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Speaker 1: I'm gonna start with the end of the NBA postseason,
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Speaker 1: which happened over the weekend. We'll go to San Antonio.
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Speaker 1: They did it again. They did not talking about the Knicks. Now,
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Speaker 1: there's plenty of people licking the toes of Jalen Brunson
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Speaker 1: and making sure that the bottom of the feet of
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Speaker 1: Karl Anthony Towns are nice and clean. So the Knicks
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Speaker 1: got the ring over the weekend. The better story, though,
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Speaker 1: is in the losing locker room. The heavily favorite San
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Speaker 1: Antonio Spurs sucked at a time you couldnot suck. If
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Speaker 1: you didn't see the game on Saturday, you might have
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Speaker 1: missed it. But Victor wem Banyama yet again not doing
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Speaker 1: much with the game on the line, there he missed
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Speaker 1: the final shot of the NBA Finals, and then he
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Speaker 1: untucked his jersey and he marched off the court and said,
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Speaker 1: that's it, that's all. I'm done, and went straight towards
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Speaker 1: the locker room. No congratulatory handshake from Victor Wembanyama had
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Speaker 1: all there as the Knicks get the title in Wimby
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Speaker 1: getting out of there as quick as possible. Some were
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Speaker 1: wondering was he gonna sit there and soak it all
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Speaker 1: the in saying that should have been mine, that should
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Speaker 1: have been my championship. He did not do that. He
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Speaker 1: did not remain. He skid daddled, ran off to the
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Speaker 1: locker room and then to the podium where he was
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Speaker 1: a bit of a douche, and then into the season.
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Speaker 1: So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
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Speaker 1: discuss the question where are you at on Wemby failing
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Speaker 1: to congratulate the Knicks after the NBA Finals had come
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Speaker 1: to an end on Saturday. The Spurs star apparently too
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Speaker 1: good for that, as he ran back and said, you
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Speaker 1: know what, I'm done, I'm out of here. I'm going
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Speaker 1: to go to the locker room because I don't want
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Speaker 1: to see any of this and I want to congratulate
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Speaker 1: you and beating my head in in the fourth quarter
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Speaker 1: of every game. So I've got inventor, zip code and
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Speaker 1: New York Times best seller, and we will combine all
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Speaker 1: of these things together, and we're going to become a
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Speaker 1: fire breathing dragon, is what we're going to become. So
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Speaker 1: a this is one of those cases. Give me, you're tired,
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Speaker 1: you're poor, your young superstar who cannot stay for a
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Speaker 1: handshake or a dap, none of that stuff. Cannot do it,
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Speaker 1: cannot do it, And let's be reheard. When I saw
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Speaker 1: the end of the finals over the weekend, the ending
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Speaker 1: from the Wemby side of things, with everything that had
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Speaker 1: been invested into this guy and how little he did
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Speaker 1: when the game mattered most rotten, I wrote down the
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Speaker 1: word rotten. The whole thing was rotten for Victor wemb Yama.
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Speaker 1: And I don't want to hear all the excuse so young,
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Speaker 1: oh young, He's gonna be back every year. We don't
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Speaker 1: know that for every one of these guys that keeps returning,
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Speaker 1: there's a bunch that don't return. And I can give
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Speaker 1: you plenty of examples historically in all different sports. So
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Speaker 1: this assumption you know what happens when you assume that
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Speaker 1: Wemby is going to be a staple in the NBA Finals.
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Speaker 1: I was not impressed with what I saw. I was
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Speaker 1: not impressed. Considering all the build up and all the
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Speaker 1: drama o rama, what I saw from Wemby was simply
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Speaker 1: not good enough and walking off the cory that was
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Speaker 1: not the walk of shame that it was the walk
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Speaker 1: of don't make eye contact with the team that actually
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Speaker 1: kicked my ass and embarrassed me. Don't do that. And
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Speaker 1: he leave before he vanished Wemby seven foot four. It's
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Speaker 1: hard to vanish when you're seven foot four by like
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Speaker 1: a magician Abra cadabra, hocus pocus, or he's just allergic
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Speaker 1: to accountability, either one of those things. But he was gone.
