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Welcome back to the Talking Shit podcast on my left, The brochure
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Yo, welcome back to the Talking Shit podcast.
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You're here with Josiah Machu, bringing you the latest on
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sports, pop culture, and last big questions.
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On today's episode, we're going to be talking about a few
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things, actually. One thing is the 325 mil player
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contract might be a bit of a bargain.
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Oh, actually an absolute bargain.
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I haven't heard about that. Yeah, we'll be talking about
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some more money after that, straight into the NBA gambling
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scandal that just keeps on unfolding.
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Bloody hell bro, money ain't enough, eh?
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Yeah, Also the upcoming Kiwis versus Tonga.
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I'm gay, yeah, yeah. Up the up the Kiwis.
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And then we're going to finish off with a bit of real, real
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life music. Consider this AIAI stuff.
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Because I'm in a blender, the AI put me in a blender.
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What? We'll kick it off with our
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general updates this past week. Extra bread Do you want me to
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start? Do you want?
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Do you want to start? I can start if you want.
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Yeah. OK, So pretty much to to sum up
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on like what what does NBA scandal has been about is about
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previously a few players had been investigated for throwing
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the games pretty much because you can bid on how much points
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they score. They were giving people inside
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information on whether they're going to go under or above.
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That was Malik Beasley and Terry Rozier recently that have been
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investigated. Yeah, Malik Beasley got off
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Terry Rozier will did get off, but now he's just bought being
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bought back into it because apparently he was giving people
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inside information and then people were seen dropping off
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wads of cash on outside his house.
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So that was that was 1 little part of it.
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The interesting part of the scandal, though, Chauncey
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Billups, NBA champion, like Hall of Famer, NBA like one of the
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greatest NBA players of all time is being involved with another
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NBA champion, Damon Jones, one of Lebron's former teammates in
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a Texas holdem poker scandal with the Italian with like the
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Mafia. So if I just read it here,
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wealthy gamblers sit at the table hoping to win in a big
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game of Texas holdem poker, but it was nearly impossible.
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They were it was wait here, where am I?
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Provisional sports stars and wealthy gamblers sat at the
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table hoping to win, but they didn't know it was nearly
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impossible. They were Fishers allegedly
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being targeted by Mafia, an elaborate poker gambling scheme
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that included X-ray card tables, secret cameras, analyzers and
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chip trays, and sunglasses and contact lenses that could read
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their hand. And what's and what sounds like
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Ocean's 11 film plot, straight up.
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Prosecutors say that unwitting victims were cheated out of
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nearly at least $7,000,000 in poker games, with one person
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almost losing $1.8 million. Bro, no way.
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Bro, straight up. And they FBI a director Kash
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Patel called in a mind boggling fraud scheme that cheated
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victims in New York, Miami, Las Vegas and other U.S. cities.
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So how they worked it, it started in 2019 and it was
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allegedly run by crime families including the Bonanno, Gambino,
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Licesi and Genovesi. That's real.
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Like, I'm pretty sure like mob families, a big mob families.
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A cut of profits prosecutors say helped fund their criminal
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enterprises. So former Provision athletes
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described as face cards were enlisted to help in the scheme
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and entice victims into playing. So like, they're going to be
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like, Oh my God, I'm playing against Chauncey bullets.
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Of course I'm going to go to this poker game.
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And then these high profile celebrities would sucker in
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these unwitting victims and would then obviously go on to do
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the fucking X-ray vision tables. Bro what?
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What do you think a question from this?
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What? What do you honestly think goes
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through these individuals heads where they think they need to be
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a part of a ploy like this? Or do you reckon that they've
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been threatened? Bro maybe they might have been.
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No, I reckon these dudes are just built like they're tapped
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in the head where they just like just money.
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They just want want stuff they want to be involved in like an
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exciting life, you know what I mean?
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Like that's never enough for them I reckon.
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We, we OK, so that guy, is it Chauncey or something?
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You just Chauncey Billups? Yeah.
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When was his last NBA game? NBA game.
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But he's the current NBA coach for the Trail Blazers, so they
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have the coach. He's the coach right now, so
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he's he's he'll be on heaps of money for the NBA.
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He's going to get sacked tomorrow.
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Yeah, well, he's on stand down now, currently from the NBA.
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What? Yeah, but I've even got, like,
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text messages here. And one of those text message
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from Big Mikey says, guys, please let him win a hand.
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He's in a 40K debt in 40 minutes.
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He will leave if it gets no traction and then some.
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G stacks. G stacks said.
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Agreed. This is at 4:00 AM in the
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morning. So, like, this is the type of
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thing they're going on. But yeah, pretty crazy to think
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that they were like in a full mafia poker scam with like bro
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X-ray table. But how do you make an X-ray
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table? That's apparently I well, they
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got pictures here, bro. So there's like a table, right?
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And your cards are face down on that.
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And then you wear glasses that show you like bird, the bottom
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view of the glass of the thing. Buzzy.
