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The Buffet with Chad and Scooch, Episode 30 - Featuring World Wide Wob and Story Time With Lauren Joffe · The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast

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Speaker 1: Coming to you from fabulous Las Vegas. The right side
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Speaker 1: is the winning side. The late move is the correct move.
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Speaker 1: Sports betting capital of the world. We all know when
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Speaker 1: a sharp like me weighs in the lines move, it's
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Speaker 1: a party for your ears. This is the buffet with
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Speaker 1: Chad and Scooch. I want to buy that guy at buffet.
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Speaker 1: This is the buffet with Chad and Scooch. Massive, massive
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Speaker 1: show today because we're in the middle of NBA playoffs
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Speaker 1: and we posted a story on the Action Network yesterday
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Speaker 1: that has blown up a little bit by our own
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Speaker 1: legendary degenerate slash writer slash editors slash Everyone's favorite better
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Speaker 1: uh Stucky, in which he posted seven props that he
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Speaker 1: wishes he could see on a board and that he
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Speaker 1: has asked the Twitter verse to take the other side
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Speaker 1: on He's already getting. He's already gotten a ton of action,
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Speaker 1: everything from like free throw shooting contests to you know,
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Speaker 1: when will the sixteen be to one again? To will
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Speaker 1: those the Patriots win the Super Bowl the next three years.
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Speaker 1: He's gonna come on on a little bit with Lauren Joffey.
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Speaker 1: They're gonna talk about those props, other props they'd like
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Speaker 1: to see. You can join us on our iTunes page
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Speaker 1: at the Buffet the Buffet page for iTunes. Um we
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Speaker 1: want you to do this week. You can put in
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Speaker 1: your rates, your ratings, and your reviews. But we want
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Speaker 1: you to do this week is post your favorite prop
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Speaker 1: that ever with a friend and the winner chosen by
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Speaker 1: a very subjective group of me and Mike Ronnell and
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Speaker 1: our other producer, Matt Mitchell. We will give you a
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Speaker 1: free subscription to the Action Network. So go on to
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Speaker 1: the Buffet iTunes page, post your favorite prop bet with
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Speaker 1: a friend, tell the story, we will choose the winner.
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Speaker 1: You'll get a free subscription. But first, but when we
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Speaker 1: get to you all of that, my guests worldwide, wob Twitter,
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Speaker 1: NBA Sensation Talent Extraordinaire, rab Perez from Cyclomedia. What's going on? Man? Hey?
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Speaker 1: So I have my own friend prop bet. I guess
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Speaker 1: I can share with you now that you just brought
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Speaker 1: it up. One of my best friends from home. Uh
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Speaker 1: is a die hard, the only die hard Brooklyn Nets fan,
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Speaker 1: all the way back to the Jersey Nets days. Like
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Speaker 1: we've gone to war Nick's versus Nets since as long
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Speaker 1: as we've known each other. And he was adamant. This
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Speaker 1: was the year that the Nets would come back and
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Speaker 1: they make the playoffs and they'd overachieve, and I go,
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Speaker 1: I will bet you that they don't win thirty games
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Speaker 1: this year. And this was before the over under came
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Speaker 1: out in Vegas, so I he's not he's not as
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Speaker 1: well educated in knowing what the number was gonna pay,
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Speaker 1: so I inflated it a little bit. But the number
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Speaker 1: was thirty, and the bet was this. The bet was
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Speaker 1: if the Nets win more than thirty games, so it
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Speaker 1: was really thirty would be a push. If they win
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Speaker 1: more than thirty games, meaning thirty one or more. I
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Speaker 1: will publicly admit on Buckets our show that I lost
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Speaker 1: this bet to you and I doubted the Nets. But
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Speaker 1: if they don't, I get to take your phone and
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Speaker 1: I get the text anyone that I want from your phone,
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Speaker 1: and he took it and they home. I think they
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Speaker 1: only got the win and I haven't. I haven't cashed
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Speaker 1: in my bet yet, but I'm kind of just It's
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Speaker 1: that scene from Family Guy where Stewie's like, or Brian's
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna get you back. You don't know when it's coming,
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Speaker 1: and Stewie is the entire episode is like tweaking out
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Speaker 1: because he's worried about it. So I've just been holding
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Speaker 1: it over his head that one in these days, I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna cash in this bet. And I know exactly who
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Speaker 1: I'm texting. Da. I was gonna say, you know exactly,
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Speaker 1: you know where the text is, and you know where
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Speaker 1: it's going, you know what's going to stay from day one. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that I gotta say. That has become a thing that
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Speaker 1: you've got to be so careful. So I have a
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Speaker 1: similar prop bet, which I've talked about the podcast before,
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Speaker 1: but me and my best friend Matt, every year we
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Speaker 1: will do, you know, with the pick Um contest on
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Speaker 1: ESPN dot com, and we'll pick every year every NFL
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Speaker 1: game against the spread. And at the end of the year, uh,
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Speaker 1: the loser Um is sent second place trophies and you
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Speaker 1: can send his. I mean, ultimately the winner ends up
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Speaker 1: losing out because the winner ends up spending so much
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Speaker 1: money on trophies, but you don't care because it's all
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Speaker 1: about pride. And so I have sent him. I've won
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Speaker 1: the past four years and like in crushing embarrassing, like
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Speaker 1: I don't even know why he plays anymore fashion and
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Speaker 1: I will send these trophies that are just like worst
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Speaker 1: loss in a week and pick them history, biggest loss
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Speaker 1: in a season in pick him history, and I will
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Speaker 1: send four or five trophies. One year, I sent a
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Speaker 1: four foot trophy that needed to be put together that
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Speaker 1: I uh called his wife and made his kids put
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Speaker 1: together with him as like a weekend project. Um, it's
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Speaker 1: so hetty, but so like the meaner it can be
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Speaker 1: the better, right, So one year we were actually uh
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Speaker 1: he and I went to Oxford, Mississippi. We went to
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Speaker 1: spend the weekend with Right Thompson, who was a writer
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Speaker 1: for ESPN and a lot of people know who he is.
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Speaker 1: Writes really great stories. So we went down to spend
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Speaker 1: the weekend with him, and you go to visit Right,
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Speaker 1: and there's gonna be like food and moonshine involved. And
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Speaker 1: we ended up at some party and there was homemade
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Speaker 1: coconut moonshine that tasted better than anything you've ever had
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Speaker 1: in your entire life. Honest to god, this was so good.
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Speaker 1: And you know, me and my buddy, two Northerners, are
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Speaker 1: sitting there in the kitchen of this party, and like
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Speaker 1: before you know it, this moonshine is gone. And we
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Speaker 1: are spinning like you wouldn't believe the most of it is.
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Speaker 1: It is like it is ugly, right, Like we end
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Speaker 1: up at Right's house like God knows when, and I've
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Speaker 1: got one ft on the floor, one ft on the out,
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Speaker 1: just trying to keep myself steady. And uh, I keep
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Speaker 1: hearing my buddy giggling and he I look up finally
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Speaker 1: and he's at the kitchen counter and he's like in hysterics.
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Speaker 1: He's laughing so hard because he was going into Facebook,
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Speaker 1: and like he got my phone and was going into Facebook,
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Speaker 1: just writing random things on the pages of people that
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Speaker 1: hadn't seen since high school. Since high school, like, oh
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Speaker 1: my god, Bobby, you look amazing. It looks like you're
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Speaker 1: really working out. I love the pictures that you're showing
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Speaker 1: on the beach with your family. That's so great, Like
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Speaker 1: all these things of people that I haven't spoken to
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Speaker 1: and God knows how long. Uh, And so I am
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Speaker 1: I'm fearful for your friend. That's that's a good way
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Speaker 1: to end the story right there. Yeah, you know what
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Speaker 1: the purpose of the story is. I'm fearful, but yeah
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Speaker 1: he should be. Really, that's the vitey of these prop
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Speaker 1: that's like they are so much fun and it's what's
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Speaker 1: sort of it's the magic of what Stucky captured and
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Speaker 1: what he'll come on and talk about later on the
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Speaker 1: podcast is like, Um, the more inventive and creative you
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Speaker 1: can get, the more fun it is. And sometimes it's
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Speaker 1: not even the money that matters, right, It's like, that's
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Speaker 1: what I want people to write about when people submit
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Speaker 1: on the iTunes paid for the buffet, Like submit what
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Speaker 1: the stakes were, because the stakes are always better when
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Speaker 1: it's not money, because then it's something that's sort of
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Speaker 1: makes people laugh and there's a lot of humiliation involved,
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Speaker 1: and who doesn't Who doesn't like humiliation? I wonder if
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Speaker 1: you one day you could bet Vegas without money? Could
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Speaker 1: you bet room nights? Could you bet buffets? But like
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Speaker 1: what would the what would the transaction be from the customer?
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Speaker 1: Would it be money or would it be a service?
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Speaker 1: Like you maybe that's maybe it's like it's like you
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Speaker 1: can bet the big is like you know, it's it's
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Speaker 1: a ten percent vigue or um you're getting Like you
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Speaker 1: can you can bet money or you can bet to
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Speaker 1: get paid in a buffet that is worth like the
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Speaker 1: cost of your bet plus the payback, you know what
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Speaker 1: I mean, And go ahead. I was gonna say, I'd
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Speaker 1: be interested to see a bet that you become like
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Speaker 1: a casino act in the way that if your bet loses,
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Speaker 1: you have to spend one hour in this tank that
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Speaker 1: is just in the middle of Las Vegas Boulevard with
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Speaker 1: branding on it, and you spend sixty minutes in there
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Speaker 1: if you lose, and then you come back out after
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Speaker 1: you're done. But if you win, you get free tickets
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Speaker 1: to circuit. So late tonight you doubt you know, like
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Speaker 1: this is the box of shame? Are you willing to
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Speaker 1: rest the box of shame? Here's the thing, here's the thing.
