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Speaker 1: This is straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: What is up, Vamp. It's me Jason McIntyre Straight Fire

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Speaker 2: for Monday, April twenty eighth. What Nelly. That was a

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Speaker 2: hell of a sports weekend, wasn't it. My gosh, the

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Speaker 2: NFL draft should do her Sanders a prank call. I

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Speaker 2: have some good prank call stories I might tell later on,

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Speaker 2: but I have to obviously obviously, and you could tell

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Speaker 2: the tone of my voice changed dramatically. Start with the

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Speaker 2: Los Angeles Lakers losing another gut punch to the Minnesota Timberwolves.

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Speaker 2: By the way, I did not know this was a thing,

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Speaker 2: but my daughter was doing homework watching the Lakers with me,

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Speaker 2: and she notices I didn't notice it because I'm, you know,

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Speaker 2: tunnel vision on the game and the stats. She goes,

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Speaker 2: why do I keep hearing a wolve howl? What is

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Speaker 2: the howling? And I guess, And I then listened for

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Speaker 2: and I guess. The Minnesota Timberwolves in the stadium in

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Speaker 2: the arena play wolves like frequently. And I was like, oh,

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Speaker 2: that's an interesting little note. I don't even know where

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Speaker 2: to begin with this game, other than the fact that

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Speaker 2: right out the gate the Lakers are down three to one,

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Speaker 2: and I'm the idiot who doesn't think this series is over.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna be honest, these last two games to me

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Speaker 2: have been coin tosses. I watched Game three intimately, I

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Speaker 2: was disappointed down the stretch. I mean again, this was

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Speaker 2: like a tie game Game three on Friday night, with

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Speaker 2: like what two minutes left, three minutes left, whatever it was,

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Speaker 2: and then Anthony Edwards sits a three, Austin Reeves misses

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Speaker 2: a three. I think Ruy was the other guy who

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Speaker 2: missed a three, and then it was bing bang boom,

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Speaker 2: and then yeah, that was it. But it was a

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Speaker 2: close game right till the end fourth quarter. Lakers melted.

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Speaker 2: So then you get Sunday's Game four, and the Lakers

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Speaker 2: largest lead was twelve. They were the better team for

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Speaker 2: much of the game, but Minnesota kept fighting back. Their

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Speaker 2: largest lead was four. They won the game by three

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Speaker 2: on a free throw on some controversial free throws by

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Speaker 2: Anthony Edwards, but also nas Reed made a big three,

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Speaker 2: Dante DiVincenzo had a huge and one, and ultimately Lakers

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Speaker 2: just kind of sort of wilted there down in the stretch. Now,

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Speaker 2: it's understandable because as everybody's having a big hullabaloo about

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Speaker 2: JJ Redick didn't sub anyone in in the entire second half.

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Speaker 2: He played his horses. The strategy worked, period, hard stop.

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Speaker 2: It worked. The Lakers were the better team in the

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Speaker 2: third quarter. They didn't blow the lead like they had

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Speaker 2: in the third quarter of the multiple games this series.

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Speaker 2: They've just gotten waxed in the third quarter for some reason.

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Speaker 2: And the Lakers were doing great and actually in this

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Speaker 2: game throughout, winning throughout. After Lebron had a phenomenal and

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Speaker 2: I'm just talking an unbelievable block of Devincenzo and they

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Speaker 2: come down the other end and I believe it was

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Speaker 2: let me is he here? So Lebron blocks Evencenzo and

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Speaker 2: then Dorian Phinney Smith makes the three. Lakers are up

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Speaker 2: by two with ninety seconds left. Ninety seconds Lakers up

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Speaker 2: by two after they had just been down by four,

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Speaker 2: and I was like, oh, there's gonna be a cup pin.

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Speaker 2: I mean, the game was phenomenal. It was a coin toss.

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Speaker 2: And again I'm not gonna bash JJ Reddick, all these

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Speaker 2: people saying you got to so the Lakers bench has

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Speaker 2: been getting murdered in this series, Okay, that's the facts.

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Speaker 2: We like Vincent. I like gay Vincent. I thought he

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Speaker 2: showed well in Game two. I'm sorry, guys, the rest

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Speaker 2: of the bench, it's just not delivering. Obviously, Vanderbilt is limited.

