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Fanatically Speaking: HALLOWEEN BONUS EPISODE! · Fanatically Speaking with Kent

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what's up everybody welcome to fanatically speaking
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i'm kent i'm log off i'm the log off legend and
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uh we're here to say everything that every fan
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is thinking but louder and probably a little
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crazier get ready this is fanatically speaking
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with kent and log off you know what's funny like
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i don't hate i don't i'm not a social media hater
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i'm a social media Hater. You know what I mean?
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I don't want people to think that I get on the
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internet and start hating people on social media.
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That's not what I do. The first half was absolutely
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horrible. Inept offense, inept defense, special
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teams, you name it. I'm gonna turn into Oprah.
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Why were you so angry? He sucks this season.
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This game, whatever, whatever's going on, right?
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And then in the very next pitch, guess what they
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did? they double Homer and he's like told you
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dad why you always knocking down people listen
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you got the highs and the lows yeah so i knew
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that you need you need the highs and the lows
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and so i do that yeah but i'm trying to be the
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voice of reason here i am what i am What's up
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everybody welcome to another episode of fanatically
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speaking, I'm Kent the co -host and promoter
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I am log off. I am the log off legend the hater
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of social media and the co -host and producer
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of the show alright today we got a I guess the
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episode is fun instead of just a fun topic is
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the Halloween season so we thought it'd be nice
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to put together a whole episode based on Halloween
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dedicated to Halloween. It's one of the funner
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holidays that I'll slightly entertain as a holiday
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to participate in. I mean, look, it involves
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candy. I can't say no to candy. So again, you're
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not just a social media hater. You are also a
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holiday hater. Yes, I am a holiday hater. I hate
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holidays the same way I hate TikTok, Facebook,
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Instagram. Make sure to follow us on FanaticallySpeaking,
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at FanaticallySpeaking. Yeah, so you take all
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those social media platforms and you include
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Fourth of July, Valentine's Day, Christmas, and
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Thanksgiving, and you put them all in the same
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bucket. I hate them all equally. Yeah. I can't
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agree with you. I can't agree with you on some
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of those. I know. I know you're a holiday guy
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and I don't, you know, and we can, we'll, we'll
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let everybody a little, a little inside baseball
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for my holiday hatred. I try not to hate. I try
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not to ruin it for others. It's just for me.
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No, no, you're good. We just, you know, just
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a fun fact for everybody while we're on the holiday
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theme Halloween edition of fanatically speaking.
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The big one, the first one here, the first topic
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we get into is sports villain. I have I've got
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a lot of we had some qualifiers that we put on
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this and and I think it's kind of better to always
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kind of clarify what we're what we're talking
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about, what we talk about, like like who's a
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good sports villain and what makes a great sports
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villain. And some of the key notes you have on
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here is, you know, is it them winning all the
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time? Is it us, you know, kind of just being
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sick of seeing their face? Is it like their social
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media activity? Is it ways that they behave on
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the field during play maybe outside of the game?
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So as you know, it's kind of a lot of ground
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to cover when you talk about the things that
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make you that make you think of someone as a
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villain Yes, and I got a quote and the quote
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is from my favorite superhero batman So this
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is this is I thought about this when you talk
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about Ning and you start becoming the villain,
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like Michael Jordan did in the 90s a little bit,
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the Cowboys, we talk about that team in general,
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them just all being villains. And then you talk
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about like Patrick Mahomes, Tom Brady, you start
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hating these guys because all they do is win.
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So Batman, from the famous quote, of course,
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you either die a hero or you live long enough
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to see yourself become the villain. And while
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I know what that quote means on the surface,
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I mean it like the more you think about it. It's
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kind of dumb But it's like as long as you continue
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to do well and people like you you're not no
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one's gonna hate you for some reason Maybe that
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quote kind of dives into Like at some point you're
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gonna go sour at some point you're going to to
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do things that upset and anger people Therefore
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you'll become the villain. Maybe that's what
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they were getting at but I mean, I think it's
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true in terms of like winning because I, me growing
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up, I never liked Jordan because he did win all
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the time. And I did view him as, you know, my
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opposition as a villain, even though I didn't
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even have a team. I just wanted to see him lose.
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Yeah. Again, you get that winning fatigue and
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you're getting it now with my homes. We got it
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with Brady and that lasted forever. So I do see
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where you become a villain by winning. But then
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you also have I think a good example is like
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Kobe Bryant Was he was liked and then of course
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what made him a villain was off the court stuff
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and then he won and Then you heard things about
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like the way he I guess treated teammates things
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like that and then after I think after he played
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after he retired man, he was like a He was then
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he was a hero then he was like, okay, I was a
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beloved figure He I think his his Q rating skyrocketed
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after he left the NBA I could agree with that.
