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Thursday Thunderdome w/Buster Scher · The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome to The Favorites, the podcast from the Volume Podcast Network.
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Speaker 1: It's Thursday. That means it's time to enter the Thursday
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Speaker 1: Thunderdome Doom. On today's show, our special guests will compete
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Speaker 1: alongside my co host, my bff, my companion, professional sports
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Speaker 1: better Simon Hunter, in an epic test of wagers in
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Speaker 1: which That's quickly made this show the first universally beloved
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Speaker 1: media product since Here's Sometimes you want to go where
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Speaker 1: everybody knows your name. Hello Simon, Hello Chad. It's good
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Speaker 1: to be here, buddy. Good news for you. As you know,
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Speaker 1: my wife has taken very little interest in my career,
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Speaker 1: despite my ridiculous success as a premier executive, is the
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Speaker 1: ESPN author of seven books, as someone who was part
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Speaker 1: of the team that founded this company and then sold it,
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Speaker 1: as I remind everybody for two and forty million dollars,
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Speaker 1: does not care. But yesterday she was done listening to
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Speaker 1: a podcast when I happened to be downstairs, and she
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Speaker 1: looked at me and she goes, what's that funny podcast
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Speaker 1: you do? I heard one of the episodes you made
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Speaker 1: me listen to while we were driving, and I'm like,
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Speaker 1: the Favorites the Thunderdome. She goes, yeah, I could listen
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Speaker 1: to that, and then as she goes in to look
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Speaker 1: forward in Google, she goes to type in the podcast.
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Speaker 1: She goes, wait a second, what did you say it is?
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Speaker 1: Is it behind the Bets? I'm like, are you kidding me?
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Speaker 1: Behind the Bats the podcast that I started ESPN has
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Speaker 1: not been the name of this podcast for years. I
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Speaker 1: just gave you the name. But the good news is
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Speaker 1: all I take from this is she called it funny,
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Speaker 1: so we made it where this is us peaking right now?
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Speaker 1: We got some heat serious. I'll tell you what, Chad.
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Speaker 1: I've had people listen to the show The thunder Dome Edician.
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Speaker 1: They love it, so it's it's not surprising that she
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Speaker 1: would love the show. Well listen, speaking of heat, your
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Speaker 1: first challenger, I am super excited to get this guy
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Speaker 1: on because he has built social media empires from nothing
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Speaker 1: that I am completely in totally jealous of. Your first
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Speaker 1: challenger is an NBA expert, the host of the Buster
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Speaker 1: Show podcast, and the founder of Instagram's Hoops Nation. There
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Speaker 1: are no off days for this man. Welcome to the show. Buster, Sure,
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Speaker 1: how are you? Thank you so much for having me?
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Speaker 1: It is great to have you on the show. I
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Speaker 1: gotta know, before like we even get into it, explained
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Speaker 1: to people what you've done and how you've done it,
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Speaker 1: because what do you like? So I started when I
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Speaker 1: was third team. Fortunately I'm a little older than that
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Speaker 1: now I'm twenty. But I started blogging about fantasy basketball
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Speaker 1: when I was thirteen, originally on Facebook. Started to learn
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Speaker 1: the algorithms and how to edit videos when I was
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Speaker 1: fourteen or fifteen. Simultaneously started doing play by play broadcasting
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Speaker 1: for local high school sports. So started with j V
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Speaker 1: girls field hockey and slowly made my way up from
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Speaker 1: that to j V girls soccer, and at that point
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Speaker 1: that that jump is the biggest jump I've ever had,
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Speaker 1: by the way. But kept doing that. When I was seventeen,
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Speaker 1: won best in the country for play by play broadcasting,
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Speaker 1: and then just kept on building out Hoops Nation, you know,
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Speaker 1: sort of in Lieuid saying that you know, you you
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Speaker 1: mentioned there no days offseas, you know, just consistency and
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Speaker 1: keeping it up and starting to build a team, and
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Speaker 1: you know, making nice and friends with the NBA and
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Speaker 1: and other professional leagues just allowed that and also being
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Speaker 1: early on new platforms, you know, TikTok is a good example,
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Speaker 1: and in the first three months being on the platform
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Speaker 1: of growing a million followers a month, which which is
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Speaker 1: always fun, and just trying to create my dream media
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Speaker 1: outlet because as I realized very quickly and early on,
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Speaker 1: every major media company was not run by a sixteen
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Speaker 1: year old, probably for the better, but I thought that
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Speaker 1: there was room for something like that to exist, just
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Speaker 1: from a different lens. Well, listen, you've created my dream
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Speaker 1: media outlet, and I feel like you would get along
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Speaker 1: great with our next contestant, because he too, is also
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Speaker 1: all about following his passion and doing it his own way.
