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Speaker 1: uh Stucky, in which he posted seven props that he

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Speaker 1: He's gonna come on on a little bit with Lauren Joffey.

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Speaker 1: NBA Sensation Talent Extraordinaire, rab Perez from Cyclomedia. What's going on? Man? Hey?

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Speaker 1: So I have my own friend prop bet. I guess

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Speaker 1: I will bet you that they don't win thirty games

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Speaker 1: the trades happened, the biggest issue was that these guys

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Speaker 1: Isaiah Thomas, Jay Crowder. Uh god, I even got all

431
00:23:56,960 --> 00:23:59,240
Speaker 1: the other guys that and at some some point Kyrie

432
00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:02,720
Speaker 1: Irving too. If you play with Lebron James, you better

433
00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:06,119
Speaker 1: fall into line. He is the alpha of all alpha's.

434
00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:08,959
Speaker 1: It's his team, and he's always kind of lived and

435
00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:13,880
Speaker 1: played by this uh father figure, big brother type of

436
00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:17,159
Speaker 1: culture every single team that he's gone to. And the

437
00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:19,399
Speaker 1: one year that he didn't, he let Wade you know,

438
00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:21,399
Speaker 1: run the show was in Miami and they ended up

439
00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:24,359
Speaker 1: losing to Dallas Mavericks in that first first summer, and

440
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:26,720
Speaker 1: then Lebron decided, you know what, I'm Lebron, I'm I'm

441
00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:29,520
Speaker 1: retaking over. But in regards to his defen and like

442
00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:32,480
Speaker 1: the team's defense, the same way that there's there's a

443
00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:35,360
Speaker 1: tweet for everything, there's also a stat for everything. I'm

444
00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:37,000
Speaker 1: sure I can find a stat that says they're the

445
00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:38,879
Speaker 1: best team in the league, and there's a stat that

446
00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:40,720
Speaker 1: says they're the worst team in the league. But I

447
00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:43,400
Speaker 1: know what I'm seeing, and what I'm seeing is Lebron

448
00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:46,199
Speaker 1: at the peak of his powers, is not only the

449
00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:50,520
Speaker 1: best player in the world offensively, whatever you want to say,

450
00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:52,480
Speaker 1: he's the best player in the world because he makes

451
00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:55,920
Speaker 1: his teammates better, and not just better, but he's got

452
00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:59,479
Speaker 1: all of these guys maxing out their potential. So if

453
00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:02,400
Speaker 1: Kevin Love's role on this team is to not be

454
00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:06,600
Speaker 1: that low post Minnesota Nimberwolves thirty and fifteen type guy,

455
00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:11,040
Speaker 1: but to run baseline to baseline and hit threes. JR. Smith,

456
00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:14,000
Speaker 1: same thing, Kyle Korver, same thing. We're gonna put four

457
00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:17,159
Speaker 1: out one end when Tristan Thompson's in the game, and

458
00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:20,120
Speaker 1: we're just gonna let Lebron create for everyone else. Um,

459
00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:23,640
Speaker 1: it works because when you have Lebron, you support him

460
00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:26,199
Speaker 1: with shooters and that's the way the game is played.

461
00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:29,679
Speaker 1: I will continue to say that their defense stinks and

462
00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:32,480
Speaker 1: just talent wise, when Lebron is not on the floor,

463
00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:35,240
Speaker 1: this team stinks. I don't know how else to put.

464
00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:37,440
Speaker 1: Don't have any stats in front of me to support

465
00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:39,960
Speaker 1: my cause, but I know what I'm watching and they

466
00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:44,960
Speaker 1: have zero, zero rim protection of any kind. The only

467
00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:48,440
Speaker 1: way you're gonna beat Lebron is to be That's why

468
00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:51,320
Speaker 1: Jonas Alan Tunas was such a disappointment, because whenever you

469
00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:52,679
Speaker 1: got the ball in the block, it's like, dude, just

470
00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:55,160
Speaker 1: turn around and lay it in. It shouldn't be that difficult.

471
00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:57,400
Speaker 1: You got Kevin Love on you, who's four or five

472
00:25:57,440 --> 00:25:59,680
Speaker 1: inches smaller. The only big guy they got on their

473
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Speaker 1: team that's even worth the damn Tristan Thompson. He is

474
00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:04,679
Speaker 1: not known for his defense. He's known for his rebounding.

475
00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:07,000
Speaker 1: So you want to you're begging these teams to take

476
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,919
Speaker 1: advantage of the Calv's biggest weakness. And maybe it is

477
00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:12,280
Speaker 1: a testament to their defense that no one's been able

478
00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:14,560
Speaker 1: to expose it yet. But if you run into the

479
00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:17,200
Speaker 1: Sixers somehow, if they pull off this three oh comeback,

480
00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:20,920
Speaker 1: or if if Boston gets the ball to Horford down low,

481
00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:23,399
Speaker 1: you got anyone that can stop these guys? The answer

482
00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:25,280
Speaker 1: is no, And that's what Golden State will do in

483
00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:27,480
Speaker 1: the finals when they sweep them. All right, said, well,

484
00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:31,879
Speaker 1: you've you've jumped ahead to my questions. So, um, you

485
00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:33,679
Speaker 1: know your way around a betting parlor, you know your

486
00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:38,920
Speaker 1: way around a sports book. Handicap. Let's let's let's assume

487
00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:43,080
Speaker 1: the Celtics are gonna finish off the Sixers, So handicap

488
00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:46,360
Speaker 1: for me, and I'm not ready to say that yet

489
00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:50,440
Speaker 1: before you keep going, all right, then handicapped for me.

490
00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:54,720
Speaker 1: How this series plays out between the Celtics and the Sixers.

491
00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:57,320
Speaker 1: You know, bear in mind we're recording this on Tuesday.

492
00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:00,200
Speaker 1: It'll post sometime Wednesday. I think that's from the next

493
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:03,760
Speaker 1: game is um, tell me how this series plays out,

494
00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 1: and then tell me what you think the series odds

495
00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:11,760
Speaker 1: should be for Calf Celtics or Calf Sixers. So down

496
00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:17,440
Speaker 1: three oh the seventies Sixers were by from what I saw,

497
00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:21,520
Speaker 1: they were plus six eighties plus seven hundred or something

498
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:25,359
Speaker 1: to win the series. Down oh three, never done before.

