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Speaker 1: and I love putting this content out for you every

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Speaker 1: single day. Well, I gotta say today was a day

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Speaker 1: that the Winter Olympics absolutely needed, absolutely needed, a day

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Speaker 1: with some kind of excitement that brought people to the televisions,

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Speaker 1: talking talking after because look, you know, look we do

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Speaker 1: all the great fun stuff that's been the last few nights,

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Speaker 1: you know, the guy that sounds like Tony Romo doing

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Speaker 1: the biathlone. We'll talk about the dog running on the

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Speaker 1: skiing course tonight. But the last few days I feel

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Speaker 1: like it's been Okay, we're just watching curling every day,

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Speaker 1: which again, we had the curling conversation last night. Congratulations

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Speaker 1: everybody who wanted to have that. Today it needed something

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Speaker 1: because it was kind of just, hey, we have these

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Speaker 1: events and people are watching. It's a big deal. The

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Speaker 1: ratings are the best they've been in years, and okay,

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Speaker 1: we're getting to watching windows. But boy, I just feel

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Speaker 1: like the last like five or six days has been

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Speaker 1: I were kind of waiting for something because the four

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Speaker 1: biggest stories coming into today of the Olympic has been

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Speaker 1: Lindsey Vaughan, Illiam Allenan, the chalk and Baits scoring controversy,

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Speaker 1: and and the and the cheating at curling. Sure, so

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Speaker 1: that's a far cry from the Olympics. Hey, we put

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Speaker 1: the best of the best out there. What are the

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Speaker 1: four topics? Injury? Uh, an athlete choking on the biggest stage,

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Speaker 1: cheating scandal, cheating scandal, Okay, not quite what the Olympics

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Speaker 1: were going for and you know we we haven't had that.

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Speaker 1: Oh hey, let's get from one big story to another

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Speaker 1: and one big athlete to another. They needed the day

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Speaker 1: they got from hockey today. Wow, I mean you went

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Speaker 1: to choking.

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Speaker 3: I mean you just denigrated the guy's entire four year

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Speaker 3: effort at the Electics, saying he lost.

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Speaker 1: He scuffled in there. You said he choked at the Olympics.

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Speaker 3: It was still a very high degree of difficulties to

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Speaker 3: which he tried to sort too close to the sun

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Speaker 3: while still on ice.

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Speaker 1: You know, and and it melted around him. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: what happened to choke. Job. The wax wings. The wax

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Speaker 1: wings will do them well.

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Speaker 3: I mean, look, you also forgot the uh the fact

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Speaker 3: that they ran out of condoms after three days. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: they were back door whatever.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, No, it's a I like to turn away the

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Speaker 1: way you turn a phrase. I'm kind of good. But honestly,

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Speaker 1: you know, here we're like, hey, that's funny. Meanwhile, in

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Speaker 1: Italy there's you know, athletes at midnight walking around the

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Speaker 1: village going everybody got me condoms? Anybody know where I

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Speaker 1: could get them? I've spent five hundred dollars for a

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Speaker 1: condom right now? Who where can I get on?

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Speaker 4: You?

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Speaker 1: You do you know where I can get one?

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Speaker 2: Do you know?

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Speaker 1: Hey? Hey?

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Speaker 3: Did they pay They paid me out my bonus for

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Speaker 3: winning this medal. I'd like to celebrate. I've got a

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Speaker 3: condom for you. I got one that might have been

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Speaker 3: opened a little bit. And you know what I'll take.

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Speaker 3: I'll take your silver medal for it, all.

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Speaker 1: Right, all right, all right, let's do it. Let's get

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Speaker 1: go it to me? Give it right now?

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Speaker 3: They all right, they in the back of your head.

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Speaker 3: You're eighteen years eighteen years. No, look, you had that

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Speaker 3: it is our the pervasiveness in our culture of if

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Speaker 3: it bleeds, it leads to where we were the negative

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Speaker 1: That's always funny. That was good. Elma wants to know

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Speaker 1: how come the French judge hates you. You had a

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Speaker 1: Usually usually in in in pugilism, France does not do it.

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Speaker 1: was a victory for France. Oh no, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: into the semifinals all go to overtime, which is an

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Speaker 1: the Olympics. Three on three, some it is. It's better

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Speaker 1: It's boring? Okay, I want open I want I want

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Speaker 1: play man. You want open ice? Yes, so three on

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Speaker 1: One on one?

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Speaker 1: I want full squads. I don't want to go straight

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Speaker 1: to three on three. Okay, you know there's less open

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Speaker 1: when there's more people on the ice. But I was bored.

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Speaker 1: I like the full game as it goes out.

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Speaker 3: I don't like when you suddenly just change the rule

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Speaker 1: I don't know you can call that boring. It's up

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Speaker 1: Guys gets the score. Guys are breaking in all the time.

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Speaker 1: It's their nerves are are are jangling. I really think

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Speaker 1: I don't like it. Three on okay, that's fine. But

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Speaker 1: you want more open it. There's it's more open with

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Speaker 1: three on three. I want the hockey the way I

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Speaker 1: You know no, I don't have that three on three

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Speaker 1: three on three. I don't like three on three and

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Speaker 1: overtime in the NHL. I don't like it. All right,

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Speaker 1: all right, wow, I like that we won. You don't

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Speaker 1: as says all right here, we got three out three

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Speaker 1: and I hated it. Dude, three out two. I was

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Speaker 1: scared more than anything, because it's more that's not the

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Speaker 1: way the United States. That's not the way this team

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Speaker 1: play suffocating defense. They've played, they've played so well. Look,

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Speaker 1: I think which shows you practice together is overrated. So

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Speaker 1: what do they have two practices before they played there?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 1: I mean that's just it. Hey, do you know what

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Speaker 1: you're supposed to do? Yeah, but you see that guy

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Speaker 1: over there? Yeah, okay, good, but that's your four nation strategy.

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Speaker 1: Of twenty one of the twenty four players all played

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Speaker 1: we get everybody on the same page. Defensively, I've never

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Speaker 1: seen the United States play like this in an Olympics.

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Speaker 1: As much as you want to talk about, hey, they're play,

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Speaker 1: saying well to their defense is what's keeping them in everything.

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Speaker 1: Like so, I mean, hellibook had like thirty saves today,

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Speaker 1: But how many of them were difficult?

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Speaker 1: Not many? You know, he would you know, you'll only

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Speaker 1: had a couple of chances, Sweeten, Now, they run one

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Speaker 1: the extra man on an That's why. And I'll be honest,

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Speaker 1: I feel so much more confident than I've ever been

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Speaker 1: than you'd expect. United States is not scoring as much,

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Speaker 1: We aren't even said because I have more confidence in

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I use the wrong pejorative. So bored, wasn't it.

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Speaker 3: It seemed inevitable that the US, with the number of chances,

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Speaker 1: It was difficult, but not impossible. It's not like we

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Speaker 1: have It's not like the United States offense is built too.

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Speaker 1: We're just gonna We're gonna steamroll you at lane. It's like, okay,

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Speaker 1: the top line in the United States, this is what

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Speaker 1: I has to get it done, right, you know, the

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Speaker 1: chel and the Kachuk's like, that's got to be the

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Speaker 1: here and there, the odd goal in Quinn Hughes today,

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Speaker 1: double shifting in overtime, staying on the ice to score

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Speaker 1: that last goal waved off like Mike Sullivan wanted to change.

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Speaker 1: score the game winning goal, but that you know, the

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Speaker 1: way the United States team has built. It is built

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Speaker 1: for how do we come together in a short amount

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Speaker 1: seen enough to chuck goals in the playoffs, where I go,

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Speaker 1: come on, man, he's the one that's got to score

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Speaker 1: to know that when we need a goal, we're going

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Speaker 1: to be able to get one from somebody. Right. So

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Speaker 1: I feel like, again, I've never been felt more good

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Speaker 1: more good. I have an English degree. I do like

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Speaker 1: know people remember that. At the least, it's it's we're

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Speaker 1: we got to that with Demory Smith and Roger Goodellen.

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Speaker 1: How negotiations went then maybe things got a little too friendly,

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Speaker 1: Maybe he was a little too giving, a little too soft,

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Speaker 1: and that Meyer coming in now that they love this guy.

