53:02,799
Speaker 2: eight game or eighteen single elimination tournament in the middle of.

1206
00:53:02,800 --> 00:53:04,120
Speaker 3: The season at some point.

1207
00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:07,000
Speaker 2: What are your guys reactions to that obviously gonna be

1208
00:53:07,040 --> 00:53:09,480
Speaker 2: a big change. I'm sure there will be a lot

1209
00:53:09,520 --> 00:53:11,719
Speaker 2: of people making fun of it. If it ends up

1210
00:53:11,760 --> 00:53:13,839
Speaker 2: being exciting, there'll be a lot of people excited about it.

1211
00:53:13,920 --> 00:53:15,920
Speaker 2: Like what were your thoughts when you saw, Okay, this

1212
00:53:15,960 --> 00:53:17,959
Speaker 2: thing they've been talking about they're actually gonna go forward

1213
00:53:18,040 --> 00:53:18,319
Speaker 2: with it.

1214
00:53:21,120 --> 00:53:25,080
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say that my favorite thing about the Bubble

1215
00:53:25,840 --> 00:53:28,800
Speaker 1: was how we were getting games from like eleven am

1216
00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:31,319
Speaker 1: to like fucking won it in the morning, right, Like

1217
00:53:31,400 --> 00:53:34,359
Speaker 1: I love that. I feel like if they can replicate that,

1218
00:53:34,440 --> 00:53:36,440
Speaker 1: if they can put that fucking magic back in a

1219
00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:38,920
Speaker 1: bottle where you're getting you know, all these teams in

1220
00:53:38,960 --> 00:53:41,960
Speaker 1: one spot, you're giving us fucking you know, five six,

1221
00:53:42,280 --> 00:53:44,759
Speaker 1: seven games a day, If they can replicate the magic

1222
00:53:44,760 --> 00:53:46,600
Speaker 1: from the Bubble that I enjoyed, I think that they

1223
00:53:46,640 --> 00:53:47,520
Speaker 1: might have something with that.

1224
00:53:47,680 --> 00:53:51,240
Speaker 7: Honestly do I think if they can make it important

1225
00:53:51,280 --> 00:53:53,560
Speaker 7: to the players, you know what I mean? Like, how

1226
00:53:53,600 --> 00:53:55,399
Speaker 7: are they gonna make it important to the players Where

1227
00:53:55,440 --> 00:53:57,520
Speaker 7: I feel like I'm getting a little bit of you know,

1228
00:53:57,880 --> 00:54:00,720
Speaker 7: playoff basketball in the middle of the season. I would

1229
00:54:00,719 --> 00:54:03,600
Speaker 7: love for like players, if it actually matters to players

1230
00:54:03,640 --> 00:54:05,839
Speaker 7: and they're banging like you know what I'm saying, Like

1231
00:54:06,239 --> 00:54:07,799
Speaker 7: it doesn't have to be you know, we don't need

1232
00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:09,600
Speaker 7: full playoffs obviously, you know what I mean. But like,

1233
00:54:09,760 --> 00:54:13,640
Speaker 7: if it's really competitive, highly competitive games the players are

1234
00:54:13,640 --> 00:54:16,279
Speaker 7: truly cared about, caring about and want to win, I

1235
00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:18,080
Speaker 7: would love to see that, like in the middle of

1236
00:54:18,080 --> 00:54:19,920
Speaker 7: the season where I feel like a lot of players

1237
00:54:19,960 --> 00:54:21,799
Speaker 7: are kind of on cruise control, trying to get to

1238
00:54:21,800 --> 00:54:23,480
Speaker 7: the point where shit starts to matter, you.

1239
00:54:23,400 --> 00:54:25,680
Speaker 3: Know what I mean. So we'll see. But I mean,

1240
00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:27,719
Speaker 3: I mean, I think it may be interesting.