499
00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:28,239
Speaker 1: And you've got the Lawyers minus fifty tho, you got

500
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:32,160
Speaker 1: the Rockets minus You've got the Sixers like they're still

501
00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:35,000
Speaker 1: in it. There's a reason why there's tall towers in

502
00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:38,160
Speaker 1: Las Vegas, right, And it's not because they give away

503
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:40,959
Speaker 1: lines make them too easy to bet. You'd figured bet

504
00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:43,959
Speaker 1: the Celtics minus nine hundred or whatever it is. Uh,

505
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:47,000
Speaker 1: it's it's a stone cold luck. They're not the better team,

506
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:49,840
Speaker 1: they're the better coach team. The Sixers are better in

507
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,399
Speaker 1: every facet of the game. And I'm not ready to

508
00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:54,520
Speaker 1: say that this series is over because if the Sixers

509
00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:57,359
Speaker 1: win Game five, they're gonna win that series. It all

510
00:27:57,440 --> 00:27:59,679
Speaker 1: comes down to Game five from me. So if I'm

511
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:05,000
Speaker 1: gonna cap a potential Sixers Calves or Celtics Calves Eastern

512
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:07,960
Speaker 1: Conference Finals. I still think I'm gonna go on record

513
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:09,760
Speaker 1: and say I still think the Sixers are gonna win

514
00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:12,080
Speaker 1: this series and be the first team we're gonna see

515
00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:13,880
Speaker 1: a sixteen seed be two one, and we're gonna see

516
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,040
Speaker 1: an NBA team come back from O. Three. So the

517
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:19,000
Speaker 1: Sixers do end up winning this series. They have the

518
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:21,959
Speaker 1: Cleveland Cavaliers kryptonite, which is the most dominant big man

519
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:24,479
Speaker 1: in the league. They've got an up and coming Shaquille

520
00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:27,240
Speaker 1: O'Neal with a three point jump shot, and every single

521
00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:29,440
Speaker 1: time they played this year, the Calves didn't have a

522
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:32,800
Speaker 1: shot in hell of guarding this guy. He will feast

523
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:35,840
Speaker 1: upon their flesh like we're watching some some Lord of

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00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:38,560
Speaker 1: the Rings scene. Uh, if I have to put a

525
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:42,120
Speaker 1: number on it, you're not You're not not making Lebron

526
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:45,640
Speaker 1: James the favorite unless it's the Golden State Warriors. So

527
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:50,160
Speaker 1: I'm you're gonna throw out Calves. They're gonna be on

528
00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:54,800
Speaker 1: the road Calves minus one thirty seventy Sixers plus one ten.

529
00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:58,320
Speaker 1: But uh, you have to imagine there's gonna be a

530
00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:00,239
Speaker 1: lot of sharp money on the seventy sixers there. Now,

531
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:02,360
Speaker 1: if they don't pull it off, you're gonna have the Celtics,

532
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:05,120
Speaker 1: who are the overachievers, the better coach team, and they're

533
00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:09,440
Speaker 1: gonna certainly be the better coach team against UH Cleveland

534
00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:15,320
Speaker 1: as well. So Boston's got home court. Yeah, the Calves

535
00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:18,280
Speaker 1: I think win that series to make the finals, and

536
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:20,080
Speaker 1: I think the seventy six is beat the Calves. But

537
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:22,920
Speaker 1: the Calves beat the Celtics. So if I'm putting a

538
00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:26,680
Speaker 1: number on it could run it. If I'm putting a

539
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:30,200
Speaker 1: number on Celtics Calves, I wish I came prepared for this,

540
00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 1: because I'm not a bookmaker. But what else I didn't know?

541
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 1: I had the book action on hypothetical Eastern Conference Finals. Here,

542
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:42,440
Speaker 1: I'm making the Calves minus that's very similar. I'm making

543
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:45,160
Speaker 1: them a minus one forty minus one fifty just because

544
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:47,360
Speaker 1: they don't have home court, and you have to make

545
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:50,600
Speaker 1: sure that first game is pretty similar to the series price.

546
00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 1: Otherwise everyone's just gonna load up on the first game.

547
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:56,760
Speaker 1: So I'm thinking minus one forty minus one fifty probably

548
00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:59,000
Speaker 1: on the Calves. If they were home, you're looking at

549
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 1: minus three already, minus three fifty. But you know, not

550
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:05,720
Speaker 1: home court. So it does get really interesting. You're not

551
00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 1: wrong about the Sixers. They are a one point favorite

552
00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:11,720
Speaker 1: tomorrow night in Boston. And look they they felt like

553
00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:15,120
Speaker 1: very they felt like a very different team last night.

554
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:17,640
Speaker 1: I was on the Sixers last night. I was on

555
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:20,240
Speaker 1: him at six and a half in our side action

556
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:23,760
Speaker 1: slap channel here at Action Network. UM. I had a

557
00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:26,520
Speaker 1: bet against p J Walsh, who thought he was baiting

558
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:28,240
Speaker 1: me into taking that bet, but I was all over

559
00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:31,840
Speaker 1: it and I would take the Sixers again as one

560
00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:35,080
Speaker 1: point favorites on the road in Boston. But here's where

561
00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:40,280
Speaker 1: it gets interesting. After Game three, all of the conversation

562
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:44,200
Speaker 1: was Brad Stevens is a genius, best coach in the NBA,

563
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:49,440
Speaker 1: best you know, tactician in the NBA. If the Celtics

564
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:53,160
Speaker 1: lose this series, is that narrative change? Is he no

565
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:55,800
Speaker 1: longer a genius? Like to how do people get out

566
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Speaker 1: of the whole of having said that he is the

567
00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:00,560
Speaker 1: greatest coach in the history of the NBA. Yeah, I

568
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 1: think that's true that the narrative does change, and it

569
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:05,800
Speaker 1: would deserve to change if you're the coach responsible for

570
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:09,320
Speaker 1: blowing in OH three lead three oh lead you can't

571
00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:11,120
Speaker 1: be known as the best coach in the league, and

572
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:13,920
Speaker 1: he doesn't have any rings either. But we see the

573
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:16,520
Speaker 1: brilliance in some of these breakdowns that have come out

574
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:18,640
Speaker 1: on whether it's like The Ringer or sp Nation, they

575
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:21,440
Speaker 1: break down these final A t O s that Brad

576
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:25,040
Speaker 1: Stevens like six or seven times he draws up these

577
00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:27,960
Speaker 1: just ludicrous plays that not only get his guys open,

578
00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:30,880
Speaker 1: but he does them on defense too. He's always one

579
00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:33,640
Speaker 1: step ahead. So the basketball brilliance is there. But it's

580
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:37,440
Speaker 1: absolutely essential that they close this series out. If we're

581
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:41,120
Speaker 1: going to continue saying that he's the best coach in

582
00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:44,120
Speaker 1: the league, he can't lose a three oh lead. End

583
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:47,720
Speaker 1: of story. But yeah, the Sixers are a better, better

584
00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:51,560
Speaker 1: basketball team that's just getting out coached, uh, and that

585
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:54,360
Speaker 1: could be responsible for losing a series. So we'll find

586
00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:58,240
Speaker 1: out in Game five exactly what Brett Brown and what

587
00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:01,160
Speaker 1: the seventy Sixers are may of because they should be

588
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:03,960
Speaker 1: dominating and there's a reason why they're favorite. What I

589
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 1: don't like is the narrative that Brett Brown isn't a

590
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:10,720
Speaker 1: good coach, because this is a guy who has saying that, Well,

591
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 1: I feel like people are saying that like when you

592
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:17,080
Speaker 1: when you when you frame it as Brad Stevens is

593
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 1: out coaching this guy and doing this much of a

594
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:22,440
Speaker 1: better job, it's almost like it feels like you're putting

595
00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:25,240
Speaker 1: a Dunce camp on the other guy. And I feel

596
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:27,240
Speaker 1: like he's a really good coach who has done a

597
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 1: phenomenal job basically coaching a team from you know a metaphor,

598
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:34,520
Speaker 1: from high school to the NBA, right Like he is

599
00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:38,480
Speaker 1: built that team, built that culture, and done a great

600
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 1: job of sort of trying to find ways to keep

601
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:44,280
Speaker 1: everyone together and build something that they can be proud of.

