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Speaker 1: Sar Lee, to begin the week, we have survived another weekend.
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Speaker 1: We have made it through yet another weekend, and here
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Speaker 1: we are back at it again. So we will save
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Speaker 1: the MEGAMEGAMEGA Mega money that was handed out late in
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Speaker 1: the night on Sunday into Monday to a certain professional athlete.
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Speaker 1: We'll save that for the B block. But we begin
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Speaker 1: with the big story of the weekend, which we'll continue
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Speaker 1: and conclude on Monday night. Our lead from yes, the
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Speaker 1: rare inappropriate college basketball world. That's right, the Final Four
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Speaker 1: played over the weekend and there were two games. So
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Speaker 1: you see there's four teams and then there's two games,
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Speaker 1: and then it leads to one game which is on
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Speaker 1: Monday night. But Walter Clayton Junior thirty four points and
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Speaker 1: he had five three pointers. That's a lot, right, that's
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Speaker 1: five three pointers. So you know, I played very well,
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Speaker 1: and at halftime it seemed like Auburn was doing pretty well.
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Speaker 1: Seemed like Auburn was in pretty pretty good shape in
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Speaker 1: the first half. And then they had to play the
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Speaker 1: second half and Florida rallied from that early devasit and
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Speaker 1: they beat their Southeastern Conference rival. So down goes Auburn.
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Speaker 1: And then you had Houston, a team that was not
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Speaker 1: built to come back, right, it was not built to
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Speaker 1: come back. Houston, a team built on defense, and the
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Speaker 1: defense wiping away fourteen point deficit, down fourteen and then
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Speaker 1: they come back final eight minutes of the late game
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Speaker 1: on Saturday. There and Cooper Flagg, who's projected to be
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Speaker 1: the top player in the NBA eyes and all that,
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Speaker 1: and the Blue Devils they choked. There's no other way
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Speaker 1: I say it. They gagged, they suffocated. Duke choked. Embarrassing,
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Speaker 1: absolutely embarrassing. That's the story and the downfall of Duke.
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Speaker 1: The fact that the Blue Devils somehow managed to go
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Speaker 1: with one field goal over the final ten and a
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Speaker 1: half minutes of the game, which seeming is impossible. You're
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Speaker 1: a number one seed and you have ten and a
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Speaker 1: half minutes with one field goal. They ended up one
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Speaker 1: of nine from the floor down the stretch. Now, they
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Speaker 1: did have some foul shots that they made and whatnot,
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Speaker 1: but of nine, one of nine. All right, So let
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Speaker 1: us discuss the question is as follows. So does the
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Speaker 1: Duke loss choke if you will overshadow the Houston comeback
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Speaker 1: in the game that was played there, the late game
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Speaker 1: in the Final four. So I've got purple suit, Aroma,
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Speaker 1: and Minecraft, and we will combine all of these things
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Speaker 1: together and we will make a nice tropical vacation, which
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Speaker 1: is what Duke can go on right now, a nice
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Speaker 1: tropical vacation. So to answer the question, listen, I'm nodding
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Speaker 1: my head. Yes, you can't see me unless you're watching
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Speaker 1: the clip on the on the YouTube, but I'm nodding
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Speaker 1: my head. Yes, absolutely right. That the better story is
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Speaker 1: in the losing locker room. As we've often said, the
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Speaker 1: Blue Devils b l e w di it. They blew it.
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Speaker 1: They blew it. Wow, they were favored. They had a
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Speaker 1: seemingly insert mountable lead. He said, well it's only fourteen points.
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Speaker 1: Well again, everything about Houston was they're not very good offensively,
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Speaker 1: and if they have to play from behind, they're gonna
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Speaker 1: get porked. They're not going to be able to come back.
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Speaker 1: And so you look at all that and say, well, okay,
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Speaker 1: that's why they play the ga that's why they play
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Speaker 1: the games. Right, that's what has happened. Doesn't guarantee that's
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Speaker 1: going to continue. It happened. The Cougar's not built, not
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Speaker 1: built for coming back, right, not built for coming back
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Speaker 1: and all that an offensively challenged squad, and certainly they
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Speaker 1: weren't aesthetically pleasing. Even in that stretch where Duke only
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Speaker 1: made one particular field goal. They weren't cooked, you know,
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Speaker 1: they fell behind, they were not cooked because Duke said,
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Speaker 1: anything you can do, we can do better, and we
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Speaker 1: will suck more than you. And that's why they play
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Speaker 1: the games. That's why at any given Final four Saturday,
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Speaker 1: all right now, page two, how much will what happened
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Speaker 1: in the final seconds of that game, the Duke game,
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Speaker 1: how much of that will the struggles I'm talking about
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Speaker 1: the struggles of Cooper Flag. How much of the struggles
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Speaker 1: of Cooper Flag down the stretch will impact his NBA
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Speaker 1: future because that's really what this is about, right, And
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Speaker 1: you know you're kind of into college basketball, but you're
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Speaker 1: really not that into it, right. So the question is
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Speaker 1: he was not good down the stretch. He had a
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Speaker 1: big second half, but in the final seconds, final minutes,
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Speaker 1: he was not mister big if you will here. So
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Speaker 1: the question is what kind of impact will that have
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Speaker 1: on Cooper Flag's NBA future. So it's an odd situation.
