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  Speaker 1: off terrestrial radio. Why did Russell Wilson say he wants
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  Speaker 3: Well talk about that.
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy, Rams head coach Sean McVeigh, and
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  Speaker 1: the Jets Robert sala are among coaches who will skip
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  Speaker 1: the NFL scouting combine this week. Is this a big deal,
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  Speaker 1: officially giving t Higgins the franchise tag. Where does this
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  Speaker 1: right now. Give it up for our number one.
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  Speaker 3: Oh what is going on?
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  Speaker 5: Welcome in here, Happy Wednesday on the East coast, Happy
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  Speaker 5: Tuesday on the West coast. We'll get you to Wednesday
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  Speaker 5: pretty soon here West Coast. But thrilled to be here again,
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  Speaker 5: Malard Militia always fired up. You know, I was very
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  Speaker 5: fired up to see team USA win on Tuesday night.
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  Speaker 5: As we know, I'm the biggest US men's national team
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  Speaker 5: fan you will ever run across, huge, huge thinking about
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  Speaker 5: getting a bolligin back mural I'm thinking about doing here Lorena.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if it's.
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  Speaker 5: Him scoring the goal on Tuesday night, you know, like
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  Speaker 5: a nice little picturesque thing going on there, or is
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  Speaker 5: it the Lebron the silencer He hit the Lebron silencer
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  Speaker 5: after scoring against the Bosnia and Herzekovina. Who what I
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  Speaker 5: would I would describe as the Adam Silver of soccer.
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  Speaker 5: I would describe Bosnia and h as I call them,
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  Speaker 5: just in case I screw up the pronunciation, I would
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  Speaker 5: call Bosnia and h the Adam Silver of the soccer
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  Speaker 5: world because they just think about doing things and then
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  Speaker 5: they reconsider and they think about it again, and then
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  Speaker 5: they consider doing something and they don't do anything. That's
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  Speaker 5: Bosnia and H right there. That's their soccer style. Just
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  Speaker 5: watching them until Bolligin got the red card and was
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  Speaker 5: out for the rest of the game. Then Bosney and
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  Speaker 5: H was like, all right, all right, let's let's get
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  Speaker 5: things going over here, and they were a little bit
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  Speaker 5: more aggressive, a little bit not crazy aggressive, that'd be
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  Speaker 5: too wild.
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  Speaker 3: Right there, we're down to nothing.
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  Speaker 5: Let's not let's dot our eze and cross our teams here,
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  Speaker 5: no wild chances. We don't want to leave the back
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  Speaker 5: door open. Team USA could go up three nothing. We
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  Speaker 5: don't want that. So yeah, Bosney and H not incredibly aggressive.
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  Speaker 5: But I don't want to take credit away from Team USA.
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  Speaker 5: I will say this. I can tell right now this
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  Speaker 5: segment is going to be a blend of positivity and
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  Speaker 5: me just being a hater. It's just gonna be a blend,
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  Speaker 5: I will say. On the hater side, I used to
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  Speaker 5: love the song take Me Home Country Roads from John Denver.
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  Speaker 3: It's a fantastic song. It's an outstanding song.
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  Speaker 5: Now that it's like the anthem of the US men's
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  Speaker 5: national team, I pretty much hate this song for the
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  Speaker 5: time being, I'm so sick and tired of this song
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  Speaker 5: and the everybody, hey, they even the studios like they're
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  Speaker 5: about to see here we go, take me home country roads,
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  Speaker 5: let's lay out, and the fans just go crazy and heavy.
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  Speaker 3: They sound a little English right there. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if these are Americans singing right there.
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  Speaker 6: Says World Cup fans sing it.
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  Speaker 3: M okay, good as I can get. Yeah, well that's
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  Speaker 3: that's pretty good. Pretty good poll by you, Lorena right there.
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  Speaker 3: But uh yeah, so team USA.
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  Speaker 5: They beat Bosnia and Herzegovina two nil, two nils the
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  Speaker 5: final tally and uh listen, hater comments to the side.
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  Speaker 3: I'll get back right to him in a second.
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  Speaker 5: Here, but positivity positive, no, right here, they played very well.
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  Speaker 3: They deserve credit.
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  Speaker 5: They were down a man for a half an hour
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  Speaker 5: and they still outscored Bosnia within that portion of the game.
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  Speaker 3: So that that's that's a really good job. Malik Tillman
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  Speaker 3: had a.
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  Speaker 5: Goal, free kick, perfect strike, perfect strike. Well done by
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  Speaker 5: him and Team USA down a man for extended time,
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  Speaker 5: their medal was tested, and listen, they answered the call.
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  Speaker 5: They did a great job against Bosnian. H Now all
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  Speaker 5: is not lost for the people like me who are
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  Speaker 5: rooting against this team, and I'll give you the reasons
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  Speaker 5: why in short cliffs Notes style. If you caught the
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  Speaker 5: program last night, I don't want to give you the
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  Speaker 5: same stuff regurgitated. I don't do you like that, Malard Militia.
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  Speaker 5: But I will go Cliff's notes version for the people
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  Speaker 5: that were doing things and not supporting the show last night,
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  Speaker 5: so they're not left in the dark, left in the
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  Speaker 5: cold wondering what is going on right now, all is
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  Speaker 5: not lost for people like me who are rooting against
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  Speaker 5: the US men's national team. They will face Belgium in
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  Speaker 5: the round of sixteen, and Belgium they pulled out a
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  Speaker 5: miracle win on Tuesday. They were down to nothing, they
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  Speaker 5: scored a goal in the eighty sixth minute, and then they.