602
00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:47,400
Speaker 1: And it feels a little sad to me that he's

603
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:50,360
Speaker 1: being compared to Brad Stevens because of these sort of

604
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:53,480
Speaker 1: out of bounds plays that then an aftertime out plays,

605
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:58,880
Speaker 1: and and being and and suffering by comparison in a

606
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:02,960
Speaker 1: in an uneven Yeah. So if if that's the case,

607
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:05,440
Speaker 1: then Brad's then everyone else is a bad coach too.

608
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:09,680
Speaker 1: Because Brad Stevens has been out coaching everyone not named

609
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:15,240
Speaker 1: Steve Kerr or Bruten Holzer, you know, multiple times throughout

610
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:18,240
Speaker 1: the regular season every single year since he's been the

611
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:22,600
Speaker 1: Celtics head coach. What It's not that Brett Brett Brown

612
00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:25,080
Speaker 1: is a bad coach. He's just getting out coached for

613
00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:27,040
Speaker 1: the first three games. But he won game four, so

614
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:29,200
Speaker 1: you can say he out coach Brad Stevenson game four.

615
00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:32,480
Speaker 1: Now the narrative has changed. What makes Brad Stevens great

616
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 1: is watching this team of overachievers that they're missing half

617
00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:39,520
Speaker 1: their their squad, like all they're all stars, are injured.

618
00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:42,760
Speaker 1: And what's impressive is that it's not that he's just

619
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:45,080
Speaker 1: winning games, is that he's got a system in place

620
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:47,960
Speaker 1: and he can take anyone off that bench. He could

621
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:51,880
Speaker 1: put Yaboo Selly in Nader and all these guys all

622
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:54,200
Speaker 1: the way at the end with Greg Monroe and probably

623
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 1: go out there and close out this series. And that's

624
00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:58,800
Speaker 1: a testament not only to the culture that he's created

625
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 1: amongst his players, but something's working. And when he continues

626
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:07,640
Speaker 1: to succeed in these clutch uh situations and eight again,

627
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:09,479
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep alluding to a T O S because

628
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:12,480
Speaker 1: of just how special he is at drawing those things up.

629
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:15,920
Speaker 1: Where there's smoke, there's usually fire in this league, and

630
00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:18,400
Speaker 1: his fire has been burning since the moment he's come in.

631
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:22,000
Speaker 1: It's the most impressive thing for a coach, in my opinion,

632
00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:24,680
Speaker 1: isn't so much the rings as it is your ability

633
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:27,120
Speaker 1: to create a system like Greg Popovich is done in

634
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:30,880
Speaker 1: San Antonio, where it don't matter who we draft or

635
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:33,439
Speaker 1: who we sign, they're gonna come in here and play

636
00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 1: our style of basketball because it works. And there's really

637
00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:40,600
Speaker 1: only two total coaches in teams that you can say

638
00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:43,839
Speaker 1: that about the Spurs in the Celtics. Alright, So look

639
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:45,919
Speaker 1: at the Western Conference for a second. Let's say it's

640
00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:48,759
Speaker 1: you've already said, you just said the Warriors are gonna

641
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:50,279
Speaker 1: get to the finals, are going to suit the Calves.

642
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Speaker 1: So to me, that means you think they're getting by

643
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:55,920
Speaker 1: the Rockets pretty easily. Yes, And the reason for that

644
00:34:56,160 --> 00:35:00,919
Speaker 1: is I live I live by the mantra you can't

645
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,680
Speaker 1: out Warriors the Warriors. If you're gonna come into the

646
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:05,880
Speaker 1: building and try and outshoot them, you're gonna try and

647
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:08,360
Speaker 1: outrun them, You're gonna try and outpace them. That's what

648
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 1: D'Antoni has been trying to do for two decades. You

649
00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 1: can't out Warriors the Warriors. There's no way to do it.

650
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:18,160
Speaker 1: They're simply too good. They're the best team up until

651
00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:20,880
Speaker 1: this point of all time. On paper, they need to

652
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 1: close it out. They need to win another championship before

653
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:27,960
Speaker 1: you have that conversation. But this is a flawless basketball

654
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,400
Speaker 1: team when Steph Curry's on the floor and he's healthy,

655
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:32,320
Speaker 1: and the fact that the Rockets are going to go

656
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:34,640
Speaker 1: out there again and just kind of try and shoot

657
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:38,359
Speaker 1: their way into the NBA Finals is not gonna work.

658
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:41,120
Speaker 1: If this was a sudden death one game, you could

659
00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:43,640
Speaker 1: believe it in a heartbeat, because the Rockets can catch fire.

660
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:46,560
Speaker 1: But there are so many possessions in an NBA game

661
00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:49,239
Speaker 1: now north of a hundred when it comes to pace,

662
00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 1: and you gotta beat them four at a seven times

663
00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:54,440
Speaker 1: four at a seven. And they ain't got no home

664
00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:57,040
Speaker 1: court advantage in Houston. That's that's that is one of

665
00:35:57,120 --> 00:36:00,319
Speaker 1: the quieter crowds left in I know Houston will come

666
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:02,879
Speaker 1: after me for that, but you know what, that's It's true,

667
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:06,200
Speaker 1: like I don't feel a home court advantage. That's a Utah,

668
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:09,560
Speaker 1: like a Philly, like a Boston. It's not daunting to

669
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Speaker 1: go into Houston. That's the one advantage you got over

670
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:15,080
Speaker 1: Golden State. It's not there for me. It's just not

671
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:18,799
Speaker 1: And unless they decide to change their system real quick. Um,

672
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 1: I see Golden State closing that out in four, or

673
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:28,320
Speaker 1: maybe a gentleman sweep. Really, yeah, they've they've been polite.

674
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:31,239
Speaker 1: They gentlemen sweeped San Antonio to make sure man who

675
00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:33,719
Speaker 1: got his nice little goodbye they did. They're gonna do

676
00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 1: a nice little gentleman's sweep with New Orleans, and they'll

677
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:39,280
Speaker 1: do a nice little gentleman's sweep with the Houston Rockets

678
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:41,799
Speaker 1: before they go back to the finals. But too good.

679
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 1: I understand what you mean by gentleman sweep, but essentially

680
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:47,080
Speaker 1: what you're saying is they're gonna let him have that

681
00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:50,440
Speaker 1: one game sort of feel good, get the home crowd energized,

682
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:52,840
Speaker 1: do something nice like they're not doing it on purpose,

683
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:54,399
Speaker 1: But there's gonna be that game where they just don't

684
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:57,560
Speaker 1: go as hard. Yeah, they did not show up to

685
00:36:57,640 --> 00:36:59,759
Speaker 1: that Game four in San Antonio. They were halfway on

686
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:03,040
Speaker 1: the lane by halftime. They got beat in Game three

687
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 1: by like a drum. But sometimes they just don't show up.

688
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:08,360
Speaker 1: And I had I think I did a tweet earlier

689
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:11,160
Speaker 1: this year that I was watching every Warriors game, in

690
00:37:11,239 --> 00:37:13,680
Speaker 1: every dribble that they play, mainly because Swaggy P and

691
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:15,560
Speaker 1: Javelle McGee are on the squad and I don't want

692
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:17,759
Speaker 1: to miss anything. But they don't even show up to

693
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:20,200
Speaker 1: games anymore. It's like they show up to quarters because

694
00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:22,120
Speaker 1: they know we don't have to show up to games.