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Oh, the amount of radiation. Boy, these people must be so
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smart. That is insane.
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Yeah, so they ripped off people millions of dollars and I've
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actually saw a TikTok as well, like a professional poker get
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poker player and he was of his mates would go to these games
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and they'll just get absolutely smashed by people that never
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played before. And he was like, it was had to
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be 100% like. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Because, like professional poker, players were like getting
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sliced up. Oh that's insane man.
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So yeah, that was my update for the week, man.
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You got to see some NBA players dropping off, I think, because
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surely there's more of them involved.
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I can't believe that that actually is it's it just baffles
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me bro that the fact that people think that they still need to go
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out and make money, especially when this fellow here is a
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coach. Bro Chauncey Phillips would
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have. He's making millions already.
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Hundreds. He was like one of the best
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ever. Oh, bro, yeah, that that is if
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he is guilty of, you know, this, this gambling syndicate thing,
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but then idiot. Oh, bro, that's, that's insane
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to me, man. These these are the type of
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people, bro, that they, they, they just don't know when to
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stop. Yeah, yeah.
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They don't have. They just there's no, no one
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near them or no one that could say anything to them where
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they'll be like, Yep, now I'm listening.
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It's like Michael Jordan, you know, Michael Jordan's kind of
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like tapped in the head where he's like, makes up fake
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scenarios. And he's so about like, winning,
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beating people, any types of thing in his life.
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He has to win, beat people. And that mindset, I reckon, is
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what they'll be like. Yeah, what?
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You know what I mean? Like it's a little bit like
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crazy. Did I Did I talk to you about
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the that book, The 11 Rings or Phil Jackson?
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Oh Nah, Nah. Did I, did I tell you that?
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Like, it actually made me? I don't want to.
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Nah, it made me honestly like not make Kobe my favorite player
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anymore. Why's that?
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Because gambling, Nah, Nah, Nah, Nah Nah.
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Because you know when you say he's tapped in the head and he's
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such a competitor, but he was he was that much of A competitor,
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bro, which is unreal. But it basically ruined the
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Lakers and Phil Jackson who had coached the, you know, arguably,
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if I mean, probably the greatest dynasty ever in the Bulls.
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You know, prior to him going to the Lakers, he got to obviously
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experience Michael Jordan, who was an absolute, you know, freak
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on the court and a winner who had the mindset for winning.
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But then he went and coached the Lakers and he couldn't get
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through Kobe because Kobe was so staunch.
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He looked his idol was obviously Michael Jordan.
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And so Kobe had this, this process in his head where he
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would, he thought he had to be like Michael.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Without actually knowing.
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What he was like behind or with the with the.
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Team Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I've seen stuff about him
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running the team chemistry, like when he swears at Jeremy Lennon
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and training. And stuff like that.
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Yeah, so. He looked like a bit of a.
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Well, well, it got to a point where bro Kobe had that much of
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A because he was a number one pick.
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Yeah, at the time, Roman, he was like 18, Yeah.
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He wasn't. He was third.
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He was the second Iverson. He's the same here as Iverson,
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OH. Yeah, and he pretty much just, I
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just remember in the book, Phil pretty much got booted because
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Kobe said it's either me or Phil.
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And so Phil Jackson got the boot.
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And pretty much what happened was that the years to come and
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it wasn't very long. I think I want to say it's
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probably like around four or five years where they just could
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not win. They they just went, nothing was
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coming of it once Phil had left. But Phil said if if he was
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talking to the owner, Jerry, Jerry, who was it?
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Springer. Anyway, he was talking about how
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with the owner and pretty much saying that at the time it was
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Shaq and Kobe. And the owner said to Phil, who
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do you want, Shaq or Kobe? And he said, we can build a team
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around Shaq. We can't build a team around
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Kobe. It got to the point where they
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had to make a decision who they're going to keep of the
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two. And the owner said, Nah, I want
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to keep Kobe. So Shaq got the boot because of
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that. Yeah.
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And then he went on and won two more championships, like, you
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know, with Kyle. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know what
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I mean? So, yeah, it's pretty insane,
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bro. But but I guess on on the whole
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gambling thing in Jamaica, alright.
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I've seen a video recently and like they're going through like
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absolute hell over there, you know, with the current
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hurricane, apparently it's one of the worst that they've had.
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Oh really? History.
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Yeah, yeah, it's real bad. But I've seen this video, bro,
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and just kind of this gambling thing, bro.
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There are some people in this world that do not care about
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their, their life. It, it or, or just they, they
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have no sense of danger. Danger, worry.
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Yeah, Brian said. There were these guys that I saw
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in a video on Facebook. Bro, I'm wear shorts because I'm
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an old fart. And bro, they were gambling
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because they were, it was such a massive hurricane going on.
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Bro there was, you know, in the gutters hell like when it's
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floods. No, they weren't racing.
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Bro they were racing boats these little.
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Boats bro, that's so far that's I can't.