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  Speaker 3: Got the equaliza. I love that.
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  Speaker 5: As a non soccer guy, do love the equaliza. We
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  Speaker 5: need to adopt that in American football. That needs to
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  Speaker 5: be a thing over here. I really do think we
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  Speaker 5: just steal it, rip it off at that'd be fantastic.
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  Speaker 5: A field goal at the end of regulation, the equaliza,
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  Speaker 5: We're going overtime.
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  Speaker 3: I'm all for it.
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  Speaker 5: But they tied the game in the eighty ninth minute
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  Speaker 5: and then Belgium. That feisty Belgium squad over there. They
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  Speaker 5: won on a penalty kick at the end of extra time.
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  Speaker 5: I thought it was a soft call. I thought Senegal
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  Speaker 5: got screwed. But Belgium moves on. That's who Team USA
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  Speaker 5: will face. That will be on Monday in the round
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  Speaker 5: of sixteen. And Belgium they smacked a round Team USA
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  Speaker 5: on March twenty eighth, not that long ago, to the
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  Speaker 5: tune of five to two. How about the people's outball
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  Speaker 5: they're smacking around. Yeah, Belgium was like Alyssa Thomas and
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  Speaker 5: the Team USA was like Caitlin Clark back on March
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  Speaker 5: twenty eighth. We'll see if that history repeats itself here
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  Speaker 5: on Monday. But look, let's get some audio in here. Huh,
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  Speaker 5: let's get a little World Cup on Fox. This was
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  Speaker 5: when Balligin got whistled for a red card and he
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  Speaker 5: was audio Smuchacho's out of the game for the last
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  Speaker 5: thirty ish minutes or so. Here's how it sounded on
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  Speaker 5: Fox TV. See mark, when when you see the still
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  Speaker 5: image like this, it's easy to say that's a red card.
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  Speaker 5: And I could see why this will potentially be given,
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  Speaker 5: but this way, like I've seen them in real time,
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  Speaker 5: Like this final.
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  Speaker 3: Decision is potential game changing moment.
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  Speaker 7: Fuel the number three United States meet, Yeah, it's gonna
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  Speaker 7: be a red card.
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  Speaker 3: The final decision is red card. Wow, he's bewildered in shots.
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  Speaker 5: I do love the explanation where we're like, uh, I'm
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  Speaker 5: not sure what and then you just hear a red
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  Speaker 5: card and we're like, I know what that means.
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  Speaker 3: That's just garbage.
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  Speaker 5: After the explanation was like what the zero six? We were
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  Speaker 5: doing division? Here, we multiple what are we doing right now?
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  Speaker 5: But uh yeah, yeah, it's uh ball again, got the
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  Speaker 5: red card and here's the deal, man.
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  Speaker 3: It was a garbage call. It was. It was one
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  Speaker 3: of those deals where.
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  Speaker 5: It's sort of like a sort of like a loose
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  Speaker 5: ball in basketball. Probably a bad example, but let's say
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  Speaker 5: the ball is in the air and guys are jostling
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  Speaker 5: for a position. It's essentially what was happening and ball again.
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  Speaker 5: It was just an honest mistake and it looked bad.
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  Speaker 5: It looked worse in slow motion. You had ball again.
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  Speaker 5: His his right cleat just like raked down the side
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  Speaker 5: of this board. Bosnian guy's you know, right legs, like
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  Speaker 5: dragging down there on his achilles and of steps on
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  Speaker 5: his foot, and so they gave ball again a red card.
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  Speaker 5: I just thought it was a mistake. I didn't think
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  Speaker 5: there was any intent behind it. And I would say, this, man,
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  Speaker 5: it's so punitive. What the punishment is if it's borderline,
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  Speaker 5: if it isn't blatant, like, oh dude, that's clearly way
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  Speaker 5: out of bounds right here, red card city all day.
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  Speaker 3: If it's borderline, and like, eh, you know, I mean, yeah, he.
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  Speaker 5: Kind of steps on his achilles and but he's going
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  Speaker 5: for the ball. There's no intent, Like that's gotta be
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  Speaker 5: a yellow card every time, because look at this punishment.
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  Speaker 5: Not only was balligin out for the remainder of that game,
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  Speaker 5: Team USA is down a man that they're playing with
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  Speaker 5: ten dudes out there, and while while their opponent's playing
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  Speaker 5: with eleven.
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  Speaker 3: That blows my mind.
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  Speaker 5: Like just to take a pause from this, Like if
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  Speaker 5: you think about American football, it's the best example.
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  Speaker 3: It's eleven on eleven, just like soccer.
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  Speaker 5: Imagine if there was a personal foul on a player
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  Speaker 5: on the football field, and it's just like that personal
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  Speaker 5: foul number seventy six offense. He's ejected red card by
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  Speaker 5: you're just not playing with the left tackle for the
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  Speaker 5: rest of the game. Like that just blows my mind.
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  Speaker 5: That's what the penalty is in soccer. I knew that,
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  Speaker 5: I was aware. I'm not that in the dark about soccer.
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  Speaker 5: I realize how those rules work. It's just so wild
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  Speaker 5: to me that a borderline red card, which I think
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  Speaker 5: should have been a yellow card, has that significant of
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  Speaker 5: a punishment. And not only that, there's still more Bolligan's
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  Speaker 5: out for the next game against Belgium.
