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Thursday Thunderdome w/Chris Mannix · The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the favorites from the Volume Podcast Network. I'm
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Speaker 1: your guest host this week, Kristin Moakman out of HR,
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Speaker 1: also known as VPF People Operations. You're at Action Chad
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Speaker 1: Moman maybe off this week, but it's still Thursday, so
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Speaker 1: that means it's time to enter the Thursday thunder Dough.
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Speaker 1: On today's show, our special guests will compete alongside professional
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Speaker 1: sports better Simon Hunter in an epic test of wagers
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Speaker 1: and wits that's made this show the shimmering crown jewel
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Speaker 1: of the Action Networks media portfolio. Hi Simon, Hey Chris,
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Speaker 1: and yeah, I'm excited to be on a show at
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Speaker 1: the head of HR. I'm trying to think of ways
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Speaker 1: I can get in trouble right away. Where should we
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Speaker 1: start with? We start with the first time that I
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Speaker 1: was like, Wow, this one's really attractive, and I looked
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Speaker 1: it up and I saw your married with kids, and
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Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, I guess I can't hit on
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Speaker 1: my head of HR now. So that was definitely fun,
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Speaker 1: but I feel like that's a good way to ice
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Speaker 1: break it right. Yeah, although I don't think you've told
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Speaker 1: me that before, so now I I don't know all right,
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Speaker 1: We're just going to shock at all. That's how we
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Speaker 1: do it on this podcast. I like to just wake
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Speaker 1: people up, all right. Your first challenger is a return
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Speaker 1: guest to the Favorites. He's a former Boston Celtics ball boy,
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Speaker 1: a current senior writer for Sports Illustrated, and you can
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Speaker 1: hear him on the Crossover podcast with Howard Back and
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Speaker 1: on the Boxing with Chris Mannix podcast on our beloved
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Speaker 1: Volume podcast network. Welcome back to the show, Chris Mannix.
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Speaker 1: I thank you. I don't have a good story like that,
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Speaker 1: but I'm glad to be here. Good So no HR
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Speaker 1: violation so far for you. All right, And Simon, your
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Speaker 1: second challenger is one of the most beloved members of
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Speaker 1: the Action Network, our senior NBA writer, NBA podcast host,
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Speaker 1: and one of the most respected hoops journalists in the
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Speaker 1: game today. A man for whom no take is too hot.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the show, Matt More. I am very
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Speaker 1: pleased to be professionally here with my head of HR
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Speaker 1: in a professional setting saying absolutely nothing that could get
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Speaker 1: me in trouble. I'm not going down in this one. Simon,
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Speaker 1: You're going down on your own. Live a little mad.
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Speaker 1: It's fun. Okay, nice to see Matt. All right, So
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Speaker 1: here's how the game is played today. You'll answer two
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Speaker 1: kinds of questions. First, traditional trivia questions about sports, sports, betting,
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Speaker 1: and the world at large. Second, completely subjective and totally
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Speaker 1: asinine open ended questions or prompts that I alone will judge.
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Speaker 1: To accumulate points. You must answer the trivia questions correctly
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Speaker 1: and also convinced me that your responses to those open
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Speaker 1: ended prompts are better than the responses of your opponents.
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Speaker 1: So let's begin Part one, going for Gold. The opening
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Speaker 1: ceremonies of the Summer Olympics in Tokyo are tomorrow, and
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Speaker 1: already the American Olympic men's basketball team has endored a
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Speaker 1: whole season's worth of turmoil. The United States remains a
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Speaker 1: minusport hundred favorite to take home the gold. But for now,
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Speaker 1: let's test your knowledge on some Olympic performances from years
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Speaker 1: past with some two part questions. All right, Chris. Since
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Speaker 1: n this US team has won gold in six of
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Speaker 1: the seven Summer Games. But despite boasting this Hall of
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Speaker 1: Fame big man, back in two thousand four, America lost
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Speaker 1: in the semifinals thanks to a blistering performance from his
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Speaker 1: NBA teammate, this famous Argentinean with whom he'd win four
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Speaker 1: NBA titles. I'm gonna go with Tim Duncan and manage Genobli.