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Speaker 1: Most people go in to Vegas would love to be
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Speaker 1: in that box on the strip exactly. That's why I
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Speaker 1: would get so many bets and be great for publicity.
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Speaker 1: That is said, until someone makes a big deal out
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Speaker 1: of it and says that, like what you're doing is
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Speaker 1: shameful and that's that's the age we live in. But
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Speaker 1: you would make them sign a waiver that says I
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Speaker 1: am willing to do this. I'm willing to be shamed. Also,
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Speaker 1: I feel like in Vegas, like the Twitter rules are
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Speaker 1: suspended sort of everything that is fearful outside of Vegas.
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Speaker 1: Um is one d okay in Vegas that I will
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Speaker 1: agree with that that if something happens in Vegas, it
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Speaker 1: is outside the realm of culture. You signed up for it.
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Speaker 1: You're in Vegas, You're on your own. I once went
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Speaker 1: to Vegas UM for my bachelor party and going out
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Speaker 1: that night, my friends like, we're all getting ready to
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Speaker 1: go to dinner and stuff, and my friends, as I'm
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Speaker 1: walking into the room on one of the rooms, they're like, hey,
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Speaker 1: you look great tonight. I'm like thanks, and they're like,
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Speaker 1: but that's not what you're wearing. And they break out
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Speaker 1: a full on, one piece polyester Elvis jumpsuit with an
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Speaker 1: Elvis wig and Elvis glasses and made me wear it
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Speaker 1: the entire night that I was in Vegas and greatest
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Speaker 1: night of my entire life. Did you get any tours
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Speaker 1: coming up there trying to take pictures with you? And
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Speaker 1: that's at one point, um, one of the dealers asked
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Speaker 1: me to get up and dance when I was at
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Speaker 1: a blackjack table, which I did. I did an Elvis impersonation. UM, Well,
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Speaker 1: if we were inclined to go to a strip club
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Speaker 1: for my bachelor party. I would tell you that, Um,
10:13
Speaker 1: when we went outside to get a cab, we would
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Speaker 1: have gotten a free ride in a limo if we
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Speaker 1: were inclined to go to a strip club where if
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Speaker 1: there was a line, then we were given uh first
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Speaker 1: entry because we did not have to wait because I
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Speaker 1: was Elvis. I think you just spawned the idea here
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Speaker 1: of a new podcast that needs to happen, whether it's
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Speaker 1: with you or someone that maybe has an arsenal of
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Speaker 1: stories just called Vegas Tales, Tales from the Vegas crypt
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Speaker 1: or something that it's just every episode is a different story,
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Speaker 1: the same way that book Chicken Soup for the Soul
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Speaker 1: back in the nineties was out. It was like the
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Speaker 1: feel good story. We had a Chicken Soup for the
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Speaker 1: Vegas Soul, but not good stories, but like the funny,
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Speaker 1: the more self deprecating stories that ended up on a
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Speaker 1: Spike TV episode of Jail. We are one step ahead
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Speaker 1: of you, my friend, because we are doing that podcast
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Speaker 1: with black Jack Fletcher. He's, uh, we're developing as we speak.
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Speaker 1: You're like on top of it. You're like, don't think. Yeah, Um,
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Speaker 1: speaking of genius, you have uh you know, worldwide web
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Speaker 1: Rob Prez that is the guest in the podcast. Probably
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Speaker 1: UM one of the most influential NBA follows on Twitter,
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Speaker 1: and NBA Twitter is probably one of most influential things
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Speaker 1: in all of Twitter, and your rise to sort of
11:37
Speaker 1: dominance as an NBA fan turned NBA connoisseur towarned n
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Speaker 1: B a talent professional has largely been marked by your
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Speaker 1: success on Twitter. I need you to break this down
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Speaker 1: for people, because I don't think people truly get like all,
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Speaker 1: you know, if they're following you, they see sort of
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Speaker 1: how active you are and sort of the sensibility that
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Speaker 1: you have explained to people how this happened, how Worldwide
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Speaker 1: Web developed, also explained to people like if they're not
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Speaker 1: in the know, um, what the worldwide WOB is sort
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Speaker 1: of in homage to UM, and give people the back
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Speaker 1: story on how this happened. Well, yeah, I get asked
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Speaker 1: a lot where I thought of the name Worldwide. West
12:16
Speaker 1: was a power broker, influencer, agent, marketer type from the
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Speaker 1: early to mid two thousand's that was involved with Lebron
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Speaker 1: James and all the all the major stars at the time,
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Speaker 1: and I always just loved how he was this behind
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Speaker 1: the scenes kind of dude that was controlling the NBA.
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Speaker 1: Every every story that leaked, every business transaction that happened,
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Speaker 1: always went back to Worldwide West. As you know, fingerprints
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Speaker 1: were on top of it. So Worldwide West is the
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Speaker 1: worldwide part, and then the lab part is just my
12:47
Speaker 1: fifth grade girlfriend from elementary school couldn't purnounce the letter
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Speaker 1: R correctly, so it always sounded like Wob. So people
12:55
Speaker 1: called me Wob at the end of elementary school, through
12:57
Speaker 1: middle school, high school, and so on and so on.
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Speaker 1: So it just became Worldwidwide was That's the reason why
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Speaker 1: that name exists in the first place. Uh. And as
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Speaker 1: for the actual personality itself, honestly, there was never a
13:11
Speaker 1: what's the what's the Yodel kids name? Gordon Ramsey? I
13:14
Speaker 1: think that the chef guy Mason Ramsey Mason Ramsey. So
13:19
Speaker 1: I didn't have my Yodel Walmart moment where you know,
13:22
Speaker 1: the ken bone debate moment where you just hockey stick overnight.
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Speaker 1: Maybe part I can attribute part of the success of
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Speaker 1: what we've built to this point, as it's been just
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Speaker 1: a slow drip from as far back as I can remember.
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Speaker 1: I've always just watched the NBA as a fan and
13:38
Speaker 1: I've wanted to share watching it as a fan different
13:43
Speaker 1: than how other fans currently watch it. So you have
13:45
Speaker 1: fans that are very much into the XS and oh,
13:48
Speaker 1: so you know what what's a flex cut, What's what's
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Speaker 1: an elevator screen? You know, there's there's there's a conversation
13:53
Speaker 1: to be had there, and then there's you know, the
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Speaker 1: bar kind of conversation where you're just talking about who's
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Speaker 1: better mj or Lebron. I wanted to I kind of
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Speaker 1: the medium there, and while I'm still giving hot takes,
14:05
Speaker 1: I do want to show the league through a lens
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Speaker 1: that was never seen before. So if that is unnecessary
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Speaker 1: drama or pettiness that happens on the court, things like
14:15
Speaker 1: bench mobs, things like crossovers and dunks, I really wanted
14:20
Speaker 1: to flash a spotlight on that. And when I was
14:22
Speaker 1: getting started in app called Vine came around in two
14:26
Speaker 1: thousand and twelve, I thing two thousand eleven, whenever the
14:29
Speaker 1: hell that came out, and it gave me the ability
14:32
Speaker 1: to show the world what it is. I was talking
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Speaker 1: about this entire time, and granted I didn't really have
14:37
Speaker 1: them many followers. It was again very very slow coming in,
14:41
Speaker 1: but I knew when I got the opportunity for one
14:44
Speaker 1: thing to take off, I would have this massive portfolio
14:47
Speaker 1: of stuff to show someone willing to give me a shot.
14:50
Speaker 1: So when that moment did come, I had thousands and
14:53
Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of words ready to go to show
14:57
Speaker 1: anyone giving willing to give me a chance on a
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Speaker 1: freelance type a contract. Vine really was the start of
15:04
Speaker 1: being able to illustrate my opinions. And then Periscope came
15:07
Speaker 1: out in twenty maybe and that permitted me to kind
15:12
Speaker 1: of do a live interaction with the fan base. So
15:15
Speaker 1: I've always just looked forward to what's the next thing
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Speaker 1: that hasn't Someone hasn't planted their flag, their flag on
15:22
Speaker 1: the space yet. Zach Loow someone that will always dominate
15:26
Speaker 1: the excess and those conversation. Well respected voice has established
15:30
Speaker 1: himself over the better part of a decade. You know,
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Speaker 1: I want to plant my flag on the space of
15:35
Speaker 1: watching the game as a fan, and I'm going to
15:37
Speaker 1: continue to stick to that until it breaks. And so
15:42
Speaker 1: tell me about your fandom, Like how did you you
15:45
Speaker 1: mentioned your Knicks fan? I know you grew up outside
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Speaker 1: New York, Like, explain to people how you came to this,
15:51
Speaker 1: how you came to this game, You're you're talking about
15:55
Speaker 1: the where I'm at now with the show or just
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Speaker 1: how I'm such a case, such a big NDA fan.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, So, I mean my dad and mom met
16:06
Speaker 1: at NBC Sports. They were in just sales, you know,
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Speaker 1: media sales, ad sales at the time, and that's when
16:12
Speaker 1: NBC had every sport. They had like the World Series,
16:16
Speaker 1: at every NBA game under the sun. Uh So we
16:19
Speaker 1: ended up going to a bunch of games just because
16:21
Speaker 1: tickets were available when I was a little kid. So
16:25
Speaker 1: I grew up, just grew up outside New York, became
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Speaker 1: a huge Knicks fan. I even went to Market Square
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Speaker 1: Arena Game six Indianapolis, the game where Spike Lee showed
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Speaker 1: up to after getting the choke sign from Reggie Miller.
