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  Speaker 3: Oh what is going on? Welcome in. We're changing lives
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  Speaker 3: this evening, these early morning hours. Alright, let's settle it down.
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  Speaker 3: Let's let's let's let's lower the bar here. We're we're
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  Speaker 3: just hoping to have a good time. That's We're not
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  Speaker 3: changing lives. Maybe a couple maybe, but uh, the goal
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  Speaker 3: is to have a good time, have some fun over here.
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  Speaker 3: We got some NBA news going on. Unfortunately, my girl,
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  Speaker 3: Brianna Muro that's not that she's working tonight. We had
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  Speaker 3: big plans. We had big plans for four straight hours
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  Speaker 3: to break down the Miles Bridges trade. She is a
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  Speaker 3: big Phoenix Suns fan, and here we have Lebron and
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  Speaker 3: Kawhi just wrecking the party. It was gonna be four
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  Speaker 3: hours of hard hitting Suns basketball action. But I guess
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  Speaker 3: now we got to talk Lebron. He tells the Lakers,
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  Speaker 3: you know what, talk to the hand. No more LBJ
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  Speaker 3: in your lives here, Purple and Gold. I'm out of here.
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  Speaker 3: I'm freaking out of here. So I've got some thoughts
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  Speaker 3: on Lebron. Kawhi Leonard traded to the Raptors, traded back
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  Speaker 3: to the team that he won a championship with. Was
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  Speaker 3: only there for one season. But he's traded back to
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  Speaker 3: the Toronto Raptors, and the Clippers got a haul. I
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  Speaker 3: guess we're gonna pretend that, you know, paying a player
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  Speaker 3: under the table twenty eight million dollars. I guess is okay,
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  Speaker 3: like he's already traded from the Clippers. Clippers get a halt.
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  Speaker 3: I've got thoughts on that too. I'll tell you what.
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  Speaker 3: I'll try to shoehorn some ball into tonight's show, but
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  Speaker 3: I'll be honest with you. Not a ton of NFL
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  Speaker 3: stuff right now, not not a ton of football. You
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  Speaker 3: know me. I'm a football junkie. I am a ball aholic.
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  Speaker 3: There's not a ton, not a ton. I do have
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  Speaker 3: one thought, one comparison with Lebron and a football player
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  Speaker 3: that he did not he did not follow Lebron's lead.
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  Speaker 3: I will put it that way. But we start with
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  Speaker 3: Lebron not surprising. He tells the Lakers that he is
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  Speaker 3: going elsewhere. He is no longer going to be a Laker,
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  Speaker 3: he is now a free agent. Why do I say
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  Speaker 3: it's not surprising, Well, a couple of reasons. First Off,
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  Speaker 3: Luca was the new it guy, right He was the
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  Speaker 3: new flavor. He was the new like, oh wow, This
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  Speaker 3: happens all the time in life. Where you work, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you're the you're the new hire, and all of a
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  Speaker 3: sudden everyone's like, oh wow, look at you. And then
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  Speaker 3: somebody else gets hired, and all of a sudden, you're
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  Speaker 3: not the hot thing anymore. You know. That's the way
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  Speaker 3: it goes. That's the way it was with Lebron. Lebron
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  Speaker 3: when he signed with the Lakers, he was the hot guy.
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  Speaker 3: And then you give it a few years after winning
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  Speaker 3: a championship that was the COVID season. We're talking twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 3: It was a long time ago in basketball years. They
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  Speaker 3: make this blockbuster trade for Luka Doncic, and now lucas
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  Speaker 3: the guy they're building around Luca. Lebron is no longer
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  Speaker 3: the it guy, and we got a little glimpse of
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  Speaker 3: this few listen to after the Lakers season was done.
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  Speaker 3: They got swept by the thunder and this was one
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  Speaker 3: of the things that Lebron mentioned once the season was
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  Speaker 3: immediately over. I was putting into some positions I never
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  Speaker 3: played in my career before, actually my life. I've never
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  Speaker 3: been a third option in my life. Right, he wasn't
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  Speaker 3: just the second option, he was the third option. He
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  Speaker 3: was behind Luka Doncic, behind Austin Reeves and so Lebron,
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  Speaker 3: that's not in his DNA to be a third option. Now,
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  Speaker 3: to his credit, he made it work with the Lakers
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  Speaker 3: this past season, but that's not what he wants to do.
