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Speaker 1: know what, Let's start today with the Pacific Division with

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Speaker 1: Emmy Award winning sports journalist Lena Washington.

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Speaker 2: On today's episode, I'm.

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Speaker 3: Miles Gray and I'm Jack O'Brien, and this is mock

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Speaker 3: slowch Sorry, got it. Look at the hitch ten okay,

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Speaker 3: and be driving Spinny number eighteen that's been.

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Speaker 2: Secured the Celtics or.

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Speaker 4: NBA champion.

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Speaker 3: To be honest with.

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Speaker 1: Lena Washington, you have, Lena, we famously don't, and that's

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Speaker 2: It's great, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 5: Uh, you know, I have an Emmy for each of

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Speaker 5: but we can all share the wealth and it's happy

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Speaker 1: Or yeah, embroider, we're waiting for the budget to get cleared.

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Speaker 1: Once that budget clears, I know I did promise you

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Speaker 2: I may have over promised there, you did. But how

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Speaker 3: Flavor exactly.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, we're gonna talk specific division today that includes

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Speaker 1: But hey, who better than to do that with you?

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Speaker 1: It looks like, overall, Jack, we're the West, we're kind

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Speaker 1: But yeah, bringing that, bringing that Parisian magic back will

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Speaker 2: Yes, moving on to other things in my dreams. The Lakers.

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Speaker 5: What is this?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I would I would probably take the under on

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Speaker 3: I think they'll be thinking so last year that would

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Speaker 2: So now we're so now we're really good?

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Speaker 3: No, it does. Like it's it's a real volatile uh

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Speaker 3: I totally memory hold that. I mean, my big thing

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Speaker 3: It's like the Sons aren't looking for that to happen,

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Speaker 2: Too and and make some tough decisions to as a coach.

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Speaker 3: Like yeah, I like I've read up on his philosophy

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Speaker 3: His hair too good to be basketball coach. You can't.

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Speaker 3: You can't have hair that good and be a good

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Speaker 1: Yeah, who is there anyone that we would give someone

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Speaker 2: I don't know if, but I was like this, this

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Speaker 3: I don't know what it is, have but tissue boxes

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Speaker 2: Let's get in the spruce goose and fly away. Oh man.

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Speaker 3: I think hair can work in college, like Quinn Snyder

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Speaker 1: Yeah, less exactly, exactly exactly, all right, take a break.

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Speaker 3: going to talk about who they based these win totals.

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Speaker 3: DraftKings expects to win the division. It's some one of

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Speaker 3: and we're back. We are back, and this is specific

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Speaker 2: Do they have a DeLorean?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: kind of.

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00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:02,960
Speaker 3: Big and just for them. They signed DeMar DeRozan, acquired

443
00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:07,160
Speaker 3: Jayalen McDaniels. But I mean is the real one, right, Yeah,

444
00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:09,520
Speaker 3: for sure, for sure got rid of Harrison Barnes.

445
00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:11,640
Speaker 2: I think he's a good fit.

446
00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:18,119
Speaker 1: He's efficient, reliable, he's gonna create, you know, get Darren

447
00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:22,760
Speaker 1: Fox some good looks to get cooking. And again, I

448
00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:24,679
Speaker 1: just hate that the Lakers haven't done a single thing

449
00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:26,800
Speaker 1: to address their problems that were so apparent on paper.

450
00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:30,240
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you did mention that, that does I see you.

451
00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:32,359
Speaker 1: Mentioned that in the context of every Like, when I

452
00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:35,280
Speaker 1: look at this, I'm like this. I would have loved them,

453
00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:36,760
Speaker 1: anyone would have loved.

454
00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:40,000
Speaker 3: Nice for you guys.

455
00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:44,480
Speaker 1: Huh yeah, anything honestly, But I I guess is that really,

456
00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:47,320
Speaker 1: like is that really the key? Because the way that

457
00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:50,560
Speaker 1: they're the DraftKings are the DraftKings projections are working. It's

458
00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:54,280
Speaker 1: almost like and this is the final piece of that light,

459
00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:59,840
Speaker 1: the beam permanently, forever and ever and evermore, the eternal flame.

460
00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:03,679
Speaker 2: The beam of the beam of love. Beam. Uh, Lena,

461
00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:07,320
Speaker 2: what's your do you think that this is? It is

462
00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:10,160
Speaker 2: fifty and a half at Where do you? Where are you? Yeah?

463
00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:11,400
Speaker 2: Where are you at? I saw your shine.

464
00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:14,640
Speaker 6: I'm I'm yes. That made me scrunch up my face

465
00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:15,080
Speaker 6: a little bit.

466
00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:18,600
Speaker 5: That's a bit surprising, I will say I do think,

467
00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:22,119
Speaker 5: based of course on last season and the addition of

468
00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:25,280
Speaker 5: DeMar Derozen, they probably have a good chance to win

469
00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:25,920
Speaker 5: the division.

470
00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:27,400
Speaker 6: For whatever that's worth.

471
00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:31,120
Speaker 5: I think they will give the teams within that division

472
00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:34,280
Speaker 5: more of a run for their money than they're expecting to.

473
00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:36,720
Speaker 5: These are not the Kings of old. They are still

474
00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:40,560
Speaker 5: on the upswing. Their ceiling has yet to be reached

475
00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:43,280
Speaker 5: as a team. And with some of the moves with

476
00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:47,080
Speaker 5: say like the Warriors and some of their other foes

477
00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:50,639
Speaker 5: that they faced in the postseason and have faced throughout

478
00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:53,800
Speaker 5: the regular season that they've given them fits, I think

479
00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:56,760
Speaker 5: that they've met that place where they're able to find

480
00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:01,000
Speaker 5: cohesive play on the court consistently and yes, keep that

481
00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:03,760
Speaker 5: beam lit, and I think tomar de rozen being that

482
00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:08,840
Speaker 5: X factor to that. Quite sure about that, but I

483
00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:13,479
Speaker 5: am very intrigued to see how that all comes together

484
00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:19,439
Speaker 5: and how Mike Brown can operate with this new big piece.

485
00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:21,240
Speaker 6: And I mean the.