695
00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 1: Were too good. Granted it's the playoffs now and they

696
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:27,200
Speaker 1: certainly are showing up to full games, but as soon

697
00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:29,520
Speaker 1: as they snap their fingers and turn it on, there's

698
00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:33,279
Speaker 1: not a team, a concoction of players that from all

699
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 1: other teams in the Western Conference that can beat these guys.

700
00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:38,439
Speaker 1: It's a system that Steve kers got I was talking

701
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 1: about Popovich and Brad Stevens before. He's built a system

702
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:46,360
Speaker 1: that these that these perennial All stars can thrive in,

703
00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:49,439
Speaker 1: and that's what makes them a super team. The only

704
00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:53,040
Speaker 1: super team is it's not just a collection of talented individuals.

705
00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 1: Look what happened to Okay, see you put you just

706
00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:57,960
Speaker 1: play NBA two K and you make all these great

707
00:37:58,000 --> 00:37:59,960
Speaker 1: trades and you put all the stars together. You got

708
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:02,200
Speaker 1: there and you dominate. But it doesn't happen in real life.

709
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:06,360
Speaker 1: When there's not a system in place to maximize their talents,

710
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:09,880
Speaker 1: you just can't beat them at their own game, and

711
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:12,200
Speaker 1: I feel like I get the opportunity to buy Warrior

712
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:14,959
Speaker 1: stock this year because for three months everyone was Steph

713
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,439
Speaker 1: Curry's hurt to Rand's hurt. They don't care. They're gonna

714
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:20,120
Speaker 1: They're gonna run into more motivated teams. I'm like, I'll

715
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:22,239
Speaker 1: take your stock, bye bye, bye bye. They even put

716
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:24,759
Speaker 1: a plus sign in front of the Golden State Wars

717
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:26,880
Speaker 1: to win the title at one point, by you know,

718
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:29,279
Speaker 1: what are you guys doing. It's the same Warriors team.

719
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:32,239
Speaker 1: They ain't losing. You can you can record this all

720
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:34,320
Speaker 1: you want. They're not losing. Yeah, I mean that's what

721
00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:35,719
Speaker 1: I was gonna say. I think at one point this

722
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:38,200
Speaker 1: year they were like plus three fifty to win the

723
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:43,240
Speaker 1: NBA title. Get out of here. It's it's insane unless

724
00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:45,200
Speaker 1: you think they're not. Their stars were gonna be injured

725
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 1: throughout the playoffs. But if your reasoning was they don't

726
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:50,080
Speaker 1: have it, then you haven't watched enough games this year

727
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:53,240
Speaker 1: to see that they just didn't care. After that seventy

728
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:57,160
Speaker 1: three win campaign, we saw the following season like, we

729
00:38:57,239 --> 00:38:59,600
Speaker 1: don't want to do that again, because that was eight

730
00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:03,360
Speaker 1: months playing every game like Game seven, and it just

731
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:05,760
Speaker 1: didn't look like they found it to be worth it anymore.

732
00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:08,000
Speaker 1: We're not going to match that intensity every single night,

733
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:10,080
Speaker 1: so we'll show up when we need to, and then

734
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:12,719
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, we're gonna wax your ass. I guess

735
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:14,719
Speaker 1: what's amazing is that they can do that, that they

736
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:17,800
Speaker 1: can turn it on sort of at a whim. And

737
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:19,479
Speaker 1: that's always been the challenge for a lot of teams

738
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:21,359
Speaker 1: is that they can't. And that's why as a better

739
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:24,680
Speaker 1: it's been hard to buy into them sort of late

740
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:26,880
Speaker 1: until late in the season because you didn't know what

741
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:28,640
Speaker 1: you were going to get. Is why I think the

742
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:31,319
Speaker 1: price as along with the injuries, I think just people

743
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:33,840
Speaker 1: were thinking they're not as motivated as they used to be,

744
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:35,840
Speaker 1: and it's hard to turn that switch. It's hard to

745
00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:39,200
Speaker 1: invest in that. Oh it's and it's thoroughly maddening to

746
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:41,360
Speaker 1: bet on the Warriors at any point, whether it's the

747
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:44,720
Speaker 1: playoffs or the regular season, because they're laying such massive

748
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:47,239
Speaker 1: numbers no matter where they go. And then they go

749
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:50,400
Speaker 1: up by twenty and they send in McCaw and they

750
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:54,360
Speaker 1: send in Quinn, Cook Looney and these guys that are like,

751
00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:56,719
Speaker 1: oh God, here we go. And then before you know it,

752
00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 1: twenties down to ten just because they don't care. So

753
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:02,080
Speaker 1: every game that you've been on the Warriors feels like

754
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:05,120
Speaker 1: it comes down to whether Quinn Cook makes that garbage

755
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:08,000
Speaker 1: three with twenty eight seconds left. Uh. And that's just

756
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:10,600
Speaker 1: because their bench, you know, just they come in and

757
00:40:11,239 --> 00:40:14,160
Speaker 1: it's been the same thing for three three years now.

758
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:16,879
Speaker 1: When you're laying that type of number, it's really hard

759
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:22,360
Speaker 1: unless you're up by thirty to protect laying that many points. Alright,

760
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:25,920
Speaker 1: worldwide Web, you have made a declaration that the Warriors

761
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 1: are going to sweep the Calves in the finals. Although

762
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:33,279
Speaker 1: you have said that, you also had a declaration that

763
00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:36,239
Speaker 1: the Celtics sixers contest is not over yet, which I'm

764
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:38,640
Speaker 1: excited to see, you know, in the future world how

765
00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:42,640
Speaker 1: that plays out. Um, tell us all the places we

766
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 1: can find everything you're doing. Sure. Our our program at

767
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:52,800
Speaker 1: cycle here is called Buckets. Unfortunately we're on a hiatus

768
00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:54,960
Speaker 1: at the moment, so we don't have a set return

769
00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:56,880
Speaker 1: date as to when the program is going to be

770
00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:00,520
Speaker 1: back live, but you can find us on both ESPN

771
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:04,480
Speaker 1: and at b y Cycle on Twitter. Cycles the name

772
00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:10,960
Speaker 1: of the content creation company here that works under laundry

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Speaker 1: Service The ad agency and we produced content. Uh we uh,

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00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:19,000
Speaker 1: we work with brands. We we do shows like Buckets, um,

775
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:22,719
Speaker 1: all that good stuff. So uh, definitely check us out

776
00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:25,120
Speaker 1: if you haven't already. UM, we live on the internet.

