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Speaker 2: Welcome in episode one sixty. What's Right with Nick Right?

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Speaker 2: Diora is not here today, still doing graduation related revelry.

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Speaker 2: So she is out today. It is me solo once again.

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Speaker 2: But we have a ton to get to, so let's

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Speaker 2: get right to it. Here is what did not make

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Speaker 2: the cut for today's show. Wimby signing a Spurs jersey

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Speaker 2: even though he's yet to be drafted. That didn't make

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Speaker 2: the show. Jokic makes it back to Serbia in time

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Speaker 2: for to see his horse race. And I don't know

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Speaker 2: what this last thing is. It just says on the

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Speaker 2: screen two normal guys doing normal stuff. I assume, Oh,

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Speaker 2: I didn't know that's what it was gonna be. It's

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Speaker 2: Kevin Durant and Aaron Rodgers hanging out, working out together.

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Speaker 2: So I have a theory on this, and then we'll

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Speaker 2: get to the actual show, should I. Yeah, I'll say it.

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Speaker 2: There used to be our younger listeners or viewers might

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Speaker 2: not know this, but Jim Rome when I was a

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Speaker 2: teenager and into my early twenties, certainly when I was

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Speaker 2: a teen, when I was driving around door to door

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Speaker 2: selling stakes, Jim Rome was the biggest sports radio guy

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Speaker 2: in the world. Made tens of millions of dollars, was

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Speaker 2: on three hundred plus stations. It kind of reinvented the

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Speaker 2: format took what Mike and the Mad Dog created and

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Speaker 2: turned it into the Jungle and the Clones and live shows.

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Speaker 2: So many of us oh so much to Jim Rome,

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Speaker 2: and when he was off, typically his fill ins were

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Speaker 2: just objectively bad. Now I say this as someone that

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Speaker 2: once filled in for Jim Room. Okay, so I'm not

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Speaker 2: throwing stones, and I don't know if this is the

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Speaker 2: it being a theory growing up that Rome would have

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Speaker 2: more when he was gone. So why am I telling

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Speaker 2: that twenty year old twenty five year old anecdote. My

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Speaker 2: theory to Kevin Durant, who's a little odd choosing to

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Speaker 2: hang out with Aaron Rodgers is that he then becomes

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Speaker 2: far and away the most sane, normal guy in the crew.

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Speaker 2: It's like, oh, you guys think I'm a little weird, Well,

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Speaker 2: why don't I bring my Kim Trails anti vax ayahuasca drinken.

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Speaker 2: You gotta FaceTime me buddy to come hang out, And

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Speaker 2: then you might be like, oh, kd little odd social

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Speaker 2: media stuff. But aside from that pretty chill guy. Okay,

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Speaker 2: now to the actual show. Diora normally would read these questions,

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Speaker 2: I will Bradley Beal's going to Phoenix, and the producer's right.

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Speaker 2: Everyone's clowning on the Suns forgetting Beal, But they got

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Speaker 2: an All Star for a sandwich. Who cares about cap

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Speaker 2: space if it nets them a title? All right? That

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Speaker 2: the I know this doesn't make the Suns the favorites.

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Speaker 2: who cares about cap space if it nets them a title?

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Speaker 2: But if it doesn't, they are as locked in and

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Speaker 2: I'll try to fix it instead. You got a poor

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Speaker 2: man's version of Devin Booker when you already have a

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Speaker 2: handle more injury issues. Durant post Achilles has played thirty

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Speaker 2: five games fifty five games forty seven games. Booker had

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Speaker 2: then Bradley Beal had back to back eighty two game

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Speaker 2: give you what I mean by that. Next year, Kevin

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Speaker 2: But with the Nuggets winning the title, if you are

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Speaker 2: the past, you could trade Durant for a twenty million

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Speaker 2: want to trade Kevin Durant. You gotta trade him for

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Speaker 2: someone making his money, which makes him untradeable because who

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Speaker 2: wouldn't trade, or you wouldn't think it's a good enough

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Speaker 2: The biggest issue is what it does to you as

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Speaker 2: far as future flexibility. If you are a second Apron team,