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Yeah, you got to see a different side of him,
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too So that that that's the person that definitely
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switched it around I don't think Tom Brady's
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made it there yet because I don't think people
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necessarily like his commentary and the way he
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got that job and we've talked about that before
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True. And the other thing I'll say about this
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is just kind of the natural cultural celebrity
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perspective that the public has as a whole. We
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love to see someone who was at the top fall.
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We like watching that fall from grace and watching
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them fail. I mean, you can, I mean, when I say
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celebrity, I mean, through all walks of life,
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you talk about just like, I mean, you can take
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like Robert Downey Jr ups and downs, Mariah Carey
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ups and downs, you know, so when you look at
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it with the, it's the same thing with an athlete,
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like they're popular figures. So sometimes it's
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like, Hey, Kevin Durant, Steph Curry, you guys
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are winning these championships. You know what?
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We want to see you guys take a L, you know, Hey,
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LeBron, you're making it to the finals every
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year. You know what? We want to watch you get
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swept. So I think there's that component to where
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you know, you kind of get it's just a natural
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fatigue like you said But also, you know as a
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whole we like to see people fail and and in some
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cases We want to see them fail so that we can
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pick them back up But some people we want to
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see them fail and stay at the bottom and they
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just you know, just continue to hate them For
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sure and on the other side of that then you have
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you know, I got it We got a list of a few names,
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right? We went through what makes the sports
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villain here. Here's just a here's just a short
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list of the ones that came to mind that are might
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either more recent or have just stayed a villain
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for whatever reason one not a player owner jerry
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jones that's a good angel angel reese angel reese
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is a good one she gets a lot of you know you
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mentioned kd lebron i think they didn't get it
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i don't think they got it so much for own the
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court stuff i think you know kd you know, chirping
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back at people, LeBron just doing LeBron things.
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But then sometimes, you know, you start really
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focusing in on people and the way they act. And
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then it's the whole. I guess it's the I don't
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know if it's the commercials. It's like you said,
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it's shoved in your face and you don't watch
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wrestling out wrestling. So John Cena was one
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athlete sports here. So John Cena was one that
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was shoved in Apple's throat. And people started
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booing him. And eventually he went into movies
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and kind of faded out. Now he's on his retirement
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run, it's almost over, and everybody loves him.
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They appreciate him more. But again, it's that
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thing of, like you said, the winning, but then
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also I think the commercials, the shove down
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your throat, telling you this, this, this, this,
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this, and you gotta have that personality. And
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I think Mahomes has a good personality, but at
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the same time, then you see the stuff on the
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field. When you start crying for flags, when
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you start, you know, flopping, which was LeBron.
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Again, he was a flopper. Mahomes is a flopper.
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It makes people not like you. It makes you a
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villain in a sense, right? Well, and listen,
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and we can we can do this all day in terms of,
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you know, athletes being considered a villain.
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It's not necessarily a bad thing. Like there's
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there's players who've built their entire careers
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off of being villains I mean the bad boy Pistons
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Charles Oakley, you know Ron our test Dennis
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Rodman like like they're like there's absolutely
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a link Draymond like there's a lane for being
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the bad guy Remember it was and it was I thought
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it was a brilliant campaign. I believe it was
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the I Believe it was the Kevin Durant. I think
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it was called the Kevin's not nice You know Nike
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campaign where it's like hey, you know, he's
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just he's kind of a jackass at times. He's a
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bad guy There's absolutely a lane for for being
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that and I think you know someone like you said
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like a Jerry Jones I think he's aware that the
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things that he does annoys everyone outside of
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the Dallas Cowboys universe He's aware that it
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upsets them, but it keeps him in the forefront
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It keeps him in front of everyone which helps
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for popularity again Floyd Mayweather effect.
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You're either gonna watch the fights to watch
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him get knocked out and a tiny percent are going
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to actually watch, you know, watch those fights
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to see if he's going to win. And I think Jerry
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Jones has kind of mastered that as an owner.
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And you know, we see his face. We already know
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the things he's going to say, and it doesn't
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even surprise us anymore. No. And you mentioned
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players, I think when you mentioned like a Rodman
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and Oakley and Draymond, I think Charles was
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the original, right? We named people, we talked
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about what it could be. Well, Charles Barkley,
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yeah, so we talked about these guys like you
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talked about Charles Oakley. Charles Barkley
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was the first or maybe the original that started,
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you know, like I said, he's spitting at guys
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and what a cameraman or someone actually hit
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a kid. And then he said, I'm not a role model.
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So we had that. But we talked about all these
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people. But I want to get into like we talked
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about why, though, also, right. So was it the
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winning? Is it their persona? Is it their attitude
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is it on the court on the often on the field
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off the court off the field tiger woods Right.
