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Speaker 1: NHL is back, yeah right, and just really quick before

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Speaker 1: you get in this big NBA story right, Like Jack

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Speaker 1: Hughes addressed the crowd tonight before the game. Uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: thanking everybody obviously, you know the big gold medal hero

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Speaker 1: the Devil's play the Sabers. You had a couple of

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Speaker 3: Well, he brought the guy from the Sabers off the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, HELLI book didn't play tonight for the Jets, obviously.

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Speaker 3: You know he deserves some time, Like, dude, we're fine,

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Speaker 3: he took. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: This is where when when when we talked about the

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Speaker 1: that stars come up, show up organically. And the stars

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Speaker 1: Hughes and Connor hellibook right all the other guys, sure,

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Speaker 1: NHL needs to push these three guys like these And

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Speaker 1: you know, you need to push the three of them

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Speaker 1: as be because I remember coming off Miracle on ice

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Speaker 1: and and that was a really big thing. This is

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Speaker 1: they won the Gold met All these guys are in action. Now,

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Speaker 1: The NHL needs to push them, whether it's endorsements, whether

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Speaker 3: The hard part is that you get right back into

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Speaker 3: So you know, it's it's one of those you strike

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Speaker 3: Gary Bettman, it is a very big moment to try

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Speaker 3: because I buyballs, don't make sod no, no, no, The cash

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Speaker 3: registered big Bucks. Know Wamy's big Bucks. No Amy stop.

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Speaker 1: Now to the NBA and this is where I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: zeg where you think I'm gonna go you now, No,

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Speaker 1: I'm absolutely gonnazag trust me. Last night we spent a

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Speaker 1: Luka Dantach looked like someone that either was unsure of

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Speaker 1: indecisive gets the bottle Lebron, and a bad decision was made.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 1: This is not a game where, if you're a Laker

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Speaker 1: you lose at home to the magic magic.

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Speaker 3: You're not bad.

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Speaker 1: The magic shouldn't be coming in when you are a

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Speaker 1: So but the big thing that started to make the

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Speaker 1: of credit because that final play they drew up was awesome.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 1: You had the four guys running and there was a

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Speaker 1: wants to protect his guys and talk about what Luca

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Speaker 3: Here's JJ Reddick trying to really just all make it

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Speaker 3: right now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're working progress.

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Speaker 3: We are a work in progress. Could he sing the

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Speaker 1: A work in probably Bubba shot the jukebox. Now, Alan Jackson,

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Speaker 1: that's Mark Chestnut. You sure, Yeah, that's Mark Chestnut.

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Speaker 3: All right?

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Speaker 1: Alan Jackson did uh away, Yeah, I'll fly Away?

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Speaker 3: Did that? Sure, I'll fly Away? Yeah? No, it's Alan Jackson.

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Speaker 1: Yeah he did a com You sure Alan Jackson didn't

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Speaker 1: do Bubba Shot the juke hundred percent.

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Speaker 3: Not that I don't trust the shouts in juke box

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Speaker 3: as not. It's Mark Chestnut one hundred percent Bubba Shot

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Speaker 3: the Jukebox song by Alan Jackson. No, it says Mark CHESTNUTT.

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Speaker 3: I just you look for a second, I had you.

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Speaker 3: But here here's where they're my It had been a

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Speaker 3: wrinkle to it is that Alan Jackson did pen a

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Speaker 3: all right, So if you got me on that technicality,

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Speaker 1: But certainly Mark Chestnut was the star that way. And

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Speaker 1: Alan Jackson did do all fly away though, So I

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Speaker 1: got that right. But Mark CHESTNUTT, yes, so not Morris Chestnut,

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Speaker 3: So a little different.

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Speaker 1: Here is JJ Reddick saying we're a work in progress,

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Speaker 1: and immediately I could see the knee jerk.

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Speaker 3: How are your work in progress? You've been together for

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Speaker 3: a year. This Lebron and Luca partnership has been together.

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Speaker 3: Austin Reeves has turned into a stud. How is this

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Speaker 3: still a work in progress? Right? But this is where.

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Speaker 1: Isaac when you think I'm gonna Zach because again, I

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Speaker 3: Me, but does what he's toying with you? Right now?

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Speaker 1: What I've said about the Lakers was true when I

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Speaker 1: said it. It was true two months ago, it's true now.