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Speaker 2: That's noteworthy because the Sons have already traded away all

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Speaker 2: the real penalizing part. If you are a second Apron

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Speaker 2: be a second Apron team this year seven years now

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Speaker 2: is poor planning. If you buy a brand new car

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Speaker 2: and it breaks down, that's bad luck. The Bucks two

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Speaker 2: years ago, when they were defending their title, having Chris

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Speaker 2: been healthy, couldn't see that coming. That's bad luck. This

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Speaker 2: that would be poor planning. So I I just I

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Speaker 2: work immediately, it is a barren desert in Phoenix. No

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Speaker 2: pun intended for the remainder of the decade. By the way,

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Speaker 2: to our producers, Diora is in the chat, she says,

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Speaker 2: so people watching on YouTube can chat with Diora and

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Speaker 2: some of those in the sea blocks. Let's keep an

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Speaker 2: ups here. The producer's right, is Katie's legacy sealed that

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Speaker 2: he could never win a ring, never win anything alone. Well,

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Speaker 2: That should be our landscape for the debate their NBA careers.

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Speaker 2: But I have been told for years that's not how

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Speaker 2: you had six opportunities and won all. They got all six.

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Speaker 2: well how what were there? Well there were eight, So

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Speaker 2: then why is it not six for eight? Well he

427
00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 2: was retired the two years in the middle. Oh, he

428
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:03,080
Speaker 2: was retired for two full years in the middle. Well no,

429
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:07,920
Speaker 2: actually he came back one year. He came back one year. Oh,

430
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:09,840
Speaker 2: but he came back. But his team was so bad

431
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:11,800
Speaker 2: without him. They missed the playoffs. No, no, no, they made

432
00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:16,760
Speaker 2: the playoffs. Oh they did. Was he any good? Yeah?

433
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:20,840
Speaker 2: Well he got MVP votes that season. He did. But

434
00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:22,760
Speaker 2: in the playoffs, did he like get hurt? No? No, no,

435
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 2: he averaged like almost forty a game in the series

436
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:29,960
Speaker 2: they lost. They lost? Oh yeah in round two? Oh,

437
00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:32,160
Speaker 2: that team then winning won the title. No, that team

438
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:34,800
Speaker 2: got swept. Wait, but he would have won the title.

439
00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:37,440
Speaker 2: But we don't count that year. No, no, no, it's not

440
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:39,280
Speaker 2: fair to count that year. By the way, if I

441
00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:41,640
Speaker 2: told you about the double Nickolay dropped in Madison Square

442
00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:43,719
Speaker 2: Garden that year, that's still part of his legend. Let

443
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:48,200
Speaker 2: me tell you about it. So that part the you

444
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:52,600
Speaker 2: know that the entirety of his career, other than the

445
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:55,880
Speaker 2: six years where they won rings, we don't count. Oddly,

446
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:58,680
Speaker 2: it's a weird thing we do. I don't quite get it.

447
00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:03,000
Speaker 2: It's never made sense. But whatever. Here's the other part,

448
00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:08,040
Speaker 2: And this is where the ownership stuff comes in. And

449
00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:15,120
Speaker 2: everyone watching knows either if they are on the Jordan's

450
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:19,680
Speaker 2: side of the argument, they have made this argument. If

451
00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:23,279
Speaker 2: they are on the opposite side of this argument, they

452
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:28,400
Speaker 2: have heard people make this argument that when you are

453
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:38,640
Speaker 2: arguing with someone who, like a religious zealot, believes Michael

454
00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:41,680
Speaker 2: Jordan is clearly an unequivocally the greatest player of all time.

455
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:48,320
Speaker 2: You have heard the shoes brought up. You have heard

456
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:53,239
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, if he's not the goat, then

457
00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:56,520
Speaker 2: how come his shoes are still the most popular saved

458
00:34:56,640 --> 00:35:06,439
Speaker 2: Nike reinvented shorts, commercialism. You have heard. I've heard about

459
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:11,240
Speaker 2: the suits after the game, the shaved head, the mystique,

460
00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:19,040
Speaker 2: the aura, all of it has been part of the

461
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:24,439
Speaker 2: giant stew that people used argue, Michael Jordan's the greatest

462
00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:33,799
Speaker 2: player ever, the whole story. It is under that pretense

463
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:41,200
Speaker 2: that Michael Jordan being as far as on court performance,

464
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:44,799
Speaker 2: not off, not Malfe's. It's not racism, not the things

465
00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:48,440
Speaker 2: we've had owners kicked out for. How good is your team?