486
00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:24,399
Speaker 5: Bonus has been their their glue guy in terms of

487
00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:27,680
Speaker 5: just being able to find that success that they have

488
00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:31,479
Speaker 5: been missing on a consistent level. And as long as

489
00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:34,520
Speaker 5: he's healthy and as long as Darin's going, this team

490
00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:35,800
Speaker 5: can go. Yeah.

491
00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:38,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like just seeing that, I was like,

492
00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:40,840
Speaker 1: that was the one of all the teams we're talking about.

493
00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:44,520
Speaker 1: I was like, I can foresee the improvement. I'm like,

494
00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:46,520
Speaker 1: oh no, no, no, I can see how that works

495
00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:49,000
Speaker 1: without being a little bit like I don't know about

496
00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:51,159
Speaker 1: this and now I don't know if it's the huge

497
00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:54,960
Speaker 1: jump that DraftKings has projected, but I definitely see that.

498
00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:58,560
Speaker 1: You can already see, like with just how aggressive Damar

499
00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:00,560
Speaker 1: is going to the rim, like he's just going to

500
00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:04,119
Speaker 1: create those looks just collapsing. D's kicking it out and

501
00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:08,600
Speaker 1: next thing, you know, three balls raining down upon us.

502
00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:12,680
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, I guess to see them address the

503
00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:14,560
Speaker 1: thing you know that they just I.

504
00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:17,760
Speaker 3: Think I'm under on the Draft Kings. Yeah, under on

505
00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:21,080
Speaker 3: Draft Kings over on the other sports books. If two

506
00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:22,760
Speaker 3: to three wins lower, what.

507
00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:25,760
Speaker 2: Would you what would you say if an improvement on

508
00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:26,520
Speaker 2: forty six.

509
00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:29,360
Speaker 3: From last year, I think they could be forty I'd

510
00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:32,280
Speaker 3: say like forty eight forty nine feels about right for them.

511
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:35,679
Speaker 3: I can just like see people being like the addition

512
00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:39,760
Speaker 3: of Demarto Rosen quietly like takes the Kings up to

513
00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:42,280
Speaker 3: a new level. He just feels like one of those

514
00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:47,680
Speaker 3: players who has been hiding out in Chicago, like, you know,

515
00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:52,440
Speaker 3: just being amazing in games that weren't super consequential, but

516
00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:56,080
Speaker 3: like when when you watched it was always something to behold.

517
00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:59,800
Speaker 3: He was always really really good. Yeah, so I feel

518
00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:04,560
Speaker 3: like I like where they're headed. There's just too many

519
00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:07,200
Speaker 3: good teams in the West. But I do think I

520
00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:10,200
Speaker 3: could see them picking up a win or two. Do

521
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:11,040
Speaker 3: you think so, Lena?

522
00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:15,680
Speaker 5: Absolutely, I think they I don't know if four to

523
00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:20,679
Speaker 5: five wins more is going to be what they see, but.

524
00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:25,119
Speaker 6: You know they're going to be a team, a dark horse,

525
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:27,080
Speaker 6: I would say in the West.

526
00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:29,960
Speaker 5: It's going to be I think, really competitive, you know,

527
00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:33,280
Speaker 5: in spring after the trade deadline, and that's going to

528
00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:36,680
Speaker 5: be exciting for all fans to watch, and every game

529
00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:38,280
Speaker 5: is going to mean that much more.

530
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:40,600
Speaker 6: But then again, every game in.

531
00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:43,040
Speaker 5: October is going to mean so much more because you

532
00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:46,720
Speaker 5: can't let those ones go when you're thinking about every

533
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:51,480
Speaker 5: possible tiebreaker situation, you could be looking ahead to.

534
00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, well the Lakers will get off to a

535
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:56,040
Speaker 2: solid two and eighteen start.

536
00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:57,840
Speaker 3: I feel like, you know, it always starts.

537
00:27:58,440 --> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 2: We always love that.

538
00:27:59,160 --> 00:27:59,720
Speaker 3: We love to start.

539
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:04,200
Speaker 2: Star on Ellie folks. Moving on Golden State.

540
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:10,000
Speaker 1: Now this one, I'm h I don't know, I don't

541
00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:13,280
Speaker 1: know what to make of the Golden State Warriors.

542
00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:16,040
Speaker 2: I I mean, I my heart says.

543
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:18,200
Speaker 1: Well, I think I think we can put a bow

544
00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:21,480
Speaker 1: on this one, uh and just kind of begin to

545
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:24,520
Speaker 1: plan for the future here. But forty three and a

546
00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:29,960
Speaker 1: half is what's predicted with Caesars. That would be what

547
00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:32,480
Speaker 1: that would be down about two and a half games

548
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:33,399
Speaker 1: last season.

549
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:36,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they got Melton, who is one of

550
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 3: my favorite seventy six ers over the past couple of

551
00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:43,440
Speaker 3: years when he was healthy. Obviously wasn't healthy a lot

552
00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:46,240
Speaker 3: last season. But I think that's a great addition. I

553
00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:49,880
Speaker 3: think that that's probably an underrated edition. And you know,

554
00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:54,000
Speaker 3: Clay was I don't I don't know how much he

555
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:55,280
Speaker 3: was helping them last season.

556
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 1: I mean I know how much helped him in that

557
00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:59,680
Speaker 1: last game they played, Yeah, and it was not at all.

558
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:02,479
Speaker 1: But I mean, I don't know, did you feel too,

559
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:05,920
Speaker 1: because it felt like at times he felt it. Clay

560
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:08,240
Speaker 1: looked a little down, you know, like as he was

561
00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:12,360
Speaker 1: sort of reckoning with his own sort of skill set diminishing,

562
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:14,880
Speaker 1: or he felt like he's like, yeah, it's kind of definitely.

563
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 1: I think I had better days, but now I have

564
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:18,760
Speaker 1: to deal with I'm on the other side of my career.

565
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:18,959
Speaker 5: Now.

566
00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:21,520
Speaker 2: Do you think that Do you think his presence may

567
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:22,520
Speaker 2: have been a distraction.

