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Speaker 1: Welcome in What's Right with Me? Great episode three oh six,

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Speaker 1: A ton to do today? Demand in Los Angeles, me

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Speaker 1: here in New York. By the way, for people watching

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Speaker 1: on YouTube, we have sent off to the framers more

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Speaker 1: things for our background, so hopefully in the next couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks the background will get filled up a little

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Speaker 1: bit more. You also might in the background, see like,

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Speaker 1: are those a couple of microphones far in the distance?

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Speaker 1: They are? That's for the podcast we're developing. That'll be

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Speaker 1: me and a different member of the family when in

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Speaker 1: studio here, and by studio I mean Demand's old bedroom

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Speaker 1: so and so, which is our new podcast studio. So

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Speaker 1: that'll be so that'll be coming in short order. We

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Speaker 1: have the setup for that here. Demanse, how are you.

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Speaker 2: I'm doing great this morning. How you doing, Pops?

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Speaker 1: You sound great? Wow? Yeah, I don't know what's change

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Speaker 1: with your microphone or maybe in a late stage final puberty.

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Speaker 1: You sound like even deeper points than usual. But you said,

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Speaker 1: I'm bro Let's get right to it. So here's what

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Speaker 1: missed the cut. The Cavs clinched the playoffs last night.

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Speaker 1: That missed the cut Max Crosby getting thirty five and

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Speaker 1: a half million dollars per year that missed the cut,

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Speaker 1: and James Harden with his first fifty point game as

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Speaker 1: a Clipper. Also, it's now I think the third time

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Speaker 1: in his career he has had a game with fifteen

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Speaker 1: points on twos, fifteen points on threes, fifteen points on

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Speaker 1: where he's the only guy to ever do that. I

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Speaker 1: was going to start the show on around the Horn,

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Speaker 1: and we are gonna get to around the Horn in

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Speaker 1: just a moment. But first I just a little a

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Speaker 1: little point of order, because I did notice yesterday that

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Speaker 1: there have been some folks friends of mine that, you know,

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Speaker 1: bowing out is one way to put it, Waving the

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Speaker 1: white flag is another way to put it. Who are like,

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Speaker 1: you know what this Jordan Lebron debate, let's retire it.

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Speaker 1: And usually, in my experience, people that are that have

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Speaker 1: been very ardent and adamant about something for years and

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Speaker 1: blue be like, I don't want to argue about this anymore.

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Speaker 1: Usually it means they have a lose they know they

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Speaker 1: have a losing hand. Very rarely are people right when

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Speaker 1: they're about to win an argument, be like, you know what,

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Speaker 1: let's just shake hands and move on. So that's fine.

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Speaker 1: I've always said history is gonna look fondly on the

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Speaker 1: correct side of the argument, which is mine. But the

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Speaker 1: point of order that I must address, which is even

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Speaker 1: the folks who argue that Lebron is the goat, far

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Speaker 1: too many of them say and Jordan had the higher peak,

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Speaker 1: just like as a given. But and then they do

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Speaker 1: a whole thing, but the you know, Lebron's longevity in

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Speaker 1: this and that, and the third we did a whole

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Speaker 1: do a whole show where he kind of broke it

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Speaker 1: audience in America the single greatest season of professional basketball

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Speaker 1: ever played by any player was the twenty twelve twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty seven game winning streak. It's all culminating in a

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Speaker 1: Game seven of the Finals, where he hit the game

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Speaker 1: Now we can move on to the actual show. Go ahead,

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Speaker 1: all right?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So, after twenty three years and over forty nine

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Speaker 3: hundred episodes Around the Horn espns, Around the Horn has

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Speaker 3: coming to a halt May twenty third, what are your

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Speaker 1: All right? So I can't speak to why it's ending.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't really make sense to me. But I don't

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Speaker 1: Horn was the single most important sports show that ever existed.

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Speaker 1: And for me personally, I know I wouldn't be doing

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Speaker 1: Around the Horn for those of us who were getting

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Speaker 1: and having that be a carrot of if I work

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Speaker 1: get on Around the Horn. And it was a show

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Speaker 1: for writers, initially exclusively, and then it expanded a bit,

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Speaker 1: but I didn't view Bimani as a writer. I viewed

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Speaker 1: I was like, I'm gonna I I need to get

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Speaker 1: And that shows ability to give people reps on TV,

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Speaker 1: many I will I'm gonna spend real time on this.