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Speaker 1: I think we're gonna agree it's a very odd situation.
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Speaker 1: The reason it is an odd situation is because all
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Speaker 1: the hype and yet the numbers were solid Cooper Flag.
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Speaker 1: If you look at the numbers and you didn't watch
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Speaker 1: the game and the content of when those numbers came,
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Speaker 1: he'd say, well, why why even mentioning this? I don't
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Speaker 1: I don't understand why you even bring this up. What
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Speaker 1: are you dumb? I read the box score. I looked
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Speaker 1: at the box score on my phone. I know what's
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Speaker 1: going on, you moron. And in the second half, Cooper
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Speaker 1: Flag had nineteen points. I think Duke as a team
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Speaker 1: had like thirty three or something like that in this
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Speaker 1: aff so they had more than half of their points
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Speaker 1: in the second half. He had three rebounds, a couple
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Speaker 1: of assists, he had a steal, he had a block,
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Speaker 1: all of those things, had all of those things. Was
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Speaker 1: five of eleven from the floors, perfect from the foul
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Speaker 1: line in the final twenty minutes of the game. So
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Speaker 1: you're like, Okay, there's no gripe, there's nothing, there's no
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Speaker 1: there there. You can't really complain about that. But he
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Speaker 1: is mister everything you've told me. He's mister everything. He's
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Speaker 1: the next prodigy in basketball. And Duke's offense was the
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Speaker 1: ice machine, right, it was the ice machine, ice cold,
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Speaker 1: just unmade basket in the final ten minutes and thirty
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Speaker 1: one seconds. And it wasn't like every shot was locked
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Speaker 1: down by Houston. There were some very makeable baskets that
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Speaker 1: were not made in that stretch. But that last shot
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Speaker 1: by Cooper Flag if you saw the game or heard it,
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Speaker 1: if you're blind, you know what I'm talking about there,
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Speaker 1: that turnaround jumper with eight seconds left, and on that shot,
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Speaker 1: I literally watched it and I was a buddy and
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Speaker 1: myn we were watching the game. We lost both bets,
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Speaker 1: but we were watching the game and watching that and
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Speaker 1: it was like, hey, I can see the vomit comet
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Speaker 1: Cooper Flag is in the vomit comet on that shot
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Speaker 1: way short right, not an airball, but did not have enough,
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Speaker 1: did not have enough to get there. Now in terms
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Speaker 1: of the NBA future and the damage to Cooper Flag,
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Speaker 1: looking at that part of it as the NBA draft
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Speaker 1: will be here before you know it in the summertime.
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Speaker 1: So as a batman's nemesis, the guy that wears the
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Speaker 1: purple suit with the green vest, notice the joker would
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Speaker 1: say in terms of the impact on Cooper Flag, that
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Speaker 1: would be what zero, That would be zip zilch nada,
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Speaker 1: as in no big deal because you've got teams right
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Speaker 1: now like the Utah Jazz and the Washington Wizards and
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Speaker 1: the Charlotte Hornets who are trying to outsuck each other.
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Speaker 1: They're like, I can suck more than you. I am
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Speaker 1: the king of all suck, and it's a suck battle
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Speaker 1: to get that number one. And they don't even guarantee
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Speaker 1: it because of the lottery, and according to Lebron James,
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Speaker 1: it's all rigged anyway. So there's no team in Maine
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Speaker 1: for Cooper Flag to go to. They don't have an
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Speaker 1: NBA team, So like, what's the greater story Cooper Flag
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Speaker 1: goes out to Utah and saves the Morbon Jazz or
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Speaker 1: where the Hornets. I mean, that's a that's a bad
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Speaker 1: looking team also so but it's a race to get
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Speaker 1: lottery balls to draft this guy in the fact that
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Speaker 1: he missed a shot that you would think you could make.