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Speaker 1: You know that, that whole deal. So just being a
16:40
Speaker 1: part of that whole nineties basketball, I never missed a
16:44
Speaker 1: game like I was. I was obsessed with it. And
16:46
Speaker 1: then going to North Carolina Chapel Hill. They have good
16:50
Speaker 1: somewhat decent basketball team there. Basketball has just always kind
16:53
Speaker 1: of been in my blood. And then when the NBA
16:56
Speaker 1: kind of transitioned out of the nineties and there was
16:58
Speaker 1: that that lull the early two thousands where you know,
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Speaker 1: ratings weren't good and it wasn't really talked about as
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Speaker 1: a prominent sport that much anymore. Then social media came
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Speaker 1: around and just this culture developed when I was coming
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Speaker 1: out of college, if you all to the middle to
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Speaker 1: end of the two thousands, where it just became this
17:18
Speaker 1: basketball professional basketball kind of became the sports religion, and
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Speaker 1: it's just sucked me in ever since. It really is
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Speaker 1: the kind of sport though, And we talked about this
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Speaker 1: a lot in sort of any form of media that
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Speaker 1: is so progressive and I don't mean any of this
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Speaker 1: in a political way, like it is. It is progressive
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Speaker 1: and inclusive in the way it embraces fandom and to
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Speaker 1: bring it back to what you were saying earlier, the
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Speaker 1: way it allows people to manipulate highlights and post them
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Speaker 1: in various social media and sort of enjoy being passionate
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Speaker 1: about the athleticism and the cookiness and sort of the
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Speaker 1: great plays me makes people feel more passionate about it
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Speaker 1: creates a virtuous cycle there, and they've been really good
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Speaker 1: about about emboldening people to do all that. Yeah, that's
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Speaker 1: that is what has taken the NBA fast forward to
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Speaker 1: you know, current time, just the ability to engage with
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Speaker 1: the league on and off the court. So what does
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Speaker 1: the NBA have advantage of over other sports when it
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Speaker 1: comes to marketing NBA players, they don't wear helmets and
18:28
Speaker 1: they don't wear masks. Hockey, baseball, football, they all wear
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Speaker 1: helmets and mass it's hard to see their face when
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Speaker 1: you're watching, you know, the broadcast, and just being able
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Speaker 1: to experience those emotions and seeing the way lebron K
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Speaker 1: d and all these stars react in real time. H
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Speaker 1: is an experience that is not only something amazing live,
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Speaker 1: but it's the reason why ratings continue to go up.
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Speaker 1: Is there's some sort of human element to it. And
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Speaker 1: that's just one checkbox, you know. The second is they
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Speaker 1: allow there. I shouldn't say they allow, but they're very
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Speaker 1: open to sharing content on social media, whether you know,
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Speaker 1: you pay for the licensing rights or not. And I'm
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Speaker 1: referring to bootleg type of highlights and mash up videos
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Speaker 1: and stuff like that. They see there's no right or
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Speaker 1: wrong when it comes to this business mentality. But the
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Speaker 1: NBA is on the end of the spectrum that is, okay,
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Speaker 1: you're bootlegging, are our games and our product, but you're
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Speaker 1: sharing it and that gets other people to watch the program.
19:33
Speaker 1: The other end of the spectrum is we own this content.
19:38
Speaker 1: We want to monetize every single eyeball on it. But
19:41
Speaker 1: what happens is you shut down accounts that are trying
19:45
Speaker 1: to share the content because it doesn't come from the
19:47
Speaker 1: main source, and therefore you don't have so many people
19:50
Speaker 1: talking about it. Again, there's no right or wrong way
19:53
Speaker 1: to do the business. But if you want it to
19:55
Speaker 1: become talked about and everything, just go completely viral as
20:00
Speaker 1: to the Instagram like that Kyrie has late at night
20:04
Speaker 1: can go viral because the NBA has built this culture
20:07
Speaker 1: of share, share, share um and I really think that
20:12
Speaker 1: the product is great. You can argue whether you like
20:14
Speaker 1: the NBA game itself, you know, there's plenty of opinions
20:17
Speaker 1: on that, but what's really tough to argue against is
20:20
Speaker 1: how they've integrated uh social media culture not only into
20:26
Speaker 1: the game, but into fans real life as well. So
20:31
Speaker 1: social media has become such a huge part of the
20:33
Speaker 1: way people are reacting to these games, like in real time.
20:38
Speaker 1: You know, there were all those tweets and all those
20:40
Speaker 1: reactions from NBA players to Lebron when he made that
20:43
Speaker 1: game winning shot, that he banked that game winning shot
20:45
Speaker 1: the other night, and then more to what happened we're
20:48
Speaker 1: recording this on Tuesday afternoon, more to what happened last
20:52
Speaker 1: night when they swept the Raptors. When you look at
20:55
Speaker 1: that series, how much did what Lebron did in that
20:58
Speaker 1: series surprise you? At how much did what the Raptors
21:03
Speaker 1: didn't do surprise you? Yeah, It's really the most impressive
21:09
Speaker 1: thing about Lebron James is that we continue to not
21:12
Speaker 1: be surprised by what he does. This is a man
21:14
Speaker 1: in his fifteen season that is headed towards his god
21:18
Speaker 1: knows how many Eastern Conference finals in a row. Uh.
21:22
Speaker 1: And the most impressive box score statistic that he has
21:26
Speaker 1: isn't even a box score stat it's his durability that
21:29
Speaker 1: he's played all eighty two games that he continues in
21:32
Speaker 1: year fifteen to put up these forty eight minute games
21:36
Speaker 1: while playing eighty two games plus an entire postseason, and
21:39
Speaker 1: then every four years he usually goes and placing the
21:41
Speaker 1: Olympics for the entire summer too. So just am I
21:45
Speaker 1: am I shocked? I shouldn't be, but this Cavs team
21:49
Speaker 1: really stinks. They're really not good. And this is as
21:53
Speaker 1: good of a Raptors team as we've ever seen. We've
21:56
Speaker 1: it's been is starting to feel a little Stockholm syndrome
21:59
Speaker 1: when it comes to the Raptors, because this was the
22:01
Speaker 1: year right they had every piece they needed, Derozen and lowering.
22:05
Speaker 1: These guys are starting on the All Star team. Uh,
22:08
Speaker 1: if not this year, but at some point they have
22:11
Speaker 1: reached the peak of their powers. And to watch them
22:13
Speaker 1: just kids waxed by a team that has no business,
22:17
Speaker 1: That Cleveland Cavaliers team wins fifteen games without Lebron James
22:21
Speaker 1: throughout the entire regular season, just to watch him continue
22:25
Speaker 1: to drag them through the depths of hell. I don't
22:30
Speaker 1: want to say it's shocking because we've seen it so
22:32
Speaker 1: many times. It's just more shocking that he can do
22:35
Speaker 1: it in year fifteen. And yeah, I'm disappointed in the Raptors,
22:40
Speaker 1: even though I shouldn't be because we've been down this
22:43
Speaker 1: road before. But my God, like, at this point, how
22:46
Speaker 1: do you ever exercise those demons? Let me challenge you
22:49
Speaker 1: a little bit. Let me challenge you a little bit.
22:51
Speaker 1: Because Matt Moore had a great story on Action Network
22:54
Speaker 1: today Action Network dot Com that basically said I was
22:58
Speaker 1: wrong about the Raptors because he had been on the
23:00
Speaker 1: Raptors all year a little bit like you were just
23:02
Speaker 1: saying and saying, this is a different Raptors team. And
23:05
Speaker 1: then he went through a litany of things that described
23:08
Speaker 1: why the Calves sort of won. And one note he
23:12
Speaker 1: had in there is that this Calvs team isn't as
23:15
Speaker 1: bad as people think, and that defensively they obviously played great. Um, offensively,
23:21
Speaker 1: they were off the charge, like what are you gonna
23:23
Speaker 1: do if you know, you know, j R. Smith is
23:26
Speaker 1: shooting god knows what he was shooting from behind the
23:27
Speaker 1: ark and everybody else was doing that. But um, that defensively,
23:31
Speaker 1: this actually has been a pretty good team in the playoffs.
23:34
Speaker 1: So I don't know that I think they're as bad
23:37
Speaker 1: as we thought they were. Maybe they're just getting better
23:39
Speaker 1: right now, maybe sort of the trades and sort of
23:42
Speaker 1: everyone is becoming a little bit better and supporting Lebron
23:45
Speaker 1: in a more consistent way. Yeah, so the biggest before
23:49
Speaker 1: the trades happened, the biggest issue was that these guys
23:53
Speaker 1: Isaiah Thomas, Jay Crowder. Uh god, I even got all
23:56
Speaker 1: the other guys that and at some some point Kyrie
23:59
Speaker 1: Irving too. If you play with Lebron James, you better
24:02
Speaker 1: fall into line. He is the alpha of all alpha's.