777
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:28,319
Speaker 1: So if you're looking for what we like to say

778
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:30,359
Speaker 1: on Buckets is it's not just a basketball culture, it's

779
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:32,360
Speaker 1: a it's a lifestyle. So if you're looking for that

780
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:36,600
Speaker 1: type of experience, certainly Buckets and Cycles for you. I

781
00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:38,520
Speaker 1: will tell you it's a great show. I hope it

782
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:43,240
Speaker 1: comes back soon. We produced a Super Bowl pregame betting

783
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:45,919
Speaker 1: show and the Super Bowl halftime show and a super

784
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:48,680
Speaker 1: Bowl postgame show, and um, it was the first thing

785
00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:50,239
Speaker 1: that we tried at the Action Network. We did it

786
00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:54,000
Speaker 1: in February, obviously we only launched in January. And UM

787
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:59,120
Speaker 1: I sent episodes of Buckets to the guy who was

788
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:02,120
Speaker 1: producing it, saying, our show needs to look and feel

789
00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:05,680
Speaker 1: like this really really good. So, uh, when you guys

790
00:42:05,719 --> 00:42:08,959
Speaker 1: are doing it cycle generally it's really interesting. Um. Thanks

791
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:10,640
Speaker 1: for coming on the podcast. Man, it was great to

792
00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:13,640
Speaker 1: have your great basketball conversation. I'm looking forward to seeing,

793
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:17,719
Speaker 1: uh what you text and to whom when you get

794
00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:21,239
Speaker 1: back your buddy who foolishly bet that that's when more

795
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:23,920
Speaker 1: than thirty games. So, uh, please keep us posted and

796
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:26,960
Speaker 1: you come back and tell that Vegas story. Yeah, I'm

797
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:29,600
Speaker 1: always open for hypothetical bets with Twitter too. I bet

798
00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:31,959
Speaker 1: the City of Philadelphia they wouldn't win forty three games

799
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 1: and I lost, so I had to write every single

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00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:37,239
Speaker 1: every single person an apology letter and eat my bet

801
00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:40,080
Speaker 1: ticket live on puckets. So I'm always down to do them.

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00:42:40,719 --> 00:42:43,719
Speaker 1: Oh that's beautiful. I didn't even know that we can

803
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:45,279
Speaker 1: just we can just get out a lot those on

804
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:49,440
Speaker 1: Action Network and we can start sending traffic your way. Well,

805
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:51,880
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna get a lot of I'm gonna get drunk,

806
00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:54,799
Speaker 1: and then I'm going to end up betting stupid things

807
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:57,160
Speaker 1: with people that I have no upside and just just

808
00:42:57,320 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 1: for pride purposes, and then it's going to turn into

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00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:01,640
Speaker 1: a thing. But yeah, so you know what, put it on,

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00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:03,239
Speaker 1: Put it up there and I'll take a look. We

811
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:09,400
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00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:13,319
Speaker 1: live with the Action Network. Uh, make me an offer,

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00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:15,439
Speaker 1: and it's kind of like a deal or no deal.

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00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:17,680
Speaker 1: You make a bet and if you're willing to eat

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Speaker 1: your jersey, the entire jersey if you lose. Maybe that's

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Speaker 1: something I'll be interested in. So I'll tell you what

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00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:25,160
Speaker 1: you know, what people can people can do. People can

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Speaker 1: go into the buffet page on iTunes and in the

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Speaker 1: reviews they can write what the bet they want to

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Speaker 1: make with you. We will send them to you and

821
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Speaker 1: you can start tweeting out those. You can decide which

822
00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:36,360
Speaker 1: ones you want to take, and you can do a

823
00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 1: little programming about it. Sounds good, but if you're listening

824
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Speaker 1: to this, make sure it's an offer that is legit.

825
00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:45,680
Speaker 1: Like I don't want to see no lopside. It offers

826
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Speaker 1: the unrealistic things. I can't write fourteen thousand letters again.

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Speaker 1: I'm only going to do that once. So come with

828
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Speaker 1: some creativity and we'll get back to you. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's the beauty that says you can make the choice

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Speaker 1: right like anybody can pose anything they want in the

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Speaker 1: you want to pursue and which ones aren't what you well,

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Speaker 1: it will make me a bet on the Warriors. I'm

834
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:09,080
Speaker 1: saying the lawyers are gonna walk through the finals and

835
00:44:09,120 --> 00:44:12,000
Speaker 1: the sweep the Calves I'm willing to willing to take

836
00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:16,239
Speaker 1: action on it, so use that as your crooks and UM, yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right forward to see what comes in You heard

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Speaker 1: it worldwide Web, Go to our iTunes page, go to

839
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Speaker 1: the buffet. Type in your bets. Let's see what you

840
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Speaker 1: can get him to do for you. Follow him at

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Speaker 1: world underscore Wide underscore WOB on Twitter. Honestly, it is

842
00:44:31,360 --> 00:44:34,719
Speaker 1: probably the best NBA follow on Twitter. Um, thanks for

843
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:37,600
Speaker 1: doing this, brother, I appreciate it. Thanks for the time.

844
00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:41,440
Speaker 1: Chid next up on the podcast. We originally thought it

845
00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:44,440
Speaker 1: was gonna be uh Stucky who wrote this great story

846
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:47,120
Speaker 1: about all the prop bets that he's willing to take

847
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:50,440
Speaker 1: from fans, like things that aren't on board that he'd

848
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:52,680
Speaker 1: love to bet. And then we were bringing on Lauren

849
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:56,160
Speaker 1: Joffe because she had some ideas on this too. Of course, Stucky,

850
00:44:57,040 --> 00:45:00,960
Speaker 1: while confirming, has now disappeared or and do not responded

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00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:04,919
Speaker 1: to anybody's texts. So we're gonna merge. Probably we're gonna

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00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:08,120
Speaker 1: morph from being just irritated to you know, sending in

853
00:45:08,239 --> 00:45:11,279
Speaker 1: an app to find Stucky at some point. But while

854
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:15,080
Speaker 1: we were chatting, Joffy, you brought up a very interesting

855
00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:20,480
Speaker 1: theory to me, which is the idea of hate betting.

856
00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:27,440
Speaker 1: Explain to me where this comes from. Basically just comes

857
00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:33,560
Speaker 1: from me making best based on nothing but out of

858
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:38,600
Speaker 1: irritations for specific person or like like, for instance, um

859
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:43,840
Speaker 1: my ex boyfriend played for a USC and so he

860
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:46,879
Speaker 1: whenever you know, we'd be playing them or anyone will

861
00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:49,480
Speaker 1: be playing though for that matter, um, I would bet

862
00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:54,240
Speaker 1: against it just because I wanted him to be annoyed

863
00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:57,879
Speaker 1: and sad and miserable. Like that was literally my only

864
00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:00,759
Speaker 1: reason for doing it. There was no numbers, back anything up.

865
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 1: It was just I'm gonna do this because that way

866
00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:10,400
Speaker 1: I could root for his misery. And I mean, and

867
00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:14,480
Speaker 1: that's just an example. That's one example. I mean, they

868
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:16,480
Speaker 1: get they get really bad. For a while, I had

869
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:19,600
Speaker 1: an I had another ex boyfriend who uh, whose dad

870
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:21,640
Speaker 1: was a huge Cubs fan and this was this was

871
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:25,000
Speaker 1: way back in the day, and uh, and he was

872
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:27,359
Speaker 1: and he was going to go to the World Series

873
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:28,520
Speaker 1: and he was so excite, and I was like, no,

874
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:30,799
Speaker 1: I don't really want his dad to have any fun.