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Speaker 1: If your God's gift to basketball does not take away
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Speaker 1: from the NBA. It does though, there is a little
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Speaker 1: bit here despite the marketing build up with Cooper Flag,
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Speaker 1: there's a little something where you down the line, you're like, well,
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Speaker 1: if he keeps missing shots in pressure situations, this will
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Speaker 1: stack on top of that like hotcakes. You'll put it
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Speaker 1: on top there the vanishing act. For now, it's a
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Speaker 1: one off. For now, it's a one off. But if
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Speaker 1: you do it again when you get in the NBA,
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Speaker 1: and this becomes a thing where he's like, well, remember
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Speaker 1: back in college he missed that shot at the end
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Speaker 1: there for Duke, and so that's an issue. Now meanwhile
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Speaker 1: you have the Duke coach John Shire. Now he took
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Speaker 1: the blame. That's coaching one old run. He took the
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Speaker 1: blame for Duke's collapse there for the fact that they
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Speaker 1: completely fell off the table I mean that was a
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Speaker 1: fall off job. Here. In fact, we have a little
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Speaker 1: but I believe we have some audio here. Here's John Shire,
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Speaker 1: the Duke coach, commenting from the Final four game over
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Speaker 1: the weekend. Here on what went wrong? Take a listen.
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Speaker 3: Well, it's hard to process still wind. You know, I
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Speaker 3: thought our guys did an incredible job the whole game.
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Speaker 1: Oh they didn't.
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Speaker 3: And you know, I thought we had some good looks.
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Speaker 3: What didn't finish? You have to give Houston a ton
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Speaker 3: of credit. And then still even with that, you know
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Speaker 3: we have the lead, you know, with under a minute ago,
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Speaker 3: and I couldn't be more proud. I'm not. I'm not
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Speaker 3: about to hang our head. I mean, this is part
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Speaker 3: of it. You got to you gotta handle the wins
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Speaker 3: and you got to handle the losses too. And in
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Speaker 3: a moment like this, you know we're this close, and
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Speaker 3: you know we felt we were the best team. The
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Speaker 3: best team tonight was Houston.
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Speaker 1: So your team went ten minutes and thirty seconds without
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Speaker 1: a with one field one field, and you thought you
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Speaker 1: played well. Okay, I guess I'm in a different dimension.
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Speaker 1: Here's one more. This is the money quote. Here, here's
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Speaker 1: the coach of Duke john Shire commenting on the fact
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Speaker 1: that he screwed up. He's a bad coach. He fed
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Speaker 1: up and he's terrible.
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Speaker 3: I feel we were one of one in terms of
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Speaker 3: the way we put this thing together. It's been a
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Speaker 3: magical ride. We believe with everything we had we were
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Speaker 3: gonna win a championship here, and so I'm just I
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Speaker 3: feel for them because they're competitive and they're going to
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Speaker 3: think about plays. I didn't help them enough, and that's
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Speaker 3: that's where my mind goes. And I couldn't be more
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Speaker 3: proud of them, though, you got it, this is part
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Speaker 3: of it. This is part of it. Unfortunately, you know,
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Speaker 3: we haven't been in a lot of those games, and
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Speaker 3: we've watched a lot of game situations and practiced, and
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Speaker 3: that's where I wish I could have helped them more.
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Speaker 1: All Right, So he's that's classic, Hey, blame me, I'm
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Speaker 1: the guy, he's my fault. Blah blah blah blah blah.
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Speaker 1: You're supposed to do that out of the coaching handbook.
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Speaker 1: I guess coach k left that behind. You're supposed to
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Speaker 1: do that. He did that, So do you blame play
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Speaker 1: the blame game? You got John Shier over here. You
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Speaker 1: got Cooper flag like he's right here. You got Cooper
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Speaker 1: flag right here. And then I keep I got some
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Speaker 1: feedback in the email from like the Duke fan. It's
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Speaker 1: bad luck, man, we got hosed by the referees. Bad luck. Okay,
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Speaker 1: So all of those three options playing the blame game,
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Speaker 1: you got the coach, you got the star player, or
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Speaker 1: just bad luck. So I'm going to eliminate bad luck.
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Speaker 1: Did they get hosed a on a call that should
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Speaker 1: not have been made? A foul call in Cooper flag, Yes,
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Speaker 1: But the reason I'm not going to use that as
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Speaker 1: an alibi for Duke. It should have never been in
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Speaker 1: a position the game should not have been a one
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Speaker 1: possession game at that point where a referees call impacts
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Speaker 1: the outcome of the game. Does a bad job by you?
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Speaker 1: You f't up, you screwed up, screw you right. You
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Speaker 1: should not have been in that position. And while Cooper
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Speaker 1: Flagg is the headliner, and as we mentioned, he's going
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Speaker 1: to run off to the NBA and we'll maybe never
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Speaker 1: hear of him again if he plays with Charlotte Hornets
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Speaker 1: of the Utah Jazz, but that punching aroma, that nice pung,
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Speaker 1: it it's like a cloud of sulfur if you will,
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Speaker 1: is going to follow John Shire around, cause this is
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Speaker 1: supposed to be the forever. Get right, you get the
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Speaker 1: Duke job, You're supposed to have that job for a
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Speaker 1: long time. That's a legacy job. That's a long term job.