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Speaker 1: Yes nine, all right, and so far no HR violations either,
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Speaker 1: Tim Duncan. Tim Duncan not a fan of Phoba basketball,
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Speaker 1: never has been. Why is that his famous line was
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Speaker 1: Phoeba sucks after the OH four Olympics. I believe because
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Speaker 1: it's just so many rule changes in international game where
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Speaker 1: it just takes guys to play in the NBA a
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Speaker 1: long time to adapt them. That was, I believe the
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Speaker 1: last time we saw Tim Duncan as one of the
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Speaker 1: USA basketball team. Yeah, I was gonna say that that
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Speaker 1: was the last time the dunkn play for him, Simon.
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Speaker 1: The last time our Olympic basketball roster was entirely amateurs
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Speaker 1: was back in when America won the bronze medal. The
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Speaker 1: US switched to NBA players after that, which led to
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Speaker 1: this famous steo becoming the first to win an NBA
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Speaker 1: title and Olympic gold in the same year. Um, I'm
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Speaker 1: the named two players, so I'll go Pippin and Jordan's Yeah,
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Speaker 1: thank you guys, Thank you, Simon. Although he's never won
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Speaker 1: an NBA title, this player does have a record three
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Speaker 1: Olympic Gold medals in basketball to go along with an
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Speaker 1: NBA scoring title and an n c Double A championship
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Speaker 1: at Syracuse. The most overrated player in NBA history, Carmelo
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Speaker 1: Anthony greatest, greatest USA basketball player for sure, though that
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Speaker 1: could be true, his career is defined by the success
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Speaker 1: of his USA teams. That guy, I mean, I think
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Speaker 1: Durant's gonna probably beat his scoring numbers this cycle. But
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Speaker 1: Carmelo was built for international play. If Kevin, if Tim
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Speaker 1: Duncan wasn't, Carmelo is what makes one built for international
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Speaker 1: play Over the NBA, Carmelo's defensive deficiencies are less glaring.
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Speaker 1: When you can play two positions the way he did.
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Speaker 1: You don't see as much three point bombing in international competitions.
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Speaker 1: And Carmelo is the king of the mid range game.
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Speaker 1: So there's just a lot of a lot of things
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Speaker 1: that work for Carmelo in international competitions that get exposed
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Speaker 1: a little bit in the NBA. But he also played
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Speaker 1: spot up a lot. That was a big part of
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Speaker 1: it was he would play spot up alongside Kobe and
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Speaker 1: Lebron and Wade. In that role, he was great. When
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Speaker 1: he went to the Knicks, there was this rumor that
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Speaker 1: was gonna be Tony Parker, Melo and mar and that
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Speaker 1: would have been I think his career goes down a
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Speaker 1: lot differently if that trio had actually come together, Okay, maw.
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Speaker 1: The most indelible moment from America's gold medal Olympic effort
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Speaker 1: in two thousands came in a preliminary round game against France,
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Speaker 1: when this twenty three year old American start jumped over
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Speaker 1: step on foot to center Frederick Weiss for an epic
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Speaker 1: jam known as le duc de la morte or the
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Speaker 1: dunk of death. In Brents, it's Vince Carter. If it's
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Speaker 1: not the best dunk of all time, it's gonna be
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Speaker 1: top three. Did it happen in an actual game? Yeah? Yeah.
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Speaker 1: He cleared him in game in a preliminary cleared him
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Speaker 1: in game, which was a bold choice. Had the Knicks
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Speaker 1: actually drafted Frederdvice at that point because he never had
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Speaker 1: a shot after that, Yeah, he was always gonna be
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Speaker 1: that guy. Yeah, yeah, I mean that was I think
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Speaker 1: they had already drafted him and he immediately became known
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Speaker 1: as that guy. And yeah, there was no hope form
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Speaker 1: after that. He could have been the David Robinson of
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Speaker 1: international games. It wouldn't have mattered. Like he's He's just
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Speaker 1: known as the guy that got dunked on by Vince Carter.