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Speaker 1: He is out to avenge his April lost here in
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Speaker 1: the Thunderdome. He is also our first repeat victim. He's
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Speaker 1: Action Network NBA expert, alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania,
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Speaker 1: former DJ boxing of Ficionado, currently falling in love with
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Speaker 1: the Phoenix Suns, Philadelphia's finest Mr Raheem Palmer. How today
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Speaker 1: are you bringing your A game against it? I'm always
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Speaker 1: bringing my game. They just got lucky last time. Well,
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Speaker 1: they've also had helped from me, because don't forget, at
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Speaker 1: the end of the day, I'm always rooting for Simon Hunter,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to tilt the game in his direction. I
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Speaker 1: want him to win desperately. He's my beff. Here's how
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Speaker 1: the game is played today. You'll answer two kinds of questions. First,
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Speaker 1: traditional trivia questions about sports, sports betting, the world at large. Second,
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Speaker 1: completely subjective and totally ass and I open ended questions
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Speaker 1: or prompts that I alone will judge to accumulate points.
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Speaker 1: You must answer the trivia questions correctly and also convinced
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Speaker 1: me that your responses to those open ended prompts are
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Speaker 1: better than the responses from your opponents, because, just like
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Speaker 1: sports betting, you can't get him. All right, let's begin
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Speaker 1: part on offensive versus offensive offenses exploded across the NBA
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Speaker 1: all year, and the regular season ended as the best
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Speaker 1: in NBA history for two point shooting, three point shooting,
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Speaker 1: and foul shooting. But I won't ask you about famous
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Speaker 1: NBA offensive performances. I'll ask you about famously offensive NBA performances.
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Speaker 1: Simon After a two thou ten loss to the Celtics,
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Speaker 1: the Pistons Charlie Villanueva accused Kevin Garnett of calling him
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Speaker 1: quote a cancer patient end quote. The offensive remark allegedly
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Speaker 1: related to villan Aueva having this autoimmune condition, the primary
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Speaker 1: symptom of which is hair loss on the scalp and face.
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Speaker 1: What is the name of the condition? I do know
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Speaker 1: the name. I have a friend whose brother has a
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Speaker 1: like terrible these scientific names. How about I'll give you.
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Speaker 1: I'll give you a hint. It starts with alo alopecia.
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Speaker 1: I'm giving it to you, not Mitchell. We're giving it
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Speaker 1: to him because he got it right away. He got
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Speaker 1: as soon as I gave him the hint. He got
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Speaker 1: it right away. Raheem. Before a Pacers Celtics game held
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Speaker 1: the day after Christmas, Indiana's chuck person, nicknamed the Rifleman,
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Speaker 1: told Larry Bird he was about to quote go on
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Speaker 1: a hunting trip. Bird responded that he had a Christmas
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Speaker 1: present for him, True to his word. As the Celtics
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Speaker 1: pulled away, late Bird shot a three pointer in front
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Speaker 1: of the Indiana bench. With the ball still midflight, Bird
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Speaker 1: turned a person on the bench and told him quote
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Speaker 1: Mary fucking Christmas, just as the ball went in. This
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Speaker 1: bit of holiday blasphemy is likely the greatest ship talk
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Speaker 1: ever directed a chuck person who became the second most
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Speaker 1: famous chuck in NBA history, right behind his former college
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Speaker 1: teammate who became a dream teamer alongside Larry Bird. That's
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Speaker 1: Charles Barkley. Charles Berkeley, By the way, I will never
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Speaker 1: get tired of Larry bird trash talking stories. The other
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Speaker 1: day I was talking to my fourteen year old son
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Speaker 1: about great NBA players, and we were talking about Larry
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Speaker 1: Bird and why Larry Bird was still so beloved, and
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Speaker 1: I think part of it has to do with the
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Speaker 1: trash talking buster. Here's your question. Latrelle Spreewell committed one
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Speaker 1: of the most offensive actions in modern NBA history when
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Speaker 1: he choked this head coach of the Warriors during practice,
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Speaker 1: earning a sixty eight game suspension. Coach of the Warriors
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Speaker 1: whose name is initials, would you say he first name
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Speaker 1: is what is initials? Initials? As in something you wear
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Speaker 1: to bed at night? With that one, p J, p
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Speaker 1: J Carlissimo, ah before my basketball time. I don't know
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Speaker 1: where you think I was going with what you wear
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Speaker 1: to bed at night? It's Pj's man. All right, here's
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Speaker 1: the prompt. Let's play dare to compare. Dare to compare
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Speaker 1: based on how the NBA playoffs have gone thus far,
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Speaker 1: compare any of the participating teams through a nine nineties
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Speaker 1: film Simon You Can Go First. Literally right popped in
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Speaker 1: my mind was Shawshank Redemption and him crawling down that
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Speaker 1: big tunnel of ship to get out of the prison.
