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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Favorites, the podcast from the Volume Podcast Network.

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Speaker 1: It's Chad Noman and it is Thursday, so that means

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Speaker 1: it's time to enter the Thursday Thunderdome. On today's show,

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Speaker 1: our special guests will compete alongside my co host, my companion,

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Speaker 1: my BFF, professional sports better Simon Hunter, in an epic

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Speaker 1: test of wagers and wits that's quickly made this show

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Speaker 1: the most valuable sports gambling entertainment property of the Internet age. Simon,

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Speaker 1: I don't even know if I want to hear what

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Speaker 1: you have to say, because I feel like somehow from

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Speaker 1: our Tuesday podcast when you were talking about whoever decides

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Speaker 1: to marry you is going to have won some kind

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Speaker 1: of contest and I am out there preaching about the

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Speaker 1: value of love and respect and good partnership, and somehow

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Speaker 1: I feel like you're gonna tell me that I'm getting

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Speaker 1: ripped for it and you're a hero a little bit.

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Speaker 1: It's uh. I try not to listen back. I do

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Speaker 1: listen to the show during the football season, just to

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Speaker 1: make sure I don't sound like an idiot, but I

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Speaker 1: try not to listen back. And uh, you're right, I

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Speaker 1: said chicks way too many times. In a comfortable amount

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Speaker 1: of times, I would say maybe we have three female listeners,

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Speaker 1: and two of them reached out to me. One of

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Speaker 1: them said she prefers chicks because it makes them feel young.

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Speaker 1: Now she says she doesn't like woman because man's in

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Speaker 1: the word. She thinks girls makes her sound childless. She

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Speaker 1: said she's fine with chicks, and I said, well, meet

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Speaker 1: me halfway. What if I just start referring to him

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Speaker 1: as queens? So from now on, if I talk about

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Speaker 1: my dates, I'll just say me and this queen went

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Speaker 1: on to a date, because I just don't want to

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Speaker 1: hear from people retiring chicks. All right, we're retiring chicks.

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Speaker 1: And I'm excited because I know you are going on

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Speaker 1: a date tonight. We've been We've been tracking your heartbreak

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Speaker 1: on the Favorite podcast, will continue to do that. I

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Speaker 1: know you have a big date with Facebook queen tonight.

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Speaker 1: I'm excited to see how that goes. Today, Simon, you'll

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Speaker 1: face two guests challengers. The first Simon, before you were

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Speaker 1: senior writer at ESPN many years Ago, a senior writer

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Speaker 1: for Sports Illustrated. Before that, Dave and I shared an

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Speaker 1: office at Sports Illustrated, and I think it's safe to

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Speaker 1: say before he was writing best selling books, Before he

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Speaker 1: was the most popular guest on ESPN's Daily podcast, before

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Speaker 1: as a member of the sports media, I was telling

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Speaker 1: him how to write conclusions to his opening paragraphs. That's

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Speaker 1: what I've done for Dave Fleming, and now I've gifted

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Speaker 1: him with an appearance on the Favorites podcast There's Day

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Speaker 1: Thunderdome edition. Hi, Dave, I'm the O g b F.

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Speaker 1: Is that what you're saying you are the O g BFF.

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Speaker 1: I'll take it. I'll take it. And is that what

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Speaker 1: we're competing for? Your BF status? Is that? It is there?

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Speaker 1: Is there really a prize that is more worthy? Oh?

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Speaker 1: I don't know about that. I think you guys, we'll

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty much rooting for Simon, the other guest. It's

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Speaker 1: gonna make it interesting because we do share Chicago roots.

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Speaker 1: He is Chicago native. He is an Action Network NBA expert.

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Speaker 1: He is a valuable member of our news team, a

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Speaker 1: man who once said Zach Levine is my religion. He

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Speaker 1: smiles like he's never made a bet on the Minnesota Timberwolves,

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Speaker 1: which I know is a lie. Mr Michael Walton, How

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Speaker 1: you doing, Michael? I am doing great. Chat. It is

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Speaker 1: an honor to be on as the new kid on

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Speaker 1: the block. I gotta say, your friendship, that's a pretty

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Speaker 1: I'm not doing not doing great right now, but I'm

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Speaker 1: glad to be on. I really appreciate it. You do

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Speaker 1: have a tremendous amount to overcome. Dave and I go

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Speaker 1: North Carolina. Here, chick, here's how the game has played today.

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Speaker 1: You'll answer two kinds of questions. First, traditional trivia questions

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Speaker 1: you can't get him. All Right, let's begin, Dave, this

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Speaker 1: should be right up your alley. Because you have been

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Speaker 1: headlines this week, Michael. Yesterday, the NFL rolled out a

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately for him, a civil jury found him liable for

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Speaker 1: thinking Earl Campbeler Barry Sanders. But I'm gonna go O. J. Simpson.