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  Speaker 3: He can't play against them either.
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  Speaker 5: For a borderline that's probably a better yellow card than
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  Speaker 5: a red card. He gets the red card and he
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  Speaker 5: is out out out. That is crazy to me. I
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  Speaker 5: just don't see how any ref reviews that and says yeah,
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  Speaker 5: with the punishment being as significant as we know it
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  Speaker 5: is for a red card that I think it's a
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  Speaker 5: red card, right that. Wow, man, that's rough. That is
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  Speaker 5: a rough, rough break for Team USA going forward.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 5: I did get some feedback from last night's show filled
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  Speaker 5: in for Big Ben Malor, and I laid out my
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  Speaker 5: reasons as to why I'm rooting against Team Usay understandable
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  Speaker 5: reasons I appreciate you saying that, Lorena, because I don't
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  Speaker 5: know if you saw this tweet from this unhinged Yahoo
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  Speaker 5: but he was name calling and everything over here. Now
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  Speaker 5: the reasons Cliff's notes style very very quick and painless. Here.
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  Speaker 5: If you listen to the show last night, God bless you,
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  Speaker 5: this will not be painful, be very quick, not regurgitating everything.
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  Speaker 5: But for the people who didn't listen last night, shame
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  Speaker 5: on you. I'm willing to forgive, but I don't want
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  Speaker 5: you to be out in the dark and not knowing why.
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  Speaker 5: Why the heck is this guy rooting against us? Why
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  Speaker 5: would you root against us? Here are my reasons. Number one,
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  Speaker 5: I don't like the manager, this guy, Mauricio bo Chattino.
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  Speaker 5: He he had a couple of ridiculous theories.
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  Speaker 3: I did not like. His theory was that.
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  Speaker 5: US soccer players are complacent because we don't have relegation.
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  Speaker 5: That's someone that's used to soccer somewhere else than the US,
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  Speaker 5: where they have relegation, and he looks at the US
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  Speaker 5: who doesn't have relegation, and he's making more out of
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  Speaker 5: that than there is to make. He's like, man, why
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  Speaker 5: are these guys seemingly so complacent. Oh, you don't have relegation.
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  Speaker 5: That's why we don't have relegation in anything. Okay, like
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  Speaker 5: we don't have NFL teams like mav You know there's
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  Speaker 5: no relegation.
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  Speaker 3: So who cares. We went three to fourteen.
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  Speaker 5: I got paid Thoughes, it's all good. You don't have that.
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  Speaker 5: His other theory was American sports reward. Losing you get
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  Speaker 5: a draft pick and that's it. Okay, there is far
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  Speaker 5: more negativity if you don't win. I think it's a
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  Speaker 5: ridiculous theory. One of my examples is Charles Barkley gets
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  Speaker 5: reminded all of the time that he never won a championship. Okay,
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  Speaker 5: we talked trash non stop. If you don't win, and
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  Speaker 5: you get one thing in your favor if you if
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  Speaker 5: you lose, and that's a high draft picks. I think
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  Speaker 5: that's a ridiculous theory from him. So I'm not a fan,
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  Speaker 5: not a fan of Olden Mauricio and his ridiculous theories
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  Speaker 5: and logic over here. I've never heard takes worse than that,
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  Speaker 5: outside of Caitlin Clark, and we'll get to that later
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  Speaker 5: in the program. Number two, Why I'm rooting against Team
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  Speaker 5: USA I hate the conversation. I hate the conversation of hey,
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  Speaker 5: could could the US win it all? It's like, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: they could. The example I use is I could bump
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  Speaker 5: into Blake Lively after the show this morning. You know
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  Speaker 5: I could, Lorena. I'm not gonna, but I could.
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  Speaker 3: I could.
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  Speaker 5: Like, that's the conversation we're having with Team USA. They've
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  Speaker 5: won their second knockout stage game ever in their history.
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  Speaker 5: They have to win four more to win it all,
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  Speaker 5: so this idea, could they win?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think they could. They can't.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, that's ridiculous. It's just not ready yet, not ready yet.
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  Speaker 5: There's no problem. They're building toward that. That's good, but
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  Speaker 5: they're not ready yet. The other reason I don't want
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  Speaker 5: Team USA to win is I don't want to lose
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  Speaker 5: any of our best athletes to soccer.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not a soccer guy. I'm a football guy. I'm
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  Speaker 3: a basketball guy.
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  Speaker 5: Call me crazy, but I want our best athletes in
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  Speaker 5: this country playing football and basketball as opposed to soccer.
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  Speaker 5: I want the best athletes in the NFL, in the NBA.
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  Speaker 5: I don't want the best athletes rocking the US men's
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  Speaker 5: national team kit over there and playing soccer.
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  Speaker 3: That's just me.
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  Speaker 5: So if you look where this is going, I would
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  Speaker 5: compare team quickly. I would compare them to a college
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  Speaker 5: football team. And you might look at this and be like,
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  Speaker 5: what just follow me on this one. I would compare
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  Speaker 5: the US men's national team to Indiana football. Right think
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  Speaker 5: about the IU Hoosiers in college football.
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  Speaker 3: You'll see a couple of parallels right here.
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  Speaker 5: What do Team usay on the men's side and IU
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  Speaker 5: football have in common? As aside from these last two
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  Speaker 5: years where IU cranked it into gear, what they have
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  Speaker 5: in common is that neither got the best athletes and
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  Speaker 5: they had a long history of losing. Okay, that's what
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  Speaker 5: both are dealing with. And so if you look at
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  Speaker 5: the IU Hoosiers, what happened a couple of years ago.
