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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntire.

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Speaker 2: What is up, straight Bam, It's me Jason McIntyre, Straight

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Speaker 2: Fire for Monday, July fifteenth. It's good to be back,

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Speaker 2: Ladies and germs. Yes, your boy. It's been a whirlwind

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Speaker 2: three weeks, some travel and some family members in town.

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Speaker 2: And obviously we got lucky at FS one with soccer

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Speaker 2: blocking some of the days, so I actually got some

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Speaker 2: days off, which is rare. Dark days, Oh, I love those.

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Speaker 2: We can't wait till the calendar comes out and you're like, oh,

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Speaker 2: what days are dark? What day do I have off?

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Speaker 2: Because you never have days off? And I, you know,

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Speaker 2: I can't rarely take sick days. But this last one,

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Speaker 2: tried not to do too much work, took the kids

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Speaker 2: to Europe for the first time. A lot of fun London, Amsterdam.

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Speaker 2: I had a strange experience in like it not strange,

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Speaker 2: just you know, listen again, I do a podcast, I'm

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Speaker 2: Alm on the Herd blah blah blah, it's fun whatever.

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Speaker 2: And out here in La yes, some people will notice

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Speaker 2: you and whatever. And when I had gone to Nashville,

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Speaker 2: I had a couple of people notice me, which is fine.

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Speaker 2: In America. You expect something, sports fans whatever. So you know,

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Speaker 2: in London, I'm not expecting anyone to say anything. So

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Speaker 2: we go into the restaurant first night, and as we're leaving,

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Speaker 2: this guy comes up. J Mack, huge fan, this British guy.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, how do you even watch a show with

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Speaker 2: the time difference. He's like, oh, I watch on YouTube

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Speaker 2: every day and I listened to a podcast. I was like,

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Speaker 2: ooh nice. He's like, tell rob G what's up. I

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Speaker 2: was like wow, wow. And you know, so I chalk

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Speaker 2: it out here that I like to, you know, when

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Speaker 2: my family witnesses this stuff, so I can act like

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Speaker 2: I'm such a clown. I'm like, hey, are you seeing this?

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Speaker 2: You know, we make a joke out of it. So

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Speaker 2: later on I go into or in Covenant Garden, which

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Speaker 2: is kind of this like touristy area. We're killing time

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Speaker 2: before the next thing to do, and I walk into

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Speaker 2: some sneaker store with my daughter. She's looking at these

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Speaker 2: sneakers and this I hear, excuse me, mister McIntyre. And

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Speaker 2: I turned around and it's like some woman and I

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Speaker 2: was like, oh, shoot, did I drop my wallet? Did

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Speaker 2: I leave a credit card somewhere? And she goes, you're

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Speaker 2: mister McIntyre, and I was like, yeah. She's like, oh

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Speaker 2: my gosh, I watch the Herd all the time, and

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Speaker 2: you helped me and my husband win a football gambling pool,

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Speaker 2: a season long win, and I'm dumbfounded, and I'm like, wow,

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Speaker 2: she's apparently from Houston. So then I say, brit get

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Speaker 2: over you. I gotta call my daughter over so she

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Speaker 2: at least hears it. And then the lady's like, oh,

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Speaker 2: sorry to interrupt your vacation, but I saw you posted

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Speaker 2: on Instagram you're in England, and I said to my friends,

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Speaker 2: we gotta find Jason. We got we gotta see him.

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Speaker 2: He's here. That's crazy. And now we run into you

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Speaker 2: and I'm like, oh my gosh, oh okay, and you

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Speaker 2: just you never know. So maybe I gotta start posting

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Speaker 2: less on social media. But the funniest part was then

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Speaker 2: she goes, can I get a picture, and then my

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Speaker 2: my daughter just starts backing up because again, this is

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Speaker 2: nerdy stuff. You guys, I'm sure you don't give a

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Speaker 2: rats ass. But it was fun to be in London.

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Speaker 2: Amsterdam is a vibe. We got fortunate England was playing

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Speaker 2: the Netherlands. Whatever. One day last week, the days all

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Speaker 2: run together, and I still have a little bit of

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Speaker 2: jet lag. But it just so happened that we were

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Speaker 2: in the Netherlands and folks, this is essentially their super Bowl,

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Speaker 2: the Netherlands and the euro Cup semifinals, and it was unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: Like you go to We're at a restaurant and I

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Speaker 2: see all bikes. By the way, if you've never been

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Speaker 2: to Netherlands, everybody's just riding bikes fast everywhere. It's a

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Speaker 2: I say to the waiter, I'm like, so, how far

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Speaker 2: these people are going. He's like, it's like one block.

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Speaker 2: I was like, all right, So after dinner we walk.