568
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:24,200
Speaker 1: Do you think that will be something that will just

569
00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:27,080
Speaker 1: be missed because of his many years in Golden State

570
00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 1: in that locker room, or you think it just might

571
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:31,680
Speaker 1: just net out to like a plus minus zero, like

572
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:33,600
Speaker 1: a neutral effect on the team.

573
00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:35,560
Speaker 6: I think it might have a neutral effect.

574
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:37,480
Speaker 5: I mean I was thinking, you know, life without Clay,

575
00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:40,920
Speaker 5: but of course they've lived life without Clay for many

576
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 5: seasons in recent seasons, just given his unfortunate injury history.

577
00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:48,800
Speaker 5: But absolutely, I think just the finality of it, and

578
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:52,120
Speaker 5: knowing that this was coming up and likely coming to

579
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:56,480
Speaker 5: an end of this era, it's a cloud hanging over

580
00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:58,640
Speaker 5: the locker room, and of course they're going to remain

581
00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:03,680
Speaker 5: friends side of this team dynamic. But I think just

582
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:07,240
Speaker 5: moving on from that, I think they also added Buddy Heeld,

583
00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:10,360
Speaker 5: so you supplement a little bit of three point shooting in.

584
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:13,920
Speaker 1: That Jack did not mention Buddy our famous I watched

585
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,080
Speaker 1: I watched Jack not mention Buddy right there.

586
00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:17,680
Speaker 2: He said Anthony Melton.

587
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:23,120
Speaker 3: And I mentioned Melton, I mentioned Kyle Anderson. Yeah, I

588
00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:25,240
Speaker 3: don't know. As a seventy six Ers fan who coveted

589
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:27,600
Speaker 3: Buddy Heel, you know there, he was always mentioned and

590
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:30,920
Speaker 3: the trade talked and then he finally came over. And

591
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:34,560
Speaker 3: I will just say, and it might might be our fault,

592
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 3: might be just the seventy six ers vibe. But it

593
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:42,080
Speaker 3: felt a little underwhelming. Obviously, the the Golden State Warriors

594
00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:45,560
Speaker 3: know what to do with shooting. But I think Melton

595
00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:48,280
Speaker 3: and Kyle Anderson are going to be really good additions there.

596
00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:49,680
Speaker 3: That's That's what I'll said.

597
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:54,000
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I mean I could. I'm I think I'm

598
00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:55,200
Speaker 2: gonna go under.

599
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:58,480
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, Yeah, a loss of two and a half wins,

600
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:01,400
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go over. Actually on this one, I'm gonna

601
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:04,360
Speaker 3: say that they're about at the same win total they

602
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 3: were at last year, Right, forty.

603
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 2: Six, Lena, you're scrunching the face too.

604
00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll go over. It's forty three and a half.

605
00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:13,080
Speaker 3: Forty three and a half.

606
00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:17,000
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I'll go slightly over. I'll take you over,

607
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:18,280
Speaker 6: just a scooch.

608
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:24,080
Speaker 2: What do we think Kaminga's contributional be this season? Because

609
00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:24,280
Speaker 2: I know.

610
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:26,760
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like there was like there was

611
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:29,880
Speaker 1: a lot of contention around his involvement and now I'm like,

612
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 1: is he going to make some kind of step up?

613
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,800
Speaker 2: Is it going to be Puzzimski? Like there's these other

614
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 2: players on the fringes?

615
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:43,760
Speaker 1: Yeah that I'm just like, who among you can fill

616
00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:47,560
Speaker 1: in the gaps to kind of make this season memorable

617
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:50,160
Speaker 1: for a not a painful reason because I just part

618
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:52,520
Speaker 1: of me just feels just sees like a downward trajectory

619
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:55,320
Speaker 1: that I'm not sure they can fully kind of stop

620
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:55,960
Speaker 1: at this point.

621
00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:58,320
Speaker 2: And I say that as somebody who's also on the

622
00:31:58,360 --> 00:31:58,960
Speaker 2: sinking ship.

623
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:00,600
Speaker 3: So I just have to say love too.

624
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:03,160
Speaker 2: I know, I know how I sound right now.

625
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:06,760
Speaker 3: Yeah I don't. I don't know what cominga. I mean,

626
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:11,240
Speaker 3: Kamenga seems like he's up and down and like people

627
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:14,520
Speaker 3: thought he was. He was obviously a little bit better

628
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:16,640
Speaker 3: last year, But I don't feel like I know enough

629
00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:20,120
Speaker 3: about Kamega and his off season to know what he's

630
00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 3: going to do this year. But like that my over

631
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 3: under doesn't really take him in. Sure, Sure it's more

632
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:29,720
Speaker 3: than two guys they added in the loss of Clay,

633
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 3: which feels like at this point, was he Clay wasn't

634
00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:37,400
Speaker 3: really responsible for many wins above replacement.

635
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:40,560
Speaker 5: Yeah, right, Yeah, I think it's I think it's going

636
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 5: to be a question of who who's going to be

637
00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:47,160
Speaker 5: the auxiliary guy to jeaf And granted, any team that

638
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:49,520
Speaker 5: has Stephen Curry on it is probably going to be

639
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:52,480
Speaker 5: successful one way or another. And oh man, put it

640
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 5: on his back and make it happen. But you're talking

641
00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:58,920
Speaker 5: about eighty two games plus of that, right, and.

642
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:03,320
Speaker 3: You know, but if he shoots like he did in

643
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:06,440
Speaker 3: the at the end of that France game the whole season,

644
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:12,800
Speaker 3: just a step, can you extend that entire.

645
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:14,680
Speaker 2: Fourth quarter performance in the gold medal game?

646
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the only game tape they show for the

647
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:22,040
Speaker 3: whole season. Yeah, Steve Kurtz like, bro, you know what,

648
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:24,560
Speaker 3: you know what we were doing in Paris. Just let's

649
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:28,400
Speaker 3: keep doing that, Just keep doing that, and we'll be

650
00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:29,800
Speaker 3: all right, will.

651
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:31,959
Speaker 6: Be all right for America?

652
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:37,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, exactly, and say bon nui, as they say

653
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:38,640
Speaker 1: in French good night.