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Believe they were at that point but full on hurricane and there
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are these guys holding umbrellas G and they're like literally put
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these two small little like boat sized things in the gutter and
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put money on it bro to see what you want made it.
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To there's there's poor hotter as well.
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But I couldn't believe it though, it's actually insane.
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It's crazy, yeah. But I just been obviously a
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weekend over in New Zealand, bro, we just, I just finished up
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a New Zealand multinational tournament over there, the tour
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kind of tournament, which you've obviously been a part of in the
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past, but obviously all tied to scared you.
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There are a few of the boys out there actually.
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Counties, bro, counties Monaco, they won the the waka division
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and so big ups to them and all that.
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But our competition, bro, we actually won the first, the
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first two games and we played the Queensland team and then we
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obviously played Auckland, which is one of our our rivals and
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stuff and heaps of the old lads over there as well playing in
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those teams. The next day, bro, we're playing
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Napoli, which is my EWI and yeah and bro, we absolutely caked it
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in that game, bro, we were up like 1415 nil.
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That's when I bung my knee and then.
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Bro how did you do your knee? Oh, I just got hit.
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Straight up, we ran straight. I was step step and then I ran
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straight into two massive sound ones.
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Not even modern, not MODY. To messes.
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Up on very I got absolutely folded bro.
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I'm not gonna lie bro. I got folded A and my knee just
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absolutely Benton and yeah, yeah, anyway.
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So that's the one thing you can know about Maldives as well.
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Like if they get you, they're gonna get you good.
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Yeah, yeah. Yeah, but it was bro it, I mean,
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when it, when it happened, I was like, oh shit, my knee like
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something's not right here, bro. The boys were good about it.
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They're like, are you all good, bro?
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You're all good. I see.
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Get off me. Don't be sympathise for me.
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I couldn't believe it. Anyway, I've been through my
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fair share of injuries. But.
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But yeah, hopefully this is just like mad bone bruising.
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I don't know. Yeah, yeah, but we absolutely
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kicked that game, man. We lost on the Hooda.
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They came back from 14 nil down or something.
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True. And they beat us right on the
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Hooda, right. And I was like, bro, this is.
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We lost on the Hooda last year to against white cuts or member.
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Yeah, something like that, eh? Yeah, that's right.
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Yeah, you are right. Yeah, because the boys brought
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that up and I, I couldn't remember that.
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Yeah, that was Richard. Yeah, yeah.
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Anyway, we we had to win our next game and we had to win it
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pretty convincingly all up. We had to beat the their next
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game, their team, which they did.
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So we went through. We still won our game
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convincingly against White Cuttle.
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And then we played them in the in the final, bro.
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And I just remember bro like Napuhi when they beat us, the
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excitement cocky. Yeah, bro, that and I remember
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bro. But I'll tell you what, they
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have the best hacker I've seen in a long time where it's like,
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holy, this is actually a mad hacker, bro.
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They start off with this shotgun, you know, like they go
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boom. Oh, the colonised Hucker I.
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Was like, oh, this is this is fire.
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The Post James Cook Hucker. Eh, oh, 'cause they were
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actually mad. I actually like, I, I actually
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really enjoy the Hucker parts 'cause I know that every team
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has their own Hucker, bro, they had a mad Hucker, eh?
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Oh yeah, and it I just remember when they beat us and they were
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bit up themselves about it in Fairpoint, bro, they freaking
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beat us on the hooter. Like where I would be, you know?
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I just know our boys were like Nah bro this isn't going to.
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Happen. They're not beating us, yeah.
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No, and I just remember that that absolutely rode us all the
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way boy. Anyway, we came over the win in
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the end and another year back-to-back bro.
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So back to bro. Yeah, hopefully we can get you
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on the the team next year. Oh Nah, my buddies.
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My buddy's too sober even thinking about it.
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Yeah, yeah, but man, weekend good, good culture as well over
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there, bro. Like that's why I go back every
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year as well yeah, I just love the culture.
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I love the lives, I love the the lads there as well.
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Managed to get a few vlogs over there as well which I'm sharing
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on our socials at the moment. And yeah, hopefully we get to do
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it again back-to-back to back. Three time chat thrice.
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All. Right, our sports take of the
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week. Couple of things that we want to
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talk about in this one. One, obviously the NRL, or not
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necessarily the NRL, the Pacifica Championship and then
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also the MLB series at the moment, which is the World
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Series. They're playing their grand
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final. As such, for us fans in the
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southern hemisphere that aren't really familiar with it anyway,
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it's Los Angeles Dodgers versus Blu-ray Jays or something like
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that anyway, there's a player in that in this LA Dodgers team.
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Yeah, everyone knows Shohei Otani, everyone knows this guy.
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But. Even I know.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. But there's this guy, right?
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Name Yoshinabu Yamamamoto. Oh, he's a pitcher now?
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Can you guess bro how much he's obviously getting paid?
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Is he like one of the best or is he just average?
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No, yeah, he is. He's definitely.
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Is that one of the best like? Like 30 mil bro.
