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Speaker 1: All right, right, you come and TOYO live from Philly.

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Speaker 1: It's the number on errated Polly and Tony four Star show.

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Speaker 1: Yo as always Polly First Go, heir with Tony First

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Speaker 1: Go and Tony YO. Very important show today. You know,

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Speaker 1: while we'd love to continue talking about the Eagles and

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Speaker 1: that total domination of that no talent hack, Patrick Mahomes,

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Speaker 1: it is that time of year when we must turn

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Speaker 1: our attention to the NBA, even though nobody wants to.

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Speaker 1: Nobody wants to, but there's just tons of uproar about

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Speaker 1: the NBA All Star Game, which sucked for the twenty

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Speaker 1: seventh consecutive year at least. Yeah. Yeah, this is many

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Speaker 1: people calling on the NBA to come up with ways

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Speaker 1: to fix the game other than canceling it forever, which

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Speaker 1: is the obvious solution. Yes, that would be the best

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Speaker 1: solution anyway, but exactly so, anyway, today we are going

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Speaker 1: to do a deep dive into everything wrong with the

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Speaker 1: All Star Game in the NBA in our special report

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Speaker 1: NBA in Crisis, NBA in Crisis. Not only will we

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Speaker 1: break down why the NBA sucks so much, we're going

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Speaker 1: to open up the Verizon Hot Take hot Line ideas

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Speaker 1: from you out there on ways to fix the All

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Speaker 1: Star Game again besides canceling it forever, which is still

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Speaker 1: exactly still the best thing to do. But again, just

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Speaker 1: to be clear, we know our ideas are way better

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Speaker 1: than yours. But just for the record, you're not coming

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Speaker 1: to you because we need that information. We're coming to

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Speaker 1: you because Verizon paid us millions to do something called

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Speaker 1: the hot Take Hotline. So it just takes us a

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Speaker 1: few minutes. We got to listen to your dumb ideas

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Speaker 1: and we get paid at a rate of well, I

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Speaker 1: don't want to disclose it, but let's say it's in

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Speaker 1: the ten zeros exactly.

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Speaker 2: And you know that also helps the pain of us

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Speaker 2: having to sit through all of your takes.

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Speaker 1: Right, that helps the money. But first, before we get

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Speaker 1: into basketball, Tony, there is one NFL story just broke

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Speaker 1: hit that sounders. According to just release new photos, Patrick

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Speaker 1: Mahomes has cut his ugly looking muppet hair after losing

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. Now, Doty, what were we saying. We've

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Speaker 1: been telling you ever since Nick Sirianni shaved his head.

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Speaker 1: We said there is a direct correlation between hair length

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Speaker 1: and winning. Yeah, look at Jalen hurts.

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Speaker 2: He has that sweet nineties kid in play short buzz

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Speaker 2: faster because of the aerodynamics. Meanwhile, look at Trevor Lawrence

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Speaker 2: with his long, luscious flowing hair. No wonder he's throwing

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Speaker 2: all those picks. The hair is clearly getting in his

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Speaker 2: eyes and he can't see the field or any of

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Speaker 2: his receivers. I think it's clear that instead of the

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Speaker 2: Jaguars getting him a new coach, they need to get

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Speaker 1: Great follicle analysis is always doty and that's our breaking news. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so there we go, got down out of the way,

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Speaker 1: and well now it's time to begin our special report.

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Speaker 1: NBA in crisis, NBA in crisis again. Just so much

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Speaker 1: went horribly wrong over the NBA All Star Break. Now,

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Speaker 1: we'd love to tell you dissect everything that went wrong,

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Speaker 1: but frankly, we didn't watch a single second of it. Now,

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Speaker 1: of course, we had tickets to see Billy Joel at

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Speaker 1: the Vegan Sun exactly. So honestly, all that takes from

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Speaker 1: clips we saw on Twitter blog posts and also just

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Speaker 1: takes we're recycling from the last All Star game we

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Speaker 1: watched in twenty thirteen. But still all these points are

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Speaker 1: very relevant, and Tony, you had a great one. You

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Speaker 2: Tell the people, Well, first of all, you know so

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Speaker 2: many people call it the All Star break. Well, we

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Speaker 2: all know employees don't want to work when they're on break.

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Speaker 2: A much smarter idea would be to call it the

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Speaker 2: NBA All Star Work Retreat. You know that way these

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Speaker 2: lazy gen z, the NBA players know that it's fun

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Speaker 1: Great point, don'y I mean, what is the most important

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Speaker 1: And the lineup of the dunk Contest with three no

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Speaker 1: call this the All Star weekend when it's not all stars? Sense?

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Speaker 2: I mean, shouldn't it be called like half Star weekend then?

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Speaker 2: Or you know, maybe like a three to eight star weekend. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: if I'm a consumer or the FCC, I would sue

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Speaker 2: the NBA for false advertising. You know, at least when

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen. No, no, he declined to participate. That's right,

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson he was there. No, no, he also declined

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Speaker 1: mean that's a name, that's a big name exactly. Anyway, right, well, look,

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Speaker 1: you know there are other problems with the All Star Game.

