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Speaker 1: Well, well, well, the All Star break has coming gone.

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Speaker 1: We're getting ready for the playoff push around the league.

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Speaker 1: Games are about to start up here in the past,

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Speaker 1: I guess they've already started up for you listening. In

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Speaker 1: the future, we're gonna recap some of the some of

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Speaker 1: our favorite moments in the All Star weekend. We're going

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Speaker 1: to discuss the state of the AM I seeing this right, Lakers,

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Speaker 1: and plenty more with singer artist, NBA writer Claire de

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Speaker 1: Loom on today's episode. I'm Jack O'Brien and this is

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Speaker 1: JABORI and from Miles and this is Miles and jackets

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Speaker 1: seez dog? Sorry, got it? Look a dog hitch. Okay,

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Speaker 1: there you go and be driving spinning. So bunch got

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Speaker 1: it with five? Is going to try another three?

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Speaker 2: Mister?

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Speaker 1: Okay, change to Claire. What's going on? Hi? It's good

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Speaker 1: to be back, a returning champion, one of our faves.

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Speaker 1: Great to have you back. Your album dropped, Spirit of

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Speaker 1: the Staircase.

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Speaker 3: It did, yeah November, Yeah, congratulations, thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: The band is Tiny Deaths. I think I know what.

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Speaker 1: That's a reference to naps. It's a reference to naps, right, yeah,

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Speaker 1: because sleep is the cousin of death.

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Speaker 4: I thought it was every Laker lossy.

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Speaker 1: So we this is an unbiased podcast, just three unbiased

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Speaker 1: journalists kicking it around, have no uh, you know, affinity

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Speaker 1: for any particular NBA team. But before we get to

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Speaker 1: league as we head into the playoff push, I did

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Speaker 1: want to check in how was everybody's All Star weekend?

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Speaker 2: Like what was what?

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Speaker 1: But maybe we could open with the best thing you

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Speaker 1: saw this whole weekend? Mine was. I think it was

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Speaker 1: just like phone videos of Luca and warm ups doing

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Speaker 1: those like half court sho.

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Speaker 3: Bounce when he called bounce and then it actually bounced in.

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Speaker 1: I was like, it's cheap spell.

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Speaker 3: Did you cast that?

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Speaker 1: He is like truly a magician with the ball, Like

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Speaker 1: I said that about people with ball handling, but his

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Speaker 1: shot making is so like Jabari and I were talking

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Speaker 1: about this earlier that you know, usually with great shooters,

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Speaker 1: you know, they have a like Steph's shot. You you

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Speaker 1: you kind of know that the path the ball is

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Speaker 1: going to travel. Yeah, Luca just can do. Also, it

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Speaker 1: truly is like wizardry.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it really is.

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Speaker 1: I don't like it. It freaks me out.

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Speaker 3: I need him and I need him and Jokic to

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Speaker 3: end up on the same team, both because they seem

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Speaker 3: like they're good friends who enjoy each other's company, but

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Speaker 3: also because they're the only two people in the league

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Speaker 3: that I personally think have that in common where it's like,

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Speaker 3: it's not like you look like you know what you're doing.

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Speaker 3: It's like you look like there was a magical spell.

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Speaker 1: Calf.

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Speaker 3: You had one wish and it was to be the

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Speaker 3: best basketball player alive, and it came true, and now

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Speaker 3: nothing can leave your hand without going in.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I watch this.

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Speaker 4: I just have to say, for the rest of the

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Speaker 4: basketball loving world that is not a Mavericks or Denver fan,

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Speaker 4: why are you wishing this upon us?

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Speaker 1: Because I can't tell you now.