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Speaker 2: You turn a corner and it's like, I don't know,

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Speaker 2: a thousand people outside of like a bar, not a

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Speaker 2: Blah blah blah. So we decide, okay, let's walk a

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Speaker 2: we were like, Hey, what's the deal. Can you guys

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Speaker 2: early and I was like, oh my gosh, England ended

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Speaker 2: up winning great game. Euros were fantastic. I'm disappointed England

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Speaker 2: lost to Spain, but you know whatever, such as life. Anyways,

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Speaker 2: it was. It was a jolly good time. And I

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Speaker 2: don't know, Rob, did I miss a lot in the

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Speaker 2: sports world. I don't even really know where to start.

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Speaker 2: I did do a bunch of research right before this.

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Speaker 2: Obviously we got Team USA Versus Australia today and hoops.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, Rob, the Kawhi Leonard? Do we lead

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Speaker 2: with Kawhi Leonard leaving the tea? I just when I

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Speaker 2: heard that. And again I was not on Twitter at

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Speaker 2: all last week, so I missed a ton of stuff.

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Speaker 2: I did do Instagram because I like it, But I

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Speaker 2: don't know, Rob, was that the biggest story of the week,

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Speaker 2: Kawhi leaving Team USA. When I heard, I was stunned.

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Speaker 3: It was certainly up there. And if you're a guy

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Speaker 3: like me who swims in the dark spaces of the

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Speaker 3: Twitter sphere, him leaving was secondary to the photos that

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Speaker 3: allegedly showed my guy, Kawhi Leonard frequenting the gentleman establishments. Oh,

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Speaker 3: I didn't know you allowed cameras in places like that.

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Speaker 3: But there's certainly a guy who looks like Kawhi Leonard

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Speaker 3: getting himself a you know, some VIP treatment.

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Speaker 3: You know, I don't know if that's true or not. Again,

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Speaker 3: photoshops a beautiful thing. But that's what I thought was

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Speaker 3: the big story, because he's like, hey, I went to

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Speaker 3: the USA camp, did my three days. I'm out before

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Speaker 3: I leave. Let me make a quick pit stop and

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Speaker 3: stay in vas round a couple of days. Yeah, it

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Speaker 3: was a big sports week, and if we're talking Team USA,

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Speaker 3: I guess the biggest story, though, outside of Kawhi leaving,

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Speaker 3: is that once he left, he was replaced on the roster,

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Speaker 3: not by the reigning Finals MVP, but by what some

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Speaker 3: are calling the fifth best player on the Boston Celtic roster.

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Speaker 3: Oh what's up with Jalen Brown and Derek White? My guy, wow,

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Speaker 3: I did see that.

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Speaker 2: It was when I heard it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, as soon as.

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Speaker 2: You're Kauhi's out, You're like, oh, it'll be the finals MVP,

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Speaker 2: because Tatum and Holiday or on the team already, right,

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Speaker 2: Derek White. I mean, like, if you're just talking about

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Speaker 2: Although if you're talking about apples for apples, Jalen Brown

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Speaker 2: is much closer to Kawhi in terms of length than

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Speaker 2: But also, you know, like if Jalen Brown wins Finals

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Speaker 2: the sixth man and Jaylen Brown's the eleventh guy, what

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Speaker 2: does that say? Rob?

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Speaker 1: You know?

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Speaker 2: And also Brown hadn't been in camp, remember how Like

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Speaker 2: I guess Kitlyn Clark and we'll talk about her later.

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Speaker 2: The big issue that the USA women's basketball issue was

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Speaker 2: that Caitlyn Clark hadn't been at some of the camps.

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Speaker 2: Remember she was at like Final four or whatever, so

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Speaker 2: she like technically was ineligible. And I think they're saying

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Speaker 2: Derek White had been at the camps. He was going

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Speaker 2: to get the nod regardless, but it is kind of

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Speaker 2: a bad look for them to take White over Brown.

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Speaker 2: It's also not a great look for Brown to then

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Speaker 2: come out and kind of take a jab say the

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Speaker 2: reason I'm not on the team is because of Nike,

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Speaker 2: which is a bit of a shocker, but I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Brown is handsomely paid, he's the Finals MVP, He's on

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Speaker 2: top of the world. And it does I mean, there's

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Speaker 2: no way around it. This feels it's it's not a

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Speaker 3: Oh, it's super awkward. And it wasn't more awkward than

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Speaker 3: when they caught up with Jason Tatum. I think the

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Speaker 3: day after, well contacts for our listeners who have not,

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Speaker 3: you know, seeing the story if they've been traveling themselves abroad.

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Speaker 3: So after he wasn't pick Jalen Brown threw up the

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Speaker 3: monocle emojis very you know, incognito and he knew he

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Speaker 3: was questioning something. They didn't know what it was. We

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Speaker 3: assumed it was Team USA. And then he made a

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Speaker 3: direct shot. He added Nike. He said, Yo, this is

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Speaker 3: what we're doing. Then the next day doubled down on

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Speaker 3: Twitter saying I'm not afraid of you or your resources.

