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  Speaker 2: Well call it what it is, red white and rest
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  Speaker 1: up build it like Beckham. When I see those spots
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  Speaker 1: on the Fox broadcast, the TV broadcast.
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  Speaker 3: I smile. I say, that's my line, of course, I
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  Speaker 3: just read the copy.
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  Speaker 1: Build it like Beckham from living room to lawn with
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  Speaker 1: It's great anyway, you take the fast free delivery assist
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  Speaker 1: the Home Depot Official FIFA World Cup twenty twenty six
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  Speaker 1: the Salsas Czar.
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  Speaker 3: Hit me up and we won't hear from him very often.
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  Speaker 1: He said, Hey, Ben, I know the World Cup has
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  Speaker 1: been going on for about a month. Can you let
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  Speaker 1: me know where to watch it? Okay, dummy, it's no
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  Speaker 1: I'm kidding.
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  Speaker 1: get back to the live reads later on. We now
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  Speaker 1: pause the live reads for the sh so our lead
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  Speaker 1: this hour is from the hood in Inglewood and up
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  Speaker 1: to No Good. That would be the site of the
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six World Cup game.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna talk.
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  Speaker 1: About that's right. Don't bury the lead, mo man. I'm
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  Speaker 1: wrapping myself in the flag right now. I am wrapping
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  Speaker 1: myself in the flag. So there was right there, the
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six World Cup, a gaggle of games.
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  Speaker 3: The big one, the big.
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  Speaker 1: Kahuna was on Fox. Did you watch you? Bet no
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  Speaker 1: you didn't. Bat yup about you. I'm gonna tell on you. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Team Usa, Usa, Usa, Usa, So if you didn't see it,
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  Speaker 1: some dude you've never heard of from Turkey scored a
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  Speaker 1: goal on the final kick of the match.
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  Speaker 3: What a Debbie downer.
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  Speaker 1: And that hands Team USA their first defeat in the
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  Speaker 1: World Cup three to two. Turkey or Turk as they're saying, no,
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  Speaker 1: don't they changed the penna. It looks like Turkey to me.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway. They picked up their only win of the World Cup.
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  Speaker 1: And now it's not good bye, nice parting gifts. They've
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  Speaker 1: been eliminated the Americans. As you know, because you're a
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  Speaker 1: good soccer fan. Every time the World Cup comes up,
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  Speaker 1: you know about it. When there's no World Cup.
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  Speaker 3: You don't watch.
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  Speaker 1: However, the Americans have advanced to the knockout round and
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  Speaker 1: they will play I believe on hump Day of next week,
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  Speaker 1: played a lot of new players. That's one of the
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  Speaker 1: talking points that we wanted to focus in on as
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  Speaker 1: the criticism, some of it directed at the head coach,
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  Speaker 1: Mauricio Pocatino, the head coach of Team USA, who decided
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  Speaker 1: to go with a lot of the backups. So that
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  Speaker 1: is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the
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  Speaker 1: question should Team USA have taken this World Cup match
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  Speaker 1: with Turkey more seriously? Should they have taken this thing
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  Speaker 1: more seriously? So I've got eucalyptus, babylon and religious revival,
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  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and
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  Speaker 1: we are going to have some French onion soup.
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  Speaker 3: So I hope you little crackers have some crackers on
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  Speaker 3: the side a little salt, so enjoy that.
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  Speaker 1: So hey, to answer the question, should Team USA have
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  Speaker 1: taken this World Cup match more seriously? I am nodding
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  Speaker 1: my head yes. If you're watching on the on demand
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  Speaker 1: YouTube feed, you know my eyes are closed and I'm
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  Speaker 1: nodding my head yes. And I've opened my eyes now,
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  Speaker 1: so listen. I was taught by my mom when I
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  Speaker 1: was a kid. My mom tried to get me to
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  Speaker 1: eat vegetables, which is a bad mother, and I occasionally
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  Speaker 1: was forced to and it would take a long time
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  Speaker 1: for me to do that, and she taught me to
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  Speaker 1: not play with my food, so you should not play
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  Speaker 1: with your food. Now, it looked to me, even though
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  Speaker 1: the game was tied, it should have been a draw.
