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Speaker 1: The volume. This is straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. What

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Speaker 1: is up? Straight Fire? Fam? It's me Jason McIntyre. Straight

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Speaker 1: Fire for Monday, June nineteenth. I hope everybody had a

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Speaker 1: phenomenal Father's Day weekend. Mind was terrific. I decided, hey, fam,

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Speaker 1: you know, we haven't seen a movie together in a while.

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Speaker 1: Let's head over to see a movie. So we go

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Speaker 1: through the options and we settle on this Spider Man

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Speaker 1: into the spider Verse or whatever it's called. Folks. I

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Speaker 1: think like an hour into the movie, I had knotted

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Speaker 1: off twice, just because I fall asleep in movies dark.

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Speaker 1: I'm exhausted, blah blah blah, you don't care. And then

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Speaker 1: my phone starts buzzing, like relentlessly, like you're not supposed

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Speaker 1: to look at your phone in the cinema, and my

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Speaker 1: phone just too many beats. I'm like, what the hell's

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Speaker 1: going on? And all the texts are beal, oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: And then of course I got to like in the theater,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what the movie is do. I leave

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Speaker 1: the theater and start reading text and replying and put

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Speaker 1: out a few tweets, or just do I bang it

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Speaker 1: out right there and get back to the movie. I

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Speaker 1: decided to do it right there. You know, my kids

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Speaker 1: were locked in on the movie, although they didn't love it.

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Speaker 1: I personally liked it a little long and the ending

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Speaker 1: really ticked me off, but nevertheless, decent movie, Spider Man,

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Speaker 1: whatever the Spider Verse movie is called. But the Bradney

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Speaker 1: Bradley Beal trade to the Phoenix Suns is obviously massive

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Speaker 1: for a number of reasons. I don't know what, rob,

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Speaker 1: I guess we'll start with the Phoenix angle, because obviously

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Speaker 1: Bradley Beal going to Phoenix is great. We'll talk about

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Speaker 1: the Washington Hall, which was nonexistent, Like this is basically

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Speaker 1: a salary, dumb folks, this is what it's looking like.

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Speaker 1: We'll get to we'll start with the Sons and and

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Speaker 1: first we'll start with Bradley Beal. I had the analogy

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Speaker 1: last week that I guess some of you liked that

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Speaker 1: Bradley Beal was the Costco brand of vodka and Damian

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Speaker 1: Lillard was what whatever your favorite Brandon vodka is a

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Speaker 1: anybody remembers that name. Ohio State running back flopped in

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Speaker 1: the NFL pretty badly. Was all over the goose and

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Speaker 1: that was his thing. I'm gonna get my goose on.

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Speaker 1: I like Bradley Beal a lot, apparently a lot more

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Speaker 1: than NBA Twitter, because you know, I have these beefs

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Speaker 1: with NBA Twitter. I don't like how the group think

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Speaker 1: is like, oh Bradley be Oh, he's garbage. Heuysn't want anything,

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Speaker 1: he's trash. It's like, do we not just see Andrew Wiggins,

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Speaker 1: folks I wrote this down. So Andrew Wiggins was the

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Speaker 1: number one overall pick, not a huge factor in Minnesota

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Speaker 1: Golden State. Boom, Andrew Wiggins wins the title as the

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Speaker 1: second or third best player. Oh wait, Andrew Wiggins is

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Speaker 1: really good? Yeah, no shit, Sherlock. We all knew he

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Speaker 1: was good. That's why he's the number one pick overall.

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Speaker 1: Aaron Gordon number four pick, awesome player at Arizona, goes

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Speaker 1: the number one option. Didn't quite pay Aaron Gordon and

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Speaker 1: Denver with the fully healthy Yo Kitchen Murray and they

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Speaker 1: win the championship and Aaron Gordon wins one game all

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Speaker 1: by himself. Wow, Aaron Gordon, this guy's an amazing defender.

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Speaker 1: Aaron Gordon. Oh he really, he really did a number

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Speaker 1: on Jimmy Butler. Aaron Gordon's very good. Obviously. This is

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Speaker 1: again we knew coming out of college these guys are

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Speaker 1: doesn't mean they're not great players. So consider this. Bradley

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Speaker 1: hardcore NBA fans. There was a Lebron Deshaun Stevenson beef.

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Speaker 1: it up. Jay Z diss Deshaun Stevenston. Blow the Whistle

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Speaker 1: up on my way to my men's basketball games, not kidding,

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Speaker 1: Damian lillar are You're a fool. Bradley Beal's not that good.