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Speaker 3: And according to The Athletic, Jalen Brown has had a

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Speaker 3: complicated relationship with Nike going back for years. You know,

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Speaker 3: back in twenty twenty two, he put out something saying,

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Speaker 3: since when does Nike care about ethics? And response to

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Speaker 3: some criticism, they levy towards Kyrie Irving. You know, he

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Speaker 3: famously will wear Nike shoes during games, but he'll black

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Speaker 3: out the Nike sign. Yes, so you know he has

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Speaker 3: a he's very anti swoosh. But Jason Tatum was asked

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Speaker 3: since all this went down? No, I mean there are

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Speaker 3: so many guys who could take that last spot or whatever.

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Speaker 3: So it is what it is, like Jason Tatum and

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Speaker 3: this is not his fault, but Jalen Brown put him

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Speaker 3: Jylen Brown, he's disrespecting his other guy, Derek White, who's

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Speaker 3: on the team. If he doesn't say and he says, hey,

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Speaker 3: you know, Derek White's a great fit. We like what

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Speaker 3: he brings. He the three point shooter, he plays good defense.

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Speaker 3: Then that's gonna be spun into Oh so now you're

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Speaker 3: saying he's a better player than Jaylen Brown. So all

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Speaker 3: of us Laker fans who are saying for years that

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Speaker 3: we're trying to drive a wedge in between Tatum and

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Speaker 3: Brown and eventually lead to Jason Tatum getting traded here

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Speaker 3: to LA. This might be the snowball that gets rolling

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Speaker 3: down the hill and hopefully things get real weird there

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Speaker 3: in Boston and we could see hashtag future Laker Jason

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Speaker 3: Tatum in the purple and gold.

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Speaker 2: Well, you're right, I didn't realize it was that bad,

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Speaker 2: but hearing you talk about it now, So let's just

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Speaker 2: add all this up. Tatum is the first team All

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Speaker 2: NBA guy. Tatum is perceived to be the best player

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Speaker 2: on the team. Tatum is the favorite to win Finals MVP.

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Speaker 2: Then Jalen Brown wins Eastern Conference MVP and Finals MVP

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Speaker 2: Tatum gets the richest contract in NBA history. Tatum is

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Speaker 2: the one on the Olympic team, and now Brown has

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Speaker 2: an opportunity to add get added to the team, and

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Speaker 2: they take another Celtics, So there's now three Celtics on

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Speaker 2: the team, but not the guy who is the Finals MVP,

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Speaker 2: and Brown sounds almost based on you. I don't know

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Speaker 2: the tone of what he's saying on Twitter. That can

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Speaker 2: get lost all the time, but it almost sounds like

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Speaker 2: he's a little upset that maybe he's not getting the

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Speaker 3: Jalen Brown some people like, some people don't, But he

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Speaker 3: He's one of those guys. And that's part of the

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Speaker 2: Just six or whatever team he was on. Well, Michael Jordan, remember,

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Speaker 2: I have yes, really good movie.

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Speaker 1: The hell?

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Speaker 2: How did you not tell me about this?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, holy shit? Does he look good? Cooper Flag locket.

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Speaker 3: It's early, it's very early. I think he's one of

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Speaker 3: That could have been the move they do that with

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Speaker 2: Team and beads always hurt. So let's say embiid goes down.

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Speaker 2: But that's good. So anyways, USA Australia. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Rob you see a spread on that game. It's being

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Speaker 3: No, I did not see the name Abu Dhabi.

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Speaker 2: Or wherever it is. I don't even know. And you

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Speaker 2: You know, there's no way I'm putting a massive bird

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Speaker 2: Please come, we will just give you a ton of money.

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Speaker 2: Just come and play the games over here. You know,

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Speaker 2: looked at the numbers, folks. Jalen Brunson in his career

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Speaker 2: went from back up to starter, and this past season

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Speaker 2: under Tom Thibodeau, who drives his players into the ground,

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Speaker 2: Brunston played the most minutes per game he ever had played,

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Speaker 2: the most games he ever had played, the most playoff

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Speaker 2: games he ever had, attempted the most threes, the most shots.

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Speaker 2: He was everything. He's probably exhausted, and it's you know,

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Speaker 2: somebody could argue, why didn't Jalen Brunson get the nod

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Speaker 2: for Team USA. Maybe, but I'm sure Brunson needs the break.