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Speaker 1: And if that's the case, and he's coming in saying yeah,

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Speaker 1: follow me no blank and Salary Cap blank them, blank

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Speaker 1: that and blank you too, and Harper worry about being elite.

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Speaker 1: I got this all of a sudden.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I feel even stronger that there's going to be a

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Speaker 1: workstoppage than I did yesterday when I knew for certain

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Speaker 1: it was gonna wind up being one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: In the end, it becomes the Alright, start doing the

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Speaker 3: calculations of how much is lost in the bag, because

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Speaker 3: you've made some great strides for the game as a whole.

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Speaker 3: We've watched the attendance. You see the traveling circus that

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Speaker 3: is the Los Angeles Dodgers, and as much as people

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Speaker 3: may bemoan or hate its existence.

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Speaker 1: You need them on that wall.

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Speaker 3: You need them their appearance, no matter how grotesque it

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Speaker 3: may be to you, You need them. I couldn't sell

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Speaker 3: the full jack, but you get the point is that

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Speaker 3: villains are good. Otani puts asses in seats.

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Speaker 1: End of story.

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Speaker 3: Right, cell merch latherns repeat. Now, I know you've got

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Speaker 3: a bunch of the RSN stuff, and you've got a

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Speaker 3: bunch of teams that need to figure out their television

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Speaker 3: side of things. But overall, the games about as healthy

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Speaker 3: as it can be in the grand scale. We've watched

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Speaker 3: the revenue share that teams have been getting, and that's

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Speaker 3: really at the crux of it. If look at how

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Speaker 3: big a pile of money you're getting from these national deals,

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Speaker 3: yet you have so many teams that cry poor left

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Speaker 3: and right. It's like, all right, we'll open the books.

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Speaker 3: What other businesses are you trying to fund with this,

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Speaker 3: because that's not the way this is supposed to operate.

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Speaker 3: It's not supposed to be a piggy bank for you

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Speaker 3: to go and keep your car dealer, ships of a

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Speaker 3: float or whatever. Your other secondary sources of income and

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Speaker 3: an empire building are gonna be so Yeah, to have

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Speaker 3: a guy at the at the front who's been there,

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Speaker 3: who's been in the negotiations, certainly is a win. To

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Speaker 3: your point, the hard stance is a great opening salvo.

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Speaker 3: And like you put the line in the sand of

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Speaker 3: where you are right as as a union, you've still

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Speaker 3: got a lot of baseball that's gonna be on the

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Speaker 3: books and gonna be played. Unfortunately, it now becomes that

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Speaker 3: big distracting thing in the background, particularly for those that

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Speaker 3: don't have their years of service, that don't have that

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Speaker 3: war chest put aside. Even if there are claims on

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Speaker 3: all sides of oh they put money aside here, players

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Speaker 3: Union put money aside there. Whatever the case may be,

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Speaker 3: it'll cause a lot of tensions as we actually get

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Speaker 3: into the season. So we could be said, I'm sure

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Speaker 3: we'll see it will count down to it all year,

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Speaker 3: but it seems like the players have been saying, yeah,

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Speaker 3: we're we're more ready for this negotiation than you could

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Speaker 3: ever believe we are.

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Speaker 1: We're we're right, We're gonna go to the wall. Rob

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Speaker 1: Manford's gonna say we can't do it. I don't know

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Speaker 1: why you think everybody makes so much money. We don't.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be an all year topic again. You're seeing

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Speaker 1: its spring training. Players are weighing in already without really waging.

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Speaker 1: And Manny Machado, who hates the Dodgers, I love the

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Speaker 1: Dodge and what they're doing. Yeah, because that that's getting

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Speaker 1: everybody paid. People are making more money. And now the

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Speaker 1: guardians today with oh, we don't have money to sign

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Speaker 1: free age. What do you mean to have money to

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Speaker 1: sign free age? So this is going all year but

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Speaker 1: I feel even stronger than yesterday. We're getting a workstoppage

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Speaker 1: end of this year. We're getting a lockout strike. Something

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Speaker 1: is happening at the end of December. Again, Well, the

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Speaker 1: Mets are already locked up. We'll win, just fine. I'll see.

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Speaker 1: You can raise your voice to me. You raised your

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Speaker 1: voice to me, dude, Come on, everybody knows you can't

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Speaker 1: raise your voice to me. They can't do it yelling

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Speaker 1: at me. We get to the other big story of

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Speaker 1: the day, that mushroom last night, my goodness. But first,

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Speaker 1: let's find out what's trending in the wide world of

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Speaker 1: sports night from Breemua, Bree, What do you got for us?

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Speaker 1: I know there's a lot of curling on television, and

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Speaker 1: I hope you can tear yourself away from the curling

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Speaker 1: a little bit unless you've bet on it. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if you've bet on it, that I understand.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm gonna be honest. Curling is not on one

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Speaker 6: of these three TVs right now. That's okay in college

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Speaker 6: basketball world, right now. That's why, that's why it's okay alright,

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Speaker 6: But can you give me a quick curling update real quick?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the United States is trailing Great Britain four three

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Speaker 1: in the seventh end.

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Speaker 6: Sweet, Okay, then I'll start the college basketball side over.

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Speaker 1: I could have just made that up. You have no idea.

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Speaker 1: It's completely made that up. I have no idea.

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Speaker 6: And it's Swift for one of the one of the

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Speaker 6: which mccallugh' sponsors of that little match right now.

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Speaker 1: Swift for sure. Yeah, yeah like that, but oh my.

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Speaker 6: Gosh, I would have been so good.

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Speaker 1: I want a roomba. I bet, I bet that's how

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Speaker 1: curlers learn to curl. Practice with the roomba, and then

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Speaker 1: you know that. Then we'll go from there.

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Speaker 6: Where do you even learn how to curl? Where do

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Speaker 6: you practice to curl your house with?

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Speaker 4: And that?

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Speaker 1: Everywhere? Here in l A and Hollywood. There's one of Hollywood. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we are Hollywood. Okay, it's rich. It's right above the

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Speaker 1: whiskey whiskey and gog. Yeah, you can hear metal music

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Speaker 1: in the head night and then go and don't curl.

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Speaker 3: You're open for that extra really big twang solo right

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Speaker 3: as you get your stone there so it knocks the

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Speaker 3: other off.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I didn't know that was the thing.

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Speaker 1: Beg Getty Shack. Good to know.

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Speaker 6: Thank you, guys for that lesson alrighty so, Number twenty

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Speaker 6: five Alabama took down number twenty Arkansas one seventeen to

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Speaker 6: one to fifteen in a double overtime win despite forty

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Speaker 6: nine points from freshman razorback Darius Acuff. Creighton took down

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Speaker 6: number five Yukon ninety one to eighty four. Number eight

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Speaker 6: Kansas is on top of Oklahoma State sixty seven fifty

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Speaker 6: Dearren Peterson so far with twenty three points, and number

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Speaker 6: fourteen Virginia is smashing Georgia Tech seventy eight to forty three.

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Speaker 6: In the Winter Olympics, Well, that's actually that happened earlier,

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Speaker 6: not curling, but on the hockey side, the United States

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Speaker 6: survived in overtime. They defeated Sweden two to one thanks

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Speaker 6: to a goal by Quinn Hughes. USA will face so

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Speaker 6: Slovakia in the semi finals. Well, Canada will face Finland.

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Speaker 6: Metal count wise, Norway is leading with thirty three medals,

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Speaker 6: Italy with twenty six, and USA in the top three

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Speaker 6: with nineteen medals. And in the NFL, the Chiefs restructured

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Speaker 6: Patrick Mahomes' contract to create forty three million dollars in

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Speaker 6: salary cap space back to you guys.

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Speaker 1: Thanks a bunch appreciated, bree. So it was last night

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Speaker 1: the last hour of the show was taken over by

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Speaker 1: Mick kronin gangcla head coach who melted down a couple

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Speaker 1: of times in UCLA's lost to Michigan State and after

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Speaker 1: he throws one of his own players out of the

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Speaker 1: game after a hard foul and which was incredibly embarrassing,

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Speaker 1: like you can't do that to one of your kids. Look,

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Speaker 1: we talked about this part of it last night. I

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Speaker 1: get it was a hard foul. He fouled from behind,

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Speaker 1: but nobody got hurt, and you don't need you can

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Speaker 1: address it with him without embarrassing him and sending him

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Speaker 1: off the court because you look like you're out of control.