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Speaker 2: He just commits fouls, get three bounds of defense. They're

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Speaker 2: not gonna guard him. He can't sit in the dunker's bot.

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Speaker 2: He's not a rim protector. Is he their best bet

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Speaker 2: against Anthony Edwards? Maybe Anthony Edwards is freaking amazing. Jordan Goodwin,

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Speaker 2: who nobody had heard of before this year, is you know,

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Speaker 2: a tenth guy on your roster, not like an eight

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Speaker 2: or nine. I'm sorry, that's just the facts. And they

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Speaker 2: didn't even play Dalton connect He's barely getting in the game.

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Speaker 2: Jackson Hayes played four minutes, like I think he started

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Speaker 2: the game and that was it. Picks up two fouls,

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Speaker 2: scores on a dunk, and then never seen again. The

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Speaker 2: Lakers just listen. They just got Luca in February. Okay,

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Speaker 2: he was injured at the time. They almost wung a

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Speaker 2: deal for Mark Williams. Would he be making a difference here.

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Speaker 2: I like to think so, but I'm not certain. I'm

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Speaker 2: not one hundred percent certain. Luca definitely needs a lob

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Speaker 2: threat because if you notice what the Wolves were doing,

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Speaker 2: they're hard doubling Luca out at half court. Luca killed

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Speaker 2: him last year in the series when he was with

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Speaker 2: the MAVs, and so they're like, screw that, We're just

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Speaker 2: gonna hard double Luca and play four on three. So

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Speaker 2: in the second quarter that worked. Austin Reeves got in

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Speaker 2: foul trouble. Third foul is so controversial, dumb, that Rudy

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Speaker 2: Gobert thing. And then when the Lakers are doing that

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Speaker 2: and they're getting the ball to Goodwin and Vanderbilt, they're

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Speaker 2: not threats. Timberwolves don't have to worry about them. Gabe Vincent,

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Speaker 2: he's in for thirteen minutes, missus his two threes. That's

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Speaker 2: like me playing in a high level basketball game. I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna come in, Jay Back, you gotta hit your shots.

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Speaker 2: I miss him, all right, you go to the bench,

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Speaker 2: you know. So second half, Austin Reeves is in mostly

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Speaker 2: in the third quarter, and that Lucas strategy for Minnesota

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Speaker 2: backfired because now it's Ruey was set in the screen.

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Speaker 2: They get it to Ruey and it's a four on

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Speaker 2: three and they're finding Austin Reeves in the corner. He

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Speaker 2: hit three threes in the third. Ruey had a phenomenal

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Speaker 2: game with twenty three points. He was excellent. I mean,

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Speaker 2: think about this. The Lakers made nineteen or forty seven threes.

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Speaker 2: The Wolves only made fourteen to thirty six. The Lakers

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Speaker 2: had five times three fifteen more points on three pointers

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Speaker 2: and still lost the game. So I've broken this series

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Speaker 2: down where I think three. I basically think three things

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Speaker 2: are why the Timberwolves are up three to one. Number

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Speaker 2: one has to be offensive rebounds. It is unbelievable how

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Speaker 2: the Lakers just cannot and I get it, no center,

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Speaker 2: but just continuously if there's a loose ball under the hoop,

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Speaker 2: I feel like Minnesota's getting it. That's just how it's going.

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Speaker 2: They had eighteen offensive boards that resulted in ten more

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Speaker 2: shot attempts. When you're shooting forty percent, you gotta make

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Speaker 2: four of those extra ten shots. And the other thing

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Speaker 2: is with no Lakers rim protector, they're just attacking relentlessly.

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Speaker 2: Minnesota sat thirty three free throws. They made twenty six,

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Speaker 2: which is more than the Lakers attempted. Okay, Lebron was

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Speaker 2: awesome from the free throw line fifteen of eighteen. But

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Speaker 2: Minnesota's just get into the line and well, actually four things.

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Speaker 2: So number one, the offensive glass is just killing the Lakers.

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Speaker 2: There's no easy solution to that. You can't just say

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Speaker 2: try harder. I mean, their Lakers are outsized, they're out quicked.