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Speaker 1: Speaking of Vince Carter math, Vince Carter would play for
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Speaker 1: eight teams in his NBA career without getting one wrong,
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Speaker 1: named Six Raptors, Magic, Sons, Hawk, New Jersey. I think
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Speaker 1: you played for Dallas. Yes, he also played for the
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Speaker 1: Grizzlies and the Kings. Here is a better question. Now
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Speaker 1: you all get to respond. In nineteen seventy two, the
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Speaker 1: ending of the gold medal basketball game between America and
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Speaker 1: the USSR was so fishy that the players unanimously agreed
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Speaker 1: to not accept their silver medals. One player wrote into
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Speaker 1: his will that his heirs were forbidden from accepting on
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Speaker 1: his behalf even after his death. If you won an
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Speaker 1: Olympic gold medal, what would happen to it after your death?
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Speaker 1: And what instructions would you leave? I would just I mean,
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Speaker 1: I feel like it's generational, you pass it down to
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Speaker 1: to a child. And the only instructions I would leave
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Speaker 1: is I don't care what scumbag great great grandchild I have.
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Speaker 1: You can't sell it, It can never ever be sold.
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Speaker 1: I don't I don't know where my lineage will go
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Speaker 1: down the line, but I don't want that thing to
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Speaker 1: wind up on you know, the twenty second century version
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Speaker 1: of eBay at some point in Darren Ravel's office. So
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Speaker 1: I'm have a different mind on this. Johan has just
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Speaker 1: taught us that the past is ego, right, the past,
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Speaker 1: the past is all ego. And I would leave instructions
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Speaker 1: that if my kids wanted it, they get to have it,
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Speaker 1: but then after that it gets and if they don't
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Speaker 1: want it, or after they pass it on, it gets
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Speaker 1: sent to some sort of university or a scientific organization
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Speaker 1: and auctioned off to help people. Because I just you
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Speaker 1: can't hold onto these things. You can't be so prideful
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Speaker 1: about your accomplishments that you lose sight of moving forward.
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Speaker 1: Because that's my mindset on that. That's what's too sappy
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Speaker 1: that I'm sorry, that's what I think. I say this
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Speaker 1: as someone that like right outside this door behind me,
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Speaker 1: like has you know every cover story I've written for
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Speaker 1: Sports Illustrated, like frame that I look at every morning
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Speaker 1: so I'm not give it away anything. That's yeah, Chris,
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Speaker 1: I was like when I heard the whole speech about Yanna.
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Speaker 1: It's a nice group for thought, but I'm like, dude,
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Speaker 1: I can't tell you how often I wake up I
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Speaker 1: think about my past, Like every day. I'm one of
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Speaker 1: those people. It's like, how did I get where I'm
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Speaker 1: at in life? I feel like so blessed. So it's
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Speaker 1: good to review your past, but I guess, yeah, not
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Speaker 1: living in it. I'm I'm crazy about this gold medal thing.
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Speaker 1: I feel like I already don't trust my unborn kids.
