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Hour 2 – End of The LeBron Road · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 2: a good time on a early Tuesday morning. And I'll
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  Speaker 2: tell you this before we get to the Voice to
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  Speaker 2: Men comparison with a NBA superstar, if you will. So
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  Speaker 2: we have this. We have this neighbor cat and we've
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  Speaker 2: named her Oreo. We're gonna sound like crazy people. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm here in Vegas with my girlfriend. There's just a
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  Speaker 2: cat in the neighborhood. And so she would just hang
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  Speaker 2: out with us, like she would come by and We're like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: maybe she's hungry, and so we fed her a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: And she has a home. She goes somewhere. We don't
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  Speaker 2: know where she's from. We don't know what her age is,
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  Speaker 2: we have no idea what her real name is. We've
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  Speaker 2: nicknamed her Oreo. She's not our cat, but she's hanging
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  Speaker 2: out here tonight and she's fired up. She's normally she's
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  Speaker 2: sleeping about ninety five percent of the time, but she
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  Speaker 2: is wide awake and she's in crazy mode right now.
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  Speaker 3: Can I ask you a question about this cat?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely? Please do well?
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  Speaker 3: Because I used to have a cat and.
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  Speaker 4: Eventually he'd just be gone longer and longer and longer.
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  Speaker 3: And one day he came back with a collar on.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, and I.
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  Speaker 3: Was like, who who thinks you are?
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  Speaker 2: Cat?
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  Speaker 4: How hard have you been double dipping that you'll think something?
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  Speaker 4: You could put someone else's collar.
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  Speaker 3: On your neck?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you don't even like wearing the collar I put
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  Speaker 4: on your neck, mister Jingles.
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  Speaker 3: No wonder man, Oh my gosh, do you plan on
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  Speaker 3: adopting this cat?
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  Speaker 2: If I would love to, I would love to adopt Oreo.
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  Speaker 2: And it's funny you said that, Lorena, because my girlfriend
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  Speaker 2: made a necklace for Oreo that says Oreo, and she
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  Speaker 2: used to when Oreo come visit, she'd put the necklace
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  Speaker 2: on Oreo and then when she would leave, we would
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  Speaker 2: take it off. And one time she almost forgot, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, no, take the necklace off. You're gonna blow
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  Speaker 2: this for us.
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  Speaker 3: The cat inside and never let it out again. But
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  Speaker 3: how do we know he so, you know for a
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  Speaker 3: fact she has an owner.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, you can tell between a stray cat and an
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  Speaker 4: owned cat. Yeah, stray cats they smell weird. They have
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  Speaker 4: a weird texture to their fur.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, right, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: They spray everything.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because she's you never see her when the sun
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  Speaker 2: is out, you know, when it's super hot, Oreo's like,
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  Speaker 2: screw this, I'm staying inside with the air conditioning. Wherever
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  Speaker 2: her real home is, she is not outside ever. And
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  Speaker 2: then when it's nighttime, she's just out. She's like a
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  Speaker 2: night owl, like a night cat. But she definitely has
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  Speaker 2: a home. We just don't know where or what. But
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  Speaker 2: like gonna put a note on her. We're gonna like
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  Speaker 2: staplean note, like can we have Oreo or whatever her
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  Speaker 2: real name is, Can we do that? But yeah, she's
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  Speaker 2: hanging out with us right now. She's part of the militia.
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  Speaker 2: He's very fired up right now. Okay, so the boys
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  Speaker 2: to Men thing, let me finally pay this off. I
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  Speaker 2: picture one person out there, like I need to hear
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  Speaker 2: where this tease is going. There's like one out there.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody else is just like eh, talk more about Oreo
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  Speaker 2: or the NFL. But Lebron James. So he exercised his
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  Speaker 2: player option. That's the tune of fifty two point six
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  Speaker 2: million dollars. Now, there was an interesting nugget from Brian Winhurst.
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  Speaker 2: He was on Get Up and he had this to
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  Speaker 2: say about Lebron and opting in to this player option year.
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  Speaker 2: Check this out.
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  Speaker 5: It's just unusual for Lebron to be in this spot.
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  Speaker 5: He has signed nine contracts in his illustrious career. Eight
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  Speaker 5: of them have had player options in them. Not once
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  Speaker 5: in the eight times has he ever taken that player option.
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  Speaker 5: He has always opted to sign a new contract. This
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  Speaker 5: is the first time in twenty three years he's ever
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  Speaker 5: been on a contract is in its last year.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty interesting, right, So it seems to point to the
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  Speaker 2: end of the road that would be the Boys to
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  Speaker 2: Men tie in right there. It seems like this very
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  Speaker 2: well could be Lebron's final year in the NBA because
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  Speaker 2: he's normally when he's got that last year, he's got
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  Speaker 2: that player option, he signs for more years. We just
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  Speaker 2: this with the Clippers, right, is same situation with the
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  Speaker 2: Beard with James Harden, he had a player option and
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  Speaker 2: they said nah, no thanks, and he signed a two
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  Speaker 2: year deal. Right, So he got an extra year on
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  Speaker 2: his deal. You've seen Lebron do that every single time
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  Speaker 2: he's been in this position. He didn't do it this time.