654
00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:42,840
Speaker 2: The Clippers are the last team we're going to cover here.

655
00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:48,240
Speaker 7: He said that, so just unassuming the Clippers and look

656
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:52,320
Speaker 7: at this, what well one games last season and now

657
00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:54,520
Speaker 7: they're projected to win forty and a half.

658
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:57,400
Speaker 2: That seems even as someone.

659
00:33:57,200 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 1: Who as a as a rival, I'm like, that feels

660
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 1: a little extreme. Uh, but I mean losing Paul George

661
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:07,960
Speaker 1: feels like a thing. A lot of fans were like,

662
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:12,200
Speaker 1: why huh, Jack, I know you you have now.

663
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:14,920
Speaker 2: You will welcome him into your Philadelphian.

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Speaker 3: Embrace, m M city of brother leil.

665
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:19,480
Speaker 1: You feel you feel on your end, because I was

666
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 1: what was the someone was putting out like how some

667
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:24,680
Speaker 1: coaches were rating the other team's offseason moves, and some

668
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:28,680
Speaker 1: people were like, Philly, Philly taking Paul George was in l.

669
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:31,399
Speaker 1: But then other people were like, Clippers losing Paul George wasn't.

670
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:33,239
Speaker 1: I don't know who this one person was who thought

671
00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:35,160
Speaker 1: that that was an l in that direction.

672
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:40,759
Speaker 3: Coach Stephen A. Smith, Yeah, I don't know, but yeah,

673
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:42,360
Speaker 3: I think it could work out great if he stays

674
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:45,760
Speaker 3: healthy and yeah, sure, and Beid stays healthy. And there's

675
00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:47,759
Speaker 3: just a lot of ifs for the seventy six ers

676
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:55,440
Speaker 3: and the Clippers still despite you know, Paul George, who

677
00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:59,919
Speaker 3: whose health can be spotty, leaving the team, Uh, still

678
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:03,600
Speaker 3: have some ifs it turns out, Yeah, Kawhi Leonard and

679
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:07,920
Speaker 3: James Harden. I was big Kawhi, Like, guys, did you

680
00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:09,800
Speaker 3: see how good he was in the beginning of the

681
00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:12,000
Speaker 3: play in the game and a half he played before

682
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 3: last year. And now I am no longer on I'm

683
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:20,640
Speaker 3: no longer that guy that it's that man is dead.

684
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:23,040
Speaker 3: The man said that about Kawhi Leonard.

685
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:26,800
Speaker 1: It's it's hard, I mean because like you think about

686
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:30,520
Speaker 1: all the the pieces they moved to, like get Kawhi

687
00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:35,080
Speaker 1: and PG and then get James Harden and now the

688
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:38,840
Speaker 1: expectations are like I mean, every time it was like

689
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:41,560
Speaker 1: we are we feel the Warriors are like maybe on

690
00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:44,200
Speaker 1: a potential downward trend, maybe this is our time to

691
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:47,080
Speaker 1: now move in and try and take up that mantle.

692
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:49,720
Speaker 2: But with a new stadium and everything, I don't.

693
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 1: Know, it feels feels a little bit dodgy, uh, from

694
00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:55,800
Speaker 1: my from from my vantage point. And I say that

695
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:59,440
Speaker 1: as somebody who who is counting on them to perform

696
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:01,160
Speaker 1: worse than Lakers, And I don't know if they'll be

697
00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:05,239
Speaker 1: that bad, but I am invested. Lena, What's how are

698
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 1: you feeling about the Clippers? Is this like does it

699
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:07,960
Speaker 1: reset time?

700
00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:08,239
Speaker 6: Is it?

701
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:08,440
Speaker 5: No?

702
00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 6: No?

703
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:10,759
Speaker 2: No, you can there might be something here.

704
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:14,640
Speaker 5: I mean, I think they definitely already reset with the

705
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:17,719
Speaker 5: movement of two of their big stars, you know, in

706
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:20,799
Speaker 5: Russell Westbrook and Paul George, and I think it's hard

707
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:24,440
Speaker 5: to be a believer in Kawhi Leonard sadly, just to

708
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:30,200
Speaker 5: see his production on the court materialize remains a question

709
00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:31,920
Speaker 5: every night every season.

710
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 6: So I think it's tough to see them going to

711
00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:44,120
Speaker 6: a deep run in the playoffs. I would say forty wins,

712
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:46,160
Speaker 6: I'll take the over. I think that yes, is an

713
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:47,240
Speaker 6: aggressive drop.

714
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:51,240
Speaker 5: But I don't know if they are going to find

715
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:54,360
Speaker 5: the success that they need to given what they have

716
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:57,080
Speaker 5: invested in this roster and what.

717
00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:59,400
Speaker 6: They have given up in recent seasons to try and

718
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:00,279
Speaker 6: make it all work.

719
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:03,480
Speaker 5: And I think the most exciting thing will be this

720
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:07,480
Speaker 5: new stadium arena. I mean, shooting T shirts from the

721
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:11,800
Speaker 5: top of the Halo scoreboard.

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00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:15,600
Speaker 6: For fans, you know, and the wall.

723
00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:18,960
Speaker 3: If you're a wall on that team, that's exciting. That's

724
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:21,080
Speaker 3: what you want to hear that the most exciting thing

725
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:22,400
Speaker 3: about the team is going to be the.

726
00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:28,040
Speaker 2: Scoreboard, inanimate object that's part of the.

727
00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:32,040
Speaker 3: Team that you just made Miles so happy. Lena I mean,

728
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:32,960
Speaker 3: I love.

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00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:37,520
Speaker 1: Look the fact is that it looks fantastic, Like I'm

730
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:39,840
Speaker 1: I'm really excited to see you what that place looks like.