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Speaker 1: And congratulates to everybody else who was stating. I feel like, wow,

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Speaker 1: we said this the other night and today I heard

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Speaker 1: it on ESPN. The Lakers are a year away. This

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Speaker 1: is not the version of the Lakers. That's the best

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Speaker 1: version with Luka Donsig because I consider and tell you, hey,

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Speaker 1: the Knicks are still a work in progress. How are

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Speaker 1: in progress. Believe it or not, there are working they've

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Speaker 1: had the guys have been together. Yes, there are working progress.

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Speaker 3: I get it.

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Speaker 1: But for the Lakers, we saw the beginning of the

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Speaker 1: were terrific. Lebron came in and it just hasn't worked.

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Speaker 1: It hasn't worked because Lebron has not found his way

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Speaker 1: to slide in as the number three guy, as we said,

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Speaker 1: to be a souped up Draymond Green. And again I

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Speaker 1: we're ahead of the curve. Man. If people would just

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Speaker 1: give us money for the takes, like, I'd just be

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Speaker 3: See. It goes back to that Alan Jackson thing, if

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Speaker 3: he actually wrote it, get paid, I'll just be a

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Speaker 1: Because we talked like this was what we said weeks ago.

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Speaker 1: This is where Lebron needs to be to slide in,

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Speaker 1: to be a souped up Draymond Green where a few

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Speaker 1: Okay, changes that young Blood did the Black Sabbath version

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Speaker 3: Nights don't gamble. Yeah, now we're still gonna do that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: No one's doing that. In the NFL. Jerry Jones is saying, yeah,

434
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Speaker 1: I want to give ten million dollars whoever shows up

435
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Speaker 1: and wins the Pro Bowl Game next year.

436
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Speaker 3: WHOA, Jerry, whoa. We'll take this out. But that there's

437
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Speaker 3: no leadership in the NBA.

438
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Speaker 1: And again, remember it's either been met with disdain or

439
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Speaker 1: out and out just we don't with we don't care, right,

440
00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:50,320
Speaker 1: so one of those two things has been we don't care,

441
00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:52,439
Speaker 1: or hey, this is something that we really don't like

442
00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:55,560
Speaker 1: what you're doing. And it's become combative. And now this

443
00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:57,600
Speaker 1: is where the next level is. Right now, maybe it's

444
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Speaker 1: coming off Rick Carlile saying, hey, they haven't talked to

445
00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:03,040
Speaker 1: any of our doctors seeing why our guys were sitting out.

446
00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:05,439
Speaker 1: We haven't told they haven't told us why. Meanwhile, Pascal

447
00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:10,440
Speaker 1: Siaka was personal reasons. So maybe now the Utah Jazz

448
00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:12,040
Speaker 1: are going to say, hey, thanks, Rick carlib butt, you

449
00:21:12,119 --> 00:21:15,760
Speaker 1: keep your big trap shut. Because according to many sources,

450
00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:22,600
Speaker 1: the NBA is sending their own independent doctors to verify

451
00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:26,800
Speaker 1: Lori Markinen's MRI from his injury in practice today, which

452
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Speaker 1: has kept the Jazz star out of yet more action

453
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Speaker 1: now he's been out already. The Jazz were the ones

454
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Speaker 1: that got fined five hundred grand the first time around

455
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Speaker 1: when Adam Silver find them for sitting their star players

456
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Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. But there was a report today

457
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Speaker 1: that Lori Markinen got hurt of practice MRI coming, the

458
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Speaker 1: NBA is saying, now we don't trust you. We are

459
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Speaker 1: now sending our own independent doctors to verify this. Now,

460
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Speaker 1: whether or not NBA teams are protecting their own players,

461
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Speaker 1: whether whatever they're gonna find out, this is now going

462
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Speaker 1: to be even more combative. So now here's Adam Silver.

463
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Speaker 1: When you don't do anything and you try to act

464
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Speaker 1: and act strong, this is what you're gonna have to fight.

465
00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:08,720
Speaker 3: Now.

466
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Speaker 1: It's oh, you've never done this before, but now suddenly

467
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Speaker 1: you want to fight us, and now you're sending an

468
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Speaker 1: independent doctor. Well, while this, hey, this is a this

469
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Speaker 1: is this is great for the league to at least

470
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Speaker 1: hey be above board with a we see this guy's injuries.

471
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Speaker 1: But like you know, unless this is a we're working

472
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Speaker 1: together with you to clear everybody for tanking, where we're

473
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Speaker 1: sending a doctor who's gonna say, oh, you completely agree

474
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Speaker 1: with the jazz uh diagnosis of needing an MRI sprain.