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  Speaker 5: They got a new head coach in Kurt Signetti, and
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  Speaker 5: they had a really good season. He brought over a
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  Speaker 5: bunch of transfers, brought a bunch of his own guys
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  Speaker 5: over from the Sun Belt Conference. He's like, come on,
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  Speaker 5: follow me to IU, and they're like all right, and
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  Speaker 5: they didn't get power for offers. They're ticked off at
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  Speaker 5: the world chip on their shoulder. You don't think we're
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  Speaker 5: good enough. You don't think that I should be in
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  Speaker 5: the power for I'm gonna show you.
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  Speaker 3: And they had success. They went eleven and two that
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  Speaker 3: first year. And what did that do?
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  Speaker 5: That gave them a foundation which they could build upon
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  Speaker 5: and get even better. And that's exactly what they did.
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  Speaker 5: They got a big transfer in Fernando Mendoza. Fernando Mendoza
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  Speaker 5: was on the phone with Kirby Smart and Georgia. He
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  Speaker 5: was almost a dog and because I you did well
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  Speaker 5: the season prior, He's like, you know what, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 5: go with the signetti thing over here with IU.
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  Speaker 3: He went over to IU.
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  Speaker 5: They got some recruits, they got some transfers, They built
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  Speaker 5: upon their momentum and boom national championship, went undefeated. Unbelievable story.
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  Speaker 5: That is similar to me as Team USA men's soccer,
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  Speaker 5: where they haven't had the best athletes. We all know
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  Speaker 5: that the best athletes in this country play football, basketball.
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  Speaker 3: They do not play soccer. That's just everybody knows that.
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  Speaker 5: And Team USA has had this long history of losing.
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  Speaker 5: You've lost time and time and time again. You're expected
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  Speaker 5: to lose. There are not high standards, not high expectations.
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  Speaker 5: A lot of the players don't believe they're gonna win big, right,
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  Speaker 5: that's a big hurdle you gotta get over to start winning,
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  Speaker 5: change the culture.
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  Speaker 3: All of that stuff. I think that Team USA is
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  Speaker 3: very much like the.
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  Speaker 5: IU football Hoosiers, and so what I don't want to see,
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  Speaker 5: And I'm sorry, I don't want to see Team USA
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: have this deep run, this long run, capturing the hearts
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: and minds of the nation.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: What TUSA and all this.
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: Stuff and all these little little guys, right, the boys
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: in this country are gonna be like I want to
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: play soccer.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: I don't want that. Call me crazy. I don't want that.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: You might want to more than life itself, God bless you.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: I don't. I don't.
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: But that weaves us to this. I did hear from
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: someone on X who goes by we are Redskins. Okay,
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: he doesn't like the new name of the Commanders. Not
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: a big fan. I should have That's what I should
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: have tweeted back at him. I should have tweeted back
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: at him, go Commanders. But he wrote it me, You're
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: a total D word.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: Okay, all right?
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: He called me a d right, he says, uh, I
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: don't like the coach of USA Soccer either. But to
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: root against America makes you a pe word. He went
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: D word and P word is what this guy went.
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: Oh, dogs and cats.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: That's yeah, crazy right there. It's unhinged. Unhinged, sir.
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: You need to calm down.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: Let's let's let's take it on back.
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: Let's take it on back, take it down a couple
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: of notches over here. You tell me if this is
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: professional or not. Lorena, this is what I wrote back.
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: I wrote, go Belgium, jump in a river? Is that
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: acceptable or okay?
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: Good? I didn't I didn't curse, you know, just friendly
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: back and forth. That okay? Good?
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: Based on and you say you don't know anything about me, Yeah,
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: come on, you know plenty. Listen, just so we're on
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: the same page, all right. I am rooting against the team.
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: I am not rooting against the country. Okay, this out
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: works in my mind. It might not be the same
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: for you. We might have, you know, different thoughts were
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: on different wavelengths.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: That's fine.
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: If you're watching an NFL game and someone says to you, hey,
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: who are you.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: Rooting for the Cowboys? Are the Eagles?
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: If I say I'm for the Eagles, in this game.
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: It'd be silly for I'm going to say to me,
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: you hate the lone Star State, you hate the city
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: of Dallas and Houston and San Antonio, you hate the
• 21:07
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• 21:11
  Speaker 3: I'd be like, I'm just rooting for the Eagles. That's
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: that's all.
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: That's that's how I feel about this. This is sports.
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: This is not politics. This is this is sports. I'm
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: rooting against a team for the reasons I just laid
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: out for you, so that that's not unpatriotic, un American,
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: is not on anything. It's for me, pro football and
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: pro basketball. I'm not anti USA. I'm anti soccer in
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: the USA.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: That's all.
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: That's where I'm coming from. But uh hey, listen, some
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: people disagree. Some people disagree to the tune of calling
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: me the D word and the P word. You know, so,
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: uh he if you're scoring at home, that guy, uh
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: he got bingo on that.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: I think that was a crossing board walk. So I
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: don't know what he did.
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: Something pretty significant right there, but we are Redskins. Did
• 22:05
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• 22:08
  Speaker 5: I'm off to a horrible start in his eyes if
• 22:10
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• 22:14
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• 22:18
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• 22:19
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• 22:23
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  Speaker 2: Thursday?