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Speaker 1: You have no control over this team and what are

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Speaker 1: you doing? How do you coach this kid? Again? I

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Speaker 1: don't get it, But he made up for it by

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Speaker 1: going after a reporter following the game. We played this

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Speaker 1: a couple of times late last night in the show.

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Speaker 1: Uh the little press conference gaggle that mccrona's doing in

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Speaker 1: the in the tunnel after the game, he gets asked

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Speaker 1: a question about how he felt about what the Michigan

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Speaker 1: State student section was saying during a game, and mc

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Speaker 1: cronin decided, I'm going to take a bad situation and

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Speaker 1: make it worse. I know that everybody's mad at me

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Speaker 1: because I looked like an idiot throwing my own player

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Speaker 1: off the off the court. I'm going to go even

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Speaker 1: worse by answering that question like.

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Speaker 5: This well as you do from the student section, channing

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Speaker 5: Booker's name, I could give a rat's answer about the

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Speaker 5: other team students section.

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Speaker 1: I've met overall the way.

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Speaker 2: I would like to give you the.

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Speaker 1: Kudos for the worst question asked. Did you like to

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Speaker 1: should take it the preparation of do you really think

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Speaker 1: I care about the other No, I don't think you

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Speaker 1: care about the other rest. Yes, you will hear everybody's

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Speaker 1: standing here listening to you.

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Speaker 2: Everybody this is on camera.

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Speaker 4: They can hear you.

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Speaker 1: Boy answered the question. I could give a rat's ask

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Speaker 1: about the other team students section.

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Speaker 2: If I coach UCLA, I don't care about the Michigan

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Speaker 2: State students.

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Speaker 1: Who cares you raise your voice to me?

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Speaker 4: Man?

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Speaker 1: First of all, okay, dude, he just was talking with

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Speaker 1: a high voice. He wasn't raising his raising your voice,

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Speaker 1: I mean maybe Mick cron has never been in an

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Speaker 1: argument before in his life and doesn't understand arguments go

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Speaker 1: when guys, hey, hey, no, let me tell you what

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Speaker 1: I think. It's not. Well, I don't want to think

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Speaker 1: his voice just got higher. So yes, I guess the

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Speaker 1: timbre of his voice was raised, but he wasn't raising

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Speaker 1: his voice at him like we're getting involved in some

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Speaker 1: kind of fight. So yeah, here's Mick Cronin taking a

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Speaker 1: really bad situation. I'm going to double down and make

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Speaker 1: it worse. And I really am surprised after all of

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Speaker 1: this today, the story became a huge deal today that

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Speaker 1: he is still right now the head coach at UCLA.

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Speaker 3: Oh, he's got a twenty two and a half million

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Speaker 3: dollar buyout check. Writer has other problems.

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Speaker 1: And by that I mean no, not that he's been fired,

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Speaker 1: but not that. Dude, you clearly need a break, and

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Speaker 1: you need you need, you need to be away from

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Speaker 1: the team for a few days and maybe you're coaching staff.

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Speaker 1: We got to take the temperature down because a lot

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Speaker 1: of what Mick Cronin does you I mean in big basketball,

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Speaker 1: blue blood areas, you know, Yeah, that stuff will fly, man,

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Speaker 1: and everybody has your back and yeah, coach is mad.

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Speaker 1: You don't have that stupid question. I meanwhile, hey, he

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Speaker 1: was being an idiot to the reporter who was just

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Speaker 1: asking a question. You don't like the question. Okay, that's fine,

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Speaker 1: but then don't insinuate the guys trying to fight you. Right,

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Speaker 1: he's I know he's keyed up, but he looks out

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Speaker 1: of control. And that's why if I'm u c l A.

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Speaker 1: Because stuff like that doesn't play in Westwood, certain parts

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Speaker 1: of the country, certain ways you can play, you can coach,

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Speaker 1: you can you you can talk to kids, you can

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Speaker 1: talk to the media. Other ways. It doesn't. That's just

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Speaker 1: that's just the way it is. And in Westwood, which

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Speaker 1: is Bill Walton and peace and love and hey, we

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Speaker 1: got a great program here and we always do things better.

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Speaker 1: We are UCLA. We are always u CLA. We are

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Speaker 1: we are we have in the what everybody looks up

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Speaker 1: to in a basketball program since the nineteen sixties. Stuff

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Speaker 1: like that doesn't fly, especially when you are treating a

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Speaker 1: player that way. I'm throwing him out now, I'm treating

649
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Speaker 1: a reporter like this. It's not it's It wouldn't have

650
00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:15,280
Speaker 1: been crazy for UCLA to say Mick, I think you

651
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:17,320
Speaker 1: need a break. I think you need some time away.

652
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:19,080
Speaker 1: We don't have to call it a suspension. We can

653
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Speaker 1: call it the year away from the team for the

654
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Speaker 1: next few days. And we're gonna let your coaching staff

655
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Speaker 1: coach the game this weekend and we'll revisit stuff. Let

656
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Speaker 1: you come back next week. But because what you had

657
00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:31,120
Speaker 1: last night, that's not what we're about. That's not what

658
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Speaker 1: the UCLA basketball is about. And you need to understand

659
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Speaker 1: that you cannot do that going forward, because all he

660
00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:40,520
Speaker 1: did was make UCLA look bad and he and the

661
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Speaker 1: fact that he looks out of control, that's the scariest

662
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Speaker 1: part because it's not like, well, he lost it, but

663
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Speaker 1: he looked like like how many times during the game

664
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Speaker 1: and that did he look like I'm coaching out of control,

665
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Speaker 1: I'm out of control in a press conference like you

666
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Speaker 1: have to be able to put a lid on your

667
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Speaker 1: emotions at certain times, and he's clearly having trouble doing that.

668
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Speaker 1: I mean, he had great success, you know, a few

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Speaker 1: years ago, big runs for UCLA, not so much the

670
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Speaker 1: last couple of years. But I really thought today Usule

671
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Speaker 1: would say Mick's gonna be away from the team the

672
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Speaker 1: next few days.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but even when they had those big runs, when

674
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Speaker 3: when he didn't like the cut of a reporter's jib,

675
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Speaker 3: even the postgame stuff he was doing with the ucl

676
00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:18,520
Speaker 3: IN network, he would go after Josh Lewin and those

677
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 3: guys like this is nothing new. It's just you don't

678
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Speaker 3: get away with it when you're losing and when you

679
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:27,239
Speaker 3: get housed by twenty plus back to back games when

680
00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:30,040
Speaker 3: you're one in four against ranked teams. Reason he's not

681
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:32,960
Speaker 3: suspended this weekend as Illinois comes to town top ten

682
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Speaker 3: squad even though they've lost two of their last three,

683
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Speaker 3: and then they've got a home date against USC the Pacific.

684
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:42,920
Speaker 3: The old pac twelve squads haven't fared terribly well in

685
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Speaker 3: their Big ten swarrees and sojourns.

686
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Speaker 1: Across the road trips thus far. But yeah, for Mick.

687
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Speaker 3: Cronin, Look, there's plenty long montages of him going back

688
00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:56,640
Speaker 3: a couple of years, all the way through.

689
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Speaker 1: It's the same guy.

690
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Speaker 3: Just when you're losing and you're losing badly, it goes

691
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Speaker 3: next level when you do what he did yesterday, And

692
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Speaker 3: we can't see what the reporter that asked the initial question,

693
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Speaker 3: like what his expression is I can only imagine he's

694
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Speaker 3: kind of looking at him in side eye or smirk,

695
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:13,360
Speaker 3: which is why he goes back to him, because you

696
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 3: do have another reporter legitimately trying to ask a question about,

697
00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:20,760
Speaker 3: you know, preparation and whatever else that he ignores.

698
00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:22,440
Speaker 1: And goes right back. I don't give up. And he

699
00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:23,720
Speaker 1: starts to say that the.