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I mean he was like loved and then all of a sudden
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a scandal hits Yeah, no tiger tiger woods is
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a good one And I think it was actually coupled
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with a lot. It was coupled with the the winning
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Dominant winner like we knew he could always
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win, you know, he has a scandal with you know,
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you know his now ex -wife you know and you know
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police showing up and and uh and i think what
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turned him into a villain in that is that it
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was so many questions and with all the information
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with all the cheating like you know they were
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doing interviews with the women he was cheating
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with and everything yeah but i think the thing
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that kind of made him a villain was that there
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were so many questions that we never really got
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answers to like like it's it's it was an unclear
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like you like you know what was going on But
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there was never any concrete, here's the full
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story on this. And I think that kind of helped
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where because, you know, at the end of it, you
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know, for some of these, you know, I mean, we
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could talk about, you mentioned Kobe, we could
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talk about OJ. Like there's there's actual court
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documentation, police interviews, you know, where
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you can see what happened and it helps you either.
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I'm going to love you or hate you. I'm either
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going to support you, you know, or I'm going
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to root against you. And tiger's an interesting
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one because there's still a lot of unanswered
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questions So to go with that tiger one though
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is that he plays a sport that you would never
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You know, it's got off So not only was tiger
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squeaky clean. He was also You know playing a
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sport like golf So that that really just hurt
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his image and then you mentioned OJ and again
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OJ when you're an alleged murderer, that kind
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of will make you a villain pretty much from the
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get -go. Yeah, well, I mean, you know, that'll
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do it. That'll do it. If there's a way to be
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a villain, you know, be alleged murderer. No,
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no. Of an ex -wife at that. Yeah, you know, and
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I mean, we can do that, but, you know, I, at
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the same time, I could flip it and say there's
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some alleged murderers who've seen the skate
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because Ray Lewis seems to be doing quite well.
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So, you know, people just kind of, you know,
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people just kind of, you know, gloss right on
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by it. So I mean, it's, it's, it's fun. And Anya
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Harding, there we go. Tanya Harding is a great
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one. And no, and this is what I meant when I,
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when I made, because I kind of felt foggy when
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I was going over the Tiger Woods thing, but Tanya
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Harding is a great one. Think about all the things
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that we know happen. You know, full investigation.
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That's a big one. Yeah. So it was a huge one,
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man. And I mean, and now I want to say that stuff.
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I want to say the Taya Harding, Nancy Kerrigan
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stuff lasted, what, five years? I mean, it lasted,
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you know, forever. I know now people are listening,
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like they may or may not, depending on how old
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you are. It was huge, everyone. Massive. But
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it was just, you can put it up there with the
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OJ, right? It's probably second place for a sports
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scandal like that. And especially again, I mentioned
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golf with Tiger Woods. I mean, you don't think
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of stuff happening in golf. You don't think of
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stuff happening in women's figure skating. And
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yet there was a hit to take out the competition.
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Yeah. No. Yes, it was an organized hit. And it
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was ridiculous. It was something we'd never seen
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before. It was so cartoonish. Yeah. And it's
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like, wait a minute. It's figure skating. You
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mean there's violence and injuries? What are
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you talking about? You're skating on razor blades.
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like a dude behind a curtain comes out with a
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bar to hit a woman in the leg. Hey, that's how
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you do it, man. But again, forever Tanya Harding
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is a sports villain. Maybe top five, top ten.
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Oh, no, I would absolutely agree with that. She's
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up there with the juice. Diabolical, man. Yeah,
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we're going to literally take out my competition
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because I don't think I can compete with her.
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Now, that's a that's a damn good one. All right.
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So, Kent, so if you had to right now today and
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I know it's kind of an oxymoron to say your favorite
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sports villain in a way. My favorite. Yeah, that's
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what I mean. Like, but if you had to kind of
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pick, I guess the one. The one where you see
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them as a villain and you're like they're kind
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of my poster child for who the modern Now today
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sports villain is if you had to pick a name,
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who would you go with today today right now today?
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Man I'm going I'm man. She says she's not a villain
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But everything she does is villainous Right.
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I mean she's a very like if and if there was
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a villain I think and I'm not yeah if I get flack
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for this I don't care If I'm gonna compare her
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to like a cartoonish villain, Angel Reese is
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like, I think she's the villain. She's my top
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one right now. And I wanna call her Two -Face
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because I think there's times where she's on
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the runway as a model for Victoria's Secret.
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She does her commercials, she's got her shoes.
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She smiles, she tries to be girly and pretty
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and all these things. But then there's that other
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side that you know she's you know always saying
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something about something right and that's the
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only thing and and it doesn't really back it
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up you know and and it's kind of probably it's
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died off but it first thing that comes to mind
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right now is is angel reese for me okay and not
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not personally i'm just telling you why like
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you know i mean i am saying it's my top one just
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because i think there's so much that comes with
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her, right? She's just polarizing where she's
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gonna get love on this side and hate on the other.
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You know what I mean? Does that make sense? Well
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yes, and I, so I understand why you chose her.