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Speaker 4: There are several combinations of players in the league that

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Speaker 4: I absolutely don't want to see if it's not on

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Speaker 1: Wait, I'm sorry. Isn't the implication always that every good

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Speaker 1: Claire was implying that this would be with the Lakers,

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Speaker 3: Be wearing the You know what, what I was revealing

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Speaker 3: is my ultimate truth, which is that above any allegiance

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Speaker 3: to any team or any fandom, I'm just a fan

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Speaker 3: of excellence, guys, and I just want to see excellent

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Speaker 3: basketball at the highest level. And also I'm a fan

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Speaker 1: So I just wondered, Yeah, anti friends. Yeah, yeah, And

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Speaker 1: Luca's energy like he's he's winning me over, like he

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Speaker 3: complain that much to a referee. That's right, I feel

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he reminds me of like when our dogs would

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Speaker 3: watching him. The All Star Game attitude like really irked me.

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Speaker 3: It was his attitude and his in particular. It wasn't

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Speaker 3: least some of the other players, they're like, all right,

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Speaker 1: To like do this one fun a cool thing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And Luca was just like, I literally have my

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Speaker 1: Are we done yet, He was like, didn't you see

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Speaker 3: Can you do the check shot on the court? Luca?

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Speaker 3: Is that so much to ask? Can you do something

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Speaker 1: It does make me want to like as shot making

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Speaker 3: Court shot was really cool. I don't want to hear

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Speaker 1: I'm not. I was happy to see it. Yeah, that

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Speaker 3: Luca was like, I do not dream of labor, which

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Speaker 3: you know I understand. But my favorite, okay, my favorite

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Speaker 3: I feel like like any video behind the scenes of

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Speaker 3: with Jason Tatum's kid. I also really liked when Lebron

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Speaker 3: Honestly, I wish there was more of that. Yeah, wud

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Speaker 3: be my number one if I was named commissioner tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: If Adam Silver was like, dude, I've had enough exam.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're not sure that that's not going to happen.

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Speaker 3: We can It's hard to say, but if the way

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Speaker 3: is he Adam, here's my pitch.

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Speaker 4: No.

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Speaker 3: Well as famously, I'm next in line to be NBA commissioner,

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Speaker 3: so I mean it's a matter of time. I'm the

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Speaker 3: Kendle Roll. That's not what you want to be at all.

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Speaker 3: I don't think that's what you want to be either, actually,

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Speaker 3: be that you could pay a premium package. You had

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Speaker 3: to prove that you're over eighteen, but you could pay

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Speaker 3: a premium package to hear a miked up alt cast

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Speaker 3: of every NBA game, and like they could take turns

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Speaker 3: making up different players on each team like for a

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Speaker 3: few minutes a game or whatever, but like the stuff

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Speaker 3: want to hear all of it. That is like one

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Speaker 3: don't get it except for in very small, very watered

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Speaker 1: It is. What's great about basketball compared to other sports

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Speaker 1: I want to see that weird shots like that would

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Speaker 3: Would love to see.

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Speaker 3: Silly Do we have more silliness, like just more silly games,

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Speaker 3: more like just fun. I mean, I feel like, make

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Speaker 3: want people having to hula hoop at half court before

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Speaker 3: they try and pull up for a shot. Yeah, I

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Speaker 3: just like, bring me the hijinks.

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Speaker 4: You know, here for it.

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Speaker 1: And what was your moment of the weekend.

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Speaker 4: I'm actually piggybacking on Claire's point. I am an absolute

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Speaker 4: sucker with jack and I discussed this before the show.

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Speaker 4: I'm a sucker for any behind the scenes footage. I

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Speaker 4: love seeing the old school footage in fact, especially of

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Speaker 4: the players and the moment. My best moment was when

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Speaker 1: Is as a kid. Oh I love that dunking on

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Speaker 4: Yeah, those mom or whomever was in the background asked,

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Speaker 4: And then forward to you know, this year's dunk contest,

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Speaker 4: and you know, I think Jackie have the point that

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Speaker 4: you made probably one of the best dunks of the night,

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Speaker 4: if not the best duncan that he's jumping over Shack from. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: read their lying, so you know moments like that coming

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Speaker 4: you know, that's my preference for sure.