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Speaker 1: And we've seen this script before. But typically if you
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Speaker 1: go to the annals of the NBA, the people that
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Speaker 1: pull that off, that walk off the court with a
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Speaker 1: sourpuss like Wemby did after losing the NBA Finals, they
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Speaker 1: belonged to harden villains of basketball. The greatest example would
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Speaker 1: be the Bad Boys, Bad Boys, the Bad Boy Pistons
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Speaker 1: back in the day, led by Isaiah Thomas, who famously
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Speaker 1: stormed off the court, and that was back in the
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Speaker 1: early nineties. We're talking about almost forty years ago, when
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Speaker 1: they were all upset because the Chicago Bulls and Michael
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Speaker 1: Jordan had beaten them and they didn't want to watch
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Speaker 1: the Bulls celebrate, so they left early and all that. Now,
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Speaker 1: when we didn't leave early, he stayed until the end
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Speaker 1: of the game. Then he high tailed it and said,
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Speaker 1: I got to get out of here. The difference is
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Speaker 1: the other players that I and I can recall that
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Speaker 1: have done that were battle tested. They were heavyweights, and
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Speaker 1: Wemby looks just like a lightweight, like the whole thing,
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Speaker 1: and he hasn't earned the right to be that. What's
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Speaker 1: the word I'm looking for that that have the temper
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Speaker 1: tantrum that he had. We'll call it like that for
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Speaker 1: Victor Wimbanyama and the basketball world spent all year, but
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Speaker 1: certainly in the playoffs here just telling us how he
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Speaker 1: was built for the moment. He was different, and I
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Speaker 1: believed it. I bought into the hype. Oh yeah. Everything
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Speaker 1: I'd seen is like, this is the this is the stage.
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Speaker 1: Here we go. It's a launching pad to the moon,
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Speaker 1: to the moon, to the Moon to the Moon, to
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Speaker 1: the Moon to the Moon. Instead, as we mentioned in
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Speaker 1: a previous episode, Wemby got his pilot's license. He's now
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Speaker 1: qualified to fly the vomit comet. And they did that
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Speaker 1: time and again, time and again. And he is an inventor.
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Speaker 1: Though I will say this for Wemby, he's an inventor.
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Speaker 1: He literally has invented the French goodbye two point zero.
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Speaker 1: You've heard of French leave, Well that's Wemby right there.
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Speaker 1: He exited the finals without without informing the NBA or
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Speaker 1: saying goodbye, so so I'm out of here, see you later.
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Speaker 1: And the Spurs, they love to preach about the culture,
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Speaker 1: the San Antonio Spurs culture put in there by Greg
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Speaker 1: Popovich back in the day, and they're good to go
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Speaker 1: and all that and okay, well their franchise savior, the
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Speaker 1: Spurs culture. His culture is pouting, capital p pouting. That's
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Speaker 1: what he did. And the historical context on this, when
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Speaker 1: Isaiah Thomas walked off the court, and that was many,
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Speaker 1: many years ago, as we said, it took him a
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Speaker 1: long time to live that down in terms of his reputation.
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Speaker 1: Some say he never did live that down. Isaiah Thomas
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Speaker 1: who's still to this day bitter and broken with Michael Jordan,
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Speaker 1: although that's over the Olympic team. Old guys holding a grudge,
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Speaker 1: which is never bad. It's always fun when old guys
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Speaker 1: the grudge. But at twenty two years old for Wemby,
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Speaker 1: and he's he can't accept the sucking that took place
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Speaker 1: out there, and he's supposed to be the next face
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Speaker 1: of the NBA and here we go and the whole
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Speaker 1: thing and he can't even stay on the floor. You
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Speaker 1: gotta take your medicine, and he didn't want to take
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Speaker 1: his medicine, which tells you a lot about how he's wired.
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Speaker 1: And it's not a good sign. I would be very
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Speaker 1: concerned if I was in San Antonio Spurs about this guy,
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Speaker 1: very concerned. The way he handled himself. The whole thing
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Speaker 1: was not good, not good at all.
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Speaker 2: All.
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Speaker 1: Right, Now, overall, victor won by Yama. If you look
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Speaker 1: at the numbers, he averaged twenty six points, eleven rebounds
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Speaker 1: and three and a half block shots in the finals.
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Speaker 1: Said whoa wowsers, Wowie Kauzawi, you know that whole thing.
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Speaker 1: Twenty six points, eleven rebounds and three and a half
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Speaker 1: blocks and the Spurs led by double digits in every
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Speaker 1: single game, every single game of the series, and they
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Speaker 1: blew leads obviously in four of the five games, and
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Speaker 1: when Banyama made some critical mistakes in three of the
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Speaker 1: four losses, and I wrote down three or four could
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Speaker 1: have even been all four, but certainly three of the four.
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Speaker 1: Now I will point out that the box score humpers
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Speaker 1: as we call them, the snot bonditos. They love their
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Speaker 1: box scores. Well you can, yeah, but yeah, but yeah,
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Speaker 1: but yeah, but yeah, but yeah, but rabbit. Yeah, but
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Speaker 1: Wemby averaged twenty six points and eleven rebods and three
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Speaker 1: and plucks. You can't be critical of Webby. He had
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Speaker 1: the stats. You know, it's ridiculous here, you can't rip him. Okay,
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Speaker 1: what a bet? There is nuance to this. There is
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Speaker 1: nuance to this. And with the game on the line,
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Speaker 1: where was he? Where? I don't know? Did you see
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Speaker 1: I didn't see Wemby? Did you see Wemby? Where'd he go?
