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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.

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

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Speaker 2: Fire for Wednesday, August the seventh, and I had a

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Speaker 2: first on Tuesday night light as and gentlemen, first time

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Speaker 2: it's ever happened. I'm sitting down, my phone gives one

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Speaker 2: of those buzzes that you get, not from a text.

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Speaker 2: It was as if one of those you know, child

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Speaker 2: abducted alert, except it wasn't that noise. So I look

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Speaker 2: at it and it says earthquake five point seven outside Bakersfield.

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Speaker 2: And I was like, huh, I didn't feel anything. So

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Speaker 2: I asked my son, did you feel anything? And he

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Speaker 2: said no, And then I look back at the app

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Speaker 2: and says it's coming or something to that effect, and

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Speaker 2: all of a sudden, then the shaking starts. So the app,

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Speaker 2: it's called My Shake for the LA people listening, My

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Speaker 2: Shake predicted the earthquake ten seconds before it happened. Now,

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Speaker 2: this was only five point seven outside Bakersfield, like, no

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Speaker 2: pictures moved on the wall, just felt a little, you know,

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Speaker 2: sliding around. Rob what's the best way to describe an

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Speaker 2: earthquake to somebody who's not listening to this in California.

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Speaker 3: It's basically like if you are sitting in a chair

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Speaker 3: and someone rolls up behind you and like pulls it

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Speaker 3: out from under you. Where the total lack of balance,

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Speaker 3: that's what it feels like.

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Speaker 2: Hmm, Okay, how about this, you know at the airport

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Speaker 2: when you're walking to your gate and then sometimes they

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Speaker 2: have those walking elevators that are flat. I don't know

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Speaker 2: what they're called. I can't believe. I don't know the

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Speaker 2: name of it, but they're moving. It would be like

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Speaker 2: if you ran up and jumped on it and then

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Speaker 2: you were kind of off balance. Is that also?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because, like I've heard, people could try to compare

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Speaker 3: it to turbulence, and while that may be the most

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Speaker 3: accurate in terms of like practically unless you're in like

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Speaker 3: a seven point something and up, it doesn't shake that bad.

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 3: It just feels like the entire room is swaying, you know,

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Speaker 3: beneath your feet and around you.

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Speaker 4: That's what it feels like.

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Speaker 2: And I'm not gonna lie. I I was terrified of

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Speaker 2: earthquakes before moving out here. I was like, there's no

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Speaker 2: way I'm going to La. There's earthquakes all And of

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Speaker 2: course that movie with the Rock came out. Was it

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Speaker 2: called twenty and San Andrea, Yes, yes, yes, which if

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Speaker 2: you watch that is just like, oh my god, there's

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Speaker 2: no way I'm going out there. And then here's here's

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Speaker 2: just a little peak of rob. I didn't tell you this.

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Speaker 2: I didn't even tell my wife, no, kids, didn't tell anybody.

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Speaker 2: But I read a story in The New Yorker probably

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Speaker 2: ten twelve years ago about the big earthquake that's coming

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Speaker 2: to the Pacific Northwest because they're firmly on a fault line.

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Speaker 2: They haven't had one in forever, a significant one. And oh,

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Speaker 2: by the way, a lot of their buildings aren't up

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Speaker 2: to code because YadA, YadA, YadA whatever. And there's all

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Speaker 2: these projections that like Seattle's is going to get decimated,

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Speaker 2: like obliterated by an earthquake when it hits, and Seattle,

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Speaker 2: if you've been there, you know, it's kind of like

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Speaker 2: this long strip with water on both sides. So they're

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Speaker 2: envisioning some sort of tsunami and basically the city just

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Speaker 2: getting wiped out. And in my head before we went

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Speaker 2: I'm not quite a hypochondriac, but I do think like this.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes I was like Okay, so shoot, do I do

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Speaker 2: I bring anything earthquake y? Like? Could I?

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Speaker 1: What do you do?

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Speaker 2: There's nothing I could bring? Just go And then I

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Speaker 2: didn't totally think about it the whole time on the trip.