475
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Speaker 3: He's out.

476
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Speaker 1: We completely get that. Hey, we want to show you

477
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Speaker 1: that we're all on the same page. What's gonna happen

478
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Speaker 1: when they show up and if they say yeah, he

479
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Speaker 1: could play, think about that. What's gonna happen if they

480
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Speaker 1: say he could play and the jazz doctors say he can't,

481
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Speaker 1: how do you think that's gonna go? How do you

482
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Speaker 1: think that's gonna go? Where he could play but they

483
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Speaker 1: say he can't play, you're gonna make him put the

484
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Speaker 1: guy in the court. Like this is where when you

485
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Speaker 1: can't solve a problem, you have a tough time all

486
00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:03,119
Speaker 1: sudden saying now I'm gonna solve it because this while

487
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Speaker 1: I commend out of silver for actually doing something like

488
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Speaker 1: I see.

489
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Speaker 3: This and go, how do you think this is gonna

490
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Speaker 3: play out? Yeah? Very ham handed? You think it's gonna

491
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Speaker 3: play out? Yeah? I mean, look, you've gotten ridiculed by

492
00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:19,520
Speaker 3: you and me and your larger NBA watching community for

493
00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:23,440
Speaker 3: a long time. Right, and now it's been a pressure

494
00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:26,160
Speaker 3: pack couple of weeks while you won the Super Bowl

495
00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:30,920
Speaker 3: media cycle with the trade deadline, most of it was

496
00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:33,880
Speaker 3: about tanking and the chaos. And then you're having one

497
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Speaker 3: surgery announced after another. Now you're gonna legislate someone's pain tolerance.

498
00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:42,640
Speaker 3: So what everybody just starts saying they've got back injuries,

499
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Speaker 3: can't put them on an MRI, like I gotta sore back.

500
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Speaker 3: What do you want from me? Right? I've got a

501
00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:51,960
Speaker 3: sore ankle. Are they gonna have to make it swell

502
00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:53,840
Speaker 3: up a little bit? Hey? You know what you need

503
00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:57,520
Speaker 3: to eat a couple of plates of ham Why trust me? Right?

504
00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:00,760
Speaker 3: What do you want to do here? Like you're you're

505
00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:04,520
Speaker 3: just picking a fight with the players Association. We've seen

506
00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:08,880
Speaker 3: this in other leagues, right, the independent neurologists in the NFL,

507
00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:11,480
Speaker 3: and the fights of whether a guy should go back

508
00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:14,920
Speaker 3: onto a field or not. What's passing that test? We've

509
00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:17,640
Speaker 3: had guys running to Brian Dable running into the tent,

510
00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:20,920
Speaker 3: leave them alone. You know, here's the thing? Where where

511
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Speaker 3: that I get?

512
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Speaker 1: Because that is that is a process of hey, we

513
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Speaker 1: know you want the guy to play.

514
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Speaker 3: This is about the guy not playing. Yeah, no, but

515
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Speaker 3: we know you want the guy to play.

516
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Speaker 2: How do.

517
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Speaker 1: We want to protect the player from wanting to go out?

518
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Speaker 1: We know he wants to play. There's no player that says, yeah,

519
00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:42,520
Speaker 1: I gotta I'm out man. No, they want to play.

520
00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:45,160
Speaker 1: They want so that I get. We get, Hey, we

521
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Speaker 1: know you want the guy to play. We want to play,

522
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Speaker 1: but we want to make sure he's safe, right at

523
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Speaker 1: least that that's the that's but it's still hey, we

524
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Speaker 1: think you don't want the guy to play. We want

525
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Speaker 1: him to play. The doctors we're sitting and we want

526
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Speaker 1: him to play like it's so.

527
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Speaker 3: We've always had at battle, right of the guy's gonna

528
00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:04,359
Speaker 3: get take the shot. Don't take the shot. I mean

529
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:06,840
Speaker 3: we talked Varsity Blues a couple of weeks ago with

530
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Speaker 3: the passing of James Van Derby. Don't take the shot.

531
00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:11,439
Speaker 3: Don't take the shot. I mean, all all of the

532
00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:14,280
Speaker 3: you touch him, that, all of that, we're not We're

533
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:17,920
Speaker 3: going back out there without you. And now you're you're

534
00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:21,080
Speaker 3: picking a fight with the Players Association over this where

535
00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:23,720
Speaker 3: you're you're fighting over in games and you're gonna go

536
00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:26,719
Speaker 3: after these teams where it's quite clear they're done with it.