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Speaker 1: He did the wobble, the wobble, wobble, wobble. What the heck?
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Speaker 1: All right? Now? Question how much damage? How much damage
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Speaker 1: did the Spurs franchise player Victor Wmbanyama due to his
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Speaker 1: brand with the walking off the court. We've already talked
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Speaker 1: about that now, the way he played in key moments
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Speaker 1: of the NBA Finals and all that. So I go
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Speaker 1: back to the point. The NBA marketing arm did a
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Speaker 1: tremendous job of building up the myth of this guy,
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Speaker 1: and Wemby responded to all of that hype and he
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Speaker 1: went out there on seemingly live television with a global audience,
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Speaker 1: and he made an episode of MythBusters, and he just
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Speaker 1: busted the myth right there on the biggest stage with
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Speaker 1: everyone watching who cares about basketball, the NBA Finals. He
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Speaker 1: went out there and laid an egg so large, How
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Speaker 1: large was it? It was so large that it needed
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Speaker 1: its own zip code. How big an egg it was.
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Speaker 1: When the game mattered, he got cooked, he was buttered
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Speaker 1: and served up. All of that happened right there there,
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Speaker 1: you go on on the TV delivering a performance down
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Speaker 1: the stretch that was so soft? How soft was it?
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Speaker 1: Thanks for asking? It was so soft that you needed
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Speaker 1: to store it in some tupperware and put that aside
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Speaker 1: from everything else in the fridge. Just put that tupperware
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Speaker 1: right there, and with every game lost, within more than reach.
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Speaker 1: They had double digit leads early in most of those games,
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Speaker 1: some even in the fourth quarter, and Wemby down the
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Speaker 1: stretch with opportunities to win the game and he could
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Speaker 1: step on up for the Spurs. He was petrified, terrified
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Speaker 1: and zombified by the Knicks or the moment or all
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Speaker 1: of that. Whatever. Pick your poison, Pick your poison. My god,
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Speaker 1: he just caught in his bank of and he couldn't
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Speaker 1: see his way out, and he just was stuck there.
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Speaker 1: And it yet just sucked and wandering around like a
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Speaker 1: rumba stuck in a corner and it can't get away
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Speaker 1: from the corner. It's like, dude, you got to back
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Speaker 1: up a little bit. What are you doing? And so
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Speaker 1: we keep hearing about the unicorn, the unicorn, the unicorn,
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Speaker 1: and there's no one like him, and he's built different. Well,
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Speaker 1: I've seen plenty of guys in my time that sucked
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Speaker 1: in big games. I don't know about you. He looked
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Speaker 1: like every other guy that sucks in big moments. What's
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Speaker 1: different about Wemby. He played well for a stretch of
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Speaker 1: the game, maybe seventy five percent of the game, and
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Speaker 1: then just free falling. There was a kamikaze mission there
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Speaker 1: at the end. So the unicorn, this, the unicorn that,
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Speaker 1: all of that, and this was like a horse headed
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Speaker 1: to the glue factory watching the way he played down
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Speaker 1: the stretch of these games. Victor womban Yama, the Parisian Prodigy,
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Speaker 1: good nickname Parisian Prodigy, turned into the Parisian puddle in
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Speaker 1: evaporating in winning time, it was winning time, and uh
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Speaker 1: well not quite. Didn't quite work out there when it
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Speaker 1: was winning time, it turned out to be losing time
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Speaker 1: and slightly problematic. Yeah, so it was crunch time Keemolme,
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Speaker 1: final five minutes of the fourth quarter, and he was
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Speaker 1: not He was not taking a punch. He was not
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Speaker 1: making a punch. He was out to brunch, is what
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Speaker 1: he was doing, all right. He wasn't throwing punches. He
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Speaker 1: was out the brunch, sipping a mimosa, having a fine
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Speaker 1: time there and needed to throw a punch and either
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Speaker 1: didn't know how to do that or chose to not
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Speaker 1: do that. So it was it was a mess. So
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Speaker 1: I sum this all up. The brand is absolutely damaged.
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Speaker 1: It's bruised, it's swollen, it's on crutches right now. It
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Speaker 1: needs some medicaid to make the brand back better. My god,
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Speaker 1: you cannot be the face of that sport, the face
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Speaker 1: of the NBA, right, and then when the moment is there,
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Speaker 1: it slaps you in the face. It's a problem. Oh
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Speaker 1: you're nitpicking, Mallard. I don't think I am. I don't
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Speaker 1: think I am all right that stank. Those cooties are
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Speaker 1: gonna last for a while, and there's no guarantee this
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Speaker 1: guy's back every year, and not just him. You look
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Speaker 1: around the Spurs roster and certainly he's the centerpiece that
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Speaker 1: we're going to focus on Wenby. But that brings us
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Speaker 1: to the last part of this diatribe, the coaching part
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Speaker 1: of the puzzle, and that is a major issue.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: Ultimately, I don't think coaching matters too much in the NBA.