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Speaker 2: And then you know, you get home and you're like, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's right, earthquake fears. Oh, no big deal, you know,

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Speaker 2: and you move on. But Rob, you definitely felt that

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Speaker 2: one right last night.

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Speaker 3: I definitely felt it. And I must say I had

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Speaker 3: never heard of the my Shake app until right before

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Speaker 4: When it alerted you of an earthquake. I'm like, youre

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Speaker 4: get ATN alert for an earthquake? How was that?

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Speaker 3: And then sure enough I feel an earthquake. It's for

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Speaker 3: anybody who has seen the original Twister. I haven't seen

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Speaker 3: The whole premise is, Hey, we want to get Dorothy

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Speaker 3: these twisters. We're going to be able to predict the

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Speaker 3: twisters and make the response time from like three minutes

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Speaker 3: to thirty minutes. It's gonna save people's lives. Oh, the

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Speaker 3: fact that you have an app that's predicting an earthquake

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Speaker 3: that had to be at least fifteen seconds before it hit.

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Speaker 2: Ten to fifteen. Yeah, but that's a game. You can't

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Speaker 4: But that's a game changer.

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Speaker 2: Well, if you see nine point eight or some massive number,

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Speaker 4: Get out of the house.

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Speaker 2: Well, actually, rob, actually I don't think you're supposed to

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Speaker 2: get out of the house. Because when a big one hit,

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Speaker 2: we did that and there was like nobody in the streets,

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Speaker 2: and then later on people were filtering out and they're like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: we're not supposed to do this. It's like one of

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Speaker 2: the worst things you can do because if power lines

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Speaker 3: Apparently, well then I'm gonna do that at least is Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I can get up a doorway in ten seconds.

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Speaker 2: You got to do something. You can't just sit there

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: But anyways, Yeah, Fortunately we got a podcast with way

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Speaker 2: more than oh yeah, there was a little earthquake that

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Speaker 2: just hit, and obviously we got a lot of Olympic

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Speaker 2: basketball to talk. But I do want to start with

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Speaker 2: this Brandon Ayuk saga. Now if for some reason he

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Speaker 2: gets traded in the hours before this goes live. Oh well,

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Speaker 2: but I am completely fascinated by this turn in Ayuk.

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Speaker 2: And I don't know if transparency is the right word

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Speaker 2: because we don't have all the details. There's a lot

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Speaker 2: of speculation. But apparently those Patriots were involved. Now late

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Speaker 2: Tuesday they're out. The Steelers had been involved, and then

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Speaker 2: early Tuesday they were out, and then they were back in.

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Speaker 2: The Browns have always been there, but there's no indication

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Speaker 2: Ayuk wants to go there. A Yuk allegedly wants to

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Speaker 2: go to the Steelers. I don't know the connection. I

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Speaker 2: don't know the tie. Perhaps Rob does. That being said, essentially,

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Speaker 2: what's happened is the wady Niners have said, what will

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Speaker 2: you give us for Brandon Ayuk? We don't want just

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Speaker 2: draft picks, we want players, which makes total sense. At

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Speaker 2: the same time, the Niners then say to Ayuk, okay,

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Speaker 2: you and your agent are freedom negotiate with New England, Pittsburgh, Cleveland,

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Speaker 2: whoever you want, right and if you guys can come

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Speaker 2: to a deal, we'll make the move. And Rob, wouldn't

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Speaker 2: you know it? All this smoke and yet interestingly, no

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Speaker 2: agreements have been come to yet. Now one would assume

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Speaker 2: no receivers, they should have been all in. Apparently they

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Speaker 2: balked at Ayuk's demands. The Steelers, allegedly according to I

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Speaker 2: don't know if it's Rappaport Schefter. I'm not gonna cite

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Speaker 2: all the other people reporting stuff, but like you know,

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Speaker 2: there's a couple of local SF guys that I trust,

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Speaker 2: and one of them had said the Steelers balked at

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Speaker 2: the asking price in the trade. So they had gotten out,

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Speaker 2: but then they got back Inland has the best ammunition

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Speaker 2: allegedly in Amari Cooper and Picks. I mean, listen, Amari

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Speaker 2: Cooper is still a very good receiver. He was a

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Speaker 2: sneaky top fifteen, maybe top ten statistically receiver last year.