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Speaker 1: That's not a temporary job where you run off to
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Speaker 1: the NBA. You're supposed to be there. It's one of
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Speaker 1: the we're told it's one of the great jobs in
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Speaker 1: college basketball, and you paid a lot of money and
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Speaker 1: you're in the spotlight and all that stuff, and so
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Speaker 1: flag he goes out to the NBA and he'll make
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Speaker 1: a king's ransom and endorsements and all that stuff, and
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Speaker 1: it'll be just a footnote this game. Again, as we said,
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Speaker 1: it'll be a footnote unless he continues to do this
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Speaker 1: in the NBA losing missing shots at the end of games,
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Speaker 1: and then it circles back. For now, it's an insignificant mention.
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Speaker 1: It is a minor detail. But for John Shire, the
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Speaker 1: coach at Duke, following coach k unacceptable and it's one
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Speaker 1: of those things where he's like, Okay, it's gonna shadow
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Speaker 1: by him like Poltergeist. If Duke does not win in
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Speaker 1: the near futures, Well, what about you had you had
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Speaker 1: the top player in the draft. This guy got two
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Speaker 1: lottery picks on that Duke team and all that. So
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Speaker 1: until they win the championship, it's gonna kind of follow
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Speaker 1: him around there. And then the good news is at Duke,
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Speaker 1: you've got a lot of nil money. You've got the
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Speaker 1: bright lights, the spotlight and all that. A weaponized roster.
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Speaker 1: Whoever liked to top all Americans in high school, if
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Speaker 1: they want to want the bag and the nice aura,
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Speaker 1: they would go to do it. It's all about the bag.
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Speaker 1: They might go somewhere.
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Speaker 1: If you are a fan of men's college basketball, n
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Speaker 1: DA DA DA good by, season's off. Start stick a
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Speaker 1: fork and it ended leave this hour from the Alamo.
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Speaker 1: I assume you watch this game, but maybe not. The
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Speaker 1: curtain coming down on another season there in San Antonio,
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Speaker 1: and it was not nut cutting time, it was net
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Speaker 1: cutting time. Well it was actually nut cutting time and
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Speaker 1: didn't work out well for one of the schools involved.
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Speaker 1: In this so if you didn't see it, it came
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Speaker 1: down to the bitter end, Florida's Walter Clayton Junior, rising
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Speaker 1: from the ashes a scoreless first half, put up the
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Speaker 1: old goosegg in the first half, and Florida overcoming a
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Speaker 1: deficit there against Houston and they win by the hair
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Speaker 1: on their chinny chin chin as they get a sixty
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Speaker 1: five to sixty three win in the NCAA Men's title game,
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Speaker 1: decided by Clayton, who did not make a basket in
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Speaker 1: the first half, but he was being credited with a
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Speaker 1: defensive play there at the end, stopping what would have
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Speaker 1: been a game winning attempt. They didn't even get shot
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Speaker 1: off Houston, and so down goes Houston. Clayton finished with
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Speaker 1: only eleven points. He was just three of ten shooting
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Speaker 1: from the floor for Florida, but it did not matter,
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Speaker 1: and that defensive play is what you'll likely remember if
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Speaker 1: you remember this game at all. And if you remember
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Speaker 1: this game, you likely either went to the University of
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Speaker 1: Florida or have a relative that went to the University
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Speaker 1: of Florida, you live in Florida. Other than that, probably not,
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Speaker 1: probably not. And Clayton the most outstanding player, the NCAA
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Speaker 1: Tournament most Outstanding Player, So he picks up the hardware.
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Speaker 1: Congratulations to Florida. They win another national championship, first time,
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Speaker 1: just the Billy Donovan days long long ago, and they
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Speaker 1: will be serenaded and have their ass kissed. Congratulations on that.
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Speaker 1: They can do the gator trump. I saw him. They
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Speaker 1: were doing the gator trump. I have seen the gator
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Speaker 1: chomps since what like Tim Tebow's days, It seemed like
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Speaker 1: been a while. So they were doing the gator chop.