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Speaker 1: It can hurt you. I don't know that it helps
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Speaker 1: you that much. And in this case, that was a
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Speaker 1: net zero for the San Antonio Spurs. So the question,
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Speaker 1: does coach Mitch Johnson deserve to keep his job on
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Speaker 1: the sidelines for the Spurs after that epic blown lead
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Speaker 1: Paloosa in the NBA Finals. So if I own the team,
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Speaker 1: hell no, he would be out. See you later. Mitch Johnson,
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Speaker 1: who seems like a nice enough guy. He would not
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Speaker 1: have made it to the post finals news conference. I
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Speaker 1: would have said, listen, don't even bother. All right, you
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Speaker 1: don't work for us anymore, get out of here. And
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Speaker 1: the Spurs, they didn't just lose in the final. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: Wendy was the biggest culprit in this. They didn't just
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Speaker 1: lose in the finals. Low the Spurs gift wrapped absolutely,
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Speaker 1: gift wrapped it with a nice bow on top, and
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Speaker 1: then hand delivered these games, many of them to the Knicks.
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Speaker 1: I wasn't overly impressed with I ainyth the Knicks did
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Speaker 1: other than not give up. It was just, hey, keep
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Speaker 1: playing hard. The Spurs have a glitch. The doo hickey
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Speaker 1: doesn't work. And no matter what this cat Mitch Johnson did,
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Speaker 1: it doesn't seem like he did much of anything. For
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Speaker 1: several games, people were saying, hey, don't play the Aaron Fox.
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Speaker 1: The guy's a mom and he kept put him out
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Speaker 1: there a big moments. And this is the hubris of
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Speaker 1: these guys in the San Antonio Spurs organization, like we
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Speaker 1: know better than you. Well, apparently you don't. This is
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Speaker 1: one where the public got it right, and you're a
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Speaker 1: bunch of dingleberries. You're a bunch of Mama lukes that
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Speaker 1: you should have sat down to Aaron Fox for literally anyone.
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Speaker 1: You could have had a fan raffle and brought somebody
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Speaker 1: in a Spurs season ticket older although they all sold
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Speaker 1: their tickets so they didn't go to the game. It
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Speaker 1: looked like Game six over the weekend, my god, or
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Speaker 1: Game five, I guess it was over the weekend, not
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Speaker 1: game make it the game six, forget about that. So anyway, listen,
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Speaker 1: that's the thing now, much like Wemby, a lot of
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Speaker 1: you dumb thumbs are convinced, well, the youth think that
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Speaker 1: that is why he's going to keep his job. And
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Speaker 1: youth to me is not a shield at thirty nine,
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Speaker 1: and that's young in the coaching game. You're thirty nine
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Speaker 1: years old. And at this point, based on the way
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Speaker 1: he did not adju in the NBA Finals, Mitch Johnson,
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Speaker 1: the coach of the San Antonio Spurs, is he's already
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Speaker 1: a New York Times best selling author. He wrote Complete
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Speaker 1: Idiots Guide on how not to coach well in the
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Speaker 1: NBA Finals and be so stubborn, so pigheaded you don't
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Speaker 1: make any key adjustments. They got to be the dumbest
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Speaker 1: team in the world, and that starts from the coach
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Speaker 1: on the way down. They didn't just collapse down the
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Speaker 1: stretch these spurs. They invented new ways to suck at
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Speaker 1: a time you cannot suck blowing a combined I did
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Speaker 1: the math on this. If you just go by the
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Speaker 1: biggest lead in each game, they lost four right, lose
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Speaker 1: four out of five in the finals San Antonio, they
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Speaker 1: blew seventy one points worth of leads in futzing away
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Speaker 1: those four games and losing the NBA Finals. That is
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Speaker 1: a that is a lifestyle, is what That is a
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Speaker 1: twenty nine point blown lead. That is the thing that
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Speaker 1: we will remember other than the outcome of this. That
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Speaker 1: is the Mona Lisa of meltdowns to blow that big
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Speaker 1: a lead. And from Wemby's hair brain plays to de
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Speaker 1: Aaron Fox, who they would not get rid of. He
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Speaker 1: had the historic boner, Fox's boner when he had three
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Speaker 1: options right, three out. You can either call time out
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Speaker 1: and reset. They could just just dribble and get fouled
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Speaker 1: and then go to line, or try to run to
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Speaker 1: the basket and see if you can get a basket,
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Speaker 1: and of course that completely backfired. But from Wemby's disaster
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Speaker 1: to de Aaron Fox or the coach, the whole thing.