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Speaker 2: But Cooper has value, and if you add Amari Cooper

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Speaker 2: to the Niners, oh oh boy, you can stretch the

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Speaker 2: field with Cooper. I mean he's he's great at it.

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Speaker 2: That would be a coup. The problem is, I don't

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Speaker 2: Ayuk all of that money. They just got youry, Judy.

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Speaker 2: So it's a weird game that's happening here. My gut

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Speaker 2: you feeling differently now that we got some reports out.

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Speaker 4: I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 3: If you would have asked me this forty eight hours ago,

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Speaker 3: I would have said, there's no way that the Niners

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Speaker 3: are going to trade Brandon Nuk because, and this is

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Speaker 3: something you've talked about going back to even the draft,

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Speaker 3: that the further along this gets into the summer and

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Speaker 3: closer to the regular season, it makes less and less

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Speaker 3: sense to make a move like this, especially if you're

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Speaker 3: a team like the Niners who have legitimate Super Bowl aspiration.

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Speaker 3: They're part of the inner circle of teams that can

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Speaker 3: come in and say, not only do we have a

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Speaker 3: probably should make the super Bowl given our roster and

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Speaker 3: our experience level and so on. So for them to

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Speaker 4: Of a sense.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and yet it really does. And yet when you

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Speaker 3: I can tell you right now, it's all coming out

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Speaker 3: of San Francisco. This is not the Browns who is

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Speaker 3: leaking this. This is not the Patriots, it's not the Steelers.

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Speaker 3: The forty nine Ers want this information out there. Oh yeah, why,

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Speaker 3: I'm not one hundred percent sure. Maybe it's just to

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Speaker 3: gonna get it from these specific teams, because we're not

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Speaker 3: not gonna send you to a great situation, even Cleveland

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Speaker 3: I'm ayuk, the only reason I would even consider Cleveland

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Speaker 3: is if Amari Cooper was still there. So then there's

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Speaker 3: two of us with the Shaun Watson, Nick Chubb. Then

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Speaker 3: maybe you're doing something offensively. So if you again, if

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Speaker 3: you were to said two weeks ago I said, or

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Speaker 3: two days ago, this would have never crossed my mind.

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Speaker 3: This is not serious whatsoever. But now that there's this

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Speaker 3: much smoke. Part of me thinks that the forty nine

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Speaker 3: botched this thing.

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Speaker 2: Well the let's be fine.

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Speaker 3: They and they are just trying to get what they

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Speaker 3: can while they can get.

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Speaker 2: It, okay, So that I like how you pose that,

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Speaker 2: like you you think maybe something's afoot, but you're not

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Speaker 2: exactly sure, which is it's great. So it got me

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Speaker 2: thinking like, okay, so why would they do this? What

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Speaker 2: if they're sitting at the negotiating table Ayuk and his

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Speaker 2: his people are being just so completely unreasonable, saying we

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Speaker 2: want Justin Jefferson money, we want Jamar Chase money, blah

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Speaker 2: blah blah, and they're like, I'm sorry, guys, that's not that.

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Speaker 2: We're just not doing that, and they they just have

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Speaker 2: had enough and they said, you know what, how's this.

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Speaker 2: We will let you negotiate a contract with other teams

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Speaker 2: should they be able to come to the table with

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Speaker 2: an offer for us. How's that? And I'm sure, oh yeah,

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Speaker 2: let's do that. Great a Uk and Company, Yeah sure,

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Speaker 2: let's do that. Okay. Well, now we're at that stage

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Speaker 2: and Ayuk is basically testing the market. Hey, uh san Fred,

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Speaker 2: we will give you blah blah blah blah blah, Amari

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Speaker 2: Cooper in a third and a sixth. I don't know what.