875
00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:33,400
Speaker 1: I mean, like, I mean, there was you know, there

876
00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:36,520
Speaker 1: was more behind us, but whatever, the whatever the point is,

877
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:40,880
Speaker 1: I like, really I rooted against the Cubs just for

878
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:43,279
Speaker 1: that purpose, and I actually felt guilty afterwards. I really

879
00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:46,520
Speaker 1: felt like I then the reason why. But but I

880
00:46:46,560 --> 00:46:49,480
Speaker 1: won the bet. So you know, why are you filled

881
00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:54,160
Speaker 1: with such rage? Why are you vindictively betting against people?

882
00:46:55,360 --> 00:47:00,279
Speaker 1: I I don't. I I think it had to do

883
00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:05,279
Speaker 1: just with Part of it I think is I'm I'm

884
00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:11,400
Speaker 1: jealous that perhaps my teams haven't been there, so I

885
00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:17,200
Speaker 1: don't want anyone else to be there. Um, I think that.

886
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:19,960
Speaker 1: I just I think I need to do more with

887
00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:28,680
Speaker 1: my life currently. Um, I don't know. That's you know, well,

888
00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:31,640
Speaker 1: that's probably what more do you need to be doing?

889
00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:36,560
Speaker 1: Explained to people? Explain to people what exactly you aren't

890
00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:39,560
Speaker 1: doing or are you doing that? Like needs you to

891
00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:46,560
Speaker 1: do more? Well, I'm currently about a year ago, I moved,

892
00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:50,600
Speaker 1: I got sick. I'm all better now nothing, you know whatever,

893
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:53,719
Speaker 1: I'm fine. Um, And I moved to d C because

894
00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:56,440
Speaker 1: that's where my parents were living in the Wanderny to

895
00:47:56,480 --> 00:48:00,359
Speaker 1: see doctors here, YadA, YadA, YadA. So meanwhile I'm here

896
00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:05,840
Speaker 1: and I'm going insane living. I mean, I'm an adult

897
00:48:05,920 --> 00:48:11,560
Speaker 1: living with her parents. It's it's it's driving me crazy. Um,

898
00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:16,480
Speaker 1: I don't know anyone here, and um, I don't like

899
00:48:16,640 --> 00:48:21,279
Speaker 1: it here so pretty much. I get rage built up

900
00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:26,800
Speaker 1: from that and and I have to spend it somewhere,

901
00:48:27,239 --> 00:48:31,719
Speaker 1: so you know, and so my my guess is you

902
00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:39,640
Speaker 1: are spending it on your hate bets. Yes, and on Twitter.

903
00:48:39,960 --> 00:48:43,719
Speaker 1: That's what I think. Oh Twitter for sure, because I

904
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:46,239
Speaker 1: don't have I mean, like, I have my dogs here,

905
00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:48,880
Speaker 1: but you know, they get they only can listen to

906
00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:51,120
Speaker 1: so much of what I have to say, so I

907
00:48:51,200 --> 00:48:53,360
Speaker 1: have to tell someone and Twitter is a place to

908
00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:57,080
Speaker 1: do that. Um. You know, I don't like to necessarily

909
00:48:57,480 --> 00:49:02,920
Speaker 1: start fights with people, but it happens. And you know,

910
00:49:03,080 --> 00:49:05,319
Speaker 1: I realized, like I remember I was telling my friend

911
00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:07,640
Speaker 1: of like, oh my god, so today on Twitter, and

912
00:49:08,040 --> 00:49:11,600
Speaker 1: they looked at me like I was crazy. Um, but

913
00:49:11,719 --> 00:49:16,319
Speaker 1: that's literally that that that's somewhat of what I've been doing, um,

914
00:49:17,040 --> 00:49:20,319
Speaker 1: which you know is made for some good content, I suppose, Um,

915
00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:25,800
Speaker 1: but you know, must is going crazy, so well you know,

916
00:49:25,880 --> 00:49:28,719
Speaker 1: I'm in favor of you going crazy. Um. When people

917
00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:32,520
Speaker 1: ask me about Jeffy, I'm like, she's great. Uh, she's crazy,

918
00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:35,279
Speaker 1: but she's totally great. But it also means that you're

919
00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:37,480
Speaker 1: doing great content for us like your column this week

920
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:39,719
Speaker 1: is fantastic, and you're gonna do another column for us.

921
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:45,920
Speaker 1: So that's the ame. That really is the ame that Listen,

922
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:50,080
Speaker 1: I'm a mercenary, honest to god. If your lack of

923
00:49:50,200 --> 00:49:53,360
Speaker 1: mental well being leads to better content for the Action Network,

924
00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:58,279
Speaker 1: by God, I'm all for it. I mean, and you

925
00:49:58,360 --> 00:50:00,680
Speaker 1: know what, I am at the point where I still

926
00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:03,719
Speaker 1: think it's funny. Like I mean I remember telling people

927
00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:05,239
Speaker 1: like when I was younger, and like, if you lock

928
00:50:05,360 --> 00:50:07,480
Speaker 1: me in a room for like a year by myself,

929
00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:09,759
Speaker 1: I think I would still come out laughing, like I

930
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:16,520
Speaker 1: think I'm funny. Um, So, like I mean, you know,

931
00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:19,560
Speaker 1: this is a random this is a random story, but

932
00:50:20,560 --> 00:50:23,120
Speaker 1: there was this There's this guy sit behind us a

933
00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:26,239
Speaker 1: hockey games growing up, and I just remember him one

934
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:29,560
Speaker 1: day going, Lauren, can you can you play Comma just

935
00:50:29,640 --> 00:50:32,040
Speaker 1: for like five minutes? And and that's sort of always

936
00:50:32,080 --> 00:50:34,600
Speaker 1: stuck with me, is people just just play Coma for

937
00:50:34,680 --> 00:50:38,040
Speaker 1: like five minutes, like you know, stop talking or you know,

938
00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:41,080
Speaker 1: shut up. Anyway, I thought that was funny. He basically

939
00:50:41,080 --> 00:50:44,080
Speaker 1: said to you, can you play Dead for five minutes? Yes,

940
00:50:44,239 --> 00:50:48,560
Speaker 1: like he wants quiet for five minutes. So that that's me, Like, yeah,

941
00:50:48,640 --> 00:50:52,799
Speaker 1: that's me like a lot of the time. Um, yeah,

942
00:50:53,200 --> 00:50:56,000
Speaker 1: you know, by all means, exploit it. What are you

943
00:50:56,080 --> 00:50:58,360
Speaker 1: thinking about in this room by yourself? Like what is

944
00:50:58,440 --> 00:51:00,320
Speaker 1: happening in there? I gotta know what's going on in

945
00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:03,080
Speaker 1: your head right now? I mean I have so many

946
00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:05,480
Speaker 1: Like there's just so much, so much things would have

947
00:51:05,520 --> 00:51:10,640
Speaker 1: happened in my life that have just been like insanely weird,

948
00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:14,440
Speaker 1: like just I mean I could tell stories. It's just stories.