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  Speaker 2: So it could very well be his final season. It
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  Speaker 2: doesn't mean it for sure. Whatever, he could re up
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  Speaker 2: with the Lakers after the season, he could look for
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  Speaker 2: a new home if he wanted to continue his career elsewhere.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't mean for sure it's the end, but it tends
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  Speaker 2: to indicate this very well could be his final season. Now,
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  Speaker 2: his agent, Rich Paul He released an interesting statement on
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  Speaker 2: Lebron's future. He wrote this quote, row, this is a
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  Speaker 2: statement Lebron wants to compete for a championship. He knows
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  Speaker 2: the Lakers are building for the future, he understands that,
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  Speaker 2: but he values a realistic chance of winning it all.
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  Speaker 2: So what does this mean, this is what it boils
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  Speaker 2: down to. Lebron understandably is like, Okay, I know we're
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  Speaker 2: planning for the future, but the future is now for me,
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  Speaker 2: so I want to be on a championship contending team.
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  Speaker 2: There's nothing wrong with that. What Lebron has done in
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  Speaker 2: the past, he's thrown his weight around a lot more
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  Speaker 2: than this. He just doesn't have the leverage. The Lakers,
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  Speaker 2: they're not in go for it mode this season. They're
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  Speaker 2: in go for twenty twenty seven mode. That's when max
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  Speaker 2: salary spots. They've got their iMore on twenty twenty seven
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  Speaker 2: than they do this season because they're looking to go
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  Speaker 2: younger and in some instances cheaper. They don't have a
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  Speaker 2: ton of flexibility. Lebron's gonna turn forty one in December,
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  Speaker 2: so they're not in like Steelers mode, if you will.
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  Speaker 2: Steelers are like, yeah, let's go, let's go for it,
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  Speaker 2: let's do it. The Lakers are like, yeah, let's try
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  Speaker 2: to build a better roster in a smarter fashion. But
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  Speaker 2: they're really looking to build around Luca, not looking to
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  Speaker 2: build around Lebron, and Lebron's smart enough to understand that,
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  Speaker 2: but he doesn't want to accept that. He doesn't want
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  Speaker 2: to be like, yeah, you know why, that's cool, this
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  Speaker 2: might be my last year in the league. Let's just
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  Speaker 2: plan for twenty twenty seven when I'm out of the
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  Speaker 2: league entirely, and you can have a better future with Luca.
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  Speaker 2: He's not feeling that, and I don't think he should,
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  Speaker 2: so I get where he's coming from. But he just
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  Speaker 2: doesn't have the leverage to really hold the Lakers' feet
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  Speaker 2: to the fire and make things happen. It's just not
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  Speaker 2: gonna go down like that. The Lakers did lose Dorian
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  Speaker 2: Finney Smith. He gone, he is out of there. He
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  Speaker 2: signed with the Rockets, and in the place of Dorian
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  Speaker 2: Phinney Smith, the Lakers signed Jake la Ravia. Jake Laavia.
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  Speaker 2: That's on a two year, twelve million dollars deal, so
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  Speaker 2: not exactly a blockbuster signing for the Purple and Gold.
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  Speaker 2: I love some of these reports. This is what makes
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  Speaker 2: me laugh. And the whole thing here, Well, you'll see
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  Speaker 2: these reports where it's like Lebron will be closely monitoring
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  Speaker 2: things and closely monitoring what the Lakers do this offseason.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, yeah, he's gonna be closely monitoring the Lakers,
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  Speaker 2: not doing jack. Okay, the Lakers aren't gonna do anything
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  Speaker 2: of great significance this offseason. They just don't have a
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  Speaker 2: ton of wiggle room. So this idea that Lebron, he's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be paying attention. He's gonna be watching Sports Center,
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  Speaker 2: he's gonna be reading the La Times. He's gonna stay
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  Speaker 2: in close proximity the Genie Buss and the powers that be,
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  Speaker 2: and you're gonna be checking. He's gonna be monitoring closely,
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  Speaker 2: and that's gonna get something done. It's not. The Lakers
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  Speaker 2: are not going to be making any big moves this offseason.
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  Speaker 2: There's not gonna be a move where you go, WHOA,
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  Speaker 2: that's big. I think the Lakers could win the West. Now,
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  Speaker 2: there's not gonna be a move like that spoiler alert.
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  Speaker 2: So I just think it's funny that Lebron's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: monitoring the situation very closely, day in and day out.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, Okay, he's gonna be monitoring a whole lot
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  Speaker 2: of nothing happening. But that's the word right now. And now,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, just look at what's happened with the Lakers
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  Speaker 2: desperately need a center, and it looked like it maybe
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  Speaker 2: could be Brook Lopez. Maybe Brooke going once, going twice. Nope,
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  Speaker 2: not brook Lopez. He signed with the Clippers. Think about
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  Speaker 2: that for a second. The Lakers were in play to
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  Speaker 2: possibly get Brook Brook Lopez, and Brook's like, now I'll
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  Speaker 2: go to the Clippers and back up of Vitza Zubats.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be a backup. And maybe he thinks the Clippers
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  Speaker 2: are have a better roster, they're in a better position
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  Speaker 2: to compete for a championship. Whatever his reasons are, he
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  Speaker 2: chose the Clippers over the Lakers. So maybe, uh, Clint Capella,
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  Speaker 2: maybe Clint is destined for the Lakers. No, well that's
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  Speaker 2: not gonna happen either, signing with the Rockets. Rockets are
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  Speaker 2: making some good moves. Let's spand it beyond the Lakers
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  Speaker 2: here in a little bit with all the other free
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  Speaker 2: agency comings and goings, if you will. But no Clint Capella,
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  Speaker 2: He's gonna back up San Goon. I'll tell you what, man,
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  Speaker 2: the Rockets are. They're putting together a legitimate roster that
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  Speaker 2: can compete in the West. And the Lakers meanwhile right
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  Speaker 2: now they have Maxi Kliba. That's what we're looking at
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  Speaker 2: here in the front court. They've got it. They desperately
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  Speaker 2: need to upgrade. Now. Maybe it'll be DeAndre Ayton. His
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  Speaker 2: contract just got bought out by the Blazers. But man,
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  Speaker 2: not the most sterling reputation for all d eighton right here.