24:06
Speaker 1: It's his team, and he's always kind of lived and
24:09
Speaker 1: played by this uh father figure, big brother type of
24:14
Speaker 1: culture every single team that he's gone to. And the
24:17
Speaker 1: one year that he didn't, he let Wade you know,
24:19
Speaker 1: run the show was in Miami and they ended up
24:21
Speaker 1: losing to Dallas Mavericks in that first first summer, and
24:24
Speaker 1: then Lebron decided, you know what, I'm Lebron, I'm I'm
24:26
Speaker 1: retaking over. But in regards to his defen and like
24:29
Speaker 1: the team's defense, the same way that there's there's a
24:32
Speaker 1: tweet for everything, there's also a stat for everything. I'm
24:35
Speaker 1: sure I can find a stat that says they're the
24:37
Speaker 1: best team in the league, and there's a stat that
24:38
Speaker 1: says they're the worst team in the league. But I
24:40
Speaker 1: know what I'm seeing, and what I'm seeing is Lebron
24:43
Speaker 1: at the peak of his powers, is not only the
24:46
Speaker 1: best player in the world offensively, whatever you want to say,
24:50
Speaker 1: he's the best player in the world because he makes
24:52
Speaker 1: his teammates better, and not just better, but he's got
24:55
Speaker 1: all of these guys maxing out their potential. So if
24:59
Speaker 1: Kevin Love's role on this team is to not be
25:02
Speaker 1: that low post Minnesota Nimberwolves thirty and fifteen type guy,
25:06
Speaker 1: but to run baseline to baseline and hit threes. JR. Smith,
25:11
Speaker 1: same thing, Kyle Korver, same thing. We're gonna put four
25:14
Speaker 1: out one end when Tristan Thompson's in the game, and
25:17
Speaker 1: we're just gonna let Lebron create for everyone else. Um,
25:21
Speaker 1: it works because when you have Lebron, you support him
25:23
Speaker 1: with shooters and that's the way the game is played.
25:26
Speaker 1: I will continue to say that their defense stinks and
25:29
Speaker 1: just talent wise, when Lebron is not on the floor,
25:32
Speaker 1: this team stinks. I don't know how else to put.
25:35
Speaker 1: Don't have any stats in front of me to support
25:37
Speaker 1: my cause, but I know what I'm watching and they
25:40
Speaker 1: have zero, zero rim protection of any kind. The only
25:44
Speaker 1: way you're gonna beat Lebron is to be That's why
25:48
Speaker 1: Jonas Alan Tunas was such a disappointment, because whenever you
25:51
Speaker 1: got the ball in the block, it's like, dude, just
25:52
Speaker 1: turn around and lay it in. It shouldn't be that difficult.
25:55
Speaker 1: You got Kevin Love on you, who's four or five
25:57
Speaker 1: inches smaller. The only big guy they got on their
25:59
Speaker 1: team that's even worth the damn Tristan Thompson. He is
26:02
Speaker 1: not known for his defense. He's known for his rebounding.
26:04
Speaker 1: So you want to you're begging these teams to take
26:07
Speaker 1: advantage of the Calv's biggest weakness. And maybe it is
26:09
Speaker 1: a testament to their defense that no one's been able
26:12
Speaker 1: to expose it yet. But if you run into the
26:14
Speaker 1: Sixers somehow, if they pull off this three oh comeback,
26:17
Speaker 1: or if if Boston gets the ball to Horford down low,
26:21
Speaker 1: you got anyone that can stop these guys? The answer
26:23
Speaker 1: is no, And that's what Golden State will do in
26:25
Speaker 1: the finals when they sweep them. All right, said, well,
26:27
Speaker 1: you've you've jumped ahead to my questions. So, um, you
26:31
Speaker 1: know your way around a betting parlor, you know your
26:33
Speaker 1: way around a sports book. Handicap. Let's let's let's assume
26:39
Speaker 1: the Celtics are gonna finish off the Sixers, So handicap
26:43
Speaker 1: for me, and I'm not ready to say that yet
26:46
Speaker 1: before you keep going, all right, then handicapped for me.
26:51
Speaker 1: How this series plays out between the Celtics and the Sixers.
26:54
Speaker 1: You know, bear in mind we're recording this on Tuesday.
26:57
Speaker 1: It'll post sometime Wednesday. I think that's from the next
27:00
Speaker 1: game is um, tell me how this series plays out,
27:03
Speaker 1: and then tell me what you think the series odds
27:06
Speaker 1: should be for Calf Celtics or Calf Sixers. So down
27:12
Speaker 1: three oh the seventies Sixers were by from what I saw,
27:17
Speaker 1: they were plus six eighties plus seven hundred or something
27:21
Speaker 1: to win the series. Down oh three, never done before.
27:25
Speaker 1: And you've got the Lawyers minus fifty tho, you got
27:28
Speaker 1: the Rockets minus You've got the Sixers like they're still
27:32
Speaker 1: in it. There's a reason why there's tall towers in
27:35
Speaker 1: Las Vegas, right, And it's not because they give away
27:38
Speaker 1: lines make them too easy to bet. You'd figured bet
27:41
Speaker 1: the Celtics minus nine hundred or whatever it is. Uh,
27:44
Speaker 1: it's it's a stone cold luck. They're not the better team,
27:47
Speaker 1: they're the better coach team. The Sixers are better in
27:50
Speaker 1: every facet of the game. And I'm not ready to
27:52
Speaker 1: say that this series is over because if the Sixers
27:54
Speaker 1: win Game five, they're gonna win that series. It all
27:57
Speaker 1: comes down to Game five from me. So if I'm
27:59
Speaker 1: gonna cap a potential Sixers Calves or Celtics Calves Eastern
28:05
Speaker 1: Conference Finals. I still think I'm gonna go on record
28:08
Speaker 1: and say I still think the Sixers are gonna win
28:09
Speaker 1: this series and be the first team we're gonna see
28:12
Speaker 1: a sixteen seed be two one, and we're gonna see
28:13
Speaker 1: an NBA team come back from O. Three. So the
28:16
Speaker 1: Sixers do end up winning this series. They have the
28:19
Speaker 1: Cleveland Cavaliers kryptonite, which is the most dominant big man
28:22
Speaker 1: in the league. They've got an up and coming Shaquille
28:24
Speaker 1: O'Neal with a three point jump shot, and every single
28:27
Speaker 1: time they played this year, the Calves didn't have a
28:29
Speaker 1: shot in hell of guarding this guy. He will feast
28:32
Speaker 1: upon their flesh like we're watching some some Lord of
28:35
Speaker 1: the Rings scene. Uh, if I have to put a
28:38
Speaker 1: number on it, you're not You're not not making Lebron
28:42
Speaker 1: James the favorite unless it's the Golden State Warriors. So
28:45
Speaker 1: I'm you're gonna throw out Calves. They're gonna be on
28:50
Speaker 1: the road Calves minus one thirty seventy Sixers plus one ten.
28:55
Speaker 1: But uh, you have to imagine there's gonna be a
28:58
Speaker 1: lot of sharp money on the seventy sixers there. Now,
29:00
Speaker 1: if they don't pull it off, you're gonna have the Celtics,
29:02
Speaker 1: who are the overachievers, the better coach team, and they're
29:05
Speaker 1: gonna certainly be the better coach team against UH Cleveland
29:09
Speaker 1: as well. So Boston's got home court. Yeah, the Calves
29:15
Speaker 1: I think win that series to make the finals, and
29:18
Speaker 1: I think the seventy six is beat the Calves. But
29:20
Speaker 1: the Calves beat the Celtics. So if I'm putting a
29:23
Speaker 1: number on it could run it. If I'm putting a
29:26
Speaker 1: number on Celtics Calves, I wish I came prepared for this,
29:30
Speaker 1: because I'm not a bookmaker. But what else I didn't know?
29:36
Speaker 1: I had the book action on hypothetical Eastern Conference Finals. Here,
29:40
Speaker 1: I'm making the Calves minus that's very similar. I'm making
29:42
Speaker 1: them a minus one forty minus one fifty just because
29:45
Speaker 1: they don't have home court, and you have to make
29:47
Speaker 1: sure that first game is pretty similar to the series price.
29:50
Speaker 1: Otherwise everyone's just gonna load up on the first game.
29:53
Speaker 1: So I'm thinking minus one forty minus one fifty probably
29:56
Speaker 1: on the Calves. If they were home, you're looking at
29:59
Speaker 1: minus three already, minus three fifty. But you know, not
30:02
Speaker 1: home court. So it does get really interesting. You're not
30:05
Speaker 1: wrong about the Sixers. They are a one point favorite
30:08
Speaker 1: tomorrow night in Boston. And look they they felt like
30:12
Speaker 1: very they felt like a very different team last night.