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Their contracts are actually insane.
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So he's signed for 12 years, $325 million?
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What's that 27 mil a year? Oh yes, I was about right.
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Yeah, so but. He's one of the best players,
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One of the best. Wait, how old is he?
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2526, I think he's now 27 actually.
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So he signed when he was 2526, I think 25 going on 26.
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Yeah. And so he'll be 26 or 20. 7 and
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the Dylan Brown contract. This dude is actually insane and
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I didn't know anything about him until Game 2 of this final
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series. And like people in America or
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anyone that follows MLB will probably be thinking you're an
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idiot. Yeah, who you know, not knowing
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this guy. But people are saying, in that
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the argument is, is that the Dodgers have got an absolute
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bargain on this 325 mil. People are pretty much saying
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that he is worth so much more than what he's worth right now
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because of the way he's been performing.
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He's just done this feature, bro, where he's pitched the
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entire innings or, you know, from whatever it is.
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Yeah, yeah, but he's pitched the entire game twice to do it once
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is. Unheard of.
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Well, and you just strike them out.
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Yeah, well, he threw every ball, so they didn't bring in another
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pitcher series. And that feels like elbow $10.
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Yeah, damage. Oh my gosh, the amount of clicks
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anyway, So he's a pitcher, so he's a pitcher.
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But to do it and to do it in one game is rare.
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But to do it back-to-back? I already know the play.
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Bro. His shoulders not sweet.
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I already know, bro. Hey, you just know he's got a
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niggle bar and he's like everyone saying they got ripped
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off, but they don't know that. Yeah, I know.
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My arm has two more years left. Yeah, well, I don't know bro.
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Like he is. He's he's not even in his prime
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yet, that's the thing. Yeah, but he has a niggle.
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I know he has a niggle bro. But to do it back-to-back.
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So the last time anyone had done it back-to-back, bro.
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And the reason why I think this is absolutely freakish, Babe
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Ruth, but not well, no, not back then.
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That's too far. But 2001.
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Here's another bloke that done this back-to-back.
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All right, ready. Ortiz.
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The only other one. No idea.
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Do you know this? You don't know who he.
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Is big puppy Ortiz? Oh, back.
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Oh, yes, that's why. You know, you're right.
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You're right, but the last person to ever pitch a whole
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game was back in like 2018 or something. 2017.
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Also doing one game is crazy. It's crazy he done too.
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Well, the last person that done it was back in 2018 or something
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like that, right? It might have been earlier, but.
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So wait, when you say pitch the whole game, is he getting he got
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a strike out? Yeah, yeah.
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But he's he's all. Three times he got his strike,
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three times there. Yeah, but you also gotta
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remember the players that hit the ball and ran.
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Ohh yeah. And then you know, he can.
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He didn't just yeah bro. So he's pitching.
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Oh, OK. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know you.
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Mean, I don't know how many times he pitched in the game.
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I probably should have looked at it, but that's why people are
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saying that it's such a rarity that he like what?
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Ethnicity. Is he?
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Oh, Japanese? Yeah.
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Yamamoto. Yeah, that's right, bro.
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Yeah. So these Japanese players are
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actually gun bro. Like that's how good.
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Crazy. Yeah, they're the only sport
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they're good at. Well, rugby too now.
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They're pretty good at rugby, bro.
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No, you know they are. Come on, they're not, they're
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not. They're good at rugby, bro.
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They're they're pretty good. They're OK.
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They're like top 15. I think they're top ten, are
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they? Wouldn't they?
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They're bidding all the European countries anyway.
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Sorry. Yeah, but yeah, they.
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So he's got 300 million. No.
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What was it, 3? $125 million contract, 12 years
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for 12 years. But I think of that 325 million,
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he's guaranteed something along the lines of 300 mil.
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Damn. So he's already he's yeah, he
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yeah, it's something like that anyway.
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But to break it down South per year, 27 mil per day is 74 grand
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per per hour is 3 grand per minute is $51.00.
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That's crazy. Like it's it's unheard of.
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I don't even think NBA players get that much.
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Not that much I know. Per year they get more.
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Way more. Over 320. 5 mil.
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Well, yeah, Jason Tatum signed for 300.
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For Oh wow. Five years.
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Oh wow, yeah. Oh hell, I guess they they're on
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big Yeah, that's that's Max the way that's.
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Max, yeah, he's like on the biggest, right, biggest you can
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get. Well, this guy, he got like his
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sign on was 50 mil straight up and no, no.
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That's so mean. Yeah.
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And then he gets obviously 27 mil on top of that per year, but
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that's why people are saying and and he also has contract clauses
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where he can actually pull out of the contract after a certain
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amount of years. Oh yeah.
20:17
So by 2029, he can actually just pull out and because of, you
20:21
know, injury or because of whatever, he's not happy or
20:24
something like that. But yeah, that I just think this
20:26
is crazy. But interesting I wonder why he
20:28
did a day if he but but you're saying he could have earned more
20:31
maybe when in the five years time when the salary cap goes up
20:33
or. Very true.