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  Speaker 1: You could say whatever. Fine, you know, we hardcore soccer
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  Speaker 1: people know we're not. But looking at the line up there,
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  Speaker 1: any reasonable person would say that the Americans took their
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  Speaker 1: foot off the gas there and they put their their
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  Speaker 1: feet on the footstool is what they did there.
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  Speaker 3: And I understand they've.
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  Speaker 1: Already won the little group there, the Group D, they've
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  Speaker 1: already won that. And so they beat Paraguay in Australia,
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  Speaker 1: and so Team USA will now advance to the round
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  Speaker 1: of thirty two, which will be on hump Day there
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  Speaker 1: against Bosnia Herzegovina. So that'll be the next matchup. But
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  Speaker 1: regardless of that, I have standards. I'm from the old country, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'm from the old country, and I don't like that
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  Speaker 1: bitter taste that they decided. And this is a plague.
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  Speaker 1: I've been complaining about it from the bully pulpit late
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  Speaker 1: at night. It's affected just about every sport that we
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  Speaker 1: have in this country. It is an invasive species. And
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  Speaker 1: there's the head coach of Team USA, Maurisio Pocatino, who
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  Speaker 1: justied to have a cocktail and float on the lazy river.
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  Speaker 1: They played the load management card from the bottom of
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  Speaker 1: the deck in the World Cup. This is not the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a February game in the NBA. It's supposedly
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  Speaker 1: the Global super Bowl. That's what I keep hearing, right,
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  Speaker 1: So you're treating it like what a friendly? Is that
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  Speaker 1: what you soccer people call it a friendly should be
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  Speaker 1: a soccer felony. And there's Polkatino out there who went
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  Speaker 1: with the JV lineup, the backups and the backups nine
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  Speaker 1: from what I read before the game, nine lineup changes, resting,
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  Speaker 1: resting in the World Cup? Key players? Are they not
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  Speaker 1: in shape? Are they trying to get I thought all
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  Speaker 1: soccer players were in great shape. They all like to
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  Speaker 1: brag about that they can run up and down for
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  Speaker 1: hours and hours and hours and hours and hours an hour.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, although it is you juxtaposed that with the
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  Speaker 1: big star who's doing candy bar commercials on the World
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  Speaker 1: Cup broadcast. There for the good because you happen to
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  Speaker 1: be born in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Christian paulsick and he didn't
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  Speaker 1: he entered the game. He didn't he hadn't played in
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  Speaker 1: the last couple of games because of some calf injury.
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  Speaker 3: But he came in in the fifty eighth minutes. So anyway,
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  Speaker 3: listen the point of all this.
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  Speaker 1: I just got the vibe when I saw nine backups
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  Speaker 1: in a World Cup game. I said, well, this is
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  Speaker 1: classic American sports arrogance. All right, you win a couple
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  Speaker 1: of games and you've already advanced. So let's just treat
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  Speaker 1: this like a Cactus League game or a grape Fruit
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  Speaker 1: League game. Why don't we go to the day spa.
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  Speaker 1: How about that, we get a manny and a petty
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  Speaker 1: and it's the World Cup. It's not a wellness retreat.
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  Speaker 1: Save the eucalyptus towels for the MLS. It's the fricking
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  Speaker 1: World Cup. No days off. You all tell me how
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  Speaker 1: sacred this even is, right, You all tell me that
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  Speaker 1: every time I bring this up. But if I don't
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  Speaker 1: forget it the proper way, you yell at me.
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  Speaker 3: Shame on you. Balor's it's I.
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  Speaker 1: Was actually talking to one of my radio buddies about this.
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  Speaker 1: It's one of those great things the soccer cult. If
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  Speaker 1: you don't talk about soccer, they can pla because you
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  Speaker 1: should be talking about soccer. And then when you talk
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  Speaker 1: about soccer, you're not talking about it the right way,
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  Speaker 1: so they can play.
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  Speaker 3: It's just perfect. It is absolutely perfect.
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  Speaker 1: And so supposely the World Cup sacred the game. I
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  Speaker 1: know it wasn't meaningless to the rambunctious sellout crowd that
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  Speaker 1: was price gouged by FIFA who treated this like a
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  Speaker 1: pilgrimage to a packed sofi stadium.
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  Speaker 3: And there was load management at.