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  Speaker 3: Welcome into Thursday. Let's get after it over here. That's right.
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  Speaker 3: It's so hard to keep things on track over here. Man,
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  Speaker 3: it's yeah. Oh, I'm not used to this, you know.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not used to the weeknight overnights. So I gotta
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• 26:05
  Speaker 3: Thing, all right?
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: So we got steven A. Smith talking about white dudes,
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: the Lakers. They've made a couple of moves and listen
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: their white quotient if you will. If it's going up,
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: it's going up. Got a lot of white guys on
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: this roster over here. So stephen A's got Smith.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: Stephen A.
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: Smith has some thoughts on this. Jerome and Charleston he
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: called in, and he's like, who's more out of their minds?
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: Is it?
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: Nick Wright talking about black guys versus the white guys
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: in the NBA All Star Game, that's his idea.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: I would watch. I like people. It could be like, oh, oh,
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: Win's it on again. I'll be watching. We would watch.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: By the way, we're doing a little.
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: Bit of math, not to derail this whole thing, but
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: we were doing a little bit of math. Brandon was
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: chiming in here, and we're just looking at the all
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: white guy roster. If we're looking at the end right now, like,
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: don't sleep on the whities over here, like we're we're
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: representing right now. You got Luka Jokic, when you can
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: start off with a couple of names where you don't
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: need the full names. You know, those are star players,
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: those are superstar players. So you got Luca, you got Jokic,
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: you got Cooper Flag, and you got some good like
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: rotation guys, some good starters. We got Alpa and Shane
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: Goon with the Rockets. I know he's Turkish, right Like,
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: we got a lot of these dudes are international guys,
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: but technically white dudes. What was it a Chris rock
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: didn't he say that? He's like, black people don't have
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: time to dice you into you know, little sub sections
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: right here, And I forget what example he gave. He's like, ah, yeah,
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: what did he say? Like the European crack at. I
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: don't remember. I don't remember what he said exactly, but
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: we're all lumping these guys into the uh the white
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: guy team picture, if you will. Josh Gitty, Josh Gitty
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: is still a good player, sort of out ofside of
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: mind with the injuries going on, but still a good player.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: With the Bulls, Alex Caruso.
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: Give us some defense. We got to get Devincenzo back
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: healthy after the Achilles injury, but we got shooting with
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: Tyler Hero Demonas Bonus is a good player, chet Holmgrin
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: not great against the Spurs, but also a good player.
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: Then you get Denny Avdia with the Blazers, fantastic. I
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: call him the Torrito of the NBA. Just attacks the
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: rim like it's a red cape. He's attacking the rim
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: just like a bull. Franz Wagner with the Magic was
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: you got some guys, got some guys, Peyton Pritchard, Lowry Markinen.
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: Don't sleep on the white guys here, don't sleep on him.
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: But we get to Steven A. Smith's comments about the
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: Lakers specifically, and he just came right out and said it.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: Here's Steven A. Smith on first take I.
• 28:47
  Speaker 9: Just gotta say it, y'all, Where the hell the Los
• 28:49
  Speaker 9: Angeles Lakers think they gone with a bunch of white dudes?
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: Somebody had to say it, So I'm saying it. You
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: got three top players of white dudes.
• 28:57
  Speaker 9: Really, this ain't golf, this ain't baseball. Hell, it ain't
• 29:02
  Speaker 9: even sucker And we got a whole bunch of brothers
• 29:04
  Speaker 9: on Team USA.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: But y'all think this is basketball? This is basketball in
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: NBA history.
• 29:11
  Speaker 9: When have you seen your three most prominent players on
• 29:15
  Speaker 9: a basketball team.
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: All be white? And that takes you to the promised Land?
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: Somebody got a say.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: So I'm saying it.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: All right there, he is. Well the way he's packaged
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: it exactly.
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: You couldn't say the eighties Celtics because you couldn't say
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: Larry Bird, Kevin McHale and Danny Ainge. You couldn't say
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: that with Chief Robert Parrish on that squad, with Dennis
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: Johnson on that squad, you couldn't say that their three
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: most prominent players were all white. You couldn't say that.
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: So that is not an untrue statement right there. I
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: would push back and say, look, you're not gonna have
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: the three best white guys on the same team because
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: you couldn't afford that. But the three best white guys
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: in the league, they're winning a championship. If you got Luka, Jokic, Cooper, Flag,
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: that is a championship worthy team right there.
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: Stop it.
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: I don't think that Luca, Austin Reeves and Walker Kessler
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: are a championship worthy nucleus.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: No, I don't believe that.
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: But I disagree with the idea that if you took
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: the best of the best that the whiteies have to
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: offer right here, that they would not be winning a championship.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: I don't agree with that.
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: Now, you could look in the history of the NBA
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: and say, well, point to the team, who's the team
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: that had their three most prominent players all being white
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: winning a championship. I don't know that he can point
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: to one. They're not one that stands out to me.
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: So he probably correct about that. But I wouldn't look
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: at that and say it can't be done, because it
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: hasn't been done.
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: You're telling me that.
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: Luca, Kitchen Cooper Flag don't have a chance to win
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: a championship with a competent supporting cast.
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: Come on, what are we doing right now? So there's
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: a difference between it hasn't been done and it can
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: never be done.
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: He's basically saying it hasn't and it can't be done.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: I would say, yeah, it hasn't, but oh it could.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: It could.
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: If the right planets and everything lined up correctly, it
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: could happen.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: We got more from Steven A. Smith right here.