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Speaker 1: My connections to Around the Horn without ever being on

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Speaker 1: Tony Reality's ability from when he was a kid taking

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Speaker 1: And I Reality would tweet out texts he would send

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Speaker 1: And there was a period of time where I thought

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Speaker 1: and Reality tweeted getting ready to inte something. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: oh man, it wasn't me. And I just it was

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be gone. And when I say my connections

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Speaker 1: to it, demanse, the through lines of this are truly

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Speaker 1: gonna blow your mind. Okay, so I already mentioned Kellerman

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Speaker 1: But that wasn't a real connection. I mean, I knew

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Speaker 1: thirteen years ago. I set up a meeting. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: like I have nothing to do with that show, right,

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Speaker 1: I was like, damn, that person was Kevin Wilds. That's

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Speaker 1: a true story. I then I'm like, well, this meeting

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Speaker 1: the Olberman show. Like that went terribly. I didn't meet

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Speaker 1: I want to spell his name right in the email.

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Speaker 1: See if I can find the email. But I see,

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Speaker 1: so this is we met in November of thirteen. In

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Speaker 1: So the only two locks, even with respect to Kareem,

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Speaker 1: the only two locks are Michael and Lebron. Those guys

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Speaker 1: are the locks. And now we're figuring out the rest

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Speaker 1: of the squad. And so I go, So Lebron's there,

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Speaker 1: he can bring the ball up. I you know, Michael

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Speaker 1: probably need some more shooting. Defensively, I'm going to be

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Speaker 1: a monster anyway, So I'll put Steph in in place

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Speaker 1: of Magic. So that's where the best point guard conversation,

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Speaker 1: you know, gets off to a rough start, or not

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Speaker 1: a rough start, but it gets complicated. But as far

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Speaker 1: I just told you, Magic has nine First Team All NBAS.

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Speaker 1: The guys who are actually in the discussion for greatest

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Speaker 1: as far as first team All NBAS thirteen for Lebron,

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Speaker 1: ten for Kareem, ten for Michael. Some people throw Kobe

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Speaker 1: in there. I don't think that's legit, but that that's fine.

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00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:04,280
Speaker 1: He has eleven. Steph has four. So he doesn't have

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Speaker 1: the the great season after great season after great season

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Speaker 1: all these other guys did. Here's the other thing that

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Speaker 1: but this if everyone who is actually in the goat debate,

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Speaker 1: which I think is only three people, but other people

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Speaker 1: might want to expand it to a couple others. And

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Speaker 1: even if you expand it to them, if you include Magic,

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Speaker 1: if you include Wilt or Russell, like pick whomever, they

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Speaker 1: all had an extended period where they were unequivocally, undeniably

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Speaker 1: the best player in the league. Steph doesn't have one.

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Speaker 1: Step doesn't have one season. Now that's again it's like, well,

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Speaker 1: it's his whole career is during Lebron's career. I get it,

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Speaker 1: But that so you just so you can't be in

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Speaker 1: then the finals happened, and so like, there is just

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Speaker 1: You guys know how highly I think of him as

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Speaker 2: Is the best off ball players I know.

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Speaker 3: That's not like the exactly the best, the best actually

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Speaker 2: In NBA history, I imagine.

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Speaker 1: Maybe maybe the maybe the best. Yes, no, all those

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Speaker 1: to me are real debates, But Steph versus Lebron, Michael

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Speaker 1: not a It was also weird timing to have this discussion,

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Speaker 1: But this isn't like some magical Steph Curry season. He's not.

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Speaker 1: He has no shot of being first team All NBA

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Speaker 1: I'm not. He's all all that's true, While it's also

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Speaker 1: So all those things can be true at the same time,

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Speaker 1: All right, Demonse, let's get to Genie Buss's comments.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so she recently opened up about the ad trade

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Speaker 3: and she said, we have lost the last We have

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Speaker 2: So I think this is a positive for both teams.

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Speaker 1: So I hate this quote so much.

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Speaker 2: Tell me about it.

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Speaker 1: Well, first of all, you're wrong, they have not lost,

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Speaker 1: not you, Demonse, She's wrong. Yeah, No, know your playoff history,

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Speaker 1: you own the team. You have not lost to the

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Speaker 1: Nuggets three years in a row, lost Nuggets two years

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Speaker 1: in a row. Likes, I'm not acting like that's awesome,

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Speaker 1: but it hasn't been three years in a row you've

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Speaker 1: lost to the Nuggets. That's first of all. Second of all,

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Speaker 1: we really didn't have anything that was gonna look different.

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Speaker 1: Take that, JJ Reddick. I mean, one of the biggest

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Speaker 1: things you can do is change your coach. You did.