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Speaker 2: Plus he's coming off the major injury. He probably probably

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Speaker 2: wouldn't've be ready for the Olympics. But I got no

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Speaker 2: problem with Brunson saying, yeah, give me the money now.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to wait a year. Hey, folks, a

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Speaker 2: lot can happen in a year. And I know you're

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Speaker 2: gonna say, well, he's stole in his prime. Yeah, but

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Speaker 2: he's a small point guard coming off of massive major

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Speaker 2: wear and tear doing everything for the Knicks. And oh,

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Speaker 2: by the way, how do we know the Knicks didn't

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Speaker 2: go Hey, Jalen, we uh we can. We can make

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Speaker 2: a play for Paul George. He's in play. And how

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Speaker 2: do we know Jyleen Brunson didn't say, similar to Lebron,

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Speaker 2: I'll take less money, go get me my guy. Lebron said,

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Speaker 2: give me Reddick. Lebron said, draft my son. Okay, I'll

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Speaker 2: take less now. The Lakers couldn't end up getting anyone

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Speaker 2: to sign, but Lebron did take slightly less than max

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Speaker 2: other under the second apron, which Genie Buss I'm sure

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Speaker 2: is thrilled about. How do we know Jyleen Brunson didn't say, guys,

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Speaker 2: guys can't be mckail bridges. Just do it. I'll take less,

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Speaker 2: just get me Bridges, that's who I want on this deal.

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Speaker 2: We don't know if that's what we've said. I think

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Speaker 2: this is not the worst thing in the world, not

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Speaker 2: the dumbest thing in the world. Jayleen Brunson obviously again

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Speaker 2: one hundred and thirteen million.

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Speaker 1: On the table.

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Speaker 3: Air quotes.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's more than ninety nine point nine percent of

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Speaker 2: people will make in their entire life. I mean, you

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Speaker 2: could probably say a handful of people and he's leaving

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Speaker 2: that on the table. But Brunson's dad was a pro,

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Speaker 2: similar to Steph Curi's dad was a pro. I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: go ahead and guess Jalen Bruns's is I don't know

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Speaker 2: frugal's the right word. But he's not out there like

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Speaker 2: LaMelo Ball buying a different Lamborghini for every day of

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Speaker 2: the week or whatever LaMelo Ball does. You know, like

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Speaker 2: I have a feeling, Jyleb Bruns is probably pretty prudent

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Speaker 2: and he's saying, listen, man, I'm good taking a little

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Speaker 2: bit less than I need to so we can build

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Speaker 2: up our team and let's bring New York City a championship.

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Speaker 2: You know why, you're a star in New York. They

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Speaker 2: love you. You're gonna make a lot of money advertising marketing,

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Speaker 2: like he's gonna clean up off the court. Rob Maybe

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Speaker 2: I'm in the minority because the Nicks are my squad

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Speaker 2: with the Lakers, But I'm not gonna like say he's

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Speaker 2: an idiot or blame him. Oh, by the way, the dude.

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Speaker 2: You know, we've seen guys get suffer major injuries, whether

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Speaker 2: it's acl achilles whatever, and it's like, wow, I don't

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Speaker 2: know if you can pay you. I mean, hell, Kawhi Leonard.

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Speaker 2: Look what he just had to take less? He took

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Speaker 2: it in a heartbeat. Clippers tried to get Paul George

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Speaker 2: to take less. He even't want it. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I don't have a major issue with this.

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Speaker 3: To you, absolutely, I'm gonna be one of people who

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Speaker 3: is going to call himn idiot. And part of it

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Speaker 3: is not his fault. Part of it is CJ. McCollum

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Speaker 3: and the Players Union negotiating what may have been one

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Speaker 3: of the worst deals that I've seen for a players

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Speaker 3: association in my lifetime. Allowing them to insert the first

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Speaker 3: and second aprin, which basically acts as a hardcap, was

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Speaker 3: unbelievably shortsighted, I believe by the players because they were

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Speaker 3: so worried about, you know, the ninth man on the

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Speaker 3: bench making sure he gets his eight or nine million,

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Speaker 3: that you're now causing. You're making a situation where the

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Speaker 3: best players, who if anyone's worth MAXI money as Jalen

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Speaker 3: bruns if anyone's worth MAXI money as Lebron James, that

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Speaker 3: they then have to take less money to help the team.

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Speaker 2: I don't like that.

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Speaker 3: And that's number one. Number two, and this is kind

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Speaker 3: of go off in a little bit of.

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Speaker 1: A tangent here.

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Speaker 3: Number two is that in the article that Wojch put out,

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Speaker 3: because I believe he was the guy that gave the

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Speaker 3: information to first. I think he's the CAAA connection I

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Speaker 3: believe could be part of it is they said that

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Speaker 3: Jalen Brunson had guys like Patrick Mahomes, Derek Jeter, and

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Speaker 3: Tom Brady in mind when he decided to take less money,

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Speaker 3: because those guys famously took less money. Now, I don't

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Speaker 3: know enough about Derek Jeter's salary situation so salary cap yet,

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Speaker 3: so I don't know about that one. But as far

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Speaker 3: as Tom Brady goes, and we've I've talked about some

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Speaker 3: on this pod for years now, anyone's been listening your

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Speaker 3: P one listener to the pod, you know how I

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Speaker 3: feel about this one. Tom Brady famously took less money

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Speaker 3: all the time to help the Patriots build out a roster,

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Speaker 3: and they won a lot of Super bowl So like, see,

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Speaker 3: that's the way you gotta do. You gotta take less

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Speaker 3: money so you can win well. According to the Boston Globe,

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Speaker 3: the Patriots spent below league average in seven of Brady's

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Speaker 3: last ten years, including the years they won the Super

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Speaker 3: Bowl in twenty fourteen, sixteen, seventeen, and eighteen. So the

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Speaker 3: quote unquote savings that he gave them was never actually

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Speaker 3: shared with other players. Robert Kraft just kept the money.