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  Speaker 2: Some say he's selfish, he's unreliable. The word diva's been
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  Speaker 2: thrown around. You don't want to hear this phrase either.
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  Speaker 2: Locker room cancer just got bought out by the Blazers,
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  Speaker 2: So maybe that's the next center for the Lakers. Don't
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  Speaker 2: know if they can do much better than that, So
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  Speaker 2: we'll see if that's who they end up with. Very
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  Speaker 2: curious about this, but yeah, Lebron, make no but you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna see these reports, you're gonna read this or Lebron's
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  Speaker 2: closely monitoring the situation. He wants the Lakers to there
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  Speaker 2: and win now mode, and the Lakers are like, Bro,
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  Speaker 2: that's just not where we're at right now. We gotta
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  Speaker 2: we gotta make upgrades and be smart about this and
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  Speaker 2: build around Luca, not you. So this is a weird,
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  Speaker 2: possible final season for Lebron, but that's the way it's
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  Speaker 2: shaping up. Make no mistake about it, all right, let
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  Speaker 2: me go out to the phones here, militia is here.
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  Speaker 2: Let's work in John to the conversation. He's in LA.
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  Speaker 2: What's going on, John, you're on Fox Sports Radio. Johnny
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  Speaker 2: ran away?
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  Speaker 3: Thinky ran away into the woods?
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  Speaker 2: John?
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  Speaker 3: He ran and here though.
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  Speaker 2: I love Andre. Let's go to Andre and U mess,
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  Speaker 2: what's going on? Drey?
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  Speaker 6: What's going on? Thanks so much for taking the call.
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  Speaker 6: You that's uh on the western part.
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  Speaker 7: Of the state.
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  Speaker 6: I'm on the other side. I'm over here on the Cape. Uh,
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  Speaker 6: you know, the sunny peninsula known as tourist town.
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  Speaker 7: Uh. But it's all good.
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  Speaker 6: Willis is in the building.
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  Speaker 3: Is that Willis I just heard right now?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: Well, well Willis is excited. Yes, he really want to
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  Speaker 6: be part.
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  Speaker 7: You know, he's.
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  Speaker 3: Oreo could be friends.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Oreo is looking for a friend here. Andre.
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  Speaker 6: I think Willis might be able to make the trip,
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  Speaker 6: you know, a spirited as he is. I think that, uh,
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  Speaker 6: it's a trip out west might be just what he needs.
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  Speaker 6: You know, sometimes you will gets a little bit over it.
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  Speaker 6: You know. What he's excited about tonight is that, you know,
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  Speaker 6: in terms of our stars, Okay, that would be the
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  Speaker 6: most annoying if they were to win a championship I
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  Speaker 6: think Terrell Owens might be at the top.
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  Speaker 7: Of the list.
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  Speaker 2: You know he's done, though, Andre, you know he's gone.
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  Speaker 6: He's gone, but he's always threatening comebacks. You will always
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  Speaker 6: see the videos of him doing the you know, forty
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  Speaker 6: yard dash, fifty yard dash to show what kind of
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  Speaker 6: shape that he's in.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, but Andre, I'm I'm always threatening to date Dua Lipa.
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  Speaker 2: You know it's neither.
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  Speaker 3: A guy very tall woman.
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  Speaker 2: She is a very tall woman, Dre. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if you know that, but she is a I didn't
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  Speaker 2: a lengthy eight for tonight.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't realize that she was tall. But I think
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  Speaker 6: that she might date you. Nonetheless, Jack Hartlow, Okay, you
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  Speaker 6: know the song you know which has has a ring
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  Speaker 6: to it. You know, he's like six four mine is
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  Speaker 6: involved in the set, you know, so that's little bit
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  Speaker 6: of competition. Nonetheless, you know that didn't you know what
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  Speaker 6: I mean? It's still fair game, you know. So he
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  Speaker 6: has to hit song and he is kind of tall,
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  Speaker 6: you know, it has a way with words. But you said,
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  Speaker 6: does he do late night radio like you? So I
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  Speaker 6: think you still have a chance with duleip You make that.
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  Speaker 6: Durell Tourell is retired, So we got to think of
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  Speaker 6: a current player that would when that would be annoying
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  Speaker 6: should they win a championship. That's kind of I try
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  Speaker 6: to see people that the depositive. I don't know, maybe
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  Speaker 6: Max Jones. Mac Jones, you know, not not the best.
