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Aaron Rodgers Sets His Eyes on Fauci, KD’s Sixers-Warriors Comparison, and Kelsey Plum’s Scorching Mercury Debut · The Daily Play With Joy Taylor

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  Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome to The Daily Play with Joy Taylor.
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  Speaker 2: Play Joy Taylor. So I'm sure you have seen clips
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  Speaker 2: already of Aaron Rodgers on Pat McFee on Monday.
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  Speaker 1: He had a lot to.
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  Speaker 2: Say about anything but football, pretty standard for him. Brought
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  Speaker 2: up the Vrabel Russini scandal for some reason, also took
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  Speaker 2: a shot at the former director of the National Institute
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  Speaker 2: of Allergy and Infectious Diseases one Anthony Fauci, calling him Tony,
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  Speaker 2: which also seems a little disrespectful, called him an absolute coward.
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  Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? What are you scared of? Tony?
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  Speaker 1: I thought you were the science.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what you guys do for your scientific
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  Speaker 2: and medical advice, but I don't go to quarterbacks for
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  Speaker 2: that just my personal opinion. But he said that basically
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  Speaker 2: out of nowhere, and then he pled the fifth about
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  Speaker 2: how he feels about heading into the last season, and
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  Speaker 2: then he compared Fauci that to how Fauci pleaded the
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  Speaker 2: fifth for legal reasons during his testimony for Congress. Again,
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  Speaker 2: I'm completely baffled as to what this has to do
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  Speaker 2: with Aaron Rodgers, But the Steelers side steps in a
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  Speaker 2: statements issued to WTAE in Pittsburgh, saying discussions around culture
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  Speaker 2: and politics can bring different perspectives and our players are
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  Speaker 2: entitled to their own personal views with respect to that.
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  Speaker 1: I am certain there are a variety of opinions on
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  Speaker 1: many topics within our locker room.
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  Speaker 2: Once again, whatever your opinion is on vaccines and Fauci
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  Speaker 2: and Congress and all of that is great and you
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  Speaker 2: are entitled to it. And as a tax paying American,
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  Speaker 2: you actually should have an.
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  Speaker 1: Opinion on that.
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  Speaker 2: What that has to do with the Steelers this season
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  Speaker 2: and his final year in Pittsburgh, I have no idea.
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  Speaker 1: Again, I do not.
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  Speaker 2: Go to Aaron Rodgers for medical or science advice, but
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  Speaker 2: you do you and there are varying opinions in the
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  Speaker 2: locker room. But when you are the quarterback and a
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  Speaker 2: future Hall of Fame quarterback and you say something like this,
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  Speaker 2: other teammates and members of the team are going to
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  Speaker 2: get asked about it.
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  Speaker 1: And since you are not the authority on science or
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  Speaker 1: COVID or.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know anything that's going on with Congress, which,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, in my opinion, we should be focused
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  Speaker 2: on other things, because I don't know how we got
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  Speaker 2: back to vaccines when there are certain lists that haven't been.
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  Speaker 1: Made public yet. But again, if you want to.
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  Speaker 2: Make it political, then we got to make it political,
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  Speaker 2: which is why this whole set up and dribble thing
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  Speaker 2: was always very silly. Here is a NFL quarterback getting
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  Speaker 2: very political for no reason whatsoever. Also, what is the
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  Speaker 2: brabol russin anything about mad weird? But this is what
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  Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers does, and then claims that the whole media
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  Speaker 2: is being dramatic and giving him too much attention and
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  Speaker 2: why don't we talk about football? And it's the same
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  Speaker 2: cycle every single time, which is really odds me because
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  Speaker 2: if you don't want this kind of attention and you
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  Speaker 2: don't want these kind of conversations around you, why are
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  Speaker 2: you bringing it up. Did anyone come to you for
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  Speaker 2: your opinion about Vauci? Aaron I certainly did it. So
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  Speaker 2: now we are talking about it because he made these
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  Speaker 2: statements during an.
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  Speaker 1: Interview when he should have been talking about the Pittsburgh Scalers.
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  Speaker 2: So let's add to the NBA, where Kevin Durantz made
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  Speaker 2: some comments that we knew were going to be discussed
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  Speaker 2: where you compared the Sixers that Lebron is joining to
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  Speaker 2: the Warriors that he was on. Kadie responded to someone
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  Speaker 2: on the internet defending his comments with numbers. He said,
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  Speaker 2: Joel MVP recently, Jaylen Brown, recent Finals, MVP, Tyreez Maxie
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  Speaker 2: all started the last three years.
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  Speaker 1: We all know what Lebron does.