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Speaker 3: He's like, hey, we're just gonna, you know, have the

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Speaker 3: flexibility to do something, but never actually do anything. And

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Speaker 3: then the second one, Patrick Mahomes, I know, Patrick Mahomes

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Speaker 3: just went back to back Super Bowls. So people again

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Speaker 3: are gonna say, well, see what happens you take less money,

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Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes, hes got a team around Him's where gon

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Speaker 3: win a Super Bowl? You know that when he first took

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Speaker 3: less money, some of the key roster guys that got

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Speaker 3: let go almost a media in the first couple of years.

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Speaker 3: They lost Tyreek Hill, which led to them last year

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Speaker 3: having one of the worst wide receiving corps in the NFL.

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Speaker 3: They lost their offensive tackle which led to them over

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Speaker 3: paying for Jawan Taylor, which they're regrading every day. They

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Speaker 3: this last offseason lost Lagerius Snead, So again, Payton, excuse me.

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Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes is taking less money so that he can

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Speaker 3: have a great roster around him. So if that's the case,

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Speaker 3: then why is it that they're losing Pro Bowl and

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Speaker 3: all Pro caliber players every single year? It doesn't make sense.

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Speaker 3: The chick in the egg thing does not line up here. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: you can say that you're taking less money because you

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Speaker 3: want to help the team, and I understand that I

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Speaker 3: personally would never do it. But if that's your prerogative,

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Speaker 3: that's cool. But don't try to convince me that you

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Speaker 3: taking less money is going to lead to you than

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Speaker 3: getting better players around you and having a better chance

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Speaker 3: at the championship when history says that is not the

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Speaker 3: case at all.

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Speaker 2: Well, the theoretical, Hey, man, if I take less money,

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Speaker 2: we'll get better players. That can be difficult, as we

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Speaker 2: saw with the Lakers like Lebron, I'll take less money.

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Speaker 2: Can you go get the better players? Oh you can't. Okay,

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Speaker 2: well I'm not taking less. I think that's the smart

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Speaker 2: way to do it. But again, we don't know that.

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Speaker 2: Brunson said, how's this. We don't know the back room

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Speaker 2: shinan against They would never let that out. That's probably

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Speaker 2: against the CBA, right, Hey, go get me Bridges. I'll

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Speaker 2: take less. I mean, I gotta say I don't hate it,

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Speaker 2: and rop if the day ever comes that, I I'm

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Speaker 2: one hundred million dollar man and I could take a

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Speaker 2: little bit less. Again, I don't think it's the craziest

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Speaker 2: thing in the world. Again, that's a sports parallel, you know,

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Speaker 2: it's different from like a radio, TV, podcast network or whatever.

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Speaker 2: But I just I think it's a good joint and

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Speaker 2: I'm not expecting other guys to do that. I'm not

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Speaker 2: expecting Jason Tatum to do that, you know, I'm not

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Speaker 2: expecting Anthony Edwards to do that. Go get your money.

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Speaker 2: And if you really believe in the organization and you

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Speaker 2: have a say behind the scenes that maybe everyone else

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Speaker 2: doesn't know about, I'm perfectly fine with that.

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Speaker 2: Let's quickly go to Caitlin Clark. So the Indian and

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Speaker 2: Fever are kind of kind of streaking here, and I know,

583
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Speaker 2: I saw Diana Trossi suffered an injury and she very

584
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Speaker 2: famously is going to the Olympics for the sixth time,

585
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Speaker 2: getting the Lifetime Achievement Award, which is I think a

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Speaker 2: crock of shit. But the team that Caitlin Clark's fever

587
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Speaker 2: faced on some Minnesota links, their head coach is also

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Speaker 2: the US Olympic coach, and she's been taking slight jabs

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Speaker 2: at Caitlin Clark and why are we promoting the rest

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Speaker 2: of the league and all this nonsense. And so obviously

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Speaker 2: the game was a sellout Sunday in Minnesota. But when

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Speaker 2: reporters noticed that Fever fans were making I guess the

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Speaker 2: trip to Minnesota in large numbers, they asked the Minnesota

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Speaker 2: Lynks coach at what do you think, And she's like,

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Speaker 2: I don't give two shits. No, I don't give one

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Speaker 2: shit about Indiana fans taking over a game from Minnesota

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Speaker 2: which is at home and has like no, they got

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Speaker 2: a good record, they're one of the top four or

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Speaker 2: five teams in the league. So what do you think

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Speaker 2: happens in the game. Caitlin Clark has another great performance,

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Speaker 2: makes four free throws, Late has a good assist. Late

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Speaker 2: Indiana steals a game. I'll be honest with you. I'm

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Speaker 2: sitting on the couch with my daughter Sunday and I'm like,

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Speaker 2: I had just watched England lose. I was kind of bummed.