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  Speaker 3: That's not the role he wants to have, and that
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  Speaker 3: was one of the reasons why Lebron wanted to move
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  Speaker 3: on from the Lakers. Listen, just look at the WNBA
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  Speaker 3: for a second, right, Like, no girl wants to be
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  Speaker 3: like the second hottest girl, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: No girl wants another girl getting all of the attention.
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  Speaker 3: And that's why the WNBA collectively hates Caitlyn Clark. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: it's like game after game after game, targeted, cheap shot, rough,
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  Speaker 3: foul and not even basketball sometimes. And I mean it's
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  Speaker 3: because Caitlyn is getting a lot of attention that other
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  Speaker 3: girls desire to have. Not just female thing, it's an
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  Speaker 3: athletic thing. It's a competition thing. You want to be
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  Speaker 3: the main attraction, and Lebron on the Lakers was no
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  Speaker 3: longer the main attraction. That's one of the reasons why
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  Speaker 3: Lebron is moving on. We also, I love this looking back,
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  Speaker 3: This is tremendous looking back now the game ball controversy.
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  Speaker 3: Do you remember this back in March? It was March
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  Speaker 3: thirty first, Lebron was reportedly ticked off because he didn't
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  Speaker 3: get the appropriate amount of shine. So this is after
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  Speaker 3: a win Lakers beat. I'll give you a guess who
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  Speaker 3: they beat on that night, Right, Why was Lebron all
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  Speaker 3: ticked off? So they're giving away game balls, right, little recognition. Hey,
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  Speaker 3: Ruey Hachimura, good job scoring points. Hey Luke a dodgicch
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  Speaker 3: good job scoring points. By the way, Lebron, he said,
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  Speaker 3: most total wins regular season in playoffs. Very nice. And
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  Speaker 3: then it's the roll out the red carpet for JJ Reddick.
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  Speaker 3: The Lakers beat the Calves that night on March thirty first.
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  Speaker 3: In this audio, you have to do me a favor. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: you have to listen to this audio while using make
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  Speaker 3: believe Lebron ears. Okay. I want you to listen by
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  Speaker 3: using your Lebron James hearing. Okay, you're trying to hear
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  Speaker 3: this as if you're Lebron James, Okay, and knowing how
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  Speaker 3: Lebron would act or react to this, it makes it hilarious.
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  Speaker 3: I guarantee, Lebron James. Remember those old Dave Chappelle skits
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  Speaker 3: from Chappelle's show, The Rick James Skits, where there's one
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  Speaker 3: like very kind of mundane part where Rick James is
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  Speaker 3: sitting there talking to himself and he's like, I'm Rick James,
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  Speaker 3: and I pictured Lebron talking to himself the same way
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  Speaker 3: after this whole game ball controversy where he's just I'm
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  Speaker 3: Lebron James, and I have the most wins off all time,
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  Speaker 3: and they're gonna talk about JJ Redick and we've got
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  Speaker 3: videos for JJ Redick and it's tremendous. So here you go.
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  Speaker 3: Here's the game ball controversy from March, which I believe
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  Speaker 3: has something to do, something to do with Lebron moving
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  Speaker 3: on from the Lakers. Here you go, some things to
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  Speaker 3: go through here.
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  Speaker 2: Aleston's reach both individually and it's a team really, nine
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  Speaker 2: thousand career points, Luca fifteen thousand career points, right, Luca
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  Speaker 2: also the tenth person to ever have.
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  Speaker 3: Six hundred points.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 2: More importantly, Lebron James winning his Player of all time
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  Speaker 2: in the regular Sea.
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  Speaker 1: We won't accu late tonight, but we got to roll
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  Speaker 1: the video first.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, Dad, congrats on you're one hundred win. I'm very
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  Speaker 3: proud of you as love you. Go Lakers a few
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  Speaker 3: hundred doing.
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  Speaker 2: Dad.
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  Speaker 1: You're a great dan and great coach, and I love
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  Speaker 1: you so much.