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: Let's hear about a white Dude Central. Now I'm sorry
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: this is not on first Take. This is on the
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: stephen A. Smith Show. So here's a here's stephen A
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: on White Dude Central.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: Let's check this out.
• 31:40
  Speaker 9: Luca, Austin Reeves, and Walka Kesla. This is the Los
• 31:44
  Speaker 9: Angeles Lakers that we are talking about here, and Rob
• 31:49
  Speaker 9: Polika has done made this White Dude Central. N ain't Matt,
• 31:54
  Speaker 9: none of them scrubs. Luca and Austin Kimball. They deserved
• 31:59
  Speaker 9: it money, expect the hell out of both of them.
• 32:01
  Speaker 9: And I know Luk from America, but dammit, he's still white.
• 32:04
  Speaker 9: I'm just saying this is a league dominated by a
• 32:08
  Speaker 9: bunch of brothers. Last twn, we see what the last
• 32:10
  Speaker 9: time we see three white prominent dudes lead you to
• 32:15
  Speaker 9: the Promised Land in the NBA.
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, hey, I don't know. I wouldn't make
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: this a whole white black thing.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: Personally. I hear what he's saying. I get it, I understand,
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: and there's something to this.
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: I would just look at these particular white guys, these
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: three guys as you're nucleus. Luca, we all know his
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: credentials offensively, not a defensive guy. Austin Reeves, we know
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: his credentials offensively, not a defensive guy. The Walker Kessler
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: is basically the opposite of that, great defensive player, great
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: rim protector, very good rebounder.
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: Not an offensive guy.
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: So it's it's kind of like the Yin and Yang
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: thing going on over here with the Lakers, with those
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: three players being the most prominent guys, I would just
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: look at that particular nucleus, no matter what color they are,
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: what they bring to the table in a good way,
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: what their strengths are, what their deficiencies are, That's what I.
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: Would look at.
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: But as far as he was to harp on the
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: white thing, okay, all right, but I think it distracts
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: from just their strengths and weaknesses. That's what I would say.
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: And I would also say, if we're gonna play that game.
• 33:29
  Speaker 5: Okay, I'm gonna keep this in my back pocket, all right.
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: The next time I want to say something like, hey,
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: you can't have an NFL team with a black head coach,
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: a black GM, and a black quarterback. What if they
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: ever won a Super Bowl? You can't say that. You
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: can't say I'm gonna keep this in my back pocket.
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: We can say it one way, we can say it
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: the other way. We can play these games all day
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: long if that's where you want to go. But you
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: tell me, if Steven A wouldn't be unhinged a little bit.
• 34:03
  Speaker 5: Can you imagine if some white sports radio hosts got
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: on the air and was like, black quarterback, blackhead coach,
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: black GM, disaster written.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: All over this NFL team? Are you kidding me? When
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: has that ever won anything in the NFL? Oh? Gosh,
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: it would be World War three if that ever happened.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: So I don't know.
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: Man, whatever, he can have fun with it and talk
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: about the pasty white Lakers.
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: That's fine. He can have his fun with it.
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: I guess the more moves that the Lakers made, you
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: can look at these and say I like them, but
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: they have no maneuverability none.
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: You look at the Lakers.
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: They trade for Walker Kessler and they pick up Colin Sexton,
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: they pick up Quentin Grimes and they pick up Why.
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: Did they do this to us here?
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: I used to be able to say this guy's name,
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: but it's it's a mouthful here, Mamu kelu Vili, and
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: you just gotta go fast, Mamu Keylushvili. And the one
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: thing I know about him, he's got a bunch of
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: tats on the left side of his body. So they
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: mentioned this during the playoffs. He used to play for
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: the Raptors. He's a big man. He can shoot it
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: from outside. He's a skilled big man. But his whole
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: left side and his chest is all tatted up, like
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: his whole left arm, left leg. I think it's the
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: left I should verify that one side of his body
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: is all tatted up. The other side is not tatted whatsoever.
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: And so this story is his mom doesn't like tattoos,
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: and he's all, right, well, I'll give you one side, mom,
• 35:47
  Speaker 5: And so he is. He's tatted up all on the
• 35:49
  Speaker 5: left side and no tats whatsoever on the right side.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: He's like, I'll give you the right side. Mom. How's that?
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: So there you go, there's the newest Laker, mamuskel Vili
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: and I do my best on that one. I'm I'm
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: in the general vicinity. But again he's a big man
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: that can shoot it from outside. But he signs a
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: four year, fifty two million dollar deal. Quinton Grimes again
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: good shooter, but four years sixty million dollars.
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: Good lord. They paid Walker Kessler one hundred.
• 36:21
  Speaker 5: And thirty million over four years. One hundred and thirty
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: million dollars for Walker Kessler. Again a good player, not
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: a star, not even an All Star yet playing in
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: the league for four years now, last year was only
• 36:34
  Speaker 5: five games. He's been in the league for four years,
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: zero All Star appearances.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: So think about this too.
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: The Jazz, they received more draft capital from the Lakers
• 36:48
  Speaker 5: for Walker Kessler than the Clippers got for Kawhi Leonard,
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: than the Hornet's got for LaMelo Ball, than the Celtics
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: got for Jalen Brown. The Lakers gave up more Walker
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: Kessler then those other teams gave up for Kawhi, LaMelo
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: Ball and Jalen Brown. By the way, Jalen Brown, two
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: time All NBA Guy Finals MVP, still young Kawhi Leonard
• 37:15
  Speaker 5: a little bit longer in the tooth. But the credentials
• 37:17
  Speaker 5: good Lord, seven time All NBA Guy, two time Finals MVP,
• 37:23
  Speaker 5: two time Defensive.