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Speaker 1: That was such good delivery, because I swear to God,

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Speaker 1: This guy doesn't actually know like Earl Campbell, who can

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Speaker 1: That is the right answer, you Kobe Bryant. His name

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Speaker 1: is Kobe Bryant. Simon Seahawks wide out DK Metcalf computed

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Speaker 1: Simon Hunter. Why am I on a sports show and

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Speaker 1: I all I do is no sports and you're giving

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Speaker 1: Here's your prompts, Fellas Seahawks wide out DK metcalf is

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Speaker 1: a physical specimen at the top of his profession, just

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Speaker 1: like you. Three. Dave also also wrestled in college, but

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Speaker 1: For example, if hand modeling was introduced as a summer event,

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Speaker 1: I've captured the men's gold with zero effort. Simon your

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Speaker 1: able to beat because I don't think I can beat

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Speaker 1: any real pro athletes. I don't think I'm gonna get

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Speaker 1: enough shape, so I have to take it where I

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Speaker 1: can get it. And uh, I has purchased that one

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Speaker 1: way to get the help for answering this question. Oh

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Speaker 1: my god, uh karate kick you in the face. I

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Speaker 1: gotta give it to Michael again. He's like dominating right now.

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Speaker 1: I honestly feel like I should give half of the

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Speaker 1: point to Simon, Like he went out on a limb. There.

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Speaker 1: That's a that's a spicy answer, but I do. I'll

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Speaker 1: take the point, but I just I want to give

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Speaker 1: some props to Signmon. I was like, WHOA, that's I

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Speaker 1: didn't think about that. That's a good one. That's good.

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Speaker 1: I'm dark. I'm dark. He's in he's in a bad place,

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Speaker 1: all right. Right Now, here's the score. Dave, you have

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Speaker 1: one point, Michael, you have five points. Simon you have

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Speaker 1: three points. Well done, Part three. Here we go. You're

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Speaker 1: in it to win it. You're in the one and

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Speaker 1: forty six running of the Preaknesses this weekend. But people

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Speaker 1: are talking about the second leg of the Triple Crown

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Speaker 1: for all the wrong reasons after a failed Kentucky Derby

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Speaker 1: drug test has gamblers and racing fans fuming. But before

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Speaker 1: we dive into that, let's remember some of the most

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Speaker 1: memorable drug tests in sports history. Michael. In two thousand seventeen,

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Speaker 1: Jets wide receiver Jeremy Curly received a four game suspension

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Speaker 1: for performance enhancing drugs. Curly denied knowingly taking any substance

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Speaker 1: and then blamed it on ghosts, saying there are a

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Speaker 1: lot of ghosts around here. Ghosts put it in there,

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Speaker 1: you know, the ghost of Christmas past, along with Ebenezer Scrooge,

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Speaker 1: the Ghost of Christmas Past, is a character in this

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Speaker 1: beloved eighteen forty three Charles Dickens book, which has been

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Speaker 1: adapted into several holiday films of the same name. What

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Speaker 1: is the book? Oh wow? This is the first one

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Speaker 1: where I'm like, all right, I'm just gonna think and

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Speaker 1: fire one out because I feel like I do know this,

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Speaker 1: but off the top I don't. So is it a

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Speaker 1: Christmas story? So close? A Christmas Carol? Christmas Story? One

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Speaker 1: of the most legendary films are from Mine and Dave Generation,

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Speaker 1: in which a young boy gets his tongue stuck on

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Speaker 1: a frozen pole, not quite Dickenzie in but also not

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Speaker 1: written by Earl Campbell Dave. In two thousand and ten,

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Speaker 1: Olympic gold medalist Leshawn Merritt avoided a career threatening suspension

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Speaker 1: by approving his failed drug test came from Extends, a

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Speaker 1: sexual enhancement pill he purchased from a seven eleven near

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Speaker 1: his house before Extends paid six million to settle a

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Speaker 1: false advertisement lawsuit. Their most famous pitchman had been this

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Speaker 1: famous football coach, known for winning a Super Bowl in

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Speaker 1: Dallas and the National Championship in Miami based on the

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Speaker 1: product that he was endorsing, the appropriately named Jimmy Johnson.

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Speaker 1: I'm Jimmy Johnson and I recently became the spokesperson for Extends,

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Speaker 1: the number one million enhancement tablet. Most men want to

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Speaker 1: perform the best they can and just about everything. Isn't

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Speaker 1: that why we buy the biggest and best of everything.