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Speaker 1: Take a deep breath. There was a playoff series where

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Speaker 1: the number one option. Just let it sink in. Bradley

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Speaker 1: get there. The third option is Bradley Beal, who's been

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Speaker 1: But now you insert beel into the mix, and before

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Speaker 1: Should they be favored, Sure, they should be favored. I

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Speaker 1: So the DeAndre Ayton factor and Rob just hear me

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Speaker 1: Daniel Gafford, Gifford whatever, Gafford from Arkansas and it's like

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Speaker 2: about a year ago, almost of the day that this

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Speaker 2: trade went down. They asked him about the contract extension

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Speaker 2: and why I decided to re up in Washington, and

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Speaker 2: he basically said, look, I saw the free agent market.

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Speaker 2: There were the teams that I would be interested in going,

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Speaker 2: didn't have any cap space. It wasn't looking good for me,

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Speaker 2: so I thought, hey, let me get this bag right

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Speaker 2: now and I'll see what happens later. And that is

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Speaker 2: a practical business decision. I can't blame him at all

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Speaker 2: for saying I can get way more money here. I

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Speaker 2: can get the no trade clause, which I guarantee you

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Speaker 2: we're never going to see another no trade clause in

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Speaker 2: the NBA because if it leads to trades like this,

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Speaker 2: like the NBA is just gonna act it out maybe

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Speaker 2: the next CBA. But yeah, he played it right. And

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Speaker 2: if you're Washington, the only thing that you could be

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Speaker 2: upset about today or this week before the draft is

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Speaker 2: that you didn't do it a year sooner, and for

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Speaker 2: a guy like Victor woman Yama. But this has been

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Speaker 2: the right decision for years now, and they kept kicking

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Speaker 2: the can, kicking the can, thinking, hey, maybe if we

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Speaker 2: had Kyle Kuzma, Hey maybe if we uh it was

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Speaker 2: it Johnny Davis, the point guard from Wisconsin. You can't

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Speaker 2: get off the bench, you know, maybe DeBie Objya, maybe

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Speaker 2: that guy CAUs like, no, you got a bottom out? Ye, yeah,

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Speaker 2: you got a bottom out. You gotta suck really bad,

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Speaker 2: not just for one season, probably for two or three

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Speaker 2: and then you see what you have from there. You

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Speaker 2: take on bad contracts in trade in exchange for first

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Speaker 2: round picks. Everything that the Oklahoma City Thunder keep doing that.

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Speaker 2: We saw the Brooklyn Nets do for a while. That

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Speaker 2: kind of brought them back from relevance after that, the

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Speaker 2: Paul Pierce Kevin Garnett fiasco. That's where you gotta go,

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Speaker 2: and they're finally doing it. They finally the band aid off.

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Speaker 2: Expect the tickets to if you're in Washington, hey, maybe

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Speaker 2: you get ten dollars seats.

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Speaker 1: That'd be nice. Yeah, dude, that's a win. We had

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Speaker 1: recorded an interview with a draft guru about Thursday draft.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna hold that a day because of the bald news.

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Speaker 1: But also before we're done, I need to just quick

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Speaker 1: a couple of minutes. You guys don't have a soccer guy.

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Speaker 1: The US Open was in my backyard out here in

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Speaker 1: La over the weekend. My son had a volleyball tournament,

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Speaker 1: my daughter had a dance performance. It's Father's Day. Listen.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people like, Jay, how are you not

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Speaker 1: at the golf. I'm like, listen, guys. You know me,

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Speaker 1: if my wife said, yeah, Jason, you want to go

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Speaker 1: watch golf, you can spend six hours go watch US Open,

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Speaker 1: I would say, no, thanks. I would rather spend two

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Speaker 1: hours playing basketball. Like that would just be more fun

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Speaker 1: for me. I know, you could play basketball anytime US Open.

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Speaker 1: I'm not that huge a golf fan, even though we

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Speaker 1: had Page on the podcast recently, and you guys seem

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Speaker 1: very interested in Page. I'm just not the massive golf

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Speaker 1: fan that some of my buddies are, right, and a

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Speaker 1: lot of friends that went to it, and a Fox

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Speaker 1: had a bunch of people going, and that's great. I

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Speaker 1: actually watched more US soccer over the weekend than I

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Speaker 1: did golf, and US Mexico Thursday was incredible. US spanks

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Speaker 1: some three nothing, probably the best win we've had over

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Speaker 1: Mexico in a long long time. We've now we're unbeaten

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Speaker 1: in our last six against them, and then we go

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Speaker 1: to the final against Canada and we spank them to nothing.