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  Speaker 2: No, come on, do you think Mac would be annoying?
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  Speaker 2: Max like the nicest dude ever, and he's not even starting.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he is.
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  Speaker 6: Nice except for when you have a special teams coach
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  Speaker 6: and a defensive guy become his offensive coordinator. I think
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  Speaker 6: that brought out you know, Matt wasn't too happy, but
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  Speaker 6: he shouldn't have been happy.
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  Speaker 2: That's the only time we saw the bad side of
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  Speaker 2: Mac Jones, when they had that ridiculous brain.
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  Speaker 3: And he will always remember.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I can't think of somebody beyond that, you know, I
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  Speaker 6: try to keep on the sunny side.
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  Speaker 8: Trelane is the.
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  Speaker 6: Only one that came to my mind. Who you know
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  Speaker 6: when he he if you gave him, if you won
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  Speaker 6: power Ball, it'd be a dollar two two too.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what though, Dre, I'll meet you halfway.
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  Speaker 2: Because he played great in Super Bowl thirty nine, in
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  Speaker 2: that loss to the Patriots, and he was still throwing
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  Speaker 2: it in our face and a loss, what do you
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  Speaker 2: have like nine catches for a buck twenty two, which
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  Speaker 2: was insane. A lot of people thought he wasn't gonna
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  Speaker 2: be healthy enough to even play, and he was great
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  Speaker 2: in that game. But I remember him after the game
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  Speaker 2: where it was like, you thought I wasn't gonna play.
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  Speaker 2: I told job's gonna play. That was after a loss.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, in his playing days, had he won it all,
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  Speaker 2: absolutely he would throw it.
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  Speaker 6: And he played injured that game, So that was a
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  Speaker 6: high point for him. A couple of couple of low lives.
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  Speaker 6: Hey there things so much for taking the call. We're
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  Speaker 6: gonna work on willis to see if you might be
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  Speaker 6: able to travel west, you know, and be spirited out
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  Speaker 6: there on the on the left coast.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate that. Drey, good stuff, buddy, have a good
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  Speaker 2: evening there. He is Andre I'm not gonna say in
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  Speaker 2: u Mass anymore. I didn't follow that. So he's in
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  Speaker 2: a part of Massachusetts that you wouldn't say, is you
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  Speaker 2: mass That's interesting.
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  Speaker 8: Hmmm.
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  Speaker 2: He's like, no, no, no, no, no, you mass that's for
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  Speaker 2: the other side. I'm on this side. That's that you Mass.
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  Speaker 3: I don't even know if I can play on Massachusetts
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  Speaker 3: on a map.
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  Speaker 2: Really, you don't think you could. I think you could.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what though. Everybody struggles on some portion
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  Speaker 2: of the map, almost everybody unless you were you know,
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  Speaker 2: you just loved homework or something in school. But if
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  Speaker 2: you just put a map in front of me, there's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be a say, it might be the East Coast,
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  Speaker 2: like the little tiny states.
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  Speaker 3: Like Delaware, Rhode Island, Connecticut, or like.
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  Speaker 2: Middle America, you know, like the very middle and just
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  Speaker 2: one on top of the other, all the way down,
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  Speaker 2: Like there might be one where you're like the Mississippi
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  Speaker 2: Georgia thing, you know, Are you sure? Are you sure?
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  Speaker 8: You know? So? I might?
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  Speaker 2: I want to do that here sometime on the show
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  Speaker 2: the fifty State Pop Quiz.
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  Speaker 7: All.
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  Speaker 2: We got a lot going on here coming up next,
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  Speaker 2: and feel free to check in. Mallard Militia love being
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  Speaker 2: What do you think Lareya. If we just played dua
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: lipa underneath the whole.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: Time, like, I think I would technically get fired.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think it's against the rules. We
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: gotta find the loopholes in that, you know what I mean.
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: If she's featured in different songs, it would count. So
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: if it was like a Britney Spears song featuring dua lipa,
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: I could have another dua liipa song, Okay, but it
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: can't be dual lipa.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: Do a lipa, do a lipa, do a lipa.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: Gotcha. You gotta be savvy. There's kind of like a
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: time limit. We gotta take like a thirty second time
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: out of no music and then boom more dua that
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: type of thing exactly. Okay, we'll we'll figure out a
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: work around, you know, get as much dua on as
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: we can do. A radio that's right, What would that be?
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: D L tag her on Fox Sports so she knows.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: Will That'd be amazing if she was like I listen
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: to sports radio all the time and You're like, what
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: are you serious?
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: I don't even think I've ever seen her in a jersey.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe not.
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: Some some artists, you know, they rep teams I don't
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: think I've ever seen dualipa rep a team.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it'd be disappointing if she's not a sports fan. Whatsoever?