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  Speaker 1: The World Cup, a bold strategy cotton let's see if
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  Speaker 1: it pays off. And my god, I thought, Greatness is
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  Speaker 1: not taking a nap on the couch. Greatness is stepping
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  Speaker 1: on throats even when you don't have to, right, just say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: keep the mojo going and all that and no now
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  Speaker 1: turning the page to the boob tube. And I would
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  Speaker 1: like to address the snuff of love.
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  Speaker 3: I guess them now.
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  Speaker 1: Full disclosure here As a disclaimer, I was not planning
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  Speaker 1: on talking about this. I kept getting messages from random
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  Speaker 1: members of the malord militia pee ones who I guess
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  Speaker 1: you haven't watched the World Cup.
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  Speaker 3: This is not new.
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  Speaker 1: What happened during the Team USA game versus Turkey, this
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  Speaker 1: is not a new thing. Several of you were demanding
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  Speaker 1: a Malor monologue. You were very excited about a graphic,
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  Speaker 1: not a game, not a game, not a game. We
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  Speaker 1: in here talking about a TV graphic on Fox. So
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  Speaker 1: it happened during the game that was played a few
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  Speaker 1: hours ago before we got in here at the World Cup. Specifically,
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  Speaker 1: I think you know where I'm going with this, right, yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 1: Well I'll do it anyway. Two words. Match momentum.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Now, one of my long, long, long ago positions that
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  Speaker 1: I have maintained have died on this mountain. In sports.
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  Speaker 1: There is no such thing as momentum. The only momentum
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  Speaker 1: I know in sports is Uncle Moe, who lives in Jersey,
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  Speaker 1: and Ozzy Momentum, who obviously lives in Australia and has
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  Speaker 1: a pet kangaroo unless he does it. So this match
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  Speaker 1: momentum has been a bane on the World Cup. It
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  Speaker 1: popped up again. It is a soccer specific advanced statistic.
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  Speaker 1: So the people say, who are behind this here broadcast
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  Speaker 1: graphic I used obviously during the World Cup. Now you
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  Speaker 1: might have seen it briefly. It pops up randomly in
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  Speaker 1: the corner the lower left hand corner of the Fox broadcast.
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  Speaker 3: It is hyped as.
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  Speaker 1: Being able to visualize which team appears to have all
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  Speaker 1: the momentum at any point in the game. I realized
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  Speaker 1: this is this is low hanging fruit. The most delicious
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  Speaker 1: fruit is low hanging fruit.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, because you don't have to work that hard to
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  Speaker 3: get it.
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  Speaker 1: The question, does the World Cup match momentum graphic prove
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  Speaker 1: that my long standing position is wrong, that momentum exists?
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  Speaker 1: Does the World Cup match momentum chirirn graphic prove that
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  Speaker 1: momentum exists?
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  Speaker 4: Now?
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to get.
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  Speaker 1: Religious, Sweet baby Jesus, No it's not. It's not welcome
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  Speaker 1: to the tabernacle of the mal or Militia. It is
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  Speaker 1: not analysis. It's arts and crafts. It's arts and crafts,
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  Speaker 1: is what it is. It's gimmicky, it's glittery. It's like
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  Speaker 1: a mood ring with a sponsor. And honestly, this thing
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  Speaker 1: should have been presented by the Babylon Bee, right It's
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  Speaker 1: presented by the Babylon Bee because it's straight out of
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  Speaker 1: the land of make believe. It is a classic Hawaiian
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  Speaker 1: spam saying, which satirical, useless filler is what it is.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, the broadcast has been great. They're absolutely killing it.
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  Speaker 1: It's just one thing. I'm nitpicking here. It bothers me. Right,
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  Speaker 1: it's unnecessary. And look, if momentum actually existed, dummy, you
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't need a cartoon thermometer, do hickey whatever that thing
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  Speaker 1: is to find it.
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  Speaker 3: It's just big dazzled is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: Right, It's that's it. They know there's certain spots, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: where there's absolutely nothing to say, and so you toss
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  Speaker 1: this out there like some pixie dust. It's gimmicky, it's glittery,
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  Speaker 1: it's useless. The holy trinity of TV broadcast nonsense, right.
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  Speaker 1: It provides a little visual flare for the low information fan,
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  Speaker 1: the dumb, dumb right, and broadcast polish, rather than delivering
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  Speaker 1: anything meaningful.
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  Speaker 3: There's no new insight on that.