700
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Speaker 3: S word and catches himself and goes rat's ass and whatever,

701
00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:30,080
Speaker 3: and then circles back to that like, I'm not done

702
00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 3: with this point, sir. I'm not gonna answer any legitimate

703
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 3: question back over here that that guy wants. It's like, so,

704
00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:39,840
Speaker 3: but this is mc cronin's act, and the defenders are, oh,

705
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 3: that's just Mick. How many people in your life, right,

706
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:45,960
Speaker 3: that's just whoever? You could still say the guy's a jerk,

707
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:49,880
Speaker 3: the woman and in this case mc cronin has been

708
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:52,240
Speaker 3: and continues to be a jerk in your situation.

709
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Speaker 1: That's how you are. Doesn't mean it's okay right, but

710
00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:58,160
Speaker 1: that's it. No, I get that, but that doesn't mean

711
00:32:58,200 --> 00:32:58,959
Speaker 1: you're okay right.

712
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:01,240
Speaker 3: And he completely just respect to the kid who tried

713
00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:03,680
Speaker 3: to make his case if he chased down and tried

714
00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:06,280
Speaker 3: to make a play and whether he should have or

715
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:08,920
Speaker 3: shouldn't have again, if it's a close game, are you

716
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:09,520
Speaker 3: questioning that?

717
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 1: No, you're you're slapping him on the ass, saying, good

718
00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:13,840
Speaker 1: hustle kid. He is lucky.

719
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Speaker 5: Jason still the head coach. He was also acting like

720
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Speaker 5: a guy who knows that when you act like this

721
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 5: and you have thirty two million dollars, if they get

722
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Speaker 5: rid of you, it's a good way to act.

723
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Speaker 1: A lot of money. I'm trying to get out. If

724
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:28,920
Speaker 1: you're already giving up on the job, don't raise your

725
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Speaker 1: voice to me. Don't raise your voice, dude, are you

726
00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:31,959
Speaker 1: yelling at me? Will raise your voice to me? Man,

727
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:32,960
Speaker 1: come on, douse.

728
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Speaker 3: You know he really he really doesn't like the travel

729
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:39,120
Speaker 3: schedule that's been laid out. He has made that abundant list, you.

730
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Speaker 1: Know what, don't join. Yeah, I almost feel like he

731
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:44,680
Speaker 1: wants that. Like that's what I'm saying. I know that's

732
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 1: exactly the situation here. Don't raise your voice when you

733
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:50,240
Speaker 1: do that, Just stop yelling at Come on. You can't

734
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:52,680
Speaker 1: do that for whole room. Everybody can.

735
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Speaker 3: It's also about Mick cronin now and not about other

736
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Speaker 3: questions that everybody.

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Speaker 1: Sees the exit out about a Fresco Exit Swelling Dome,

738
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Speaker 1: Jason Smith, Mike Garman live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios.

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Speaker 1: Coming up next, with or without raised voices. Do we

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Speaker 1: have a big NFL story from today for you? That's

741
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Speaker 1: next Jason and Mike Fox.

742
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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

743
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Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

744
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Speaker 2: pm Pacific, Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: The Jason Smith Show is my best friend, Mike Harmon,

746
00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 1: I'm standing up in the studio. Don't forget after our

747
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,920
Speaker 1: show is over. Check out our brand new YouTube page.

748
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Speaker 1: We put videos up all the time. Just search Jason

749
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Speaker 1: Smith Show on YouTube. You'll get him. Subscribe, let us

750
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Speaker 1: know what you think. Put new videos up there all

751
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Speaker 1: the time. Getting ready to put one up now. Talked

752
00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:45,839
Speaker 1: about the Olympics earlier in the show. We'll have more

753
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:49,160
Speaker 1: Olympics coming up. But uh, there's been a lot of

754
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:52,920
Speaker 1: talk the last day because obviously with the Miami Dolphins

755
00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:55,799
Speaker 1: releasing everybody. I think Larry Zonka got cut his way.

756
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:58,520
Speaker 1: I started too. Yeah, Uh, Tyree Killer is out there.

757
00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:02,760
Speaker 1: Bradley Chubb, the doll are starting over. A really interesting

758
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:04,719
Speaker 1: debate that we kind of talked about a little bit

759
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 1: last night. That's starting to gain a little bit more attention.

760
00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:09,879
Speaker 1: Is they want to move on from Tua right, you've

761
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:11,759
Speaker 1: heard the front office has said, we're gonna have a

762
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:14,759
Speaker 1: decision sometime soon about it. We're not gonna drag this

763
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:18,520
Speaker 1: into March, whether it's a trade, whether it's an outright release.

764
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,840
Speaker 1: And the big question is what are you going to

765
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:25,359
Speaker 1: do with his money? You can spread it out over

766
00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:27,800
Speaker 1: a couple of years, and boy, for the next two years,

767
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:29,880
Speaker 1: you got to eat a lot of dead cap money, right,

768
00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:35,600
Speaker 1: forty million dollars, that's a tough thing. Or you could

769
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:42,520
Speaker 1: potentially eat all ninety nine million dollars this year. Now,

770
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 1: before you think it's impossible, we have seen teams make

771
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:48,759
Speaker 1: that room before. We've seen teams make all kinds of room.

772
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:52,160
Speaker 1: This would blow past the record for most money eating

773
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:54,400
Speaker 1: in a season, which was fifty three million that Russell

774
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:59,040
Speaker 1: Wilson had set. Well, congratulations for Russ with the Broncos

775
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:02,400
Speaker 1: couple of years ago. But there's no doubt that Miami

776
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:04,920
Speaker 1: Dolphins could do it if they wanted to. You could

777
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:08,600
Speaker 1: find a way to eat all ninety nine million dollars

778
00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:14,440
Speaker 1: this year. And you know what they should because Dolphins.

779
00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:17,719
Speaker 1: Dolphins fans, you know you're gonna suck this year, right,

780
00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:19,880
Speaker 1: You know that? Right? Me as a Jet fan, trust me,

781
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:21,759
Speaker 1: I know when a team is telling you we're gonna

782
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:24,480
Speaker 1: suck this year. Right. The Dolphins are telling their fans, Hey,

783
00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:27,040
Speaker 1: we're getting rid of Tyreek Hill, We're getting rid of

784
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:29,640
Speaker 1: Bradley Chubbs, We're gonna get rid of Toua. We are

785
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:32,160
Speaker 1: gonna suck this year. And you know what you can

786
00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:34,360
Speaker 1: do that You can tell fans that and they understand

787
00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 1: once in a while, hey we went for it the

788
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:38,480
Speaker 1: last few years. Or we're exciting. We had a great offense.

789
00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:39,880
Speaker 1: We thought we had the right head coach. You know what,

790
00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:43,239
Speaker 1: a didn't work. We need a year reset. I get that,

791
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:45,680
Speaker 1: we have a year reset. That's a normal thing in

792
00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:47,880
Speaker 1: the NFL. Hey, you need a year to reset, Okay,

793
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:51,279
Speaker 1: But when you start telling me it's gonna we're gonna

794
00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 1: struggle the next two years because of the money that

795
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:56,359
Speaker 1: we gotta pay Tua. Oh no, no, no, no. I'm

796
00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:59,320
Speaker 1: okay with sucking next year. I'm okay with that. So

797
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:05,399
Speaker 1: why not take the entire take the swallow the entire pill.

798
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:08,839
Speaker 1: One of those big costco like multi vitamin. I don't

799
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:11,839
Speaker 1: have to take those all the time. Take that big eat,

800
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:15,400
Speaker 1: that one big ninety nine million dollar lunch, and you

801
00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:18,799
Speaker 1: suck next year and then okay, then you're out from

802
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:21,440
Speaker 1: all of that a year from now. Why wouldn't you

803
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:23,160
Speaker 1: do that? I mean it's not like you, Oh, we

804
00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:25,239
Speaker 1: can maybe know you're going into next year with quin

805
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:27,239
Speaker 1: viewers and whatever. You wind up in the draft this year,

806
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:29,440
Speaker 1: so I mean, good blank and luck. You know you're

807
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:32,600
Speaker 1: gonna stink. You know what's gonna happen. So yeah, take

808
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:34,359
Speaker 1: the medicine, take all of it. Now.

809
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:38,440
Speaker 3: See, it's the hard part of the conversation because there's

810
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 3: an extension of what we've been talking about with the

811
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:44,759
Speaker 3: the NBA, right when we're talking about tanking, getting out

812
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:48,279
Speaker 3: under bad from bad contracts, the trade deadlines and all

813
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:51,120
Speaker 3: the different mechanics that go in with all of that.