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Speaker 1: I say, go along with Extance. Do wow? Nice piece

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Speaker 1: of a double Simon. In two thousand nine, Frenchman Richard

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Speaker 1: Gaskett famously and maybe it's guess Gay, famously avoided a

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Speaker 1: two year suspension after convincing an independent anti doping tribunal

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Speaker 1: the trace amount of cocaine in his system was from

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Speaker 1: the mouth of a girl he made out with at

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Speaker 1: a concert the previous evening after he'd withdrawn from an

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Speaker 1: injury in the Sony ericson Open in this sport open?

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Speaker 1: Uh so either tennis or golf. I'll go tennis, correct?

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Speaker 1: That is one I wish I had used back in

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Speaker 1: the day. All right, Part three? You have to kiss

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Speaker 1: a girl first, Chad to make it legitimate. Oh see,

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Speaker 1: So glad we invited Dave on this podcast. Here we go.

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Speaker 1: Here's your prompt in defense of his horse Medina Spirit.

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Speaker 1: Bob Efford said the Kentucky Derby winners failed drug desk

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Speaker 1: could be you to eating hay soaked with incriminating urine

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Speaker 1: from another horse. In the colorful history of failed drug tests,

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Speaker 1: it's one of the most original and inspiring excuses of

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Speaker 1: all time. Now imagine you failed the drug test due

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Speaker 1: to a banned substance of your choosing. Please give me

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Speaker 1: your most original, outlandish, and at least quasi plausible excuse

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Speaker 1: for the failed test and clear your good name, Michael

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Speaker 1: your first I will just say, on a random note,

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Speaker 1: I do want to give a shout out to Bob

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Speaker 1: Bafford for giving me more interest in horse racing than

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Speaker 1: I've ever had in my adult life. So I do

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Speaker 1: appreciate that we always need a super villain. The best

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Speaker 1: I could think of is, I'm a huge caffeine guy,

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Speaker 1: huge caffeine addict. I want to be amped in preparation

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Speaker 1: for the charge competition. In my big fight with NBA

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Speaker 1: rookie Alexei Polkaschewski um so, I probably would be pounding

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Speaker 1: a ton of red bull um And in that case,

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Speaker 1: While my doctor does recommend that I get more serious

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Speaker 1: as I get older about read labels, um, it isn't

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Speaker 1: something I do. So when I do test positive, you know,

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Speaker 1: which is inevitable, it will be because Red Bull's new flavor.

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Speaker 1: So I'd be like, you know, that's something you've got

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Speaker 1: to take up with Dietrich, Mata ships and Coca Cola.

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Speaker 1: And if you nullify, you know, my test results, you're

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Speaker 1: insulting Red Bull, one of our biggest sponsors, along with,

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Speaker 1: you know, the the Grace of the Olympics. So I

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Speaker 1: would definitely just go with the my energy drink and

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Speaker 1: my trainer gave me an unknown supplement. Excuse you, guys,

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Speaker 1: I gotta say, even though he just said in his

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Speaker 1: entire adult life and he's basically been an adult for

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Speaker 1: about ten minutes, Michael is bringing some serious, serious creativity.

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Speaker 1: A little worried about how much he's living in his head,

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Speaker 1: but for this game, it's incredibly valuable. Simon, you're up next.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna see listen from someone actually know. Basically, people

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Speaker 1: buy shampoo that is supposed to help them read like

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Speaker 1: grow hair and get thicker hair, and there are some

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Speaker 1: steroids in it, so he took He used it knowing

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Speaker 1: that if he popped the test in college for sports,

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Speaker 1: he could just show that it was because of the shampoo,

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Speaker 1: not because he was actually juicing. So it actually worked.

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Speaker 1: He got away with it for two different years in college,

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Speaker 1: flaming his shampoo anytime you'd fail a test. Wow, that's

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Speaker 1: pretty good too, and that's like practical real world advice.

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Speaker 1: All right, Dave, Mr Funning, we've been informed that you

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Speaker 1: have tested positive for cocaine, mushrooms, viagra, propecia, and steroids.

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Speaker 1: How do you plead? Look, man, I was at the

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Speaker 1: corporate party. Simon brought some funnel cakes. I just ate

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Speaker 1: one funnel cake app but I didn't check to see

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Speaker 1: what was in it. So it's not my fault. Dave wins.

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Speaker 1: It's just too good because I swear to God, I

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Speaker 1: feel like I've had that conversation with him before, so

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Speaker 1: it totally feels like something that he should get points for. Um,

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Speaker 1: here we go. We are heading into the final round.

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Speaker 1: Michael Walton probably deserves to win the last round, but

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Speaker 1: he didn't. He's got five points. Simon, you've got four points,

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Speaker 1: Dave Grand grand Entry. At the end, you've got three points.

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Speaker 1: So the topic for the final round the hunter versus

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Speaker 1: the hunted. First, you each have to say how much

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Speaker 1: you want to risk. So first, close your eyes, hold

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Speaker 1: up your fingers with your wager amount. Okay. As the

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Speaker 1: NBA Playoffs play and tournament looms, the Golden State Warriors

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Speaker 1: are in an unfamiliar position. They're no longer the class

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Speaker 1: of the NBA and instead will be a plucky under dug.

