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Speaker 2: as we always regularly do, we'd start with what we're

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Speaker 2: not getting into today. So what did not make the

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Speaker 2: show today is Deebo Samuels unfollowing the forty nine ers.

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Speaker 2: I just don't care about these unfollowing Instagram stories, Luca's injury.

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Speaker 2: It might show up in the show just a bit.

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Speaker 2: And did Demanse actually learn what a green jacket is? Demonse?

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Speaker 2: Right now, you, before we even get to anything, I

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Speaker 2: will give you a thousand dollars cash right now if

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Speaker 2: you can tell me who won the Masters yesterday. Oh crap, Oh,

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Speaker 2: that's a loss for you. Buddy good thing. You don't

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Speaker 2: do sports for a living now. So the answer to

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Speaker 2: the question is Scotty Cheffler. Scottie Barnes plays small forward

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Speaker 2: for the Raptors. He did not win the Masters this weekend.

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Speaker 2: What are we talking about today?

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Speaker 3: It looks like WoDES knew that Vogel was fired before

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Speaker 3: Vogel did. Yep, Lebron gets another coach fired. Does this

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Speaker 3: fix anything?

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Speaker 2: Okay? First on that Lebron gets another coach fired. There

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Speaker 2: have been five coaches that have been fired either while

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Speaker 2: or right after coaching Lebron. James Paul Silas, who was

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Speaker 2: blow five hundred except for when he got to coach Lebron.

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Speaker 2: Mike Brown, who was blow five hundred except for when

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Speaker 2: he got to coach Lebron and Lebron took him to

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Speaker 2: a finals. David Blatt, who never coached in America before

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Speaker 2: Lebron took him to a finals. Luke Walton, who's terrible,

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Speaker 2: was bad before Lebron got there, was bad with the Kings.

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Speaker 2: And now Frank Vogel, who won fifty one percent of

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Speaker 3: Lebron and then one of the kind of crazy how

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Speaker 3: bog gets fired when Lebron picked his teammates.

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Speaker 2: Okay, feel like they should fire Lebron. Well, okay, what

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Speaker 2: they should do is fire Rob Blinkett, the guy who

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Speaker 2: actually picked the players and the GM. I agree with

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Speaker 2: you there almost Listen. Does it fix anything? It doesn't

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Speaker 2: fix a lot. But here's why Vogel had to go.

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Speaker 2: You can't have the most disappointing year in the history

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Speaker 2: That's first of all. Second of all, you look at

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Speaker 2: Taylor Janet to Memphis, but other candidates are Manti Williams,

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Speaker 2: Jason Kidd, and tylu What do those three guys all

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Speaker 2: But the point that you asked about, I don't even

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Speaker 2: evidence of how mismanaged and poorly run the Lakers are

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Speaker 2: from top to bottom. That Woje's thumbs out this tweet

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Speaker 2: That's just terrible management top to bottom within the Lakers.

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Speaker 2: All Right, what's next?

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Speaker 3: Joel Embiid won the scoring title. Yeah, he's the first

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Speaker 3: center to win it in check. Yeah, so how big

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Speaker 2: All right? So I think it actually is a pretty

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Speaker 2: big deal for a number of reasons. One is Embid.

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Speaker 2: He's not only the first center to win it since Shack,

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Speaker 2: but Embiid won it in the fewest minutes per game

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Speaker 2: Embiid was thirty three point eight minutes per game. That

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Speaker 2: So you could argue that Embiid had in modern NBA history,

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Speaker 2: I also think it's meaningful that Embiid was available for

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Speaker 2: way more than the minimum required games because Lebron was

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Speaker 2: going to win this thing, but you got to play.

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Speaker 3: You've got a question, Yeah, should Lebron have gone for

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Speaker 2: So that's actually an interesting question. I like that you

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Speaker 2: kind of throw in your little Lebron and needle one

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Speaker 2: of his worst seasons. Every day he just average thirty

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Speaker 2: eight and six is terrible. Lebron. You're you're nineteen and

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Speaker 2: No matter what Lebron did, they were going to kill

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Speaker 2: him for. And if Lebron had played in the final

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Speaker 2: two games, because you have to play fifty eight games

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Speaker 2: being as dead ass wrong about anything that anyone's ever

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Speaker 2: been about in sports. When Lebron had a chance to

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Speaker 2: from playoff contention, he just didn't play. Yes, of course

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Speaker 2: his ankle was hurt, but if they were in playoff contention,

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Speaker 2: he would have played, and I had to listen for

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Speaker 2: the last two months that Lebron cares more about the

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Speaker 2: there to be had, Lebron set will those people apologize? No,

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Speaker 2: of course they won't. All right, what's next? Okay?