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Speaker 1: Draymond Green. You know, he came out on the broadcast

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Speaker 1: and he said the game's boring, terrible, and then you know,

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Speaker 1: Charles Barkley came back at him and said, well, it's

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Speaker 1: Draymond Green's generation. You're ruined the All Star Game. And

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Speaker 1: you know this is just so true, Tony. Basketball's gone

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Speaker 1: totally downhill since Barkley left, totally.

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Speaker 2: You know, the game of basketball was so much more

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Speaker 2: exciting during Charles Barkley's generation. You know, people didn't tune

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Speaker 2: You know, people forget that in the late eighties and

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Speaker 2: early nineties, people would literally root for athletes to kill

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Speaker 2: But then OJ Simpson, you know, murdered two civilians and

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Speaker 2: then people were like, whoa, whoa, whoa, that's too far,

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Speaker 1: Just such a terrible drop off, fan, Tony, and you know,

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Speaker 1: you know it's so true because you know, you look

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Speaker 1: at the reception that the NHL All Star Game got

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Speaker 1: this year, where there was basically, you know, ninety eight

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Speaker 1: percent fighting in two percent hockey. Perfect that exactly. That

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Speaker 1: used to be what the NBA was all about, until

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Speaker 1: the league just totally lost its way, don't you agree,

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Speaker 1: one hundred percent?

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Speaker 2: We all know the number one metric for all sports

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Speaker 2: fan gae engagement exactly. And there was no greater example

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Speaker 2: of fan engagement than the Malice at the Palace. You know,

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Speaker 2: fans not only got to come on the court, but

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Speaker 2: they got a chance to actually punch players in the face.

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Speaker 1: It was the ultimate fantasy camp.

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Speaker 2: I mean, who wouldn't want to come to the stadium

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Speaker 1: Just terrific points all around, Tony and you know, this

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Speaker 2: Making memories for the fans that would last a lifetime.

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Speaker 1: You know, and Tony I got to agree with Charles

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Speaker 1: Barkley and all the points he made because you know,

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Speaker 1: when I watched basketball these days, it's just terrible. There's

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Speaker 1: there's too much scoring. I mean, I see some of

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Speaker 1: bowling match? What's going on now?

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Speaker 2: You know, the NBA was so much better in the

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Speaker 1: All the games came down to a tense edgy.

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Speaker 2: You see free throw battle in the last two minutes,

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Speaker 2: that was real stakes and real tension.

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Speaker 1: Just such great basketball analysis all around that, Dody. And

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Speaker 1: you want to talk tension, I gotta say I'm a

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Speaker 1: little tense about what we got coming up next time.

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Speaker 1: You know, as we've said before, we don't like opening

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Speaker 1: So what we've done is we've come up with this

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Speaker 1: thing called the hot Take Hotline, where people know they

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Speaker 1: can send us that takes email video. And yet some

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Speaker 1: people struggle with those very complex instructions. Tony. We received

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Speaker 1: a lot of type emails, yeah, a lot of texts.

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Speaker 1: Maybe our audience is full of like Stephen Hawkings or

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Speaker 1: something that's what's going on out Well, they're just all

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Speaker 1: AI who knows, but you know, you never know these days, Tony. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: So here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna go ahead

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Speaker 1: take hotline. Yeah, all right, so this is what we

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Speaker 1: did the other day. We sent out a tweet whatever

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Speaker 1: from my Instagram wherever, and it said, give us your

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Speaker 1: smartest ideas to fix the terrible NBA All Star Games.

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Speaker 1: So we haven't bothered listened to any of these because

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Speaker 1: don't care. But a producer, he apparently narrowed these down

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Speaker 3: First one is from Simon and his brother?

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Speaker 1: Okay, well, what's his brother's name? Does his brother have

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Speaker 4: You know, so you're asking how we should fix the

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Speaker 4: we have to make a one v one tournament with players.

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Speaker 5: In the NBA.

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Speaker 6: Let's entertain like the catch should make it better.

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Speaker 7: All seventy six ers players and it gets better announcing

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Speaker 7: Jalen Hurts and Saquon Barkley because they know ball.

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Speaker 5: They know ball.

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Speaker 4: They're great ball.

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Speaker 6: Like, you know, I would personally invite Nick Foles.

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Speaker 1: He knows how to win.

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Speaker 4: He's a winner.

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Speaker 1: He knows how to win. That's how you make the

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Speaker 1: All Star Game better and win, you know, Tony, Uh,

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Speaker 1: I do appreciate that creativity close. The problem is is

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Speaker 1: that if you put Nick Foles in any athletic competition,

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Speaker 1: and it's not gonna be competitive at all. Like exactly,

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Speaker 1: he went and played pickle ball, as we told you

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Speaker 1: how the past episode these he's the greatest pickleball player

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Speaker 2: And also, you know, the problem too is if you

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Speaker 2: it creates a safety issue because you know they might

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Speaker 1: You know that that's so true, Tony. You know, when

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Speaker 1: he's in the football gear, the long pants totally safe

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Speaker 1: for everybody. But in those short NBA pants, it's like

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Speaker 5: So my idea to fix the NBA All Star Game

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Speaker 3: We got Tom from Chicago.