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  Speaker 2: Klay Thompson was never an MVP candidate in nothing twenty
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  Speaker 2: two points per game, Draymond fourteen points per game, seven rebound,
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  Speaker 2: six assists, Steph an MVP.
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  Speaker 1: Just like Joelle was. I don't get howf a Warriors
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  Speaker 1: team is better on paper.
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  Speaker 2: We can obviously get into hours and hours and hours
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  Speaker 2: of discussion comparing these two teams, but I don't think
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  Speaker 2: that Steph Curry is an MVP in the way that
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  Speaker 2: Joel Embiid is an MVP.
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  Speaker 1: He's the greatest shooter in the history of basketball, but he.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't say Clay and dre hat responded. Clay responded, hey man,
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  Speaker 2: you good tagged Katie and said, what are you using
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  Speaker 2: my full government four and then Draymond had a comment
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  Speaker 2: and said slim thought he was on his burner with
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of laughing emojis, So it seems like they're
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  Speaker 2: not taking it too seriously, but they are hearing it.
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  Speaker 2: And look, I get Katie's comparison, and I knew this
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  Speaker 2: was going to cause some commotion around the league and
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  Speaker 2: in these conversation circles about and listen, it's list season,
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  Speaker 2: it's comparing season. It's it's off season for the NBA
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  Speaker 2: and for the NFL. This is what we're going to
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  Speaker 2: get into. And Katie knew what he was doing when
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  Speaker 2: he made this comment, like it was going to stir
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  Speaker 2: things up, because it's an interesting comparison. Now we know
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  Speaker 2: what those Warriors teams were and became and what they accomplished,
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  Speaker 2: So we don't know if that's.
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  Speaker 1: Going to happen for the Sixers, obviously.
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  Speaker 2: But the expectations are extremely high, and he makes a
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  Speaker 2: point that these are is a really, really talented team
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  Speaker 2: and the expectations were through the roof for that Warrior's team. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the Warriors had already won a championship, so it's obviously
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  Speaker 2: a very different situation than what the Sixer scene is
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  Speaker 2: because before Jaylen Brown had got there, they hadn't gotten
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  Speaker 2: past the second round of the playoffs. With Joel embiid
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  Speaker 2: as the face of that organization, So it's not comparable
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  Speaker 2: in that way because they had already won a championship,
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  Speaker 2: But as far as talent goes, it is a pretty
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  Speaker 2: interesting comparison, and I'm sure all those guys are gonna
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  Speaker 2: have something to say about it. Let's slip over to
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  Speaker 2: the NBA versus w NBA for a quick update on
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  Speaker 2: Kelsey Plums wild Week. She is the newest member of
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  Speaker 2: the Phoenix Mercury and showed up dropped twenty points in
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  Speaker 2: twenty one minutes to help deliver eight one oh six
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  Speaker 2: one oh one victory over Chicago on Monday night. Not
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  Speaker 2: bad for a player who has missed six weeks with
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  Speaker 2: an injury and got into Chicago at eleven pm the
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  Speaker 2: night before the Mercury.
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  Speaker 1: Played the Sky.
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  Speaker 2: She said she felt like she was in Spiderman multiverse
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  Speaker 2: when she was introduced and talked about what it means
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  Speaker 2: to play for the same organization as her idol, Diana Tarassi,
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  Speaker 2: she said, it means everything.
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  Speaker 1: She actually sexed to me today and just.
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  Speaker 2: Said there's no one she'd rather have on the Mercury
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  Speaker 2: and I'm just so very honored.
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  Speaker 1: All this happened very fast, and it was very unexpected.
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  Speaker 2: It's been a crazy four day hours to be received
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  Speaker 2: like that from my teammates, from the staff, from the organization.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just super grateful and I can't say how thankful
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  Speaker 2: ams go out there and compete. I love to see
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  Speaker 2: this for Kelsey. Obviously, this was kind of an interesting
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  Speaker 2: trade because the Mercury haven't had a great season so far,
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  Speaker 2: but they're only six games out of playoffs. They have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of talent Leah Cooper, Alyssa Thomas, the Want
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  Speaker 2: and Bonner and now Kelsey Plumb assuming that she is
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  Speaker 2: going to re sign because obviously that was a part
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  Speaker 2: of the reason why she was traded. This could be
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  Speaker 2: a really interesting team heading into the playoff push and
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  Speaker 2: certainly for next year and the Mercury play tonights in
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  Speaker 2: at Lena against the Dream. But shout out to Kelsey.
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  Speaker 2: Great first nights as a member of the Phoenix Mercury,
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  Speaker 2: and you know she's one of my favorite players. I'm
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  Speaker 2: excited to see what she does.
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  Speaker 1: There, So congrats. Great way to show up and contribute.
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