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Speaker 1: That was my favorite dunk of the night, Like the

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Speaker 3: Over the underrated dunk. I was both him and Jacob Toppin.

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Speaker 3: I'm like justice for them because of their dunks, Like

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Speaker 1: It's given wiki wild, wild Wicked.

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Speaker 3: But it's almost as if the thing that worked last.

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Speaker 1: You can play.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, far be it from me to you know, try

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Speaker 1: So we should mention the Warriors that the Warriors. So,

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Speaker 3: We've seen this movie before.

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Speaker 1: Yep, like so many times they are sitting at nine

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Speaker 4: Most likely to be lead frogged and you know what,

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Speaker 3: feel like the opposite for them, Like I feel like

436
00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:26,280
Speaker 3: they might climb the standings because they were missing Kyrie

437
00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:29,600
Speaker 3: Irving for like a really significant chunk of this season,

438
00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:32,960
Speaker 3: and if they can have him healthy and Luca healthy,

439
00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:35,760
Speaker 3: Like I don't think we've seen the ceiling of that team.

440
00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:37,359
Speaker 3: I don't want to see that team in a playoff

441
00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:38,520
Speaker 3: series if I'm anybody.

442
00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:41,119
Speaker 1: They seem like they're the Lakers this year of like

443
00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:45,359
Speaker 1: the team that did a few kind of smaller things

444
00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:48,240
Speaker 1: through the trade deadline that are really like kind of

445
00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:48,880
Speaker 1: really good.

446
00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:52,080
Speaker 3: Honestly, I think so I wrote a trade deadline Winners

447
00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:54,560
Speaker 3: and Losers piece like it was an instant reaction to

448
00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:57,159
Speaker 3: like Night of the trade deadline, and I didn't have

449
00:22:57,280 --> 00:22:59,800
Speaker 3: Dallas listed under my winners, and I kind of regret that.

450
00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:02,399
Speaker 3: I feel like Gafford was big for them. Like I

451
00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:04,760
Speaker 3: feel like they did they did exactly right at the

452
00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:07,560
Speaker 3: trade deadline, and it just wasn't like splashy, but it

453
00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:09,240
Speaker 3: was meaningful.

454
00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:13,080
Speaker 1: Yeah. Other big news out of Lakerland, Lebron says he

455
00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:16,720
Speaker 1: is fifty to fifty on whether he'll want a farewell tour.

456
00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:21,800
Speaker 1: I think that I think that is a fifty four fifty,

457
00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:27,160
Speaker 1: like fifty out of fifty aka or fifty plus fifty. Yeah.

458
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Speaker 3: Add it to the memes. Add it to the stack

459
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Speaker 3: of Lebron cap memes.

460
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Speaker 2: Yeah.

461
00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:34,040
Speaker 3: I love Lebron. I'm like the biggest Lebron fan. I

462
00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:38,520
Speaker 3: really love him. He has rightfully so cultivated a bit

463
00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:41,840
Speaker 3: of a reputation as someone who maybe is prone to embellish,

464
00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:46,080
Speaker 3: prone to tell a white lie here and there. I

465
00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:49,479
Speaker 3: can understand like him not wanting to be like when

466
00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:52,200
Speaker 3: when I'm going to retire, you'll know, and like not

467
00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:54,200
Speaker 3: wanting to lock him into that because what if he

468
00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:58,000
Speaker 3: gets like a horrible injury, God forbid, and it's just

469
00:23:58,080 --> 00:23:59,760
Speaker 3: not worth it for him to ramp back up at

470
00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:03,240
Speaker 3: four years old, so I understand like leaving room. However,

471
00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:08,240
Speaker 3: health notwithstanding, there is no universe in which Lebron James

472
00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:11,360
Speaker 3: is not Are you kidding me? There's no way he's

473
00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:13,680
Speaker 3: not having a farewell tour. It's gonna be like the

474
00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:16,720
Speaker 3: there's gonna be pyrotechnics, like this is gonna be the

475
00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:19,879
Speaker 3: farewell tour to end all farewell tours.