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Speaker 3: And bid winning the scoring titles certainly helps his MVP case. Yep,

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Speaker 3: who gets your vote? And how does all this impact

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Speaker 2: Okay? So I had so the Top fifty list episode

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Speaker 2: was Nikola Jokisch and I recorded that about a month ago.

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Speaker 2: Jokic is going to win MVP. And if I'm being

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Speaker 2: totally honest, even though I don't think he should have

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Speaker 2: win this year, it Nash shouldn't have won the two

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Speaker 2: he won, but he's on the top fifty years. Jokic,

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Speaker 2: when he wins this MVP is going to have a

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Speaker 2: strong case that he has done enough, even though he's

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Speaker 2: But the list was compiled beforehand, it would I'd have

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Speaker 2: to kick Bernard King out of it. I don't love that. Indeed,

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Speaker 2: even if he were to win, it does not crack

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Speaker 2: I don't think he will. Yannis is already firmly in

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Speaker 2: At some point, you got to unveil it now. Who

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Speaker 2: last couple of months for Luca. Luca's team ended with

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Speaker 2: But I'm not even so much so adamant that Luca

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Speaker 2: Because Embiid's defense took a bit of a step back

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Speaker 2: My vote, my ballot would have gone Giannis, Luca, Embiid, Jokic,

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Speaker 2: with Devin Booker being five. All Right, what's next? Should

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Speaker 3: The Bucks take their final game to avoid Brooklyn in

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Speaker 3: round one. Yep, Brooklyn, by the way, might get Ben

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Speaker 3: okay with the defending champs taking for playoff position?

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Speaker 2: So I'm okay with it under these circumstances, and then

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Speaker 2: I'm going to fix the circumstances. The circumstances are the

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Speaker 2: all tanking for playoff position, which we'll get into in

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Speaker 2: a moment, and because they are the defending champs, and

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Speaker 2: because last year people forget two years ago. Giannis wins MVP,

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Speaker 2: the Bucks play Miami, They go down three to zero

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Speaker 2: four the very next year. Last season, the Bucks have

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Speaker 2: as much as it was about potentially avoiding Brooklyn, it's

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Speaker 2: All right? Nothing changed my opinion about the East. I

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Speaker 3: So like if I said Scotty, like that should count

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Speaker 2: Beam Me Up Scotty is from Star Trek.

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Speaker 2: By the way, what's right with nick right? Podcast? What

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Speaker 3: Okay, he was reportedly almost minority owner of the Dolphins. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Yep. So now what do you make of the entire

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Speaker 2: nick you bring things back to Lebron too. Well, okay,

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Speaker 2: Speaking of the Flora's lawsuit, We're staying there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Speaking of the Flora's lawsuit, Steve Wilkes and Ray

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Speaker 3: They say the NFL set up sham interviews with minority candidates.

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Speaker 2: Like it's like, yep, did I think Dolphins were tanking? Yep?

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Speaker 2: they're the sevenths. They are. And by the way, if

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Speaker 2: because if they don't win Tuesday, assuming the Hall, if

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Speaker 2: the Nets lose Tuesday and the Hawks win Thursday, then

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Speaker 2: it's Nets Hawks winner goes is the eight seed. Loser

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Speaker 2: goes home. And Trey Young has a chance to become

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Speaker 2: an all time New York City sports buility. He shent

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Speaker 2: the Knicks home last year and they had the f

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Speaker 2: Tray Young chance. If he sends the next home this year,

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Speaker 2: that would be an unbelievable sporting event to be at.

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Speaker 2: So we'll go to that game if that happens. But

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Speaker 2: let's assume the next win on Tuesday, then they're the

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Speaker 2: seventh seed. They're playing the Celfies. I My answer is

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Speaker 2: Tatum because Tatum has a chance to win a series

439
00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:57,640
Speaker 2: against Apex Kevin Durant. That's a hell of a thing, man,

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Speaker 2: Giannis did it like, who are who's are the last

441
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Speaker 2: people to beat Apex Kevin Durant, A healthy Kevin Durant,

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Speaker 2: No matter the teammates in a playoff series. Johannest did

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Speaker 2: it right, he never lost a series when he was

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Speaker 2: with Golden State healthy. So the Steph did it in

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Speaker 2: twenty sixteen, and Lebron did it obviously in twenty twelve,

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Speaker 2: and I think Duncan did it like those. I think

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00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:25,399
Speaker 2: is the list of guys over the last decade that

448
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Speaker 2: have beaten a healthy Kevin Durant a playoff series. So

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Speaker 2: my answers Tatum and I think Celtics would do it.