537
00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:30,160
Speaker 3: What because they laughed at your one hundred thousand dollars. Fine,

538
00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:32,640
Speaker 3: you took it personally, and now here's how you're gonna

539
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Speaker 3: get back at.

540
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Speaker 1: I mean, I get that you need but you need

541
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Speaker 1: to find the right strategy.

542
00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:36,720
Speaker 3: I get that.

543
00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:39,200
Speaker 1: Now the NBA is pissed because hey, we don't really

544
00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:41,639
Speaker 1: want tanking and teams have said, yeah, screw you, so,

545
00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:43,679
Speaker 1: oh you don't respect me. Now I'm gonna do this.

546
00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:45,719
Speaker 1: I'm like Okay, this is a little bit too much.

547
00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:48,000
Speaker 1: And again I like the fact that they're doing something. Sure,

548
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Speaker 1: but I don't know how do you think this is

549
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,800
Speaker 1: gonna play out? I mean, I mean unless you're kind

550
00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:56,200
Speaker 1: of hey, we're gonna send doctors who say he's hurt

551
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Speaker 1: a little bit but can play in a few days.

552
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Speaker 1: Your doctors will say he's hurt a little bit and

553
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:02,720
Speaker 1: playing a few days. Like, because I don't see how

554
00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:05,760
Speaker 1: it's gonna how it's gonna look if the independent doctors

555
00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:06,800
Speaker 1: got back and go, yeah.

556
00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:08,679
Speaker 3: Dude's fine, Yeah, but what are you gonna is he

557
00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:09,480
Speaker 3: was jumping around.

558
00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:12,240
Speaker 1: You should see what he's doing, handstands and hand springs

559
00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:14,240
Speaker 1: and oh it was fantastic, Laurie Market, it's great.

560
00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:17,200
Speaker 3: Man. Now we're talking like it's a worker's comp claim

561
00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:21,520
Speaker 3: he did. Hey, he was back washing his truck. They're

562
00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:22,480
Speaker 3: not even gonna investigate.

563
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Speaker 1: It's gonna be guys in a car like with those

564
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Speaker 1: lid that the camera phones that just take it. Here

565
00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:29,840
Speaker 1: he is walking. Here, he is dunking on a back.

566
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Speaker 3: I saw him. He was repelling down the side of

567
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Speaker 3: the building like he was batman and running. Here he

568
00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:39,000
Speaker 3: is running in a race. Here he is jumping over hurdles.

569
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Speaker 3: I got pictures of Laurie Market and do it all.

570
00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:46,480
Speaker 3: It's like the King of Queen's episode. He's playing trampoline basketball.

571
00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:49,119
Speaker 3: What do you got, Frosburg? You know what? The NBA

572
00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:53,800
Speaker 3: does not have to do here? What's that send anybody

573
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:56,240
Speaker 3: to find out if the Jazz are tanking? Yeah? I

574
00:26:56,920 --> 00:27:01,040
Speaker 3: are absolutely, Like the eye test is pretty clear, but like,

575
00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:02,560
Speaker 3: what are you gonna do? You're gonna break it, you

576
00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:05,120
Speaker 3: know what? He He twisted his ankle walking back out

577
00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:06,840
Speaker 3: to practice prove I'm wrong.

578
00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:09,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I really want to see like those guys like,

579
00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:11,040
Speaker 1: don what what is that camera?

580
00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:11,199
Speaker 2: Like?

581
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:13,560
Speaker 1: It's it's like the sh It's like the small camera

582
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:16,679
Speaker 1: wide and when they take it and they press it

583
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:18,159
Speaker 1: in and it takes the picture.

584
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:20,400
Speaker 3: Like that's what I want. I want to I don't

585
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:21,160
Speaker 3: know what that one's called.

586
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:24,399
Speaker 1: Guys on stakeouts like taking pictures of market and walking around.

587
00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:30,040
Speaker 1: We have these photos like what was in the firm

588
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:32,720
Speaker 1: When they call Tom Cruise in and he says, be

589
00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:34,600
Speaker 1: a shame if these pictures of you and that woman

590
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:35,760
Speaker 1: on the beach got back.

591
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:38,639
Speaker 3: To your wife and it's him with the woman, Like

592
00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:41,880
Speaker 3: oh well, okay, all right, all right, I guess I'm

593
00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:43,479
Speaker 3: gonna have to admit to her that I was like

594
00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:46,480
Speaker 3: sending an evaluator to like the Jets facility to find

595
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Speaker 3: out if they suck. I think we have an asked

596
00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:50,640
Speaker 3: an answered.