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  Speaker 1: It is obviously very subjective and it's just the broadcast
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  Speaker 1: equivalent of elevator music. Just elevator music. That's it. However,
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  Speaker 1: let's be real here, there's not much going on. I'm
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  Speaker 1: watching these games. I'm into it. I feel like the
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  Speaker 1: fans are the bigger part of the story so far,
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  Speaker 1: but there's not much going on in soccer a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Meaning they need things. They need thingam a jigs and
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  Speaker 1: they need what you McCall. It's all of that to
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  Speaker 1: keep the viewer engaged when nothing is happening for twenty
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  Speaker 1: minutes or thirty minutes and everyone's just doing some cardio
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  Speaker 1: kicking a ball around in the middle of the field
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  Speaker 1: and not taking any shots on that and any of that.
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  Speaker 3: In general.
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  Speaker 1: Momentum is classics sportscaster gibberish. It's one of the most overused,
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  Speaker 1: vaguely defined filler words in sports broadcasting. It is is
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  Speaker 1: a go to crutch. It's a narrative crutch when commentators
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  Speaker 1: need to sound somewhat insightful during those down periods, the lulls,
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  Speaker 1: and they pull that out of their back pocket and
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  Speaker 1: they commit to it and people hear it and it's
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  Speaker 1: just the jock language and everyone's.
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  Speaker 3: Like, Okay, well that makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: Momentum, momentum, momentum, shove momentum up.
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  Speaker 3: You're tuck us all right now.
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  Speaker 1: Last word to Canza City, and I hope you were
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  Speaker 1: able to see this. Even our blind listeners were amazed
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  Speaker 1: by this, so led by the iconic Orange Bus, which
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  Speaker 1: apparently is a thing, the double decker bus shipped from
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  Speaker 1: the Netherlands. From the Netherlands, they had live DJs.
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  Speaker 3: They got the music. It was a.
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  Speaker 1: Festival type atmosphere here downtown Kansas City, not that far
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  Speaker 1: away from the home of the Ben Mallord chicken fingers there.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of the Dutch fans were enjoying
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  Speaker 1: the Mallard chicken fingers there.
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  Speaker 3: Over in Liberty, Missouri.
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  Speaker 1: How appropriate and just knocking that out, just knocking that
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  Speaker 1: out anyway, So downtown Kansas City turned into a just
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  Speaker 1: a huge it was the Orange Bowl, just a giant
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  Speaker 1: like orange everywhere celebration. This happened early in the morning
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday as thousands, thousands of fans of the Netherlands
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of locals participated in the Orange Walk.
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  Speaker 1: The event started, if you're familiar with Kansas City, the
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  Speaker 1: Power Light District, and they walked up to the World
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  Speaker 1: War One Memorial, which is really cool a hilltop there
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  Speaker 1: in Kansas City, and they had the bus and the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing, and everyone was dancing and partying and wearing
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  Speaker 1: orange shirts and face paint and wigs and all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of outfits. It was pretty neat and unlike most of
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  Speaker 1: these things in America when this happens, where they just
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  Speaker 1: like turn cars over and burn them and like burn
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  Speaker 1: people's homes and businesses and ruined society.
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  Speaker 3: None that happened.
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  Speaker 1: So it's amazing you can have an event and not
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  Speaker 1: burn the whole town down. All right, So the question
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  Speaker 1: your thoughts on the Dutch orange fog that took over
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  Speaker 1: Cansau City for the world come. So they estimated twenty
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  Speaker 1: two thousand people.
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  Speaker 3: We're part of this.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty two thousand people were part of this particular event.
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  Speaker 1: And if you walk through downtown Kansas City on Thursday morning,
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  Speaker 1: you did an attendant event, you joined a pilgrimage. Now
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  Speaker 1: I had insider information my radio friend, the Great Bob Fesco,
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  Speaker 1: the morning guy in Kansas City. I go on with
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  Speaker 1: him every Thursday morning. And Bob had mentioned in our
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  Speaker 1: spot that I do with him. He said, Bob and Dusty,
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  Speaker 1: they said he I'm They were wearing orange and they
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  Speaker 1: said we're going out to this thing. And I said, okay,
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  Speaker 1: well that's cool, and I thought, wow, maybe there'll be
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  Speaker 1: a few people there. You know, that'll be fine. I said,
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  Speaker 1: send me some photos. I'll be sleeping, and boy did
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  Speaker 1: he send me video. He sent me photos. He got
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  Speaker 1: all swept on it. There were twenty two thousand, and
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  Speaker 1: they get twenty two thousand people here. Kansas City didn't
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  Speaker 1: just host a soccer fan march. It hosted a full
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  Speaker 1: blown It was like a Dutch religious revival with the.