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: Would you date a girl who's not a sports fan.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: It would not work. It just wouldn't work. I drive
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: her crazy the amount of sports I watch. Oh my gosh.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: She'd be like, get me out of here. I don't.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: You can't. You don't have to be a sports junkie.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: But if you're just like no, it's not my thing,
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: it's like, wow, it's not gonna work. It's just not
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: you're gonna be.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: They might look at you weird.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure, Like really watching another game, didn't you
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: just right? Oh look this season ended, No, honey, golf
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: is on.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a there's a funny I forget what video.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: I don't know what platform it was on, but it
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: was a really funny video where it was like the
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: girl's introduction to like her first NFL Sunday with her guy,
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: and her guy was this big football fan, and she
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: was like, Wow, that was fun. That was a good game.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: It was cool watching with you. And he's like, yeah,
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: that's just the early game. Now we have the afternoon
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: game and you know, she was slowly getting more and
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: more angry. No, we have Sunday night football. Now, we
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: were not planning to go anywhere here. It was a
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: whole thing. It was ray yeah, game, I'll tell you what.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: These dirt bags with the college football playoff, that's one
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: argument you're just not gonna win where you're like, hey, honey,
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: it's New Year's Eve. I know, but there's a college
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: football playoffs.
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: I will beat you, I.
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: Know.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: Why would they do that? That's a fight you're just
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: not going to win. Why would they schedule it? The something?
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: Give us something?
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the one thing.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: Valentine's Day.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Oh exactly, Like you're not gonna win that argument either.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Let's get out to the phones here. Blind Sea Bass
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: is in Tennessee. What's going on? Blank Sea Bass?
• 21:01
  Speaker 7: What the big bad?
• 21:02
  Speaker 8: No?
• 21:03
  Speaker 7: How you doing? My brother?
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Good buddy? How are things with you?
• 21:07
  Speaker 7: Sorry? So I actually dated a chick who she actually
• 21:11
  Speaker 7: preferred to stay in on New Year's Eve? Too much football?
• 21:15
  Speaker 8: What?
• 21:17
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Where is she?
• 21:18
  Speaker 9: Now?
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Did she did you marry her?
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: No? She kicked me to the curve of three years
• 21:23
  Speaker 7: after I lost my vision.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Oh no really yeah?
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: Yeah, but that as the histories but anyway, so the
• 21:33
  Speaker 7: athletes the most annoying. I actually have.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Two for you, Okay.
• 21:37
  Speaker 7: So the first one is a j Brown because I
• 21:40
  Speaker 7: know all the Shenanians. He pulled here in Nashville and
• 21:43
  Speaker 7: we didn't even we weren't winning anything, but all the
• 21:47
  Speaker 7: Shenanians and you pull here. If he wins another one,
• 21:50
  Speaker 7: it was probably going to be one hundred times worse, Okay.
• 21:52
  Speaker 7: And my second one is for any sport at the
• 21:57
  Speaker 7: University of Tennessee that I that school there are my
• 22:03
  Speaker 7: school's biggest rival. I cannot stand that school out out east.
• 22:07
  Speaker 7: Anytime they do anything, their fans they get to the
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: end of the world that they are the be all,
• 22:12
  Speaker 7: the end all, and it just drops me absolutely crazy.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: So who's your team?
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: I'm a I'm a commodore Svan Vanderbilt.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, I believe there. Well they hate They
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: had a couple of nice wins this past year out Yeah, so.
• 22:28
  Speaker 7: With and then with the I just had one, oh
• 22:33
  Speaker 7: the trade. Yeah, so I am asc Central back in
• 22:39
  Speaker 7: the day. Sure, Pittsburgh sucks, you know everything, dude, I
• 22:45
  Speaker 7: cannot stand Pittsburgh. So definitely sends up on this one
• 22:49
  Speaker 7: because Jayden Ramsey. He doesn't follow directions very well. He
• 22:55
  Speaker 7: plays on his own terms. He's very like, I'm gonna
• 22:57
  Speaker 7: do this while y'all do that, plus underneath the skin
• 23:01
  Speaker 7: and get him heated. Then he completely you know, throws
• 23:05
  Speaker 7: everything out the window and he's trying to destroy you.
• 23:10
  Speaker 7: John New. The only thing I can remember about John
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: New when he was in Tennessee is the one butt
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: cheek in the playoff game. Again. I think it was
• 23:17
  Speaker 7: the Baltimore in the playoffs to help us win that
• 23:22
  Speaker 7: game when Baltimore was number one.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. That was a big upset man.
• 23:27
  Speaker 7: That was dude, Dude, I partied all night long. I
• 23:31
  Speaker 7: was so happy. Like I said, AFC Central runs deep
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: in my blood. And the third thing with Lebron, I
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: think his three reason why he's signed took his player
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: option is because the new ownership group told him, Hey,
• 23:48
  Speaker 7: we're tired of your shenanigans. We're not going to put
• 23:50
  Speaker 7: up with anymore. So either you do this now or
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: we don't give you a new contract and you can
• 23:56
  Speaker 7: go find somewhere else to play. And my fourth thing,
• 23:59
  Speaker 7: I am disappointed you with the flyover states. Come on,
• 24:01
  Speaker 7: it is easy to tell, but even as a blind man,
• 24:04
  Speaker 7: I can tell the difference between Mississippi and Georgia.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: I'm just telling you. If you put a blank map
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: in front of me and said label all fifty states,
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: I'm going to screw up a couple of them. I'm
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: just not going fifty for fifty, That's all I'm telling you.