30:15
Speaker 1: I was on the Sixers last night. I was on
30:17
Speaker 1: him at six and a half in our side action
30:20
Speaker 1: slap channel here at Action Network. UM. I had a
30:23
Speaker 1: bet against p J Walsh, who thought he was baiting
30:26
Speaker 1: me into taking that bet, but I was all over
30:28
Speaker 1: it and I would take the Sixers again as one
30:31
Speaker 1: point favorites on the road in Boston. But here's where
30:35
Speaker 1: it gets interesting. After Game three, all of the conversation
30:40
Speaker 1: was Brad Stevens is a genius, best coach in the NBA,
30:44
Speaker 1: best you know, tactician in the NBA. If the Celtics
30:49
Speaker 1: lose this series, is that narrative change? Is he no
30:53
Speaker 1: longer a genius? Like to how do people get out
30:55
Speaker 1: of the whole of having said that he is the
30:57
Speaker 1: greatest coach in the history of the NBA. Yeah, I
31:01
Speaker 1: think that's true that the narrative does change, and it
31:03
Speaker 1: would deserve to change if you're the coach responsible for
31:05
Speaker 1: blowing in OH three lead three oh lead you can't
31:09
Speaker 1: be known as the best coach in the league, and
31:11
Speaker 1: he doesn't have any rings either. But we see the
31:14
Speaker 1: brilliance in some of these breakdowns that have come out
31:16
Speaker 1: on whether it's like The Ringer or sp Nation, they
31:18
Speaker 1: break down these final A t O s that Brad
31:21
Speaker 1: Stevens like six or seven times he draws up these
31:25
Speaker 1: just ludicrous plays that not only get his guys open,
31:28
Speaker 1: but he does them on defense too. He's always one
31:30
Speaker 1: step ahead. So the basketball brilliance is there. But it's
31:33
Speaker 1: absolutely essential that they close this series out. If we're
31:37
Speaker 1: going to continue saying that he's the best coach in
31:41
Speaker 1: the league, he can't lose a three oh lead. End
31:44
Speaker 1: of story. But yeah, the Sixers are a better, better
31:47
Speaker 1: basketball team that's just getting out coached, uh, and that
31:51
Speaker 1: could be responsible for losing a series. So we'll find
31:54
Speaker 1: out in Game five exactly what Brett Brown and what
31:58
Speaker 1: the seventy Sixers are may of because they should be
32:01
Speaker 1: dominating and there's a reason why they're favorite. What I
32:04
Speaker 1: don't like is the narrative that Brett Brown isn't a
32:06
Speaker 1: good coach, because this is a guy who has saying that, Well,
32:10
Speaker 1: I feel like people are saying that like when you
32:12
Speaker 1: when you when you frame it as Brad Stevens is
32:17
Speaker 1: out coaching this guy and doing this much of a
32:19
Speaker 1: better job, it's almost like it feels like you're putting
32:22
Speaker 1: a Dunce camp on the other guy. And I feel
32:25
Speaker 1: like he's a really good coach who has done a
32:27
Speaker 1: phenomenal job basically coaching a team from you know a metaphor,
32:32
Speaker 1: from high school to the NBA, right Like he is
32:35
Speaker 1: built that team, built that culture, and done a great
32:38
Speaker 1: job of sort of trying to find ways to keep
32:40
Speaker 1: everyone together and build something that they can be proud of.
32:44
Speaker 1: And it feels a little sad to me that he's
32:47
Speaker 1: being compared to Brad Stevens because of these sort of
32:50
Speaker 1: out of bounds plays that then an aftertime out plays,
32:53
Speaker 1: and and being and and suffering by comparison in a
32:59
Speaker 1: in an uneven Yeah. So if if that's the case,
33:03
Speaker 1: then Brad's then everyone else is a bad coach too.
33:05
Speaker 1: Because Brad Stevens has been out coaching everyone not named
33:10
Speaker 1: Steve Kerr or Bruten Holzer, you know, multiple times throughout
33:15
Speaker 1: the regular season every single year since he's been the
33:18
Speaker 1: Celtics head coach. What It's not that Brett Brett Brown
33:22
Speaker 1: is a bad coach. He's just getting out coached for
33:25
Speaker 1: the first three games. But he won game four, so
33:27
Speaker 1: you can say he out coach Brad Stevenson game four.
33:29
Speaker 1: Now the narrative has changed. What makes Brad Stevens great
33:33
Speaker 1: is watching this team of overachievers that they're missing half
33:36
Speaker 1: their their squad, like all they're all stars, are injured.
33:39
Speaker 1: And what's impressive is that it's not that he's just
33:42
Speaker 1: winning games, is that he's got a system in place
33:45
Speaker 1: and he can take anyone off that bench. He could
33:48
Speaker 1: put Yaboo Selly in Nader and all these guys all
33:51
Speaker 1: the way at the end with Greg Monroe and probably
33:54
Speaker 1: go out there and close out this series. And that's
33:56
Speaker 1: a testament not only to the culture that he's created
33:58
Speaker 1: amongst his players, but something's working. And when he continues
34:03
Speaker 1: to succeed in these clutch uh situations and eight again,
34:07
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep alluding to a T O S because
34:09
Speaker 1: of just how special he is at drawing those things up.
34:12
Speaker 1: Where there's smoke, there's usually fire in this league, and
34:16
Speaker 1: his fire has been burning since the moment he's come in.
34:18
Speaker 1: It's the most impressive thing for a coach, in my opinion,
34:22
Speaker 1: isn't so much the rings as it is your ability
34:24
Speaker 1: to create a system like Greg Popovich is done in
34:27
Speaker 1: San Antonio, where it don't matter who we draft or
34:30
Speaker 1: who we sign, they're gonna come in here and play
34:33
Speaker 1: our style of basketball because it works. And there's really
34:37
Speaker 1: only two total coaches in teams that you can say
34:40
Speaker 1: that about the Spurs in the Celtics. Alright, So look
34:43
Speaker 1: at the Western Conference for a second. Let's say it's
34:46
Speaker 1: you've already said, you just said the Warriors are gonna
34:48
Speaker 1: get to the finals, are going to suit the Calves.
34:50
Speaker 1: So to me, that means you think they're getting by
34:52
Speaker 1: the Rockets pretty easily. Yes, And the reason for that
34:56
Speaker 1: is I live I live by the mantra you can't
35:01
Speaker 1: out Warriors the Warriors. If you're gonna come into the
35:03
Speaker 1: building and try and outshoot them, you're gonna try and
35:05
Speaker 1: outrun them, You're gonna try and outpace them. That's what
35:08
Speaker 1: D'Antoni has been trying to do for two decades. You
35:11
Speaker 1: can't out Warriors the Warriors. There's no way to do it.
35:14
Speaker 1: They're simply too good. They're the best team up until
35:18
Speaker 1: this point of all time. On paper, they need to
35:20
Speaker 1: close it out. They need to win another championship before
35:23
Speaker 1: you have that conversation. But this is a flawless basketball
35:28
Speaker 1: team when Steph Curry's on the floor and he's healthy,
35:30
Speaker 1: and the fact that the Rockets are going to go
35:32
Speaker 1: out there again and just kind of try and shoot
35:34
Speaker 1: their way into the NBA Finals is not gonna work.
35:38
Speaker 1: If this was a sudden death one game, you could
35:41
Speaker 1: believe it in a heartbeat, because the Rockets can catch fire.
35:43
Speaker 1: But there are so many possessions in an NBA game
35:46
Speaker 1: now north of a hundred when it comes to pace,
35:49
Speaker 1: and you gotta beat them four at a seven times
35:52
Speaker 1: four at a seven. And they ain't got no home
35:54
Speaker 1: court advantage in Houston. That's that's that is one of
35:57
Speaker 1: the quieter crowds left in I know Houston will come
36:00
Speaker 1: after me for that, but you know what, that's It's true,
36:03
Speaker 1: like I don't feel a home court advantage. That's a Utah,
36:07
Speaker 1: like a Philly, like a Boston. It's not daunting to
36:09
Speaker 1: go into Houston. That's the one advantage you got over
36:12
Speaker 1: Golden State. It's not there for me. It's just not
36:15
Speaker 1: And unless they decide to change their system real quick. Um,
36:19
Speaker 1: I see Golden State closing that out in four, or
36:22
Speaker 1: maybe a gentleman sweep. Really, yeah, they've they've been polite.
36:28
Speaker 1: They gentlemen sweeped San Antonio to make sure man who
36:31
Speaker 1: got his nice little goodbye they did. They're gonna do
36:33
Speaker 1: a nice little gentleman's sweep with New Orleans, and they'll
36:36
Speaker 1: do a nice little gentleman's sweep with the Houston Rockets
36:39
Speaker 1: before they go back to the finals. But too good.
36:42
Speaker 1: I understand what you mean by gentleman sweep, but essentially
36:45
Speaker 1: what you're saying is they're gonna let him have that
36:47
Speaker 1: one game sort of feel good, get the home crowd energized,
36:50
Speaker 1: do something nice like they're not doing it on purpose,
36:52
Speaker 1: But there's gonna be that game where they just don't
36:54
Speaker 1: go as hard. Yeah, they did not show up to
36:57
Speaker 1: that Game four in San Antonio. They were halfway on
36:59
Speaker 1: the lane by halftime. They got beat in Game three
37:03
Speaker 1: by like a drum. But sometimes they just don't show up.
37:06
Speaker 1: And I had I think I did a tweet earlier
37:08
Speaker 1: this year that I was watching every Warriors game, in
37:11
Speaker 1: every dribble that they play, mainly because Swaggy P and
37:13
Speaker 1: Javelle McGee are on the squad and I don't want
37:15
Speaker 1: to miss anything. But they don't even show up to
37:17
Speaker 1: games anymore. It's like they show up to quarters because
37:20
Speaker 1: they know we don't have to show up to games.
37:22
Speaker 1: Were too good. Granted it's the playoffs now and they
37:24
Speaker 1: certainly are showing up to full games, but as soon
37:27
Speaker 1: as they snap their fingers and turn it on, there's
37:29
Speaker 1: not a team, a concoction of players that from all
37:33
Speaker 1: other teams in the Western Conference that can beat these guys.