814
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:55,839
Speaker 3: But yes, the pragmatic way to do this is, yes,

815
00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:59,640
Speaker 3: it's a one third of your salary cap because it

816
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:04,359
Speaker 3: is two for this year, but you can come out

817
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:06,560
Speaker 3: of it that much faster and as long as you

818
00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 3: have the architects to go and begin that rebuild, and

819
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:12,360
Speaker 3: you think you have a couple of key component parts,

820
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:16,080
Speaker 3: whether it's eight, Chen is one of your foundational guys.

821
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:19,600
Speaker 3: You don't have a lot of others currently on that roster.

822
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:22,400
Speaker 3: But the long road begins with that first step, and

823
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:24,839
Speaker 3: bottoming out is the way to go. If I were

824
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:28,879
Speaker 3: to tell you on DraftKings, they're over under. Total came

825
00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:32,720
Speaker 3: out earlier today they released all the first over unders

826
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Speaker 3: for the NFL twenty twenty six campaign.

827
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Speaker 1: What would you guess? The Dolphins over under it? Ooo?

828
00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:45,680
Speaker 1: Season win total five and a half, four and a

829
00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 1: half okay, all right, just behind the Raiders and at

830
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:52,400
Speaker 1: five and a half, at one and a half and

831
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Speaker 1: half not Look.

832
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 3: The Dolphins are last because it presumes two is not

833
00:38:57,160 --> 00:39:00,319
Speaker 3: their guy and that they do take that pay. Because

834
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:02,839
Speaker 3: as much as you may not like Tua, you're gonna

835
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Speaker 3: win a couple of games thy quarterbacks and maybe quin

836
00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 3: Viewers is better than we thought. But either way, you're

837
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:10,640
Speaker 3: going for the hard reset in a division where you're

838
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:13,520
Speaker 3: now chasing two squads. We don't know what Buffalo is

839
00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:16,080
Speaker 3: gonna be, but we presume they're much better. We look

840
00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:18,239
Speaker 3: at where they are. They're still projected to win ten

841
00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:20,279
Speaker 3: and a half games. Oh wait, that's because they play

842
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:23,319
Speaker 3: the Jets and the Dolphins four games on the year,

843
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:26,560
Speaker 3: and you obviously have the Patriots, who even in an

844
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:32,200
Speaker 3: expected step back position on some level, right in terms

845
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:35,080
Speaker 3: of how easy it is to win these games, they're

846
00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:38,160
Speaker 3: over under still opened at ten and a half. Again,

847
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:42,640
Speaker 3: four games against the Jets and Dolphins. But it's just

848
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:45,520
Speaker 3: the idea of your chasing and you know it. You're

849
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:48,920
Speaker 3: not competing even for a wild card. Long before the

850
00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:54,040
Speaker 3: draft process begins a week from today, everybody descends on Indianapolis,

851
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:57,600
Speaker 3: starts eating shrimp cocktail and talking about prospects. They know

852
00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:00,239
Speaker 3: they're going to suck. So now it's how how many

853
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:02,120
Speaker 3: draft picks can we get and how do we build

854
00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:04,160
Speaker 3: up the depth for twenty twenty seven?

855
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:06,560
Speaker 1: And that's the added bonus you want, even a bonus

856
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:08,080
Speaker 1: to this. I could be a bonus for the Miami

857
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 1: Dolphins when you do this under the guys, not the guys. Hey,

858
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:13,960
Speaker 1: we're eating all of two his money now right? Next

859
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:16,560
Speaker 1: year is gonna suck. What does that mean Miami's gonna

860
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:18,520
Speaker 1: suck next year? What does that mean they have a

861
00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:21,480
Speaker 1: chance to pick first? Hey, arch Manning, boy, we did

862
00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:23,560
Speaker 1: it one year. We had a really bad year. We

863
00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:26,400
Speaker 1: reset we got arch Manning. Okay, you're gonna pick in

864
00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:28,520
Speaker 1: the top three, most likely the top two, and it's

865
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Speaker 1: to you and the Jets fighting for the number one

866
00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:33,520
Speaker 1: overall pick. So that works for you too, Hey, and

867
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Speaker 1: you don't have to worry about tank. You have to

868
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:37,880
Speaker 1: worry about any allegations of tanking because like, well, no,

869
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:39,839
Speaker 1: we couldn't put a roster together. We had to eat

870
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Speaker 1: all of two of money. I mean, this should be

871
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:42,520
Speaker 1: a fastball down in the middle.

872
00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:45,080
Speaker 3: Found that's the problem, and that's that's where it's the

873
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:48,280
Speaker 3: the disingenuous.

874
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 1: Part of things. You're tanking. But hey, it's smart.

875
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:52,920
Speaker 3: Business, foal, I mean, what do you want for me now?

876
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:55,560
Speaker 3: Line on, just like getting more ping pong balls. This

877
00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:58,840
Speaker 3: smart business, Yet everybody hates it. Exit out about a Fresca.

878
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:04,520
Speaker 3: Another bit NFL story on the way next on Fox

879
00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:07,799
Speaker 3: Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best friend

880
00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:14,839
Speaker 3: Mike Harmon. Yeah, the NBA season set to tip off

881
00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:20,240
Speaker 3: post All Star Break tomorrow night. Nick Piston's yeo, get ready,

882
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:25,080
Speaker 3: but we're gonna have tanking. We're gonna have Lebron potentially

883
00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:26,640
Speaker 3: coming back to the Lakers.

884
00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:28,399
Speaker 1: If he wants. Wait a minute, wait a minute, Wait

885
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 1: a minute. Nobody better to talk to you about this

886
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:38,839
Speaker 1: than Fox Sports won Insider Extraordinaire. He's on Twitter at

887
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:42,800
Speaker 1: Rick Buker. That is at Rick Buker. The new book Coachable,

888
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:45,759
Speaker 1: How the Knicks Went from Losers to Winners. I think

889
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Speaker 1: that's the title by Rick Buker coming out, How the

890
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:53,440
Speaker 1: greatest Performers reached their highest potential Coachable by Rick Buker. Rick,

891
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:54,560
Speaker 1: what's happening, man? How are you?

892
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:58,160
Speaker 4: Oh? I'm doing well. I could have just said the

893
00:41:58,320 --> 00:42:02,200
Speaker 4: Jason Smith and Mike Harmon story, but you know, they

894
00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:05,200
Speaker 4: didn't go for that title, so we had to go coachable.

895
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:08,920
Speaker 1: Okay, I feel like I'm coachable. I mean I'm pretty good.

896
00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:11,120
Speaker 1: You know, there's sometimes when I'm not, but I feel

897
00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:12,440
Speaker 1: like overall I'm pretty coachable.

898
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:17,360
Speaker 4: Mike Bike, Yeah, he tries.

899
00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:23,560
Speaker 1: Nick Sho So, a guy writing a book on coachable

900
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:27,279
Speaker 1: says when you're not coachable, I think that's ironic. I

901
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:27,879
Speaker 1: think wow.

902
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:30,200
Speaker 3: I mean, he's got a lot of interviews with very

903
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:33,960
Speaker 3: highly influential and powerful people to where he's learned a

904
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:35,759
Speaker 3: few things and now he's applying it.

905
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:38,160
Speaker 1: To his life and the people that he deals with.

906
00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:41,800
Speaker 4: Yeah, Mike I was not talking about you. I was

907
00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:45,480
Speaker 4: asking you if you what you thought of Jason Smith's statement,

908
00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:49,400
Speaker 4: and you paused, and I went, that's my answer.

909
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:52,879
Speaker 1: Yeah, no speakinging. Now, what I'm gonna do when people

910
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:54,640
Speaker 1: ask me about your book Coachable, I'm gonna say, what

911
00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:56,879
Speaker 1: does it sound like? It's a book about Tom timbo

912
00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:59,600
Speaker 1: Though's last season with the Knicks. That's what it's about. Okay,

913
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:01,960
Speaker 1: go go buy it. It's called Coachable?

914
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:06,279
Speaker 4: All right? Yes, you know what I should have I

915
00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:11,239
Speaker 4: should have saved my barbs until after the book. That

916
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:13,399
Speaker 4: was poor gameplay on my part.