597
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:53,120
Speaker 1: What's their record? I could tell just by the scoreboard.

598
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:54,919
Speaker 1: I don't need any judges to come in and tell me.

599
00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:57,160
Speaker 1: I can tell by the scoreboard three and fourteen. Yeah,

600
00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:00,040
Speaker 1: that's the jetsticking. Really, we are one step away from that.

601
00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:01,960
Speaker 1: There were one from a guy like in a trench

602
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:04,120
Speaker 1: coat and a hat where they don't even know. Hey,

603
00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:08,880
Speaker 1: that's that guy that was following me before I gut

604
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:09,840
Speaker 1: keeps popping up.

605
00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:12,240
Speaker 3: Guys been following me since I landed in Los Angeles.

606
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:13,680
Speaker 3: We gotta go find him. I'll tell you. We gotta

607
00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:15,159
Speaker 3: get away from this. Like now, it's a bad B

608
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:23,240
Speaker 3: movie exit out about a Fresco exit swollen down The

609
00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:26,720
Speaker 3: Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon Time

610
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:28,440
Speaker 3: how to find out what's trending in the wide world

611
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:30,480
Speaker 3: of sports From someone who's been called the John Wick

612
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:34,040
Speaker 3: of Fox Sports Radio because she's got a bulletproof t

613
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:36,440
Speaker 3: shirt on. It's Monty Blagya that's right.

614
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Speaker 4: And I did have a pibowl that I would kill for,

615
00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 4: all right, I did, And when I get my next one,

616
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Speaker 4: I'll kill for.

617
00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:44,320
Speaker 3: That one too. You killed my dog?

618
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:47,440
Speaker 4: Oh that's that's when I think you would see rage

619
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Speaker 4: coming out of me if you did something to my dog.

620
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Speaker 4: But so I am like John Wick, love John Wick,

621
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Speaker 4: big fan, big fan.

622
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Speaker 3: I'm ready for the video game. Let's go. There's gonna

623
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Speaker 3: be a video yeah, trailer, Yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't know, No,

624
00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:01,920
Speaker 3: I mean I don't, I don't, I don't.

625
00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:05,240
Speaker 1: You want me to make your day after your update

626
00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:10,760
Speaker 1: Google John Wick? Lightsaber fight okay, and you are gonna

627
00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:15,960
Speaker 1: just it's a motorcycle scene where instead of knives, it's lightsabers.

628
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 3: I've seen that. I have some bigger question. Is Bobon

629
00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:22,040
Speaker 3: going to be in the video game? Oh no, no,

630
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:23,520
Speaker 3: that's a question.

631
00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:26,120
Speaker 1: If there's a scene in the library, Boban will be

632
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:28,240
Speaker 1: in it for.

633
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:31,400
Speaker 3: A little while, a little bit. He reads a book

634
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:32,640
Speaker 3: very up close and personal.

635
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:35,880
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, yeah, I mean damage with the book.

636
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:36,960
Speaker 3: Like anything.

637
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:38,640
Speaker 4: You can use anything as a weapon. If you earn

638
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:41,000
Speaker 4: anything from that movie, anything can be a weapon.

639
00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 3: Well, it's an upgraded version of Magiver. He fixed things

640
00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:47,200
Speaker 3: to get out of situations. Here, you use objects to

641
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:47,720
Speaker 3: kill people.

642
00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 1: I think, I think, I think in the video game

643
00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:52,360
Speaker 1: the book, he's going to use his heated rivalry.

644
00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:56,040
Speaker 3: That's the hottest book in the world. Now I'm going

645
00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:58,280
Speaker 3: to kill you in it. Look at what I've started.

646
00:29:58,480 --> 00:29:59,479
Speaker 3: Look at what I've started.

647
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,840
Speaker 4: As in the NBA, the final game has wrapped up.

648
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:06,120
Speaker 4: The Nuggets pulled away in the second half, outscoring the

649
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:09,480
Speaker 4: Celtics one oh three to eighty four, Nikola Jokic leading

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Speaker 4: the way thirty points, twelve rebounds in six assists. But

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Speaker 4: it's probably the Pistons night because they have the best

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Speaker 4: record in the NBA.

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Speaker 3: After defeating the.

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Speaker 4: Thunder one twenty four to one sixteen behind behind Kate

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Speaker 4: Cunningham's twenty nine points and thirteen assists, Detroit is now

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Speaker 4: forty three and fourteen and they have the best record.