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Speaker 1: And it just reminds me of the Knicks fans. They've
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Speaker 1: just been crawling down the sworde of ship for about
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Speaker 1: ten years, and last night you kind of felt it
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Speaker 1: where it was like they finally broke out and like
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Speaker 1: they're they're free. They gotta playoff, win at home, full
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Speaker 1: st at um. It just I don't know the Knicks.
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Speaker 1: The Knicks remind me of Charles Shank Redemption, of everything
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Speaker 1: they've gone through and they're finally at the end of
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Speaker 1: the tunnel. Wow, that is a really really good answer, Raheem,
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Speaker 1: your next I'm going with the usual suspects. Verbo can't
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Speaker 1: you know he said the greatest trick the Devil ever
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Speaker 1: put was convincing the world he didn't exist. That is
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Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Bucks right now. I mean people who have
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Speaker 1: slept on this team because they fizzled out of the
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Speaker 1: playoffs the last two years. I mean they're dominating the heat,
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Speaker 1: the Heat actually had seventy percent of the public on
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Speaker 1: them in game two. They have seventy percent of the
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Speaker 1: public on them tonight. People are still sleeping on this
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Speaker 1: Bucks team. They're gonna face a Brooklyn Nets team in
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Speaker 1: the second round, and everybody thinks that the Nets are
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Speaker 1: gonna dominate them. But I think Janice is going to
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Speaker 1: be the best player in that series. Janice is looking
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Speaker 1: like Kaiser. So say, that's how I look at it,
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Speaker 1: usual suspects. That is really good for a couple of reasons.
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Speaker 1: Let me unpack this. Number one, I completely agree with you.
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Speaker 1: I had the Bucks coming out of the East to
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Speaker 1: Janice playing Kaiser, so's that is next level that That's good, Okay,
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Speaker 1: buster alright. So my preface to this is, you know,
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Speaker 1: from the Knicks having gone from terrible to amazing and
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Speaker 1: nobody thought that they could do it, Happy Gilmore is
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Speaker 1: the is the movie. He's been the talk of the
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Speaker 1: course today with these amazingly bizarre behavior because there's no
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Speaker 1: reason that the Nick should be doing what they're doing
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Speaker 1: right now, but somehow they are, and that that is
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Speaker 1: why I choose that movie. Here's what's interesting. You guys
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Speaker 1: all chose possibly three of the most classic, most watched
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Speaker 1: movies from that decade. So even if like it wasn't
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Speaker 1: your era of movies, you totally found the right movies
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Speaker 1: to choose. This is one of the hardest decisions I've
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Speaker 1: have to make Normally, like one person gives a terrible,
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Speaker 1: terrible answer. I gotta go with Happy Gilmore because Happy
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Speaker 1: Gilmour to me, personifies the nineties and I do think
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Speaker 1: like having the Knicks be the answer, uh is the
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Speaker 1: most appropriate thing. Also, Adam Sandler, huge hoopster and Adam
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Speaker 1: Sandler on the court for Knicks games courtside in the
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Speaker 1: nineties is the most classic mash up there can be. Therefore, Buster,
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Speaker 1: you win the prompt Nice job, buddy, that's your home?
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Speaker 1: Are you too good for your home? Part two Experience Matters.
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Speaker 1: Phil Nicholson won the PGA Championship last weekend, becoming the
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Speaker 1: oldest major champion in golf history. His impressive victory calls
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Speaker 1: to mind other noted athletes who defeated Father Time on
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Speaker 1: their way to incredible athletic achievements. Buster olympian Derra Torres
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Speaker 1: became the oldest swimmer to earn a place on a
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Speaker 1: US Olympic team after qualifying at the age of forty one,
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Speaker 1: approved doubters wrong, winning silver medal in all three of
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Speaker 1: her events at the two thousand eight Summer Games held
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Speaker 1: in this city. Oh two thousand and eight was um
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Speaker 1: it was in Beijing, Beijing, Raheem in nineteen picture Satchel
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Speaker 1: Page through three shutout innings against the Red Sox. The
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Speaker 1: Athletics had signed Satchel for just one game, even though
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Speaker 1: he was fifty nine years old and hadn't pitched in
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Speaker 1: the majors in over a decade. The A's moved to
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Speaker 1: Oakland three years later, and we're based in this city
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Speaker 1: when Satchel Page pitched for them, the same city that
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Speaker 1: celebrated a two thousand fifteen World Series win. Um, I'm
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Speaker 1: a gas Kansas City, Kansas City. Very well done, Simon.