917
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Speaker 1: My man, I'll keep pushing it. Buker's got that.

918
00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:18,839
Speaker 4: This is I'm gonna be coachable. I'm gonna learn from

919
00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:20,680
Speaker 4: this and I'm going to continue. So all right, I'll

920
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:21,040
Speaker 4: be all rare.

921
00:43:21,239 --> 00:43:23,440
Speaker 1: All right, So let's let's let's learn from what we've

922
00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:25,400
Speaker 1: seen the last few days. Because now, look, we had

923
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:27,640
Speaker 1: the conversation last week. You had a couple of ace

924
00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:31,240
Speaker 1: ideas about what the NBA could do to to stop tanking.

925
00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:34,520
Speaker 1: You talked about some kind of relegation system money wise,

926
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Speaker 1: because that's going to stop teams from tanking. But now

927
00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:39,399
Speaker 1: we've seen all kinds of stories the last few days,

928
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Speaker 1: Mark Cuban says, hey, we should allow teams to tank

929
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Speaker 1: because and just increase the in game experience for fans.

930
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Speaker 1: And now you're already seeing teams getting ready for tomorrow's

931
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Speaker 1: games announcing all kinds of players who were out the

932
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Speaker 1: last few days. Rick, what you've seen. Where are you

933
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Speaker 1: at now with the NBA situation in tanking?

934
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Speaker 4: Well, I am not a billionaire, but I sometimes think

935
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Speaker 4: like and I do a thousand percent agree with with

936
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Speaker 4: Mark Cubans, his his feeling that the fans know when

937
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Speaker 4: you're tanking, and the idea that you're going to pretend

938
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Speaker 4: that you're not and that you are. Guys need surgery

939
00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:20,960
Speaker 4: or guys need load management or whatever it may be.

940
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:26,080
Speaker 4: I'm all for being straightforward and saying, yeah, you know what,

941
00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:28,839
Speaker 4: we're not good enough to play for a championship right now.

942
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:32,000
Speaker 4: If we can get to the top of this draft

943
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Speaker 4: and get one of the guys that we have our

944
00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:37,359
Speaker 4: eye on, then it can be a different story next year.

945
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Speaker 4: And so I'm I'm I'm for the honesty, I'm for

946
00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:44,480
Speaker 4: not kidding about it and the reality. Here's the reality.

947
00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:47,640
Speaker 4: You know, Mark Cuban, former owner, wants to be an owner. Again,

948
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:50,040
Speaker 4: the owners are never going to go because one of

949
00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:52,520
Speaker 4: the one of the the ideas that's out there now

950
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Speaker 4: is to get rid of the draft. That that would

951
00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:58,480
Speaker 4: eliminate tanking. I'm not so sure about that, but it

952
00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:01,680
Speaker 4: would eliminate teams and small markets from ever being able

953
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:04,560
Speaker 4: to rebuild or teams that put themselves in a bad

954
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Speaker 4: financial hole with contracts that they've given out to be

955
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Speaker 4: able to rebuild and turn around. So I don't I

956
00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:15,840
Speaker 4: don't think that that is ever going to happen. But

957
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Speaker 4: this is the beauty of the NBA. We have no

958
00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:20,360
Speaker 4: games going on. We haven't had any games going on

959
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Speaker 4: since last Thursday, and we probably have more to talk

960
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:24,920
Speaker 4: about now than we did when games were being played,

961
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Speaker 4: other than, of course, the great New York Knicks and

962
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:32,640
Speaker 4: the run that they're making for a second championship this season,

963
00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:36,080
Speaker 4: but other than I got them, See, I.

964
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Speaker 1: Got Rick got board with me. Nick's trying to repeat

965
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Speaker 1: that's why I get ready.

966
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Speaker 4: I'm trying to I'm trying to make a comeback here.

967
00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:43,920
Speaker 4: I think coachable push here. Okay, So I'm doing what

968
00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:44,279
Speaker 4: I can.

969
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:47,200
Speaker 3: That was really well done. I like that, And Jason'll

970
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Speaker 3: clip that off and he'll have that as his rate

971
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Speaker 3: to have. All right, So All Star Game weekend came

972
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Speaker 3: and went the world the two US teams Old and Young.

973
00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:59,400
Speaker 3: I still question why Brunson was with the old guys,

974
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Speaker 3: but all that to say, Rick, they at least got

975
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Speaker 3: a little bit of a w on on Sunday because

976
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Speaker 3: we talked positively about effort.

977
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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, no, and uh. To answer your question, Jalen

978
00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:13,400
Speaker 4: Brunson was with the old guys because he looks like

979
00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:17,879
Speaker 4: an old guy, like you had a line up, Yes,

980
00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:20,960
Speaker 4: if you have, if you line them all up, there

981
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:23,239
Speaker 4: might and you didn't, and people didn't know who they were.

982
00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:25,080
Speaker 4: So you got somebody from the other side of the

983
00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:27,520
Speaker 4: world who doesn't know who they are, and he said,

984
00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:30,280
Speaker 4: who's the oldest guy here. I guarantee you Jalen Brunson

985
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Speaker 4: would have got some votes. I dare Ron, he would

986
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Speaker 4: have got some votes. The Yeah.

987
00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:39,960
Speaker 1: Anyway, I also guarantee you you are not in co

988
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:43,880
Speaker 1: writing the Jalen Brunson autobiography coachable. You are not going

989
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:44,640
Speaker 1: to be co writing that.

990
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:48,320
Speaker 4: The sad thing is that Jalen actually is and was

991
00:46:48,520 --> 00:46:50,680
Speaker 4: early on a candidate for the book, because I do

992
00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:55,840
Speaker 4: believe that his game and his experience. Fred Vanvleeve is

993
00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:58,520
Speaker 4: in the book Jalen Brunson is you know has some

994
00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:03,880
Speaker 4: has some DNA similar to Fred, and that they're guys that,

995
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:09,840
Speaker 4: you know, undersized physically, not gifted, but because they were coachable,

996
00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:12,120
Speaker 4: because they learned the game, because they were able to

997
00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:16,640
Speaker 4: accept their weaknesses and work around them, they've both excelled far,

998
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:21,239
Speaker 4: far beyond what anybody would have expected. So I kid

999
00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:25,239
Speaker 4: I did about jailing. I'm channeling my inner Josh Hart

1000
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:29,440
Speaker 4: right now, but I have I have the utmost respect

1001
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:32,279
Speaker 4: for what Jalen has done and who he is.

1002
00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:36,600
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio Rick Bucker with us, Jason Smith Mike

1003
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Speaker 1: Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. All right,

1004
00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:41,920
Speaker 1: so overall, like we thought we said this at the

1005
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:44,239
Speaker 1: time we talked about it last week, Hey got a

1006
00:47:44,239 --> 00:47:45,879
Speaker 1: feeling we're going to get a great All Star Game.

1007
00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:47,800
Speaker 1: The players know they got to give the fans something

1008
00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:50,840
Speaker 1: they want to turn the conversation on this. The USA

1009
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:53,799
Speaker 1: versus the World is the right thing. I honestly think Rick,

1010
00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:55,480
Speaker 1: they fixed the All Star Game for the next two

1011
00:47:55,520 --> 00:47:58,080
Speaker 1: or three years, some kind of version of USA Versus

1012
00:47:58,160 --> 00:48:00,319
Speaker 1: the World and maybe you add some money, you add

1013
00:48:00,360 --> 00:48:01,960
Speaker 1: something to it. But I think the next two or

1014
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:04,200
Speaker 1: three years, the NBA All Star Game is going to

1015
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Speaker 1: be in good hands.

1016
00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:07,879
Speaker 4: I think they did, but I think it's it has

1017
00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:10,520
Speaker 4: to do more with the hands that it's in than

1018
00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:14,040
Speaker 4: the format. The format of twelve minute games. Certainly, no

1019
00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:19,480
Speaker 4: doubt it helps, and the USA versus World grudge match,

1020
00:48:20,560 --> 00:48:22,759
Speaker 4: particularly the old head some of the old heads that

1021
00:48:22,840 --> 00:48:25,800
Speaker 4: were on Team USA that beat France for the in

1022
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Speaker 4: the Paris Olympics and Wemby being on the other side

1023
00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:31,840
Speaker 4: of the equation, I have no doubt. I mean the

1024
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Speaker 4: old guys, the old guys put everything into knocking off

1025
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Speaker 4: Team World to the point where they had nothing left

1026
00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:41,759
Speaker 4: for the final, and I don't know that they really

1027
00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:44,160
Speaker 4: cared as much about that as they did. Is not

1028
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Speaker 4: just not letting Wemby and Team World knock them off.