37:36
Speaker 1: It's a system that Steve kers got I was talking
37:38
Speaker 1: about Popovich and Brad Stevens before. He's built a system
37:42
Speaker 1: that these that these perennial All stars can thrive in,
37:46
Speaker 1: and that's what makes them a super team. The only
37:49
Speaker 1: super team is it's not just a collection of talented individuals.
37:53
Speaker 1: Look what happened to Okay, see you put you just
37:55
Speaker 1: play NBA two K and you make all these great
37:58
Speaker 1: trades and you put all the stars together. You got
38:00
Speaker 1: there and you dominate. But it doesn't happen in real life.
38:02
Speaker 1: When there's not a system in place to maximize their talents,
38:06
Speaker 1: you just can't beat them at their own game, and
38:09
Speaker 1: I feel like I get the opportunity to buy Warrior
38:12
Speaker 1: stock this year because for three months everyone was Steph
38:15
Speaker 1: Curry's hurt to Rand's hurt. They don't care. They're gonna
38:17
Speaker 1: They're gonna run into more motivated teams. I'm like, I'll
38:20
Speaker 1: take your stock, bye bye, bye bye. They even put
38:22
Speaker 1: a plus sign in front of the Golden State Wars
38:24
Speaker 1: to win the title at one point, by you know,
38:27
Speaker 1: what are you guys doing. It's the same Warriors team.
38:29
Speaker 1: They ain't losing. You can you can record this all
38:32
Speaker 1: you want. They're not losing. Yeah, I mean that's what
38:34
Speaker 1: I was gonna say. I think at one point this
38:35
Speaker 1: year they were like plus three fifty to win the
38:38
Speaker 1: NBA title. Get out of here. It's it's insane unless
38:43
Speaker 1: you think they're not. Their stars were gonna be injured
38:45
Speaker 1: throughout the playoffs. But if your reasoning was they don't
38:47
Speaker 1: have it, then you haven't watched enough games this year
38:50
Speaker 1: to see that they just didn't care. After that seventy
38:53
Speaker 1: three win campaign, we saw the following season like, we
38:57
Speaker 1: don't want to do that again, because that was eight
38:59
Speaker 1: months playing every game like Game seven, and it just
39:03
Speaker 1: didn't look like they found it to be worth it anymore.
39:05
Speaker 1: We're not going to match that intensity every single night,
39:08
Speaker 1: so we'll show up when we need to, and then
39:10
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, we're gonna wax your ass. I guess
39:12
Speaker 1: what's amazing is that they can do that, that they
39:14
Speaker 1: can turn it on sort of at a whim. And
39:17
Speaker 1: that's always been the challenge for a lot of teams
39:19
Speaker 1: is that they can't. And that's why as a better
39:22
Speaker 1: it's been hard to buy into them sort of late
39:25
Speaker 1: until late in the season because you didn't know what
39:27
Speaker 1: you were going to get. Is why I think the
39:28
Speaker 1: price as along with the injuries, I think just people
39:31
Speaker 1: were thinking they're not as motivated as they used to be,
39:33
Speaker 1: and it's hard to turn that switch. It's hard to
39:35
Speaker 1: invest in that. Oh it's and it's thoroughly maddening to
39:39
Speaker 1: bet on the Warriors at any point, whether it's the
39:41
Speaker 1: playoffs or the regular season, because they're laying such massive
39:44
Speaker 1: numbers no matter where they go. And then they go
39:47
Speaker 1: up by twenty and they send in McCaw and they
39:50
Speaker 1: send in Quinn, Cook Looney and these guys that are like,
39:54
Speaker 1: oh God, here we go. And then before you know it,
39:56
Speaker 1: twenties down to ten just because they don't care. So
40:00
Speaker 1: every game that you've been on the Warriors feels like
40:02
Speaker 1: it comes down to whether Quinn Cook makes that garbage
40:05
Speaker 1: three with twenty eight seconds left. Uh. And that's just
40:08
Speaker 1: because their bench, you know, just they come in and
40:11
Speaker 1: it's been the same thing for three three years now.
40:14
Speaker 1: When you're laying that type of number, it's really hard
40:17
Speaker 1: unless you're up by thirty to protect laying that many points. Alright,
40:22
Speaker 1: worldwide Web, you have made a declaration that the Warriors
40:25
Speaker 1: are going to sweep the Calves in the finals. Although
40:29
Speaker 1: you have said that, you also had a declaration that
40:33
Speaker 1: the Celtics sixers contest is not over yet, which I'm
40:36
Speaker 1: excited to see, you know, in the future world how
40:38
Speaker 1: that plays out. Um, tell us all the places we
40:42
Speaker 1: can find everything you're doing. Sure. Our our program at
40:48
Speaker 1: cycle here is called Buckets. Unfortunately we're on a hiatus
40:52
Speaker 1: at the moment, so we don't have a set return
40:55
Speaker 1: date as to when the program is going to be
40:57
Speaker 1: back live, but you can find us on both ESPN
41:00
Speaker 1: and at b y Cycle on Twitter. Cycles the name
41:04
Speaker 1: of the content creation company here that works under laundry
41:11
Speaker 1: Service The ad agency and we produced content. Uh we uh,
41:15
Speaker 1: we work with brands. We we do shows like Buckets, um,
41:19
Speaker 1: all that good stuff. So uh, definitely check us out
41:22
Speaker 1: if you haven't already. UM, we live on the internet.
41:25
Speaker 1: So if you're looking for what we like to say
41:28
Speaker 1: on Buckets is it's not just a basketball culture, it's
41:30
Speaker 1: a it's a lifestyle. So if you're looking for that
41:32
Speaker 1: type of experience, certainly Buckets and Cycles for you. I
41:36
Speaker 1: will tell you it's a great show. I hope it
41:38
Speaker 1: comes back soon. We produced a Super Bowl pregame betting
41:43
Speaker 1: show and the Super Bowl halftime show and a super
41:45
Speaker 1: Bowl postgame show, and um, it was the first thing
41:48
Speaker 1: that we tried at the Action Network. We did it
41:50
Speaker 1: in February, obviously we only launched in January. And UM
41:54
Speaker 1: I sent episodes of Buckets to the guy who was
41:59
Speaker 1: producing it, saying, our show needs to look and feel
42:02
Speaker 1: like this really really good. So, uh, when you guys
42:05
Speaker 1: are doing it cycle generally it's really interesting. Um. Thanks
42:09
Speaker 1: for coming on the podcast. Man, it was great to
42:10
Speaker 1: have your great basketball conversation. I'm looking forward to seeing,
42:14
Speaker 1: uh what you text and to whom when you get
42:17
Speaker 1: back your buddy who foolishly bet that that's when more
42:21
Speaker 1: than thirty games. So, uh, please keep us posted and
42:24
Speaker 1: you come back and tell that Vegas story. Yeah, I'm
42:26
Speaker 1: always open for hypothetical bets with Twitter too. I bet
42:29
Speaker 1: the City of Philadelphia they wouldn't win forty three games
42:32
Speaker 1: and I lost, so I had to write every single
42:34
Speaker 1: every single person an apology letter and eat my bet
42:37
Speaker 1: ticket live on puckets. So I'm always down to do them.
42:40
Speaker 1: Oh that's beautiful. I didn't even know that we can
42:43
Speaker 1: just we can just get out a lot those on
42:45
Speaker 1: Action Network and we can start sending traffic your way. Well,
42:49
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna get a lot of I'm gonna get drunk,
42:51
Speaker 1: and then I'm going to end up betting stupid things
42:54
Speaker 1: with people that I have no upside and just just
42:57
Speaker 1: for pride purposes, and then it's going to turn into
42:59
Speaker 1: a thing. But yeah, so you know what, put it on,
43:01
Speaker 1: Put it up there and I'll take a look. We
43:03
Speaker 1: can periscope and it'll be fantastic live live taking bets
43:09
Speaker 1: live with the Action Network. Uh, make me an offer,
43:13
Speaker 1: and it's kind of like a deal or no deal.
43:15
Speaker 1: You make a bet and if you're willing to eat
43:17
Speaker 1: your jersey, the entire jersey if you lose. Maybe that's
43:21
Speaker 1: something I'll be interested in. So I'll tell you what
43:23
Speaker 1: you know, what people can people can do. People can
43:25
Speaker 1: go into the buffet page on iTunes and in the
43:28
Speaker 1: reviews they can write what the bet they want to
43:31
Speaker 1: make with you. We will send them to you and
43:33
Speaker 1: you can start tweeting out those. You can decide which
43:35
Speaker 1: ones you want to take, and you can do a
43:36
Speaker 1: little programming about it. Sounds good, but if you're listening
43:40
Speaker 1: to this, make sure it's an offer that is legit.
43:43
Speaker 1: Like I don't want to see no lopside. It offers
43:46
Speaker 1: the unrealistic things. I can't write fourteen thousand letters again.