466
00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:56,120
Speaker 2: The fact that the team he ran for fifteen years

467
00:35:56,800 --> 00:36:02,839
Speaker 2: was the worst team in basketball has to matter. You

468
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:07,759
Speaker 2: want now, if you again, you want only the on

469
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:11,120
Speaker 2: court stuff to matter, all sign up for that. But

470
00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:15,279
Speaker 2: all the folks who have argued, oh man, but the

471
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:20,120
Speaker 2: threes are just an iconic shoot. All of that, and

472
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:26,840
Speaker 2: you know you've heard these arguments. Well, then the fact

473
00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:30,600
Speaker 2: that you owned the team for fifteen years they won

474
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:38,440
Speaker 2: three playoff games, zero series. Jordan's ownership tenure of the

475
00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:44,160
Speaker 2: Hornets is much like his playing career pre Pippin. Zero

476
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:49,279
Speaker 2: series wins, three playoff game, no one playoff game win

477
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:53,080
Speaker 2: before Pippin got there, zero series wins. That was it.

478
00:36:53,080 --> 00:37:00,680
Speaker 2: It's just longer. And lastly, again, if you want to

479
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 2: have an earnest, honest discussion, I ask you this. You

480
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:10,040
Speaker 2: don't have to answer it right now. Just think about it.

481
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:17,320
Speaker 2: If when Jordan took over the Hornets they turned into

482
00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:23,880
Speaker 2: a juggernaut, If he took over the team ran basketball

483
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:30,080
Speaker 2: ops and and they ripped off a dynasty. Do you

484
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 2: honestly think folks would not be using that as part

485
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:41,760
Speaker 2: of the argument as to more evidence that he's the goat.

486
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:49,799
Speaker 2: Of course they would, of course they would. So I'm

487
00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:54,520
Speaker 2: just asking what's good for the goose, and if we

488
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:57,160
Speaker 2: want to make it just about a basketball career, so

489
00:37:57,360 --> 00:38:01,680
Speaker 2: be it. I'd like that as I am sitting here

490
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:05,799
Speaker 2: right now wearing Jordan's they are a dope sneaker, I

491
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:12,239
Speaker 2: gotta tell you. But that's never been the rules. It's

492
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 2: never been how it's been argued. The producers follow up

493
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:17,880
Speaker 2: with why are you holding him? Jay's bad for an

494
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:20,960
Speaker 2: office decisions against him, but fine with Lebron forcing the

495
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:24,120
Speaker 2: Westbrook trade. Well, that's another example of how insane this

496
00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:29,240
Speaker 2: stuff has become. Michael Jordan actually ran a team, owned

497
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:33,720
Speaker 2: it and ran it and has skated for fifteen years

498
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:38,120
Speaker 2: on them being the worst in basketball. Lebron plays for

499
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:42,200
Speaker 2: a team and has gotten Lebron has gotten more criticism

500
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:47,279
Speaker 2: as a shadow GM, then Jordan has gotten as the

501
00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:56,160
Speaker 2: actual GM. It's betch if everything matters the producers right,

502
00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:58,439
Speaker 2: shouldn't the fact that Space Jam one is way better

503
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:02,320
Speaker 2: than Space Jam two be part of the conversation? Sure

504
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:06,319
Speaker 2: for the folks that have that want to do that. I,

505
00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:11,719
Speaker 2: by the way, that was when if everyone is just

506
00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:18,839
Speaker 2: trying to wreckcon what actually happened when Space Jam two

507
00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:22,040
Speaker 2: came out and people can now say they were joking.

508
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:29,680
Speaker 2: We all saw the tweets, saw the comments seemingly joking

509
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:35,839
Speaker 2: on television about Space Jam one being so much better

510
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:40,279
Speaker 2: than Space Jam two being further evidence we all saw it.