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Speaker 1: You also traded away Di'angelo Russell, who has been an

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Speaker 1: unmitigated playoff disaster at second of all, Third of all,

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Speaker 1: ad came to the Los Angeles and kicked ass won

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Speaker 1: you a championship alongside Lebron And by the way, you

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Speaker 1: know what series Anthony Davis brought not probably the best

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Speaker 1: a game winning three in a series when he averaged

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Speaker 1: thirty one and six en route to a gentleman's sweep

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Speaker 1: over the Nuggets. So again, like, I'm not saying she

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Speaker 1: was wrong about that We're gonna have trouble with Dinburgh

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Speaker 1: in this year. That probably would have been true. Why

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Speaker 1: say it? What is the why go after ad like that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, here's here's the quote. This is again, this

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Speaker 1: is what you need to say. Just my opinion. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: if you'd asked me six weeks ago, would we ever

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Speaker 1: trade Anthony Davis, my answer publicly would have been absolutely not.

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Speaker 1: But my answer even privately to friends would have been,

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Speaker 1: I mean not unless Jokichiannis or Luca are available, and

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Speaker 1: they're not available. He is one of the greatest players

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Speaker 1: in the league. We just signed him to an extension.

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Speaker 1: Our plan was to have him take us into the

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Speaker 1: post Lebron era whenever that era is as Lebron keeps

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Speaker 1: defying Father Time. But when Rob got the phone call

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Speaker 1: that we could get one of the only players in

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Speaker 1: the entire league who is more accomplished, and I'll say

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Speaker 1: it probably better than Anthony, and he's six years younger,

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Speaker 1: that's just a move you can't turn down. So no,

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Speaker 1: I I was very comfortable and very excited about Anthony

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Speaker 1: Davis being the face of the Lakers for the next

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Speaker 1: half decade. With her, now we have the opportunity to

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Speaker 1: have someone be the face of the Lakers for the

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Speaker 1: next fifteen years, and so we took it go ahead.

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Speaker 1: That's what with her.

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Speaker 3: It should have been with her saying what she said,

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Speaker 3: And like, do you think even if Luca wasn't on

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Speaker 3: rid of Anthony Davis?

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Speaker 1: I may, I don't know. She's clearly didn't like that

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Speaker 1: ADS quote, the complaining thing about you know, not wanting

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Speaker 1: But deal with it, Like, I just did not like

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Speaker 1: that quote at all. All. Right, let's go on to

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Speaker 1: the MAVs. Demonsey.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so obviously Kyrie towards a c O. Anthony Davis

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Speaker 3: might be out for even longer. You said that what

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Speaker 3: have a heart, really have Jesus Christ, have a really

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Speaker 3: have a really hard time coming back from.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So with with them repairing that, what do you what

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Speaker 3: do you think it's going to be harder to repair

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a tough one tongue twister. So they sold

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Speaker 3: But with one comes another, right obviously, like you repair

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Speaker 1: That's the thing I don't know. You can't regain the

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Speaker 1: repairing the team, I don't think we'll regain the trust

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Speaker 1: of the fans. So I listen, don't. This is because

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Speaker 1: this is private. I guess it's not that private if

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Speaker 1: This thing here, So there's in the chat, Biggie says, Hey, Nick,

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Speaker 1: he didn't respond. Maybe didn't take it. Well, Bro, you're

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Speaker 1: just a Laker fan, now, I wrote, I wrote, it'll

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Speaker 1: be fine. I never liked the Lakers, but then they

645
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Speaker 1: got bron so now I'm a Laker fan. And now

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Speaker 1: they have Luca too. It's glorious. I am. This is.

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Speaker 4: I this has the feel, honest to God of like

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Speaker 4: a team moving cities.

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Speaker 1: What it's done to the fan base out of nowhere.

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Speaker 1: And so I people are like, all fire, Nico, Sure fine,

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00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:21,560
Speaker 1: but the owner co signed all of it. And by

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00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:26,840
Speaker 1: the way, let me find this statement, Nico Harrison statement

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Speaker 1: on Kyrie. So here's what Nico said. So he said,

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Speaker 1: Kyrie's the heart and soul of this team is embraced

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Speaker 1: city of Dallas and our fans as an extension of

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Speaker 1: his own family. All fine. I've been fortunate enough to

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Speaker 1: have witnessed his journeys, continued evolution and growth over the years.

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Speaker 1: I'm incredibly grateful to have the opportunity to see him

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Speaker 1: approach the game basketball the same energy and fierce passion

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Speaker 1: of the game. He's a young man on the verge

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00:47:54,680 --> 00:47:58,880
Speaker 1: of his career. All fine, there too, and then this

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00:48:00,640 --> 00:48:04,320
Speaker 1: his work, ethic, ethic, and absolute dedication to his craft.