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Speaker 2: Lebron is old Luca is Luca had one rebound playing

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Speaker 2: forty six minutes. Not great, not great at all. Lebron

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Speaker 2: had twelve rebounds, heroic stuff. Rui's not like a quick,

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Speaker 2: dynamic athlete. And Dorian Finney Smith tries hard, but again

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Speaker 2: he's going up against like long dude, Jaden McDaniels, Anthony Edwards,

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Speaker 2: Rudy Gobert had seven offensive rebounds, Anthony Edwards had four.

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Speaker 2: Like they're just crashing so freaking hard, it's tough. And

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Speaker 2: then number two, obviously is when they get Ruby Rudy

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Speaker 2: Everybody's attacking, just hardcore attack their in and there's no

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Speaker 2: a layup. Right, So number three the third reason I

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Speaker 2: think the Lakers are losing. And again I know you're

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Speaker 2: gonna say, Jay, you got to you gotta crush the Lakers.

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Speaker 2: It's not really about the Lakers. It's more I mean,

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Speaker 2: the Lakers bench hasn't delivered. But Minnesota is just a

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Speaker 2: really good matchup for the Lakers. They're the one team

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Speaker 2: like honestly, Minnesota matches up better with the Lakers than

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Speaker 2: Okase does because of their size and length. Okay See

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Speaker 2: would not I don't think play heart and Stein and

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Speaker 2: chet Homeward. I think the Lakers would murder them. They

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Speaker 2: did murder them a couple of weeks ago in Minnesota

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Speaker 2: in okay See. I know it was a regular season game,

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Speaker 2: but they don't have the quickness and that Lakers would

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Speaker 2: just bomb threes on them, the way the Lakers bomb

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Speaker 2: threes in the third quarter on Sunday and took that lead,

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Speaker 2: getting it up to ten and then twelve. The problem

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Speaker 2: becomes was when they match the Lakers in size, they

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Speaker 2: pull Rudy off the court. Rudy, by the way, minus

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Speaker 2: eleven in twenty six minutes. Meanwhile, nas Red comes in,

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Speaker 2: he could defect, defend, he can rim protect and oh,

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Speaker 2: by the way, he can hit a three. I mean,

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Speaker 2: Lakers didn't play any bench guys in the second half.

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Speaker 2: Minnesota got buckets in the final two minutes from Nas

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Speaker 2: Reed and Dante DiVincenzo. Like that's significant, Like that matters

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Speaker 2: having a bench. I too have to mention, Julius Randall

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Speaker 2: is playing ridiculous out of his fricking mind, folks. I

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Speaker 2: had to look this up so we all know. Julius Randall, Right,

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Speaker 2: he was drafted by the Lakers, right. I like Julius

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Speaker 2: Randall from Kentucky, drafted by the Lakers, played for by Nicks.

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Speaker 2: A good player, seems like a good guy, great guy

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Speaker 2: in the community. Julius Randall is not a three point shooter. Okay,

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Speaker 2: his career, in fifteen career playoff games, he's at twenty

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Speaker 2: eight percent on threes. That's not good. Twenty eight percent

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Speaker 2: three three point shooter. Honestly, when Randall earlier in the

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Speaker 2: take that. He's likely going to miss. He's twenty eight

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Speaker 2: percent for his career. Now, if you want to say, well, Jay,

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Speaker 2: what about the regular season? We could do that too,

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Speaker 2: pro Basketball Reference or Basketball Reference. I guess it's not pro.

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Speaker 2: Let's see here, Julius Randall, this season from three, he

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Speaker 2: shot thirty four percent from three this season, that stuffing

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Speaker 2: special thirty four percent. Well, get that up in this

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Speaker 2: series shooting threes, Julius Randall forty five percent. He's having

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Speaker 2: an out of body experience from three, Like I you

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Speaker 2: know that's that was not factored in coming in the series. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Julius Randad's gonna drop. Is going to average twenty two

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Speaker 2: a game and just bury threes at forty five percent.

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Speaker 1: Clip.

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Speaker 2: I didn't expect that. But the final reason, you know,

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Speaker 2: Anthony Edwards is freaking amazing. Anytime the Lakers stretch that

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Speaker 2: lead and Edwards was just like, I got this and

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Speaker 2: he's pretty freaking unguardible. Guys, I don't know what you do.