731
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:41,920
Speaker 1: And I know that, look, you don't want to be

732
00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:46,000
Speaker 1: fourth fiddle at the Staples Center after the Lakers, Kings

733
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:51,279
Speaker 1: and concerts. But you know, I think the the wall,

734
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:53,200
Speaker 1: I think is one of the most interesting things like

735
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 1: about how they are really like you know, just the

736
00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:59,640
Speaker 1: shape of that arena because you know, there's a lot

737
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:01,480
Speaker 1: of money going into it. The only thing though, too,

738
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:04,920
Speaker 1: is like the cost of the tickets is not low either,

739
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:08,360
Speaker 1: like they You're definitely looks like probably getting your money's

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00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:10,200
Speaker 1: worth based on what I'm seeing for what these first

741
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:13,799
Speaker 1: game ticket prices are looking like on the prime are

742
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:18,480
Speaker 1: they talking about like Lower Bowl is like three grand?

743
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:24,120
Speaker 1: Whoa for a Clippers ticket for the first game? Yeah,

744
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:27,000
Speaker 1: now it's the first game, mind you. Like, so it's

745
00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:31,520
Speaker 1: definitely has the energy of like we're we're popping circumstance.

746
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:34,840
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, we're let's pop champagne on this thing. But

747
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:38,760
Speaker 1: a lot of people were like whoa, whoa, that seems

748
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:40,880
Speaker 1: like a lot. Now I'm sure that maybe the ticket

749
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:43,880
Speaker 1: market will fluctuate, but either way, there's a.

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Speaker 6: Lot of game there featuring Kaitlin Clark or is it.

751
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:53,080
Speaker 3: Starget point guard? Yeah?

752
00:38:54,600 --> 00:39:00,040
Speaker 2: But yeah, I just I yeah, I think that I

753
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:00,839
Speaker 2: have to go to the over though.

754
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:02,440
Speaker 1: I will go the over though, because forty and a

755
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:04,920
Speaker 1: half just seems like I was a little it was

756
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:05,600
Speaker 1: like absurd.

757
00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:06,280
Speaker 2: It's just absurd.

758
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:08,320
Speaker 6: But you talk about teams eating the l's, are the

759
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:10,319
Speaker 6: Clippers going to be that team? Then?

760
00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:13,440
Speaker 2: Yeah? But are they going to fall ten and a

761
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:14,400
Speaker 2: half games?

762
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:17,879
Speaker 1: I could, like, I could see them eating a solid six,

763
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 1: you know, down to maybe what forty four ish, forty

764
00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:22,640
Speaker 1: five ish?

765
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:27,160
Speaker 3: Kawhi was healthy last year, like Kawhi was had a

766
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:31,399
Speaker 3: very healthy season for Kawhi Leonards last year relatively speaking, Yeah,

767
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:36,280
Speaker 3: relatively speaking, very healthy. Uh, they're losing Paul George James

768
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:40,799
Speaker 3: Harden has his moments, so I think this is about right.

769
00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:45,200
Speaker 3: Maybe I'll go under on this one despite whoa.

770
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 2: Yeah what wow?

771
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:52,600
Speaker 3: With three of forty Yeah, I can see that. Oh right, Unfortunately,

772
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:53,160
Speaker 3: I can see that.

773
00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:57,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, okay, okay, yeah, yeah, I wouldn't say that too.

774
00:39:57,800 --> 00:39:59,279
Speaker 1: I didn't want to just seem like a full on

775
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:01,240
Speaker 1: Laker fan though, But I think I think they'll win

776
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:02,800
Speaker 1: twenty two games anyway, that's.

777
00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:03,440
Speaker 2: What that's my feeling.

778
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:07,440
Speaker 3: Jabari just pointed out the last year was the most

779
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:12,040
Speaker 3: games played by Kawhi Leonards since twenty sixteen seventeen.

780
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:15,799
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, yep, yep, yep, yep.

781
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:19,919
Speaker 1: Well, look, I hope for optimism abounds for their fan base.

782
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:22,160
Speaker 1: The new logo looks great. The new logo looks great.

783
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:24,520
Speaker 1: I will say that looks fantastic.

784
00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:24,520
Speaker 5: Does it.

785
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:26,839
Speaker 3: I don't I don't want to pile on. I don't

786
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:27,480
Speaker 3: want to pile on.

787
00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:28,960
Speaker 2: That's why I said a compliment.

788
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 3: That's yeah, that's why you said that with a I

789
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:33,400
Speaker 3: had something.

790
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:36,000
Speaker 2: In my eye, something in my eye on the side

791
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:37,320
Speaker 2: of it. That's why I said that.

792
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:41,239
Speaker 1: I was I saw some of my perith anyway, that's

793
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:44,319
Speaker 1: going to do it for this section of checking out

794
00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:45,359
Speaker 1: what is happening.

795
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:49,000
Speaker 3: With the big vision. But that's lock. Those in those

796
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:50,640
Speaker 3: are all those. It's a lot of a lot of

797
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:53,720
Speaker 3: different like sports podcasts are like okay, and this one's

798
00:40:53,719 --> 00:40:55,880
Speaker 3: a lot Every single one of the ones that I

799
00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:56,440
Speaker 3: gave you is.

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Speaker 2: A lock twenty two win projection for the Clippers and

801
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:01,600
Speaker 2: c k lock.

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00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:05,839
Speaker 1: Okay, take that to Love Bank all right, let's take

803
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:08,759
Speaker 1: a quick break and we'll come back to put our

804
00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:11,480
Speaker 1: very dear friend Lena Washington in the hottest of hot

805
00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:13,240
Speaker 1: seats for the rapid fire round of questioning.

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00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:27,919
Speaker 4: Read it for this, and we're back, and we are back.

807
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:30,640
Speaker 2: Oh Lena, Look, we love having you.

808
00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:34,120
Speaker 3: Look, look, we love having.

809
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:35,799
Speaker 5: Ever.

810
00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:37,799
Speaker 3: We're gonna have to do it to you. Unfortunately.

811
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:39,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're in the hot seat. You already know what

812
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:40,959
Speaker 2: it is. It's the fourth quarter.

813
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:46,040
Speaker 1: It's the rapid fire round of questioning, quick questions, quicker answers,

814
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:48,120
Speaker 1: no filler, you.

815
00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:51,680
Speaker 3: Get me, Myles. Why doesn't she look scared because she's

816
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:54,240
Speaker 3: she knows you did the evil laugh.