476
00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:22,639
Speaker 1: His farewell tour is going to have the Van Halen

477
00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:25,840
Speaker 1: Rider where it's like, all right, I need all green eminems.

478
00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:31,440
Speaker 3: Yeah. Literally, we love Lebron because he's a messy bee

479
00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:33,840
Speaker 3: who lives for drama. That is part of his appeal.

480
00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:36,440
Speaker 3: There's no way he's going to go quietly into the

481
00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:38,600
Speaker 3: dark night like it's just not going to freaking happen.

482
00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:41,600
Speaker 1: It's going to come in a lion like Katy Perry

483
00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:42,639
Speaker 1: in that Super Bowl You.

484
00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:45,520
Speaker 3: Heard it here first. When Lebron retires, you will know

485
00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:47,840
Speaker 3: for a long time it's.

486
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Speaker 1: It's not just gonna be like wake up, oh hey,

487
00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:51,280
Speaker 1: by the way, oh Lebron retired.

488
00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:53,600
Speaker 3: Wow, It's gonna be like, oh my god, And every

489
00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:56,520
Speaker 3: broadcast is going to be like the last time Lebron

490
00:24:56,640 --> 00:25:00,680
Speaker 3: James plays in Oklahoma, City the last time Braun takes

491
00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:04,520
Speaker 3: a plane from Oklahoma City to Houston, like it's You're

492
00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:05,320
Speaker 3: never gonna hear.

493
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Speaker 1: The end of it, and I'm gonna I'm gonna drink

494
00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:08,720
Speaker 1: it all.

495
00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:10,880
Speaker 3: In and I'm gonna be crying all year long because

496
00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:11,840
Speaker 3: I am not ready.

497
00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:15,440
Speaker 1: All Right, let's take a quick break, we'll come back,

498
00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:16,480
Speaker 1: we'll talk Bucks.

499
00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:19,600
Speaker 2: And we'll do the rapid fire random questioning. We'll be

500
00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:29,480
Speaker 2: right back, and we're back.

501
00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:35,000
Speaker 1: And wanted to check out with the Bucks because heading

502
00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:37,520
Speaker 1: into the All Star Break, they had a couple good wins.

503
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,560
Speaker 1: I mean the big one they played the Nuggets. They

504
00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:43,800
Speaker 1: played really well. They beat the Nuggets pretty soundly. They

505
00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:49,240
Speaker 1: looked good on defense. But overall, since they let Adrian

506
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:57,119
Speaker 1: Griffin go, it's been a real adjustment period. And I

507
00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:59,240
Speaker 1: don't know, I mean that sometimes that happens, you know,

508
00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:02,680
Speaker 1: Sometimes you need to get the new system in place,

509
00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:05,600
Speaker 1: you need to get the chemistry right. Usually it doesn't

510
00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:10,119
Speaker 1: last quite this long. And yeah, I'm just they are

511
00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:13,960
Speaker 1: probably the team I'm most intrigued to see. Like that

512
00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:16,639
Speaker 1: feels like it could be similar to what you were

513
00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 1: saying with the Pelicans. Feels like it could go in

514
00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:23,399
Speaker 1: wildly different directions. I would be surprised if it like

515
00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:26,840
Speaker 1: continued on this path of you know, being three and

516
00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:29,640
Speaker 1: seven over the last ten, including a twenty six point

517
00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:31,960
Speaker 1: loss to the Heat. I would be surprised if that

518
00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:36,119
Speaker 1: keeps up. But I don't know. It could obviously because

519
00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:38,159
Speaker 1: they haven't quite figured out what's going on.

520
00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:41,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, a few things with the Bucks thing Number one,

521
00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:43,600
Speaker 3: I think Doc has rightfully been taking a lot of

522
00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:48,680
Speaker 3: heat for just his tendency to deflect his absolute reticence

523
00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:50,280
Speaker 3: to accept any responsibility.

524
00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:54,680
Speaker 1: Claire, I wouldn't wish this job on my worst worst enemy.

