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Speaker 1: gets Hey, what's up everybody? Episode four, Straight Fire with

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Speaker 1: Jason McIntyre. It's me. It is nearly the end of

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Speaker 1: the NBA Bubble regular season experiment, and there's a developing situation.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna get to it later. Russell Westbrook's injury. Uh,

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Speaker 1: Mike D'Antoni was very spotty when he was asked about it.

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Speaker 1: that later, but I want to start with this, um,

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Speaker 1: it isn't college football, which we've opened every podcast with.

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Speaker 1: It's actually the NFL. You know, a sport near and

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Speaker 1: But you guys know out there, if you follow me

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Speaker 1: young kids here at home, elementary school age, and one

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Speaker 1: of them recently got into investing. I don't know how

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Speaker 1: he got into it, but he's watched a couple YouTube

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Speaker 1: videos on Warren Buffett, he checks the stock market and

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Speaker 1: want to invest in. Listen. I know it sounds crazy

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Speaker 1: going into fourth grade and you're talking about Tesla going

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Speaker 1: up stock value, but it's better than hours on Fortnite, right,

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Speaker 1: started doing more, uh looking into Warren Buffett, and I

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Speaker 1: with today's NFL story. War and Buffett asked this question, Okay,

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Speaker 1: would you rather be the world's greatest lover, but have

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Speaker 1: everyone think you're the world's worst lover? Or would you

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Speaker 1: rather be the world's worst lover but have everyone thank

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Speaker 1: you were the world's greatest lover. Let that marinate for

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Speaker 1: a minute. It's about your inner score card, obviously, versus

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Speaker 1: lot of these guys on social media that's how what counts.

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Speaker 1: The inner scorecard counts and the inner scorecard verse. The

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Speaker 1: outer score card is big in life, and it's big

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Speaker 1: in the NFL because we just saw Patrick Mahomes of

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Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs, right, he won an MVP Award

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Speaker 1: story was Dak Prescott is he gonna get Patrick Mahomes money?

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Speaker 1: And it was all outer scorecard stuff. Whoa hey, it's

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Speaker 1: dad turned to get paid. This is what happens in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. You pay the man. Dack's been with the Cowboys,

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Speaker 1: he was underpaid. You gotta pay him. Pat Mahomes set

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Speaker 1: And it never made sense to me on any level

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Speaker 1: Dad has one quarterback playoff win, and I know quarterback

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Speaker 1: wins are not a great metric, but it's not like

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Speaker 1: Hard stop, Like there's nothing left to say. DA's not

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Speaker 1: But overall, big picture takeaway, very proud of Dak Prescott

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Speaker 1: Coopers because I didn't like the way they matched up

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Speaker 1: And we're up like second row and I'm watching his

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Speaker 1: And I was texting my buddy, I was like, dude,

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Speaker 1: I could not have imagined that a year ago. I mean,

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Speaker 1: in that scenario, and we've talked about this off the

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Speaker 1: guard Lebron James. Russell Westbrook's got a gimpie leg, so

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Speaker 1: they may not even get there. So let's say they

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Speaker 1: at Oklahoma City instead. They also have no one to

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Speaker 1: guard Lebron James. So suddenly that tough road just became,

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Speaker 1: you know, a tiptoe through the Tulips all the way

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Speaker 1: to the Western Finals. And meanwhile, what the Clippers have

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Speaker 1: to deal with Luca. I don't think that's a good

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Speaker 1: matchup for Luca because they can hang with them on

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Speaker 1: the perimeter. And then the other matchup is what Denver,

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Speaker 1: You talk Denver. You well, Denver, it definitely feels like

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Speaker 1: in the bubble they've been almost tanking to get that

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Speaker 1: three seed. They've done just enough to stay where they are,

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Speaker 1: but not enough to want to really really moved to too.