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  Speaker 4: The Lakers to come in the league and get called
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  Speaker 4: fifty one seasons first two years of the show.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so you get the idea over here. This is
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  Speaker 3: just a locker room type vibe celebration, and guys will
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  Speaker 3: be guys in the locker room.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: You can hear how light hearted it is throughout almost
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  Speaker 3: that whole video or that audio of the video, if
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  Speaker 3: you will. That's from the Lakers ex account where they
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  Speaker 3: posted that. But you go all the way back to
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  Speaker 3: late March, Lakers beat the Calves, and the Lakers are
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  Speaker 3: celebrating some milestones that are reached, and the vibe of
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  Speaker 3: the locker room is like, hey, Ruy Hachimura, five thousand
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  Speaker 3: points in the league. You know, all right, clap it,
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  Speaker 3: Hey you're still ugly, Ruy ha ha. You know that
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  Speaker 3: sort of thing. Even when they gave it to Luca,
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  Speaker 3: gave his recognition, they were like, hey, six thousand points,
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  Speaker 3: Luca dacicch in a month or whatever it was, and
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  Speaker 3: they're like, I stop shooting so much, Luca. Someone even
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  Speaker 3: said that, right, So it's the general vibe. It's lou Goose.
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  Speaker 3: Guys are cracking on guys. But Lebron took this very
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  Speaker 3: very seriously, and he ends up surpassing Kareem abdul Jabbar
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  Speaker 3: that night, March thirty, first for the most total wins
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  Speaker 3: regular season and playoffs in NBA history. And listen, it
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  Speaker 3: was a footnote in this whole celebration, was it not.
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  Speaker 3: JJ Reddick was like he did say, and more importantly,
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  Speaker 3: Lebron James most total wins by but gave him his roses.
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  Speaker 3: They're like, all right, Lebron, good job man. Total wins
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  Speaker 3: great man, been around for long, Togo, all right, whatever,
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't even really care at that point. It's kind
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  Speaker 3: of funny in a way. And then Polinka comes in.
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  Speaker 3: They roll out the red carpet for JJ Redick, his
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  Speaker 3: kids or saying I love you dad, congrats on your
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  Speaker 3: one hundredth win, Lebron. That's the most regular season in
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  Speaker 3: playoff wins, way more than a hundred. And the Lakers
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  Speaker 3: go out of their way, roll out the red carpet,
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  Speaker 3: JJ Reddick, job, well done, unbelievable, back to back fifty
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  Speaker 3: win seasons. Wow, elite company, and Lebron just storms off,
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  Speaker 3: man storms off, leads the locker room, early, goes home.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm telling you, I think it was a Rick
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  Speaker 3: James moment where he's just talking to himself.
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  Speaker 5: Lebron James most total wins, JJ Reddick, one hundred wins,
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  Speaker 5: kids video and celebration scarbage.
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  Speaker 3: I bet he was pissed about that for months. And listen,
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  Speaker 3: it is silly. I'm not going to tell you it's
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  Speaker 3: not silly. But what I will say is it's easy
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  Speaker 3: for us to look at Lebron and say, really, dude,
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  Speaker 3: would you why would you care about that? You've got
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  Speaker 3: all these accolades, Why would you do you care about
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  Speaker 3: a little silly locker room celebration. I think it's so
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  Speaker 3: easy to say that. But put yourself in those shoes
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  Speaker 3: as best you can. Okay, let's say, like, you're the
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  Speaker 3: second best sales guy in the history of sales. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: like that. That's where I think Lebron is. That's where
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people have Lebron is the second best
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  Speaker 3: basketball player in the history of the sport. Pretty high praise.
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  Speaker 3: So let's say you're the second best or thereabouts in
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  Speaker 3: your line of work, and all of a sudden they
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  Speaker 3: go out of their way. You could be the second
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  Speaker 3: best salesman ever, and all of a sudden your company
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  Speaker 3: goes out of their way to be like, and hey, John, John,
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  Speaker 3: you sold this first set of steak knives. Huh, let's
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  Speaker 3: give it up for John, and we got a video.
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  Speaker 3: We've got John's kids, right, congratulations Dad on your first
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  Speaker 3: set of steak knives. If you're the second best sales guy,
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  Speaker 3: you'd be like, are you kidding me?
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 3: I just this isn't just a random Tuesday night. I
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  Speaker 3: just set the milestone for most total wins ever regular
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  Speaker 3: season in playoffs, and you want to praise a coach
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  Speaker 3: for his one hundredth win and have video presentational. I
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  Speaker 3: mean again, it's easy to crack on Lebron, but I
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  Speaker 3: think a lot of people cracking on Lebron for that
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  Speaker 3: would look sideways if the same situation unfolded in their
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  Speaker 3: line of work. I really do. I'll give him a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of a pass on that one. But I
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  Speaker 3: think if we move it forward, I think that right
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  Speaker 3: now there are three teams that are interested in signing Lebron.