1029
00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:50,400
Speaker 4: That was that to me, was a pride game. And

1030
00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:53,600
Speaker 4: so yeah, I do think they have it, But I

1031
00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:56,520
Speaker 4: think the big reason, the biggest reason is because you

1032
00:48:56,719 --> 00:49:01,000
Speaker 4: have Victor Wembanyana leading the parade. You have guys like

1033
00:49:01,120 --> 00:49:05,080
Speaker 4: Cade cunning Cunningham and Jalen Durham and and a whole

1034
00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:10,760
Speaker 4: group of young stars coming up who are looking to compete.

1035
00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:14,319
Speaker 4: And I believe this that the when when we had

1036
00:49:14,680 --> 00:49:17,040
Speaker 4: Michael Jordan leading the way, when we had Kobe Bryant

1037
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Speaker 4: leading the way, guys, guys had to compete the All

1038
00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:24,239
Speaker 4: Star Games. Guys have to show up because otherwise they

1039
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:26,440
Speaker 4: were going to be embarrassed, and they were willing. You know,

1040
00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:28,440
Speaker 4: one of the one of the best things about it

1041
00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:32,160
Speaker 4: is when you get the one on ones when somebody

1042
00:49:32,239 --> 00:49:35,319
Speaker 4: calls somebody out out or a great defender decides, now

1043
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:37,279
Speaker 4: that guy's going off, I'm going to shut him down.

1044
00:49:37,760 --> 00:49:40,560
Speaker 4: We got that with Victor wen Minyama and Kawhi Leonard

1045
00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:42,720
Speaker 4: and A and A and a number of other matchups.

1046
00:49:42,719 --> 00:49:47,239
Speaker 4: So Karl Anthony Towns versus Jalen Brunson, that to me,

1047
00:49:47,520 --> 00:49:51,280
Speaker 4: I mean, look, I was, I was in an airport,

1048
00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:54,840
Speaker 4: uh and I tuned it. I turned it on and

1049
00:49:54,960 --> 00:49:56,719
Speaker 4: it was almost like you know, the commercial or the

1050
00:49:56,760 --> 00:49:59,520
Speaker 4: guys watching the Buffalo Bills game and his flights delayed

1051
00:49:59,520 --> 00:50:02,040
Speaker 4: and everybody cheers because they get to continue to watch

1052
00:50:02,080 --> 00:50:04,080
Speaker 4: the game. That was me with the All Star Game

1053
00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:07,640
Speaker 4: in the terminal. It was like my flight was delayed

1054
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Speaker 4: another hour, and it meant that I could watch the

1055
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Speaker 4: entire All Star Game without having to worry about the

1056
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Speaker 4: Wi Fi on the plane. I was ecstatic about it.

1057
00:50:15,160 --> 00:50:19,480
Speaker 4: That's how good it was and how I fully expect

1058
00:50:19,560 --> 00:50:22,520
Speaker 4: because of why it was good, that it's going to

1059
00:50:22,640 --> 00:50:24,600
Speaker 4: continue that way for the next couple of years. Now,

1060
00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:27,120
Speaker 4: you guys have any ideas about how we fixed the

1061
00:50:27,560 --> 00:50:30,399
Speaker 4: dunk contest, I'm all ears on that. I'm not sure

1062
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Speaker 4: I got him with. Well, we're not letting Jackson Hayes

1063
00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:36,759
Speaker 4: compete again, that's no, he's the modern day bird Man.

1064
00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:40,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, one of those things I guess you can take

1065
00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:42,319
Speaker 3: from the women's game. They had the one on one

1066
00:50:42,440 --> 00:50:45,680
Speaker 3: contest that got pretty heated for a large cash prize,

1067
00:50:45,680 --> 00:50:47,239
Speaker 3: so that was kind of fun. Yeah, I mean the

1068
00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:49,000
Speaker 3: old heads also didn't want to lose to a world

1069
00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:51,400
Speaker 3: team that didn't have Giannis or SGA. I did, like

1070
00:50:51,440 --> 00:50:54,120
Speaker 3: Anthony Edward saying he like cooking the old guys. All

1071
00:50:54,200 --> 00:50:56,319
Speaker 3: that to say, let's talk about one of those old

1072
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Speaker 3: guys on Lebron James. The report now after he has

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Speaker 3: his own press conference on Sunday morning. Hey, the Lakers

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00:51:02,320 --> 00:51:05,239
Speaker 3: would be open to him coming back for season twenty four.

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Speaker 3: That's really just the Hey, prove we didn't kind of line, right, Yeah, I.

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Speaker 4: Mean, look, it's getting ahead of it's getting ahead of

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Speaker 4: the storyline. And I do think on some level that

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Speaker 4: they would welcome him back on a minimum contract or

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00:51:27,760 --> 00:51:32,640
Speaker 4: some I mean, if the number was right, I think

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00:51:32,680 --> 00:51:35,080
Speaker 4: there's a way in which they would have him back.

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00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:39,160
Speaker 4: But even if they're not, But I think they also

1082
00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:43,759
Speaker 4: know that if the number's too low, he's not going

1083
00:51:43,880 --> 00:51:47,719
Speaker 4: to want to come back, And so Lebron James not

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00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:52,120
Speaker 4: playing for the Lakers next year now doesn't fall on

1085
00:51:52,360 --> 00:51:55,920
Speaker 4: them now as well, that's all we had to you know,

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00:51:55,960 --> 00:51:58,920
Speaker 4: I mean, that's what we could realistically pay him, and

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00:51:59,080 --> 00:52:02,239
Speaker 4: he wouldn't go for it. So it's not on us

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00:52:02,320 --> 00:52:05,400
Speaker 4: that Lebron James isn't back. Would we would love to

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00:52:05,480 --> 00:52:08,520
Speaker 4: have him back? You know in parentheses or you know,

1090
00:52:08,680 --> 00:52:10,640
Speaker 4: maybe they said under their breath at the right price,

1091
00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:15,080
Speaker 4: But that I think is just this is just smart.

1092
00:52:16,239 --> 00:52:19,040
Speaker 4: It's getting out in front of the story and saying, hey,

1093
00:52:19,280 --> 00:52:23,320
Speaker 4: we'd love to have Lebron James back, and then ultimately

1094
00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:26,680
Speaker 4: make him an offer that he can absolutely refuse and

1095
00:52:26,800 --> 00:52:31,319
Speaker 4: probably will, and then they're not the ones holding the bag, all.

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Speaker 1: Right, Rick, Outside of Lebron James and the next question

1097
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Speaker 1: to repeat, give me one or two storylines you're really

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00:52:37,040 --> 00:52:39,000
Speaker 1: looking forward to over the last twenty eight games of

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Speaker 1: the season.

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Speaker 4: I'll give you a couple. First and foremost, it's Victor Winmbanyama.

1101
00:52:44,080 --> 00:52:46,879
Speaker 4: He didn't get his satisfaction in the All Star Game.

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Speaker 4: Is he now going to be looking for I don't

1103
00:52:51,120 --> 00:52:55,360
Speaker 4: know if it's revenge or it's simply a statement, but

1104
00:52:56,120 --> 00:52:58,680
Speaker 4: is this going to carry into the playoffs? Is he

1105
00:52:58,800 --> 00:53:02,279
Speaker 4: going to be looking for or vengeance in the same

1106
00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:05,160
Speaker 4: way that he clearly did in the All Star Game?

1107
00:53:05,239 --> 00:53:07,239
Speaker 4: I mean he was he was coming after it, and

1108
00:53:07,320 --> 00:53:09,759
Speaker 4: he was looking and didn't care who was guarding him.