43:50
Speaker 1: I'm only going to do that once. So come with
43:52
Speaker 1: some creativity and we'll get back to you. I mean,
43:55
Speaker 1: that's the beauty that says you can make the choice
43:57
Speaker 1: right like anybody can pose anything they want in the
43:59
Speaker 1: reviews action and then collectively we can decide which ones
44:03
Speaker 1: you want to pursue and which ones aren't what you well,
44:05
Speaker 1: it will make me a bet on the Warriors. I'm
44:07
Speaker 1: saying the lawyers are gonna walk through the finals and
44:09
Speaker 1: the sweep the Calves I'm willing to willing to take
44:12
Speaker 1: action on it, so use that as your crooks and UM, yeah,
44:16
Speaker 1: all right forward to see what comes in You heard
44:19
Speaker 1: it worldwide Web, Go to our iTunes page, go to
44:21
Speaker 1: the buffet. Type in your bets. Let's see what you
44:23
Speaker 1: can get him to do for you. Follow him at
44:26
Speaker 1: world underscore Wide underscore WOB on Twitter. Honestly, it is
44:31
Speaker 1: probably the best NBA follow on Twitter. Um, thanks for
44:34
Speaker 1: doing this, brother, I appreciate it. Thanks for the time.
44:37
Speaker 1: Chid next up on the podcast. We originally thought it
44:41
Speaker 1: was gonna be uh Stucky who wrote this great story
44:44
Speaker 1: about all the prop bets that he's willing to take
44:47
Speaker 1: from fans, like things that aren't on board that he'd
44:50
Speaker 1: love to bet. And then we were bringing on Lauren
44:52
Speaker 1: Joffe because she had some ideas on this too. Of course, Stucky,
44:57
Speaker 1: while confirming, has now disappeared or and do not responded
45:00
Speaker 1: to anybody's texts. So we're gonna merge. Probably we're gonna
45:05
Speaker 1: morph from being just irritated to you know, sending in
45:08
Speaker 1: an app to find Stucky at some point. But while
45:11
Speaker 1: we were chatting, Joffy, you brought up a very interesting
45:15
Speaker 1: theory to me, which is the idea of hate betting.
45:21
Speaker 1: Explain to me where this comes from. Basically just comes
45:27
Speaker 1: from me making best based on nothing but out of
45:33
Speaker 1: irritations for specific person or like like, for instance, um
45:39
Speaker 1: my ex boyfriend played for a USC and so he
45:44
Speaker 1: whenever you know, we'd be playing them or anyone will
45:46
Speaker 1: be playing though for that matter, um, I would bet
45:49
Speaker 1: against it just because I wanted him to be annoyed
45:54
Speaker 1: and sad and miserable. Like that was literally my only
45:58
Speaker 1: reason for doing it. There was no numbers, back anything up.
46:01
Speaker 1: It was just I'm gonna do this because that way
46:04
Speaker 1: I could root for his misery. And I mean, and
46:10
Speaker 1: that's just an example. That's one example. I mean, they
46:14
Speaker 1: get they get really bad. For a while, I had
46:16
Speaker 1: an I had another ex boyfriend who uh, whose dad
46:19
Speaker 1: was a huge Cubs fan and this was this was
46:21
Speaker 1: way back in the day, and uh, and he was
46:25
Speaker 1: and he was going to go to the World Series
46:27
Speaker 1: and he was so excite, and I was like, no,
46:28
Speaker 1: I don't really want his dad to have any fun.
46:31
Speaker 1: I mean, like, I mean, there was you know, there
46:33
Speaker 1: was more behind us, but whatever, the whatever the point is,
46:37
Speaker 1: I like, really I rooted against the Cubs just for
46:41
Speaker 1: that purpose, and I actually felt guilty afterwards. I really
46:43
Speaker 1: felt like I then the reason why. But but I
46:46
Speaker 1: won the bet. So you know, why are you filled
46:49
Speaker 1: with such rage? Why are you vindictively betting against people?
46:55
Speaker 1: I I don't. I I think it had to do
47:00
Speaker 1: just with Part of it I think is I'm I'm
47:06
Speaker 1: jealous that perhaps my teams haven't been there, so I
47:11
Speaker 1: don't want anyone else to be there. Um, I think that.
47:17
Speaker 1: I just I think I need to do more with
47:20
Speaker 1: my life currently. Um, I don't know. That's you know, well,
47:28
Speaker 1: that's probably what more do you need to be doing?
47:31
Speaker 1: Explained to people? Explain to people what exactly you aren't
47:36
Speaker 1: doing or are you doing that? Like needs you to
47:39
Speaker 1: do more? Well, I'm currently about a year ago, I moved,
47:47
Speaker 1: I got sick. I'm all better now nothing, you know whatever,
47:50
Speaker 1: I'm fine. Um, And I moved to d C because
47:53
Speaker 1: that's where my parents were living in the Wanderny to
47:56
Speaker 1: see doctors here, YadA, YadA, YadA. So meanwhile I'm here
48:00
Speaker 1: and I'm going insane living. I mean, I'm an adult
48:05
Speaker 1: living with her parents. It's it's it's driving me crazy. Um,
48:12
Speaker 1: I don't know anyone here, and um, I don't like
48:16
Speaker 1: it here so pretty much. I get rage built up
48:22
Speaker 1: from that and and I have to spend it somewhere,
48:27
Speaker 1: so you know, and so my my guess is you
48:31
Speaker 1: are spending it on your hate bets. Yes, and on Twitter.
48:39
Speaker 1: That's what I think. Oh Twitter for sure, because I
48:43
Speaker 1: don't have I mean, like, I have my dogs here,
48:46
Speaker 1: but you know, they get they only can listen to
48:48
Speaker 1: so much of what I have to say, so I
48:51
Speaker 1: have to tell someone and Twitter is a place to
48:53
Speaker 1: do that. Um. You know, I don't like to necessarily
48:57
Speaker 1: start fights with people, but it happens. And you know,
49:03
Speaker 1: I realized, like I remember I was telling my friend
49:05
Speaker 1: of like, oh my god, so today on Twitter, and
49:08
Speaker 1: they looked at me like I was crazy. Um, but
49:11
Speaker 1: that's literally that that that's somewhat of what I've been doing, um,
49:17
Speaker 1: which you know is made for some good content, I suppose, Um,
49:21
Speaker 1: but you know, must is going crazy, so well you know,
49:25
Speaker 1: I'm in favor of you going crazy. Um. When people
49:28
Speaker 1: ask me about Jeffy, I'm like, she's great. Uh, she's crazy,
49:32
Speaker 1: but she's totally great. But it also means that you're
49:35
Speaker 1: doing great content for us like your column this week
49:37
Speaker 1: is fantastic, and you're gonna do another column for us.
49:40
Speaker 1: So that's the ame. That really is the ame that Listen,
49:46
Speaker 1: I'm a mercenary, honest to god. If your lack of
49:50
Speaker 1: mental well being leads to better content for the Action Network,
49:54
Speaker 1: by God, I'm all for it. I mean, and you
49:58
Speaker 1: know what, I am at the point where I still
50:00
Speaker 1: think it's funny. Like I mean I remember telling people
50:03
Speaker 1: like when I was younger, and like, if you lock
50:05
Speaker 1: me in a room for like a year by myself,
50:07
Speaker 1: I think I would still come out laughing, like I
50:09
Speaker 1: think I'm funny. Um, So, like I mean, you know,
50:17
Speaker 1: this is a random this is a random story, but
50:20
Speaker 1: there was this There's this guy sit behind us a
50:23
Speaker 1: hockey games growing up, and I just remember him one
50:26
Speaker 1: day going, Lauren, can you can you play Comma just
50:29
Speaker 1: for like five minutes? And and that's sort of always
50:32
Speaker 1: stuck with me, is people just just play Coma for
50:34
Speaker 1: like five minutes, like you know, stop talking or you know,
50:38
Speaker 1: shut up. Anyway, I thought that was funny. He basically
50:41
Speaker 1: said to you, can you play Dead for five minutes? Yes,
50:44
Speaker 1: like he wants quiet for five minutes. So that that's me, Like, yeah,
50:48
Speaker 1: that's me like a lot of the time. Um, yeah,
50:53
Speaker 1: you know, by all means, exploit it. What are you
50:56
Speaker 1: thinking about in this room by yourself? Like what is
50:58
Speaker 1: happening in there? I gotta know what's going on in
51:00
Speaker 1: your head right now? I mean I have so many
51:03
Speaker 1: Like there's just so much, so much things would have
51:05
Speaker 1: happened in my life that have just been like insanely weird,
51:10
Speaker 1: like just I mean I could tell stories. It's just stories.
51:14
Speaker 1: I got stories about everything. Um, and they're all true,
51:17
Speaker 1: which is the craziest part because I'm terrible a making
51:20
Speaker 1: sit up, so um, they're all true and crazy, like
51:28
Speaker 1: I could I mean specifically, I mean I once had
51:32
Speaker 1: a had a I mean, this one isn't funny as
51:36
Speaker 1: much as it is crazy, but it was just crazy
51:38
Speaker 1: at the time. I'm thinking back to to what we
51:41
Speaker 1: had this murderer that was U that ended up studying
51:44
Speaker 1: at night in college in uh in our in our
51:48
Speaker 1: dorm room or whatever. Um, and that's a whole other
51:51
Speaker 1: story obviously, but just you know, when the cops came
51:54
Speaker 1: at two o'clock in the morning and we had a
51:57
Speaker 1: we had a homeless guy there that was from Oregon
51:59
Speaker 1: that might other roommate had brought you know, Okay, maybe
52:03
Speaker 1: this is it's too long a story to get into,
52:05
Speaker 1: but no, no, no, no, hold on, hold on, hold
52:08
Speaker 1: on hold the phone. Let's go back to the fact
52:14
Speaker 1: that you had a murderer spend the night in your
52:17
Speaker 1: dorm room. Yeah, so that well, at that point he
52:23
Speaker 1: wasn't a murderer. I don't think he murdered the next night.