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Speaker 1: They had the orange and the blue confetti coming down
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Speaker 1: there and celebration, celebration. But for our purposes, you know
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Speaker 1: where I'm going with this, Yeah, the better story is
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Speaker 1: in the losing locker room, and so that is where
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Speaker 1: we were going to focus our attention here. And let
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Speaker 1: us discuss the question for the esteem panel, which you
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Speaker 1: are part of. How much of this loss falls on
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Speaker 1: the shoulders of Houston coach Kelvin Sampson. That was one
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Speaker 1: of the storylines coming in the grizzle. The lifetime basketball coach,
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Speaker 1: he'd seen and done everything, and this was his moment
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Speaker 1: to win the championship. Calvin Sampson and run off into
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Speaker 1: the sunset and celebrate. So instead of that, how much
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Speaker 1: of the loss falls on his shoulders? So I've got
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Speaker 1: Brett Michaels, Shakespearean and duffel Bag and we will combine
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Speaker 1: all of these things together and we will go on
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Speaker 1: the power play, power play, power Because it did seem
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Speaker 1: like the Florida Gators when they put on the after burners,
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Speaker 1: they were on the power play. But that is not
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Speaker 1: that is not the question. The question was how much
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Speaker 1: of this lost falls on the shoulders of Kelvin Sampson
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Speaker 1: and the entire game. It looked like we could start
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Speaker 1: the show by saying the Cougars are coming. The Cougars
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Speaker 1: are coming, right that famous Fox Sports radio commercial from
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Speaker 1: years ago, And right when you had thought it was
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Speaker 1: the turning point, they took a nap. They took a
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Speaker 1: nice snooze. The Houston Cougars. They took a snooze. Houston
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Speaker 1: led by twelve points in the second not twelve is
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Speaker 1: not a lot, but the ineptitude of men's college basketball,
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Speaker 1: the absolute incompetence of how these people play the game.
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Speaker 1: You would think twelve points should be enough, but it
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Speaker 1: really was the story of the tournament. Auburn had a
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Speaker 1: decent lead in their game on Saturday, they blew it, right,
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Speaker 1: They blewed it against Florida. The Duke Blue Devils had
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Speaker 1: a sizeable lead against Houston. They blew it in that game.
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Speaker 1: And then it's just the theme in San Antonio as
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Speaker 1: Houston also seemingly with that lockdown, the defense had the
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Speaker 1: game in control, and it obviously did not work out
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Speaker 1: quite that way. But here's the deal, right, So Houston,
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Speaker 1: now the school's never won a men's basketball championship, and
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Speaker 1: this team ends up taking a position behind the famous
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Speaker 1: five Slamma Jama teams of the nineteen eighties as a bride'smaid,
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Speaker 1: unable to get it done. But the buck does stop
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Speaker 1: with Kelvin Sampson. Right now. The players are the ones
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Speaker 1: that fetched around on the court. But the college game is, say,
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Speaker 1: the coach is the one that's supposed to draw up
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Speaker 1: the brilliant play. It wasn't a Healter Skelter play. You
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Speaker 1: had time to design something and you could not even
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Speaker 1: get a shot up. That is a cardinal sin. And
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Speaker 1: you can like Kelvin Sampson. You can praise Kelvin Sampson,
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Speaker 1: you can celebrate Kelvin Sampson, but you got to get
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Speaker 1: a shot attempt up. You gotta get a shot. Is
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Speaker 1: that too much to ask? Is that too much to ask?
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Speaker 1: And it's in some ways it is symbolic that the
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Speaker 1: men's basketball tournament ends up like this because Kelvin Samson
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Speaker 1: at the end, he's getting up there, sixty nine. So
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Speaker 1: Kelvin Samson at the end of the game, he's standing
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Speaker 1: on the sidelines and he's gotten to paint the picture
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Speaker 1: for you if you're blind. So he's got his hands
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Speaker 1: on his hips. He's motionless, right, there's no movement there,
20:17
Speaker 1: and he's got this blank, dazed and confused look on
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Speaker 1: his face like he's trying to figure out the time
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Speaker 1: space continuum. And that moment right there, that was symbolic
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Speaker 1: because his team was motionless, as it turned out at
20:31
Speaker 1: the very end there, Houston, they quote the great hockey coach.
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Speaker 1: They sucked at a time they could not suck at
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Speaker 1: the end, and it was like a classic from Brett
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Speaker 1: Michael's younger days. There, Brett Michael's coming up back in
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Speaker 1: his poisoned days with a a every rose has its
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Speaker 1: thorn right that tune, Every rose has his thorn, Because
20:51
Speaker 1: Houston they got a bunch of roses for what they
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Speaker 1: did against Duke r They got a lot of roses there. Congratulations,
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Speaker 1: you won the game. And then on Monday night they
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Speaker 1: picked up the thorn. They grabbed the Forrn. They got
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Speaker 1: the nice part of the rows, and they picked up
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Speaker 1: the thorn on Monday night. A fitting ending, a fitting
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Speaker 1: ending to the Cougar season. Could not even get a
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Speaker 1: shot off to win, as the kids say, the natty,
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Speaker 1: they all the basket wins the game, couldn't do it.