511
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:48,200
Speaker 2: So that's it. Once again. I'm just the only fair

512
00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:53,080
Speaker 2: and honest, you know, media member left on this stuff.

513
00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:59,920
Speaker 2: It would it would appear no agenda, just an accurate

514
00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:04,000
Speaker 2: telling of the story. That's what you guys come to

515
00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:08,120
Speaker 2: me for all interfold Portland seems like they're sigma with

516
00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:10,160
Speaker 2: Dame for better or worse? Are you buying that? All

517
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:13,240
Speaker 2: interfold of Portland's keeping Dame? You know what I'm folding.

518
00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:19,640
Speaker 2: I need to break them on the Dame stuff. He

519
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:24,800
Speaker 2: is allowed to do whatever he wants, but it's become

520
00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:30,480
Speaker 2: a little tiresome at this point. There's seemingly some reporters

521
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:32,879
Speaker 2: very close to him that keep saying he just wants

522
00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:36,080
Speaker 2: to be a Blazer, but maybe would do this. He said,

523
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:37,960
Speaker 2: he wants to be a Blazer, but I'd go to

524
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:42,319
Speaker 2: Miami or Brooklyn. I I like Dame a lot. I

525
00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:46,200
Speaker 2: think he's a great player, and he has to make

526
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:49,840
Speaker 2: the choice. Do I want to be the man in Portland,

527
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:52,440
Speaker 2: stay there for my entire career and not play in

528
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:54,920
Speaker 2: a single relevant playoff game for the rest of it,

529
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:58,360
Speaker 2: or go do something else. I won't judge him for either,

530
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:04,280
Speaker 2: but there is I know there's a lot of people

531
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:07,040
Speaker 2: that will kill James Harden if he chooses to go

532
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:12,240
Speaker 2: to Houston. I'm not sure how big of a difference

533
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:16,799
Speaker 2: this is at this point. Next, the Nuggets parade got

534
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:18,680
Speaker 2: pretty wild for some reason. The Lakers with the butt

535
00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:20,719
Speaker 2: of the jokes all in her fold. Michael Malone is

536
00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:26,560
Speaker 2: a sore winner. Michael Malone. I Michael Malone getting drunk

537
00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:29,239
Speaker 2: and having fun. More power to him going on McAfee

538
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:31,719
Speaker 2: and say, you know, make him taking a shot at

539
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:35,600
Speaker 2: Lebron saying, you know, I might retire. When eight years ago,

540
00:41:35,719 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 2: when no one gave a damn about Michael Malone and

541
00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:40,880
Speaker 2: he got fired by the Kings, Lebron went out and

542
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:43,920
Speaker 2: said at his media avail, Lebron at this point was

543
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:49,919
Speaker 2: a four time MVP, two time NBA champion, and said, hey,

544
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:52,960
Speaker 2: by the way, the King screwed up and firing my guy,

545
00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:55,520
Speaker 2: Michael Malone. They had a great coach and didn't know it.

546
00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:59,080
Speaker 2: And it's not like during that series Lebron was taking

547
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:02,400
Speaker 2: any shots whatsoever. He was nothing but complimentary of the Nuggets.

548
00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:05,800
Speaker 2: I don't get that. Next toe faon Diggs miss started

549
00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:08,880
Speaker 2: mentoring Mini Camp, rumors are swirling. There's tension between Digs

550
00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:12,400
Speaker 2: and the organization all in her fold. Digs agrees with

551
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:14,680
Speaker 2: Nick on Josh Allen, Oh, I'm all in on that.

552
00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:18,279
Speaker 2: I don't think it's the organization. The organization paid him.

553
00:42:18,719 --> 00:42:21,719
Speaker 2: He got an issue with that quarterback, and their head

554
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:26,160
Speaker 2: coach botched that. Their head coach said, I'm very very concerned.