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Speaker 2: Celtics are better coach, more death, better defense. I think

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Speaker 2: Celtics would win that series. All right, what's next? Exciting?

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Speaker 2: Tiger committed to the British Open? Yeah, you're over it?

453
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Speaker 2: Or will pretend he can win? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: By the way, Yeah, what color jacket do you win

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Speaker 3: for winning the British Open.

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Speaker 2: You don't win a jacket for winning the British Open.

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Speaker 2: You win a green. You win the claret jug. The

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Speaker 2: clart jug is that like a hydroflask, like a I

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Speaker 2: don't know what a hyder flask is, buddy, but it

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Speaker 2: it's a gorgeous silver jug with inscripted The names of

461
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Speaker 2: the winners are inscripted on it. You don't it's you

462
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Speaker 2: thought they want a different color jacket for each major.

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Speaker 2: I mean I thought it might have been like like

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Speaker 2: a blue one or something. No, it's not a blue one.

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Speaker 2: The green jacket associated with the Masters, but I mean

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Speaker 2: it's not. But you win a jug like that, it's

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Speaker 2: a trophy. Okay, nothing, Let me show you a hydroplast Claire.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna show you what the cleric jug looks like,

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Speaker 2: so you can jug. Okay, hold on, you tell me

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Speaker 2: that's this is right? Here is in a gorgeous trophy.

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Speaker 2: Let's let me show you this thing. Let me see

472
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Speaker 2: if I'm zoom in on this sucker. Look at that. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's nice, right, it's ancient. It's the oldest golf tournament

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Speaker 2: in the world. They're playing at Saint Andrew's. Old Tom

475
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Speaker 2: Morris do you know the two greatest golfers ever at

476
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Speaker 2: one point were Old Tom Morris and young Tom Morris,

477
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Speaker 2: father and son. That's true story playing St. Andrew's for

478
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Speaker 2: one hundred and sixty years. That's why Tigers playing in it.

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Speaker 2: If that is the answer is, it's not pretending he

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Speaker 2: can win. He can win. Did Tiger have a rough weekend?

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00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:08,520
Speaker 2: He did? Did Tiger? You know shoot closer to eighty

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Speaker 2: on both Saturday and Sunday. He did, But he made

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Speaker 2: the weekend, didn't he? Did he do something Bryson de

484
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Speaker 2: Shambo didn't do? Yeah? Sure did did Was he ever

485
00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:18,280
Speaker 2: gonna catch Scotty Scheffler, who was just a man on

486
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Speaker 2: a mission this week? No? So it's no pretending. I'm

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00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:23,960
Speaker 2: not pretending he can win. He can win. He's won

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Speaker 2: at Saint Andrews before, maybe the most historically important golf

489
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Speaker 2: course in the world. And I can't believe you thought

490
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Speaker 2: for winning major championships it was always just a different

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Speaker 2: color jacket. That. That's all the trophies in golf were jackets.

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Speaker 2: All right, what's next? Hey man?

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Speaker 3: CJ McCollums tweeted he wouldn't be playing much Sunday. Yeah,

494
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Speaker 3: and fans shouldn't bet on him. Yeah, CJ is heroic

495
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Speaker 3: or going to be in trouble.

496
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Speaker 2: Oh, I don't think he's going to be in trouble.

497
00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:51,960
Speaker 2: He shouldn't be in trouble. He can't embrace gambling sports leagues.

498
00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:54,480
Speaker 2: And then CJ McCollums a hero there, let me show

499
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Speaker 2: you some of them. I was like, you know I'm

500
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Speaker 2: in that that Uh well, how do I put it.

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Speaker 2: Don't say the name of this chat, Okay, but I'm

502
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Speaker 2: in a let's call it a consortium of like minded

503
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:08,359
Speaker 2: individual and we gamble together, okay, and we gamble. Just

504
00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:09,920
Speaker 2: drawing one of these bricks. I had to pay off

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00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:12,280
Speaker 2: one of my master's bets. That's how I was going

506
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Speaker 2: to win the forty k that for Tiger to win,

507
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:15,920
Speaker 2: I had to pay off that bet, but I also

508
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:19,520
Speaker 2: got to collect my winning bet about Tiger making the cut.

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Speaker 2: Uh read read what I texted the group at let

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Speaker 2: me see at two forty four yesterday. Just read the

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Speaker 2: top of that this one right there. What does it say.

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Speaker 3: If any of y'all have fan duel, don't know, you

513
00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:37,040
Speaker 3: might be able.

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Speaker 2: To draft kings or draft kits. That's what DraftKings.