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  Speaker 3: DJ on wheels and all that. Who was given the
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  Speaker 3: sermon and it did. It wasn't so much a march.
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  Speaker 1: It felt like a mass spiritual cleanser or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: The hype was infectious. I wasn't even anywhere close to it.
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  Speaker 1: I just saw the video and it was great. I'm
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  Speaker 1: told by my friend Bob that they all the local
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  Speaker 3: You couldn't get an orange T shirt because so many.
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  Speaker 1: People obviously locals and not that many people from the
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  Speaker 1: Netherlands that traveled to Kansas City and have that amount.
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  Speaker 3: Of holiday and all that.
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  Speaker 1: So you could not get an orange shirt for miles
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  Speaker 1: and miles around Kansas City. So that's not just fandom,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: that's like economic that's an economic thing. By the time
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  Speaker 1: they hit FanFest like the happiest cult ever had arrived there.
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  Speaker 1: And honestly, I when you look at this, this is
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  Speaker 1: to me what the World Cup is supposed to be.
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  Speaker 1: It's drinking all the beer in Boston. It's going up
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  Speaker 1: the escalator like you're rowing a boat in where.
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  Speaker 3: I think I was also in Boston. It's this.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: It's the women of the World Cup turning their outfits
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  Speaker 1: into how sexy Halloween costumes like all of that stuff, right,
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  Speaker 1: Strangers becoming family because they all happen to buy the
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  Speaker 1: same colored T shirt and you came out the other
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  Speaker 1: side like spiritually orange. At least for a couple hours,
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  Speaker 1: it was pretty cool to see, pretty cool to see.
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• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Well, same thing as weed Man's net worth Absolutely nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Weed Man is halfway between New York and Chicago. That's
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  Speaker 1: what does weed Man like? What does weed Man like
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  Speaker 1: climbing stairs? So why does he like climbing stairs?
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: Why? Because it means he's getting higher? And it's Michael
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  Speaker 3: Wow? Really?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, weed Man is credited with lighting the very
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• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Why was weed Man excited for the Tartan Army coming
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  Speaker 3: Why do you know what that is? By the way,
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: the Tartan Army.
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  Speaker 1: No, okay, big world, big World Cup fit anyway, because
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  Speaker 1: they are bringing bags and pipes.
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  Speaker 3: That's Brendan from Boston. It'd be funny if you knew
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  Speaker 3: that what they were.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Did you know that weed Man was a weed Man
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  Speaker 1: was struck all all at once by clarinet and a
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  Speaker 1: tuba and a bunch of a bunch of these things.
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  Speaker 3: How about that? Really? Yeah?
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, apparently it was an orchestrated hit weed Man. It
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: was an orchestrated hit. That's incota. I butchered that, but
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: that's incota. Did you hear that weed Man will challenge
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  Speaker 1: Joey Chestnut next weekend?
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  Speaker 3: Oh not yes, next weekend at the annual hot Dog
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  Speaker 3: eating contest on Coney Island. Wow?
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  Speaker 2: Really?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah?
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, apparently you've got high expectations but also afraid you
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  Speaker 1: might ride the vomit comet.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: So Tom Tom.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: From Indiana sent that one in What does weed Man's
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: summer motto or what should weed Man's summer motto be
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: without his teeth. What sun's out? Gums out? That's right, baby,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: gums out. Watch out, ladies, the gums are out. When
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: does weed Man hippie love going to the beach.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: Way high tide high tie.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: That's Darryl Darryl on the Ozarks. Why doesn't weed Man
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: hippie smoke joints anymore? Why he only likes gummies? That's it,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: he only likes gummies. What type of motor home?
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: What type of.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Motor homes weed Man always wanted? What a whino bago
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• 26:53
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Now they're calling him weed Man gimpi. They're calling
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: him for some reason. That's a circle, Todd the comedian.