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Speaker 1: It's cut from the cloth of grapes. I know it,

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Speaker 1: I lived it. I see the same ferocity and passion

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Speaker 1: in him that I saw in Kobe. Bro. You gotta

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00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:19,319
Speaker 1: stop playing the Kobe card. You just have to we

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00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:23,520
Speaker 1: get it. You were Kobe's guy at Nike. We understand,

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00:48:24,280 --> 00:48:28,680
Speaker 1: but you traded Luka because he wasn't Kobe. Kyrie is

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Speaker 1: gonna be fine at thirty three post acl because he

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Speaker 1: is the work ethic of Kobe, by the way, again,

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Speaker 1: and I am rooting for Kyrie, Butkoche, even Kobe when

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Speaker 1: he was older and he suffered a catastrophic injury, was

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Speaker 1: never the same. I'm not hoping that for Kyrie at all.

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Speaker 1: But I just this team is so cooked out of

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Speaker 1: nowhere for no reason. I just have never seen anything

676
00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:12,040
Speaker 1: like it, and I feel I truly, I truly feel

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Speaker 1: terribly for their fans terribly.

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Speaker 3: You go out there, you know there was talks of there, Yeah,

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00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:22,239
Speaker 3: there were talks of this being a move for them

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Speaker 3: to tank the team so they could then be able

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Speaker 3: to move to Vegas. Now do you think there's any

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Speaker 3: truth to that? Do you think that that's possible with

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Speaker 3: they're given situation?

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Speaker 2: Now?

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Speaker 1: So here's the thing. Dallas is a top five market.

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Speaker 1: Vegas is not a big city comparatively like where is

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Speaker 1: hold On. Sorry, I'm doing a lot of on the

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Speaker 1: fly biggest cities in the US. So the Dallas is

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Speaker 1: so Dallas is the number nine city, but the Dallas

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Speaker 1: Fort Worth metro is top five, Vegas is number twenty four,

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Speaker 1: So that just doesn't make a ton of the NBA

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Speaker 1: is gonna have a presence in Dallas. So that was

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Speaker 1: one of the many reasons this made no sense. That

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Speaker 1: conspiracy theory and and hold on biggest metro areas let

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Speaker 1: me do that. I mean, there's nothing is really great

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Speaker 1: radio podcasting like this. Yeah, that's what I thought. So

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Speaker 1: Dallas Fort Worth Arlington is the number four metro behind

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Speaker 1: only New York, LA, Chicago, and Vegas is the number

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Speaker 1: twenty nine metro, So that speaks to it even more.

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Speaker 1: Shout out Kansity, kans City, number thirty one metro. You

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Speaker 1: know we once we used to be like twenty seven

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Speaker 1: all on a bit. But that's okay, h going down,

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00:50:48,080 --> 00:50:52,480
Speaker 1: up and down a bit. Yeah no, that's all right. Yeah, fluctuating,

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Speaker 1: But so that's not gonna happen. But again, if if

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Speaker 1: you have made a move that is so catastrophic and

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Speaker 1: incomprehensible that folks are like, maybe you're trying to pull

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Speaker 1: a Major League on your own team, or I guess

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Speaker 1: the more common example of it would be for season one,

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Speaker 1: Ted Lasso on your own team, then you probably should

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Speaker 1: just resign. And I also want to say one other thing,

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Speaker 1: because there's this whole thing that like, oh, Kyrie's workload

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Speaker 1: had nothing to do with the injury. No, obviously it

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Speaker 1: had something to do with the injury. So he led

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Speaker 1: the league in Mint's last six weeks, and people were like, well,

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Speaker 1: it's not an overuse injury, it's not a soft tissue,

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Speaker 1: it's a fluke thing. Got it. Even if I concede

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00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:04,719
Speaker 1: that point, here is the very very simple response to that.

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Speaker 1: What are the chances you have of getting hit by

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Speaker 1: a car acrossing the street? Let's call it one in

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Speaker 1: one hundred. Well, if you normally cross the street fifteen

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Speaker 1: times a day and the last six weeks you're crossing

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Speaker 1: the street thirty times a day and you get hit

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Speaker 1: by a car, is it because you were crossing the

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Speaker 1: street more often than usual or was it just a

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00:52:34,200 --> 00:52:37,280
Speaker 1: fluke thing. Well, I don't know, but you gave yourself

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00:52:37,320 --> 00:52:41,120
Speaker 1: more opportunity to get hit by the car. Kyrie Irving

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00:52:41,160 --> 00:52:44,879
Speaker 1: didn't blow out his knee walking his dog. He did

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Speaker 1: it playing basketball. And so the more the more you

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00:52:49,160 --> 00:52:53,640
Speaker 1: play basketball, the more often chance you have an opportunity

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Speaker 1: to suffer a basketball injury. And so I'm not saying that, oh,

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Speaker 1: Kyrie needed to be low managed to the hilt, but

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Speaker 1: of all the players in the league, he was leading

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Speaker 1: the league in minutes that seemed reckless. And so yeah,

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Speaker 1: I just don't know what you do if you're Dallas.