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  Speaker 3: The three at the top of the list, right, Golden
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  Speaker 3: State Warriors, Cleveland Cavaliers, and the Miami Heat. Lebron cares
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  Speaker 3: about the goat debate. I know you're over it. I'm
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  Speaker 3: over it. I've been over it all right, But Lebron cares.
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  Speaker 3: Lebron has tried to shoehorn himself into being the goat.
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  Speaker 3: This was after they took down the Warriors. Remember the
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  Speaker 3: Cavs were down three to one. They came back beat
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  Speaker 3: a seventy three win Warriors team to win the NBA Finals.
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  Speaker 3: This was Lebron after that, I went right there, made
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  Speaker 3: you the greatest player of all time. That's Lebron talking
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  Speaker 3: about Lebron on more than an athlete. Yeah, I said
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  Speaker 3: to myself right there, that made you the goat? Right there, Lebron,
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  Speaker 3: I'm the dead gumut that made you the goat. He's
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  Speaker 3: tried to shoehorn himself into being the goat, all right.
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  Speaker 3: He cares about it. He has to win another championship
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  Speaker 3: to help his case, which in my mind means he
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  Speaker 3: cannot sign with the Warriors. Okay, they are not winning
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  Speaker 3: a championship. I know you're gonna hear big names Lebron, Steph,
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  Speaker 3: Jimmy Butler, Treymond Green. I would just caution you that
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  Speaker 3: everybody is old, old, old and old. Okay, like that's
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  Speaker 3: not gonna be a championship winning team. The West is loaded.
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  Speaker 3: Those guys aren't gonna stay healthy collectively. You know what
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  Speaker 3: blows my mind. Look at the ages. Lebron's forty one,
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  Speaker 3: Steph's thirty eight, Jimmy Butler and Draymond Green are thirty six.
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  Speaker 3: To put that in perspective, Yannis at debt to Kumbo,
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  Speaker 3: feels like he's been in the NBA forever? Does he not?
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  Speaker 3: Feels like? Look like Yannis has been around for a
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  Speaker 3: long long time. You know how old. Yannis is he's
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  Speaker 3: thirty one. Okay, Yannis is thirty one. Meanwhile Lebron forty one,
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  Speaker 3: Steph thirty eight, Jimmy and Draymon Green thirty six. Yannis
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  Speaker 3: feels god like he's starting to get old. To me,
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  Speaker 3: he's like a young buck compared to these old timers.
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  Speaker 3: We got Wyatt RP And like the Flintstone's over here
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  Speaker 3: with the Warrior's they're not winning a title now. The
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  Speaker 3: thing that Brian Windhorst brought to the UH brought to
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  Speaker 3: the chat if you will. Tuesday night, ESPN is doing
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  Speaker 3: their free agency special and he just threw it out there.
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  Speaker 3: We've got Jalen Brown with the Celtics. He's still on
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  Speaker 3: the trading block. Celtics are fielding calls, They're trying to
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  Speaker 3: make moves over here, trying to come to some sort
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  Speaker 3: of an agreement. What if the Calves were able to
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  Speaker 3: trade for Jalen Brown all of a sudden, Lebron going
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  Speaker 3: back to Cleveland. Man, you talk about if they're able
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  Speaker 3: to trade for Jalen Brown and Lebron could go back
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  Speaker 3: home and play for the Calves again and have a
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  Speaker 3: legitimate chance to win a championship again. That's a no brainer.
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  Speaker 3: That's built on an if. That's a big if, if
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  Speaker 3: the Caves can somehow trade for Jalen Brown. But that
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  Speaker 3: was the gist of what Wendy was saying was if
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  Speaker 3: you want Lebron, don't bring him in and tour the
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  Speaker 3: facility and hey, Lebron, we got a new whirlpool. And
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  Speaker 3: he doesn't care about any of those things. What he
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  Speaker 3: cares about is a roster that is championship caliber. And
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  Speaker 3: so if you're able to make a major move like that,
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  Speaker 3: that's what's going to entice Lebron James. That makes a
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  Speaker 3: lot of sense. I would love it for selfish reasons.