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Speaker 4: He was going for it.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 4: I fully expect that that's going to be the case,

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Speaker 4: but I want to see it. Uh. The other one is, uh,

1113
00:53:16,760 --> 00:53:18,600
Speaker 4: is the Boston Celtics. What are they going to do

1114
00:53:18,840 --> 00:53:22,640
Speaker 4: with with Jason Tatum? It's kind of tricky because they're

1115
00:53:22,760 --> 00:53:26,120
Speaker 4: they're they're really good. Uh can they you know, can

1116
00:53:26,160 --> 00:53:29,560
Speaker 4: they incorporate him back in? How much time are they

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00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:31,600
Speaker 4: going to have if they go that direction or do

1118
00:53:31,719 --> 00:53:33,640
Speaker 4: they have him sit out the year? And if they

1119
00:53:33,840 --> 00:53:36,799
Speaker 4: if he does and they're great, you know, then then

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Speaker 4: what happens next. So those i'd say are are at

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00:53:41,480 --> 00:53:44,080
Speaker 4: the very top. I mean there's some smaller ones being

1122
00:53:44,160 --> 00:53:47,120
Speaker 4: the Berry. I'm really curious to see whether Christaps Porzingi's

1123
00:53:47,200 --> 00:53:50,960
Speaker 4: plays and what he's able to give the Warriors to

1124
00:53:51,080 --> 00:53:57,200
Speaker 4: the Houston Rockets. And so is Kevin Durant's burner account

1125
00:53:57,480 --> 00:53:59,360
Speaker 4: or alleged burner account does that?

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Speaker 6: You know?

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Speaker 4: Is that a factor in all of this? And then

1128
00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:06,520
Speaker 4: the Detroit Pistons. I believe in them, but but they

1129
00:54:06,560 --> 00:54:09,759
Speaker 4: need to prove it. I think they are. I don't

1130
00:54:09,760 --> 00:54:12,399
Speaker 4: think their last year's Cleveland Cavaliers. I think they're legit,

1131
00:54:13,160 --> 00:54:15,200
Speaker 4: but they've got to take that next step in the

1132
00:54:15,239 --> 00:54:17,320
Speaker 4: playoffs and I'm looking forward to see if they do.

1133
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Speaker 1: He's on Twitter at Rick Buker. That is at Rick Buker.

1134
00:54:21,400 --> 00:54:24,520
Speaker 1: The new book coming out, Coachable, all about Jalen Brunson's

1135
00:54:24,520 --> 00:54:28,360
Speaker 1: relationship with Tom Thibodeau, coming out various eight hundred pages,

1136
00:54:29,160 --> 00:54:32,680
Speaker 1: many interests. Coachable is coming out. Rick's gott interviews with

1137
00:54:32,800 --> 00:54:35,320
Speaker 1: all kinds of players in and outside of the NBA.

1138
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Speaker 1: Phenomenal stuff. Rick, congratulations on the book again. We'll talk

1139
00:54:39,280 --> 00:54:41,560
Speaker 1: to you next week. As the Knicks continue to roll

1140
00:54:41,600 --> 00:54:42,359
Speaker 1: towards back to back.

1141
00:54:43,320 --> 00:54:46,919
Speaker 4: There we go, You're the best.

1142
00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:51,760
Speaker 1: See you Rick exit out out of Fresca, exit swollen

1143
00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:54,239
Speaker 1: down the Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike

1144
00:54:54,280 --> 00:54:57,600
Speaker 1: Carbon Like we you know, we talked about the Celtics thing,

1145
00:54:57,920 --> 00:55:01,120
Speaker 1: and it is going to be fascinating because Jason Tatum's

1146
00:55:01,120 --> 00:55:03,880
Speaker 1: coming back to a team that's not his. It's Jalen

1147
00:55:03,920 --> 00:55:04,399
Speaker 1: Brown team.

1148
00:55:04,440 --> 00:55:04,520
Speaker 4: Right.

1149
00:55:04,520 --> 00:55:06,319
Speaker 1: Well, I told you last week I'd have Jalen Brown

1150
00:55:06,760 --> 00:55:10,040
Speaker 1: number one with a bullet for MVP wembyt I'd have second,

1151
00:55:10,280 --> 00:55:13,520
Speaker 1: but Jalen Brown number one because it's now become his

1152
00:55:13,680 --> 00:55:16,040
Speaker 1: team and the Celtics are the same team in the

1153
00:55:16,080 --> 00:55:19,879
Speaker 1: standings they'd be with Jason Tatum. And now what happens now?

1154
00:55:20,040 --> 00:55:21,560
Speaker 1: Is it going to be awkward? Is he going to

1155
00:55:21,560 --> 00:55:23,320
Speaker 1: be able to come back and be more of a

1156
00:55:23,440 --> 00:55:26,759
Speaker 1: secondary role. Will he have his minutes restricted? Will he

1157
00:55:26,840 --> 00:55:29,239
Speaker 1: come off the bench? Might he say screw this, I'm

1158
00:55:29,280 --> 00:55:30,960
Speaker 1: not coming. This was my team and now it's not.

1159
00:55:31,280 --> 00:55:33,239
Speaker 1: You're trading me in the offseason and we don't see

1160
00:55:33,320 --> 00:55:35,959
Speaker 1: him at all. Oh, but it's hidden behind. I can't

1161
00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:37,640
Speaker 1: come back. I don't feel like I can do it.

1162
00:55:37,760 --> 00:55:41,560
Speaker 1: Like this really is a fascinating storyline because when Tatum

1163
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Speaker 1: does come back, it's not going to be his team. Well,

1164
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Speaker 1: and that's one of the things addressed.

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Speaker 3: You obviously had whatever that event was that got canceled

1166
00:55:48,440 --> 00:55:52,799
Speaker 3: in Beverly Hills, and that'll get adjudicated over time. People

1167
00:55:52,880 --> 00:55:56,239
Speaker 3: have picked their sides in terms of that brown event

1168
00:55:56,320 --> 00:55:58,520
Speaker 3: that got shut down. But he also had a thing

1169
00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:02,080
Speaker 3: where he put up the standing of you know, this

1170
00:56:02,280 --> 00:56:06,560
Speaker 3: team against the championship team and whatever else at this

1171
00:56:06,680 --> 00:56:08,840
Speaker 3: point in the year, and folks are like, well, is

1172
00:56:08,880 --> 00:56:11,279
Speaker 3: he trying to push himself ahead? So he had to

1173
00:56:11,360 --> 00:56:15,440
Speaker 3: kind of explain that away. But also to the point

1174
00:56:15,920 --> 00:56:18,120
Speaker 3: of people have been trying to break those two guys

1175
00:56:18,239 --> 00:56:21,200
Speaker 3: up for how many years now? A long time, right,

1176
00:56:21,239 --> 00:56:25,000
Speaker 3: It's see, hey, we don't like Jalen Hurts, you know

1177
00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:26,040
Speaker 3: as a quarterback.

1178
00:56:26,280 --> 00:56:27,680
Speaker 1: We don't like this guy like, you.

1179
00:56:27,680 --> 00:56:30,880
Speaker 3: Know, he's pretty good and these guys they may not

1180
00:56:31,760 --> 00:56:33,920
Speaker 3: see and a lot of things. They played pretty good

1181
00:56:33,960 --> 00:56:37,160
Speaker 3: basketball together and it may not look like it works.

1182
00:56:37,239 --> 00:56:39,680
Speaker 3: There might be but internal strife like we talk about

1183
00:56:39,719 --> 00:56:42,480
Speaker 3: with the Eagles in the NFL side of things, but

1184
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:47,359
Speaker 3: they played pretty well and he's been absolutely amazing thus far.

1185
00:56:47,520 --> 00:56:49,560
Speaker 3: This season, We'll see if the role players could keep

1186
00:56:49,560 --> 00:56:52,120
Speaker 3: it going, and if he keeps ramping up po Tatum

1187
00:56:52,160 --> 00:56:55,600
Speaker 3: towards health. It'd be a fun stretch, especially those games

1188
00:56:55,640 --> 00:56:57,440
Speaker 3: down the stretch. I think they played the Knicks several

1189
00:56:57,520 --> 00:56:59,719
Speaker 3: times in the final two and a half three weeks.

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00:56:59,800 --> 00:57:01,520
Speaker 3: Ye know, it's it's it's gonna look like a mini

1191
00:57:01,560 --> 00:57:04,040
Speaker 3: playoff series. Pretty backloaded there, Yeah,