817
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:57,239
Speaker 2: I know she's unfazed. She's a competitor.

818
00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:02,080
Speaker 3: She looked like she was trying not to as in Phoenix.

819
00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:05,800
Speaker 5: So you say hot, I have to laugh at that idea,

820
00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:10,080
Speaker 5: because whatever hot you're talking about, I guarantee.

821
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:12,960
Speaker 6: You I'm experiencing hotter out here.

822
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:15,440
Speaker 1: I think, quick question, I'd hate to sidetrack. Have you

823
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:18,239
Speaker 1: ever left something out in the Arizona heat and it

824
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:21,440
Speaker 1: just got ruined? You're like I left my sandal outside

825
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:22,040
Speaker 1: and it's.

826
00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:27,040
Speaker 5: Absolutely I mean mainly like chocolate bars and you know

827
00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 5: wax hands.

828
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:30,640
Speaker 6: You know, you go to the Renaiss Festival.

829
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:34,040
Speaker 5: One you get like a wax statue and then you

830
00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:35,879
Speaker 5: leave it on your mantle and then you come home

831
00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:38,759
Speaker 5: from school one day in May and it's your peace sign.

832
00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:43,560
Speaker 6: Looks more like uh yeah, yes, exactly. Yeah, yeah, so

833
00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:44,560
Speaker 6: that has happened.

834
00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:47,239
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, because there was we had a heat wave

835
00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:49,760
Speaker 1: and I had a sandal that shrunk in size.

836
00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:52,080
Speaker 3: Oh it was weird.

837
00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:53,319
Speaker 2: I know, I didn't have to.

838
00:42:55,080 --> 00:42:55,439
Speaker 6: The ground.

839
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:55,680
Speaker 5: I know.

840
00:42:56,120 --> 00:42:58,080
Speaker 1: No, there's that's I'm like, yo, I think these are

841
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:02,040
Speaker 1: this is what I get for buying seven dollars because

842
00:43:02,719 --> 00:43:03,120
Speaker 1: they were.

843
00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:04,120
Speaker 2: Like shrinky dinks.

844
00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:08,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're like okay, soaking water for three days before using.

845
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:11,680
Speaker 6: Like the little the little foam dinosaurs.

846
00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:14,280
Speaker 3: Yeah exactly.

847
00:43:15,239 --> 00:43:18,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I don't know what happened. Anyway, I'm gonna

848
00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:20,200
Speaker 1: get some of those Arizona sandals. I can handle the

849
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:21,080
Speaker 1: Arizona in the.

850
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:24,600
Speaker 3: Sun, but here Jabari noted one hundred straight days of

851
00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:28,840
Speaker 3: one hundred plus degree temperatures seventy six was the previous record.

852
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:30,319
Speaker 6: That was last year.

853
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:37,439
Speaker 3: That's yo, that is intense and that's yeah.

854
00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:40,719
Speaker 1: Well okay, well, look, I don't want to keep you

855
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:43,520
Speaker 1: knowing that you are your the clock is running also

856
00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:46,160
Speaker 1: against the time of the sun and its heat.

857
00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:48,480
Speaker 6: So we were I want you to know, like you're

858
00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:49,600
Speaker 6: talking hot we know.

859
00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:53,759
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, sorry, more of a like we so

860
00:43:54,080 --> 00:43:57,880
Speaker 3: our legal team has asked us to clarify. It's more

861
00:43:57,920 --> 00:44:01,759
Speaker 3: of an itchy seat. It's actually it's just kind of

862
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:04,360
Speaker 3: like uncomfortable. It's like, do you have any allergies?

863
00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:07,680
Speaker 6: Like, are you gonna need a cream after that?

864
00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:08,279
Speaker 5: No?

865
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:12,239
Speaker 1: No, it's just more irritating. It's no, it's just irritating.

866
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:13,319
Speaker 1: I think that was the word.

867
00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:13,719
Speaker 2: They said.

868
00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:17,279
Speaker 1: This segment seems more irritating than anything. And really, well,

869
00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 1: you know that it all depends on them.

870
00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:25,520
Speaker 3: Right anyway? Clock? Oh my god, he's so mad.

871
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:28,920
Speaker 2: Lena Washington, I'm gonna start off. You know how these

872
00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:29,719
Speaker 2: I don't.

873
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:33,080
Speaker 3: I can't. I can't vouch for him like this. Stay

874
00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:34,880
Speaker 3: out of this. I told you.

875
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:37,400
Speaker 2: If you're not with me, you're against me too.

876
00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:40,760
Speaker 6: The viewers.

877
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:46,680
Speaker 1: Okay, first question, Lena, and this is up, and I

878
00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:48,600
Speaker 1: must ask are you from the state of Arizona?

879
00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:49,359
Speaker 2: Are you born and raised?

880
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:50,200
Speaker 6: I am born and race.

881
00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 1: Okay, then you should nail this part, this one out

882
00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:54,280
Speaker 1: of the Park, Lena, Washington.

883
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:56,160
Speaker 2: What is the state bird of Arizona?

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Speaker 6: The cactus run?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Wow, no, hesitas, absolutely you.

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Speaker 6: Missus Mallan's third grade.

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Speaker 3: Class cactus wren. Miles Gray. You were born and raised

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Speaker 3: in California. What is the state bird of California?

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Speaker 6: I got that one for you too. I got that

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Speaker 6: one for you too. It's a condor.

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Speaker 2: It's no, it's the quail.

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Speaker 3: Oh in California quail. Yeah, California kuayel.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, official state bird.

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Speaker 5: I did that.

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Speaker 1: It was one of our most important birds because it

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Speaker 1: was on the brink of extinction. I remember doing a

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Speaker 1: book report on that in third grade. And I do

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Speaker 1: know that our flower is the golden poppy. What is

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Speaker 1: the state flower of Arizona?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 6: That is a good question, is it? I don't know.

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Speaker 6: A desert a cactus rose.

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Speaker 2: It's the tomorrow.

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Speaker 6: Rose, just to worrow, just the plane o.