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  Speaker 3: I would love it if Lebron just did the decision
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  Speaker 3: two point zero. You know, the original decision was just
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  Speaker 3: it was a debacle, like no one was on board, Like,
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  Speaker 3: oh my gosh, really, Lebron, you're gonna do this. This
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  Speaker 3: is the ultimate look at me moment. And I love
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  Speaker 3: the Lebron apologies. Le He raised money for the Boys
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  Speaker 3: and Girls Club. It's like, that's great. I'm not saying
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  Speaker 3: it's bad, but that's awesome. But dude, that's not that's
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  Speaker 3: never gonna land the right way. You know, all these
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  Speaker 3: Cleveland Cavaliers fans are like, please resign with us, Lebron, please,
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  Speaker 3: And he goes on TV and he's like, I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to South Beach. I would love if we've got a
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  Speaker 3: decision two point zero? How great would that be? If
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  Speaker 3: Lebron sits down again the Cavs think they're gonna get him,
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  Speaker 3: maybe Golden State, maybe Miami, what's it gonna be? And
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  Speaker 3: he sits down there, he's like, in this fall, I'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna take my talents to South Beach again. In your face, Cleveland,
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  Speaker 3: Oh it would be beautiful. I'm selfishly rooting for that.
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  Speaker 3: It's not gonna happen, But I think it's down to
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  Speaker 3: the heat or the calves. It would be entertaining to
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  Speaker 3: watch him with the Warriors, but they don't have a
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  Speaker 3: legitimate chance to win a championship. That's what he has
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  Speaker 3: to have, God's to have it. If he just wants
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  Speaker 3: to have some fun with his buddies, yeah, that's that's fine.
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  Speaker 3: I loved watching Lebron and Steph for Team USA in
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  Speaker 3: the Olympics. That was a lot of fun. But that's
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  Speaker 3: not gonna be a championship worthy team. Just not those
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  Speaker 3: to have the stars and planets aligned for those guys
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  Speaker 3: to all be healthy come playoff time for that whole
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  Speaker 3: playoff run. Good luck with that. I just I don't
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  Speaker 3: see that happening whatsoever. And that, in my mind is
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  Speaker 3: why he can't resign. That you can't sign with the Warriors.
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  Speaker 3: Not resign, but sign there all right. The excitement of
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  Speaker 3: You're what, what's that, Lorano?
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  Speaker 2: I'm so excited.
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  Speaker 3: Oh you're not gonna be excited about my take on
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  Speaker 3: the US men's national team. Then, yeah, you're not gonna
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  Speaker 3: be excited about that. But you know what, I'm an
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  Speaker 3: ally of honesty here, Lorena. I don't bs or sugarcoat
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  Speaker 3: my way through anything. I'm gonna give you the no
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  Speaker 3: holds barred truth. And you might even hate me for it,
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  Speaker 3: but it's it's in me. It's in my DNA to
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  Speaker 3: be truthful. Over I'm gonna be truthful tonight, maybe to
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• 19:28
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• 19:37
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  Speaker 3: you might hate it, you might respect it. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how are you gonna take this? I
• 19:45
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• 20:07
  Speaker 3: That is USA day. USA takes on Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: I think I did it. I'm not gonna attempt it
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: again in Yeah, thank you appreciate that. Yeah, that's I
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: stuck the landing. I'm not even gonna try to attempt
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: that again. That's just too much going on right there.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: But I came to a realization, Okay, I came to
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: a realization after this group stage that Team USA one,
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: Team USA one their group. Great shout out to them,
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: and the lot knockout stage begins for them on Wednesday,
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: eight pm Eastern against Bosnia and h I'll just name
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: it H from now on. I tried it once, got
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: it no more. I came to the realization that I
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: am rooting against Team USA. I actually hope Team USA
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: it gets throttled. If they lose twenty six to nil,
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: I would be a happy, happy man. I'd be un
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: American of you. You might. But after this, after this
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: take I'm about to lay out for you, Lorena, you
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: might say I've reconsidered, or or you might say, ah,
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: I at least understand where you're coming from. You know,
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I want to put words in your mouth.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: You might at the end of this say, you know what,
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: Blake Lively is hotter than Anne Hathaway. I don't know
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: what you're gonna say, right, I'm likely. Okay, that's the one.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: There's no pushback about Team USA. You're like, you know,
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: maybe bring up a point I hadn't considered. Anne Hathaway. Nope,
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: not gonna happen. Probably not gonna happen. Unlikely. Okay, So
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: here's why, here's why I'm rooting against Team US. Say,
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: first things first, we start with the disclaimers, all right,
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: and we'll get to the reasons. I have three hard