1241
00:54:27,840 --> 00:54:30,520
Speaker 7: I think they do need to do something around their

1242
00:54:30,560 --> 00:54:33,320
Speaker 7: time to get you know, the average fan more interesting

1243
00:54:33,320 --> 00:54:35,279
Speaker 7: because it is kind of dull as somebody that has

1244
00:54:35,320 --> 00:54:37,719
Speaker 7: to watch these games, you know, it does become kind

1245
00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:41,360
Speaker 7: of monotonous. So I'm excited to see what they do

1246
00:54:41,440 --> 00:54:43,040
Speaker 7: with it, and I hope they do, you know, I

1247
00:54:43,040 --> 00:54:43,759
Speaker 7: hope they nail it.

1248
00:54:44,239 --> 00:54:46,680
Speaker 2: I think they deserve some credit because you know, the

1249
00:54:46,760 --> 00:54:50,280
Speaker 2: play in was implemented to do exactly. Like the issue

1250
00:54:50,320 --> 00:54:52,920
Speaker 2: is this, it's eighty two games. No one wants to

1251
00:54:52,960 --> 00:54:54,880
Speaker 2: change the number of games. Everyone says they want to

1252
00:54:54,920 --> 00:54:56,360
Speaker 2: change the number of games because they know it's the

1253
00:54:56,400 --> 00:54:58,160
Speaker 2: right thing to do. But no one wants to give

1254
00:54:58,239 --> 00:54:59,680
Speaker 2: up the amount of money you'd have to give up

1255
00:54:59,719 --> 00:55:02,719
Speaker 2: to get up ten twenty games, right, And so the

1256
00:55:02,840 --> 00:55:07,719
Speaker 2: challenge is, how do you make eighty to make a

1257
00:55:07,760 --> 00:55:10,120
Speaker 2: higher percentage of the eighty two games feel like they matter,

1258
00:55:10,200 --> 00:55:12,640
Speaker 2: like John said, making an entertaining product. And I think

1259
00:55:12,640 --> 00:55:15,239
Speaker 2: that that number has gotten smaller. The trend has been

1260
00:55:15,280 --> 00:55:16,799
Speaker 2: that the number of games that feel like they matter

1261
00:55:16,800 --> 00:55:20,880
Speaker 2: has gotten smaller over the years, right. And like what

1262
00:55:21,040 --> 00:55:24,280
Speaker 2: used to be exciting about Christmas was that everyone really cared,

1263
00:55:24,640 --> 00:55:27,480
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, It was like that point, yes,

1264
00:55:27,760 --> 00:55:29,800
Speaker 2: And I think even that's sort of been lost a

1265
00:55:29,800 --> 00:55:31,560
Speaker 2: little bit where you see guys, you know, I mean,

1266
00:55:31,560 --> 00:55:34,520
Speaker 2: you've had guys load managing on fucking Christmas. Right. So,

1267
00:55:34,719 --> 00:55:37,960
Speaker 2: to me, the playing game was a success. The Playing

1268
00:55:38,040 --> 00:55:41,239
Speaker 2: Tournament was a success absolutely As a Lakers fan, and

1269
00:55:41,280 --> 00:55:43,520
Speaker 2: I think any fan of a team in the Western Conference,

1270
00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:46,840
Speaker 2: basically the last month of basketball, I've been locked the

1271
00:55:47,040 --> 00:55:51,040
Speaker 2: fuck in because every game is flipping you wildly in

1272
00:55:51,120 --> 00:55:54,200
Speaker 2: the standings. And that's and that seven through ten has

1273
00:55:54,280 --> 00:55:56,680
Speaker 2: created a real thing where, yes, you have a smaller

1274
00:55:56,760 --> 00:55:59,320
Speaker 2: percentage of teams tanking towards the end of the season

1275
00:55:59,360 --> 00:56:01,320
Speaker 2: because of the play tournament. So I think that's a success.