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Speaker 1: I don't know why. I just worry they're gonna be
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Speaker 1: a little scumbag. So I'd probably donate it to my
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Speaker 1: like old high school, so at least, like I know,
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Speaker 1: for the rest of time, people walk by, like whose
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Speaker 1: gold medal is that? Like, oh, it's Simon Hunters. It's like, Okay,
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Speaker 1: at least someone's remembering me other than my kids pointed
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Speaker 1: in Las Vegas to go hit the craps table. I
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Speaker 1: couldn't handle that. So yeah, I definitely would donate it
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Speaker 1: to my high school. So you care about what happens
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Speaker 1: after you're gone, I don't. That's the differences, I don't
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Speaker 1: care about it. Also, I feel like my kid would
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Speaker 1: just be like cool and then just throw it in
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Speaker 1: a drawer. While that's that's what happened. It would be
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Speaker 1: used as a coaster for while he's playing video games. Okay,
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Speaker 1: none of you guys got this right, because there's only
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Speaker 1: one clear thing you can do, which is put it
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Speaker 1: in a glass box in a beautiful office so that
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Speaker 1: your future ice skating convert from hockey boyfriend played by
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Speaker 1: DV Sweeney can come in and admire it. Allah the
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Speaker 1: cutting edge, Please find some place else to put your
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Speaker 1: clubs man, when I love to see you play hockey
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Speaker 1: any day. A reference? What are your reference? That is
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Speaker 1: absolutely what should have happened to the gold medal? And well,
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Speaker 1: the clear winner is Matt More because he's doing something
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Speaker 1: good with the proceeds of his gold medal. However, I'm
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Speaker 1: also pleased to know that both Simon and Chris are
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Speaker 1: highly concerned with the future offspring in their lineage. I
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Speaker 1: don't know if both of you use the word scumbag,
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Speaker 1: but it was an interesting There's gonna be some deep
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Speaker 1: Irish scumbag in my family, I'm sure of it. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I was Dennist and menace as a kid, so like
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Speaker 1: my kid is going to be straight out of hell.
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Speaker 1: I have no doubt about that. All right, well again,
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Speaker 1: dB Sweeney would like to be admiring my gold medal
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Speaker 1: and sure in a tuxedo during a New Year's Eve party.
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Speaker 1: All Right, we're gonna move on to part two, and
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna get it better in an attempt to overthrow
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Speaker 1: Chad and claim this as my future job and kick
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Speaker 1: Chad out of hosting the Thursday Thunderdome. Please do I
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Speaker 1: like your voice so much more than Chad's. Chad's like
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Speaker 1: high pitched, nailsy voice. It's it's a blessing. When I
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Speaker 1: look away to hear your voice, I'm like, oh, this
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Speaker 1: is nice. You also haven't had a thirty minute interrogating
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Speaker 1: interrogation of your love life, so there that's a plus too. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's true. You're very You're much nicer to me. Okay,
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Speaker 1: so part two here we go. It's getting it's getting
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Speaker 1: heated now. The Bucks captured their second NBA title this week,
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Speaker 1: delivering a much deserved championship to the city of Milwaukee,
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Speaker 1: also known as also known as the Barras of the
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Speaker 1: Midwest and the buckle of America's Gary Belt. So in
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Speaker 1: honor of their beloved Giannice, who was named Finals Most
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Speaker 1: Valuable Player in a unanimous position. Let's look back at
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Speaker 1: some other NBA Finals MVPs maw Now that Janice secured
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Speaker 1: the award, he joins this player as the only NBA
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Speaker 1: Finals MVP in the history of the Milwaukee Bucks. Kareem
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Speaker 1: abdul Jabbar. No, well, maybe, Alison door Is that was
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Speaker 1: a trick question. No, No, I'll take it. That's fair,
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Speaker 1: that's fair. I'll take the l Yeah, alright, Chris, now
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Speaker 1: that you're you figured that one out, Chris. The first
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Speaker 1: NBA Finals MVP was also the only player to win
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Speaker 1: one in a losing effort. Made that player, Oh God,
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Speaker 1: first Finals m v P, Bill Russell. It's the logo.
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Speaker 1: It's a Jerry West. Jerry West. Take it. I'll take
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Speaker 1: the win on that one. Jerry West. Yes, Jerry West
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Speaker 1: is correct, all right, Simon. The NBA Finals MVP award
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Speaker 1: is named after this player, who won eleven NBA Championships
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Speaker 1: as a player, plus two more as a coach to
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Speaker 1: go along with his two MC double l A titles
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Speaker 1: and an Olympic Gold Medal. Oh my god, that's so
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Speaker 1: many awards. What's his name, Bill Russell. Yes, let's go.