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Speaker 2: I was saying, try Vanderbilt in the second quarter. Goodwin

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Speaker 2: had no chance. I mean, nobody really has a chance.

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Speaker 2: Ant's handles and finishing around the rim are ridiculous. He

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Speaker 2: led the league in three point makes, shot five of

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Speaker 2: ten from deep on Sunday fourteen of seventeen at the line,

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Speaker 2: finished with forty three nine and six, had one turnover

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Speaker 2: in forty four minutes. I don't I want to make

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Speaker 2: a case for Anthony Edwards is a top five guy

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Speaker 2: in the league. I don't know, what do you do,

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Speaker 2: Like it's Yannis yo kich I put Luca in there, SGA,

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Speaker 2: I mean Jason Tatum. I don't know. Is Anthony Edwards it?

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Speaker 2: Maybe he has to be, because I'm being honest. Nobody

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Speaker 2: can stop him going to the basket. Nobody. You can't

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Speaker 2: stay in front of him. He's just an animal. And

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Speaker 2: you know, and the Lakers go zone, and the zone

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Speaker 2: has given Minnesota problems. Ant, you know, was patient and

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Speaker 2: then hit threes, and you know, I don't know if

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Speaker 2: the Lake can go more zone. I don't I don't

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Speaker 2: know what you do for Ant. It's not like you

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Speaker 2: can wear him down, right. He is a machine. He's like,

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Speaker 2: what twenty twenty five years old, he's twenty three. My gosh,

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Speaker 2: he's twenty three years old. Like the one thing I

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Speaker 2: and I'm a big Anthony Edwards saying you could look

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Speaker 2: it up like two years ago, I said he was

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Speaker 2: the best in game dunker in NBA history, and all

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Speaker 2: like it's over. Boston beats Orlando, Orlando's fighting hard, Boston wins,

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Speaker 2: All right, let's get to Nick's ninety four Pistons ninety three.

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Speaker 2: Nix went into the weekend right tied at one. Everybody's nervous.

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Speaker 2: They get the I'll say lucky, fortunate win one eighteen one, sixteen,

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Speaker 2: The new guy, Carl Anthony Towns from They were calling

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Speaker 2: but Kat splashes a three. It was the game winner.

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Speaker 2: You didn't have a great game, twenty seven points on

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Speaker 2: And then of course, the Knicks survived the chaotic final

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Speaker 2: You look. Knicks players were looking around. Everybody was like,

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Speaker 2: the Knicks really battled here. The three pointers are the difference.

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Speaker 2: They had two guys who could make threes, Tim Hardaway

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Speaker 2: Now, I do have all week to talk about the

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Speaker 2: NFL Draft, and obviously NBA playoffs were so thrilling on

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Speaker 2: need to address some Shador Sanders stuff. His fall was

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Speaker 2: precipitous fall in NFL draft history. That's undeniable. Guys. You

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Speaker 2: can say what you want, like, nobody on planet Earth

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Speaker 2: expected Shaduur Sanders to go fifth round. I mean, guys,

422
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Speaker 2: everybody and their mom. Any analyst you talked to had Shador.

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Speaker 2: If it wasn't top twenty, Melkiper, it was top thirty,

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Speaker 2: maybe it was top forty or fifty, but nobody had

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Speaker 2: him outside the top one hundred. Nobody who analyzes NFL

426
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Speaker 2: draft stuff, nobody, not one person. So then it becomes

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Speaker 2: in a weird I don't know, it was just a

428
00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:20,880
Speaker 2: weird moment. It started to become a racial thing. Oh

429
00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:24,080
Speaker 2: this is racial. They're black bawling shaduor Sanders, And I'm like,

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Speaker 2: I don't buy that at all. I mean, how could

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Speaker 2: it be racial when the first quarterback taken was black

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Speaker 2: in cam Ward? This isn't racial. It's just people grasping

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Speaker 2: its straws and angry. Okay, No, there was not collusion

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Speaker 2: among NFL owners. The most logical explanation is that Shadure

435
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Speaker 2: Sanders went into some of these pre draft meetings with

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Speaker 2: teams and nuked himself. You know whether it was And

437
00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:58,320
Speaker 2: again I'm just guessing here, but Chadour rolls into the meeting.