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Speaker 4: The San Antonio Spurs trailed by twelve points in the

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Speaker 4: fourth quarter but survived one ten to one oh seven

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Speaker 4: against the Raptors. The Spurs have won ten in a row.

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Speaker 4: Darren Fox had twenty points in the win the Warriors.

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Speaker 4: They cruise passed the Grizzlies won thirty three to one twelve.

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Speaker 4: Golden Sea actually.

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Speaker 3: Had eight players in double digits.

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Speaker 4: Al Prinschingon had a triple double and the Rockets crushed

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Speaker 4: the Kings win twenty eight to ninety seven, while the

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Speaker 4: Bucks survived twenty eighteen to one sixteen against the shorthanded Calves.

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Speaker 4: Kevin Porter Junior hit the game winner and ended with

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Speaker 4: twenty points, eight rebounds and five steals. In men's college Tuopes,

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Speaker 4: no upsets except for number six Yukon, who crushed number

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Speaker 4: fifteen Saint John's seventy two to forty, snapping their thirteen

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Speaker 4: game winning streak.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Rick Patino was very upset after that game. I

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Speaker 3: would assume so Red.

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Speaker 4: I would assume so I. He probably saw rage after

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Speaker 4: that game. In the world of baseball, Blue Jays this

676
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Speaker 4: just came out. Blue Jays have re signed pitcher Max Scherzer.

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Speaker 4: The Diamondbacks did announce that pitcher Meryl Kelly will be

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Speaker 4: missing opening day with a back injury and there is

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Speaker 4: no timetable for his return. Yankees also announced that they're

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Speaker 4: retiring C C. Sabathia's number fifty two. He will be

681
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Speaker 4: the twenty fourth Yankee with his number retired In the NHL,

682
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Speaker 4: some games still going on. The jetson Canucks are headed

683
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Speaker 4: to overtime, tied at two a piece. The Golden Knights

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Speaker 4: are up on the Kings forty three. There's about six

685
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Speaker 4: minutes to go in this when Kings were just down

686
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Speaker 4: to so they've cut the deficits.

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Speaker 3: A minute ago. Now it's four to three.

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Speaker 4: And then Golden Knights. Apparently Frostburg who was watching it,

689
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Speaker 4: Golden Knight scored like three goals in like one minute

690
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Speaker 4: because he thinks the Kings are also tanking.

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Speaker 3: Just like the Utah Jazz. They tap tonight.

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Speaker 4: And then halfway through the third period, the Oilers and

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Speaker 4: the Ducks are tied at five apiece.

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Speaker 3: Lastly, here back to the NBA.

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Speaker 4: Since you guys were just talking about, Yeah, you really

696
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Speaker 4: don't need to check on the Utah Jazz or anything

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Speaker 4: like that. But Sun's owner Matt Ishbia he was on

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Speaker 4: the Pat McAfee show and next week's next week, oh

699
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Speaker 4: my god, next year's NBA All Star Weekend is going

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Speaker 4: to take place in Phoenix, and he wants the best

701
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Speaker 4: of the best, so he offered to pay one million

702
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Speaker 4: dollars as a prize to the winners in the slam

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Speaker 4: dunk contest and the three point shooting contest. He also

704
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Speaker 4: said he'd give a million to charity in each event.

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Speaker 4: Obviously this would have to be approved, probably would not.

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Speaker 4: He did not consult the league before making the offer.

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Speaker 3: But I like that he's trying. No, I like to

708
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Speaker 3: trying to get the Stars to do it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't like the fact that you said, you know, first,

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Speaker 1: next week's also the also game was so bad, We're

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Speaker 1: gonna do another one.

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Speaker 3: Next week, you know, next we got to get rid

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Speaker 3: of that one. Listen.

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Speaker 4: I wish I was telling you that the next All

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Speaker 4: Star you know, weekend or festivities was in three years,

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Speaker 4: so we could miss it.

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Speaker 3: That's what I wish. The Olympics, we're gonna do it

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Speaker 3: every four years, you know, That's what I'm saying. Let

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Speaker 3: me miss it.

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Speaker 4: Let me be like, oh, I wish I could see

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Speaker 4: dunks again.

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Speaker 1: Come on, you know, I hate the one thing that

723
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Speaker 1: you wouldn't miss any Clippers so oh too soon.

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Speaker 3: Remember that whole thing about the don Wow, wow.

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Speaker 2: That's back to you.