20:34
Yeah, well, he gets better. Yeah, but he couldn't get worse.
20:37
Well, I mean, I guess he's he. Oh, bro.
20:39
I mean, I guess I'm not going to complain if you make it 3. 125
20:42
mil do you reckon? Do you reckon is weird if you?
20:44
I was actually thinking about this the other day.
20:46
This is a bit of sidetrack, but how sports contracts work, like
20:50
if you compare it to compare it to our job and you compare it to
20:55
like ANBA contract, whatever, and you get $2,000,000 for a
21:00
year, a year of work, but like you're only guaranteed your job
21:04
for the year. And then to think like you're
21:09
not allowed to go on leave. Are you allowed sick days?
21:12
Like, you never hear of, like, NBA players like taking games
21:15
off because they're sick, really.
21:17
No, but you hear them taking days off because they're
21:18
freaking making up crap like they're injured or something.
21:21
Yeah, to be honest. And then like, but and then like
21:25
think of like getting traded and that kind of thing.
21:27
And like at work compared to like how we're at work.
21:31
Imagine you getting traded bro for another teacher.
21:33
They're like Nah bro you're a trash.
21:35
Teacher, I'm traded too. For this other one, I'm a gummy
21:38
DJ. Or like you're saying, crazy bro
21:40
I'm going to sign this contract but you have to give me a sign
21:42
on bonus. Yeah, yeah.
21:44
So I want 100 grand up front. Yeah, that's crazy.
21:48
Eh, That is actually. And then and then the next year
21:51
you're going into like contract extensions and stuff.
21:53
They're like, Nah, we don't want you or like we want you for 10
21:56
years. Yeah.
21:58
I just reckon it's a pretty crazy way to live well.
22:01
I'm on AI. Guess the buzziest thing that I
22:04
could say in my contract is I'm on a six month trial like.
22:07
Oh, like probation. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
22:09
Six month, probably the closest thing to anything.
22:12
Yeah, but then like even on our jobs, I'm on that as well.
22:15
But like like they won't hopefully bosses on us, they're
22:20
not going to fight you. Like I, I think there's like
22:22
heaps of legal hurdles they need to get through.
22:25
I think you need to be like pretty trash for them to fire
22:28
you on that probation period. Like, terrible.
22:30
Yeah, yeah, like showing up late and and like heaps.
22:34
You show up late. No, that's what you're.
22:36
You show up late. Yeah, exactly that.
22:40
Anyway, bro, the Pacific Championship, bro.
22:42
Talk about it. Bro, so we got Kiwis versus
22:44
Tonga coming up this weekend. I don't know when this come out,
22:46
but I just want to touch on it. Touch on it quickly, like who
22:51
the teams we've got. I think the Kiwis, well, their
22:55
four pack at least showed their dominance against some more.
22:59
And now I hope no one's underestimated them now because
23:03
they're really showing. They're them.
23:04
They're homes. They're all homes.
23:07
I got, I got, I got Kiwis winning again, eh?
23:10
Tonga played trash. They they had heaps of
23:13
opportunities against Samoa and they just played trash like.
23:16
Let, let. OK, I want you to read the spine
23:19
and we'll go. We'll choose.
23:21
OK, out of there, Charms versus Hopuati.
23:24
Hopuati. I'm going charms, bro.
23:26
Hopuati can't run for 300 meters.
23:28
People are sleeping on charms bro.
23:30
Like OK. Anyway, number six, Dylan Brown
23:33
or Isaiah Onghi Ayongi, Dylan Brown.
23:37
Dylan Brown only only had some good runs, bro.
23:41
He's just got a bit of spastic in the way, like do you know
23:45
what I mean? Like bro, he almost like won
23:48
them the game, but he lost them the game.
23:50
Like in the kick chase when he got that tried, it's like bro,
23:53
you got the ball now, just put it down, but he dropped it, he
23:56
dropped it. He got another half break.
23:57
He's pretty much through and he like pass bro and I was
24:03
thinking, bro, you're there, you're just freaking out it.
24:06
Would have been dying. Yeah.
24:09
Then we got the big Kiwi advantage here, Kieran Foreign
24:12
versus Isaiah Katoa. Katoa.
24:14
Katoa, they pretty didn't do that much but.
24:18
No, I thought he played well. I saw what he was trying to do.
24:20
He was trying to be deceptive as well.
24:22
Yeah, he was trying to straighten up the the ball
24:23
carriers as well. I noticed that.
24:25
But yeah, I mean, I didn't they sound more too strong for them,
24:28
but yeah, OK. At 9, we've got Phoenix Crosland
24:31
versus civilly heavily. Bro I love Sevilly heavily, I
24:34
reckon he's one of the most underrated players.
24:37
Eh. But to be fair, if we're going
24:39
based off, you know, out and out nines Phoenix crossland.
