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Speaker 1: Good morning, Swee world, and welcome to the No Dunks

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Speaker 1: Podcast on the Athletic Network. It's Saturday, April twenty sixth,

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. I'm Jay Skeets here in the yard

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Speaker 1: and review. Just a solo Skeets pod of course, with

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Speaker 1: my stream teamers going through last night's games. Three games

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Speaker 1: on Friday night, we'll make this quick recap them, few

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Speaker 1: we'll start with the Minnesota game cause it was really

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Speaker 1: entertaining and we had a team that usually struggles in

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Speaker 1: the clutch come through the Wolves capta one sixteen to

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Speaker 1: He accounted for seven of those key key points four

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Speaker 1: in their first round series. Again, something we talked about

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Speaker 1: with the Minnesota Timbwolves all season long, obviously in playoff previews.

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Speaker 1: This is one of the worst clutch teams this season,

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Speaker 1: and they flipped it on its head. They found a

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Speaker 1: way to grind out this game against let's be honest,

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Speaker 1: two of the league's like ultimate closers in Lebron and Luca.

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Speaker 1: But it was Anthony Edwards seizing Game three just took control.

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Speaker 1: He had that big step back three over Luca with

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Speaker 1: was big. Then he got to playmaking as he did

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Speaker 1: all night long. And I heard Chris Finch, Welf's coach

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Speaker 1: he's looking like Luca because he's got the scoring, he's

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Speaker 1: I don't really need you like you know. It does

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Speaker 1: say like how I feel about the Orlando Magic and

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Speaker 1: their chances with or without some of their best players

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Speaker 1: to me. And that's fine, and it's probably all true

431
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Speaker 1: because they nearly won this game without them, and they

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Speaker 1: obviously won Game two without Tatum and so on. But

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Speaker 1: it's just funny like they're approaching it like this, and

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Speaker 1: now they're you know, they have a two to one lead,

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Speaker 1: and we'll see if the Magic can continue their run

436
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Speaker 1: at home where they've been really good in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: Boston shot nine to twenty seven from deep in Game three.

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Speaker 1: That's obviously, you know, not good for them at all,

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Speaker 1: not good for any team. That's a bad percentage and

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Speaker 1: low number of shot attempts from deep and only hitting

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Speaker 1: under ten. That's great for Orlando's it's there. That's just

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Speaker 1: obviously the game plan is try to reduce that, and

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Speaker 1: they did really well. In Game three. There was a

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Speaker 1: stretch like seventeen minutes between three pointers made between the Celtics,

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Speaker 1: so that's fantastically you're like a quarter and a half

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Speaker 1: almost where they're not hitting one another chippy game though,

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00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:58,320
Speaker 1: forty three fouls, I think in totality a flagrant foul,

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Speaker 1: bunch of turnovers. It was a slow game and a

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Speaker 1: lot of that's the defense being played. With thirty five turnovers,

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00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:08,040
Speaker 1: though there's some like bad traveling calls on the Celtics.

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Speaker 1: It made some boneheaded plays when you think about it,

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Speaker 1: and yet it all up, but the flagrant foul, that

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Speaker 1: one was called on Cole Anthony. He yanked Jalen Brown's

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Speaker 1: arm as he drove to the basket in the second quarter,

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Speaker 1: and when Brown fell, he like dislocated his left index finger,

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Speaker 1: and uh, man, you can tell these Celtics are getting

457
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Speaker 1: pissed off with how the Magic and how physical they play,

458
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Speaker 1: because the Magic have now had a flagrant fowl in

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Speaker 1: three straight games. Game one, that's the KCP one. He

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Speaker 1: hits Tatum on the drive to the basket. That takes

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Speaker 1: Tatum out. For game two, Game two, Porzingis takes it

462
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Speaker 1: was a pretty inadvertent elbow, but still he takes an

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Speaker 1: elbow to the face from Goga, cuts them open, makes

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Speaker 1: him bleed his own blood. He's loving it though, by

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Speaker 1: the way, getting the bandages, gets the stitches, got the

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Speaker 1: cool scar there now. And then in game three, it's

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Speaker 1: says Cole Anthony, which was you know, it was upgraded

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Speaker 1: to a flagrant foul one, Like I said, just straight

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Speaker 1: yanked them down, and uh it's look you hear the

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Speaker 1: comments after from the Boston Celtics. Brown specifically said, you

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Speaker 1: know about all this physicality and how they like this

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Speaker 1: is that they do, and it's you know, it's like,

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Speaker 1: on one hand, it's like we got to fight through it.

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Speaker 1: But you can tell they're gett annoyed because he said, quote,

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Speaker 1: maybe a fight will break out in Game four. You

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Speaker 1: want to fight, we can do that. See who goes

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Speaker 1: to the second round. So this idea of like this

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Speaker 1: ain't basketball anymore here, this is what the Celtics are

479
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Speaker 1: sort of saying, you guys won't want to fight, we

480
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Speaker 1: can just fight. Let's forget the basketball. So keep that

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Speaker 1: in mind. Uh, if there's a hard foul once again

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Speaker 1: early or at some point in Game four here in

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Speaker 1: Orlando over the weekend, and who retaliates maybe on Boston

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Speaker 1: because you can tell that's something they're talking about and

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Speaker 1: they're like, all right, this is getting annoying. And like

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Speaker 1: I I don't think I'll even go back to that

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Speaker 1: kcpe because I wasn't on the show to talk about

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Speaker 1: that one. I was a little surprised that did get

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Speaker 1: upgraded to a flagrant. Like there was a lot of contact,

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Speaker 1: but I don't think there was anything super malicious or

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Speaker 1: pushing Tatum in the back and all that. It was

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Speaker 1: just a bad fall and the way he landed, he

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Speaker 1: heard his wrist. I was a little shocked by that one,

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Speaker 1: like the porzingis one, okay, the guy gets cut open

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Speaker 1: is like got blood everywhere they usually call those. And

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Speaker 1: then this one, this one was deserving Cole Anthony. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: not really a basketball play, just a straight up I'm

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Speaker 1: trying to prevent an easy bucket, but had some oomph

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Speaker 1: to it. And you know, as again as John Brown

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Speaker 1: fellows when the digit gets dislocated. So they're frustrated, and

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Speaker 1: I can imagine we'll have some more fireworks in game four.