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Speaker 1: And this kid for Houston, Emmanuel Sharp, stopped right in
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Speaker 1: the middle of the shooting motion as he tried to
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Speaker 1: get the game winning shot up. There were about I
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Speaker 1: don't know how many second there were a few seconds
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Speaker 1: to go in the game, were very many seconds, and
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Speaker 1: so he dropped the ball. And once you drop the ball,
21:39
Speaker 1: you can't touch the ball, you can't pick it up.
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Speaker 1: You'd be called for traveling. Did it not seem And
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Speaker 1: I had no skin in the game on this, but
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Speaker 1: did it not seem like? This was like a like
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Speaker 1: a seven or eight minute thing. It was only a
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Speaker 1: few seconds, but the ball just tribbling and no one
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Speaker 1: touching it. And then you're like, what the f is
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Speaker 1: going on, this is to win the championship. You can't
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Speaker 1: touch it. Where the hell are your teammates? No one
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Speaker 1: can touch it? And like what are you doing here?
22:03
Speaker 1: And then finally Alex Conden came over there and dive
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Speaker 1: for the ball and he flipped it forward and that's it.
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Speaker 1: Buzzer sounds and turn out the last the parties over
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Speaker 1: see you later. Now page two, So Florida coach Todd Golden.
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Speaker 1: Todd Golden becomes the youngest head coach to win a
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Speaker 1: national championship since Jim Volvano. Now, if you're old, you
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Speaker 1: know who that is. Jim and Jimmy v SO TV
22:34
Speaker 1: commentator died at a young age. But Jim Valvano was
22:37
Speaker 1: thirty seven. Way back in nineteen eighty three, a team
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Speaker 1: called North Carolina State won the championship, and so Todd Golden,
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Speaker 1: at thirty nine, the youngest coach since then to win
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Speaker 1: the championship. So what does the future hold in the
22:52
Speaker 1: crystal ball for Florida coach Todd Golden. So if you
22:56
Speaker 1: look and as a distant relative of Nostre Damas and
22:59
Speaker 1: friend of No Street, we're never wrong about these predictions.
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Speaker 1: We're never wrong about these predictions. But the answer is
23:05
Speaker 1: Shakespearean in my crystal ball, Shakespearean, and it was a
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Speaker 1: line from Shakespeare. The world is his oyster. At this point, yes,
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Speaker 1: you would say, absolutely, the world is his oyster. He's
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Speaker 1: thirty nine, he's at the very pinnacle, the summit of
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Speaker 1: men's college basketball right now. And his name it is
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Speaker 1: poetic Golden, Yes, as in gold of Bouillon, which will
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Speaker 1: be coming his way, a lot of gold Bouyon. Todd
23:33
Speaker 1: Golden is entering Boomtown, USA, Boomtown, USA, and a stampede
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Speaker 1: of wealth, money, money, money, Yeah, it's all coming his way.
23:44
Speaker 1: He's already making a lot of money, but there'll be
23:45
Speaker 1: a bigger bonanza, bigger slice of the pie at worst.
23:50
Speaker 1: At worst, he's going to get a new contract in
23:53
Speaker 1: more money, money, money in Gainesville, and he'll be moving
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Speaker 1: out of the treehouse abode and he'll be moving into
24:00
Speaker 1: a nice rustic cabin. And why not, right, he's got
24:05
Speaker 1: the elevated stilts on that rustic cabin and he'll be
24:09
Speaker 1: good to go on that. And yeah, you get the
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Speaker 1: swamp there, so you can stand the rising waters of
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Speaker 1: the swamp and he'll be in good shape and he
24:18
Speaker 1: can also if he wants run off to the NBA,
24:21
Speaker 1: That's what the last Florida coach did that won a
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Speaker 1: couple of championships. Billy Donovan. He's still in the NBA.
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Speaker 1: He's had a long run in the NBA, and I
24:29
Speaker 1: didn't want anything. He's still hanging around all right now.
24:32
Speaker 1: Last word, So the player of the tournament, player of
24:37
Speaker 1: the tournament, the outstanding player of the tournament, guy named
24:40
Speaker 1: Walter Clayton Jr. So will Walter Clayton Junr. Have his
24:46
Speaker 1: NBA draft stock rise up? Will its skyrocket to the moon?
24:51
Speaker 1: To the moon because of this historic tournament. So we've
24:56
Speaker 1: talked about this in the in previous episodes of the show.