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  Speaker 3: Why did we Man get in trouble with the Feds?
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Why you were charged with high treason from Mike the
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  Speaker 1: And then poly Du. He said, hey, Ben, I'm confused
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  Speaker 3: And I said, how are you, poly D? How are you.
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  Speaker 1: Confused this thing's been going on? He said, no, no, Ben,
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  Speaker 1: the FIFA World Cup. We talked about it earlier. But
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  Speaker 1: if you missed the games, we had in Group D
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  Speaker 1: turk Ge or whatever it's called turk II, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know anyway, music call the Turkey when I was growing up.
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  Speaker 1: They beat USA three to two, so USA loss.
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  Speaker 3: They used load management. We had really my favorite game.
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  Speaker 1: Zero zero the Assis, the Aussie mufft it, Australia and
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  Speaker 1: Paraguay tied.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody scored. Group D.
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  Speaker 1: There was that you had the Netherlands over Tunisia three
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: to one, domination situation. The Swedes and Japan.
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  Speaker 3: Tied at one. That was in Group F.
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  Speaker 1: We had the Ivory Coast, the Ivory Coast over Caraco
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  Speaker 1: to nothing.
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  Speaker 3: And I believe Ecuador knocked out Germany two to one
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  Speaker 3: or beat them anyway.
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  Speaker 1: So those are some of the scores from the World
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  Speaker 1: Cup and you can watch all the games coming up
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  Speaker 3: Sports one or just five. It's called Fox one. They
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this out. Don't bear the lead, my man.
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  Speaker 1: We got trade action in the end. Be a little
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  Speaker 1: pro bouncy ball for you. Yeah, yesterday's rumor, today's reality.
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  Speaker 1: It's the mantram we had in the news room at
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  Speaker 1: the website I worked at back in the day. So
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  Speaker 1: we learned that the only the only professional sports team
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: named after a flying insect. The team called the Charlotte Hornets,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: have decommissioned lamellow ball. They've said bye bye to LaMelo ball.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: They also traded someone named Josh Green to the Timbers
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: for nas Reed and a duffel bag of picks. Charlotte
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  Speaker 1: gets not one, not two, but three first round pick
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: swaps the swap swap swap. They get one unprotected first
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: round pick like many years from now, and a gaggle
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: of second round selections, all of those going to North Carolina.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: That is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: when we have a trade, what do we do? That's
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: right the question. Let's go to the judges scort cards.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: How do you grade the Wolves acquiring LaMelo.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: Ball from the Hornets.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: So I've got caterpillar, TikTok, and hologram, and we will
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: combine all of.
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  Speaker 3: These things together and we are going to steam roll
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: through the overnight. That's the plan. I'm gonna steam roll
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: through the overnight.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: So number one, I said, number one, number one line.
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  Speaker 1: We go right to the judges scorecards. We don't need
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: to look at the compu box stats.
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: Here.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: We scored this Timberwolves trade for the mellow ball ten
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: to seven in favor of Minnesota. Ten seven, not ten nine,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: not ten eight, ten seven advantage Minnesota. Now on an iPad,
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: they're the clear winner and overwhelming dominance in the trade.
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: It's a no brainer. They got the better player. Now.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: Minnesota traded a useful, competent backup big man nas Reed,
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: and they also gave away a bunch of fifty to
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: fifty raffle tickets to get a twenty five year old
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: All Star. In the past point guard, you were looking
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: for your co star. This guy, Tim Connelly, the big
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: executive in Minnesota, finally got his Caterpillar asphalt paver. And
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: that's LaMelo's job. Melo's job is simple. You have to
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: pay what road, the yellow brick road, so the ant man,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: an ant army can sprint down it to the NBA Finals.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Minnesota's been close the last couple of years. They've been
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: on the doorstep. They haven't been able to get past it.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: They've reworked the roster a couple of times. They got
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: rid of Karl Anthony Towns and we know what happened
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: to him, but I still don't rip him for that trade.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: The guy did nothing in playoff games in Minnesota.
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: They made the right move there.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: Just worked out for the next But listen for those
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: of you panicking, and there are some people any time
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: a trade HAPs oh my god, you gave up too
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: much draft capital.
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, shut up, shut up, you leser.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: For those panicking, also that the front court has now
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: been gutted, absolutely gutted in Minnesota like a sockeye salmon.