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She's a good name to have on this list and I
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think it's because she, she embraces the villainous
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attitude that she has. And this is where we were
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talking earlier about how there's absolutely
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a lane. I mean, I'll give you all of the WNBA's
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history. Can you name another WNBA player that
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you would classify as a villain? I mean, I can
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name a bunch of them. No, no, no. No, I mean
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- Oh, WNBA? Correct. WNBA. Yeah, that's what
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I mean. Yeah, and the WNBA, like, this is new.
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Like, this is new for their sport. outside of
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her outside of her teammate the season previous
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of kennedy carter but well no but i mean but
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in turn no so but again that's more within the
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wda yeah angel reese is considered a sports villain
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in the streets you know what i mean like i mean
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because like there are some people who never
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really like diana terrasi i personally love terrasi
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you could say that but that that was all pertaining
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to basketball It was all, you know, pertaining
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to the WNBA and how tenacious, her tenacity and
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wanting to be a winner. But for Angel Reese,
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it's all the other things. It's all the other
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activities. She's at every big event. And I think
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it works for her because she's embraced it. And
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it has absolutely, and I would love to have a
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discussion with her and have her try her hardest
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to deny this, but it has absolutely skyrocketed
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her. as a personality. The endorsements that
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she receives, the presence that she has, has
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absolutely been magnified by the drama with Caitlin
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Clark, by the drama with her at LSU, flashing
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the whole ring thing, by clashing with her own
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teammates in her own locker room on her own team,
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calling them out publicly. Those are things that
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absolutely boost her profile. The only thing
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I'll say and I'll just kind of end it on this
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because I don't want to turn this into a whole
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angel Reese podcast The one thing that I want
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to say about it that I respect is that For me,
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she keeps throwing herself into it Which makes
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it okay for everyone else to continue to throw
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shit as well She the the the subject matter that
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surrounds her constantly. She has a she plays
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a role in it This isn't, this isn't just us making,
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you know, accusations and throwing things at
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her. She's, she's, she's actively involved in
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her own drama, which I think makes it okay for
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us to call her a villain. Well, I think it's
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also, she's the one who actually called herself
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the villain. I think mainly she called herself
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that. So then it's kind of like, yeah, because
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of this and the other, but give her credit. You
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know, there's a whole social media about, you
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know, making fun of her. Missing shots and her
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bad basketball and the me bounds and she's capitalizing
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off of it, right? She went and took that raise
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and she's going to market it and make money off
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of it. So good for her. Yeah, no, good for her.
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It's worked. Who you got? I mean, if I have if
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I had to pick a villain is tough. I typically
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don't get wrapped up in the off the court stuff.
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So I kind of like to. I like to stick to whatever
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a sport is, to stick to, and interesting enough,
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mine's gonna be basketball too, but it's gonna
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be NBA. And I'm gonna pick Kevin Durant as my
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favorite sports villain. And it's because it's
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been career long. He started off with OKC, very
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humble, won an MVP, made it to a championship.
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And then he turned, he tried his hardest to He's
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a low -profile kind of guy, and he just wants
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to play basketball. Going to Golden State absolutely
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boosted him into the villainous role. It's like,
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okay, you're ring chasing. You're going to join
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the team that eliminated you. You know, it worked
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out great. In my mind, Kevin Durant became a
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villain when he left OKC, went to go play for
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Golden State after losing to them the previous
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year. joined them, won some championships. Okay,
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but he was the villain. They were the team to
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root against. He tears his Achilles, leaves Golden
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State, goes to Brooklyn. Fizzles there, never
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really got off the ground there, then goes to
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Phoenix. And then the second everything falls
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apart there in Phoenix, he's out the door in
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Houston. So it's my favorite pick as a villain
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because he's had such a long career of doing
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things that people don't necessarily like. all
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of them within the sports realm we don't really
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even know him like as a like as a person we don't
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know a lot about as famous as Kevin Duran is
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I don't know who he's dating I don't know if
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he has any kids like like I just you know I know
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his mom you know his mom's are always you know
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his mom's always at games and stuff but but like
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him he's such a he's still one of the rare mythical
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athletes that you don't really know a ton about
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but we know that he can play basketball and he
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loves that you know he loves the game loves the
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sport It's just that his choices in decision
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making, it's just like, come on man, like you're
22:48
too good for that. And that, and that's one of
22:51
the things that I think, you know, makes him
22:52
a villain. Yeah. I think, uh, you, you talk about,
22:55
you know, switching teams. Well, obviously free
22:58
agency is one thing, but you can become a villain
23:00
in free agency, you know, LeBron left Cleveland
23:03
and he kind of made him a villain. Then Katie,
23:06
like you said, leaves. Okay. See becomes a villain.
23:09
Then he leaves the warriors with the Draymond
23:11
drama. But he start again becoming a villain
23:15
more you start when you're a superstar player,
23:18
and he is a superstar player When you continuously
23:23
Get out of situations then you're kind of placing
23:26
the blame on others and not yourself Or you're
23:28
just the issues that are going on with that be
23:30
winning losing or just drama that makes I think
23:33
that that adds to his villainous Yeah, I agree.
