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#52 - Luka’s Lakers Debut, Kendrick’s Diss, Super Bowl Recap · Brandon Fogal Evolution

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  A lot of hot things happening right now. I don't know if you all caught the
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  Luka Doncic. He is now on the Lakers.
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  He had his debut against the Jazz, and it did not disappoint.
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  Are you a fan of the Lakers? Lakers, Celtics, they are polarizing teams, for me at least.
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  My heart has always been with the Celtics ever since I've been an NBA fan.
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  But ultimately, I am a player-driven person, especially in the NBA.
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  You could say I'm a fair-weather hopper of teams because when LeBron came out,
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  I loved LeBron so much when he came out of high school.
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  And I had to switch my favorite team to the Cavs. And I was diehard Cavs.
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  And I loved him so much for so many years. And I felt like my heart was broken
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  too many times, especially when he went down to Miami.
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  And I kind of jumped ship. You know, in that sense, it's because I live in Kansas
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  City and we do not have an NBA team actually where I'm located.
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  So I had to choose a NBA team.
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  So I picked the Boston Celtics because they are my favorite all time player is Larry Bird.
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  So I went with the Boston Celtics when I started loving the NBA,
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  which was probably about in middle school.
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  And but since we don't have a team in Kansas City, it was hard to just completely buy in.
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  So I bounced around a little bit, and I ended up jumping from LeBron to Curry,
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  you know, and there was a few years that the Celtics were awesome,
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  and I stuck with them because they're my tried and true team,
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  but have you seen this Luka Doncic guy?
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  I know he's been actually going for a while, and I looked a little bit of his
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  history, and he started professionally when he was like 13 years old,
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  and he is Slovenian, so So he's from the European League.
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  And so he started with New Madrid or something like that. And he was just a
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  firecracker, a dynamite right from the get-go.
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  And he's got an amazing personality if you've actually saw some of his stuff.
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  He's so interesting and so fun to watch.
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  But him coming to the Lakers, this could be, for me at least,
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  a reuniting of my love for LeBron James because I have definitely fell away from following him.
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  If you're old school or you're new school, you kind of have this debate whether
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  it's Michael Jordan or LeBron James, and I've always landed on Michael Jordan.
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  Even when I love LeBron James, I would say Jordan is the GOAT of all time, but...
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  LeBron was always just so, I felt a connection with him because when he was
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  coming out of high school, I was coming out of high school.
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  So it's like, I can, you know, I could still be playing in the NBA right now,
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  you know, like I could still be playing in the NBA, you know,
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  if I had maybe that length of a LeBron James, you know, and that those hops,
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  but I felt a connection with him because he was in, like, basically my same age.
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  And I don't know what it was.
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  I maybe, in a sense, because I don't have that tie with an NBA team,
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  like, where we live, it's been tough to completely be bought and sold on the NBA.
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  And I've kind of wish-washed and went back and forth. I definitely fell away,
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  you know, when it became so political.
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  But for me this Luka Doncic
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  coming to the to the Lakers it is almost
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  going to spark something make the NBA
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  interesting again because the I'm not
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  alone in this the NBA has not been interesting whatsoever it has not been fun
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  to watch it like it became so political and it became just the teams don't play
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  until April you know everybody checks out it's not like the 90s basketball where every game,
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  Michael Jordan, when he was playing,
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  he thought like, I don't know who's coming to this game, who saved up to bring their kid to this game.
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  So I'm going to give everything I can on every 82 games of the year, every, every game.
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  And like, I don't know if we'll ever see that again, you know,
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  that kind of determination and just like fire from an individual like Michael Jordan.
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  There's only one Michael Jordan, but it's just like the NBA back then was just so old school.
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  It was the school of hard knocks for anybody. But to me, this, this.
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  The Lakers taking on Luka Doncic, which I could feel a coming of my,
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  like he becoming my favorite player.
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  And I know I've bounced around from favorite players.
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  So, so many times, but like from, I don't know about you. Are you driven in sports by the players?
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  At least in some sports NBA is, I mean, to me, maybe it's just because we don't
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  got a team, but I don't know what it is, But I would say I am driven definitely
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  by the sports, like by the actual player themselves.
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  And I want to, I'm going to start getting back into the NBA big time.
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  And the Lakers playing the Jazz was just fire. It was awesome.
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  It did not disappoint whatsoever.
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  Luka came out and there was an immediate connection with my old friend,
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  my old guy, my old pal, LeBron James, coming back.
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  You know, like he never left. he never left I'm
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  the one that kind of like went my own way you know and
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  I I have to I have to announce this it
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  was the the NBA finals and
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  when he was on the heat and it like it was that loss to
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  the Mavericks you know way back when and I was just like I can't
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  take it anymore and I I and I jumped ship
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  and then he went on to win so many after that and became awesome so it's like
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  I drifted away I drifted away from the you know the relationship but but I could
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  come definitely come back with this Luka Doncic coming over and coming on the
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  Lakers because they are going to be awesome for a long time going forward.
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  He is a special player and he's a young player. He's definitely a young player.
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  He's like only 25 years old. And he's so interesting.
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  You got to have personality definitely to drive people to want to come and see you.
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  It can't be just about how awesome you can dunk the
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  ball you know there's got to be storylines and luka
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  donchich could possibly be that could possibly
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  be that and but it's like it's like
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  tearing me in so many different ways you know because i've i haven't
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  wanted to root for the the lakers because of a celtics fan but are you all do
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  you all face these type of conundrums in your lives these dilemmas that you
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  just cannot just you gotta like it's like think these things through you gotta
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  have like process them in your mind and like how am I going to stand on a position,
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  when my favorite team's over here but my favorite player's over here and it's
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  like it's tough it gets tough in other news have you did.