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Speaker 2: So my thing is, yes, seventeen point nine yards per

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Speaker 2: All right, rob Let's pivot to Olympic hoops and Tuesday

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Speaker 2: was a hell of a day. No, I did not

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Speaker 2: It was good theater early in the morning. And then

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Speaker 2: Rob was so convincing in his Brazil take that I

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Speaker 2: And Rudy Gobert ends up playing, I believe, three minutes

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Speaker 2: Gobert got benched, France got better and beat Canada.

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Speaker 2: They raced out to a nineteen point lead early and SGA,

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Speaker 2: comes out after the game, Oh yeah, Rudy Gobert broke

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Speaker 2: Of course, the gym is just exploding because it's France,

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Speaker 2: is what was up with Jamal Murray? Like I think

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Speaker 3: And before I get to Jamal Murray, let me just

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Speaker 3: Rudy Gobert told reporters that he had surgery on his

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Speaker 3: That's what we're That's what it's suggesting. Now, I'm again,

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Speaker 3: I hurt my finger in practice, I was really immobilized.

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Speaker 4: I'm with it. That's fine, but when.

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Speaker 4: For reasons to make fun of Gobert about.

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Speaker 2: They definitely played better. Yeah, Gobert is a bit of

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Speaker 2: the perimeter. I'm gonna go ahead and guess that Gobert

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Speaker 2: will stay benched. Is that safe assumption?

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Speaker 4: It could be? It could be.

431
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Speaker 3: And this is so what weird common with the Jamal

432
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Speaker 3: Murray I promise is Rudy Gobert is probably conservatively in

433
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Speaker 3: like the top five current NBA players in terms of

434
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Speaker 3: decorated players, Like it's Lebron, it's Steph, it's kd and

435
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Speaker 3: then from there it's Jokic. Okay, maybe I'm not top

436
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Speaker 3: five strikes Yogis and g'annis, but go Beart is a

437
00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:28,000
Speaker 3: three time Defensive Player of the Year, multiple time All NBA,

438
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Speaker 3: multiple time All Star. You know, he's been to the

439
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Speaker 3: playoffs basically every year for a decade. Home it feels

440
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Speaker 3: like like his resume is first ballot Hall of Famer.

441
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Speaker 3: But the discourse around him is that he is just

442
00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:54,399
Speaker 3: this awkward, clunky, ineffective, dopey Frenchman who is unplayable in

443
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Speaker 3: big moments.

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Speaker 4: So that like, that's just weird to me.

445
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Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's partly factual, which is why people

446
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Speaker 3: give say it. It's just an interesting conversation. As far

447
00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:04,359
Speaker 3: as Jamal Murray goes, you said he has been playing well.

448
00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:10,000
Speaker 3: To illustrate your point, on Monday, he had seven points,

449
00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:14,800
Speaker 3: five rebounds, one assist, three turnovers on three of thirteen shooting,

450
00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:18,080
Speaker 3: and that may have honestly been his best game. To

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Speaker 3: be coin eyes with you, Okay, he played twenty four

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Speaker 3: minutes off the bench on Monday. Throughout the Olympics as

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Speaker 3: a whole, Jamal Murray averaged six points per game on

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Speaker 3: twenty nine percent shooting fourteen percent from three. That follows

455
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Speaker 3: up him in the playoffs against the Lakers shot forty

456
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Speaker 3: percent from the field twenty nine percent from three against

457
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Speaker 3: the Wolves, a much better defensive team he was already

458
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Speaker 3: dealing with that believe was an ankle injury. He drops

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Speaker 3: down to eighteen points a game, four points, four rebounds

460
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Speaker 3: on forty thirty three shooting splits. A lot of it

461
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Speaker 3: was mass, and we talked about on this podcast by

462
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Speaker 3: those two game winners against the Lakers. But he is

463
00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:07,720
Speaker 3: now going on what four or five months of extremely

464
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Speaker 3: underwhelming play, and let's not forget before these Olympics started,

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Speaker 3: there was a report, i believe out of the Athletic

466
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Speaker 3: that said that he was closing in on a maximum

467
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Speaker 3: contract extension with the Denver Nuggets, well maximum for him,

468
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Speaker 3: because you know they're built differently, thirty five maximum for him.