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Speaker 1: It was sloppy micslop. That's a new item. It's an
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Speaker 1: add on item at McDonald sloppy mcslop. It's a McDonald's
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Speaker 1: sloppy Joe, is what that is. So as we always say,
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Speaker 1: you're either coaching it or you're allowing it to happen.
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Speaker 1: Mitch Johnson. So these Spurs were not outplay, that's the
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Speaker 1: thing about. It's like they were not outplayed, they were
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Speaker 1: out coached and they they they had a malfunction the
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Speaker 1: whatch you McCall that did not work at the end.
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Speaker 1: There disaster class, absolute disaster class for the San Antonio Spurs.
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Speaker 1: So typically in the past someone gets sacrificed. It does
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Speaker 1: not seem like we're going to get that in San Antonio.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of fanboys in the crowd there. They
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Speaker 1: don't really hold the team accountable in San Antonio. So
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Speaker 1: I would imagine that there will not be any accountability
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Speaker 1: if I own the team, though again I would get
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Speaker 1: twelve country in Lubbock, Texas, and that is where we
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Speaker 1: will begin as we have an update on the gambling
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Speaker 1: man of college football no more. Brendan Soorsby, the quarterback
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Speaker 1: who's bounced around like a pinball from one side of
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Speaker 1: the machine to another. The highly regarded by some, highly
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Speaker 1: regarded by some, quarterback Brendan Soresby, who's six y three
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Speaker 1: to two hundred and thirty five pounds. He's a dual
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Speaker 1: threat quarterback. He was at Cincinnati. He's trying to play
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Speaker 1: football at Texas Tech. Previously at Indiana. So with Indiana
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Speaker 1: Cincinnati now he was transferring to Texas Tech in the
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Speaker 1: portal to get some of that sweet nil money. Chi ching,
20:43
Speaker 1: Chi ching, chi ching. Gotta get that nil money, nice
20:46
Speaker 1: financial package to go to Lubbock, Texas. However, he did admit,
20:50
Speaker 1: as you may or may not know, he did admit
20:53
Speaker 1: if you didn't see this, I don't know how you
20:54
Speaker 1: could have missed it. He admitted that he he enjoyed gambling,
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Speaker 1: a lot of gambling. Not a problem if you're not
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Speaker 1: betting on your own team and against your team, and
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Speaker 1: though anyway, but at least ninety grand, at least ninety
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Speaker 1: grand nine thousand plus bets, including on his own teams games,
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Speaker 1: which is a violation of every single by law that
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Speaker 1: they have if you believe in rules the NCAAA roadbook,
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Speaker 1: it violates just a just about everything. And so he
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Speaker 1: got caught and then entered into a gambler's rehab program
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Speaker 1: for his gambling addiction and was ruled permanently ineligible of
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Speaker 1: the NCAA. So that's it. IX nay on the football A.
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Speaker 1: You're done. However, a Lubbock County judge recently granted the
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Speaker 1: player a temporary injunction which was going to allow him
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Speaker 1: to play football in the upcoming college football season with
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Speaker 1: a self suggest did two games suspension for nine thousand
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Speaker 1: bets on sports and whatever. So two game suspension, of course,
22:08
Speaker 1: that sparked outrage. Alley oh Man, the band was going
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Speaker 1: nuts here, major backlash, and and now the lawyers got involved,
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Speaker 1: the Big twelve pushing back push it back, now, push
22:23
Speaker 1: it back, and they pushed back with their lawyers. So
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Speaker 1: if you've not heard the latest on this, we have
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Speaker 1: a major plot twist. And perhaps you have not been
22:31
Speaker 1: paying attention here, but we've learned now the gambling quarterback
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Speaker 1: Brendan Soresby is gonzo. He's gone see you later. He's
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Speaker 1: leaving Texas Tech before playing a single game for the
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Speaker 1: Red Raiders and is going to attempt to take his
22:47
Speaker 1: talents to the NFL's supplemental Draft. He's trying to go
22:52
Speaker 1: to the supplemental Draft. Now. Soresby made his decision hours
22:57
Speaker 1: hours after the Big twelve well of legal brigade came
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Speaker 1: in and then the lawyers came in from the Big
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Speaker 1: twelve and they filed the paperwork to enforce sanctions against
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Speaker 1: Texas Tech if they dared play this guy. And it's like,
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Speaker 1: you're in trouble. You can't play this guy. That's it.
23:18
Speaker 1: And so this is now getting cranked up to a
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Speaker 1: higher rung of the legal system, and that means Soresby
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Speaker 1: has decided I'm out. He had until June twenty second,
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Speaker 1: as it's our sixteenth June sixteenth, shose the fifteenth in
23:36
Speaker 1: the West but June twenty second is the deadline to
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Speaker 1: declare for the supplemental Draft, which will end his college eligibility.