• 24:18
  Speaker 7: Well, I mean it's kind of simple because it goes Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia,
• 24:25
  Speaker 7: and then south of Georgia you got that little thing
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: that where all the crazy lives called Florida. And then
• 24:29
  Speaker 7: you come up and you got South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia,
• 24:32
  Speaker 7: you know, and all O. So, I mean it's fairly
• 24:34
  Speaker 7: you lost.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: Me like seven states ago.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: We got to try that. I really am curious how
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: many I would get, right. I think I'd get a
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: couple runs.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: Now giving me horrible flashbacks from my elementary school days.
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: Remember when they had the big map out and you
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: had to go put all of the initials of the
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: Georgia states. Oh yeah, Oh my, I would cry. I
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: would cry because I'd be the last one sitting at
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: my desk crying because I.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: The states, you know, the capitals, I mean, the capitals
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: can get you too, but good stuff, blind SeaBASS, glad
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: to hear from you man, and uh you know Commodoores.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: You know Vandy fan right there. I love that. The
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: animosity towards Tennessee, that school out east. That was funny.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: But aj Brown, So if you're just joining us, I
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: threw out the question which athletes would be the most
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: annoying if they want a championship or another championship if
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: they had already won one before. So the four on
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: my list, I said, Lebron winning another one, he would
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: just be like, oh my gosh, I'm great. I'm great.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: And even more annoying, there would be a lot of
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: people saying that he is the greatest, So you'd have
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: the whole. It would reopen a massive can of worms
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: and it would be Jordan versus Lebron day in and
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: day out, which would be nauseating. Oh so bad. So
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: that'd be annoying, I said, Aaron Rogers winning again would
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: be annoying. He'd throw that in our face. It's kind
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: of a cheating answer, but I said, back in his
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: Cleveland days, Baker Mayfield, because he was in peak, you know,
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: chip on shoulder mode, he would have been relentless, and
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: I think Angel Reese's present day that that would be
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: quite annoying. If she wanted all man, she would, uh,
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: she would have videos galore, like flexing the championship ring.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: It might be kind of funny if she did it right,
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: you know, but I think she'd be annoying. But anyway,
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: some people are checking in from time to time based
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: on that question. Which athletes would be the most annoying
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: if they want it all Let's go to Keg Keg
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: drinking Steve is in case? What's going on? Drinking Steve?
• 26:49
  Speaker 8: Yeah, what's that? We kind of hat the militia kind
• 26:53
  Speaker 8: of hate you on that first show.
• 26:55
  Speaker 7: I think you're.
• 26:55
  Speaker 8: Becoming a made man. Fine.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: Good.
• 26:59
  Speaker 8: All the Melitia accepting you.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: By that's good. It's a rough bunch, you know, these
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: Ruffians they're like, who's this new guy? I don't know
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: about this new guy. It's kind of weird.
• 27:10
  Speaker 8: You're all right, You're okay so far. You know, you
• 27:14
  Speaker 8: gotta add Kevin Durant, the cupcake man. You got cake.
• 27:17
  Speaker 8: I love Angel, Angel reason playing the title will be great.
• 27:21
  Speaker 7: Man. I just want to see what you do.
• 27:23
  Speaker 8: I want to see if you flip out or something.
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: But well, you're right though, keg drinking, Steve, that's a
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: good point. It might be annoying for me or some
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: people because she would just throw it in our face
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: time and time again. But i'll tell you what you're
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: onto something that would be great for the WNBA. Yeah,
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: And if she was doing that, and even if you're
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: hate watching her, they don't care. They just care about
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: ratings and interest.
• 27:47
  Speaker 8: It's all good as long as you're authentic here or
• 27:49
  Speaker 8: your authentic self. But I believe that that's part of
• 27:52
  Speaker 8: her authentic self. But where we all where we all
• 27:57
  Speaker 8: get in the problems here is when you get on
• 28:00
  Speaker 8: the internet and you get your ghost name or whatever,
• 28:03
  Speaker 8: and Kevin Durant is being a little baby, or or
• 28:06
  Speaker 8: Lebron is pretending like he's not a ring. Jason Lebron
• 28:10
  Speaker 8: is such a fame whore that he would go to
• 28:12
  Speaker 8: the Knicks and then okay, the deal in the middle
• 28:14
  Speaker 8: season if he thought he.
• 28:15
  Speaker 7: Could get another ring.
• 28:16
  Speaker 8: Let's let's just let's just lay it out. Let's just
• 28:18
  Speaker 8: lay it out there. You know, we don't need these
• 28:21
  Speaker 8: guys pretending like their like their magnanimous. And he's going
• 28:26
  Speaker 8: to retire if he thought he could get he get
• 28:29
  Speaker 8: a ring, he would go to Charlotte's. You know, he
• 28:32
  Speaker 8: would go. He would go anywhere he had to go.
• 28:35
  Speaker 8: You know, he keep a house in la and live
• 28:37
  Speaker 8: in a hotel room. He would live in a hotel
• 28:40
  Speaker 8: room in Times Square, you know with the with the
• 28:42
  Speaker 8: junkies man to get a room, to get another ring.
• 28:46
  Speaker 8: That's now, that's Lebron's, that's Lebron's worldview. Now I have
• 28:50
  Speaker 8: to go for for retired annoying guy. I've got to
• 28:53
  Speaker 8: put Tom Brady up there, the the the convicted football
• 28:58
  Speaker 8: deflator cheater going stag to a wedding with with Orlando
• 29:03
  Speaker 8: Bloom and I guess there's a there's a romance now
• 29:06
  Speaker 8: he's he's hitting it hard and heavy with allegedly with
• 29:09
  Speaker 8: Sidney Sweeney, who's a LA six.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: Or no way? Is that the new hot rumor out?