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Speaker 2: Is he wearing earbuds? Does he have a Hamra crew

439
00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:04,359
Speaker 2: in tow? Is he acting entitled? This is obvious stuff

440
00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:07,480
Speaker 2: that could appear to be legit for Shadoor, Like he

441
00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:11,680
Speaker 2: just rolled in like he was the man, and that

442
00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:13,959
Speaker 2: led people to put bump him down their boards. Well,

443
00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,720
Speaker 2: the problem is there was only like a five sixty

444
00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:21,920
Speaker 2: market max for Shadoor Sanders. That's it. And at that point,

445
00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:25,720
Speaker 2: if you're like the Rams, do you say, oh, do

446
00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:30,000
Speaker 2: we want to get in the Shadeur business. And I

447
00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:31,760
Speaker 2: don't know that the Rams would even discuss it. I'm

448
00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:35,720
Speaker 2: just guessing, but it's like, hey, yeah, I don't really

449
00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:38,040
Speaker 2: want to be fielding questions. If Stafford has a three

450
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Speaker 2: interception game, is it Shadoor Sanders time? Is Dion going

451
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Speaker 2: to be putting stuff out on social media? Give my

452
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Speaker 2: kid a chance? I don't know. I mean, this is

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Speaker 2: a guy who said he was going to steer his

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Speaker 2: kid to certain teams. He didn't want his team his

455
00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:54,159
Speaker 2: kid going to certain organizations. He's said that he's on record,

456
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Speaker 2: So then it becomes, well, geez, the risk reward if

457
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Speaker 2: we don't think he's a potential starter for us acted

458
00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:04,000
Speaker 2: like a jerk in our meetings. Is he gonna be

459
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:07,600
Speaker 2: a hold the clipboard kind of backup quarterback? Could he

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Speaker 2: do that in Jacksonville? Could he do that in Philadelphia?

461
00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:15,639
Speaker 2: I have no idea. The Jets clearly were like, no, thanks,

462
00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:18,399
Speaker 2: Justin Fields is our guy. We're gonna see it through.

463
00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:21,920
Speaker 2: We don't even know shd or Sanders. So this is

464
00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:27,040
Speaker 2: where it gets weird. So Dylan Gabriel was awesome at Oregon. Okay,

465
00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:31,840
Speaker 2: really really talented quarterback he had a great college football career,

466
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Speaker 2: broke the record for most starts and total touchdowns. I

467
00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:41,760
Speaker 2: like Dylan Gabriel as a college football quarterback. The fact

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Speaker 2: that the Cleveland Browns took a quarterback who's from Hawaii,

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Speaker 2: Okay and five foot eleven and they took him third round.

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Speaker 2: A quarterback from Hawaii who has played at UCF, Oklahoma

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Speaker 2: and Oregon is now going to go to the Mistake

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Speaker 2: by the Lake and play for the Browns. I do not,

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Speaker 2: in any circumstance under what I just have no clue

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Speaker 2: what's going on there. How does that make any sense

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Speaker 2: in the world. Not only did they draft Dillan Gabled

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Speaker 2: in the third round, then they took Shadeur in the

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Speaker 2: fifth round. So riddle me this. This is a team

478
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Speaker 2: that gave up a fifth round prick for Kenny Pickett.

479
00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:30,400
Speaker 2: They have Deshaun Watson, who obviously is done in Cleveland,

480
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:32,200
Speaker 2: but he's still on the roster and he's getting paid,

481
00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:38,280
Speaker 2: and they got Joe Flacco. Shadure comes on as their

482
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Speaker 2: fifth quarterback. Okay, maybe they decide they're gonna cut Deshaun

483
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Speaker 2: Watson and just absorb the Caphit that's possible. They don't

484
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Speaker 2: want the drama. We don't want any thought that he's

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Speaker 2: coming back. We're done with. Maybe they do that and

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Speaker 2: then you have four Otherwise they're going to go into

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Speaker 2: camp with five quarterbacks. Folks, most teams, if you look

488
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Speaker 2: at their who's act if usually it's two quarterbacks, then

489
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:08,800
Speaker 2: there's inactive. I mean, is Shadur going to be? I

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Speaker 2: don't forget about any numbers that he could post this year.