24:43
Phoenix Crossland does a lot of work, but yeah, I reckon it's,
24:45
it's part of, I reckon it's pretty even like it's pick your
24:48
poison kind of thing. Saliva, saliva, saliva.
24:54
Havili. He's he's real good at that.
24:56
He's a strong runner and he's a strong tackler.
24:57
But I reckon he's I don't think he can play 80s or anything.
25:00
Yeah. Oh, they've got Sony like.
25:01
Have you noticed, though, that when he plays 9 for the bunnies,
25:04
right, he's he always scores or he's always doing stuff,
25:07
breaking the line or something. And I'm like, I don't understand
25:10
why teams don't keep playing them at nine.
25:12
Yeah, you know what I mean? Or his team anyway, Yeah, you
25:15
know, they're bringing them off the bench or they're freaking
25:17
playing them at 13 or prop. And I'm like bro.
25:20
He doesn't really have a position.
25:21
No, I'm like, leave the brother at 9.
25:23
He's that good. Yeah, anyway.
25:25
And then last, we got Jose Tarpani versus Jason Tamilola
25:28
Tarpani. Oh, it's Tamilola playing.
25:30
Yeah, it's tarpani by. Far at the moment, Tarpani,
25:33
yeah. Tarpani might be the best.
25:35
Player. He's a monster.
25:37
He is. I can't believe how fit he is
25:39
bro. He's a monster.
25:40
Bro, it's actually ridiculous. His line, he literally always
25:43
has line speed. He's tough as like he was
25:46
hitting those salmon forwards. But what I can't get off the
25:50
over bro is if you run up off, if you have real good line speed
25:54
and you put everything into a tackle, then Sprint back to get
25:58
line speed on that next one as hard as and he always does it
26:01
bro. He's so fit.
26:04
He is 1 player that I bro, I'll watch TV and I'm afraid of him
26:08
Yeah, you can just see the his hunger yeah always being went up
26:13
on his opponent's part. He just workhorse bro and then
26:17
when he gets on attack isn't too knackered to do a mean run like
26:20
he did the managed run of the whole game at the end of the
26:23
game do you think? That Samo won as well, like bro
26:27
they played unreal you know? But I do feel that having that
26:31
extra week against the Kiwis, it helped them a bit because
26:34
obviously it helped them with match fitness.
26:36
Whereas bro, a lot of these, the Tongman players, bro, they
26:38
wouldn't have played for about, you know?
26:40
Yeah, yeah, They wouldn't have played in a while, a month.
26:42
I think we got a real good draw. I think us getting that first
26:46
game, having a break and then getting Tongman, I like that
26:50
because it's physical games very hard.
26:52
Oh my gosh. Well, some more.
26:54
Have the Kiwis again next week. I think that's what happens.
26:57
Oh, do we go again? I think we go again.
26:59
Yeah, is it not straight finals? That's yeah, it is.
27:02
That would be the no. But if Tonga beats us, then.
27:05
I think we've we beat them. By so much that it's.
27:08
Yeah, OK. Yeah, that's pretty much us.
27:11
I think that's what happens, yeah, which I'm keen for.
27:14
It'll be a good game. But yeah, we'll see.
27:15
We'll see what happens this weekend.
27:16
Score prediction. I got Kiwis, I reckon it'll be a
27:20
close one. Eh, I can 2420.
27:24
Wow, really? Yeah, Look, I do want Tonga to
27:27
win because I obviously like smaller nations, but I'm going
27:30
to back the Kiwis on this one. I reckon they're going to, bro.
27:32
I reckon they'll win somewhat convincingly in this one.
27:34
Eh, I'm going to say bro. I'm going to say 2816.
27:40
Yeah, No 14. I can see that.
27:42
I can see them, yeah. I just, I have a feeling that
27:45
Kiwis maybe might underestimate that, underestimate them from
27:48
their last game and then also then Benny some more.
27:50
But hopefully not. Yeah, by you.
27:54
That's about that's about it for the up the Kiwis.
27:56
Let's go, boys. Bring it back.
27:59
OK, to finish us off here. So we've actually been going
28:02
pretty hard on the AI reactions at the moment and it's all fake,
28:05
fake music at this point. So me and Josiah just wanted to
28:09
bring some real life, real music back to the airwaves.
28:13
So we've all both chosen our favorite, one of our favorite
28:17
live performances. Yeah, well, I'm gonna I'm gonna
28:19
kick us off. I don't know if this is my
28:21
complete favorite. It's just a vibe.
28:24
Justin Bieber. Hold on, if you know this one,
28:27
then is he a concert? Or is that a?
28:29
Song it's just, it's just his live performance that he did.
28:31
No, you can call me. If he needs.
28:36
I just what I rate about this is the backing band he has.
28:43
It's different to what he gets on his actual actual song, but
28:48
also this. This made me actually like the
28:50
whole song. Better find something.
28:52
Yeah, you know, you can call me if you need someone.
28:58
Or is he in France on the song? I need you to hold on.
29:04
Far away, but I love his voice. Say yes.