949
00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:17,640
Speaker 1: I got stories about everything. Um, and they're all true,

950
00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:20,560
Speaker 1: which is the craziest part because I'm terrible a making

951
00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:28,680
Speaker 1: sit up, so um, they're all true and crazy, like

952
00:51:28,760 --> 00:51:32,040
Speaker 1: I could I mean specifically, I mean I once had

953
00:51:32,080 --> 00:51:36,640
Speaker 1: a had a I mean, this one isn't funny as

954
00:51:36,719 --> 00:51:38,880
Speaker 1: much as it is crazy, but it was just crazy

955
00:51:38,920 --> 00:51:41,120
Speaker 1: at the time. I'm thinking back to to what we

956
00:51:41,239 --> 00:51:44,080
Speaker 1: had this murderer that was U that ended up studying

957
00:51:44,120 --> 00:51:48,000
Speaker 1: at night in college in uh in our in our

958
00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:51,480
Speaker 1: dorm room or whatever. Um, and that's a whole other

959
00:51:51,560 --> 00:51:54,920
Speaker 1: story obviously, but just you know, when the cops came

960
00:51:54,960 --> 00:51:56,640
Speaker 1: at two o'clock in the morning and we had a

961
00:51:57,239 --> 00:51:59,560
Speaker 1: we had a homeless guy there that was from Oregon

962
00:51:59,680 --> 00:52:03,239
Speaker 1: that might other roommate had brought you know, Okay, maybe

963
00:52:03,280 --> 00:52:05,040
Speaker 1: this is it's too long a story to get into,

964
00:52:05,160 --> 00:52:08,760
Speaker 1: but no, no, no, no, hold on, hold on, hold

965
00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:14,399
Speaker 1: on hold the phone. Let's go back to the fact

966
00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:17,719
Speaker 1: that you had a murderer spend the night in your

967
00:52:17,800 --> 00:52:23,200
Speaker 1: dorm room. Yeah, so that well, at that point he

968
00:52:23,360 --> 00:52:26,000
Speaker 1: wasn't a murderer. I don't think he murdered the next night.

969
00:52:26,239 --> 00:52:33,640
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, it's to Arizona people did. Yeah, someone

970
00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:37,320
Speaker 1: that spent the night in your dorm room, like murdered

971
00:52:37,440 --> 00:52:43,800
Speaker 1: someone in Tucson the next day. What's the story? What happened? Yeah, basically,

972
00:52:43,920 --> 00:52:46,320
Speaker 1: we we had a roommate, like it was three of

973
00:52:46,360 --> 00:52:48,640
Speaker 1: my friends and we needed one more to be like

974
00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:51,360
Speaker 1: kind of got like a random ast signed roommate and

975
00:52:51,600 --> 00:52:54,040
Speaker 1: I thought she was totally cool until she showed up,

976
00:52:54,080 --> 00:52:56,759
Speaker 1: and you know, she was like very insufficisu and the

977
00:52:56,920 --> 00:53:00,320
Speaker 1: dead and and you know, like two days in the school,

978
00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:03,400
Speaker 1: she's like, hey, guys, I'm out are going on a

979
00:53:03,480 --> 00:53:06,480
Speaker 1: fish tour, and we're like okay, So she left to

980
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:09,400
Speaker 1: go on a fish tour. Um she brought back a

981
00:53:09,480 --> 00:53:12,720
Speaker 1: homeless guy from Oregon and she literally said Hey, guys,

982
00:53:12,880 --> 00:53:15,080
Speaker 1: this is Cat. He's from Oregon and he's homeless. So

983
00:53:15,120 --> 00:53:16,560
Speaker 1: I brought him here. He's gonna stay with us for

984
00:53:16,600 --> 00:53:20,160
Speaker 1: a while, and we all just kind of went, um what,

985
00:53:21,280 --> 00:53:24,200
Speaker 1: But for whatever reason, we allowed it to happen anyway.

986
00:53:24,239 --> 00:53:28,240
Speaker 1: So meanwhile he's living with us. Um. I it's Halloween.

987
00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:30,440
Speaker 1: I go out, I come back home. There's some random

988
00:53:30,480 --> 00:53:33,360
Speaker 1: guys sting there and I'm like, hey, Sloan, that was

989
00:53:33,400 --> 00:53:34,880
Speaker 1: her name, you know who is this? And she's like,

990
00:53:35,239 --> 00:53:37,480
Speaker 1: he brought us some beer, so he's chilling with us.

991
00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:40,320
Speaker 1: So now I've got a homeless guy and some random

992
00:53:40,320 --> 00:53:42,120
Speaker 1: gut about her beer that are just you know, in

993
00:53:42,200 --> 00:53:46,319
Speaker 1: our place. Next day, she leaves for her second fish tour.

994
00:53:46,440 --> 00:53:48,640
Speaker 1: So if he leaves homeless guy that that she brought

995
00:53:48,680 --> 00:53:52,880
Speaker 1: back from their first fish tour with us, she leaves. Um.

996
00:53:53,239 --> 00:53:55,239
Speaker 1: The next a couple of days later, we had knock

997
00:53:55,239 --> 00:53:57,920
Speaker 1: gonna do at two o'clock in the morning, UM, and

998
00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:01,200
Speaker 1: it was the it was the just On Homicide or

999
00:54:01,239 --> 00:54:05,799
Speaker 1: Tusson Police Department Homicide Division, UM looking for this guy,

1000
00:54:06,880 --> 00:54:11,320
Speaker 1: UM because he was there was some chick that was

1001
00:54:11,520 --> 00:54:15,480
Speaker 1: found murdered and he was claiming that we were his alibis.

1002
00:54:15,600 --> 00:54:18,880
Speaker 1: But um, as it turns out, we were. He was

1003
00:54:18,960 --> 00:54:21,760
Speaker 1: with us the night before. So anyway, he got convicted

1004
00:54:21,800 --> 00:54:31,239
Speaker 1: and he's in he's a prisoner. I did not even

1005
00:54:31,440 --> 00:54:38,440
Speaker 1: know where that question was going to go. That, I mean,

1006
00:54:39,080 --> 00:54:46,439
Speaker 1: it's totally off topic, so you know. But but the point,

1007
00:54:46,560 --> 00:54:48,839
Speaker 1: the whole, the funny part of that, if we could

1008
00:54:48,880 --> 00:54:51,640
Speaker 1: get back, that was just that the look on everyone

1009
00:54:51,960 --> 00:54:54,719
Speaker 1: on the everyone stays like the cops are knocking on

1010
00:54:54,840 --> 00:54:56,920
Speaker 1: the door two o'clock in the morning, my roommates trying

1011
00:54:56,960 --> 00:55:00,200
Speaker 1: to hide the bomb, you know, homeless guys pretending he's

1012
00:55:00,200 --> 00:55:01,840
Speaker 1: a sleep because he doesn't want to be questioned by

1013
00:55:01,880 --> 00:55:04,480
Speaker 1: the cops. I mean, it was it was just not funny.

1014
00:55:05,200 --> 00:55:08,880
Speaker 1: Like thinking back, I don't, like I wouldn't believe that

1015
00:55:08,920 --> 00:55:11,680
Speaker 1: it was true. If it didn't happen, There's no way

1016
00:55:11,760 --> 00:55:14,000
Speaker 1: you would believe it's true. Do you think do you

1017
00:55:14,160 --> 00:55:19,399
Speaker 1: think there was a chance, like, like, who did he murder?