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: Take a time out, time out, time out on the court.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: Take a time out. Stop acting like Nasred was Moses Malone.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: You might even know who that is. They got update
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: my references. But he's good. It's two be determined if
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: he's got a higher level. Now it's possible in the
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: multiverse that Nasried goes to Charlotte and becomes a twenty
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: five point a game, twelve thirteen rebound guy.
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: He wasn't that in Minnesota.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: And I have long stated behind the powerful microphones of
• 36:19
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• 36:24
  Speaker 1: players grow on trees. You go out to the forest
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: and you just pick them off the trees. You can
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: always find another big lug to come in and average
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: twelve points in five rebounds a game. Franchise players grow
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: in laboratories guarded by the lasers. Do you understand the difference.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: You want to get a role player, you go to
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: the forest and you get your role player and just
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: pick it off a tree. You only can get these
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: franchise genetically modified players from laboratories. They are an endangered species. Now,
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: is LaMelo ball perfect? No, of course not. That's why
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: Charlotte traded him. There's some rough edges to his game.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: There are the injury bugaboo is legit. I just love
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: the fact that the Wolves. I was concerned when they
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: traded Julius Randall.
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: I was like, oh, here we go.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: There were people that thought a Rod would be a
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: tight ass and they wouldn't spend any money in that
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: ownership group. And so I love the fact that they're
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: all in and I actually have no skin in the game.
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: We do very well in Minnesota.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: We got a lot of great listeners who love the
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: Timberwolves and all that, and yeah, so that's good stuff.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: That's all good stuff. I just like the fact that
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: they're going for that. They've decided this is the person
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: that we need to take us over the top. You
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: got Ann Edwards as the anchor. And then you bring
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: in LaMelo ball and ant man and LaMelo. Now they
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: should click if you look at an iPad, they should
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: click like Smuckers, PB and J right, just sending Minnesota
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: on a deep finals run.
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: And all that.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Again you get out the caterpillar asked fault paper and
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: LaMelo paving the yellow.
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  Speaker 3: Brick road and all that.
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  Speaker 1: So they should be peanut butter and jelly PPNJ is
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  Speaker 1: what it should be. Of course, this is why they
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: play the games. It always looks good on a tablet.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: Then you actually have to play the games, and life
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  Speaker 1: gets involved, money gets involved, women.
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: Get involved, and all kinds of crazy stuff happens all
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  Speaker 3: right now page two.
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  Speaker 1: So focusing on the losing side of the alledger, we
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: go to the Charlotte side. Here's the question, what galaxy
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: serious question, what galaxy brain logic produced this LaMelo ball
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: trade from the hornet.
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  Speaker 3: Side of things.
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  Speaker 1: So we'd mentioned this in a previous episode of the
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: show that this was likely to happen in the next
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  Speaker 1: forty eight hours. It happened probably six hours after we
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: got done with the radio show, if not less time
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  Speaker 1: than that.
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  Speaker 3: I would love to see. I don't know about you.
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  Speaker 3: I would love to see the flow chart on the
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: LaMelo ball trade, the ven diagram, show me the math
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  Speaker 3: on this.
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  Speaker 1: Because essentially the Hornets have X size the Church of LaMelo.
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  Speaker 1: He's the fallen Angel. He's the fallen Angel. And Brandon
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  Speaker 1: Miller and kN Canipple one of the great names of
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: all time. Con Canipple and Brandon Miller generic Brandon Miller
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  Speaker 1: and con Canipple are now the chosen disciples at the
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: church in Charlotte. They're the ones being put on a
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: pedestal here as the co stars above the marquee, above
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: the marquee. And so it's more likely than not that
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: the Hornets looked at LaMelo and said fun player, exciting,
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: sell some tickets, put some stats up.
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  Speaker 3: However, not functional for our new vision.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: Our new vision, we're not building a franchise around the
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: TikTok alg rhythm.
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: Well why not? Now?
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: They're also they're gonna keep Kobe White around, so he's
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: gonna stick around there.
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  Speaker 3: He played very well coming over former Chicago Bowl and
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: all that they have.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: Nas reed, who's at this point a glue guy, nas
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: read glue guy who'll get a chance to do a
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: bit more a bit more in North Carolina. Now, as
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: for the hoarding of the draft picks, which many of
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: the Poindexter crowd love, I say, yahn.