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Speaker 2: I was like, guy, is there any other stuff on you?

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Speaker 2: We watch a movie grocery shopping? And I'm like, oh wait,

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Speaker 2: Kaitlyn Clark's playing. So I look it up on my phone.

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Speaker 2: I see it's like a tie game with like three

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Speaker 2: minutes left. I fire it up and of course Fever

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Speaker 2: going to win. And there's a great moment that Minnesota misses.

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Speaker 2: Caitlin Clark gets the rebound and starts to dribble it

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Speaker 2: out and they foul her. Caitlin Clark starts clapping, staring

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Speaker 2: at the Minnesota coach, not for too long to make

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Speaker 2: it obvious, and then making the motion give me more noise,

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Speaker 2: you know, like with the arms up, and of course

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Speaker 2: the crowd kind of erupts Remember this is in Minnesota, folks.

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Speaker 2: I'm just telling you, these dopey coaches in the WNBA

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Speaker 2: need to stop taking unnecessary shots at Caitlin Clark. She's

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Speaker 2: gonna get the last laugh every time because she is.

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Speaker 2: I was gonna say, she's the man. She's an incredible

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Speaker 2: basketball player. She's just scratching the surface. And no, I'm

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Speaker 2: not gonna get involved in this dumb Who's the rookie

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Speaker 2: of the year the WNBA with like twenty games left.

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Speaker 1: Who cares?

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Speaker 2: By the way, it's Kitlin Clark. Automatically a yes, I

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Speaker 2: saw she had like fifteen double doubles in a row. Awesome. Ultimately,

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Speaker 2: it's gonna be Caitlin Clark. Okay, she's the point guard

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Speaker 2: of the fever as a rookie, she has the ball

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Speaker 2: in her hands all the time. She's one of the

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Speaker 2: best shooters in the league. And let's be frank, let's

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Speaker 2: just be completely honest. She is a game changing athlete.

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Speaker 1: I'm just.

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Speaker 2: The idea of her in a Steph Curry role is

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Speaker 2: just totally not off the table. It seriously makes all

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Speaker 2: the sense in the world. The fans loved Curry. I

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Speaker 2: will never forget. Remember I was in Pennsylvania before we

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Speaker 2: moved out here to LA and I might have gone

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Speaker 2: to one sixers game and then I saw, let me

639
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:47,280
Speaker 2: see when Steph Curry's in town. We circled the date

640
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:51,720
Speaker 2: we got tickets. My son showed up with a Curry jersey.

641
00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:55,080
Speaker 2: Obviously that I got him, and I'll never forget. The

642
00:31:55,240 --> 00:32:00,080
Speaker 2: Lower Bowl was almost sixty percent Steph Curry fans with

643
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:02,000
Speaker 2: Steph Curry jerseys and T shirts in Philly. This is

644
00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:08,800
Speaker 2: like twenty fifteen, and Curry was ascending and people gravitate

645
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:13,520
Speaker 2: toward Curry because of the three point shooting, the ball handling,

646
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:16,760
Speaker 2: and you know, we're all not going to be six five,

647
00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:18,960
Speaker 2: six eight. We're gonna be the next Lebron James, We're

648
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:22,440
Speaker 2: gonna be the next Kobe. But Curry's six three, six four.

649
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:27,480
Speaker 2: We've seen smaller players do major damage. And then we've

650
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:30,239
Speaker 2: never seen anyone shoot from you know, half court all

651
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:34,320
Speaker 2: the time like Curry. Kaitlyn Clark looks like the average kid.

652
00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:36,880
Speaker 2: She's I mean, what's your hype? Five ten, five eleven's

653
00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:40,400
Speaker 2: maybe six feet and just dropping bombs from everywhere the court,

654
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 2: vision in the handle. People see that and think I

655
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:46,360
Speaker 2: can be Caitlin Clark. She's not wildly guy like, she's

656
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:49,960
Speaker 2: not dunky like. I think people see her and they

657
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,120
Speaker 2: just think I can kind of be like that and

658
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 2: I can relate to them, and that's not that's not

659
00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:58,080
Speaker 2: a knock on. Oh we kid. People can't relate to Shack.

660
00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:00,440
Speaker 2: Shack was super popular. Yeah, Shack was pop because he

661
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:02,440
Speaker 2: was a rapper, he was a movie star, he had

662
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:06,480
Speaker 2: the outsized personality. Everybody fits in to their different spots.