525
00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:57,960
Speaker 3: I wouldn't wish a job taking over for a team

526
00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:01,880
Speaker 3: that somehow has a championship xpace but also no expectations

527
00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:04,120
Speaker 3: at the same time, Like, yeah, that job must suck,

528
00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:06,600
Speaker 3: Like what are you talk This is the best job obviously.

529
00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:09,240
Speaker 3: This isn't the beginning of him not taking a responsibility.

530
00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:12,600
Speaker 3: This is like dates back to many years of his career.

531
00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:16,040
Speaker 3: He literally makes it sound like the Bucks made him

532
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:18,959
Speaker 3: do this job at gunpoint, like it's crazy you were

533
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:21,359
Speaker 3: you could just say no, bro, Like you could just

534
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:23,480
Speaker 3: say no. There's like lots of other people who would

535
00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:26,119
Speaker 3: have wanted this job. That being said, the Bucks are

536
00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:28,760
Speaker 3: interesting to me because I think in a playoff setting,

537
00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:31,840
Speaker 3: as we know, the margins of playoff games are one.

538
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:35,159
Speaker 3: It's like, do you have the guy on your side

539
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:38,360
Speaker 3: who can just make it happen when everything else breaks down,

540
00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:41,399
Speaker 3: when when all the plans fall by the wayside, when

541
00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:43,159
Speaker 3: the defense is breaked down, Like, do you have the

542
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:45,440
Speaker 3: guy that can just go iso and just like get

543
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:48,600
Speaker 3: you a magical shot? And Damian Allard is that guy

544
00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:52,080
Speaker 3: and that's why they added him. I just don't think, like,

545
00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:54,920
Speaker 3: to me, this is a team built on a very

546
00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:59,000
Speaker 3: unstable foundation, which is that this man did not want

547
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:02,040
Speaker 3: to go there, and he made his desire. First of all,

548
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:03,879
Speaker 3: this man wanted to stay in Portland, Lovely. Let's be

549
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:07,480
Speaker 3: abundantly clear. What happened was he signed an extension because

550
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 3: he planned to retire a Trailblazer, because they had promised him, like,

551
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:12,640
Speaker 3: if you sit out the rest of the season, even

552
00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:14,800
Speaker 3: though you're not really injured, we're going to get a

553
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:16,639
Speaker 3: high draft pick that we can then trade to get

554
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:19,439
Speaker 3: you some help over here in Portland, and we're going

555
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:21,000
Speaker 3: to make a run of it because you just had

556
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:24,560
Speaker 3: the best year of your career. Statistically and you deserve help.

557
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:27,240
Speaker 3: Then they found out that they could get Scoot Henderson

558
00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:29,399
Speaker 3: at that number three pick, and they felt like they

559
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:31,359
Speaker 3: had hit the lottery because they thought he was going

560
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:34,600
Speaker 3: to be like the next base of the Trailblazers. And

561
00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:38,240
Speaker 3: they renegged on that offer, and that's when Dame demanded

562
00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:41,760
Speaker 3: a trade. Understand I think understandably so, and because he

563
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:43,680
Speaker 3: had put in, you know, like he got his little

564
00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:46,200
Speaker 3: plaque and like trip to Bermuda, because he'd put in,

565
00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:48,600
Speaker 3: however many years with the company. He's like, I'd like

566
00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:52,840
Speaker 3: to go to Miami, and they didn't send him there,

567
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:55,240
Speaker 3: And in my opinion, the package they got back for him,

568
00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:58,680
Speaker 3: you know, through a multi team trade with the Bucks

569
00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:01,040
Speaker 3: not much better, I don't think than what they could

570
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 3: have gotten from Miami, at least if they had been

571
00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:06,160
Speaker 3: willing to involve a third team. So this team was

572
00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:09,840
Speaker 3: built on all of that baggage, all of that drama happening,

573
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:13,560
Speaker 3: and then Dame coming to Milwaukee and being like, well,

574
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:14,760
Speaker 3: I'm going to try and make the best of it.