24:58
Speaker 1: We've discussed this. You and I we' had this conversation,
25:01
Speaker 1: and I would not use the word skyrocket. I believe
25:04
Speaker 1: that would be the wrong word. I believe that would
25:05
Speaker 1: be the inappropriate word. That is not the word I
25:07
Speaker 1: will use. My word is uptick, as in a registers
25:12
Speaker 1: a mild uptick, right, A mild uptick. Now right now,
25:16
Speaker 1: there's that after glow and everyone's all got excited and
25:20
Speaker 1: all that because the game just happened. Clayton, he does
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Speaker 1: pick up a nice, big duffel bag, the kind of
25:28
Speaker 1: duffel bag that will you'd have to pay for if
25:31
Speaker 1: you go on like Spirit Airlines, because it's too big
25:33
Speaker 1: and they charge you for it because it doesn't fit
25:35
Speaker 1: where it needs to fit, and they say you can't
25:37
Speaker 1: carry that, and as you get upset and you're like, well,
25:40
Speaker 1: I don't I don't want to pay for it. It's
25:41
Speaker 1: a carry on, so we were not allowed to do that.
25:43
Speaker 1: You gotta pay for it. So it's a big duffel bag,
25:45
Speaker 1: and it's got extra our points in it, so you
25:47
Speaker 1: get extra aural points. Congratulations on that for being the
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Speaker 1: NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament Outstanding Player. Now that said, you
25:56
Speaker 1: and I both know every man, woman and child knows
25:58
Speaker 1: the panache, the panache that you get fun word to say.
26:02
Speaker 1: I like the word panash. I don't use the word panash.
26:04
Speaker 1: So you get that panage. But that only goes so far,
26:07
Speaker 1: Like you're only able to go so far when you
26:09
Speaker 1: have that panache. And if you look at the lead
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Speaker 1: in here Clayton, who's the star of the tournament, even
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Speaker 1: though he didn't have a basket in the first half.
26:20
Speaker 1: He was projected as a second round pick prior to
26:24
Speaker 1: the tournament, they had him as a second round grade
26:28
Speaker 1: the NBA scouts. And the issue here is you've got
26:33
Speaker 1: an age problem. No, he's not old. He's not old,
26:35
Speaker 1: but he has been around for a while at Florida.
26:39
Speaker 1: He's a senior. There's some other factors involved in this, also,
26:43
Speaker 1: the fact that he is a senior and he's had
26:45
Speaker 1: access to NFL, NFL, NBA talent evaluators for a couple
26:51
Speaker 1: of years. They're not exactly salivating at getting their hands
26:54
Speaker 1: on him in the NBA. His skill set appears to
26:56
Speaker 1: be a dime a dozen by NBA standards, and we'll
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Speaker 1: see whether or not he can convince them to maybe
27:03
Speaker 1: get a late first round selection because he had some
27:07
Speaker 1: big moments in the NCAA tournament. And I know in football,
27:10
Speaker 1: you win the Heisman, you get drafted a little higher.
27:14
Speaker 1: There's a little more you can sell on the player. Now,
27:17
Speaker 1: how much here's the question, how much did this championship
27:22
Speaker 1: for Todd, Golden and friends cost? How much did Florida
27:26
Speaker 1: have to spend Because remember there's no salary cap in
27:31
Speaker 1: college basketball, so how much did they have to spend
27:33
Speaker 1: to win the men's championship and I did as much
27:38
Speaker 1: of my research as I could. I searched around, I
27:42
Speaker 1: tipped some rocks over, I bounced all over the place.
27:44
Speaker 1: And the exact figure and how much Florida spent our name,
27:48
Speaker 1: image and likeness is a unknown. It's not publicly disclosed
27:55
Speaker 1: or not exactly sure how much they spent the redtail
28:01
Speaker 1: is not documented on that These schools have these collectives,
28:05
Speaker 1: these kind of weird shadow government operations that pay the money,
28:10
Speaker 1: and so it's it's hazy. The estimate is that it
28:15
Speaker 1: cost Florida like two and a half million dollars. I
28:18
Speaker 1: think it cost them more, but that that's the ballpark figure.
28:21
Speaker 1: Two and a half million dollars salarycap for Florida to
28:24
Speaker 1: win the championship in nil money and all that. But
28:28
Speaker 1: the portal, it's the power of the portal, not the
28:32
Speaker 1: power of the people. It's the power of the portal.
28:35
Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mellor
28:37
Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now,
28:42
Speaker 2: Mailor's Mountain of money. Do you have what it takes
28:47
Speaker 2: to get to the top? Probably not.
28:51
Speaker 1: By let's do here we go. Let's welcome into our contestants,
28:53
Speaker 1: we have Manuel in Guardana, who's gonna be well, look
28:57
Speaker 1: at that the phones are now working? Hello? Manuel?
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Speaker 2: Hey man, you know Michael leper Coon doesn't want to
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Speaker 2: take blink stop because you might have to pack the budge?
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Speaker 1: Okay, all right? Would you like to who do you
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Speaker 1: like to partner up with?
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Speaker 2: Me?
29:10
Speaker 1: Or Bree? Who do you want there?
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Speaker 2: You know what?