663
00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:08,440
Speaker 2: I think Clark and I know she's been compared to

664
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:10,600
Speaker 2: Magic and Bird and because of what she's doing for

665
00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:13,160
Speaker 2: the league, Yeah, that's a fall applies too. I'm just

666
00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:15,400
Speaker 2: telling you I see a lot of Steph Curry with

667
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:17,880
Speaker 2: her game that every time she goes behind the back

668
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 2: around the screen, you're just waiting three. Oh you know

669
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:23,640
Speaker 2: she didn't shoot a grape from three. Doesn't matter. They won.

670
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:28,479
Speaker 2: She got the last laugh. And this Tarassi injury is interesting,

671
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:32,160
Speaker 2: rob because that coach does not like Clark. I don't

672
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:34,480
Speaker 2: care what anybody says. She just doesn't like her. She

673
00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:37,800
Speaker 2: doesn't like the clerk's getting all the attention. And I

674
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 2: will be willing to guarantee you if Tarasi is a

675
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:42,800
Speaker 2: no go for the Olympics. They still do not take

676
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:44,280
Speaker 2: Caitlin Clark. They just won't do it.

677
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:48,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think they will either. And to piggyback

678
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 3: off your larger point, I'd hate to beat a dead horse,

679
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:52,000
Speaker 3: but I'm gonna punch it in the ribs a few

680
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:58,600
Speaker 3: times here. What the WNBA and their league as a whole,

681
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:00,680
Speaker 3: maybe not the league front office put the players and

682
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 3: the coaches and whatnot. Their rejection of Kaitlyn Clark and

683
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:09,920
Speaker 3: what she brings to their sport is dumbfounding to me. Okay,

684
00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 3: there was an article that came out last week in

685
00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:14,920
Speaker 3: Sports Media Watch that said, each one of the top

686
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 3: five highest rated games this season have involved Kaitlyn Clark. Okay,

687
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 3: the WNBA entered the twenty twenty four season having gone

688
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 3: sixteen years without ever cracking a million six team. Okay,

689
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:32,719
Speaker 3: Caitlyn Clark and the fever this season, and I'm sure

690
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:34,680
Speaker 3: it's gonna go more based on Sunday's game because those

691
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:37,720
Speaker 3: numbers aren't in yet. They've already played an eleven million

692
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 3: plus viewers. Now, all right, Kaitlyn Clark, and I know

693
00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:43,560
Speaker 3: they want to say, oh, Angel Reese and all these

694
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:45,680
Speaker 3: other players and then you, no, that's not the case.

695
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:49,440
Speaker 3: Kaitlyn Clark. Since she's gotten to the league, ad revenue

696
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:53,239
Speaker 3: for television WNBA games is up thirty six percent year

697
00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:56,120
Speaker 3: to year and double what it was over the last

698
00:34:56,160 --> 00:35:01,399
Speaker 3: two years. She is box office. He is a lightning rod.

699
00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:05,120
Speaker 3: Everybody has an opinion about her, Everybody wants to watch

700
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:08,480
Speaker 3: her play, and for whatever reason, you have people like

701
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:11,360
Speaker 3: the coach in Minnesota, Like we had a guest on

702
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:14,520
Speaker 3: The Odd Couple a couple of months ago, we got

703
00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:18,120
Speaker 3: on to talk about women's basketball, and we Pepper reprefaced

704
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:19,399
Speaker 3: the interview by saying, Hey, we want to talk about

705
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:21,399
Speaker 3: Kaylyn Clark. We want to talk about the tournament, talk

706
00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:24,919
Speaker 3: about this this moment that women's sports is having, and

707
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:27,399
Speaker 3: Christ We're sorry, Rob Parker, both friends of the show,

708
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:29,920
Speaker 3: spent ninety percent of the interview talking about Kaylyn Clark

709
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:32,759
Speaker 3: because she is still even at that time, was the

710
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:36,120
Speaker 3: most interesting person in the tournament. The all due respect

711
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:38,440
Speaker 3: to Don Staley and the game Cocks, it was Kaitlyn Clark.

712
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:43,640
Speaker 3: And after the interview we had people a representative from

713
00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:47,680
Speaker 3: the guest texting me blowing me up how upset they

714
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:51,000
Speaker 3: were that the interview was focused on Kaitlyn Clark. So

715
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:54,960
Speaker 3: as a result, I chose not to you know, pump

716
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:58,240
Speaker 3: out the interview later from our social media handles because

717
00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:01,560
Speaker 3: they were so upset that, you know, this guest had

718
00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:04,280
Speaker 3: to talk so much about Caitlin Clark, who she swore

719
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:07,040
Speaker 3: she had no issue with, but obviously if you read

720
00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:08,680
Speaker 3: the XT messages, it seemed to think that she did

721
00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:11,920
Speaker 3: have an issue with her, And like, that's that's kind

722
00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:15,279
Speaker 3: of what's going on right now. You know, even I'm

723
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:17,200
Speaker 3: glad her teammates have kind of come around today, her

724
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:19,160
Speaker 3: and Aliah Boston team and have some good chemistry going now,

725
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:21,279
Speaker 3: and they seem to like each other, and she's not

726
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 3: getting these cheap shot fouls and her teammates kind of

727
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:27,560
Speaker 3: standing around watching it anymore. But for whatever reason, the

728
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:31,319
Speaker 3: league as a whole still is not supporting this young lady.