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Speaker 1: And folks, listen, you never want to get too excited.

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Speaker 1: The World Cup for twenty twenty six is still four

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Speaker 1: years well, no, I'm sorry, three three years away. Okay,

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Speaker 1: it's here in North America. We have a young We

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Speaker 1: had a young team at the last World Cup, one

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Speaker 1: of the youngest teams in the field. And now we

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Speaker 1: had this kid, Balligan Bellagian who scored an awesome goal.

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Speaker 1: If you haven't seen it, go look it up. I

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Speaker 1: mean it was ridiculous and we got a we got

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Speaker 1: a squad. You never want to get too geeked, but

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Speaker 1: I'm calling it right now. This team will make a

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Speaker 1: deep run at the twenty twenty six World Cup. The

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Speaker 1: US squad will make a big run, obviously, health pending.

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Speaker 1: If you know, Polictic goes down, he's not there, We're screwed. Whatever,

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Speaker 1: But this this is a deep, well rounded squad. The

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Speaker 1: Burholter stuff went down over the weekend. He's gonna to

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Speaker 1: be coming back as coach. I'm gonna hold off on

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Speaker 1: some comments on that for now. I just say I

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Speaker 1: don't hate it as much as everyone else. I don't

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Speaker 1: think it's the worst thing in the world. It is

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Speaker 1: interesting that they looked incredible with the interim guy this weekend.

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Speaker 1: I mean incredible. Probably the best performance we've seen out

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Speaker 1: of them against rivals back to back that quickly in

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Speaker 1: a long time. And it's the small things that the

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Speaker 1: US soccer fans are pissed aout about Burholter. Remember Burholter

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Speaker 1: had Polistic taking all the corner kicks at the World

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Speaker 1: Cup and his services were not great. And if you

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Speaker 1: watched the Canada game, Rayna, who was in the doghouse

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Speaker 1: and listen, I'm not gonna blame Burholter for it. Rena

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Speaker 1: admits he acted a fool and he wasn't grinding. Reina

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Speaker 1: was serving some beautiful corners that we sure as hell

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Speaker 1: could have used in the World Cup. Okay, it's not

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Speaker 1: doesn't look good for Buralter on that front. Obviously, some

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Speaker 1: other things do well. The concern for me is and

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Speaker 1: I out on the herd on Friday. Burholter is a defensive,

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Speaker 1: heavy guy. He builds through the back. He focuses on defense,

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Speaker 1: and it's less of an attacking style. If you watched

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Speaker 1: our team against Mexico and Canada, we were abusing them

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Speaker 1: on the wings way of speed, polistic speed balligan in

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Speaker 1: the middle raina kind of the attacking midfielder. It's just like,

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Speaker 1: why haven't we seen this offensive outlook from the US

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Speaker 1: team in recent at the recent World Cup? And it's

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Speaker 1: like Burholter is gonna have to change his style a

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Speaker 1: little bit to adapt to the new roster. You guys know,

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Speaker 1: small potatoes, But I coach my kids in sports, and

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Speaker 1: you know, when a kid is out, you can't just

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Speaker 1: keep running the same plays and the same stuff that

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Speaker 1: you used to you got to adapt to your new

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Speaker 1: personnel if your star is out. And you know my

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Speaker 1: son's team which won the championship, yes, I gotta flex that.

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Speaker 1: Three months later, we had our star who plays club ball.

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Speaker 1: He had to miss a few games. Well, we can't

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Speaker 1: run the same thing we run with him if he's

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Speaker 1: not there, so we totally changed it up and usually

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Speaker 1: it worked. And it's just small potatoes. But like you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't think all the coaches want to adapt because

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Speaker 1: they're so wedded to their style. And my style works,

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Speaker 1: and I'm here and I'm the boss. I have the

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Speaker 1: final say, and some of these coaches, like, you've got

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Speaker 1: to have an open mind, and I hope Berholter does.

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Speaker 1: He can't screw this up. This team is loaded. I

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Speaker 1: think almost all the core is going to be under

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Speaker 1: thirty by the time the next world. A couple roles around,

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Speaker 1: maybe under thirty one, but we got a squad, and

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Speaker 1: these wins over Canada and Mexico have to get folks excited. Yeah. Anyways,

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Speaker 1: all right, it was a great Father's Day weekend for me.

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Speaker 1: Hope everybody else had a good one. Back tomorrow talk

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Speaker 1: to you then,