1276
00:56:01,400 --> 00:56:03,560
Speaker 2: I think they deserve credit for it because a lot

1277
00:56:03,640 --> 00:56:05,880
Speaker 2: of people were really you know, questioning that when they

1278
00:56:05,920 --> 00:56:08,120
Speaker 2: put that in. This I hope is the same amount

1279
00:56:08,160 --> 00:56:10,319
Speaker 2: of success. I hope that, like we said, like it

1280
00:56:10,440 --> 00:56:13,279
Speaker 2: just ups that number of games where it feels like

1281
00:56:13,360 --> 00:56:16,200
Speaker 2: it's really intense and people care about it a little bit.

1282
00:56:16,239 --> 00:56:18,880
Speaker 2: And we'll see because you're you're right, Tyler makes a

1283
00:56:18,880 --> 00:56:21,680
Speaker 2: great point about the presentation. If you have meaningful NBA

1284
00:56:21,760 --> 00:56:24,040
Speaker 2: basketball games on at noon on a Tuesday, I'm gonna

1285
00:56:24,040 --> 00:56:27,479
Speaker 2: be locked in so fucking hard, I can't tell you.

1286
00:56:28,560 --> 00:56:30,120
Speaker 3: But if it's just christ.

1287
00:56:32,280 --> 00:56:37,839
Speaker 7: So hard right right exactly, so we'll see it goes.

1288
00:56:37,880 --> 00:56:40,680
Speaker 2: All right, that's enough serious sports talk. We do have

1289
00:56:40,760 --> 00:56:44,759
Speaker 2: a briefly uh before we get out of here. Uh,

1290
00:56:45,040 --> 00:56:48,120
Speaker 2: I just need a little bit of commentary on the

1291
00:56:48,200 --> 00:56:49,480
Speaker 2: Vince McMahon makeover.

1292
00:56:49,760 --> 00:56:55,000
Speaker 3: Gentlemen, I didn't see it. I didn't see it, bro,

1293
00:56:55,080 --> 00:56:55,719
Speaker 3: I didn't see it.

1294
00:56:57,480 --> 00:57:01,759
Speaker 1: Looked like Charles robson bro going by.

1295
00:57:01,800 --> 00:57:03,719
Speaker 7: I didn't know who the nigga was because he got

1296
00:57:03,760 --> 00:57:05,040
Speaker 7: his whole ship fucked up.

1297
00:57:06,800 --> 00:57:09,640
Speaker 2: This good about no, no, no, I don't even not even

1298
00:57:09,640 --> 00:57:12,279
Speaker 2: gonna say anything. I'm just gonna send it. I'm just

1299
00:57:12,320 --> 00:57:16,360
Speaker 2: gonna send it. Man, all right, Tyler, don't say anything

1300
00:57:16,400 --> 00:57:21,080
Speaker 2: yet because I need, we need the full power of.

1301
00:57:19,760 --> 00:57:22,800
Speaker 3: Both of you on the same page. Let me let

1302
00:57:22,800 --> 00:57:25,400
Speaker 3: me see this, man, send me this. You said there yet,

1303
00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:29,400
Speaker 3: I said it. Got me teened up, I said it. Okay,

1304
00:57:29,400 --> 00:57:32,960
Speaker 3: here we go, Here we go? Man, Man, Man, Oh wow?

1305
00:57:37,280 --> 00:57:41,640
Speaker 3: Is this right? Is this really the same nigga? Bro?

1306
00:57:42,920 --> 00:57:46,000
Speaker 3: What's up with the stash? My nigga?

1307
00:57:46,240 --> 00:57:48,680
Speaker 9: He used to be playing a trumpet somewhere. You feel

1308
00:57:48,720 --> 00:57:53,720
Speaker 9: me fucking's wrong with him? Dick tracy looking ass nigga?

1309
00:57:54,200 --> 00:57:57,560
Speaker 9: How you gonna make over look older nigga? You're from

1310
00:57:57,600 --> 00:57:58,320
Speaker 9: a different errow.

1311
00:57:58,400 --> 00:57:59,240
Speaker 3: Motherfucker.

1312
00:57:59,480 --> 00:58:00,280
Speaker 1: God damn hell?