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Speaker 3: That's a good friends reference and only you. Yes, thank you,

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Speaker 3: thank you. You want your mic cut off?

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Speaker 1: Coming up next, we got big numbers in for the

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Speaker 1: biggest sporting event of the last couple of weeks.

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Speaker 3: Keep it right here, Jayson.

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

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

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Speaker 2: pm Pacific.

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Speaker 1: The Jets are the worst team I root for that

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Speaker 1: I ever have. They have no QB, they have no

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Speaker 1: d They'll be picking first next year for their grandson

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Speaker 1: of Archie.

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Speaker 3: The Goda.

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Speaker 6: Lose every game, maybe beat the Dolphins in one game.

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Speaker 1: One in sixty Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with

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Speaker 1: that friend Mike car.

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Speaker 3: That was great. That was great.

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Speaker 1: That was great freestyling said nobody said everybody. Everybody loves that?

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Speaker 3: You kidding?

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Speaker 1: That was a one person, one person who loves People

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Speaker 1: are calling and there's Sharon Osborne, people saying I love that.

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Speaker 3: That's because Drew Brees is on Drew Base eight seven

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Speaker 3: Hall of Fame first ballot.

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Speaker 1: We have some fun trivia coming up top of the

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Speaker 1: hour that we can bet on and we can bettle

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Speaker 1: get and we don't have to go through Kashi or

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Speaker 1: that Cereal place that doubles as the as the gambling thing.

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Speaker 3: Goshi's pretty good. Yeah, uh uh.

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Speaker 1: The Olympic ratings have come in for the gold medal

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Speaker 1: game between the United States and Canada. Eighteen and a

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Speaker 1: half million people watched the game eight am Sunday, five

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Speaker 1: am on the West Coast.

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Speaker 3: I'm one of them.

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Speaker 2: Uh, you were not, you were watching?

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Speaker 3: I wack up your eyes.

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Speaker 1: And I well, the only reason you were watching is

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Speaker 1: because you were actually on the air doing a show.

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Speaker 3: Sold me over two weeks that this was the most

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Speaker 3: important moment that we were building this, that I was

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Speaker 3: going to be up regardless.

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Speaker 1: It was incredible. I just enjoyed it a little bit

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Speaker 1: because I'm in my fifties. If I was in my twenties,

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Speaker 1: I get up at five in the morning, I've done

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Speaker 1: that before for Olympic hockey. But fifty five, yeah, I

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Speaker 1: can wait two hours till I get up getting up

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Speaker 1: at fight, I can do that and it was fun napps.

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Speaker 1: Gary Bettman weighed in on this. Very happy for the NHL. However,

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Speaker 1: he said, boy would have liked to see in a

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Speaker 1: different window. Broadcast window would have been more viewers. Would

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Speaker 1: have liked to have been able to put out videos

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Speaker 1: and be able to celebrate the sport of hockey a

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Speaker 1: little bit more During the Olympics.

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Speaker 3: They couldn't do that either.

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Speaker 1: If it wasn't a different window, probably would have hit

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Speaker 1: thirty million viewers, because you got nothing on the West coast.

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Speaker 1: Sure probably would have hit thirty million viewers. Now, the

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Speaker 1: high water mark was the twenty ten gold medal game

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Speaker 1: that Jerome again La goal, the Sydney Crosby goal from

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Speaker 1: Jerome Againla. The referees got to get out of the way.

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Speaker 1: Twenty seven million people watching that game. This would have

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Speaker 1: done more than that. This would have done thirty million.

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Speaker 1: And this is the big issue with the Olympics. And

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Speaker 1: I can't fault NBC because I'm sure NBC is saying, hey, listen,

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Speaker 1: we pay a lot of bleeping money for this. The

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Speaker 1: Olympics is a television show, and the USOC and the

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Speaker 1: Internation Olympic Committee treat the Olympics as it's an event

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Speaker 1: and you just have to suck it up with how

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Speaker 1: we're doing it, realizing not realizing that they're costing themselves

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Speaker 1: by not putting big events on so people can get

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Speaker 1: them and not have to worry about fighting with what

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Speaker 1: they get to see or being able to see the

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Speaker 1: big time events and get more eyeballs on it. They

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Speaker 1: still do the Olympics for the people who are there,

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Speaker 1: and that's great and I understand that, but they don't

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Speaker 1: get that it's a TV event. It is a TV event,

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Speaker 1: so you don't need to put the women's gold medal

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Speaker 1: hockey game up against the women's free skate. Hey wait

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Speaker 1: a minute. The women's hockey game turned out to be

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Speaker 1: a really big deal. We're gonna move that. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: move that. But because the tickets overall for it weren't

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Speaker 1: what they were for figure skating, hey, we can put

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Speaker 1: them on the same time. That's just stupid. That's absolutely stupid,

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Speaker 1: because all you did was cost yourself viewers. Right, people

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Speaker 1: are going to tune in to watch reruns of curling

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Speaker 1: as they are to watch a gold medal game with

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Speaker 1: the United States Canada women and want to watch the

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Speaker 1: free skate. Same thing for the gold medal game with hockey.