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Speaker 1: And that's it, all right, So that is a good
23:48
Speaker 1: jumping off point. Let us discuss the question, right, here's
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Speaker 1: the question. Why Why is Brendan Soresby throwing in the
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Speaker 1: sponge on playing at Texas Tech and the nil deal
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Speaker 1: and all that and heading off to the NFL supplemental Draft,
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Speaker 1: which is not a guarantee by any means. It's not
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Speaker 1: a guarantee. So my thoughts on this, I have reading Rainbow,
24:12
Speaker 1: Dairy Queen and Sotheby's, and we will combine all of
24:17
Speaker 1: these things together, and we were gonna make some chimmy
24:19
Speaker 1: chungas is what we're gonna make, all right. So a
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Speaker 1: Brendan Soresby deciding to throw it in the towel, the sponge,
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Speaker 1: whatever metaphor you want to use here on Texas Tech
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Speaker 1: and heading off to the supplemental Draft. The reason why
24:34
Speaker 1: is because he looked, He looked at the scorecard. He
24:38
Speaker 1: had a peek at the scorecard here and the judge's scorecards.
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Speaker 1: He saw them early. And it's kind of like a
24:44
Speaker 1: boxer that said, well, I you give no chance to win.
24:46
Speaker 1: The only chance you have is a knockout, and that's
24:48
Speaker 1: probably not gonna happen. So Soresby he didn't just leave.
24:52
Speaker 1: He read the room. It appears he has read the
24:54
Speaker 1: room here and realized that if you look around the
24:58
Speaker 1: room from left and you over to the right, and
25:01
Speaker 1: you look all over the room there and you realize, well,
25:05
Speaker 1: wait a minute, here, there's a no vacancy sign, there's
25:10
Speaker 1: no room. There's no room for me here. And ninety
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Speaker 1: thousand dollars roughly in gambling that this guy pulled off,
25:19
Speaker 1: and he dragged that scandal into Lubbock, and without even
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Speaker 1: playing a game. The people that run that university, you
25:26
Speaker 1: talk about loyalty, blind loyalty to a guy who hadn't
25:29
Speaker 1: even done anything for your university on the football field.
25:32
Speaker 1: And the big shots there, the big movers and shakers
25:35
Speaker 1: in Lubbock, they were all behind this guy. And then
25:38
Speaker 1: I would assume he met with his legal team or
25:41
Speaker 1: the lawyers for Texas Tech, and they said, son, the
25:44
Speaker 1: Big twelve is about to body slam you and give
25:47
Speaker 1: you the atomic elbow in federal court. So pack your
25:51
Speaker 1: bag and run off to the NFL and cut your
25:54
Speaker 1: losses and so face with a massive suspension. He followed
25:59
Speaker 1: the reading rain and then followed the reading rainbow and
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Speaker 1: straight out of town, hoping to find a pot of
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Speaker 1: gold in the NFL. Good luck, And there you go.
26:11
Speaker 1: It's all in the book. It's all in. There'll be
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Speaker 1: a book, there'll be a Netflix docu series on this.
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Speaker 1: It's all it's all going to happen. So Soresby Brendan
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Speaker 1: Soorsby the quarterback, now choosing the fire escape the front door.
26:25
Speaker 1: He would have liked to have gone out the front door.
26:27
Speaker 1: The front door, though, has not one, not two, but
26:29
Speaker 1: three locks on it, a dead bolt, and a big
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Speaker 1: twelve lawyer is standing right behind it with crossed arms
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Speaker 1: and a surly look, ready to forfeit Texas Tech season.
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Speaker 1: So that's a problem.
26:43
Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 1: He bailed the faster than a waiter who who knows
26:48
Speaker 1: you never go to a restaurant and not of course
26:52
Speaker 1: I would have been part of this, but you know,
26:53
Speaker 1: to a restaurant sometimes the waiter kind of knows that
26:55
Speaker 1: this group's not going to tip, and suddenly the service
26:58
Speaker 1: starts getting worse and worse, because you're these people are
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Speaker 1: gonna tip and they're a holes, and uh, that's it.
27:03
Speaker 1: And so that's kind of where we are now turning
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Speaker 1: the page, but not far all right, page two here.
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Speaker 1: The other part of this story is the draft. We've
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Speaker 1: already had the NFL draft, it was in late April.
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Speaker 1: But now the question is, how does Brendan Soorsby, the
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Speaker 1: former Indiana Cincinnati and do I even say Texas Tech quarterback?
27:24
Speaker 1: He didn't play for Texas Tech, the former college quarterback,
27:27
Speaker 1: Brendan Soresby, how does he stack up for NFL scouts?