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: Player of the Year. That's what Kawhi Leonard brings to
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: the table.
• 37:28
  Speaker 5: He's also named of the seventy fifth Anniversary NBA Squad, Right,
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: that's what the credentials that Kawhi brings to the table.
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: Walker Kessler hasn't even been an All Star and the
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: Lakers gave up more for Walker Kessler than all those
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: other teams gave up for star players Kawhi Jalen Brown.
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: Wow. Wow.
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: So not only did the Lakers give up all of
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: that draft capital, all of that stuff, they're paying Walker
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: Kessler huge as if he's a star. He's not a
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: star yet. Maybe one day, maybe he'll get there, but
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: not yet. It's like the end of Glady, not yet,
• 38:09
  Speaker 5: not yet, the end of Gladiator, one of my favorite movies.
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: Right there.
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: Maybe Lorraina and I will discuss movies in Getting to
• 38:15
  Speaker 5: Know next.
• 38:16
  Speaker 6: You just be quoting things all the time. I know
• 38:18
  Speaker 6: that about you.
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: You do, yeah, I do.
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: I do love two main things. Two main quotes. Oh,
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: I actually have another movie quote. I grab the audio
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: for you tonight here, Lorainix. There's a topic I want
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: to get into. But I do quote Ingladiator not yet,
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: not yet. I quote that one all the time, and
• 38:40
  Speaker 5: it's it's really not even that memorable of a line,
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: but it's Denzel and Man on Fire. When he says
• 38:46
  Speaker 5: peace bop piece. It just comes up all the time
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: in sports radio.
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: I don't know why.
• 38:51
  Speaker 5: I'm like, all right, we're gonna break it down, peace
• 38:53
  Speaker 5: bop piece, like Denzel said in a Man on Fire.
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: I say that all the time, man. But yeah, you're right.
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: I do to quote movies here and there. Yeah, but Walker,
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: let me see the draft. I'm sorry.
• 39:07
  Speaker 5: The trade compensation is what we're looking for right here.
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: For Walker Kessler, it is a boat load.
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 39:15
  Speaker 5: They've given up a lot to get the guy. A
• 39:17
  Speaker 5: couple of unprotected first round picks, two first round pick swaps.
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: That's a lot to give up for four first rounders,
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: basically four first rounders for Walker Kessler. Yeesh, man, I
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: don't know. That's one of the things. If you don't
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: love the trade, if you don't love all right, Quinton
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: Grimes just isn't quite working.
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: We gotta we gotta change things. They're just stuck. The Lakers.
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: Here's what they have.
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: They have no tradeable first round picks over the next
• 39:52
  Speaker 5: seven years. They can't trade any first round picks for
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: the next seven years.
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: This is their team what they have right now. And
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: Stephen A.
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: Smith is calling. You know, he didn't call him pasty
• 40:07
  Speaker 5: white guys. I guess he stopped himself from calling him
• 40:09
  Speaker 5: pasty white guys.
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: What do you call him?
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: White dude Central, that's what he called it. We got
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: white dude Central over here with the Lakers.
• 40:15
  Speaker 6: Probably pretty pasty.
• 40:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he didn't go pasty though. You're right, but he
• 40:20
  Speaker 5: didn't say it. You said it, He didn't say it.
• 40:23
  Speaker 5: I did get a text from Rob Parker here this
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: evening and before the show started.
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: And.
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: He made a video of the white guys on the Lakers.
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: He's like singing this song and he's got graphics and
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: all this.
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: I just put, Lol, you're crazy. I think it's funny.
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: But if the equivalent was said about an all black unit,
• 40:44
  Speaker 5: your fangs would start to show, is what I said
• 40:47
  Speaker 5: to Rob. And he went back to like the seventies,
• 40:51
  Speaker 5: the New York Knicks, they had an all black team,
• 40:54
  Speaker 5: and it was talked about, but I don't know.
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: Man. Look, I guess fair is fair.
• 41:00
  Speaker 5: Right, If we're gonna be talking about the white dude
• 41:02
  Speaker 5: Central Lakers, maybe we're talking about the black dude Central
• 41:07
  Speaker 5: Chicago Bears at some point. I don't know some NFL
• 41:10
  Speaker 5: team that we got a black quarterback, black head, coach,
• 41:13
  Speaker 5: black gm Oh gosh, if we just like, yeah, not
• 41:16
  Speaker 5: gonna be successful. When has it ever worked?
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: Huh?
• 41:20
  Speaker 5: When that would not go well? I'm just telling you, right,
• 41:24
  Speaker 5: I would not go well, not go well. But uh,
• 41:27
  Speaker 5: you know, it doesn't work this. I understand it doesn't
• 41:31
  Speaker 5: work the same way all across the board. As much
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: as some people say that it should. I understand that
• 41:36
  Speaker 5: it's not. But listen, if we're if you can dish
• 41:41
  Speaker 5: it out, you should be able to take it. That's
• 41:43
  Speaker 5: all I'm gonna say. You know, those friends, you've got
• 41:45
  Speaker 5: those friends. I have those friends. They might like to
• 41:49
  Speaker 5: crack on you a little bit here and there, you know,
• 41:52
  Speaker 5: and then you crack on them back and they can't
• 41:55
  Speaker 5: quite take it, and it's like, oh, okay, you can
• 41:58
  Speaker 5: dish it out, but you can't take it.