555
00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:29,080
Speaker 2: After Diggs, you know, left the facility on day one

556
00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:31,399
Speaker 2: of Mini camp. He then was back on day two

557
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:34,040
Speaker 2: and that coach was like, no, no, you guys blew it

558
00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:36,719
Speaker 2: out of proportion. They then canceled the third day of

559
00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:40,680
Speaker 2: mini camp. They got a real problem there. Next, Packers

560
00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:42,880
Speaker 2: depends it back to Ayi. Alexander called Jordan loved the

561
00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:45,120
Speaker 2: best quarterback in the league and love wish Bears fans

562
00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:48,120
Speaker 2: happy Father's Day. All in her fold. Rogers left ayahuasca

563
00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:51,319
Speaker 2: in the water in Green Bay. I'm gonna fold on

564
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:55,080
Speaker 2: that specific thing. Uh. Oh wait, did I skip one? No,

565
00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:58,160
Speaker 2: I didn't skip one. The producer screwed up. Take that. Producers.

566
00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:00,600
Speaker 2: Oh that's the wrong thing on the screen. Uh, but

567
00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:03,240
Speaker 2: you're fine, Sorry about that. Uh. You guys are actually

568
00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:07,919
Speaker 2: doing a great job. But the here's what I will say,

569
00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:16,680
Speaker 2: Folks need to learn how to how to make compliments believable.

570
00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:20,440
Speaker 2: So I don't know if Diora is still watching, if

571
00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:28,960
Speaker 2: you are responding the comments, babe. Uh, But if after

572
00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:33,360
Speaker 2: Diora's fifth show, I looked to her and I said,

573
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:36,560
Speaker 2: I got to tell you something. I think you are

574
00:43:36,719 --> 00:43:43,840
Speaker 2: the best podcaster in the world, it would so clearly,

575
00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:48,560
Speaker 2: on its face be ridiculous that any other compliment I

576
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:52,759
Speaker 2: ever gave her would ring hollow. So Jayi Alexander saying

577
00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:57,000
Speaker 2: Jordan Love is the best quarterback in the league now

578
00:43:57,160 --> 00:43:59,840
Speaker 2: makes anything he ever says about Jordan Love for the

579
00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:04,240
Speaker 2: the the rest of the year just meaningless. So here's

580
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:07,840
Speaker 2: all you gotta say. If you're a Gyere Alexander, I

581
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:12,879
Speaker 2: gotta tell you Jordan Love's gonna surprise some people. He's

582
00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:18,200
Speaker 2: going to be very good this season. And I true

583
00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:19,600
Speaker 2: and if you really want to go over the top,

584
00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:24,279
Speaker 2: I truly believe one day he will be in a

585
00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:27,960
Speaker 2: discussion as the best quarterback in football. You guys might

586
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:30,360
Speaker 2: think that's ridiculous. People would have thought it was ridiculous

587
00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:34,480
Speaker 2: with Aaron Just wait, give him time. He's gonna immediately

588
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:37,839
Speaker 2: he's better than you think. Right now he's gonna say that.

589
00:44:38,160 --> 00:44:40,120
Speaker 2: But to say right now he's the best quarterback in

590
00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:44,920
Speaker 2: the league's outrageous. All right, last one, Chiefs finally got

591
00:44:44,920 --> 00:44:47,319
Speaker 2: their super Bowl rings. They are well, let's just call

592
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:49,879
Speaker 2: them big all unfold. Super Bowl rings have gone too far.

593
00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:52,879
Speaker 2: Oh I'm folding on that. I love the super Bowl ring.

594
00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:56,640
Speaker 2: It's awesome. I do like the new thing with super

595
00:44:56,640 --> 00:45:00,279
Speaker 2: Bowl rings is the detachable like face that then has

596
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:05,239
Speaker 2: more stuff on the inside. I think that's awesome. I

597
00:45:05,239 --> 00:45:08,319
Speaker 2: would just be terrified I would lose it, like lose

598
00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:11,120
Speaker 2: a piece of the ring. But and here's the part

599
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:14,359
Speaker 2: that we can clip off, not necessarily for social but

600
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:21,480
Speaker 2: just for me to send via text to the Kansity chiefs. Guys,

601
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:26,000
Speaker 2: I kind of I kind of want to ring. It

602
00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:28,719
Speaker 2: doesn't have to be like the diamonds, don't have to