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Speaker 1: Nice work, here we go. The Bill Russell NBA Finals
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Speaker 1: Most Valuable Player Award is arguably the most appropriately named
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Speaker 1: trophy in all of sports. If you could rename or
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Speaker 1: rededicate any award in sports, what would you choose and
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Speaker 1: what would you name it? And I'm gonna Latin Matt
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Speaker 1: answer this one first. I would like to rename the
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Speaker 1: NBA Community Assist Award the lou Williams Award for all
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Speaker 1: the work that he's done with local folks in various establishments.
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Speaker 1: As I'm not going to say what type of establishment
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Speaker 1: as I am on a podcast with my head of
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Speaker 1: HR so that's got good chicken wings, good great chicken wings,
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Speaker 1: just amazing chicken wings. Worth what kind of community assistance?
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Speaker 1: I don't know anything about this award. Just he's done
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Speaker 1: a lot for young women that are trying to make
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Speaker 1: their way in the world. I'm gonna have to do
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Speaker 1: some Google searching later, Okay. And I thought you were
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Speaker 1: like a do gooder here. I was like, oh, we've
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Speaker 1: got a theme of like giving back. He's given back considerably,
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Speaker 1: all right, Chris, if you follow this track where you
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Speaker 1: look at Bill Russell as the greatest team player in
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Speaker 1: the history of sports, I would rename the NFL m
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Speaker 1: v P after the greatest team player in the history
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Speaker 1: of the NFL, which is Boston's own Tom Brady. So
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Speaker 1: I would uh rename the NFL MVP after a guy
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Speaker 1: that's gonna be winning that award when he's like forty seven.
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Speaker 1: So I'm going Tom Brady, all right, Simon. Is the
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Speaker 1: award like a football that's not quite fully inflated, a
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Speaker 1: little like a little flat football. Football inflated is defeated
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Speaker 1: by playing an entire season with the absent meniscus. I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna call that a more significant accomplishments. There you go.
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Speaker 1: I've kind of stolen mine from from Chris here. I uh,
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Speaker 1: I alway wanted them to change right now, the Super
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Speaker 1: Bowl they called the Lombardi To me, that's really what
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Speaker 1: he's known for, is all of his world championships before
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Speaker 1: the NFL's the NFL. So I feel like they should
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Speaker 1: rename the NFC Championship to Lombardi and then named the
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl Trophy to the Belichick. I know people love
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Speaker 1: Brady and I'm with him on the Brady hype. The
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Speaker 1: guy's seven rings, But if you go back and watch
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Speaker 1: a lot of that was Brady was great, but a
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Speaker 1: lot of the early days it's all Belichick. It was
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Speaker 1: great defense with a great kicker, with a quarterback, didn't
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Speaker 1: turn the ball over. So if I'm gonna give a
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Speaker 1: lot of their rings the credits to, I know it's
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Speaker 1: a split thing, but I give it the Belichick because
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Speaker 1: he is that coach. So to me, they should just
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Speaker 1: change the name of Super Bowl to the Belichick. It's
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Speaker 1: it's truly, that's the name of the trophy. It's a Belichick.