23:37
Yeah when when when the tough when the going
23:40
gets tough that dude takes off and And I understand
23:43
it's his career. I understand that. I respect
23:47
him for wanting to make a change in the scenery.
23:49
He's got that kind of power. He's one of those
23:51
rare kind of players. But people are going to
23:54
look at you sideways, man. And I'm a big fan
23:58
of going down with the ship. If things are going
23:59
to crash and burn and you played a pivotal role
24:02
in it, don't try to escape and get out of there
24:05
like you played a role in it. And if everyone
24:08
else is going to have to suffer. We kind of want
24:10
to see you have to suffer too. So when you take
24:12
off and run and go to a different team, any time
24:14
things get rough, you know, people don't look
24:16
at you differently and he's going to have to
24:17
live with that. He hit me. He's good at it. He
24:20
owns it. He eats it. He was embracing opening
24:23
night versus okay. See, he's embracing the crowds
24:26
and yeah, boo, boo. Me too. That's fine. I think,
24:30
I think I saw, I think I saw a video recently
24:33
of him and Gary Payton, a senior. Okay, don't
24:39
going at it back when he was with Phoenix. I
24:42
believe it was last season maybe and there's
24:44
like I think it's in the documentary Wherever
24:47
that is, but yeah him him and Gary Payton going
24:50
back and forth Yeah Gary Gary Payton on the line
24:54
of good sports villains, too. That's a that's
24:57
an interesting name Yeah, yeah, I guess he's
25:00
a villain, you know We named a lot of basketball
25:02
or people that you can see their face. I mean
25:04
football is like a dangerous sport you know,
25:07
a violent game but it's easy to say. You know
25:09
who the sports villains were in in the NFL? Well,
25:13
I mean you you do but I'm gonna get but I'm gonna
25:17
save I'm gonna save the NFL for the scary athletes
25:21
portion. Fair enough. No, that that's Alright,
25:30
so so I added something to the top of the list
25:33
and I did it mainly because this is the Halloween
25:36
themed episode and the first thing that comes
25:38
to my mind when I hear Halloween is candy and
25:41
that actually triggered an article and actually
25:45
it was an article and then like a like in like
25:47
a Almost like a like a small docu -series on
25:51
Dwight Howard from years ago. I want to say this
25:53
is like 2016 and what it did was it actually
25:57
followed like his his actually his dietary regimen
26:00
which consisted of a let's just say a diabetic
26:04
coma amount of sugar that he was eating, that
26:09
he was eating every day. And it's a very, it's
26:13
an interesting article. And I'm going to, I'm
26:17
going to see if I can find the video of it. And
26:19
maybe I can add it to the, to the, to the podcast
26:22
posting, but, but his, but his diet contained
26:27
an additional 5 ,500 calories a day. coming just
26:34
from candy Now he had some he had some hits and
26:37
misses when it comes to candy, so I'm gonna judge
26:39
him on this a little bit But he would eat Skittles
26:43
Starbursts Rolos Snickers Mars bars Twizzlers
26:49
Almond Joy's Kit Kats and his favorite apparently
26:54
Reese's Pieces Okay. Now he had an assistant
26:57
and I remember this vividly this vividly he had
27:00
an assistant whose job and responsibility was
27:03
that when he was getting out of practice to have
27:06
all of the snacks scattered and displayed across
27:10
the backseat of his car so that while Dwight
27:13
Howard was driving home from practice, he could
27:15
literally just reach back blindly. Bam. Got me
27:17
some Skittles. Boom. Got me some Snickers. Boom.
27:20
Got me some Kit Kats. And it was a it's a comical
27:25
amount. Have you ever heard of this story at
27:28
all? So is this your first time hearing it? This
27:30
is the first I had never heard of this. Yeah,
27:33
it is. It's an insane video to watch. And I mean,
27:36
of course, I mean, Dwight Howard's rich. So I'm
27:38
sure, you know, the dental work that comes from
27:40
the damage of eating all of this sugar. Yeah.
27:42
Yeah. Yeah. His teeth are going to rot for sure.
27:45
But it was it was easy to to kind of as a visual
27:50
to see this. And keep in mind, no one even to
27:54
this day, even while, you know, Dwight Howard
27:56
is a broadcaster, I don't think we've ever seen
27:59
someone who has been in shape throughout their
28:02
entire career like that, like the dude was an
28:05
Adonis. He was always in shape while consuming
28:08
this, you know, comatose level amount of sugar.