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Speaker 3: The blossom of the of the And we're getting California

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Speaker 3: bird because I thought California condor also was the official

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Speaker 3: bird of California, the California condor. And then they were like,

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Speaker 3: our state birds should have a stupid little hat. We

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Speaker 3: should make it the California quail. Because they get it's

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Speaker 3: got like a little wear hat. Well, the quail has

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Speaker 3: like a little Yeah, it looks kind of like a flapper.

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Speaker 3: It's cute.

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Speaker 6: It's cute.

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Speaker 1: It changed in nineteen thirty one, so I don't know

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Speaker 1: who was who previously was the holder of that title

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Speaker 1: from nineteen thirty one and then before that. But anyway,

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Speaker 1: all that to say is we have to keep this moving.

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Speaker 1: It's not about my knowledge of my own state, which

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Speaker 1: I barely have a grasp on. It's about yours. And

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Speaker 1: you've actually nailed this.

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Speaker 3: Producer Jabari unfortunately gave us the said answer to my question.

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Speaker 3: The condor went extinct in eighty seven, so that's why.

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Speaker 6: Or get loose on the ice baker Field.

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Speaker 3: Oh really, yes, famously in the wild.

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Speaker 6: That's plansom.

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Speaker 3: They actually only exist at hockey games. I don't know

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Speaker 3: all right. Is the nineteen ninety five All Star Game

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Speaker 3: uniform the best ever?

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Speaker 5: I would say, yes, It's got all you want from

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Speaker 5: a Phoenix centric All Star jersey. I mean, the purple,

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Speaker 5: the sunburst, the spawn, just everything about it I think

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Speaker 5: just resonates and speaks to the Southwest.

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Speaker 3: It looks like an arts and crafts project. My eight

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Speaker 3: year old would do at school. Oh, that's actually a

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Speaker 3: good thing because it's like really bringing nineteen ninety five energy.

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Speaker 3: You know, well, yeah, your kids. It's got like a

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Speaker 3: cutout cactus right.

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Speaker 5: Almost any fashion from the nineteen nineties. If you asked

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Speaker 5: me about it, I will defend it. I'm sorry, dobas

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Speaker 5: whatever you know, bright colors, the crint hair, anything and

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Speaker 5: everything that says nineties.

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Speaker 2: It okay.

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Speaker 3: Next question is the correct answer.

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Speaker 1: Lina Washington of the state of Arizona. What is your

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Speaker 1: favorite non Arizona Arizona brand? Is it Arizona Jeans Company

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Speaker 1: or Arizona Iced Tea, both famously not from Arizona, but

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Speaker 1: using the name.

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Speaker 2: To evoke a whimsical Southwestern image in our minds.

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Speaker 6: It would have to be Arizona Iced Tea.

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Speaker 5: Just formative memories of getting a can for the road

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Speaker 5: on the way to a movie or the park, or

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Speaker 5: you know, it's just a good old standby.

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Speaker 6: And there are variations of the can.

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Speaker 5: The best flavor I typically go for either the sweet

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Speaker 5: tea or the good old green ginseing honey. Yeah, personally,

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Speaker 5: so depending on how we're doing it. But you have

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Speaker 5: like the mango flavor, you have a I think a

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Speaker 5: watermelon flavor.

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Speaker 6: Got the raspberry. You've got whatever you need.

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Speaker 5: Arizona iced Tea's got you, and they're not going to

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Speaker 5: cost you more than two bucks ide.

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Speaker 6: It's that thing absolutely.

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Speaker 2: Because it's still affordable. Yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: The fans are designed by the same people who designed

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Speaker 3: the nineteen ninety five All Star Game uniform. So yeah,

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Speaker 3: that's checks out, all right, Lena, What alternate reality scenario

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Speaker 3: do you wish really happened? If you could just like

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Speaker 3: take one like so for instance, this comes from Paul

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Speaker 3: Garaventa in the discord, who says, for me, it's what

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Speaker 3: if the Blazers had drafted Kevin Durant over Odum. They

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Speaker 3: already had Brandon Roy and Aldridge and assuming they still

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Speaker 3: got Andre Miller and Marcus can Be the following season,

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Speaker 3: that is a solid lineup. What say you? What is

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Speaker 3: what is a what if it gets you excited?

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Speaker 5: I mean the recency bias for me, and just because

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Speaker 5: I was working in the market at the time, would

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Speaker 5: be if the King's drafted Luke instead of Marvin Bagley

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Speaker 5: and that draft, how.

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Speaker 3: Do you think that would have been better? Well, it's

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Speaker 3: not like everyone was saying that at the.

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Speaker 6: Time, definitely not definitely not How how you know the

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Speaker 6: career trajectory of Luca.

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Speaker 5: And Deer and Blotti, Divots and Kajasriyokovic, who are part

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Speaker 5: of the front office at the time, Just how that

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Speaker 5: would have expedited the success this franchise experience and all

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Speaker 5: the questions surrounding the competence of the front office. How

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Speaker 5: those questions would have been suspended, likely for quite some time.

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Speaker 6: I would think.

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Speaker 3: It wouldn't have been the Kings, though, it wouldn't be

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Speaker 3: the Kings, you know, so.

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Speaker 5: The Kings are going to They were definitely King Kings

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00:50:54,520 --> 00:51:02,160
Speaker 5: and Kings. But yeah, that's that's the quickest alternate reality

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Speaker 5: that I can think too.

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Speaker 3: For me, it's always going to be what if the

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Speaker 3: Philadelphia'sleveties victors had traded Ben Simmons instead of letting Jimmy

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Speaker 3: Butler go to them heat. I don't know if it's

998
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Speaker 3: even a realistic scenario because I think Jimmy Butler wanted out,

999
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Speaker 3: But like, you could have gotten really good value for

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Speaker 3: Ben Simmons. And everybody's heard me say this already, so

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Speaker 3: but I can't stop myself when this sort of question.

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Speaker 2: Comes up alternate realities can be fun.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, man, that team was man b roy I

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Speaker 1: was that was like one of the first non Laker

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Speaker 1: jerseys I wanted to buy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, this feels. This feels I like this

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Speaker 3: game like this guy.

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Speaker 1: Well, Lena Washington, you've actually answered every single question correctly.