575
00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:17,920
Speaker 3: Like Johannes is great. This is like a pretty good

576
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:20,480
Speaker 3: situation all things considered. But it's not like he was

577
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:23,200
Speaker 3: like Milwaukee's where I want to be, you know, this

578
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:25,120
Speaker 3: is where I want to go. And so I feel

579
00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:27,000
Speaker 3: like they got off on a weird foot. There was

580
00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:29,720
Speaker 3: weird vibes from the jump because everyone knew. He made

581
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:31,560
Speaker 3: it very public that he wanted to go to not

582
00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:35,400
Speaker 3: just another team, but like a rival Eastern Conference teamed

583
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:39,160
Speaker 3: to the Milwaukee Bucks. Yeah, and I also think that

584
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 3: like his skill set, like Drew Holliday, I think is

585
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:45,760
Speaker 3: more of a two way player than Damian Lillard. I

586
00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:49,720
Speaker 3: don't think that's like controversial to say. And they made

587
00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 3: a lot of changes that I think similar to the

588
00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:54,760
Speaker 3: alchemy that we were talking about in these other teams.

589
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:56,239
Speaker 3: It's like a lot of things had to go right

590
00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:59,760
Speaker 3: for them to be good. A few different dominoes fell

591
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:02,160
Speaker 3: or the Bucks that are putting them in a really

592
00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:04,920
Speaker 3: weird spot. They hired a first time head coach at

593
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 3: the same time as they basically like completely changed how

594
00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 3: their offense was going to revolve. It was totally Helio

595
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:13,280
Speaker 3: centric ground Yannis. Now all of a sudden, it's like

596
00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:15,520
Speaker 3: you have a second superstar that it needs to revolve

597
00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:17,960
Speaker 3: around too, and they put they laid that in the

598
00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:20,400
Speaker 3: lap of a first year head coach who I think

599
00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:22,960
Speaker 3: was just clearly in over his head. I don't think

600
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 3: he was doing a very good job. And at the

601
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:28,480
Speaker 3: same time, you have you know, Brook Lopez starting to

602
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:30,480
Speaker 3: age and like not be able to maybe do some

603
00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:32,280
Speaker 3: of the stuff that he was able to do, and

604
00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:35,040
Speaker 3: the rest of the East, some of the like some

605
00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:38,680
Speaker 3: of the East got a little better. So personally, like

606
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:41,760
Speaker 3: going into the season, I was really optimistic about the Bucks.

607
00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:44,440
Speaker 3: I don't think they're going to like bottom out by

608
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:47,560
Speaker 3: any means. I don't think they're gonna win the championship

609
00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:50,560
Speaker 3: this year. I don't think that's like super controversial to say.

610
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:55,280
Speaker 3: It's just I would I honestly take several Eastern Conference

611
00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:57,719
Speaker 3: teams above them right now, even though in the standings

612
00:30:58,280 --> 00:30:58,840
Speaker 3: they're higher.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so this is why we have folks, you know,

614
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:04,320
Speaker 4: let are as bright as clear on because she eloquently

615
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 4: put you know, put it. I'm just gonna say they're

616
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:08,560
Speaker 4: gonna do the Doc special. They'll be done in the

617
00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:12,160
Speaker 4: second round. Once again, the.

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00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:14,479
Speaker 1: Second round is tricky. As a Sixers fan, I can

619
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:18,400
Speaker 1: tell you the second round is tricky. Uh, Claire, we

620
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:22,280
Speaker 1: we've got time for too rapid fires for you. Okay,

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Speaker 1: this is just you don't think. You just fire it

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00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:30,680
Speaker 1: back right at us chest, past chess, pass back, be

623
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:34,360
Speaker 1: ready as ready as I'll ever be, Tobar, you want

624
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:36,560
Speaker 1: to go first, you want me to go first? Why

625
00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:41,440
Speaker 1: don't you go first? Jack? All right? Greatest Lakers player

626
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:44,920
Speaker 1: ever and most underrated Lakers player of your fandom? Cool?