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: hitting reasons with the pillars of my disdain for Team
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: USA and men's national team soccer. I love America. I
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: love the United States of America. There's nothing to do
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: against the country. I'm watching these games and I'm thinking
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: about the people that I know. I've got friends, I
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: might have girls that I've dated from these countries. They
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: are living and dying with these moments, you know. I
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: was just watching Mexico. They're at home at Mexico City,
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: and they win their game. They played great, they're actually
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: they've had four clean sheets. They've pitched shutouts in all
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: four games, all three in the group stage. Also on
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: Tuesday night when they won their game to nil, and
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: I'm just watching the crowd and I'm like, man, these
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: people are going crazy. They're just loving every second. Mexico
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: beat Ecuador on Tuesday. And so the last girl I dated,
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: you'll say she's from Mexico City. I know she's going nuts,
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: and I'm like, that's cool for them. I don't feel
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: the same way, you know, Like I know a couple
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: of Colombian girls, just friends of mine in Vegas. They're
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: going crazy for Colombia. I date a Brazilian girl, she
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: lives in La I still stay in contact with her.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: Every time Brazil wins. I'll send her some Brazilian flags
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: with soccer ball emojis. She's like, I know, it's amazing,
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: she loves it going crazy. I don't feel like that
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: against Team USA about Team USA, and that doesn't make
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: me I don't know, an American or not patriotic. It
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: doesn't mean any of those things. It just means I
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: don't like this team, and I also don't like the
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: potential consequences. So we go piece by piece right here,
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: Reason number one, I'm rooting against Team USA. I don't
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: like the manager. I don't like Mauricio Pochettino for a
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: couple of reasons. One, he's got a ridiculous theory that
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: US soccer players are complacent because we don't have relegation
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: in this country. That's his theory. He's like, man, why
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: do these guys seem so complacent? He's like, you know what,
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: I think I got a theory about that. I think
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: it's because we don't have relegation. You look at all
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: these other countries and you play overseas, you got relegation.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: If you lose the most, you get relegated, you get
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: knocked down to another lower league. You're not in the
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: top upper echelon league anymore. And he's like, that's not
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: what happens here in the United States. So it's just
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: like a shoulder shrug. If you lose, they fired the coach,
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: But what do you care? That was his theory. It's
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: such a dumb theory. I'm like, hey, moron, our best
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: athletes don't play soccer. Okay, that's why the US has
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: sucked forever in US men's national soccer. That's what it is.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: It's really that simple. It's not about a lack of relegation.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: We have relegation in anything. College football, NFL, NBA, go down.
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: We got relegation in nothing. Does that mean everybody's just
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: going through so the motions. Everybody's complacent. Everybody's like, we
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: missed the playoffs this year. Who cares, We're not relegated.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: It's all good. Yeah, it's not like that. It's just
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: such a dumb take. It's bad. It's a sucky theory
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: right there. And also, his other theory was America American
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: sports reward losing. It's his other theory right there. It's
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: another awful take. Awful take by Mauricio. American sports does
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: not reward losing. You get far more negativity than positivity.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: The one thing that is rewarded is you get a
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: high draft pick. That's the one thing. Nothing else, like,
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: look at the onslaught of negativity if you lose. Wemby
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: just lost in the finals to the Knicks. Now, I
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: know that he's not He's from France, right, but he
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: plays an American sport. So this does work. Did Wemby
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: get like rose petals after losing? I thought we were
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: reward losers, right. Wemby was universally clowned. The entire basketball
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: world was talking trash about Wemby. What was his reward
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: for losing? There's no reward whatsoever. This take that we
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: ought we just reward losing in this country. It's one
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: of the dumbest things I've ever heard. Look at the
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: rewards for winning. Think about the NBA finals the last
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: few years. Jokic, he went to title with the Nuggets
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: at the time, bouquets, flowers galore for Joker and deservedly so.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: Best player in the world another MVP. Wow, look at
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: this guy. Maybe the best offensive player as a big
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: man in the history of the NBA. Points, assists, rebounds,
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: great distributor not great on defense, but offensively unbelievable. Yannis. Fortunately,