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Speaker 1: They really do not know what you do if you're Dallas. Fold.

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Speaker 1: This is what my buddy, Mike melt you say, fold

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Speaker 1: the franchise. I don't know, man, All right, let's let's

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Speaker 1: go fastest.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so you did this this the season debut of

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Speaker 3: King of the Hill. On your show the other day,

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Speaker 3: you said that Jokich is clearly the best player in

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Speaker 3: the NBA.

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Speaker 2: So why as you and Vegas giving Shaye the MVP.

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Speaker 1: H His best player doesn't win MVP every year. Lebron

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Speaker 1: didn't have fourteen of them. You know, Jordan doesn't have

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Speaker 1: eight of them. The Yo Kicch is the best player.

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Speaker 1: Shaye's having the best season, So like it's It's not

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Speaker 1: like I didn't say Yokic was having the best year.

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Speaker 1: Shay's having the best year and he right now deserves MVP.

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Speaker 1: And he had another great game last night. That to

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Speaker 1: me is like a and a not a complicated one

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Speaker 1: that just being the best player in the league does

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Speaker 1: not mean that every year you had the best season.

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Speaker 1: And I'll say another thing. Each MVP is harder to

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Speaker 1: win than the last. The threshold to win your first

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Speaker 1: MVP is here, the threshold to win your second MVP

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00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:36,239
Speaker 1: is here, the threshold to win your third MVP is

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Speaker 1: very high. And the threshold to win four or five

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Speaker 1: or six is astronomical. And so Jokis is sitting at

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Speaker 1: three and so even though he's gonna average a triple

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Speaker 1: double as a sinner because his team right now is

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Speaker 1: the three seed and Shay's team is gonna win sixty

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Speaker 1: seven games, and Shay's gonna win the scoring title, right

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Speaker 1: He's gonna win the scoring title, Indney, That's gonna be enough. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean yeah, it's gonna win the scoring title by

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Speaker 1: a lot. It's thirty two point eight points per game. So, yeah, Shay,

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Speaker 1: Shay's having the best year. Jokich is the best player.

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Speaker 1: What I'm interested in the MVP thing is Lebron gonna

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Speaker 1: finish top five. I Lebron finished top five and age

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Speaker 1: forty right, so right now, Demon's Shay Yo Kicic there's

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Speaker 1: my ballot, Shay Jokicic, Giannis Tatum, that's my four. That

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Speaker 1: fifth spot, it's either Bron or Donovan. Donovan's team has

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Speaker 1: been unreal. Lebron's got better numbers across the board than Donovan.

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Speaker 5: Like.

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Speaker 1: And then here's the other thing. Here's the other thing.

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Speaker 1: I hated, hated that the NBA changed All NBA to positionless.

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00:56:06,760 --> 00:56:09,120
Speaker 1: Should be two guards too forwards in a center.

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Speaker 5: I hated it might help out my guy Bron this year, though, Yeah,

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Speaker 5: because if it were two guards too forwards in a center,

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Speaker 5: then All.

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Speaker 1: NBA is done. It's Jokic as your center, Jannison Tatum

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Speaker 1: as your forwards, Shayan Donovan as your guards. But since

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Speaker 1: it's positionless, could Bron take Donovan's spot on first team

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Speaker 1: All NBA. Maybe? By the way, sorry, Lebron. James in

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Speaker 1: year two at age twenty, was second team All NBA. No,

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Speaker 1: I'm saying, year two, age twenty, second team All NBA,

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Speaker 1: almost first team All NBA. Year twenty two, age forty,

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Speaker 1: probably gonna be second team All NBA, almost first team

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Speaker 1: All NBA. It's unbelievable. All right, before we're gonna do

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Speaker 1: By the way, before we get to the football stuff,

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Speaker 1: speaking of sponsors, do what I haven't talked Tomnzie. Did

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Speaker 1: you end up getting a new car? Still have the

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Speaker 1: same car? What? What? What? What happened?

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Speaker 2: I still have the same car? Nobody.

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Speaker 3: I've been checking my email, obviously, I've been checking. No,

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Speaker 3: I'm going to Key on Sunday, though, We're gonna we're

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Speaker 3: gonna talk about something.

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Speaker 1: So I was gonna say, you're it's coming up, Wind's

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Speaker 1: coming up.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you coming see it's it's I've got I've got

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Speaker 3: like a week and a half.