29:11
He's really grown on me, Yeah. I love JB Roy.
29:24
He is the man. A little bit corny.
29:32
Because some of the dance music stuff are a little bit corny,
29:34
but the light bands, by the way, I.
29:41
Love light bands? You know you can call me if you
29:51
need someone I need you to hold on having.
29:57
This little wrist to your head. We.
30:01
Are the lash. Feed the one to say we all made
30:05
mistake. Do you reckon these on top of
30:07
residential buildings? But someone else?
30:10
Hey hey stop. Poor dude bro.
30:24
If you need somebody, I will be there for you.
30:28
The the music video bliss Free fire as well call.
30:35
If you need somebody, I will be there for you.
30:36
I need you to hold on heaven. Is fire drops.
30:40
Far away we all know I should be the one to say we are making.
30:52
I reckon that's my new favorite dance to these.
31:05
Call if you need somebody, I will be there for you.
31:12
You need somebody, I will be there for you.
31:16
Oh. Yeah, bro, that's one of my.
31:18
I'll rate that, bro. Hey, I'm that's a 10 out of 10
31:21
for me too. I actually rate it there.
31:23
Yeah, that was that was real good.
31:25
I don't expect the rate, I don't expect the right.
31:27
You Honestly. When you say JB, I'm the best
31:30
dude bro he, JB he. Really has grown on me yeah in
31:34
the last like since obviously since he first came out like to
31:37
be honest, I hated him when he first came out like I think bro
31:39
most people would yeah yeah, yeah honestly yeah.
31:43
I was like that. You are so corny.
31:44
Yeah, I mean, maybe he is still a little bit corny with the
31:46
things he does, but. He knows music.
31:50
You cannot. I've seen them like clips of
31:53
them in the studio and stuff. And he's trying to like teach
31:55
people the melody he wants and like the notes he wants them to
31:58
sing it because he knows it's going to be fire.
32:01
And like, like, that's what made me sink in.
32:05
Like, bro, he actually knows on a deep level what is going to
32:09
sound good it and what actually is going to make it.
32:11
And like, that's what heaps of his like hooks and stuff is so
32:13
good is because like, the melodies he does us are so
32:19
creative, I reckon. And they hit the beats like so
32:22
well. Yeah.
32:22
I really respect artists too that can hear music like I've
32:26
seen clips of like Kanye West and Pharrell, Michael Jackson,
32:29
all of those guys, Prince, like they can really hear music.
32:32
And they can, they not dictate, sorry, but they can they can
32:35
imitate it. Yeah, you know what I mean?
32:37
And they they'll tell you, oh, this is what I want, this is
32:39
what I need, you know, And then the band and musicians are so.
32:43
Yeah, they're doing the OK I wanna.
32:46
Yeah, yeah. And they're like and.
32:47
Then yeah, yeah, yeah, they're doing.
32:49
Exactly, Brad. I'm like Fah Anyway, that's
32:51
that's fine. I'll write that 'cause I'm going
32:53
to go so far left field. Are you I'm I'm expecting some
32:58
like. Like I'm going live.
33:00
That dude that that dude that played at the AFL grand final or
33:04
something? Nah, what is his name?
33:06
Oh, Jimmy Barnes. Oh, yeah, yeah.
33:08
Jimmy Barnes. Jimmy Barnes.
33:09
Yeah. Are you going Jimmy Barnes?
33:12
No, because I've got so far left field.
33:15
I think you'll be a bit shocked. Hey, All right, So the one that
33:17
I've chosen, I've gone far left field here.
33:21
I've got K Pop and I'm going with the brother side.
33:25
If you don't know who he is, he's the one that did Gangnam
33:27
Style. This is different than Gangnam
33:33
Style. Watch this concept, you don't
33:38
know it. Three years ago now he does
33:41
these every year. I love this band too.
34:22
What is he Korean? He's Korean.
34:27
Sprinkling your phone. Full.
34:29
Full water spray. Don't do that to me, bro.
34:33
I'll tell you if you go to this concert, I'm telling you I'm
34:35
getting away. You're not taking your.
34:37
Phone. That's a good way to keep your
34:39
phones away bro. Oh yeah, maybe they actually see
34:42
any phones. I love how interacted the
34:51
crowded you listen to the zipper.
34:56
You're fuzzy bro, how did you find this?
35:01
Bro just live music. It's fire.
35:29
That's. Crazy look how much the
35:31
sprinkles the golf ball, bro. There's so much water, dude.
35:35
That is so much water that we in your eyes and everything, bro.
35:40
They love it though, man. This is what he's known for,
35:43
though. Just like turning proper
35:45
entertainer, bro. Yeah, that's what I love about
35:50
him. Oh.
35:50
Bro I could not think of anything worse.
35:52
They in the crowd, wet sweaty people catching you bro.
35:59
At least they're getting cooled down mate.
36:01
Yeah, true. And there's thousands of people
36:12
there. Thousands.
36:14
That's crazy. Wait till the specific washers.