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: when he took down Breeze Suns right there, Giannis. When
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: he fell down and looked like he injured his knees.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: I thought he was done, and all of a sudden,
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: he was a maniac going crazy against the Sun's bucks
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: win a title. He was outstanding, and he got all
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: the accolades, all the love, all the praise. That's what
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: we do. We reward winners. We praise you for winning.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: We talk trash. If you can't win a championship, it's like, oh,
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: you can't, you can't win the big game, you can't
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: win the big one. Charles Barkley never won a championship
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: and is reminded of that on every other episode of
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: Inside the NBA, like they're constantly throwing it in his face.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: Never want a ring, Never want a ring. They're capitol
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: ie commercials of him never winning a ring. Like you're released,
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: you're traded, you're called a loser, you're doubted, you're branded
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: to someone who can't win a championship. Airs far more
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: negativity toward losing than positivity. So the idea that American
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: sports rewards losing is brain dead. So I don't like Mauricio.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: That's reason number one. I'm rooting against Team USA against Bosnia.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: And this other thing where he just said US soccer
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: players are complacent because there isn't relegation in this country
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: and also the American sports reward losing. That's his theory.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: Right now, we're just kind of going through the motions whatever.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: Keep that in mind as we bring it to the
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: here and now. After a Team USA lost to Turkey
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: a last week, Mauricio didn't like some of the questions.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: The questions weren't crushing Team USA. They weren't like, man,
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: why does your team suck all of a sudden, Mauricio,
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: what's up with that? It was just like, hey, what
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: does this loss mean going forward for Team USA? That's
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: the gist of it. Nothing scathing. Here's what Mauricio had
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: to say.
• 28:54
  Speaker 7: I don't understand. The objective was to finish first, and
• 28:58
  Speaker 7: we are first. For you not to say congratulations that
• 29:03
  Speaker 7: we won the group. That is a little bit sad,
• 29:06
  Speaker 7: but only only that I need to remember you and
• 29:10
  Speaker 7: everyone that we won the group. So real ice we won.
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: Okay, So this to me is the hilarious twist. After
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: Team USA lost to Turkey the final game of the
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: group stage, it really didn't matter. Team USA already won
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: the group. They didn't have to win that game. They
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: rested nine of their starters, right, so they didn't need
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: to win the game. But our boy Mauricio, he was asked,
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: you know, various questions about the loss. He couldn't take
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: the heat. He could not take the heat, you know,
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: and Mauricio just, you know, it's pretty sad that you're really, dude,
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: you're gonna call our athletes, you know, the US soccer
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: players complacent, We reward losing. You're gonna point the finger
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: at us, and you can't take the heat after one loss?
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: Are you right now? This dude is soft soft soft.
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: I don't like Mauricio at all. Reason number one, I'm
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: rooting against Team USA. Reason number two the conversation. The
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: conversation drives me crazy. You might be like, well, what
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: conversation you're talking about, Brian, Like what were we talking about, Like,
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: you know, Sammy Hagar against David Lee Roth. No. No,
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: the conversation about the US men's national team, especially when
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: they won two games in a row in the group stages.
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: The conversation was could the US win it all? And
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: the reply from some was, yeah, the US could win
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: it all? And I'm looking at that and I'm like,
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: what are we talking about right here? Can we go
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: down the laundry list of reasons why Team USA can't
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: win it all? Can't z a n apostrophe T, can't
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: cannot z a n n o T if you like
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: that spelling. Today filling in for Big Ben Meller, Team
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: USA won two consecutive games in the World Cup this
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: year for the first time since nineteen thirty. Okay, as
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: almost a century two games in a row. They gotta
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: win five to win it all against the best of
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: the best. Meanwhile, keep this in mind his way as well.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: The US men's national team has lost ten straight games
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: against European teams. They've lost ten straight. They have a
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: twelve match winless streak against European teams. The last time
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: they beat a European team it was Bosnia and h
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: our friends that were facing on Wednesday. Last time they
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: beat him was a one nothing friendly back in December
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: of twenty twenty one. So last time Team USA beat
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: a European squad and we're just gonna waltz through this
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: year's World Cup? Okay, okay, so is nauseating to me.