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Speaker 1: All right? Bre it is all right? Hold on a
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Speaker 1: sick man. Well, and we have Kelly in de Moine. Hello, Kelly,
29:22
Speaker 1: Hi Ben? Hello, Kelly. You're you're stuck? You're stuck with me? Hello?
29:28
Speaker 1: Are you ready to play here?
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Speaker 2: Kelly?
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Speaker 4: I am ready?
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Speaker 1: Kelly. If I lose here, okay, there's going to be
29:36
Speaker 1: hell to pay. Do you understand I cannot lose? All right, Well,
29:39
Speaker 1: let's play the game and lock everyone in. And the
29:44
Speaker 1: categories are What do we have here? Brie? We have
29:47
Speaker 1: the Jackie Chan edition turned seventy one this week, Drunken Master,
29:50
Speaker 1: Who am I? Rush Hour? And around the World in
29:54
Speaker 1: eighty days? Man, Well, which one do you want? Who
29:56
Speaker 1: am I? Who am I? All right? Very good? And
30:00
Speaker 1: what about you? Kelly? I'm going to go with rush Hour?
30:05
Speaker 1: Rush Hour? All right? Very good? And go ahead, Brie.
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Speaker 1: You got forty five seconds. We need the first and
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Speaker 1: last name. Breeze in for Coop with Manuel and Guardiana
30:13
Speaker 1: and here we go, all.
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Speaker 4: Right, Dolphins quarterback current and take up allow all right.
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Speaker 4: Point guard for the Cleveland Cavaliers. Yeah, a guard for
30:27
Speaker 4: the San Diego Chargers. Had a lot of issues, mentally
30:32
Speaker 4: committed suicide. Here Sales. He was a Ravens running back
30:39
Speaker 4: in like nineteen ninety seven. New he went to Tennessee
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Speaker 4: Jamal Johnson.
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Speaker 5: Now, no, no, no, no, no, Yeah, somebody whispered it.
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Speaker 1: So that was was that forty shouldn't whisper She's hid awist.
31:07
Speaker 1: She said, you can't, you can't shoot. I was like,
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Speaker 1: what is that? Forty points? Yeah? All right, Kelly kell
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Speaker 1: Are you ready to go? Kelly?
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Speaker 2: Yeah that I'm ready?
31:18
Speaker 1: All right. These athletes are all from Los Angeles. It's
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Speaker 1: Russia our forty five seconds on the clock. We're on
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Speaker 1: our way go. Known as the Beard for the People's team,
31:26
Speaker 1: the Clippers. Yeah, slugger for the Yankees, not Aaron Judge.
31:31
Speaker 1: I won an MVP with the Marlins. Got a very
31:35
Speaker 1: sexy first name. Some people say, how about this quarterback
31:39
Speaker 1: for the Seahawks and the legion of boom Day's got
31:41
Speaker 1: a big mouth inside. Richard Sherman. Yes, mister Podre, mister
31:46
Speaker 1: Podre number nineteen for the second. Yes, give me the
31:50
Speaker 1: damn ball wide receiver for the Jets out of usc
31:54
Speaker 1: was say the it's name, Say his name, Say his name.
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Speaker 1: You open the door where they blank? Oh oh, it's
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Speaker 1: so late. You don't say the name. Now it's too
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Speaker 1: late to say the name. Now we have the lead.
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Speaker 4: You do you have eighty against forty Breeze, This is
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Speaker 4: your time to come back.
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Speaker 1: Let's go. Manuel, what are you around the world in
32:28
Speaker 1: eighty days? Or drunken master? Drunken master? Okay, here we go.
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Speaker 4: Bree forty five, quarterback of the Packers before Aaron Rodgers,
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Speaker 4: quarterback for the Packers, before Aaron Rodgers, the current coach
32:45
Speaker 4: of the Dallas Mavericks, point guard for the Nets back
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Speaker 4: in the late two thousands. Okay, Jet's quarterback that wore
32:54
Speaker 4: a lot of fur coats, really like the shorts up
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Speaker 4: for Detroit Tigers. Really famous one more.
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Speaker 1: Recently, all right, hurry up, Chop chop past.
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Speaker 4: A really famous New York Yankee nickname.
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Speaker 1: Or no no hi? Yeah, oh my good, he said, it,
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Speaker 1: he said, Are you sure he said that. I didn't
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Speaker 1: hear it. All right, here we go, Kelly Kelly, Human
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Speaker 1: Highlight Film NBA for the Atlanta Hawks. Oh oh, Kelly,
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Speaker 1: what's wrong with your domin? That's cheating. You talked with
33:37
Speaker 1: the clocks. That's cheating. You didn't leave enough time. You
33:41
Speaker 1: don't win. You don't win, Bree, you don't win. That's it,
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Speaker 1: that's it, that's o