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Speaker 2: But I'm going something.

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Speaker 1: You've now shifted the power back to them a bit. Really,

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Speaker 1: what do you mean to tell you?

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Speaker 3: Well, hey, I will tell them I'm the same thing

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Speaker 3: that you were telling me that I would never do.

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Speaker 3: Hopefully the Key dealership doesn't watched the pod, but I

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Speaker 3: will tell you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let's let's keep this. Let's keep this let's let's keep.

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Speaker 3: I was gonna ask, is is King of the Hill

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Speaker 3: basically just Club Superstar with more sections?

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Speaker 1: No, it's Mahomes Mountain. But for basketball, all.

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Speaker 2: Right, you want to make it. I wanted to make

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Speaker 2: it some type of fun.

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Speaker 3: So alright, no, why it's just get it's more NBA players.

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Speaker 3: I thought you guys were expanding on the on the

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Speaker 3: Club Superstar.

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Speaker 1: Club Superstar is very specific because it's a one in,

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Speaker 1: one out policy and there's it's it's not it's not

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Speaker 1: just about how you played this year, like it there is,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's so as a for instance.

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Speaker 2: But how you played this year could get you taken

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Speaker 2: out right or some.

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Speaker 1: Guys, but like Steph Curry's Superstar, he would have to

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Speaker 1: have like a truly horrendous year to be out. And

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Speaker 1: I can't even I'm not even gonna say the idea

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Speaker 1: of Lebron not being in there and so like, so

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Speaker 1: it's a different thing. Let's quickly do the Chiefs, all right.

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Speaker 3: So there's no secret that the Chiefs cannot protect their

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Speaker 3: quarterback in the Super Bowl. So they made a pretty

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Speaker 3: odd move. They're moving Joe Dooney to the Beer to

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Speaker 3: the Bears for a fourth round pick.

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Speaker 2: Did this move shack.

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Speaker 1: You, no, because once once they franchised Tag Tray Smith

856
01:00:48,480 --> 01:00:51,800
Speaker 1: their right guard, they were clearly gonna have to move

857
01:00:51,840 --> 01:00:54,880
Speaker 1: on from Tony. So they have the highest paid center

858
01:00:54,920 --> 01:00:57,600
Speaker 1: in the league. They currently have the highest paid guard

859
01:00:57,600 --> 01:00:59,800
Speaker 1: in the league, and Toney would have been the second

860
01:01:00,160 --> 01:01:02,520
Speaker 1: his paid card in the league. You can't have like,

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01:01:03,520 --> 01:01:05,920
Speaker 1: you just can't spend your money that way, and so

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Speaker 1: I listen, these are the tough decisions you have to

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01:01:10,360 --> 01:01:13,560
Speaker 1: make if you're just gonna try to keep a dynasty going. Tone,

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01:01:13,600 --> 01:01:15,600
Speaker 1: he's still a really good player, but he's thirty two

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01:01:15,680 --> 01:01:19,000
Speaker 1: years old, he's expensive. You get now, you get a

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01:01:19,000 --> 01:01:22,600
Speaker 1: young draft pick again a year from now at a

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01:01:22,720 --> 01:01:26,880
Speaker 1: draft capital what they're probably they took Kingsleys Suamataya in

868
01:01:26,920 --> 01:01:29,600
Speaker 1: the second round last year to play tackle. He did

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01:01:29,600 --> 01:01:32,400
Speaker 1: not play it well. They will probably kick him over

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01:01:32,440 --> 01:01:36,600
Speaker 1: to guard. Listen, if you are trying to have a

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01:01:36,640 --> 01:01:40,280
Speaker 1: sustained level of success that only the Patriots and NFL

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01:01:40,360 --> 01:01:43,320
Speaker 1: history have had, you've got to make these tough decisions,

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01:01:43,360 --> 01:01:45,600
Speaker 1: and you've got to get real playing time from your

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01:01:45,640 --> 01:01:49,600
Speaker 1: draft picks. So you can't like Kingsley's got to play

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01:01:49,640 --> 01:01:56,000
Speaker 1: this next year. It just is what it is. And also, yes,

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01:01:56,120 --> 01:02:01,760
Speaker 1: good for Caleb. So they got they signed a tackles

877
01:02:01,880 --> 01:02:04,120
Speaker 1: or they traded for a tackle. I forget the name,

878
01:02:04,400 --> 01:02:06,880
Speaker 1: but they traded for a tackle. They traded for Tony.