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Speaker 3: You might be able to hammer all the CJ unders

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Speaker 3: for another ninety seconds or so.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I saw the CJ tweet right when he tweeted it,

518
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Speaker 2: and I was like, Hey, I'm not in a position

519
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Speaker 2: right now where I can bet it. All My money's

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00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:54,800
Speaker 2: tied up in other things. But I told him so Yeah,

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00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:58,640
Speaker 2: CJ McCollum, great job, buddy. So yeah, No, it's heroic

522
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Speaker 2: and anybody By the way, I have no sympathy for

523
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Speaker 2: gambling proprietors that are slow on the draw. I once

524
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Speaker 2: one time in college, I'm gonna tell a quick story,

525
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Speaker 2: and we're gonna go a little over time. We're already

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Speaker 2: at zero. Sorry, we'll get in the last thing. I'm

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Speaker 2: gona tell a quick story. This is not I don't

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Speaker 2: know saturree to limitations. I feel like this passed. It's

529
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:20,439
Speaker 2: been almost twenty years. I'm not gonna look great in

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Speaker 2: the story I'm tellry right now. But I had a

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Speaker 2: bookie in college who I realized. I one time text

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Speaker 2: him trying to bet the second half of a college

533
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Speaker 2: basketball and he text me back like twenty minutes later,

534
00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:38,680
Speaker 2: and he was like, uh, just saw this. You still

535
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:43,080
Speaker 2: want to bet? But he wasn't like even like paying attention.

536
00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:44,760
Speaker 2: I was like, how could you let me make a

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Speaker 2: bet on a second half bet when the second half

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Speaker 2: is now halfway over and you're giving me the option?

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Speaker 2: And I realized this bookie had a bad drinking problem,

540
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:58,040
Speaker 2: and almost every night he was out drinking. So I

541
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Speaker 2: would bet second half college basketball games. Into the half,

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Speaker 2: I would get a good line on it, get an

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Speaker 2: angle and I and it paid for a lot of

544
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:10,640
Speaker 2: my junior year of college. He then surely that after

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00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:13,520
Speaker 2: stopped being a bookie, probably because he's a bad bookie.

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00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:17,160
Speaker 2: But the point is you have a bookies out there

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Speaker 2: and betting proprietors. I had access to the CJ. We'll

548
00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:23,280
Speaker 2: call them tweet So did you. That's on inside info.

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00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:25,000
Speaker 2: You got to be quick on the trigger there, all right,

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00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:25,640
Speaker 2: what's next?

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Speaker 3: The USFL is using chips in football to measure first downs? Yeah,

552
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 3: instead of chains. Yeah, the NFL should use it or stay.

553
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:37,680
Speaker 2: In the past. I think they should use it, and

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00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:41,400
Speaker 2: I'm I think it's an obviously good idea because there

555
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:45,160
Speaker 2: are some It's less about the chain measurement and more

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00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:47,680
Speaker 2: to me about sometimes you're watching the game and you

557
00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 2: just notice you're like, okay, well the referee screwed that

558
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:55,360
Speaker 2: up immediately, like he spotted that a yard short of

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00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:58,240
Speaker 2: the first down. I think it matters. My real question

560
00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:00,800
Speaker 2: is I want to watch how this is done, because

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00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:03,800
Speaker 2: it's less about it's very easy to figure out exactly

562
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Speaker 2: where the football is. We have to figure out exactly

563
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:09,320
Speaker 2: where the football is when the player is down. So

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Speaker 2: how are they going to sync up the technology of Okay,

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00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:15,880
Speaker 2: the football right at this moment was right here. I

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Speaker 2: want to see how they do it. If they can

567
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Speaker 2: do it seamlessly, and I'm sure they've thought about this,

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Speaker 2: then it's an obvious improvement and the NFL should go

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Speaker 2: to it. We'll be right back, all right, Welcome back

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Speaker 2: in final segment of today's show. Few quick reminders. One is,

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Speaker 2: please like, rate, and subscribe, review on all your st

572
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Speaker 2: podcast platforms and on YouTube. And check out our series

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Speaker 2: that just started earlier this week, the fifty Greatest Players

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Speaker 2: of the last fifty years in the NBA. That's going to

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Speaker 2: be a weekly special edition series. We just released episode

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Speaker 2: one of that, which has players fifty to forty nine.

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Speaker 2: Spoiler alert it's Bernard King and Permelo Anthony. But we

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Speaker 2: also discuss the rules of the list, the honorable mentions

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Speaker 2: to the list. I throw in some Reggie Miller slander

580
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:08,600
Speaker 2: because he wasn't even an honorable mention of the honorable mentions.