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Speaker 1: As Draymond Green puts it, we were the hunters, then

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Speaker 1: we turned into the hunted, and now we're hunting again.

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Speaker 1: But fourteen years ago, the Warriors proved their skill as

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Speaker 1: big game hunters. In the two thousand seven playoffs. They

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Speaker 1: shot the basketball world by taking down the top seed

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Speaker 1: of Dallas Mavericks, one of only three eight seeds ever

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Speaker 1: to do so. The two thousand seven Warriors team was

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Speaker 1: led by Baron Davis and Monte Ellis and was coached

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Speaker 1: by the beloved Don Nelson. Their general manager was a

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Speaker 1: Brooklyn native and five time NBA All Star. Within five

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Speaker 1: years of this upset, the Warriors wouldn't renew his contract

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Speaker 1: as GM, he'd be inducted into the NBA Hall of Fame,

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Speaker 1: and then the Warriors would retire his jersey number. Who

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Speaker 1: was the GM of the two thousand seven Golden State Warriors,

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Speaker 1: Dave Fleming. Your first good thing. I didn't wager all

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Speaker 1: my points, no idea, no idea. How many points did

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Speaker 1: you wager? All three? All three points on no idea?

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Speaker 1: So you are down to zero? Well, the good news

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Speaker 1: is I guarantee you Simon Hunter doesn't know the answer,

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Speaker 1: and he also waged all of his points. I'm at

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Speaker 1: zero points. I I I said, Jerry West, but I

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Speaker 1: know that's the wrong answer. It is the wrong answer. Michael,

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Speaker 1: you probably deserve to win the game. Trying to be

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Speaker 1: a little conservative, I don't think I did all my points. Now,

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Speaker 1: if this is your chance, if you even if you

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Speaker 1: got it wrong and you didn't bet all your points,

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Speaker 1: you win the game. How many points did you wager?

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Speaker 1: So I waged nose two points, two points? And your

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Speaker 1: answer is al adults, wasn't my best guess? You guys

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Speaker 1: are all terrible. It's Chris Mullen. Chris Mullen, dream teamer,

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Speaker 1: like one of the greatest college players ever. The funniest

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Speaker 1: thing is it was right there in my face. And

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Speaker 1: I think of him as a Saint John, like former St.

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Speaker 1: John's basketball coach, so it didn't even cross my mind.

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Speaker 1: You know, I was like, really, I forgot about that. Well, listen,

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Speaker 1: Michael Walton, the youngest of the crew, the most creative

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Speaker 1: of the crew. You brought so much thinking to the game.

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Speaker 1: You really went deep. We're gonna have to talk about

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Speaker 1: how you're spending your time. Uh, you are the winner

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Speaker 1: of the Thursday thunder Domes. I appreciate it. I would

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Speaker 1: like to give this time to just quick shout out

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Speaker 1: to Patrick Williams. Uh, humble kid. Anyone who in their

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Speaker 1: rookie year in the league can navigate a jersey number

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Speaker 1: change gracefully as he did, I gotta give them a

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Speaker 1: shout out. So Dave Fleming, you are a class act, buddy.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for coming on our podcast. My pleasure, and next time,

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Speaker 1: maybe give me eight minutes to prepare. We had a

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Speaker 1: guest blow us off. I called Dave about fifteen minutes

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Speaker 1: before the podcast started and said, I'm looking for someone

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Speaker 1: charming and funny and quick witted, and everyone else is booked.

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Speaker 1: Can you come on the podcast? You know what I'm

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Speaker 1: so mad, I'm gonna go look for a soccer team

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Speaker 1: to beat up. Meanwhile, Simon is probably just gonna go

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Speaker 1: drown his sorrows and funnel cake. Simon Hunter, We're wishing

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Speaker 1: you the best on your date tonight. Before we go,

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Speaker 1: here's a word from our fearless leader, Action Network CEO,

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Speaker 1: Patrick Keene. It's so hard for me to sit back

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Speaker 1: here looking at a guy on here, how on Monday,

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Speaker 1: when last year I spent more money on spill liquor

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Speaker 1: and far from one side of this world to the

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Speaker 1: other than you made. You talking to the wheel and

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Speaker 1: dealing lets in jet flag siddle a gun, and I'm

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Speaker 1: running a hard time hold these alligat shock. All right,

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Speaker 1: this has been the favorites from the Volume podcast Network.

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Speaker 1: My thanks to our guests. ESPN is David Fleming, Michael

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Speaker 1: Walton of the Action Network, Simon Hunter my BFF. As

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Speaker 1: a reminder, the Volume is now on YouTube. We've got

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