603
00:45:28,719 --> 00:45:36,239
Speaker 2: be real, but I I do feel like when you

604
00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:43,959
Speaker 2: know your quarterback and Hall of Fame tight end Bear

605
00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:46,839
Speaker 2: hug me and lift me off the ground at the

606
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:52,359
Speaker 2: parade and both say you were the only one who

607
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:58,440
Speaker 2: believed in us, Like if we're if we're doing credit

608
00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:06,840
Speaker 2: for the Super Bowl, like the players are at seventy

609
00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:14,560
Speaker 2: five percent, Andy Reid and the front office are at

610
00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:24,200
Speaker 2: twenty four percent, The doubters and haters collectively are at

611
00:46:25,239 --> 00:46:33,720
Speaker 2: half a percent, The fans and supporters are at point

612
00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:41,360
Speaker 2: four ninety nine percent, and then me dropping banners, trolling

613
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:48,360
Speaker 2: the bills, unwavering support. I think it's like point one percent.

614
00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:55,960
Speaker 2: And I think that you know, at least deserves consideration

615
00:46:56,880 --> 00:47:00,520
Speaker 2: for a ring. So all I'm saying, and I don't

616
00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:07,000
Speaker 2: know if Brett's watching, but I know mister Veach, Brett's

617
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:13,000
Speaker 2: father is a die hard viewer of at least the

618
00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:17,480
Speaker 2: TV show, maybe the podcast. Yeah, maybe just consider it.

619
00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:23,040
Speaker 2: Just consider it. I'd wear it proudly. Quick break right back,

620
00:47:23,080 --> 00:47:31,719
Speaker 2: answer your questions. We'll try, all right, welcome back in

621
00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:34,920
Speaker 2: what's try to think? Right? Diora has texted in are

622
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:37,560
Speaker 2: you taking shots at my podcasting skills while I'm not

623
00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:41,200
Speaker 2: there to defend myself? Baby, No, I am not taking shots.

624
00:47:41,239 --> 00:47:43,919
Speaker 2: What I'm saying is if I'd have called you the

625
00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:47,120
Speaker 2: best podcaster in the world, you would have known that

626
00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:53,200
Speaker 2: I was lying. People just need to understand how to

627
00:47:54,040 --> 00:47:58,360
Speaker 2: compliment in a way that feels good but also believable.

628
00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:02,920
Speaker 2: Just rush. She also wrote in evidently you don't deserve

629
00:48:02,960 --> 00:48:07,359
Speaker 2: a ring. That's not nice, by the way, speaking of

630
00:48:07,400 --> 00:48:10,680
Speaker 2: someone deserving something I had forgotten we even did this,

631
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:15,520
Speaker 2: but we did before the playoffs. Another edition of out

632
00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:20,200
Speaker 2: Pick Nick where it was a confidence ranking. So you

633
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:25,279
Speaker 2: ranked every team one through sixteen, and sixteen was your

634
00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:27,879
Speaker 2: most confident, one was your least confident, and you got

635
00:48:27,880 --> 00:48:31,839
Speaker 2: a point accordingly with every team game that team won.

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Speaker 2: So if the team that you picked number three won

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Speaker 2: one two games, you would get six points for them,

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Speaker 2: And if the team you picked at number sixteen won

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Speaker 2: ten games, you would get one hundred and sixty points

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Speaker 2: for them. We have the results. Third place was at

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Speaker 2: the kid Shim ninety. Second place was show Off and

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Speaker 2: and In something I simply did not believe and then

643
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Speaker 2: checked the archival data to make sure it was correct.

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Speaker 2: In first place in the out Picnic NBA contest Demonse.