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Speaker 2: So all of that on the exact same feeds that

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Speaker 2: you're seeing or listening to this on. But as we

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Speaker 2: always do final segment, they don't tell me what we're

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Speaker 2: talking about. Demanse and the producers do it together. Demanse,

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00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:20,800
Speaker 2: what are we doing?

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Speaker 3: You came to me last night randomly simmy drunk, I

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Speaker 3: think and drunk.

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00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:27,760
Speaker 2: Yeah. The words he send like.

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Speaker 3: Explain things a little bit slower when you've had a

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Speaker 3: few drinks, you know.

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Speaker 2: But okay, accusing me of drinking on the work.

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Speaker 3: And you demanded I remind you to discuss baseball headphones.

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Speaker 2: Oh yes, thank you, good job, buddy. I forgot about that.

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00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 2: Baseball headphones. So here's what I knew if you said

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00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:48,920
Speaker 2: that to me would spur this. Okay, so news came

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00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:54,240
Speaker 2: out this week after this terrible owner and league induced lockout,

597
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:58,160
Speaker 2: the commissioner in Major League Baseball, Rob Manfred, sent every

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Speaker 2: player a pair of posts headphones. Okay, so let's do

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Speaker 2: this math quickly. And you're gonna think this is gonna

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Speaker 2: be hard math to do, but it's not. There's thirty teams,

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Speaker 2: twenty five players a team. So what's thirty times twenty five?

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00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 2: That's easy. What's three times twenty five is seventy five? Correct?

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00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:15,920
Speaker 2: Add the zero seven to fifty okay, seven hundred fifty

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00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:18,840
Speaker 2: total players. Let's say the headphones worth a thousand bucks each,

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00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:20,760
Speaker 2: which they're not, so then to be seven hundred and

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Speaker 2: fifty thousand dollars. They're half that. They're five hundred bucks

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00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:25,720
Speaker 2: each at most of what's half of seven hundred thousand,

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Speaker 2: three hundred and seven five thousand dollars. That's a good

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Speaker 2: way to do quick math, America. You're welcome, so b

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Speaker 2: it is a total at most the nicest most headphones,

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Speaker 2: with the most expensive shipping and packaging all of it.

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Speaker 2: It's three hundred and seventy five grand totally. Hey, sorry,

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Speaker 2: we squeezed you out of you know, hundreds of millions

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Speaker 2: of dollars at the negotiating table. And this the reason

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Speaker 2: I want to talk about it is, and this is

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Speaker 2: a lesson for everyone. There are times when giving a

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00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:03,800
Speaker 2: gift is more insulting than not giving anything at all,

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00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 2: if the gift in and of itself is insulting. So

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Speaker 2: you've got you were invited to a wedding and you

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Speaker 2: didn't go, and you're like, ah, we should send a gift. Maybe,

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Speaker 2: But if you're going to send the cheapest item that's

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Speaker 2: left on their registry, you're going to send the Spatula

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Speaker 2: six pack. Skip it entirely. There are I'll give you

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Speaker 2: an example for me. I one time was I think

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Speaker 2: far and away not I think I know the most

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Speaker 2: valuable and important and profitable employee at the radio station

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Speaker 2: in kans City. And one day I was working on

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Speaker 2: my birthday. Boss calls me into his office. After he's like, hey, Nick,

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Speaker 2: happy birthday. I'm like, oh, thanks, and he's like, hey,

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Speaker 2: this is just you know, this is from the company.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. It was like, oh, that's super nice of

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Speaker 2: you guys. Wow. Thanks. I went home and I opened

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Speaker 2: the envelope and it was twenty five dollars in credit

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Speaker 2: to Dave and Busters. And I was like, okay, First

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Speaker 2: of all, I know for a fact they're a sponsor,

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Speaker 2: so you have a drawer full of these. Second of all,

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Speaker 2: it's twenty five bucks. Man, give me not act like

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Speaker 2: you forgot it, Like, don't give me twenty five Dave

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Speaker 2: and Busters bucks as a birthday present? Open? Yeah, I did.

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Speaker 2: I waited untill I got home. I'm like, oh, man,

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Speaker 2: finally this hard work is paying off. They're finally respecting

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Speaker 2: me around here. And it was twenty five Dave and

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Speaker 2: Busters Bucks. It's like, okay, you know what does That's

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Speaker 2: what Honestly, I was like, you know what, I'm out

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Speaker 2: and if I'm a Major League Baseball player, and I

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Speaker 2: had to worry about am I getting paid this year?

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Speaker 2: And what they send me are headphones that undoubtedly Bo's

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Speaker 2: gave them because they're a sponsor of the league. I

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Speaker 2: think i'd rather have gotten that's today's