28:14
It was, yeah, on average, everything that he
28:16
ate was in like 230 calories a bag. It came out
28:20
to an additional 5 ,500 calories a day just from
28:25
candy and He was all the dude was always in shape
28:30
Always always chiseled like you there's never
28:33
been one year where it's like Dwight Howard looks
28:35
a little heavy So even while eating all that
28:38
sugar and I'm pretty sure a lot of it had to
28:39
do with his youth As he aged he stopped that
28:42
he cut all the sugar and everything out of his
28:44
diet But yeah, it was it was an interesting go
28:48
ahead. I'm sorry. That is it. No, I was just
28:50
saying yeah, you would never think that he was
28:53
on a candy diet He might just had a really good
28:56
workout you know i've i've seen athletes um wrestlers
29:02
talk about they eat whatever but they just got
29:04
to work out a little harder so well listen i've
29:08
take it from the uh the podcast's uh you know
29:12
resident fat ass it is it is damn near impossible
29:16
to Outwork a terrible diet. Of course, there's
29:20
outliers. There's always going to be people who
29:23
who who no matter I think we all know that one
29:25
person in our lives who could seem to eat anything
29:28
and never gain weight You know, so but at the
29:31
same time it's that is that's a that's a ridiculous
29:35
a ridiculous amount of of sugar for anybody to
29:39
consume That is insane Yes, so Dwight Howard's
29:44
diet that many that much candy that that many
29:47
calories like I said was a win If you're a kid
29:50
on Halloween, that's a haul. That's a good night
29:53
He was eating that every day Every day. Yeah
29:57
a grown man, but I'm just saying like kids are
30:00
like, oh my god, that would be amazing Especially
30:03
on Halloween, especially on Halloween. Yeah So
30:13
I wanted to take that topic. I found it interesting.
30:17
I know some people could look at it like it's
30:19
like, you know, what the hell are you guys talking
30:20
about? But what I wanted to do was parlay that
30:24
into another topic, which is, do you have like
30:28
a celebrity athlete endorsed candy? That was
30:34
released that kind of sticks that kind of sticks
30:36
to your your brain from when we were growing
30:38
up and and and listen It doesn't really happen
30:41
as I mean help. Mr. Beast has a damn candy bar
30:44
now So but for very popular but but for athletes
30:49
it was I was never really something that kind
30:51
of stuck Unless you want to say I don't know
30:53
maybe baby Ruth's, you know where it's kind of
30:56
tied to his name But I don't know if babe Ruth
30:58
had like a direct association with like the launching
31:01
of that product I'm not sure about that. I do
31:05
know that Babe Ruth did have a candy bar, so
31:07
he might be the original athlete that had a candy
31:10
endorsement. Got it, yeah. You know, Shaq had
31:13
a bar. A lot of athletes have had candy bars.
31:16
They come and go. They do. It's more of a, you
31:20
know, but we're going to go back to our villain
31:24
because Angel Reese, using that last name Reese,
31:28
has endorsement with Reece. Yeah, she does. Reese's.
31:30
Yes. Yes, she does. Reese's. Reese's cups. So,
31:33
you know, you want to know what's interesting?
31:35
So, I didn't know that. I knew that she had with,
31:39
I've only seen her on the Reese's pieces or the
31:42
Reese's cereal. She's literally on the box. True.
31:46
But, I mean, candy. Correct. With the Reese's
31:48
brand tied to her last name. Understood. No,
31:51
but I, I know, that's the only endorsement right
31:53
now. I, I try to think, like, you know, I mentioned
31:55
another episode where Johnson had cookies. uh,
31:58
grandmama cookies. And then the other is not
32:01
candy and it's not an endorsement, but do you
32:03
remember Karan Butler had a Mountain Dew addiction?
32:08
I do remember the Mountain Dew addiction. Yeah,
32:11
it was, I, that's one of the ones I thought of
32:13
when we're talking about all this. It was like,
32:15
I remember Karan Butler had to, had to wean himself
32:18
off a Mountain Dew, a professional basketball
32:20
player was addicted to soda. Yeah, addicted to
32:26
soda. And to tie it back to someone that we kind
32:30
of pointed out as a prior sports villain, apparently
32:33
the player, do you remember the player who got
32:36
him to stop drinking Mountain Dew? Kobe Bryant.
32:39
It was Mr. Kobe Bryant, RIP, who broke him and
32:43
was like, no, dude, we're not going to do this.
32:47
And I want you to think about it, especially,
32:49
and I want to see if I can find, he would have,
32:52
and I'm going to read a quote from from Karam
32:55
Butler, he said, I literally had a Mountain Dew,
32:57
a one liter or two liter bottle and I immediately
33:00
tried to hide it. He was hiding it and Kobe asked
33:05
him, hey man, come on, you can't be putting that
33:08
stuff in your body. What the hell are you doing?
33:11
So sometimes it just takes, sometimes you need
33:13
that friend. You need that person who's gonna
33:14
pull you aside and say, man, like what you're
33:16
doing is ridiculous. I just envision Karam Butler
33:20
during practice or during games having somebody
33:23
put Mountain Dew in his Gatorade bottle and squirting
33:25
that in his mouth. Listen, it's the same color
33:28
as the lemon lime Gatorade. And listen, we can
33:32
say whatever we want. I'm not a big soda drinker,
33:34
but Mountain Dew is damn good. Mountain Dew is
33:38
top two for me. Wow. Okay. Look, that's another
33:43
episode. We'll do top five top pop sodas all
33:47
time. That's it. But yeah, Mountain Dew is delicious.