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Speaker 2: I would set how many games he starts at half

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Speaker 2: a game?

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Speaker 1: Now?

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Speaker 2: Would you could do that now? But let's see what

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00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:21,440
Speaker 2: happens in the preseason. But like I, maybe they think

496
00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:24,400
Speaker 2: he's only a developmental guy. But to take Dylan Gabriel

497
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:28,040
Speaker 2: ahead of him after getting Kenny Pickett and Joe Flakel,

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Speaker 2: I don't. Usually the Browns are smart. I have no

499
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Speaker 2: clue what they did in this draft. Now. I did

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Speaker 2: like the Harrold fan and pick. I like the Mason

501
00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:40,760
Speaker 2: Graham pick. And some people did make an interesting comment

502
00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:43,920
Speaker 2: the Browns have been getting destroyed all weekend just for ineptitude.

503
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Speaker 2: What if instead of taking an off ball linebacker Schweinzteiger

504
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:54,359
Speaker 2: from UCLA, what if they took Shador there? Would that

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Speaker 2: have been a more acceptable draft, then they probably don't

506
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Speaker 2: take Dylan Gabriel. I don't know the answer to that.

507
00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:03,720
Speaker 2: I thought they won the Travis Hunter deal. I just

508
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:07,200
Speaker 2: didn't understand the Dylan Gabriel and Shador standers. Now quickly

509
00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:11,480
Speaker 2: on the prank call. I made a lot of prank

510
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Speaker 2: calls when I was a kid. Everybody did, Okay, there was,

511
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:16,959
Speaker 2: but when I did it, there was no cell phones. Okay,

512
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 2: and well there was, I guess now there weren't technically

513
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 2: cell phones, but it was you know, the days were

514
00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:28,440
Speaker 2: there wasn't even caller ID. Old heads know what I'm

515
00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:30,280
Speaker 2: about to say. But you would have to do something

516
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:33,720
Speaker 2: called Star sixty nine and you would then call back

517
00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:37,840
Speaker 2: the number that called you, like that was a thing. Okay.

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00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 2: Then came caller ID, and then there was a way

519
00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:42,640
Speaker 2: to block your number from showing up on caller ID.

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00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:45,320
Speaker 2: I forget what that was. But anybody who knows it's

521
00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:47,800
Speaker 2: had a sleepover when they were in middle school or

522
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Speaker 2: high school and made a prank call knows what I'm

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00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:55,080
Speaker 2: talking about. Okay, So it's like I get prank calls.

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Speaker 2: I totally understand that calling random numbers. I guess I

525
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:03,160
Speaker 2: can say this because it happened so long ago. So

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Speaker 2: there is this former wrestler. His name was Big John Studd.

527
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:10,880
Speaker 2: He was a WWF wrestler. He lived in our area.

528
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Speaker 2: And now I never saw him in our area once,

529
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:18,440
Speaker 2: but he lived in our area, and growing up, everybody

530
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Speaker 2: like knew who he was, and you know, he was

531
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 2: kind of famous in our area. But I never saw

532
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Speaker 2: him once in person. I don't know how, but of course,

533
00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:31,000
Speaker 2: you know, people find out, oh, this is just Big

534
00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:33,600
Speaker 2: John Studd, this is his real name, and then this

535
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 2: is his number, and so you know, okay, so we

536
00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:39,200
Speaker 2: be at sleepboards. Oh let's prank call Big John Studd.

537
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:41,720
Speaker 2: So we'd call him up and people like, WHOA do

538
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 2: the Rick Flair yell or do the Macho man ultimate.

539
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:48,560
Speaker 2: We would just do that and laugh and hang up,

540
00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:50,479
Speaker 2: like I'm sure he got that a million times right.

541
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:55,440
Speaker 2: It's just a prank call. I mean, if he was

542
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:59,800
Speaker 2: getting inducted into the Wrestling Hall of Fame and had

543
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:03,640
Speaker 2: a I would not be like, let me prank Big

544
00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:07,680
Speaker 2: John stud on his Hall of Fame election night and

545
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:11,239
Speaker 2: get a good chuckle out of it. The idea that

546
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:13,640
Speaker 2: somebody would think, hey, let me prank called Dion on

547
00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:17,120
Speaker 2: draft night and pretend like I'm a front office about

548
00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:20,200
Speaker 2: the drift. Let me do that. That's a funny idea. Like, Man,

549
00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:22,360
Speaker 2: I was a kid, I did a lot of dumb stuff.