469
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Speaker 3: And then somehow in the next forty eight hours from

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Speaker 3: that initial report, they said they're now going to table

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Speaker 3: extension con negotiations until after the Olympics.

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Speaker 4: For whatever.

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Speaker 3: Maybe he wants to focus on what's going on. He's

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Speaker 3: focusing on getting the gold medal for Canada, YadA, YadA, YadA. Well,

475
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Speaker 3: now after this performance, coupled with the playoff performance, coupled with,

476
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Speaker 3: like you said, the reports that he's just out of shape,

477
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Speaker 3: point blank period. Knowing his injury history. If you're the

478
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Speaker 3: Denver Nuggets, are you still signing up to give him

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Speaker 3: max dollars?

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Speaker 2: A don't. Well, you gave Michael Porter a shit ton

481
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Speaker 2: of money.

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Speaker 4: That's the problem. Like you can't you can't pay You

483
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Speaker 4: can't pay all these guys.

484
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Speaker 2: You can't pay Weary less than Porter, can you.

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Speaker 3: I don't know, Like, I honestly don't think Porter deserves

486
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Speaker 3: the contract that he has. If we're being on in

487
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Speaker 3: today's NBA with the new second apron where everything's so restrictive,

488
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Speaker 3: paying Michael Porter Junior thirty five million dollars a year

489
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Speaker 3: seems blasphemous. He's a he's a one way player. Basically,

490
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Speaker 3: he's a shooter who doesn't really rebound, doesn't pass. He's

491
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Speaker 3: an okay defender, but he's just a shooter. You can

492
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Speaker 3: find it when you don't sign a shooter.

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Speaker 2: These NBA title windows can close so fricking quickly. I'm

494
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Speaker 2: not saying it's shut, but.

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Speaker 4: No me either.

496
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Speaker 2: No when they want when they beat the Heat in

497
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Speaker 2: the finals, they're like, all right, here we go, Juggernaut,

498
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Speaker 2: you know, and then they roll they beat the Lakers again,

499
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Speaker 2: and you're like, yeah, well you lost it's not a

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Speaker 2: big loss. You lost to the Nuggets and then they're

501
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Speaker 2: down oh two, and then they storm back and like,

502
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Speaker 2: oh they got this and they and they losing game

503
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Speaker 2: seven at home, blow at twenty point lead at game

504
00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:04,720
Speaker 2: seven at home, which is like e and now you

505
00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:07,119
Speaker 2: lose KCP and now there's Jamal Murray drama, and then

506
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:10,000
Speaker 2: you really look into the Michael Porter stuff and his

507
00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:12,320
Speaker 2: siblings are going through a tough time. Aaron Gordon had

508
00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:18,960
Speaker 2: a tragic family issue. I don't know, we'll see, but yeah,

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Speaker 2: just keep an eye on the Nuggets when I'm in Vegas.

510
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Speaker 2: I think I'm gonna probably bet their Underwooden total. I

511
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Speaker 2: know nobody's gonna like that, but I'm doing it anyway.

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Speaker 2: So Rob, real quick, let's look at the semifinal matchups Thursday. First,

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Speaker 2: you have in the appetizer Germany five point favorite over

518
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Speaker 2: France and what will effectively be a road game, France

519
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Speaker 2: playing you know, at home host of the Olympics Serbia USA.

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Speaker 2: Have you looked at the line, Roberto.

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Speaker 4: I have not looked at the lines yet.

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Speaker 2: You want to guess. I don't think you get within

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Speaker 2: five points because I was stunned by this line.

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Speaker 4: USA minus nineteen and a half.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's close, Okay, seventeen and a half.

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Speaker 4: I think there we go within five.