1313
00:58:01,480 --> 00:58:04,280
Speaker 3: What the fuck? He looked like a Batman character, like

1314
00:58:04,320 --> 00:58:06,160
Speaker 3: an evil villain. You know what I'm saying? From the

1315
00:58:06,280 --> 00:58:06,800
Speaker 3: dark knight?

1316
00:58:08,720 --> 00:58:10,600
Speaker 7: Did he changed his voice and go in his face

1317
00:58:10,680 --> 00:58:13,280
Speaker 7: to the voice? Gott to match the face? Now this

1318
00:58:13,360 --> 00:58:14,240
Speaker 7: nigga need to act it.

1319
00:58:14,400 --> 00:58:14,920
Speaker 3: Goddamn.

1320
00:58:15,840 --> 00:58:18,840
Speaker 1: Why is this mustache studying so low? Like I've never

1321
00:58:18,880 --> 00:58:22,120
Speaker 1: seen a mustache. I've never seen a mustache A stark

1322
00:58:22,120 --> 00:58:26,440
Speaker 1: mid lip on the motherfucker like shit crast going on.

1323
00:58:27,520 --> 00:58:30,880
Speaker 1: God damn mofucker looks like he's about to lie to

1324
00:58:30,920 --> 00:58:32,760
Speaker 1: someone about a bank loan. Bro, Like this is not

1325
00:58:32,800 --> 00:58:38,520
Speaker 1: a real person. She Spencer Hall said that this is

1326
00:58:38,560 --> 00:58:40,000
Speaker 1: a dude who looks like he's ready to fake his

1327
00:58:40,040 --> 00:58:42,920
Speaker 1: own death. And I cannot unsee that ship, bro, the

1328
00:58:43,040 --> 00:58:47,160
Speaker 1: big facts, Bro, this is identity waiting to happen.

1329
00:58:47,200 --> 00:58:47,360
Speaker 4: Bro.

1330
00:58:47,680 --> 00:58:49,640
Speaker 3: This feels racist as fuck.

1331
00:58:49,760 --> 00:58:55,080
Speaker 7: Dog, there's a Cuban out there like this Nigga stole

1332
00:58:55,160 --> 00:59:03,280
Speaker 7: my face. Dog, I the man moneys. This is thievery nigga.

1333
00:59:03,440 --> 00:59:04,360
Speaker 7: God damn bro.

1334
00:59:05,160 --> 00:59:08,000
Speaker 3: Sheesh like he put a whole new face on him.

1335
00:59:08,200 --> 00:59:10,320
Speaker 3: It's like he got his whole ship face. Like you know,

1336
00:59:10,320 --> 00:59:13,320
Speaker 3: he swapped this ship. God Lee Bro.

1337
00:59:13,880 --> 00:59:15,760
Speaker 7: He should have did the eyes to the Miyes beaty

1338
00:59:15,800 --> 00:59:18,080
Speaker 7: as hell, bro, God Lee.

1339
00:59:19,800 --> 00:59:23,320
Speaker 3: Bro, this is the thing. Dog, Nigga, don't get that

1340
00:59:23,360 --> 00:59:24,200
Speaker 3: ship on your face.

1341
00:59:24,320 --> 00:59:27,520
Speaker 7: Just did with being old. The motherfuckers can fight it, bro.

1342
00:59:27,680 --> 00:59:29,240
Speaker 7: But it looked like his faceman to fall.

1343
00:59:29,120 --> 00:59:32,240
Speaker 3: Off the bone. You know what I mean. He like, Nigga,

1344
00:59:33,040 --> 00:59:33,680
Speaker 3: don't do it it.

1345
00:59:34,960 --> 00:59:38,360
Speaker 7: He got a smoke brisket faced nigga.

1346
00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:42,360
Speaker 3: Dog Bro, It's not it never turns out the way

1347
00:59:42,400 --> 00:59:44,720
Speaker 3: you wanted to. That's crazy, all right.

1348
00:59:44,800 --> 00:59:46,840
Speaker 2: That's all the time we have for Jenkins and Jones

1349
00:59:47,160 --> 00:59:48,520
Speaker 2: Turkey neck shouting too.