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Speaker 3: Someone, are you looking at our answers?

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Speaker 6: I have a copy of the brick and the key

1011
00:51:59,120 --> 00:51:59,680
Speaker 6: on my hand.

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00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:01,080
Speaker 2: That's whine. You sold this.

1013
00:52:01,239 --> 00:52:03,600
Speaker 1: You sold this because those answers came out so organically

1014
00:52:03,680 --> 00:52:05,520
Speaker 1: and so natural and so accurately.

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00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:09,560
Speaker 3: Thing is like legitimately, who knows that that's important?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that was you do.

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Speaker 6: On the Five Seas, which I think I would have

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Speaker 6: stumbled on, to be.

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Speaker 3: Honest, the Five Seas.

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00:52:20,080 --> 00:52:29,080
Speaker 6: Yeah, Arizona. You know copper citrus cattle climate and hotten.

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Speaker 2: Copper cattle, cotton citrus climate.

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Speaker 5: Wow, yes, yes, those were the foundational the foundational economic

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Speaker 5: drivers of people to Arizona.

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Speaker 6: That is one hundred correct, Jack.

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00:52:43,280 --> 00:52:46,520
Speaker 1: But when we're not talking about the problematic cotton either,

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Speaker 1: hopefully I know enough history to know that.

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Speaker 2: Wasn't that kind.

1029
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Speaker 6: I don't know how south we were in the southeast.

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Speaker 2: Predicted will cut.

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Speaker 1: Lena Thank you again so much for joining us, blessing

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00:53:03,800 --> 00:53:06,840
Speaker 1: our show, classing up the joint with your Emmy Award

1033
00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:07,760
Speaker 1: winning presence.

1034
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Speaker 2: Where do the people find mony?

1035
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Speaker 3: Sorry?

1036
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Speaker 2: Sorry, sorry, three multi Emmy Award one friend.

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Speaker 6: I count it like beest. You know what I'm saying.

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00:53:17,880 --> 00:53:20,040
Speaker 6: I'm always a pleasure to be on with you guys.

1039
00:53:20,160 --> 00:53:22,719
Speaker 6: Thank you again for having me. If you're checking for me,

1040
00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:25,160
Speaker 6: I'm on the Socials l Washington TV.

1041
00:53:25,560 --> 00:53:28,400
Speaker 5: If you live in the Greater Phoenix or Flagstaff area,

1042
00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:30,480
Speaker 5: you can find me on twelve News.

1043
00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:31,560
Speaker 6: The NBC affiliate.

1044
00:53:31,640 --> 00:53:34,680
Speaker 5: Sunday Night Football returns this week, so you can catch

1045
00:53:34,760 --> 00:53:38,040
Speaker 5: me right after every Sunday Night football game or Thursday

1046
00:53:38,080 --> 00:53:42,440
Speaker 5: Night football game on NBC and after Big Ten Football

1047
00:53:42,440 --> 00:53:43,759
Speaker 5: on NBC on Saturdays.

1048
00:53:44,040 --> 00:53:45,160
Speaker 6: And if you're in high school.

1049
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Speaker 5: Football, tune in for Friday Night Fever Fridays at eleven

1050
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Speaker 5: thirty five after Jimmy Fallon. We are getting ready for

1051
00:53:51,719 --> 00:53:55,279
Speaker 5: our first full, busy week of football, and it is

1052
00:53:55,360 --> 00:53:59,400
Speaker 5: going to be full steam ahead for eighteen plus weeks

1053
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Speaker 5: and then hopefully then includes a little you know, MLB

1054
00:54:03,520 --> 00:54:06,719
Speaker 5: playoff run, maybe a little Sun's playoff run on the

1055
00:54:06,800 --> 00:54:10,480
Speaker 5: back end next year. So I look forward to hopefully

1056
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Speaker 5: check it in with you guys some time along that journey.

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Speaker 5: Which driving the bus here.

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Speaker 3: You Which of the which of the iconic three point

1059
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Speaker 3: celebrations did you do after winning your third Emmy? Did

1060
00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:26,279
Speaker 3: you do the three to the head like Carmelo or Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Probably that's probably my go although you know the guys

1062
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Speaker 5: that USA Basketball said Drew Holidays, you know, a little.

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Speaker 6: Like that was the crowd favorite.

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Speaker 5: But I think, you know, Bogdan Bogdanovitch can't be doing

1065
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Speaker 5: all that, but I think I can get away with it.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely mellow and on big stages and whatnot.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, amazing.

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Speaker 6: But I will look for my five Timers jersey or

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Speaker 6: hat in the in the mail.

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Speaker 3: No, it's gone, it's going, it's going, it's coming. It's

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Speaker 3: not there yet.

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Speaker 4: Oh my, what I haven't been, so.

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Speaker 1: I'll just have Yeah, I'll have to let me verify

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Speaker 1: your address again off Mike really quick, just to make.

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Speaker 2: Sure, because that's weird. That's weird because I know it

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Speaker 2: was coming from parents. We just paid for the shipping

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Speaker 2: and everything.

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Speaker 6: Oh oh yeah, well yeah, maybe.

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Speaker 2: It's a wrong address. You know how this stuff happened?

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Speaker 2: Porch pirates you never know what happens.

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Speaker 1: You never know what's going on, but anyway, you can

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Speaker 1: find us at the hashtag mad boosti's bw sd I

1083
00:55:26,239 --> 00:55:28,120
Speaker 1: E S for show links and updates, and that's where

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Speaker 1: you can also find the information to join our discord server,

1085
00:55:31,719 --> 00:55:34,720
Speaker 1: where you can be like Paul Garavena and ask questions

1086
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Speaker 1: that make it into the rapid fire round of questions.

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Speaker 2: Make sure you follow us on Twitter. You can find

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Speaker 2: me at Miles of Gray.

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Speaker 3: Time at Jack Underscore O'Brien and this.

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Speaker 1: Has been another flawless installment of Miles and Jack got

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Speaker 1: Mad Mads.

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Speaker 2: We'll see you next week. Bye muss Us, muss Us

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Speaker 2: and s.