729
00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:34,000
Speaker 3: And I don't understand why, because she is going to

730
00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:36,560
Speaker 3: be the reason why they're all getting paid more money,

731
00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:38,799
Speaker 3: why they're all getting more endorsement deals, why they're all

732
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:42,759
Speaker 3: getting the charter flights. And you don't have to bow

733
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:44,880
Speaker 3: down to her, but you shouldn't try to tear her

734
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:45,359
Speaker 3: down either.

735
00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:48,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, very odd. I don't know, you just don't see

736
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:52,239
Speaker 2: this a lot. I don't know, Rob, I was going

737
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 2: to go into the Jets and Aaron Rodgers and DeVante Adams.

738
00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:56,920
Speaker 2: I don't know that I have the energy for it

739
00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 2: here and on a Monday, you know, it's just like

740
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:05,120
Speaker 2: I can't really do it. By the way, here, how's

741
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:08,280
Speaker 2: this for randomness. So we're at the airport leaving Amsterdam

742
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:11,440
Speaker 2: coming back to the US and I see a woman

743
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:15,439
Speaker 2: wearing a Mark Sanchez Jets jersey at the airport Amsterdam.

744
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:19,799
Speaker 2: A Mark Sanchez Jets jersey. I was stunned, so I

745
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:21,759
Speaker 2: take a picture of the back. I didn't I didn't

746
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:23,880
Speaker 2: get the woman's face in the picture, but took a

747
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:26,280
Speaker 2: picture of the jersey. And I texted to Mark Sanchez,

748
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:29,040
Speaker 2: you know, and I'm like, oh damn, it's like two

749
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:30,920
Speaker 2: am in La. I should not have sent that. He

750
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:32,880
Speaker 2: responds instantly, He's.

751
00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:33,600
Speaker 1: Like, small world.

752
00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:36,879
Speaker 2: I'm right around the corner. Mark Sanchez was like Switzerland

753
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:40,399
Speaker 2: with his kid. He's like, oh man, I got Jets fans.

754
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:41,000
Speaker 1: They love me.

755
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 2: They loved me everywhere. I was just like, dude, that

756
00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:45,640
Speaker 2: is that is very riddom. Not that I text Sanchez

757
00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:49,319
Speaker 2: a lot, but he is a super nice guy. It's

758
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:51,359
Speaker 2: good to be back, Rob. This is this is fue.

759
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:52,800
Speaker 2: I don't even know what we're gonna do guest wise,

760
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:56,400
Speaker 2: but we're gonna have some good content this week. USA basketball.

761
00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:59,759
Speaker 2: I think the Olympics are gonna be good, especially with

762
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 2: the basketball, and I don't know what the women's basketball.

763
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:06,600
Speaker 2: The men's is gonna be spicy. I'm just a little

764
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:09,879
Speaker 2: nervous for that Serbia game. It's early, but I'm nervous,

765
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:12,839
Speaker 2: and I know the summer of soccer is trudging on.

766
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:13,200
Speaker 1: But.

767
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:16,279
Speaker 2: Can I got to wrap up with a quick shout

768
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:19,600
Speaker 2: out to Nakasa. So open the season with a tough

769
00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:22,160
Speaker 2: one nothing loss to one of the best teams on

770
00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:24,759
Speaker 2: the road, you know, a tough spot. Bounce back in

771
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:28,319
Speaker 2: Game two, four to one victory. They scored two in

772
00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:30,200
Speaker 2: the first like twelve minutes. I was like, Wow, we

773
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:32,480
Speaker 2: got we got a squad in Nakasa. I will be

774
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:35,319
Speaker 2: seeing them this summer. I won't say where, but I

775
00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:39,120
Speaker 2: will be seeing them. Very excited for that soccer obviously

776
00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:45,160
Speaker 2: exciting and uh basketball fun. NFL's like literally right around

777
00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 2: the corner. I'll be going to Vegas soon to sign

778
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:54,960
Speaker 2: up for the game. The year long contest at CIRCA. Obviously,

779
00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:56,759
Speaker 2: college football is gonna be good. It's I think it's

780
00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:59,239
Speaker 2: gonna be a great year. Politics might try to get

781
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:01,440
Speaker 2: in the way, but we won't let it. Here on

782
00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:02,120
Speaker 2: straight fire.

783
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:03,200
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you tomorrow