52:26
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, it's to Arizona people did. Yeah, someone
52:33
Speaker 1: that spent the night in your dorm room, like murdered
52:37
Speaker 1: someone in Tucson the next day. What's the story? What happened? Yeah, basically,
52:43
Speaker 1: we we had a roommate, like it was three of
52:46
Speaker 1: my friends and we needed one more to be like
52:48
Speaker 1: kind of got like a random ast signed roommate and
52:51
Speaker 1: I thought she was totally cool until she showed up,
52:54
Speaker 1: and you know, she was like very insufficisu and the
52:56
Speaker 1: dead and and you know, like two days in the school,
53:00
Speaker 1: she's like, hey, guys, I'm out are going on a
53:03
Speaker 1: fish tour, and we're like okay, So she left to
53:06
Speaker 1: go on a fish tour. Um she brought back a
53:09
Speaker 1: homeless guy from Oregon and she literally said Hey, guys,
53:12
Speaker 1: this is Cat. He's from Oregon and he's homeless. So
53:15
Speaker 1: I brought him here. He's gonna stay with us for
53:16
Speaker 1: a while, and we all just kind of went, um what,
53:21
Speaker 1: But for whatever reason, we allowed it to happen anyway.
53:24
Speaker 1: So meanwhile he's living with us. Um. I it's Halloween.
53:28
Speaker 1: I go out, I come back home. There's some random
53:30
Speaker 1: guys sting there and I'm like, hey, Sloan, that was
53:33
Speaker 1: her name, you know who is this? And she's like,
53:35
Speaker 1: he brought us some beer, so he's chilling with us.
53:37
Speaker 1: So now I've got a homeless guy and some random
53:40
Speaker 1: gut about her beer that are just you know, in
53:42
Speaker 1: our place. Next day, she leaves for her second fish tour.
53:46
Speaker 1: So if he leaves homeless guy that that she brought
53:48
Speaker 1: back from their first fish tour with us, she leaves. Um.
53:53
Speaker 1: The next a couple of days later, we had knock
53:55
Speaker 1: gonna do at two o'clock in the morning, UM, and
53:58
Speaker 1: it was the it was the just On Homicide or
54:01
Speaker 1: Tusson Police Department Homicide Division, UM looking for this guy,
54:06
Speaker 1: UM because he was there was some chick that was
54:11
Speaker 1: found murdered and he was claiming that we were his alibis.
54:15
Speaker 1: But um, as it turns out, we were. He was
54:18
Speaker 1: with us the night before. So anyway, he got convicted
54:21
Speaker 1: and he's in he's a prisoner. I did not even
54:31
Speaker 1: know where that question was going to go. That, I mean,
54:39
Speaker 1: it's totally off topic, so you know. But but the point,
54:46
Speaker 1: the whole, the funny part of that, if we could
54:48
Speaker 1: get back, that was just that the look on everyone
54:51
Speaker 1: on the everyone stays like the cops are knocking on
54:54
Speaker 1: the door two o'clock in the morning, my roommates trying
54:56
Speaker 1: to hide the bomb, you know, homeless guys pretending he's
55:00
Speaker 1: a sleep because he doesn't want to be questioned by
55:01
Speaker 1: the cops. I mean, it was it was just not funny.
55:05
Speaker 1: Like thinking back, I don't, like I wouldn't believe that
55:08
Speaker 1: it was true. If it didn't happen, There's no way
55:11
Speaker 1: you would believe it's true. Do you think do you
55:14
Speaker 1: think there was a chance, like, like, who did he murder?
55:19
Speaker 1: Did he murder someone he knew? No, No, some fourteen
55:24
Speaker 1: year old girl. I've like gone back and tried to
55:26
Speaker 1: find on the internet, and it's for whatever reason, I
55:29
Speaker 1: cannot find the information um about this at all. But
55:34
Speaker 1: I do but percent remember that it was Yeah, she
55:37
Speaker 1: was murdered, stabbed, um, dumped into a riverbed um. Yeah,
55:46
Speaker 1: and the whole this whole time, he was cleaning that
55:47
Speaker 1: we were alibis. Um. Yeah, so I think and no,
55:55
Speaker 1: I think it was all clearly he's just picking up
55:57
Speaker 1: random six because he picked up my met so or
56:01
Speaker 1: my roommates. So you know that's is mL. I guess
56:05
Speaker 1: like when you look back out the story, do you
56:07
Speaker 1: ever think, oh my god, I came this close to
56:09
Speaker 1: being murdered or do you think I mean, there's been
56:16
Speaker 1: some dumb things I've done in my life. Like I
56:18
Speaker 1: drove across country and like literally we decided that we
56:23
Speaker 1: weren't going to stop for anything. So literally, you know,
56:26
Speaker 1: we're like nineteen years old driving across the country. The
56:30
Speaker 1: whole entire time, I was like telling asleep at the
56:32
Speaker 1: wheel literally um, because she was mad because I didn't
56:36
Speaker 1: want to stop because we were wasting time. I mean,
56:39
Speaker 1: We've been really dumb, stopping some gas stations, slept in
56:42
Speaker 1: the car. I look up to like random people looking
56:44
Speaker 1: in us like yeah, there's one of things. But I'm like,
56:48
Speaker 1: how do I not die? But um, yeah, see I
56:52
Speaker 1: don't know why you have such hate in your heart
56:56
Speaker 1: and eventful, if I were you, I'd be feeling really
57:02
Speaker 1: lucky and thinking, Wow, I've made it through so many times,
57:05
Speaker 1: like I'm playing with house money right now, I to
57:11
Speaker 1: to a degree. I mean hate most the hate usually
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Speaker 1: stems from from boys. Is usually where it stems from. Um,
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Speaker 1: domestic my heart sad face. Um, but that's that's mostly
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Speaker 1: with that bage comes from. But yes, But anyway, the
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Speaker 1: point of the whole thing I think would be funny
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Speaker 1: and I've loved stories to tell myself Again Listen, I
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Speaker 1: think you're hilarious. Um. I think that there is something
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Speaker 1: to be done about the combination between hate betting and
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Speaker 1: sort of the emotion that overtakes people and needing to
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Speaker 1: separate that from the actual science of betting. It's something
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Speaker 1: I I'm I'm working on, UM, definitely working on that.
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Speaker 1: There's you know, like, like I told you the the
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Speaker 1: Philly bett other day, Um, what've done out of just
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Speaker 1: irritation for someone? Um, like I didn't look at the
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Speaker 1: number and look at any o that story because that
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Speaker 1: might have been while we were waiting for Stucky. Oh. Basically, um, Um,
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Speaker 1: Chad and PJ, that would be me and p J
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Speaker 1: Walsh and we were we have we have a slack
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Speaker 1: channel that is dedicated to side action, where like, if
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Speaker 1: anyone wants to make a bet, they throw it in
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Speaker 1: there and if they get a taker, then we got
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Speaker 1: a side action alert. And uh. The other day I
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Speaker 1: offered up I wanted to take Philly nine of six
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Speaker 1: and a half over the Celtics in game four, which
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Speaker 1: covered and p J. Wallace, one of editors, came in
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Speaker 1: said he liked Boston and you were in the channel
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Speaker 1: and yeah yeah, And I said, I'm like, yep, I'm
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Speaker 1: taking out that you were taking Boston. Obviously we both lost. Yeah. Um,
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Speaker 1: And I legitimately had not looked at numbers any dad nothing.
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Speaker 1: I just was like, you know what, there's this guy
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Speaker 1: in his group chat on him and and you know
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Speaker 1: he is nonstopped. Philadelphia is the best, Philadelphia ruled. Everyone
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Speaker 1: else sucks and I've just had it. So I said,
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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna I'm reading against him, like I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: put money here because I need Like that's how mad
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Speaker 1: I was. Whatever. Yeah, the flip side is when I
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Speaker 1: was in college, So really, what does it matter if
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Speaker 1: I lose that? Licially in the grand scheme of things. Um,
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Speaker 1: it's no deal. It really isn't a big deal, you know.
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Speaker 1: Um yeah, Uh, you're gonna have a column up that
1:00:03
Speaker 1: goes up probably today. You will have another one that
1:00:05
Speaker 1: probably goes up later this week. The recording this on Tuesday.
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Speaker 1: It's going to post on Wednesday. People can read Lauren
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Speaker 1: Joffe um at the Action Network Action network dot com.
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Speaker 1: They can follow you at the Spin Zone. I'm glad stuck.
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Speaker 1: He blew us off. I'm gonna fucking call him. I'm
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Speaker 1: kind of piste, you know, fox stuck. But um, otherwise
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Speaker 1: we would have gotten at least close to some of
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Speaker 1: the deep seated issues that you're that you're wrestling with
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Speaker 1: right now. I think I think you got a lot
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Speaker 1: to work through. But I swear I'm totally normal. I
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Speaker 1: really am totally a totally normal person who thinks she's
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Speaker 1: hilarious sitting by herself in her parents house. I think
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Speaker 1: that would be accurate. Totally keep writing those stories though,
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Speaker 1: they're doing great. Oh I will, I will, I will,
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Speaker 1: all right, Jothy, thank you very much. Alright, Alry by
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Speaker 1: light