1018
00:55:19,480 --> 00:55:24,040
Speaker 1: Did he murder someone he knew? No, No, some fourteen

1019
00:55:24,080 --> 00:55:26,200
Speaker 1: year old girl. I've like gone back and tried to

1020
00:55:26,320 --> 00:55:29,759
Speaker 1: find on the internet, and it's for whatever reason, I

1021
00:55:29,840 --> 00:55:34,200
Speaker 1: cannot find the information um about this at all. But

1022
00:55:34,320 --> 00:55:37,600
Speaker 1: I do but percent remember that it was Yeah, she

1023
00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:45,919
Speaker 1: was murdered, stabbed, um, dumped into a riverbed um. Yeah,

1024
00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:47,600
Speaker 1: and the whole this whole time, he was cleaning that

1025
00:55:47,680 --> 00:55:55,040
Speaker 1: we were alibis. Um. Yeah, so I think and no,

1026
00:55:55,200 --> 00:55:57,560
Speaker 1: I think it was all clearly he's just picking up

1027
00:55:57,640 --> 00:56:01,840
Speaker 1: random six because he picked up my met so or

1028
00:56:01,880 --> 00:56:05,560
Speaker 1: my roommates. So you know that's is mL. I guess

1029
00:56:05,960 --> 00:56:07,480
Speaker 1: like when you look back out the story, do you

1030
00:56:07,520 --> 00:56:09,719
Speaker 1: ever think, oh my god, I came this close to

1031
00:56:09,880 --> 00:56:16,200
Speaker 1: being murdered or do you think I mean, there's been

1032
00:56:16,239 --> 00:56:18,000
Speaker 1: some dumb things I've done in my life. Like I

1033
00:56:18,640 --> 00:56:23,440
Speaker 1: drove across country and like literally we decided that we

1034
00:56:23,520 --> 00:56:26,640
Speaker 1: weren't going to stop for anything. So literally, you know,

1035
00:56:26,719 --> 00:56:30,279
Speaker 1: we're like nineteen years old driving across the country. The

1036
00:56:30,360 --> 00:56:32,800
Speaker 1: whole entire time, I was like telling asleep at the

1037
00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:36,839
Speaker 1: wheel literally um, because she was mad because I didn't

1038
00:56:36,880 --> 00:56:39,040
Speaker 1: want to stop because we were wasting time. I mean,

1039
00:56:39,520 --> 00:56:42,880
Speaker 1: We've been really dumb, stopping some gas stations, slept in

1040
00:56:42,920 --> 00:56:44,680
Speaker 1: the car. I look up to like random people looking

1041
00:56:44,719 --> 00:56:47,800
Speaker 1: in us like yeah, there's one of things. But I'm like,

1042
00:56:48,280 --> 00:56:52,759
Speaker 1: how do I not die? But um, yeah, see I

1043
00:56:52,880 --> 00:56:56,160
Speaker 1: don't know why you have such hate in your heart

1044
00:56:56,400 --> 00:57:02,000
Speaker 1: and eventful, if I were you, I'd be feeling really

1045
00:57:02,120 --> 00:57:05,640
Speaker 1: lucky and thinking, Wow, I've made it through so many times,

1046
00:57:05,760 --> 00:57:11,320
Speaker 1: like I'm playing with house money right now, I to

1047
00:57:11,719 --> 00:57:15,880
Speaker 1: to a degree. I mean hate most the hate usually

1048
00:57:16,080 --> 00:57:20,280
Speaker 1: stems from from boys. Is usually where it stems from. Um,

1049
00:57:21,440 --> 00:57:28,080
Speaker 1: domestic my heart sad face. Um, but that's that's mostly

1050
00:57:28,120 --> 00:57:31,400
Speaker 1: with that bage comes from. But yes, But anyway, the

1051
00:57:31,440 --> 00:57:33,400
Speaker 1: point of the whole thing I think would be funny

1052
00:57:33,760 --> 00:57:36,440
Speaker 1: and I've loved stories to tell myself Again Listen, I

1053
00:57:36,520 --> 00:57:40,480
Speaker 1: think you're hilarious. Um. I think that there is something

1054
00:57:40,560 --> 00:57:46,280
Speaker 1: to be done about the combination between hate betting and

1055
00:57:46,360 --> 00:57:51,960
Speaker 1: sort of the emotion that overtakes people and needing to

1056
00:57:52,120 --> 00:57:59,720
Speaker 1: separate that from the actual science of betting. It's something

1057
00:57:59,840 --> 00:58:05,400
Speaker 1: I I'm I'm working on, UM, definitely working on that.

1058
00:58:05,760 --> 00:58:10,760
Speaker 1: There's you know, like, like I told you the the

1059
00:58:11,920 --> 00:58:16,520
Speaker 1: Philly bett other day, Um, what've done out of just

1060
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Speaker 1: irritation for someone? Um, like I didn't look at the

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Speaker 1: number and look at any o that story because that

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Speaker 1: might have been while we were waiting for Stucky. Oh. Basically, um, Um,

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Speaker 1: Chad and PJ, that would be me and p J

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Speaker 1: Walsh and we were we have we have a slack

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Speaker 1: channel that is dedicated to side action, where like, if

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Speaker 1: anyone wants to make a bet, they throw it in

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Speaker 1: there and if they get a taker, then we got

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Speaker 1: a side action alert. And uh. The other day I

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Speaker 1: offered up I wanted to take Philly nine of six

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Speaker 1: and a half over the Celtics in game four, which

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Speaker 1: covered and p J. Wallace, one of editors, came in

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Speaker 1: said he liked Boston and you were in the channel

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Speaker 1: and yeah yeah, And I said, I'm like, yep, I'm

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Speaker 1: taking out that you were taking Boston. Obviously we both lost. Yeah. Um,

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Speaker 1: And I legitimately had not looked at numbers any dad nothing.

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Speaker 1: I just was like, you know what, there's this guy

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Speaker 1: in his group chat on him and and you know

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Speaker 1: he is nonstopped. Philadelphia is the best, Philadelphia ruled. Everyone

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Speaker 1: else sucks and I've just had it. So I said,

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna I'm reading against him, like I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: put money here because I need Like that's how mad

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Speaker 1: I was. Whatever. Yeah, the flip side is when I

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Speaker 1: was in college, So really, what does it matter if

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Speaker 1: I lose that? Licially in the grand scheme of things. Um,

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Speaker 1: it's no deal. It really isn't a big deal, you know.

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Speaker 1: Um yeah, Uh, you're gonna have a column up that

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Speaker 1: goes up probably today. You will have another one that

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Speaker 1: probably goes up later this week. The recording this on Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: It's going to post on Wednesday. People can read Lauren

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Speaker 1: Joffe um at the Action Network Action network dot com.

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Speaker 1: They can follow you at the Spin Zone. I'm glad stuck.

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Speaker 1: He blew us off. I'm gonna fucking call him. I'm

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Speaker 1: kind of piste, you know, fox stuck. But um, otherwise

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Speaker 1: we would have gotten at least close to some of

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Speaker 1: the deep seated issues that you're that you're wrestling with

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Speaker 1: right now. I think I think you got a lot

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Speaker 1: to work through. But I swear I'm totally normal. I

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Speaker 1: really am totally a totally normal person who thinks she's

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Speaker 1: hilarious sitting by herself in her parents house. I think

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Speaker 1: that would be accurate. Totally keep writing those stories though,

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Speaker 1: they're doing great. Oh I will, I will, I will,

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Speaker 1: all right, Jothy, thank you very much. Alright, Alry by

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Speaker 1: light