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01:02:07,160 --> 01:02:12,680
Speaker 1: They're rebuilding their offensive line. All right. Let reminder like rate, subscribe, review,

880
01:02:12,720 --> 01:02:14,440
Speaker 1: do all that stuff. And also, yeah, do it now

881
01:02:14,480 --> 01:02:17,320
Speaker 1: because maybe at one am Eastern I'm gonna pop on

882
01:02:17,360 --> 01:02:19,400
Speaker 1: and talk about the Lakers tonight. Let's do a few

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01:02:19,440 --> 01:02:20,240
Speaker 1: listener questions.

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01:02:20,280 --> 01:02:24,360
Speaker 3: Demanse Riley says, the stories like the around the Horn

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01:02:24,440 --> 01:02:26,680
Speaker 3: story and the moments you have with Colin are the

886
01:02:26,680 --> 01:02:29,919
Speaker 3: intangibles that make us us as fans come back.

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01:02:30,640 --> 01:02:35,400
Speaker 1: That's very nice. I appreciate that. That's very nice. All right,

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01:02:35,440 --> 01:02:36,160
Speaker 1: thank you, Riley.

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01:02:36,280 --> 01:02:40,360
Speaker 2: Let's keep going, Trunks lifelong MAVs fan.

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01:02:40,600 --> 01:02:43,280
Speaker 3: At least I was, man, the lack of awareness that

891
01:02:43,320 --> 01:02:47,040
Speaker 3: this new ownership group and front office just makes makes

892
01:02:47,040 --> 01:02:49,560
Speaker 3: sports seem less fun and more of a business, which

893
01:02:49,600 --> 01:02:49,920
Speaker 3: it is.

894
01:02:50,160 --> 01:02:51,200
Speaker 2: I'm out now, no.

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01:02:51,240 --> 01:02:57,000
Speaker 1: Point, Well listen, don't be out, man, But I get

896
01:02:57,080 --> 01:03:01,959
Speaker 1: the pain of this. I can't imagine. Like I said

897
01:03:02,000 --> 01:03:06,440
Speaker 1: to Wilde's yesterday, I was like, if the Hunt family

898
01:03:06,640 --> 01:03:10,120
Speaker 1: sold the Chiefs and a new ownership group came in.

899
01:03:11,240 --> 01:03:16,360
Speaker 1: I would have a lot of worries, but one of

900
01:03:16,400 --> 01:03:21,240
Speaker 1: them would not be what if these guys trade Mahomes?

901
01:03:21,800 --> 01:03:23,760
Speaker 1: Like I would be worried about a bunch of stuff,

902
01:03:23,960 --> 01:03:27,600
Speaker 1: but trading Mahomes wouldn't be on there. So when Cubans

903
01:03:27,600 --> 01:03:31,480
Speaker 1: sold the MAVs, I'm sure some MAVs fands were like,

904
01:03:31,480 --> 01:03:33,080
Speaker 1: oh boy, he was a hell of an owner. He

905
01:03:33,120 --> 01:03:35,160
Speaker 1: was invested all this stuff. But I don't think they

906
01:03:35,160 --> 01:03:39,080
Speaker 1: were ever thought what if they trade Luca? Now, maybe

907
01:03:39,080 --> 01:03:42,480
Speaker 1: they were worried Luca might demand a trade. That's the

908
01:03:42,560 --> 01:03:47,120
Speaker 1: other piece of this. I think it is way easier

909
01:03:47,160 --> 01:03:50,640
Speaker 1: to deal with if Luca demands the trade, way easier

910
01:03:51,120 --> 01:03:54,280
Speaker 1: because then A, you don't probably love Luca as much anymore,

911
01:03:54,360 --> 01:03:56,200
Speaker 1: and B you're like, well, there's nothing we could do.

912
01:03:57,160 --> 01:04:00,600
Speaker 1: And so that that to me, is that is what

913
01:04:00,680 --> 01:04:03,760
Speaker 1: it seems like, right, That's what makes it just impossible.

914
01:04:04,040 --> 01:04:05,360
Speaker 1: All right, let's do the next one.

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01:04:06,120 --> 01:04:11,120
Speaker 3: Isaac asked after Mahomes, Alan and Burrow, which two players

916
01:04:11,200 --> 01:04:13,840
Speaker 3: round off your top five players to start a franchise with.

917
01:04:15,400 --> 01:04:19,600
Speaker 1: I don't know that I would have Burrow third. I

918
01:04:19,760 --> 01:04:24,360
Speaker 1: think Burrow's Jayden's interesting. I was this will shock you.