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: That's lame.
• 42:02
  Speaker 5: Like if you can't take it, then you can now
• 42:06
  Speaker 5: longer take it. You no longer can dish it out, right,
• 42:10
  Speaker 5: You've got to be able to take it, to be
• 42:11
  Speaker 5: able to dish it out. Those are the prerequisites.
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: Right there, all right? Eight seven seven ninety nine on
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: Fox is your phone number.
• 42:17
  Speaker 5: Some people are lined up. The mald militia wants to
• 42:19
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• 42:22
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• 42:25
  Speaker 5: We'll get to the militia here. They've got some comments. Hey,
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  Speaker 3: All right, we got a lot to do. We'll hear
• 42:47
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• 42:48
  Speaker 5: We will let the end of the hour get to
• 42:49
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  Speaker 5: we had blind Scott. He seems to know me pretty well,
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  Speaker 5: very well, very very nicely done.
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: I appreciate that. But it's time for you and I
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  Speaker 3: to get to know each other a little bit better.
• 43:42
  Speaker 5: So we're going rapid fire questions, rapid fire answers.
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: Just keep it moving. I love it. We got music
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: in the background and everything.
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: Go ahead.
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: You start us off because I don't have anything prepared.
• 43:52
  Speaker 6: All right, do you have any weird collections?
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: I don't know that.
• 44:00
  Speaker 5: I don't know that you would find it weird. I
• 44:03
  Speaker 5: keep everything. I'm sentimental. If I get a card from
• 44:07
  Speaker 5: a loved one, no anything, I keep all of that stuff.
• 44:11
  Speaker 5: I'll put them in folders, boxes. I keep all of that.
• 44:14
  Speaker 5: That's maybe my weird collection.
• 44:16
  Speaker 7: Oh right, No, that's kind of cool. Is there ever
• 44:19
  Speaker 7: a limit on what you like when you get rid
• 44:20
  Speaker 7: of something?
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: No?
• 44:22
  Speaker 5: No, not like this from five years ago? You know,
• 44:25
  Speaker 5: Frisbee it on into the trash. No, I keep all
• 44:27
  Speaker 5: of that stuff.
• 44:28
  Speaker 7: Yeah, well, I currently collect mouse ears from Disneyland, and
• 44:33
  Speaker 7: I used to collect glass stalls when I was younger.
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: Okay, very nice. What's your favorite dessert?
• 44:38
  Speaker 7: Oh, that's so hard. It's got to be somewhere in
• 44:43
  Speaker 7: the ice cream variety.
• 44:44
  Speaker 5: Though, it has to be huh gotta be, it's gotta
• 44:47
  Speaker 5: be and you can't narrow it down though.
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: Huh mmm, too hard.
• 44:52
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a hard one.
• 44:54
  Speaker 7: But like if you put like ice cream on top
• 44:55
  Speaker 7: of a cookie or like on top of pie to
• 44:58
  Speaker 7: ultimate desserts. I also really like the sweet and the
• 45:01
  Speaker 7: salty option as well.
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: Okay, so I didn't really get an answer on that.
• 45:06
  Speaker 6: No, that was a really bad question.
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: It's a fine question. You made it difficult.
• 45:11
  Speaker 6: I know your favorite what is?
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: That's chocolate?
• 45:14
  Speaker 6: Hilious.
• 45:18
  Speaker 5: It is to die for. Man, it's my favorite dessert
• 45:21
  Speaker 5: on the planet. What was your first favorite sports team?
• 45:28
  Speaker 6: Oh?
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: Oh, assuming you have one.
• 45:37
  Speaker 7: Yeah, no, that's really recent and it's got to be
• 45:40
  Speaker 7: just be the Cowboys because I always was a bandwagon
• 45:43
  Speaker 7: with my mom. I just went with whatever my mom wanted. Okay,
• 45:45
  Speaker 7: all right, does that make sense?
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's fine.
• 45:47
  Speaker 6: I never really had a sport team.
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: What do you have for me?
• 45:54
  Speaker 6: What's your biggest fear?
• 45:59
  Speaker 5: Probably just failing. It's probably just failing. I'm not scared of,
• 46:03
  Speaker 5: you know, or snakes. Failing or snakes, that's probably or
• 46:09
  Speaker 5: a fear would probably be not being married again, not
• 46:13
  Speaker 5: not starting a family, getting older. You know, I can't
• 46:17
  Speaker 5: remember who asked my age. I think it was Andrea
• 46:18
  Speaker 5: last night asked my age most fifty, most.
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: Half a century old. You are cracking, family.
• 46:27
  Speaker 5: I gotta get cracking, Lorena. That's all I know. Gotta
• 46:29
  Speaker 5: get cracking over here. You what's your biggest fear?
• 46:32
  Speaker 7: I used to I used to lay in bed at
• 46:34
  Speaker 7: night and cry about dying because I didn't know what
• 46:36
  Speaker 7: was going to happen after.
• 46:38
  Speaker 6: That would probably be it.
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: So what got you over that?
• 46:42
  Speaker 7: A lot of people, I mean just die, so I
• 46:45
  Speaker 7: just gotta keep moving.
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: So you just eventually got over that mental hurdle, like
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: people die. What are you gonna do? Embrace it now? Yeah?
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: All right, we got a great, great response coming up.
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: He