550
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:24,880
Speaker 2: Something would have jumped out of Dude, that is not

551
00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:28,680
Speaker 2: a cool thing to do. That's not funny. Had Dion

552
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:32,200
Speaker 2: Sun had a lot going on here and Shadur this

553
00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:34,560
Speaker 2: was a big night, I wouldn't be surprised with it.

554
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:39,000
Speaker 2: A Netflix documentary released about leading up to the draft,

555
00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:40,280
Speaker 2: I would not be shocked. I mean, look at the

556
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:44,240
Speaker 2: camera crews falling this guy around, and I just thought

557
00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:46,600
Speaker 2: it was weak that they would do that prank call.

558
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:49,440
Speaker 2: And of course, not only are they dumb, but they're

559
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:52,800
Speaker 2: really stupid to then try to put it online in

560
00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:56,480
Speaker 2: some capacity to because you need to flex. It's like, hey, Jay,

561
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Speaker 2: did you really go to Japan? If you didn't post

562
00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:02,360
Speaker 2: any photos or video, Like, did you really do? Because

563
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:04,440
Speaker 2: if you don't put something online, it's like did it

564
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 2: really happen? That's like the idea now of these young, dumb,

565
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:10,560
Speaker 2: idiot kids. And so these kids put it online and

566
00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 2: instantly everybody's like, yeah, that's the Uh. The defensive coordinator's

567
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:17,720
Speaker 2: son from the Falcons and he got out in like

568
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:22,000
Speaker 2: two seconds. Now he did apologize. I don't you just

569
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:26,680
Speaker 2: tell me how believable this is? So the defensive coordator

570
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:31,920
Speaker 2: had his iPad laying around and it had Shador Sanders's

571
00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:39,640
Speaker 2: phone number on it. Does that sound believable remotely? I mean, yes,

572
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:42,800
Speaker 2: Have I had my phone and my kids figured out

573
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:44,680
Speaker 2: my password and got in and went on and played

574
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:47,760
Speaker 2: games on the phone. Sure, Have they gone on the

575
00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:50,440
Speaker 2: phone and like gone on Instagram and done what looked

576
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:53,720
Speaker 2: around or whatever? Sure? But would they go on the

577
00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:57,440
Speaker 2: phone and get like not that he's would they get

578
00:31:57,480 --> 00:31:59,400
Speaker 2: Cowherd's number in prank call um or something?

579
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:00,440
Speaker 1: No?

580
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Speaker 2: I just I don't understand how his iPad was just

581
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:09,560
Speaker 2: laying around and Chador's number was just there, Like none

582
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:13,720
Speaker 2: of that really adds up to me. But again, it's

583
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:17,040
Speaker 2: a former Jet guy, Obrick, who was a defensive coordinator.

584
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 2: I don't know. Something just smells a little rotten there.

585
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:24,920
Speaker 2: And I didn't even know the Falcons were serious about

586
00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:30,080
Speaker 2: taking Shador. They had Michael Pennox, well, they have Kirk Cousins. Really,

587
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:31,840
Speaker 2: Chador was on their list to the point that he

588
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:34,800
Speaker 2: gave them his cell phone number. I don't know. Seems

589
00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:38,640
Speaker 2: strange anyways, li'sen. I guess we'll see you. I thought

590
00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 2: Shador was worthy of going three to the Giants. They

591
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:43,760
Speaker 2: traded back for Jackson Dart, then De Browns took Dylan Gabriel,

592
00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:47,239
Speaker 2: and then nobody else. Raiders didn't want Shador. It's just

593
00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:50,800
Speaker 2: very bizarre in a weird way. Guys, I'm rooting for

594
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:53,640
Speaker 2: Shador Sanders. I don't know what's gonna happen, Probably not

595
00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:55,120
Speaker 2: in Cleveland. I'll have to be at his next stop.

596
00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:56,800
Speaker 2: But man, what a wild weekend.

597
00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:57,080
Speaker 1: All right?

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Speaker 2: We got big week ahead fired up tomorrow