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Speaker 1: That guy is by far the greatest coach ever. All Right,
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Speaker 1: well this one was super easy because I went to
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Speaker 1: the great University of Michigan, as did Tom Brady. So
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Speaker 1: Chris is the clear winner. I'll take it. That's fair. Okay,
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Speaker 1: this is a really heated game. We are at a
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Speaker 1: tie a freeway die with three points each, So Matt three,
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Speaker 1: Chris three, and Simon three, So we're gonna have to
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Speaker 1: We're gonna have to figure this out so we can
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Speaker 1: declare a clear winner. Moving along to Part three, our
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Speaker 1: theme is Space Jam two, which I actually have not
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Speaker 1: seen yet, but looks excellent. The Lebron James films Space Jam,
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Speaker 1: a New Legacy, The highly anticipated sequel to the nine original,
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Speaker 1: was released last week to scathing reviews. The New York Post,
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Speaker 1: for example, called it an abomination. In honor of this
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Speaker 1: dubious occasion, let's test your Space Jam knowledge, Matt. At
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Speaker 1: over ninety million dollars, the original Space Jam remains the
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Speaker 1: highest grossing basketball film of all time, just ahead of
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Speaker 1: this classic featuring Rosie Prez and also my husband's favorite movie,
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Speaker 1: White Man Can't Jump. Very balance is we go? And
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Speaker 1: see part. Sometimes when you really lose, sometimes when you lose,
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Speaker 1: you really win, and sometimes when you want to lose,
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Speaker 1: you actually time. All right, Chris made specifically for the
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Speaker 1: movie Space Jam. The classic hit I Believe I Can
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Speaker 1: Fly won the Grammy for Best Original Music for TV
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Speaker 1: or Film and was performed by this infamous R and
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Speaker 1: B legend. Oh God, I'm gonna screw this up. I
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Speaker 1: feel like this is so easy. Was it sealed? No,
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Speaker 1: but my husband said this thig last night. I thought
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Speaker 1: it was sealed for a second. There no no worse
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Speaker 1: bad reputation. Bobby Brown. No, I mean that's a bad
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Speaker 1: reputation too. I remember the song, I can hear it
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Speaker 1: in my head, but I don't know say R Kelly Wow,
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Speaker 1: R Kelly was around back then, Hobby Hobby spread My
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Speaker 1: Wings and yeah, that was before Trapped in the Closet.
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Speaker 1: Damn missed that, alright, simon this once for you When
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Speaker 1: it was released in almost two dozen NBA players appeared
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Speaker 1: in the original Space Yeam. Michael Jordan's was one of them.
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Speaker 1: Five more were some of his championship teammates with the
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Speaker 1: Chicago Bulls. Without getting one wrong, name two two people
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Speaker 1: in the movie or two people off the Bulls, well,
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Speaker 1: two people from the Balls that were in the movie. Okay,
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Speaker 1: I'll go with uh Scottie Pippen. No, Wow, already wrong.
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Speaker 1: I have no idea because I saw that movie as
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Speaker 1: a kid. I remember it was like Larry Bird and
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Speaker 1: Charles Barkley, but I don't remember anyone from the Bulls, Grant,
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Speaker 1: the Big Goofy, Dude long Luke Longland, Wennington Longley and
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Speaker 1: the others recur and Oakley of course was in it.
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Speaker 1: Of course it part three. Make one change to Space
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Speaker 1: Jam two that would have instantly made it more successful.
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Speaker 1: And I'm gonna let Matt go first, have Steph Curry
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Speaker 1: play the villain, and then absolutely it would have. It
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Speaker 1: would have broken every box office record as every kid
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Speaker 1: would see it nine hundred million times because if you
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Speaker 1: don't have if you don't like Lebron, you like Steph
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Speaker 1: Curry and they could actually root for the bad guy.
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Speaker 1: That would be very gritty reboot with Steph as the
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Speaker 1: anti hero villain. All right, Chris, I would incorporate Jordan's.
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Speaker 1: You know, people that like the original would be more
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Speaker 1: likely to see it if you know you have Jordan's
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Speaker 1: Coming to Save the Day or or some version of it.
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Speaker 1: I think if you're gonna make a sequel to the
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Speaker 1: exact same movie, it kind of behooves you to have
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Speaker 1: Jordan and maybe have Bill Murray in it. You know,
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Speaker 1: have the same cast of characters are part of it
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Speaker 1: that we're in the original. So I would incorporate the
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Speaker 1: original guys of that movie. I love Bell Marie. All right, Simon,
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Speaker 1: I feel bad. I'm I'm in football mode. I'm so disconnected.