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Speaker 1: Hey wait a minute. I know we don't want to

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Speaker 1: run into the the closing ceremonies, but wow, USA Canada,

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Speaker 1: that's a really big deal. Let's make sure we put

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Speaker 1: that on where most of the world can see it

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Speaker 1: in a better spot. Like they have to understand. Just

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Speaker 1: like the NCAA tournament in basketball. It's a television show.

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Speaker 1: It's not a sporting event. It's a television show. And

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Speaker 1: the when the Olympics realized that things will be a

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Speaker 1: lot better, and I'm hoping that NBC would have some

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Speaker 1: kind of info, I'm sure they said, hey, can we

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Speaker 1: do something because they paid a lot.

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Speaker 3: Of money for this.

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Speaker 1: They don't want they don't want the game at eight

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Speaker 1: o'clock am on Sunday, they don't want they wanted at

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Speaker 1: two o'clock in the afternoon or sometime when people can hey,

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Speaker 1: let's do it there. We'll figure we can make the

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Speaker 1: Olympics a little bit longer. We can do anything we

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Speaker 1: want to. We can have the closing ceremonies be a

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Speaker 1: little bit later, which are really weird. How about you

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Speaker 1: put your marquee event where the most people can see it.

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Speaker 1: It's a television show. Got to get that well.

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Speaker 3: It's one of the things we've talked about coming out

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Speaker 3: of the Super Bowl, right. I mean, it's a global event,

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Speaker 3: but certainly the spectacle that it is a TV show.

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Speaker 3: We talked about the halftime show. Bad Money did not

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Speaker 3: resonate with people. I know that we're in the stadium. Again,

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Speaker 3: you have to say about the bond at Bonnie. But

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Speaker 3: it was a good TV show, right, It was a

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Speaker 3: good clip for and choreographed and directed for television. Go

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Speaker 3: back to when it was last here in Los Angeles,

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Speaker 3: great halftime show on TV. It was in the stadium.

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Speaker 3: It was cool to hear it, cool to watch it.

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Speaker 3: A lot of dead space on the on the field

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Speaker 3: when you've just got the boom box and the luminaries

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Speaker 3: coming above it. You know, all all of that to

848
00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:29,920
Speaker 3: say for these events at this point, you've got to

849
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Speaker 3: adapt with the times. And it's not just about what

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Speaker 3: the in arena experience is that you've got these different

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Speaker 3: windows and that becomes a larger bargaining proposition of how

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Speaker 3: to go through it. And obviously through the peacock app

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Speaker 3: and and folks using multiple screens, you kind of get

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Speaker 3: to that same end. But some folks still need to

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Speaker 3: be trained, right, they're still watching on broadcast television, and

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Speaker 3: that's it that you need to make sure you're expanding

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Speaker 3: the playground to maximize your opportunities. This this should have

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Speaker 3: been a much bigger rating.

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Speaker 1: How do you how do you not want to put

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Speaker 1: your product out in front of the most eyeballs possible.

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Speaker 1: I I don't understand that. Well, we got the money

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Speaker 1: from FRIMBC, Yeah, but that's gonna affect money in the future.

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Speaker 1: I don't get that. I don't get how they still

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Speaker 1: judge it as we can put the events wherever we

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Speaker 1: want to and everybody else has to suck it up.

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Speaker 3: I tell you know, if you like it, you'll you'll

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Speaker 3: get up and watch Exit Out about a Fresca exit

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Speaker 3: swollen dome.

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Speaker 1: Jason Smith Mike Carmon Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios.

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Speaker 1: Coming up next, we got big stuff out of the NBA,

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Speaker 1: late breaking stuff out of the NBA, and a different

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Speaker 1: version of Trivia Sports Trivia for Alex Tyshirt.

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Speaker 3: Jason, Fuck no, I don't think you are. Fox Sports

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Speaker 3: Radio