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Speaker 1: Because when they played the Lakers, they benched all of

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Speaker 1: their starters in the fourth quarter. Last night against the Clippers,

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Speaker 1: they did kind of the same thing. They really didn't

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Speaker 1: have much interest. They didn't seem like in elevating up

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Speaker 1: to the second. I think they like that matchup against

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Speaker 1: Donovan Mitchell. Yeah, I think that's that's a bad matchup

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Speaker 1: for the Jazz. So in the East, we don't need

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Speaker 1: to touch on Bucks. We're gonna do a deep dive

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Speaker 1: on the NBA playoffs UM for Monday's pod. Very excited

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Speaker 1: about that. We have a pretty good guests lined up.

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Speaker 1: That should be fun. We don't care about Bucks Magic,

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Speaker 1: we don't really care about Raptors nets. Um. I like

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Speaker 1: the Heat over the Pacers. That's my heat or my

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Speaker 1: surprise team. I think they could take down the Bucks.

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Speaker 1: And then I guess Celtics Sixers is that marquee matchup.

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Speaker 1: No Ben Simmons, but the Boston has nobody they've gotten

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Speaker 1: destroyed by Bigs this year. Uh, they and bead is

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Speaker 1: gonna eat against them. I guess the question is is

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Speaker 1: he healthy? Well that is one question. Any other question

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Speaker 1: is if he's gonna eat? But is anyone else gonna eat?

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Speaker 1: Is the problem? Yeah, because that's where Ben Simmons would

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Speaker 1: have been able to really how kind of lessen the load.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you can trust Shake Milton. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if you can trust Tobias Harris, especially against

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Speaker 1: the team the fence that Boston plays. Ordinarily that would

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Speaker 1: have been the marquee series to me to watch, but

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Speaker 1: bit of luster. So before the lineups, let me get

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Speaker 1: your prediction on the finals matchup Lakers Raptors. Whoa boy,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna eat some major. I'm gonna take heat if

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Speaker 1: the Raptors get to the flame and the Raptors are

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Speaker 1: legit and I we talked about this before after that

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Speaker 1: Game seven between the Raptors and the Sixers last year

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Speaker 1: in the semifinals, where it seemed like everybody on Toronto

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Speaker 1: was scared out of their mind. They had the tight

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Speaker 1: took is and the only guy who was really comfortable

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Speaker 1: and had to take a thing like forty some shots

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Speaker 1: was Kawhi Leonard. Because everybody was so nervous, they were shook.

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Speaker 1: Once Kauai got them over that hump, all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: Fred van Vleet starts playing while Playoff Lowry shows up.

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Speaker 1: I didn't even know that existed, you know of until

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Speaker 1: last year, and all of a sudden, these guys had

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Speaker 1: this renewed confidence to match the talent that they already

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Speaker 1: had on the floor. They're legit. I need to slip

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Speaker 1: this in late, late, late in the podcast. And again, sorry,

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Speaker 1: no best Bet guys. I don't know who's playing tomorrow

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Speaker 1: on the bubble. I'm sorry. A lot of teams are

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Speaker 1: benching their guys uh SO two and O on the

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Speaker 1: Best Bet. But I just want to steak this in,

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Speaker 1: rob G, you were just gassing up the Raptors. Bro

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Speaker 1: If Kevin Durant plays in that series and Clay doesn't

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Speaker 1: shred his kneecap in Game six, Raptors get dusted by

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Speaker 1: the that's a different conversation. Everybody gets dusted by those Warriors.

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Speaker 1: I know. I'm just saying I'm a Laker fadge and

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Speaker 1: lebron A d get dust by those warriors. Yes they do. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: So I mean, what are you gonna do? All right?

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Speaker 1: I don't want to go in on the raptors. I

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Speaker 1: gotta be nice, all right. So that is gonna be

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Speaker 1: it for episode four of Straight Fire. Guys, you gotta remember, subscribe, rate,

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Speaker 1: and review. The people that I I heart radio tell

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Speaker 1: me they're very pleased with the numbers have been shockingly crushing,

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Speaker 1: and listen. I'd expect to come out of the gate

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Speaker 1: and get on those iTunes ranking. So remember Spotify, iTunes,

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Speaker 1: wherever you download your podcast, and any questions you know,

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Speaker 1: hit me up on social media. I'm around, I will respond.

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Speaker 1: Peace till tomorrow.