1350
00:59:49,560 --> 00:59:52,760
Speaker 3: It's weird because only this part is tight. The rest

1351
00:59:52,840 --> 00:59:56,640
Speaker 3: is still loose arounded. Bro, he didn't, Bro, you a billionaire?

1352
00:59:56,640 --> 01:00:00,800
Speaker 3: Ain't you a millionaire? You could get the whole head just.

1353
01:00:00,760 --> 01:00:02,760
Speaker 2: Sold his share of the company. He just made four

1354
01:00:02,800 --> 01:00:05,080
Speaker 2: billion dollars. And I believe that was his first public

1355
01:00:05,080 --> 01:00:08,240
Speaker 2: appearance after becoming someone with four billion.

1356
01:00:07,920 --> 01:00:13,680
Speaker 1: Dollars that we're looking at, Bro, but it ain't worth it, dog.

1357
01:00:13,600 --> 01:00:17,640
Speaker 3: Bro, nigga, it ain't. Bro. We can't. We can't out God, God, nigga.

1358
01:00:17,880 --> 01:00:19,760
Speaker 3: You just got to deal with what you got.

1359
01:00:20,080 --> 01:00:29,160
Speaker 2: Walked into the esthetition and said give me the warrio. Allright.

1360
01:00:29,920 --> 01:00:32,280
Speaker 2: Congrats to Vince McMahon on his new face. You know,

1361
01:00:32,440 --> 01:00:36,280
Speaker 2: hope it's just some remodeling. If you're a happy work,

1362
01:00:36,760 --> 01:00:40,439
Speaker 2: I guess all right, that's all the time we got.

1363
01:00:40,480 --> 01:00:43,800
Speaker 2: We will have our last Genus and Jones and friends

1364
01:00:43,840 --> 01:00:46,640
Speaker 2: for a little bit on Saturday with Pablo Torre uh

1365
01:00:46,760 --> 01:00:49,800
Speaker 2: talking about leaving ESPN joining Meadowlark Media. You definitely want

1366
01:00:49,800 --> 01:00:52,160
Speaker 2: to hear that great interview with Pablo Uh and then

1367
01:00:52,200 --> 01:00:55,200
Speaker 2: we will be live Sunday night as we continue to

1368
01:00:55,240 --> 01:00:58,720
Speaker 2: get ready for these playoffs, playing tournaments happening next week.

1369
01:00:58,920 --> 01:01:01,320
Speaker 2: Very excited for that. So we'll see y'all Sunday and

1370
01:01:01,360 --> 01:01:03,080
Speaker 2: we'll let y'all know what the schedule is going to be.

1371
01:01:03,240 --> 01:01:06,400
Speaker 2: We will be going live after games. Obviously, if you're

1372
01:01:06,440 --> 01:01:08,040
Speaker 2: just listening to it on the feeds, it it'll be

1373
01:01:08,120 --> 01:01:10,080
Speaker 2: up in the feeds, same as it normally is.

1374
01:01:10,120 --> 01:01:10,760
Speaker 3: But we will be.

1375
01:01:10,720 --> 01:01:15,000
Speaker 2: Doing the Amazon amp live records after games, hopefully with

1376
01:01:15,040 --> 01:01:17,880
Speaker 2: some of our friends joining us after some of those games,

1377
01:01:17,880 --> 01:01:21,400
Speaker 2: So stay tuned. We're very excited. Play off basketball right.

1378
01:01:21,320 --> 01:01:23,320
Speaker 3: Around the corner. See y'all next time.

1379
01:01:23,760 --> 01:01:30,560
Speaker 7: Bye bye, nigg Hey to look like Zoro, Nigga, to

1380
01:01:30,640 --> 01:01:32,840
Speaker 7: look like the baked potato version of Zoro.

1381
01:01:33,480 --> 01:01:34,400
Speaker 3: God damn

1382
01:01:36,560 --> 01:01:36,600
Speaker 2: What