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: It'd be like this best comparison I can throw at you.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: It would be like a musical discussion, right, we have
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: a round table discussion about music, and the question is
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: thrown out there, Hey is uh? Is Green Day the
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: best band of all time? And they're really kicking this around.
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: There's some people like, you know, yeah, yeah, they could
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: be the best band of all time? And it's like
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: what what what are we talking? Green Day? Green Day
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: the best of us? We got the Stones, you have
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: the Beatle, we got legendary bands. Green Day, get out
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: of here. But that's how I feel about Team USA
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: and this conversation. Could they win it all? Yeah? They
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: could get the hell out of here. Man, it's a
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: waste of time. The conversation drives me crazy. It's just
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: like what we saw from the Spur. Really, it's a
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: legitimate comparison. You gotta crawl before you walk. You gotta
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: walk before you can run. Team USA Men's National team
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: soccer they are in the crawling stage right now. They're
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: gonna go from crawling to sprinting not happening. You gotta
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: take steps toward that. That's how it goes.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: They're not winning five in a row. Shut up anybody
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: who's saying they could no no, can't. So I'm not
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: against the country. I'm against the conversation. That conversation drives
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: me crazy. That would be like saying, hey, could the
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: New York Giants win a Super Bowl this season? It's
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: like this season and you have legitimate things to point to. Hey,
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: John Harpaugh is there right now? You got a real
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: head coach, Hey, Jackson Dart show some promises, a young quarterback?
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: What if this? What if that? What if?
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: What if? What?
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: Baby? Baby? You talk yourself into Yeah, a couple of
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: legitimate things to point toward, and you start talking yourself
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: into something where it's like, yeah, no, they're not gonna
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: win a super Bowl this season. Maybe they build, maybe
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: they have some success, maybe they make it to the playoffs,
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: maybe they win a playoff game. But winning it all, no,
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: stop it. That's how I feel about Team USA. Last thing,
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: reason number three, I'm rooting against US. I personally some
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: might agree with this. I don't want to lose any
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: of our best athletes to soccer. I don't want to
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: lose one if Team USA, the men's national team is
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: like Brian, Let's say I'm the gatekeeper of all the
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: best athletes you know, and They're like, hey, how about
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: can we get our hands on that slot receiver? Over
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: just one slot receiver for Team USA, the national can
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: we I'd be like no, no, and they hit me
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: with something. How about just a shooting guard? Can we
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: have one shooting guard? Can we have like the Devin
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: Booker type? Can we Can you have him on the
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: US men's national team? No, you can't have him. You
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: can't have anybody. How about that nothing? You get nothing,
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: You get none of our best athletes. That's so I
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: don't want Team USA to have this brilliant deep run
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: in the World Cup that captures the hearts and minds
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: of the nation. And you would, you would have a
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: ripple effect. You absolutely would. As much as I don't
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: want it to happen, it would, It would begin to happen.
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: You would have young boys and girls like, man, I
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: want to play soccer. You have young boys like, yeah,
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: I don't. I don't really want to get my head
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: kicked in playing in the NFL. I want to play soccer.
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: You know, like, maybe the NBA is not for me.
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: Maybe I gotta I gotta dive into the soccer thing, right.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: I don't want that to happen. So I don't want
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: to take any chances over here. That's just me. Maybe
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: you want your NFL and NBA diluted a little bit
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: after you. I don't. I don't, not me, not me personally.
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: So yeah, go Bosnia. Long story short, that's where I'm
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: at right here for THO. Those are my three main reasons.
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: I don't like Mauricio and he's got some idiotic theories
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: about sports in this country and how Americans reward losing.
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: It's ridiculous. I don't like the converse that could Team
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: USA win it all? Yeah, they could shut up. They can't.
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: They're incapable. They're not ready yet, not ready yet. And
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: reason number three, I don't want to lose any of
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: our best athletes to soccer. That's just me. Some would disagree,
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: someonet to see who spread the wealth. They'd love Team
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: USA to be awesome in soccer. There are plenty of
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: people listening that would trade in a heartbeat Team USA
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: being awesome in men's soccer compared to the NFL just
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: swimming in talent. That's them, not me, not me. I
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: don't want to lose any buddy. So for all those reasons,
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: Go Bosnia. That's what I say