919
01:04:24,760 --> 01:04:31,760
Speaker 1: I was gonna say Lamar, Yeah, yeah, because like my

920
01:04:31,960 --> 01:04:37,000
Speaker 1: playoff concerns with Lamar, notwithstanding he's such a transcendent regular

921
01:04:37,080 --> 01:04:40,400
Speaker 1: season player and available and all that stuff. I'm you know,

922
01:04:40,480 --> 01:04:44,720
Speaker 1: Burrow's injury stuff is and slow starts you know, are

923
01:04:45,680 --> 01:04:50,200
Speaker 1: to me mahomes Alan Lamar Burrow, and then I you know,

924
01:04:50,280 --> 01:04:53,200
Speaker 1: I obviously would love to say kylea but that's not

925
01:04:53,280 --> 01:04:56,760
Speaker 1: a legitimate opinion right now. You'd have to say you'd

926
01:04:56,800 --> 01:05:00,919
Speaker 1: probably have to say Jayden h as the fifth guy,

927
01:05:01,240 --> 01:05:05,240
Speaker 1: given what they've both done in the pros. I'm trying

928
01:05:05,240 --> 01:05:10,800
Speaker 1: to think if there's anybody that's a fun producers, mark

929
01:05:10,880 --> 01:05:15,720
Speaker 1: that down for a good August or July conversation, Like

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01:05:15,880 --> 01:05:19,200
Speaker 1: the best guys at other positions as well, non quarterbacks

931
01:05:19,240 --> 01:05:23,040
Speaker 1: start franchise with all that. I like that conversation. Isaac,

932
01:05:23,120 --> 01:05:25,520
Speaker 1: Good job you're out producing the show, all right, Great job,

933
01:05:25,600 --> 01:05:29,919
Speaker 1: Demanse a great job to everyone at Volume and Blue Dock,

934
01:05:30,000 --> 01:05:33,120
Speaker 1: all everybody helping out with today's show. Thought it looked

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01:05:33,160 --> 01:05:36,360
Speaker 1: and sounded great. Maybe I'll be on again in twelve hours.

936
01:05:36,480 --> 01:05:41,520
Speaker 1: I don't know. Also, Demons have you talked to your mom? Like,

937
01:05:41,600 --> 01:05:44,520
Speaker 1: do you know what her travel plans are? I do?

938
01:05:44,640 --> 01:05:47,560
Speaker 3: I mean I didn't learn until Monday or Tuesday, So yeah,

939
01:05:47,600 --> 01:05:48,840
Speaker 3: I thought, yeah.

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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah. So the reason I mentioned this is my wife,

941
01:05:52,680 --> 01:05:57,320
Speaker 1: Demanday's mom is going to LA and the also, so

942
01:05:57,360 --> 01:05:59,760
Speaker 1: she I said to her real quick, and then we'll

943
01:05:59,800 --> 01:06:03,280
Speaker 1: move on. Then we'll in the show said. So I said,

944
01:06:03,280 --> 01:06:06,520
Speaker 1: we're this morning, and I should have known better. I

945
01:06:06,560 --> 01:06:10,360
Speaker 1: was like, so, where are you staying in l A?

946
01:06:10,640 --> 01:06:12,160
Speaker 1: And she just turned to me and looked at me

947
01:06:12,360 --> 01:06:15,480
Speaker 1: like I had two heads. She was like, you haven't

948
01:06:15,480 --> 01:06:21,360
Speaker 1: booked my hotel yet? Like no, I she said. She said, wait,

949
01:06:21,560 --> 01:06:25,000
Speaker 1: I don't have a hotel or rental car yet. I'm like, no,

950
01:06:25,040 --> 01:06:27,160
Speaker 1: you haven't asked me to do any of that stuff.

951
01:06:27,440 --> 01:06:29,920
Speaker 1: She was like, you know you need to do.

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01:06:30,080 --> 01:06:34,240
Speaker 3: Sore the assistant, But yeah, I mean, if it worse

953
01:06:34,320 --> 01:06:36,320
Speaker 3: comes to worse, I have a I have a car,

954
01:06:36,520 --> 01:06:38,200
Speaker 3: might not have a car here soon, and I have

955
01:06:38,280 --> 01:06:38,680
Speaker 3: a place.

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01:06:39,600 --> 01:06:42,320
Speaker 1: Oh well, that's what I was about to say. I was,

957
01:06:42,480 --> 01:06:45,440
Speaker 1: could you imagine your mom's sleeping on your couch.

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01:06:46,160 --> 01:06:48,160
Speaker 2: It would be me sleeping on the couch. But yeah,

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01:06:48,240 --> 01:06:48,960
Speaker 2: I mean I could not.

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01:06:49,240 --> 01:06:53,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, but either way you wouldn't act, would allow it,

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Speaker 1: You would be a great allow it your mother your

962
01:06:56,960 --> 01:06:59,880
Speaker 1: mother would not. All right, great job. Everybody see you

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Speaker 1: eyes on TV. In a few hours. Will train