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Speaker 1: So there you go. Those are last night's three games.

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Speaker 1: I apologize that I haven't been able to sort of

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Speaker 1: keep my eye here on the stream team as I

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Speaker 1: went through these. I'm seeing Mike Zikaria in here saying

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Speaker 1: we're due for some weird joke quotes before game four. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's true, That's very true. The town is going to

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Speaker 1: be on repeat. Let's show you guys the bracket here

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Speaker 1: before we get you out of here, because here is

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Speaker 1: where we stand right now as we head into Saturday action.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully you're catching this early enough. On Saturday. We got

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Speaker 1: the thunder who play later today. They can sweep their

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Speaker 1: series and probably will against the Memphis Grizzlies. No John

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Speaker 1: Morant after the scary herd fall, and I can't imagine

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Speaker 1: the Thunder will be down twenty nine in this one.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's competitive, but I'll take okay see to finish

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Speaker 1: up that one. Also in the West, huge game four

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Speaker 1: for Denver, who everybody's already, like, you know, shoveling dirt

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Speaker 1: on them after getting cooked there in Game three by

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Speaker 1: Kawhi and the Clippers. But I still have hope. I

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Speaker 1: have to have hope. I had the Nuggets and seven,

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Speaker 1: so I think we get a monster monster yokic performance

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Speaker 1: later today. I think that one's at six o'clock. I

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Speaker 1: want to say Eastern. Obviously the Wolves up to one.

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Speaker 1: They have a little bit of time off until they

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Speaker 1: play Sunday in one of the matinee spots, and then

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Speaker 1: tonight Rockets Warriors. That's the Lake game. That series is

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Speaker 1: tied at one game apiece, So not a pivotal Game three,

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Speaker 1: but let's call it critical. I don't know it's critical.

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00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:21,640
Speaker 1: Critical sound more important than pivotal, I don't. I'm not sure.

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Speaker 1: Someone give me a better name in the stream team,

532
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:24,880
Speaker 1: but it's a big game three. We'll call it big

533
00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:27,639
Speaker 1: Game three, and then over in the East. The Calves

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Speaker 1: Heat play game three today Miami, obviously looking for their

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Speaker 1: first winning the series. You see the Pacers there still

536
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:35,840
Speaker 1: up to one on the Bucks, Nicks up to to

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00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:38,600
Speaker 1: one on the Pistons, and then the Magic still up

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00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:42,680
Speaker 1: to to one on the Frisky Magic who the Busts

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00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:46,560
Speaker 1: and Celtics are tired of playing. So that's it. There

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Speaker 1: you go, a little recap. Thanks everybody for joining me live.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully you're all caught up. If you're catching this a

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Speaker 1: little bit later, maybe you miss some of the games

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00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:58,359
Speaker 1: last night, or maybe you didn't. He just wanted to

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Speaker 1: hear my thoughts on them. It's all I will say.

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Speaker 1: Before I go, make sure you go see Sinners if

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Speaker 1: you haven't. I know there's a lot of basketball on

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00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:11,040
Speaker 1: this weekend. Slip in a little Sinners movie experience. I

548
00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:16,040
Speaker 1: went yesterday afternoon before all the basketball got underway. It's

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00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:20,439
Speaker 1: worth the hype and then some. It was awesome. I

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Speaker 1: didn't see it in Imax. I know you're gonna ask

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Speaker 1: me that. I'm sorry, Ryan Coogler, I didn't see it

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Speaker 1: in Imax. It was very tough to get a ticket

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Speaker 1: that late. But this is how good the movie is.

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Speaker 1: I'm considering going to watch it again in IMAX, and

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00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:38,920
Speaker 1: I am I've notoriously said this notoriously. I'm not sure

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00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:40,720
Speaker 1: it's notorious. I don't think it's being passed around on

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00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:44,800
Speaker 1: message boards. But I it is a true story. I

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00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:46,520
Speaker 1: want to make sure it is. Yes, it is. I

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00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:51,320
Speaker 1: have never seen a movie twice in the theater the

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00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:53,520
Speaker 1: same movie. That makes more sense. I've never seen the

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Speaker 1: same movie twice in the theater. Never. It's a badge

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Speaker 1: of honor. It's the weirdest badge of honor. But I

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00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:02,400
Speaker 1: might do it for this one because I might have

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Speaker 1: to go see this in imax. So anyway, it's awesome,

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00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:09,160
Speaker 1: and go see it if you haven't already. Okay, I

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Speaker 1: might be back tomorrow, depending on how these games go.

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Speaker 1: Might do another weekend shift. If not, of course, on Monday.

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Speaker 1: Till then, Clipper bros. You heard it here first, have

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Speaker 1: a great time, turn up, Love you guys. Awesome, all right, everybody,

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Speaker 1: thanks for joining me. Hit the like button, subscribe, five

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Speaker 1: star ratings and reviews. Enjoy the basketball this weekend, and yeah,

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Speaker 1: CEE centers, take care