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Speaker 2: Of all our entries, first place was Demonse. We had

646
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Speaker 2: one hundred and forty entries. Demanse won the whole thing,

647
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Speaker 2: just maddening. Congrats to him. And here's the deal. I

648
00:49:44,719 --> 00:49:50,800
Speaker 2: am deciding right now he gets a two hundred dollars

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Speaker 2: bonus for that if within twenty four hours of this

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Speaker 2: podcast happening, So by eleven thirty Eastern tomorrow he texts

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Speaker 2: me or calls me and says, where's my bonus? I

652
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:13,920
Speaker 2: want to see if he's watching now. I did realize,

653
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Speaker 2: gosh darn it, I'm screwed here. His sister's watching. And

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Speaker 2: Deora is a tricky one, which is she likely now

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Speaker 2: will tell her brother give him a heads up, but

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Speaker 2: then make him cut her in on it. Uh. Deora

657
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Speaker 2: also yeah, just because she's texting me and trolling me

658
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Speaker 2: right now. So I'm gonna she's not here to defend herself.

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Speaker 2: Deora pulled a heck of a move yesterday. Keep in

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Speaker 2: mind it's late June. She calls me yesterday. She's like

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Speaker 2: Padre For those you know, remember on Christmas, some of

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Speaker 2: my gifts were, you know, money for some of my clothes,

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Speaker 2: websites that I go to that you didn't actually give

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Speaker 2: me the money, but you said I can spend one

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Speaker 2: hundred bucks here, two hundred bucks here. Do you remember

666
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Speaker 2: which ones I didn't use fully? Because I know I

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00:51:12,520 --> 00:51:16,400
Speaker 2: didn't use all of them. And she knew damn well

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Speaker 2: that there was a zero percent chance I would possibly

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Speaker 2: remember that. And she knew damn well that my answer

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Speaker 2: would be just get just I trust you, Just get

671
00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:29,800
Speaker 2: yourself some nice And she just instantly texts me three

672
00:51:29,840 --> 00:51:34,520
Speaker 2: pairs of brand new new balances and said which one

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Speaker 2: do you like best, to which I did leave her

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Speaker 2: on red on. I just didn't respond. But she's a

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Speaker 2: tricky one all right. Time for fan questions, Von Tadium,

676
00:51:46,840 --> 00:51:49,600
Speaker 2: says DeAndre eight and to Boston for Robert Williams and

677
00:51:49,640 --> 00:51:53,680
Speaker 2: Mark is smart. I mean, that's that's a great deal

678
00:51:54,080 --> 00:51:58,799
Speaker 2: for Phoenix Boston. You can't do that deal. Can't trade

679
00:51:58,880 --> 00:52:01,640
Speaker 2: Robert Williams and Mark Smart for DeAndre and just can't

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00:52:03,440 --> 00:52:06,920
Speaker 2: Joe s says, Lol, Nick, you used Kareem's college career

681
00:52:07,239 --> 00:52:11,359
Speaker 2: to say it was better than Jordan. Not quite. I

682
00:52:11,520 --> 00:52:16,840
Speaker 2: used Kareem's college career as evidence of two things. One

683
00:52:17,480 --> 00:52:20,960
Speaker 2: that if you wanted to make the argument who has

684
00:52:21,040 --> 00:52:26,959
Speaker 2: had the greatest basketball life, Kareem wins that hands down.

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Speaker 2: The guy went I think, undefeated in high school when

686
00:52:29,840 --> 00:52:32,399
Speaker 2: seventy nine into in college and then went and did

687
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Speaker 2: that win and did that in the NBA. So I also, though,

688
00:52:40,080 --> 00:52:46,280
Speaker 2: used Kareem's college career as evidence of if you think

689
00:52:46,360 --> 00:52:49,160
Speaker 2: it's the seventies, you don't remember how good is the company.

690
00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:54,040
Speaker 2: This guy was a thoroughly dominant guy from word go

691
00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:58,880
Speaker 2: And where I did use the non NBA profile on

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00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:03,920
Speaker 2: Kareem and Lebron versus Jordan was I just asked people logically,

693
00:53:05,480 --> 00:53:09,000
Speaker 2: in the three guys for the goat debate, one guy

694
00:53:09,719 --> 00:53:12,759
Speaker 2: was the greatest amateur player ever, a no doubt number

695
00:53:12,760 --> 00:53:16,920
Speaker 2: one pick, one guy was the most hyped prospect ever,

696
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Speaker 2: a no doubt number one pick, and the other guy

697
00:53:19,760 --> 00:53:21,480
Speaker 2: went third in the draft. That's the point I made