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Speaker 2: I think that's way too high. Bro A. They have

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Speaker 2: faced them twice in the last what three weeks, so

529
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Speaker 2: they're very familiar with everything the US does. B Serbia

530
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Speaker 2: does have Jokic, who is an unbelievable player. And see

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Speaker 2: the US is coming off an absolute beat down of

532
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Speaker 2: Brazil that was soup to nuts, ass whooping, and there

533
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Speaker 2: was there's no drama coming out of this because everybody

534
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Speaker 2: got to play. And I just wonder if some of

535
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Speaker 2: the sphincters get a little bit tight. Oh, by the way,

536
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Speaker 2: Lebron stitches for a hit that he took, Joel Embiid

537
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Speaker 2: coming off a good game. So it's just when everything's

538
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Speaker 2: going so smoothly, Oh we beat Serbia twice by a

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Speaker 2: shit ton, Well, it's gonna be a little harder for

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Speaker 2: Yokiic Embiid against Jokic. We know that, and I wonder

541
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Speaker 2: what happens with you know, if Tatum has Tatum, Tatum

542
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Speaker 2: was kind of like out of the rotating I guess

543
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Speaker 2: he got in the second quarter. It was like the

544
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Speaker 2: last guy to get in, and then Halliburton was like

545
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Speaker 2: the real last guy. But we understand that, and then

546
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Speaker 2: it's like, well, I don't know some of this again,

547
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Speaker 2: Anthony Edwards is cooking the Brazilians. Got it? Is he

548
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Speaker 2: gonna do that against Serbia? What if they've haven off

549
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:19,560
Speaker 2: night from three? I know Devin Booker's been on fire,

550
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:22,880
Speaker 2: but we haven't seen what happens when the US goes

551
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Speaker 2: on the struggle bus where it's like, okay, there are

552
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Speaker 2: four for twenty in the first half from three and

553
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Speaker 2: all of a sudden it's at one point game like that.

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Speaker 2: We have not had that and there's been would you agree,

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Speaker 2: Rob zero adversity for the US in the Olympics so far?

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Speaker 2: In the run up, they had their adversity, but they

557
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Speaker 2: kind of got that out of their system. I think

558
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Speaker 2: this Serbia, third time in three weeks to face the

559
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Speaker 2: team is super dangerous. I don't know that I'm betting

560
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Speaker 2: Serbia seventeen and a half, but that's the only bet

561
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Speaker 2: for me. I don't see the US losing, but I

562
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:57,440
Speaker 2: definitely see this being a close game. I don't know.

563
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Speaker 2: Am I being overreactive?

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Speaker 3: Not really, But then again, I don't want to be

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Speaker 3: the guy who talks down on Team USA after I

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Speaker 3: just lost money betting on Brazil. So I'm kind of

567
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Speaker 3: speaking from a position of I'm jaded on this subject.

568
00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:15,600
Speaker 3: But USA has being Serbia and needed the last two

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Speaker 3: games of twenty six points and they've beaten them different

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Speaker 3: ways each time. And the first time they played each

571
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Speaker 3: other in the friendlies, Serbia made the gross miscalculation of

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Speaker 3: thinking they could run with Team USA and that just

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Speaker 3: did not work out whatsoever against it. In the was

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Speaker 3: it the tune up game, I don't know whether they're

575
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Speaker 3: called though, the ones where it wasn't a friendly, but

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00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:37,960
Speaker 3: it wasn't a playing I don't know. It was a

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Speaker 3: seeding game, right?

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Speaker 4: Is that what it was?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: And in that one, I think that they wanted to

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Speaker 3: showcase Bogdanovich because he didn't play in the tune up,

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Speaker 3: and he played well. I think I believe he had

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Speaker 3: something like eighteen points in that game, which is great,

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Speaker 3: but the problem was in doing so, they didn't showcase

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Speaker 3: and focus so much on Nikola Jokic, and he didn't

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Speaker 3: play as many minutes in the second one as he

587
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Speaker 3: did the first one. If they have any chance of

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Speaker 3: beating USA or hell, even keeping it close and covering

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Speaker 3: the what was it seventeen and a half point spread,

590
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Speaker 3: it's gonna have to be all Joker all the time

591
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Speaker 3: because he is the one guy.