• 29:16
  Speaker 8: According to the Daily Mail, they're gonna challenge crab Us
• 29:21
  Speaker 8: and Taylor for the new the new couple of the year. Now,
• 29:25
  Speaker 8: what what does Tom Brady have to talk about with Sidney?
• 29:29
  Speaker 8: With Sydney Sweene, that's that's that's I mean, come on,
• 29:32
  Speaker 8: the guy, the guy is nervous, that Mahomes is nipping
• 29:37
  Speaker 8: on his heels and and and then he's feeling, he's feeling.
• 29:41
  Speaker 8: He look, Tom Brady's the cheater. You know the Patriots
• 29:45
  Speaker 8: were cheeters. But I got to get the guy credit.
• 29:47
  Speaker 8: He's you know, he's he's he's easily one of the greatest.
• 29:51
  Speaker 8: But Patrick, but let's be realistic. Patrick Mahomes is coming.
• 29:55
  Speaker 7: For the throne.
• 29:57
  Speaker 8: And now now he's now he goes stag to a
• 30:00
  Speaker 8: which I don't know. You're gonna have to ask the
• 30:02
  Speaker 8: women about this, ask to ask the lady. This could
• 30:05
  Speaker 8: be a Lorena question. I don't know if it's better
• 30:07
  Speaker 8: to go with the date or than to go stag.
• 30:10
  Speaker 8: But he came out with Sidney sweety, so so that
• 30:13
  Speaker 8: that's that they're hot and heavy, according to the Daily,
• 30:16
  Speaker 8: according to the Daly have to deal with this, Tom
• 30:22
  Speaker 8: tom Brady just needs to look man, retire. You know,
• 30:27
  Speaker 8: he's he's an average commentator. I think he's he's come
• 30:31
  Speaker 8: down a few pigs now that he's just an average.
• 30:34
  Speaker 8: He's an average dude. He's not superman. I can still
• 30:36
  Speaker 8: respect everything that he did, even though he's a stone
• 30:40
  Speaker 8: cold cheater. But man, come on, leave Sidney Sweetey alone.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: That's the worst advice ever. Keg drinking, Steve, where do
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: you talk? He leave her alone? If she's up for
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: hanging out with Tom, Brady's gonna be like, no, no, no,
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: I've done him though, winning No, you should get in there, Tom,
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: What are you talking about? She is?
• 31:01
  Speaker 8: She is an a charitable La seven. Since she is not,
• 31:06
  Speaker 8: she is not.
• 31:07
  Speaker 7: I don't know why her.
• 31:08
  Speaker 8: I don't understand the appeal if it was, if it
• 31:12
  Speaker 8: was in day.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: Fine, wow, Steve, look you are crazy. She's in La
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: ten in La she's a She's a Steve she is,
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: She's a Tulsa twenty five. That Sydney Sweetey, what are
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: you talking about?
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: She is like the modern day sex symbol right now.
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: That is her. Carpenter.
• 31:34
  Speaker 8: Both of you need your both of you need your
• 31:37
  Speaker 8: eyes checked. Sabrina Carpenter. Fine, even though he's got nothing
• 31:41
  Speaker 8: to talk with, I can respect Shabrina Carpenter.
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: But man, are you a fan of mellons? Do you
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: like mellons?
• 31:50
  Speaker 7: I like all kinds.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: I don't know why you don't like Sidney Sweeney. Then
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: you should go do some more research.
• 31:55
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I like all kinds of melons. But listen, Sidney
• 31:59
  Speaker 8: Sween is not the melon to Tom Brady needs. And
• 32:02
  Speaker 8: I think this is a proble mistake. I think this
• 32:05
  Speaker 8: is a complete other error on Tom. Say. This is
• 32:11
  Speaker 8: more proof that Tom Brady is probably not the goat.
• 32:14
  Speaker 8: Because if you hook up Sidney Sweeney at a wedding
• 32:18
  Speaker 8: and you and you don't go again with Sabritta Carpenter
• 32:21
  Speaker 8: or somebody else's who's much more alluring, or Zanda or
• 32:25
  Speaker 8: are out as terrible.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: Take by you, Steve, You're just digging a deeper hole
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: all of you know how terrible it is.
• 32:34
  Speaker 8: You can give me five or ten starlets that are hotter.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you this, Steve, before you go a little
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: homework assignment. Okay, you gotta watch Sidney Sweeney's featured in
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: a Rolling Stones video called Angry. Okay, it's a good video.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: She's just hanging out. It's like a like a drop top,
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: you know, like you know, like a Corvette or something
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: where there's no roof, and she's just dancing as they
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: drive around l A and she looks unbelievable.
• 33:07
  Speaker 8: Keg drink and steeve you guys, you guys will go
• 33:11
  Speaker 8: to the eye doctor and get your examinations checked. You know,
• 33:14
  Speaker 8: I'll be I'll be fine. Okay, maybe she's maybe in
• 33:19
  Speaker 8: LA seven and a half.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: Good stuff, though, Man, I appreciate you check it in.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: It was good stuff, worked a lot in.