627
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 3: Uh, that's such a hard question. That's like the worst

628
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 3: rapid fire question ever. Okay, greatest Lakers player ever. Oh

629
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:55,600
Speaker 3: my god, it's like painful. I'm gonna go Kobe even

630
00:31:55,640 --> 00:32:00,200
Speaker 3: though Magic Johnson's right there, my favorite Lakers player of

631
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:02,200
Speaker 3: my tenure? Are you joking? Lebron James?

632
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:05,240
Speaker 1: Like what what? And the most underrated Lakers player of

633
00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:05,680
Speaker 1: your fans?

634
00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:13,440
Speaker 3: Underrated? Yeahaviousbe wow, seriously, I still want case b back

635
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:14,960
Speaker 3: championship maker.

636
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:21,640
Speaker 1: That's right. Just underrated by Lakers fans Lebron.

637
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:25,560
Speaker 3: James, by the way, it's true, and I don't really

638
00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:29,280
Speaker 3: identify with the Lakers fandom in that way, so I yeah,

639
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:30,200
Speaker 3: but you're right.

640
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:31,960
Speaker 4: It's not all of us, but there are some of

641
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 4: us that are very off when it comes to being

642
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:37,760
Speaker 4: balanced when it comes to discussing the NBA.

643
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:40,520
Speaker 3: All rightusing the goat keeping it going.

644
00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:43,360
Speaker 4: You said to Jack, all right, who is the most

645
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:50,560
Speaker 4: underrated NBA social media follow up? I mean not currently

646
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:52,360
Speaker 4: on this you know show with you.

647
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:54,840
Speaker 1: Right, obviously the answer would be.

648
00:32:56,440 --> 00:33:00,120
Speaker 3: All three of us underrated. I think Jasmine Watkins. I

649
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:02,600
Speaker 3: don't think she's particularly underrated because, like she does have

650
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:06,160
Speaker 3: a decent amount of followers, but people like other media

651
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:09,400
Speaker 3: companies lift her content and like use her ideas constantly,

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Speaker 3: so just based on like dollars and cents, I feel

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Speaker 3: like she's literally underrated.

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Speaker 1: Following her. So now I'm following her and now she

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Speaker 1: underrated I think two times even. Yeah, yeah, that's one

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Speaker 1: of the best. Well, Claire, what a pleasure having you on?

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Speaker 3: What a pleasure being here semester?

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Speaker 1: Where I got mat Boosti's where can people find you

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Speaker 1: hear you all that good stuff?

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Speaker 3: Well they can find me on Twitter at Claire mpls,

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Speaker 3: c l a iri e m pls or on the

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Speaker 3: Guardian Claire de Loon I write for The Guardian about

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Speaker 3: the NBA, or if you want to hear me sing,

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Speaker 3: you can hear my music. I go buy Tiny Deaths

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Speaker 3: for my musical projects, and that's on wherever you stream music.

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Speaker 1: There you go. Thank you so much for doing it. Jabari,

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Speaker 1: where can they find you at, Jabari Davis NBA. Pretty simple,

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Speaker 1: I'm at Jack Underscore O'Brien and you can look for

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Speaker 1: hashtag mat Boosties or updates on the show. Shout out

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Speaker 1: to listener Gritzy Ross, who is booking doing the booking

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Speaker 1: for us. Reached out to Josh Donovan said please go

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Speaker 1: back on Hashtag mat Boosties. He said absolutely not, that

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Speaker 1: show is amateur. No, he said, I'd go back anytime

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Speaker 1: I had such a good.

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Speaker 3: Human that's ever existed. I'm going to.

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Speaker 2: Let you go, folks.

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Speaker 1: He let him know. We said hi and thank you

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Speaker 1: for doing it. Claire. We are back next week with

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Speaker 1: more mad Boosties and we will talk to you all then.

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Speaker 1: Bye bye