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Speaker 4: That we still have no answer for on Team USA.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, bam Adebayo's great, he's too small.

594
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Speaker 2: I think the AD follow up backed up by BAM

595
00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:33,320
Speaker 2: or vice versa is probably their best bet. But that

596
00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:36,040
Speaker 2: does open up the world where shoot, is somebody gonna

597
00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:39,040
Speaker 2: start to cook from three exactly, and Bogdanovitch could be

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Speaker 2: that guy. Oh, I expect a lot like this is

599
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Speaker 2: a game where Derek White and Drew Holliday against Bogdanovitch

600
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Speaker 2: are going to be massive, and like those guys are

601
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Speaker 2: gonna be pivotal.

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Speaker 3: And this is one of those games where I know

603
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Speaker 3: everyone says, hey, you're playing big, this is why you

604
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Speaker 3: got embid.

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Speaker 4: EMBIID is not the right.

606
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Speaker 3: Matchup for Yokic. Jokic would destroy Embiid worse than he

607
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 3: even would with BAM and AD, so you're gonna have

608
00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:05,240
Speaker 3: to if you're Serbia. Your best chance, I know this

609
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:06,520
Speaker 3: is something you drobly don't want to do because you

610
00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 3: don't want to play this way is you're gonna have

611
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Speaker 3: to play Yolkic like he's Luka Doncic, where every time

612
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Speaker 3: down the court he has.

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Speaker 4: To get the ball. We have to least touch the ball.

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00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:17,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's got to have a usage rate in

615
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:20,360
Speaker 3: the forties and they have to slow it down and

616
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:22,080
Speaker 3: grind it out. Hopefully you get hot from three and

617
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:25,960
Speaker 3: hopefully USA gets cold from three because any other scenario,

618
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Speaker 3: whether it's playing fast like we saw in the first game,

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Speaker 3: or trying to get other guys involved so that Yokic

620
00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:34,120
Speaker 3: kind of pays himself, that's not gonna work against a

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Speaker 3: team this much more talented than you are.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. No, the Jokic thing is interesting. Last summer, at

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Speaker 2: this time, he was riding his horse and clubbing in

624
00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:48,920
Speaker 2: his native country, Serbia, enjoying it. And now he's like,

625
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 2: looks exhausted. He's playing heavy minutes. I mean he looked

626
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:58,240
Speaker 2: drained against Australia. Hit the clutchit turnaround shot. Listen, man,

627
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:00,719
Speaker 2: They're not gonna go out like I'll just say that

628
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:04,240
Speaker 2: and it's weird. Rob. I again, I was watching the

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00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 2: Brazil match way too closely. I felt like every single

630
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:09,920
Speaker 2: play Bead was on the floor. They were putting him

631
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:11,520
Speaker 2: in pick and roll and he was playing the drop

632
00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 2: coverage and they were just going at him every time

633
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:16,360
Speaker 2: like they It wasn't like, hey, let's pick on Steph Curry.

634
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:19,240
Speaker 2: We're going at embid and he kept dropping and the

635
00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:20,920
Speaker 2: guard I think it's where to us this was his name?

636
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 4: Maybe yes, but former laker.

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00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:25,920
Speaker 2: You know, if he's making more shots, it's it's moderately interesting.

638
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:28,120
Speaker 2: He just missed a bunch of shots wide open, like

639
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:30,760
Speaker 2: em Bead's basically giving him whatever he wanted, and I

640
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 2: just you just see that and you're like, oh my gosh,

641
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:34,880
Speaker 2: is that how he plays defense in the NBA. I

642
00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:36,800
Speaker 2: guess I don't watch the Sixers close enough, or maybe

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Speaker 2: people don't try to take advantage. But he just hasn't

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Speaker 2: jumped off the page to me at all. By the way,

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Speaker 2: congrats to Kevin Durant. He's now the all time leading

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Speaker 2: Olympics scorer men's or women's. Duran has looked good in

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Speaker 2: the Olympics. Hard not to He doesn't have like a.

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Speaker 2: He doesn't have to be a leader, right, this is

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Speaker 2: a perfect setting for him and that's not a shot.