27:33
Speaker 1: And so you look at this. This is the Q word,
27:36
Speaker 1: capital Q quagmire. This is an absolute quagmire on paper
27:42
Speaker 1: or on a tablet. If you look at the Dairy
27:44
Speaker 1: Queen menu and you say, well, okay, what's on the menu.
27:48
Speaker 1: That's he's a bowl of Rocky Road. Brendan Soresby looks great. However,
27:54
Speaker 1: every spoonful comes with something you didn't expect. Is that
27:57
Speaker 1: a marshmallow? Is that some kind of walnut? I don't
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Speaker 1: know what that is. I have no idea. So he's
28:03
Speaker 1: got that sturdy frame that the NFL scout's truel about,
28:06
Speaker 1: and they get all horny for and their quarterbacks out
28:09
Speaker 1: of Central casting and he can't absorb contact, so that's
28:13
Speaker 1: a positive. And he's got mobility, and so the size
28:17
Speaker 1: and mobility of the arm talent, it's not the most
28:18
Speaker 1: accurate quarterback in the world. And yet I would argue
28:23
Speaker 1: the NFL looking at the supplemental draft, the NFL does
28:26
Speaker 1: not see a quarterback. They see a scarlet letter G
28:32
Speaker 1: stitched on the jersey. That is a warning label. Avoid
28:35
Speaker 1: the scarlet letter right there. So the raw talent would say,
28:39
Speaker 1: this guy's a high draft pick and should be taken
28:41
Speaker 1: in the supplemental draft, relatively high. And that's it. And
28:48
Speaker 1: the gambling problem leads you to believe. Don't even think
28:52
Speaker 1: about it, right, So it's like it's on one side,
28:55
Speaker 1: the talent trumps everything. On the other side, there's a
28:58
Speaker 1: lot of stank. There's a lot of stink around this
29:01
Speaker 1: guy because of the gambling stuff, and that's taboo. You
29:05
Speaker 1: can't go down that road because if you're playing quarterback,
29:08
Speaker 1: you get drafted by the Jets or someone like that,
29:12
Speaker 1: and you start all of a sudden sucking at a
29:14
Speaker 1: time you can't suck. Instead of just saying you're playing
29:17
Speaker 1: bad football, people are saying, wait a minute, is this
29:20
Speaker 1: a mob special is this guy throwing the game because
29:22
Speaker 1: he's trying to pay off some gambling debts that he has,
29:25
Speaker 1: and that's gonna shadow Brendan sorosby the rest of his
29:29
Speaker 1: athletic career. And the NFL has to prove. Of course,
29:34
Speaker 1: this other thing that we have to deal with. The
29:37
Speaker 1: NFL has to first approved Brendan Soarzby has to prove
29:40
Speaker 1: for the NFL, and the NFL has to approve his
29:42
Speaker 1: case for the supplemental Draft. And the last quarterback taken
29:48
Speaker 1: in the supplemental draft. You got to go back to
29:50
Speaker 1: twenty eleven. I was barely alive in twenty eleven. There
29:53
Speaker 1: was a guy named Terrelle Pryor who was taken in
29:56
Speaker 1: the twenty eleven Supplemental Draft in the third round. So
30:00
Speaker 1: it's been fifteen years, my computer, like brain tells me
30:04
Speaker 1: since we've had a quarterback drafted in that situation. And
30:09
Speaker 1: so you know, ultimately NFL teams, each NFL team is
30:14
Speaker 1: going to have to look at this and say, well,
30:15
Speaker 1: what is this? And it's like, well, it's art. It's
30:17
Speaker 1: like a mid round piece of art. Mid round piece
30:21
Speaker 1: of art. It's interesting. But where do we put it?
30:26
Speaker 1: I don't know. Where to put it, and they just don't.
30:29
Speaker 1: They just don't love I guess the way I would
30:32
Speaker 1: say it is explaining to the commissioner. Having to explain
30:35
Speaker 1: to the commissioner why they drafted a guy who's on
30:38
Speaker 1: the knotty list. That's the issue, right, I said, Well,
30:40
Speaker 1: we can stash them, have them developed for a couple
30:44
Speaker 1: of years and forget about it. We take them the
30:46
Speaker 1: sixth round or whatever, or the fifth round, and then
30:50
Speaker 1: that's it. So it's a complicated investment, is what I'm
30:53
Speaker 1: trying to say. It's a complicated investment, and we expect
30:56
Speaker 1: the litigation machine to crank up if Soresby is not
31:01
Speaker 1: drafted and there is no guarantee that he has picked
31:03
Speaker 1: in the supplement draft. This has Canadian Football League written
31:06
Speaker 1: all over it. One of those other fugazy leagues that
31:09
Speaker 1: no one watches that are like, who's that team? I
31:12
Speaker 1: don't know who they are? What is that? Why is
31:14
Speaker 1: that on TV? I don't get it.