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Speaker 1: I don't even know this movie came out until we
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Speaker 1: just started this show, so I haven't seen Space James too.
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Speaker 1: But since people I hate it. I guess make a
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Speaker 1: PG thirteen. I feel like you can't go wrong when
20:21
Speaker 1: you up a rating because there's there's jokes that older
20:23
Speaker 1: people can understand. It seems like people don't understand it's
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Speaker 1: for little kids. People are like, oh, that movie is terrible.
20:28
Speaker 1: It's like, dude, you're thirty years old. I don't know
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Speaker 1: if you're the demographics. So I'm gonna check it out.
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Speaker 1: But I'll like smoke a ja or maybe eat medric mushrooms,
20:36
Speaker 1: saying that it's my head of hr again before I
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Speaker 1: watch this movie, because it's not for it's not for adults,
20:41
Speaker 1: it's for little kids. So I love the first Space Jam,
20:44
Speaker 1: so I'm assuming I'm gonna love this one. Oh. Critics
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Speaker 1: are often you know, dumb in general, because like I'll
20:51
Speaker 1: die on the hill that Armageddon is a great frigged movie,
20:53
Speaker 1: And how many scathing reviews has Armageddon had over the years.
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Speaker 1: I think it has like a If you look up
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Speaker 1: all the reviews on like Wikipedia, it's got I think
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Speaker 1: every single one of them by a critic is a
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Speaker 1: negative review. Bruce Willis want a Razzie for that that movie,
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Speaker 1: which I find astonishing. I've watched that maybe five hundred times,
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Speaker 1: and we'll probably watch it five hundred more before I die.
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Speaker 1: So and no, and you're right. The audience is not
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Speaker 1: you know, forty five year old New York Post writer
21:19
Speaker 1: or New York Times writer or whatever it is. It's
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Speaker 1: a twelve year old that might be entertained by it.
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Speaker 1: Is incredible. But also my favorite scene from like almost
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Speaker 1: any movie where I think Luke Wilson's like going to
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Speaker 1: outer space and they asked him, are you excited or whatever?
21:35
Speaker 1: And he's like, I'm ninety percent excited and tempers that's terrified,
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Speaker 1: or maybe I'm tem percent excited and year doesn't really
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Speaker 1: matter anymore. And I say that like all the time
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Speaker 1: about everything. See, the greatest part of that movie is
21:47
Speaker 1: the fact that Bruce Willis is shooting a shock on
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Speaker 1: an oil rig at his girlfriend's his daughter's boyfriend. That's,
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Speaker 1: to this day on my favorite parts of that movie.
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Speaker 1: I would have give h Bruce Willis an oscar for
21:57
Speaker 1: that movie, not a Razzie for that movie. The Russian
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Speaker 1: dude just trying to fix it and he's like cosmonaut, Yeah, cosmonaut,
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Speaker 1: and he's and he's talking and he's like Russian components
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Speaker 1: American components all made in Taiwan. Great line. I like
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Speaker 1: Bill Murray and I like Armageddon and Christmins. I'll take it.
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Speaker 1: I'll congratulate myself there. So Simon is the big loser
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Speaker 1: right now. Simon is still stuck at three. If he
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Speaker 1: had gone to see Space Jam, he may have one,
22:22
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22:24
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Speaker 1: Call them all right, Chris, what is your answer? Uh,
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Speaker 1: Puerto Rico? Nicely done? How should you wager all my points?
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Speaker 1: Put it along the line, go bigger, go home? All right, Simon?
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Speaker 1: I got Puerto Rico, but only at three points. Som
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Speaker 1: only at six points, so still behind Chris. From then Matt,
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Speaker 1: our guest, is the big winner with eight points. A
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Speaker 1: the day. I'm telling you we should absolutely name since
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Speaker 1: this is my one time gig. We should name the
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Speaker 1: it after winners and that's uh, that's what I feel
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Speaker 1: like right now. That's where you are, all right, And
25:37
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