36:18
This is so. Funny.
36:33
This cracker. Oh boy, this dude is crazy.
36:48
Very crazy. Hey, I can't believe that that's
36:51
actually. Gee, he's Firebird.
36:59
He's. What's crazy is you couldn't
37:01
perform that and have no one at your concert there.
37:04
No, no, but you need a massive. Crowd to perform like that, it
37:08
would look it would look weird as if you're going I love it
37:11
yeah the whole thing and no ones like singing yourself.
37:14
But that's not like the atmosphere.
37:16
I could, I could have gone like, bro, that's like, by the way,
37:18
he's not my favorite artist. But like my favorite artist
37:20
honestly is like Michael Jackson and Prince, like they're my
37:23
live. Like if I if I would say go
37:25
watch a live concert, yeah, it would be those guys.
37:27
But bro, honestly, it's actually bro straight up.
37:31
It's on my bucket list to go see this guy.
37:32
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
37:34
You might need to go Korea. Yeah.
37:35
North Korea. That's crazy.
37:42
But yeah, I just went Farley field, bro.
37:44
That that, that was good, bro. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
37:48
I'll catch you off guard, bro. But yeah, I'm, I'm quite like
37:51
damn. I want to be judging you when I
37:52
see your headphones on now. Yeah, yeah, I.
37:55
Thought it was some cool like R&B or old school like yeah,
37:59
like Prince or something that's not as Gangnam Style.
38:03
Yeah, that that 1 billion views that he had on this thing.
38:06
That's all me. That's all you right.
38:08
Don't don't underestimate the K pop though, bro.
38:10
They actually it's pretty insane.
38:13
K pop is often. I don't know if I.
38:16
Don't know too much about him to be honest with you.
38:18
I just can't get behind anything that's not English.
38:20
Yeah, that. You can't understand.
38:21
No, I don't like it. For me, it's more the see for
38:24
him for that. I don't understand what he's
38:26
saying. Yeah, but it's the interaction.
38:28
Vibes. Yeah, yeah, he's got me vibes.
38:30
I didn't actually go see bro very recently.
38:33
I went and saw Burner Boy last week.
38:34
Yeah. Live.
38:35
Oh yeah. Oh, bro.
38:37
Yeah. You don't know what he's saying.
38:38
No, Neither. Yeah.
38:40
I know why Burner. Yeah.
38:42
What the hell does that mean bro?
38:43
Was that was that a vibe? Yeah, unreal.
38:45
One of the best concerts I've been to.
38:47
Yeah, man, live band, bro, his voice is insane.
38:51
Hey, I don't know what he Oh man, he's got this deep voice.
38:56
Did he do that if you send me the location?
38:58
That was his first song. He came.
38:59
Out. That would have been soft.
39:01
The location. I'll be right there.
39:03
Yeah, that would have went off. Bro yeah, and he came out in
39:06
this like cowboy outfit. True bro, you look fire.
39:09
Yeah, you look gun. And now I'll just I'm actually
39:11
going to do a vlog on it too. I'll just do a little quick one
39:14
and stuff and just Chuck it up on my personals.
39:15
But Barry here, he was one of the best ones I've been to in a
39:18
very long time. Yeah, because you know, when you
39:21
like go to certain concerts, brand, they saw DJ track backing
39:23
track. Yeah, yeah, I'm like Nah, bro,
39:24
I'm not into that. Like, yeah, that was who did
39:28
that. There are a lot of artists
39:31
actually. Like even Drake did that when he
39:33
came, when he went to NZ and I was like, bro, yeah, it's cool.
39:37
But yeah, the thing that got me on him though, his stage
39:39
presence was insane. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
39:41
His stage presence. And bangers, bro, if you got
39:43
bangers, bro, it was yeah, certified bangers.
39:46
That's when like his song Hotline Bling came out.
39:49
So when he was doing that, I was like, oh bro, this is actually
39:51
good. Yeah, because he had this.
39:52
Oh bro. Also, when artists have what is
39:57
it props or props? Yeah, that's it.
39:59
Yeah. Props.
40:00
Bro. Drakehead.
40:00
I've never seen it before. It was like balloons, but like
40:03
100 or thousands of these balloons, right?
40:05
Yeah, But they went balloons. They were like a lighting.
40:08
They were part of his lighting. And bro, so it would like come
40:11
down in 3D shape and like, oh, it was insane, bro.
40:14
Like, I don't even know how to describe it.
40:15
And they'll all light up in different colours, like the
40:17
painting, obviously. Yeah.
40:18
And bro, it would just like start dropping.
40:19
So when Hotline Bling came down, it's like, I know.
40:22
And bro, all these balloons started like.
40:25
It was so buzzy. Yeah, yeah.
40:27
Devastating. It was like interactive as Yeah,
40:29
it was true. It was pretty cool, bro.
40:30
It was pretty cool, yeah. I didn't see a joke man.
40:32
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40:39
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40:42
shocked at that. Yeah, it's actually fire.
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