33:50
I cannot blame them. Got it. No, neither can
33:53
I. So our next topic is, yeah, let's go into
34:02
the scariest athletes. Yeah. So this is our fun
34:05
slash random topic. You know, the wacky thing
34:07
that we want to go over this week. So you threw
34:10
this on the list, Kent. You put it in the rundown.
34:14
I think it's a fantastic question. There's so
34:17
many directions that we can go with this, but
34:20
you've got it listed as scariest players slash
34:23
athletes of all time. I am going to let you lead
34:26
off on this, sir. Yeah. So I'm just going to,
34:29
I tried to make a list, you know, of, of every
34:32
athlete and it's different reasons, right? No,
34:35
no, no, no, I don't want you to do that. Give
34:38
me, no, no, let's do this. Give me yours. I'll
34:41
go with mine and then we can go over the list
34:44
like how many you want me to give you I got a
34:46
I got a pretty long list no it's here's the thing
34:48
you got you've got a pick pick one oh huh pick
34:52
one I pick one and then we go over the list because
34:58
I got a list too wow I got so many I know you
35:03
do different reasons too I know wow but pick
35:06
one and we can go over some of them but I mean
35:09
yeah like we'll yeah let's scariest man. Oh man.
35:14
Wow. Scariest player all time. Scariest athlete
35:19
all time. Now, now, now you're making me choose.
35:22
Yes. Yeah. If you want me to go, I'll go. Yeah.
35:27
Yeah. Yeah, you go. I got to think about it.
35:28
I wasn't prepared to pick just Yeah, no, I put
35:31
you I put you on the spot but I mean like because
35:33
we can sit here and we could rattle off names
35:35
all day and Maybe and maybe we do a deep dive
35:38
into each and every one but I need I need like
35:40
that one. So for me Yeah, who's yours and maybe
35:43
it'll trigger something in me either. So for
35:46
me, so we say scariest players of all time So
35:48
that just when I hear the word scary I start
35:51
to think of words in terms that are synonymous
35:53
with it I start to think of crazy, unpredictable,
36:01
lose their mind in the middle of a game. And
36:05
I'm keeping this specifically to sports. I'm
36:07
not going to take this externally. You can if
36:09
you want to. So this isn't an on the field, off
36:12
the field type thing. Nah. But I am going to
36:15
go with Indomicon Sue. Oh, wow. And I'm going
36:22
to go with Indomitant Sue because he was a player
36:26
that had gotten the reputation of being so dirty
36:29
that some of the things that he were doing could
36:32
cause injuries that could in your career. Stomping
36:35
on guys' legs, you know, and it was always done
36:39
in the veil of him being fired up and being an
36:41
emotional, huge, oversized type player, dominant
36:45
player for, you know, a stretch of some years
36:47
there. But for me, like when I saw him, it was
36:49
just like, I don't even, he was so scary that
36:52
I didn't even know if I would want him on my
36:55
team, even if he was a great player, because
36:58
of the level of unpredictability and the things
37:01
that he would do would actually hurt the team
37:03
as well. He would just kind of lose his mind.
37:06
So off the top of my head, that was just the
37:09
first one that came to me. And I think it's a
37:11
strong pick. It's a really good one. And I did
37:13
not have it on any list that I made. But that's
37:16
that's a really good one. Yeah, he damn near
37:18
ripped Jake Delome's head off with grabbing the
37:22
face mask. Correct. Yeah. And that's the thing.
37:25
It was it's a it was a violent. Oh, my goodness.
37:28
And I mean, again, take your size out of it like
37:31
to grab someone's helmet like that in that manner.
37:35
Oh, terrible, man. Yeah. Scary, scary, scary
37:37
guy. Cam Newton also famously as I still like
37:41
to call them donkey Kong soon donkey Kong sue
37:44
Yeah, that that's gonna live on it. It's stuck
37:46
in my head. Yeah Yeah, I mean, I'm gonna go just
37:50
a different route. I'm gonna stay football though.
37:52
I got a list but I'm gonna go scary in the sense
37:56
of I think the opposing team was scared of This
38:00
guy and he is a top defensive player in the NFL
38:04
history and he might have been, had a little
38:07
extra juice or whatever in him. But Lawrence
38:13
Taylor. I'm sorry, you said juice. Did you mean
38:16
powder? Maybe, maybe, maybe he had something
38:21
that was, you know, fueling him. I don't know.