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Speaker 1: Tom from Chicago. Hit play eight, PAULI eight.

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Speaker 4: Tony, it's Tom from Chicago. You're a big fan of

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Speaker 4: the show. Guys, congrants on the super Bowl win. There's

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Speaker 4: Magnet shoes. Okay, when we're all playing basketball, we're having

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Speaker 3: Oh, we got Elliott Elliott.

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Speaker 1: Let's go, Hello, Fusco show.

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Speaker 6: I'm Elliott Seisman, proud Dallas Cowboy fans, the twenty twenty

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Speaker 6: These weird shots from nowhere that are very unimpressive. But

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Speaker 5: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: I'll be out my take. I don't know about you, Tony,

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Speaker 2: As soon as he said Cowboys twenty twenty five champions,

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Speaker 1: I didn't even hear that. By that, I can't even now.

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Speaker 3: Well, this one, I'll read it to you. It's an email.

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Speaker 1: What was it sent from eighteen ninety six? What's going

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Speaker 3: I don't know. It's do you want to hear it?

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Speaker 3: A couple points one at a retired player five versus five, one.

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Speaker 3: One v one tournament with reward being better contract eligibility,

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Speaker 3: so like Max to a super max contract.

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Speaker 1: Is there a PowerPoint? There was? Sam? Is this a

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Speaker 3: East versus West, with winners of the game getting contract upgrades.

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Speaker 3: Just like I said before.

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Speaker 1: You thought that was good content? That last two minutes.

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Speaker 1: It felt like whatever you just.

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Speaker 2: I just want to apologize to Noah. I didn't hear

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Speaker 1: It was the worst thing I've ever experienced. Can we

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Speaker 1: go back to this being a hotline segment? Can you

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Speaker 3: We have a voicemail from Bennett.

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Speaker 1: All right, beg all right, let's see that Bennett to go.

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Speaker 8: This is how I propose we fixed All Star weekend.

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Speaker 8: We need to implement a sacrificial event. We haven't done

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Speaker 8: Lively see you see ya? Just sacrifice him so many

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Speaker 1: Watch, you know, Donnie, Okay, So that's he has on

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Speaker 1: the gods may be angry at us for sending him

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Speaker 1: up to them. You know that's fire right anyway, all right,

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Speaker 2: One?

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Speaker 3: Audio clip from Western from DC.

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Speaker 1: That's very confusing, shouldn't it be? Easton is in DC?

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Speaker 1: Are you sure his name is Weston?

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Speaker 1: Alright? Whatever? Play it, all right?

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Speaker 7: Go hi, Paulie and Tony, love you guys. Fuck you

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Speaker 7: producer Jay. I'm Western from DC and to fix the

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Speaker 7: All Star Game. You guys remember that Britney grinder for

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Speaker 7: the Russian arms dealer swap. We need to have political

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Speaker 7: We can win back an American hero, a soldier that's

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Speaker 1: But put that on the line.

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Speaker 1: The players will have to try. Wow. I gotta say,

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Speaker 1: I think we found the one smart boy and we're

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Speaker 1: All right? Well, West and there you goton you national

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Speaker 1: you know you, Sylvia. You don't win anything for this.

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Speaker 1: But Adam Silvia, you who listens to the show, we

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Speaker 1: By the way, the way you started with producer Jay,

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Speaker 1: just the chef's chef's kiss and on that, let's end

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Speaker 1: the hot take, hotline sponsored Diverizon close it go all right,

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Speaker 1: Well that was just you know there. We did go

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Speaker 3: What corrections? You said? Mac McClung shouldn't be in the

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Speaker 3: dunk contest because he's not a professional NBA player.

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Speaker 1: Uh, G league, Bro, amateur hour, Bro.

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Speaker 3: G League players are professional basketball players. They make money.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're gonna win the dunk contest in my pool

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Speaker 2: when I drown you.

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Speaker 1: Oh great, one, We still still going what you said.

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Speaker 3: In the NBA in the nineties, scoring was so low

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Well, after the show, I'm going to free

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Speaker 2: And speaking of low scoring, your social life.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, wait for that.

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Speaker 9: Oh and guess what, Tony again the greatest double booking

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Speaker 9: in the History of sports doc next week on the

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Speaker 9: show two Super Bowl MVPs.

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Speaker 1: Nick Foles and Jalen Hurts will both in the meantime,

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Speaker 1: don't forget go rate and review this podcast five star

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Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, and you go to the merch

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Speaker 1: store and you buy over merch and Tony, great job

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Speaker 1: as always, Same to you, Pauie. Another flawless show. They

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Speaker 1: go see people next week see yo

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