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: Is what I say, just yawn.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: I'm not into pick humping.
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  Speaker 3: I am not right.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: Pick humping often leads to the perpetual whirlpool of mediocrity.
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: Right, You're just mediocre.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: You're just waiting to catch some kind of magical pixie
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: dust that usually.
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: Not out there. And if you never cash those picks.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: In for proven talent, you're doing something wrong. And draft
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: picks are a renewable resource. Every year you get assigned
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: more draft picks, right, so you always have those in
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: your back pocket.
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: There's new ones that come along, and.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: The good teams routinely trade them away to improve the roster.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: They are a tool in the toolbox. You don't have
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: to keep all your tools. You can trade them in
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: for some other tools and you don't have to be called.
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: The toolbag all right.
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: Final point to La La Land we go where the
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: once proud Laker franchise. They haven't won anything since Kobe Now.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: The Lakers went out, they had a lot of fanfare.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: They signed a former number one over lumber last offseason.
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: How's that working out? Well?
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: Now a year later, we have now been told the
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: Lakers have no intention, no intention of keeping DeAndre Ayton
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: on the roster pass this summer. That is, if he
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: opts in to his eight point one million dollar player
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: option for next season. DeAndre Ayton has that decision to make.
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  Speaker 1: If he does opt in, the Lakers will excommunicate him
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: from the franchise. The question, it was only one year
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: what went wrong for center DeAndre Ayton with the Lakers?
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: So this was a lap dance at the Deja Vus.
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: Lounge, is what?
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: This was the same thing that went sour in Phoenix
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: and started rotting in Portland happened here. The Suns questioned
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: the motivation, the motor of DeAndre Ayton. The Blazers also
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: questioned that part of his game, and the Lakers are like, Hey,
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: this guy's on island time.
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: He's on island time.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: He's not on you know, that's what like Dorko the
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: comedian's on island time. And so DeAndre just doesn't have
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: that extra level and at some point, at some point
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: he is the common denominator. Now that'll be his third
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: NBA team that wants nothing to do with him, and
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: every stop it's the same movie. It starts out with
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: the rasmatazz. Oh, this guy's so talented. He's got the
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: gift of the gods. He's got the id, the body type,
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: the whole thing. Oh, I got big frame, soft touch. Unfortunately,
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: he's got a much softer backbone, which is a problem
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: because that's when the game's beig in and DeAndre Ayton
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: is the only number one overall pick who looks like
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: a heavyweight and plays like he's auditioning for featherweight Fridays.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: His resume, if you dig deep enough, is a hologram.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: It is a hologram. It looks impressive until you get close.
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: Until you get close, there is no there there with
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: deandreaid and there's always another sucker. So whether he opts
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: in or does not opt in, someone will take him.
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: Someone will.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: I'm worried my Clippers will take him, because that's the
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: kind of guy they add add.
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: To their team.
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: I do not want him on the clips, but that's
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: what I'm thinking is gonna happen. But DeAndre, he did
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: not just fall out of the good graces of the Lakers.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: He ended up on Luca's knotty list. Yeah, Yeah, like
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: a malfunctioning elf on the shelf. He ended up there
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: DeAndre And so Luca is apparently, if you believe these
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: reports behind the scenes palace intrigue, Luca Doncik is not
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: convinced that he's the answer cause he's not struggling DeAndre
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: eight and with the game on the line, all of
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: a sudden, a hands of stone.
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: The work ethic legendarily bad.
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: So they've now got a hope that he doesn't opt in,
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: and if he does opt in, the Lakers have to
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: find a sucker to take him.
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: So we'll see if they can find a team.
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: If not, they can always call one eight hundred got junk,
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: and they'll pick up DeAndre eight and then haul him away.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: And so now Doncik is supposedly pushing skinny jeans Rob Polenka,
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: who I guess has lifetime employment for an A list center. Unfortunately,
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: there haven't been any real A list centers in the
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: NBA since the nineteen nineties, so I don't think a
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: kem Elijah On is going to walk through that door.
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: So go Shaquille O'Neal, got good luck on that. So
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: the names that they're wishing for are people like Walker
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: Kessler and Jalen Duran, who had the greatest choke job
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: in playoff history for the Pistons.