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  I might have to go watch again the halftime show that happened this past Superbowl
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  because the Kendrick, Kendrick Lamar, I, it was kind of in the background.
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  I was paying attention a little bit, but it was not at the forefront of my mind.
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  And I, I didn't think it was, I didn't actually like the halftime show that
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  much, but now just seeing so many, like he has so many, like, I don't know.
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  Secret things like hidden in there and just underneath the surface that he was kind of like,
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  you know, sending out signals it i almost
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  want to go watch it again and see what it was he actually saying
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  and i guess there's there's been i don't know if you all have
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  heard there's been this beef between kendrick lamar
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  and drake i don't know is that another thing
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  you got to pick one or the other do you got to pick kendrick or
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  drake can you like them both is it
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  because to me like this there was something happening
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  in the show that you know you kind of
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  got it from a distance but when you actually kind of zoom in a
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  little bit you can see and if you've seen
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  the videos he did he openly dissed him
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  in the super bowl the highest stage the highest
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  stage you could basically get the highest stage that anyone
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  could all eyes are on him and he openly dissed him you know you could say they're
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  going back and forth for years now and there's a lot to that relationship which
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  is tough to to digest and understand but to do it on that stage you know like
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  but would drake would have done the same thing? Who knows? Who knows?
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  And you should see what he said to him, which is like, it's kind of,
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  it's kind of a little off-putting, maybe just a little accusatory,
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  or I don't know, or just maybe just ruffling some feathers, you know?
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  He didn't, like, he didn't dial it down with what he said. It was definitely...
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  Strong, but subtle, strong, but subtle.
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  So, and I I've had a day to recoup after the loss of my chiefs.
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  And I can actually think a little clearer. I can actually give a stronger,
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  a more lucid point of my, how I understood the game, how I was receiving the game.
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  It was definitely very tough to watch. I don't think going into the fourth quarter,
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  I still had a little bit of hope.
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  I still had a little bit of hope that Mahomes was going to do something Mahomes in.
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  I mean, they were down 34 to nothing, wasn't it?
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  It was something like that. They had eclipsed the mark with Tom Brady.
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  Where his comeback against the Falcons years ago in the Super Bowl.
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  And in that game, I was like, Brady was down.
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  And I seriously said, Brady is going to come back. He's going to come back.
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  And it seemed like there was no chance.
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  And heck, there was like two minutes left in the third quarter.
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  They're down by 25 points.
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  And I felt that he was going to come back. And I was just locked into that game.
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  And he did. And it was incredible.
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  Fast forward to right now with Mahomes. He is a level above Brady in the sense of awareness.
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  He's a level above Brady in awareness. And just his athleticism and his just,
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  I don't even know, his stuff. The stuff that Mahomes has got a little bit better
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  than Brady. You know, I mean, you could say a lot better.
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  Brady, the thing about him, he just had that it factor. Like,
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  it just, he made it happen kind of thing.
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  That, it was just, it was insane with his career.
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  But I was like, Mahomes, he's gonna come back. I still had some hope almost
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  going into the fourth quarter.
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  But it's just, it just, maybe it was just that blind naivete of myself,
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  you know, that I thought like he's going to do something magical. I really believe that.
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  And then also, I mean, so many different storylines happened in the Superbowl.
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  Travis Kelsey, would there have been a proposal? Would there have been a proposal to Taylor Swift?
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  Had he had, they have won? I don't know, but it didn't happen.
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  And the, another thing, Taylor Swift getting booed. I'm going to direct that towards Philly fans.
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  I'm saying, I'm not even going to hint that maybe it was Philly fans.
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  I'm going to say with clarity, with precision, it was the Philly fans.
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  Because you could hear throughout that entire Super Bowl, every play that went for the Chiefs, boo!
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  And every play that went for the Eagles, just cheers, eruption, you know?
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  And so that loud of a noise happening when Taylor Swift went on the Megatron
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  and you see that meme of her looking and it's just like.
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  She doesn't, it's not computing what is happening. I'm a Swifty.
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  I'm, I'm, I've been open and honest about that. I'm a Swift, Swift.
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  I'm a Swifty. I love Taylor Swift. She's, I love her music. I've,
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  and I followed her, you know, I guess I haven't followed her.
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  You know, that kind of sounds a little weird. I've, I've, I've,
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  I've actually wanted to go to Taylor Swift concert, you know,
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  probably for my, for my kids, you know, go let them go.
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  But I've actually wanted to see because she's been always very interesting and
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  she would put on a great show.
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  So she's always been, you know, you can't really, you don't need to argue too much for Taylor Swift.
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  So the argument is how can people boo Taylor Swift?
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  How does that even happen? But it happened. It happened. And I attribute it to the Philly fans.
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  I attribute it or just the haters of the Chiefs.
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  You got your way. The Chiefs have been dethroned. But, you know,
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  there's not a story unless someone, if someone doesn't fall to the bottom and
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  have to grind their way to the top, there's no story.
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  If someone just wins every year and just nonstop every year, there's no story.
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  It becomes boring. It becomes hum-dum rigmarole, you know.
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  But now the Chiefs have got another chip on their shoulder, another chip,
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  you know, as if they didn't need more. but they got it.
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  So it's been a crazy last few days. I'm going to start thinking a little bit
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  clearer now that the chiefs, now that the dust has settled, I can actually move
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  forward a little bit and just get ready for next year.
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  But it's been, it's been crazy bonkers.
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  So we'll leave it at that. Have a wonderful day, everyone. Peace.