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: Right, charitable eight a charitable big offensive.
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: And what are we, Lorena, I'm a two, I'm like
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: a zero point two five then, dear god.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, man, she's.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: A Sydney Sweeny's a fox.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: I think that's justin Cooper's girl too, right, Oh, yeah, no,
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: he's huge into Sydney Sweeney.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: He has her poster.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, huge into uh silver linings, playbook girl jenn for Lawrence.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: Oh yes, loves Jennifer Lawrence. But Sydney Sweeney is right there.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: I got to see Coop. He's been out here in Vegas, Vegas.
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  Speaker 2: I've got a Vegas poker tournament to tell you guys about.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he talked me into joining one. I'll let
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  Speaker 2: you know the results right around the corner. Also, what else, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: we got to pay this off? Right, which team are
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  Speaker 2: you buying stock in? More so, after a couple of
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  Speaker 2: big moves, we'll get to all that stuff coming up
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  Speaker 2: was wild.
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  Speaker 3: I love her.
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  Speaker 2: I believe you like the sincerity in your voice right
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: there I absolutely believe you. Okay, So NBA free agency
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  Speaker 2: is in full mode right here we are. We're gunning
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: it right here. We're going zero to sixty and two seconds.
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  Speaker 2: These teams are just wheeling and dealing. So how about this.
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  Speaker 2: We've got two teams that have made a lot of
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: notable moves. You've got the that's right, a little fast
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: and furious right there, gone in sixty seconds. You've got
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: the Hawks in the East. You've got the Rockets in
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: the West, and both have made some notable moves. They've
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: improved their rosters quite a bit. So you gotta ask yourself,
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  Speaker 2: which team are you buying stock in more? If you
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: know that was the offer? Right Like, which team are
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: you buying more? Now? We know that the Rockets are
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: better than the Hawks, they just have a better roster.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: But the Rockets are in the West, which is loaded.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: The Hawks are in the East, which is wide open
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  Speaker 2: and is there for the taking with all these notable injuries.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: Jason Tatum he's down for the year with the Celtics,
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: Damian Lillard down for the season with the Bucks. Tyrese
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: Haliburton unfortunately down for the season with the Pacers. It's
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  Speaker 2: wide open if you look at the Hawks. So they
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  Speaker 2: traded for Chris tops Perzingis. They pick up Nikhil Alexander
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  Speaker 2: Walker from the Timberwolves in free agency, nice little one
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  Speaker 2: year deal for Luke Kennard, who's the sharpshooter, comes over
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  Speaker 2: from the Grizzlies. Trey Young is eligible for a Max extension.
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  Speaker 2: So they've made some really nice moves and just defensively
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  Speaker 2: with Dyson Daniels Jalen Johnson, they're gonna be a good team.
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  Speaker 2: They're gonna be much improved. That was a forty to
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  Speaker 2: forty two team. That's gonna be one of the better
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  Speaker 2: teams in the East, at least on paper. That's what
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  Speaker 2: they're shaping up to be. Meanwhile, the Rockets in the West,
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: so they signed Dorian Finney Smith as a free agent,
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: comes over from the Lakers, Clint Capella. They get him
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: to back up Shane Goon. They re signed Fred Van Vliet,
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: they re signed Jabari Smith Junior. They traded for Kevin Durant.
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  Speaker 2: They've made a lot of really nice moves. The Rockets
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  Speaker 2: are a deep team, they're young, they could put a
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  Speaker 2: lot of defensive pressure on you. Now they have a
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  Speaker 2: walking bucket in KD. They're a real player in the
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  Speaker 2: West right now, So ask yourself, which team are you
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  Speaker 2: buying more stock in. I think the East West thing
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  Speaker 2: matters a ton, and I think that it's more likely
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  Speaker 2: that the Hawks are a top three team in the
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  Speaker 2: East than it is that the Rockets are a top
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: three team in the West. Listen, don't get me wrong.
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  Speaker 2: I think the Rockets could be there. Wouldn't shock me
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  Speaker 2: at all if they are there. But they got a
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: lot more competition, they had a lot more hurdles to
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: jump over. So I would actually, as crazy as it
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: sounds like, Shack the Ah, I would be buying Hawks stock.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: They've had a great offseason thus far. Good stuff. Okay,
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: I would go to the militia right now, but I can't.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: I can't put a member on for only one minute.
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  Speaker 3: You know that might be seconds, even.
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  Speaker 2: Forty, it's even less. To Loraina's point, right, I can't
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  Speaker 2: do the militia thirty like that. So we'll circle back
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: at the top of the hour and get the militia on.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: By the way, how about this, Nuggets made an interesting move.
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: They traded Michael Porter Junior to the Nets. They get
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: Cam Johnson, and I love this. The Nets also get
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: an unprotected twenty thirty two first round pick twenty thirty
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  Speaker 2: two good lord, but Cam Johnson just a much better
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  Speaker 2: defensive player, cheaper, and the Nuggets are also able to
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: bring back Bruce Brown Junior, who was on their championship team.
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: So I like to trade get Cam Johnson. There not
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  Speaker 2: bad all right? Coming up next? An investigation could go
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  Speaker 2: two very different ways.