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Speaker 2: Jonathan Kwame asked, what's your view on no trade calls

699
00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:26,960
Speaker 2: and NBA contracts and what should a player do to

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00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:32,279
Speaker 2: deserve one. I think you've got to be a generational

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Speaker 2: player of your era. The reason the Wizard's got nothing

702
00:53:35,560 --> 00:53:37,600
Speaker 2: for Bradley Beals because they wanted to move on from him,

703
00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:39,920
Speaker 2: but he could veto every trade, so he picked his

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00:53:39,920 --> 00:53:42,920
Speaker 2: team and then also basically made it the trade that

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Speaker 2: smartly made that team as good as possible, where they

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Speaker 2: sell the eight and trade asset. I mean that's on

707
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Speaker 2: the Wizards, not on Beal. They didn't have to give

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Speaker 2: him one. Barf asked Nick, what's sense of pride in

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Speaker 2: watching your kids graduate? I'm I'm incredibly proud. I was

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00:54:04,800 --> 00:54:10,680
Speaker 2: incredibly proud of Diora for what she did over the

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Speaker 2: course of high school, the person she's become, the trials

712
00:54:15,440 --> 00:54:20,799
Speaker 2: and tribulation she's overcome, how she's matured the fact that she,

713
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Speaker 2: unlike me, unlike her big brother, unlike her mom, unlike

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Speaker 2: anybody I know, made it through high school, all of

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Speaker 2: it without having one. You know, almost everyone has at

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Speaker 2: least one thing that happens in high school that you

717
00:54:41,120 --> 00:54:43,000
Speaker 2: look back on a decade later and You're like, uh,

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00:54:44,320 --> 00:54:46,319
Speaker 2: that that could have been that either could have been

719
00:54:46,360 --> 00:54:51,440
Speaker 2: really bad or was really bad scary, you know, big

720
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Speaker 2: trouble at school, caught up with the cops, something bad.

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Speaker 2: I had. It happened twice in high school. You know.

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm not taking a shot at her brother.

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Speaker 2: Her brother got in some trouble in high school. Almost

724
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Speaker 2: everyone does it. The fact that Diora made it through

725
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Speaker 2: all of high school and it never happened, I told

726
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Speaker 2: her I thought was remarkable and really impressive. So I'm

727
00:55:15,920 --> 00:55:21,000
Speaker 2: proud of all of that, proud of her for graduating

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Speaker 2: high school. I mean, at this if she hadn't graduated

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Speaker 2: high school, it's a calamity, Like graduating high school is

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Speaker 2: a is a is in today's day and age, kind

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Speaker 2: of like a bare minimum. So I'm incredibly proud of

732
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Speaker 2: her a lot of things. And I was very emotional

733
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Speaker 2: watching her walk across the stage because it means she's

734
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Speaker 2: about to leave the house and become a real adult

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Speaker 2: all that stuff. But it's like, how proud of It's

736
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Speaker 2: kind of like the teenage version of like are you

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00:55:55,800 --> 00:55:59,400
Speaker 2: proud of your kid for taking their first steps? Or

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Speaker 2: just like well, this will be a disaster. If they

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Speaker 2: never do, I think that makes sense. Doora asks question

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Speaker 2: for Nick, how do you still get views without Door

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Speaker 2: on the show. I guess we'll find out. I will

742
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Speaker 2: see how the views are. Oh no, Diora says, I

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Speaker 2: can't stand you. I was paying for those with my

744
00:56:21,320 --> 00:56:23,560
Speaker 2: own money. About the shoes, and she thought I had

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00:56:23,560 --> 00:56:28,840
Speaker 2: taken pictures of the what her Christmas presents were. Sorry, baby,

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Speaker 2: I love you. I hope you're back Thursday. See you guys.

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Speaker 2: One more thirty minute show today. I'm on with Colin

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Speaker 2: today around one fifteen. My show is then two to

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Speaker 2: two thirty and then we're back on regular times starting

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Speaker 2: tomorrow because the UEFA the soccer stuff is over for

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Speaker 2: a bit. All right, talk to you guys later today

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Speaker 2: two o'clock on FS one. We'll try