31:15
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33:35
Speaker 1: Uncle Moe was on the air first, So yes, all
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Speaker 1: eyes on me, all eyes on me. All right, uncle Moo.
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Speaker 1: These athletes always ended up in the tabloids. Are you ready,
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Speaker 1: uncle Mo? All right? Forty five seconds on the clock.
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Speaker 2: Go.
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Speaker 1: Greatest golfer of all time his u. Yes, shortstop for
33:53
Speaker 1: the Mariners. He played with Jena and the Yankees. Yes,
33:59
Speaker 1: known as the word in the NBA, great rebound. Yes,
34:03
Speaker 1: he was played with the Lakers and the Clippers. He
34:05
Speaker 1: was almost died in a brothel in the Vatta. Yes.
34:09
Speaker 1: A cycling guy who did sit. Yes, running back for
34:14
Speaker 1: the Ravens, who got into domestic violence. Yes. NBA player
34:18
Speaker 1: for the Nets, who got married to Kim Kardashian for
34:20
Speaker 1: like a minute out of Minnesota. Yeah, there you go,
34:24
Speaker 1: uncle Bob with time this scar all right, Tyler. Tremendous
34:29
Speaker 1: job by Gobo.
34:30
Speaker 4: We got our work cutout for us. We have hit
34:32
Speaker 4: him up. These athletes were some of the best trash talk.
34:36
Speaker 1: You roll the window up, Tyler, can you are you?
34:39
Speaker 1: Are you ready? Tyler? All right? Here we go, Tyler?
34:42
Speaker 1: You ready?
34:42
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's ready? All right, forty five seconds let's begin.
34:46
Speaker 4: Boxer floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee. Yes, uh,
34:50
Speaker 4: prime time, He's a coach for Colorado. Now, yes, this
34:55
Speaker 4: guy is on the Warriors. He kicks people in the nuts. Yes,
34:59
Speaker 4: this guy his nickname was the Glove basketball player. Yes,
35:03
Speaker 4: this guy was a picture for the Red Sox. He
35:06
Speaker 4: trash talk the Yankees. He had curly hair. Yes, this
35:10
Speaker 4: guy is a tennis player. He would trash talk the Reps.
35:13
Speaker 4: He was out all the Knicks games recently. Okay, this
35:20
Speaker 4: guy is a basketball player and his nickname is the Villain.
35:22
Speaker 4: He was on the Grizzlies. He had beef with Lebron. No,
35:29
Speaker 4: he's a point guard. He's got like cornrows.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 4: John McEnroe was the tennis player looking for him.
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Speaker 1: Dylan Brooks, Sorry, you back up? Cool, you're trailing here.
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Speaker 1: Which one do you want?
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Speaker 4: Deliver die in La or what a ghetto ghetto gospel?
35:42
Speaker 1: Yeah? Which one would you like? Tyler ghetto gospel? All right?
35:48
Speaker 4: Uh, these athletes all grew up in the ghetto. Forty
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Speaker 4: five seconds, let's begin. Current quarterback for the Baltimore Ravens.
35:55
Speaker 4: The answer from the NBA alack Beast mode from the.
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Speaker 1: Nf fell.
36:01
Speaker 4: Yes, this guy was on the Chicago Bulls. Then I
36:05
Speaker 4: think he was on the Miami Heat. The Minnesota Timberwolves,
36:08
Speaker 4: the Golden State Warriors. Now, yes, yes, there we go.
36:14
Speaker 4: A Hall of Famer for the Minnesota Twins was a
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Speaker 4: center fielder. No, I don't think he's in the Hall
36:21
Speaker 4: of Fame. Let's go with the tall pitcher for the Yankees.
36:25
Speaker 4: He was on the Indians as well. Black guy. Yes,
36:31
Speaker 4: this guy was part of the Shack trade from the
36:33
Speaker 4: Miami Heat to the Lakers, and then he was later
36:37
Speaker 4: on the Wizards.
36:39
Speaker 1: How much we got, Oh my gosh, two sixty plus eighty. Alright,
36:45
Speaker 1: real quick here, let's go to live and die in
36:47
Speaker 1: l A greatest office of line for the Cowboys in
36:50
Speaker 1: the nineties. It was a guard for the Cowboys in
36:52
Speaker 1: the nineties. I can't hear them. I can't I hear on.
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Speaker 1: Go bout, I'll come up, all right. Uh, baseball player
37:03
Speaker 1: for the Dodgers, first base for me. Tie. There's no ties,
37:07
Speaker 1: there's no touch. What are you? What are you that
37:09
Speaker 1: you're in the World Cup? What is this the World Cup?
37:12
Speaker 2: There's no ties.