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Speaker 2: He just he's not built like that. He doesn't want

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Speaker 2: to be the leader. It's pretty clear. The alpha there

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Speaker 2: is Lebron, and I don't know who would be number two.

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Speaker 2: I don't even really, I don't even know if there

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Speaker 2: is a number two.

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Speaker 4: It's like step this team, it's this team is probably

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Speaker 4: on Edwards.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't does he have the gravitas though coming off.

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Speaker 3: But he's asserted himself as that guy. Like I think

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Speaker 3: everybody's deferential to Lebron because it's Lebron, but Steph's not

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Speaker 3: even the leader on his own team in Golden State.

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Speaker 3: The emotional that is Draymond. So I think everybody is

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Speaker 3: kind of obviously it's Lebron first, second, third, but if

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Speaker 3: there's a second guy at the Edwards is trying to

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Speaker 3: take that torch. He might be doing a little over

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Speaker 3: zealously at times, but he definitely sees himself as the

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Speaker 3: guy moving forward.

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Speaker 2: I mean, listen, I like watching him too, but I

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Speaker 2: just get some ballhog vibes from him. Bro, I mean,

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Speaker 2: he is just missed. You know, he's gonna be Iso

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Speaker 2: when he gets it a lot between the legs, settle

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Speaker 2: for three or drive and then the lane's tighter, people

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Speaker 2: are packed in no three second rule and he's kind

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Speaker 2: of struggling and transition and he's dominating. Oh my gosh,

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Speaker 2: he's just unbelievable. But yeah, so I'm enjoying the little

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Speaker 2: bit basketball. Thursday, are those semifinals eight thirty and I

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Speaker 2: believe twelve or maybe eleven thirty, but that should be fun.

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Speaker 2: And then the Olympics kind of wrap up this weekend

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Speaker 2: and then it's just full on NFL. Nothing really happening

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Speaker 2: on the NBA front, all quiet on the Caitlin Clark saga. Yeah, well, obviously,

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Speaker 2: don't forget about that huge seismic Legas Cup matchup between

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Speaker 2: my Nikosa guys and the San Jose Earthquakes Thursday. I

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00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:40,360
Speaker 2: would say there's a forty nine percent chance your boys

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Speaker 2: parachuting into San Jose. I didn't even realize this, but

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Speaker 2: the San Jose Earthquake Stadium is right next to the airport,

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Speaker 2: so it's not like, you know, I don't even know

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Speaker 2: if there's a game time yet officially, but you just

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Speaker 2: fly right in, walk in this day to go to

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Speaker 2: the game and then hopefully fly on a jet right

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Speaker 2: back Delta's last flight out or Southwest or whatever. If not,

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Speaker 2: then maybe to splurge for a hotel room at the airport.

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Speaker 2: But it is a business expense, as this is clearly

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Speaker 2: a business trip because I'm a business man. I'm a

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Speaker 2: business man. I think that's how jay Z put it.

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Speaker 4: That's right, by the way. You're not slick, you know.

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Speaker 3: We open this podcast talking about how we just got

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Speaker 3: shook to the core by an earthquake. In the last

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Speaker 3: thirty seconds, it's a seismic matchup. They're playing the San

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Speaker 3: Jose quakes.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I see what you're doing.

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Speaker 2: I'm trying.

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Speaker 4: It's a perfect book end.

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Speaker 2: There's a I mean, I might have to go watch

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Speaker 2: sin Andreas again after that, because you did you like

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Speaker 2: that movie or no?

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Speaker 4: It was a terrible movie.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: The Rock doesn't really make He makes a lot of

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Speaker 4: bad movies.

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Speaker 2: Did you see what was it? I think there was

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Speaker 2: one called twenty twenty something with twenty twelve with twenty

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Speaker 2: that's it. Yeah, yeah, did you see that one? I

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Speaker 2: did see that one that was like a little over

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Speaker 2: the top. But people can't they love this earthquake stuff.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Anyways, all right, we're back tomorrow. Talk to you then,