38:25
But Lawrence Taylor. I'm just gonna say he's
38:27
the scariest and that's based on like the competitive
38:30
side of being scary. You knew him on the other
38:34
side and Ray Lewis might be in that too. But
38:37
Lawrence Taylor, some say maybe the greatest
38:40
defensive player ever, linebacker ever in NFL
38:42
history. I'm sure there's a bunch of football
38:46
players, but yeah, on the competitive side, I'll
38:48
just go with Lawrence Taylor. you know, as the,
38:51
you know, you see him on the other side, you
38:53
you might want to run the other way. Uh ask Joe
38:56
Thiesman. Um. Yes. Now, that wasn't like on purpose
39:00
but you know. No, and look at it. I mean, it
39:03
happened. It happened. Still. Still. We all watched
39:06
it happen live. Yes. I'm I'm sure after that,
39:10
other quarterbacks were uh flinching when Lawrence
39:12
Taylor would sack them. Yeah. No, I can see that.
39:15
Yeah, I can absolutely see that. Yeah. No, no
39:18
LT is a good one. That's a nice strong. That's
39:21
a nice strong pick. Um, and I did kind of take
39:23
some of the, some of the air out of your balloon.
39:26
So do you want to go ahead and just kind of rattle
39:28
off some of the other names? We could just breeze
39:29
through them real quick. Some of the people who
39:31
didn't make, uh, who didn't make that top pick.
39:33
If you remember John Randall for the Minnesota
39:35
Vikings, he'd come out there with his face paint
39:37
a beast on the defensive line. Brian Bosworth,
39:42
refrigerator, Perry, um, We got Ron Artest, Dennis
39:47
Rodman, Bill Lambeer, Charles Oakley, Draymond
39:49
Green. Different reasons, Grayson Allen, you
39:52
might get tripped. You're scared maybe to just
39:55
be close to him. Lonnie Lott, one of the biggest
39:59
80s. He might have been missing, I think he might
40:02
have been missing a finger or something. I can't
40:03
remember. And then I had to go just, I could
40:07
go wrestling all day, but I put this guy on here
40:09
for wrestling UFC and that's Brock Lesnar. He's
40:11
a beast of a man still to this day. You know,
40:15
he may scare he may scare you if you would get
40:18
into possibly a real fight Yeah, no, those are
40:21
all really good picks man. The Brock less than
40:24
one is is is interesting Yeah, and he yeah, he's
40:28
one of those big menacing and that would lend
40:31
it to his character and his actual fighting style
40:33
You know as an MMA fighter too. So yeah until
40:36
he got knocked out then you're not scared of
40:38
you Well, no, I know I mean and you can say that
40:41
all you wanted to but I mean, he's he's still
40:43
a beast. That's the I mean MMA is different man.
40:46
Like, you know boxers I vote boxers You know
40:50
their record, you know, it's like hey, you know,
40:52
how many losses do they have an MMA guys lose
40:54
all the time? Even the best fighters are gonna
40:56
have losses on their record But but I mean he
40:59
was also fighting other killers as well But but
41:02
him as a presence is a great is a great pick
41:04
as a scary athlete And I've got a really quick
41:07
funny story about Brock Lesnar and why he's scary.
41:10
So really quick In the wrestling business there
41:13
was a wrestler Marc Mero. He was married to a
41:17
female She ended up being a wrestler valet sable
41:20
So come to find out Marc Mero is like I think
41:24
my wife is cheating on me So he's gonna he now
41:28
Marc Mero. It was like a boxer on before he was
41:32
a wrestler so he could fight So Marc Mero again
41:37
trying to you know, he feels like something's
41:39
wrong whatever whatever come to find out. He's
41:41
like, yeah, I think, I think, you know, I think
41:43
she's cheating. And he's like, man, when I see
41:46
this guy, when I find this guy, you know, it's
41:49
own. Oh, then he finds out his Brock Lesnar and
41:52
he's, he says this, right? And he's just like,
41:54
he was just like, all right, it's all good. We
41:56
had a good run. I look, I wouldn't want to fight.
42:01
Well, listen, I'd fight, I'd fight Brock Lesnar
42:04
with maybe 20 guys behind me. And we all had
42:07
like crowbars. I think I take my chances. Yeah,
42:10
I would uh, I would need two baseball bats wrapped
42:13
in a bar bar with spikes coming out of them All
42:22
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42:25
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43:22
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43:26
Kent, your favorite Halloween candy, what you
43:28
got? I like miniature Snickers. The miniature
43:33
ones. Oh, because they're smaller, it's almost
43:35
like drinking a Diet Coke. I can eat a hundred.
43:38
And I was like, Oh, I didn't eat that much. Exactly.
43:41
No, that's a, that's a damn good one. I'm going
43:43
to go. I'm going to go with something that I
43:45
have deemed probably the most underrated candy
43:49
bar. I'm going to say of all time. I'm going
43:52
to go with those Butterfingers, man. I love Butterfingers.
43:55
Nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger.
43:58
Bart Simpson. Yeah. They get stuck in my teeth.
44:00
So I can't do that. They get stuck in my teeth,
44:02
too, but it doesn't stop me from so good. That's
44:06
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44:20
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