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Speaker 1: At the age of forty five, this boxer knocked out
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Speaker 1: Michael Moore to become the oldest heavyweight champion in history.
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Speaker 1: In that same year, he began endorsing a small cooking
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Speaker 1: appliance in that deal that eventually made him over two
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Speaker 1: hundred million dollars, far more than he earned in thirty
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Speaker 1: years of boxing. Yeah. Fun fact, the Hulk actually passed
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Speaker 1: on making the Foreman grill. So you're talking about George Foreman. Wow,
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Speaker 1: were they going to call it the fringno grill? I
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Speaker 1: don't know. I just remember reading that that like he
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Speaker 1: was one of the first people they pitched like two
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Speaker 1: years beforehand, and they just like, all right, we'll get
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Speaker 1: someone more famous on him because he like obviously passing
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Speaker 1: a good opportunity. Heartbreaker. I gotta tell you, when I
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Speaker 1: moved to New York in the nineties, my kitchen was
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Speaker 1: a galley kitchen that you couldn't even put your like
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Speaker 1: my wingspan, which is not that big, could not extend
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Speaker 1: in the kitchen. I had a George Foreman grill. Used
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Speaker 1: it NonStop, freaking loved it. The thing was a miracle
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Speaker 1: they hold up. I think we still have had the
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Speaker 1: same one for like twenty years. Still works. Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: love it. Cook some turkey burgers on that thing. It
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Speaker 1: was amazing. Alright. Part two here's the prompt. Are you
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Speaker 1: ready if you could become the oldest person to do
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Speaker 1: something in the sports world, what would you choose and why?
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Speaker 1: Raheem Europe first? Oh yeah, I mean yeah, I just
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Speaker 1: handed on it. I would love to become the oldest
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Speaker 1: boxing champion. I mean um, but not Hopkins won a championship.
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Speaker 1: George Foreman knocked out Michael Moore at forty six. So
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Speaker 1: I would love, you know, when I retire from the
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Speaker 1: Action Network, when I'm fifty, I'm gonna get into the ring.
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Speaker 1: My boxing name is gonna be Rod Jones Jr. And
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna start knocking people out. Here's what's fucking sad
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Speaker 1: as the fifty year old on the call for you
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Speaker 1: to think, Yeah, when I'm old and I'm fifty and
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Speaker 1: I'm retiring, that's what I want to do. Fuck you
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Speaker 1: all right, buster your next. When I picture, you know,
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Speaker 1: an older fella doing something, you know, I think part
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Speaker 1: of it is about what's like visually funny, and the
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Speaker 1: other part is like about what's impressive. And I think
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Speaker 1: a perfect combination of that would be to be a
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Speaker 1: slam dunk champion, the oldest slam dunk champ. You know
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Speaker 1: that there have been the shortest, there have been, the best,
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Speaker 1: there have been you know, lots of people who have
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Speaker 1: done it, But to be the oldest by a lot,
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Speaker 1: that would be cool. That would be amazing because I
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Speaker 1: could see, you know, as someone who's older, someone out
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Speaker 1: there with their expects, their kneepads, they're high tube socks,
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Speaker 1: maybe pulling up some Chuck Taylor's. Then that person can
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Speaker 1: actually jump out of the gym buster. I like where
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Speaker 1: you're going. And also it didn't impugne my age the
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Speaker 1: way Raheem did, so that also wins you some extra credit. Simon,
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Speaker 1: you're next, and if people are I don't know, work
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Speaker 1: for Peter please, this is just a fictional game show.
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Speaker 1: I actually would want to do this, just people always
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Speaker 1: get mad at me about this stuff. I would love
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Speaker 1: to be like a seventy nine year old matador where
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Speaker 1: it's like a bull can kill me at any moment,
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Speaker 1: but I'm also in the ring with a bull at
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Speaker 1: that age. I just feel like that would just be
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Speaker 1: a legendary visually because you see these guys, you make
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Speaker 1: one false step that get tossed in the air like
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Speaker 1: thirty ft. So it would just be hilarious to see
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Speaker 1: some old dude in the ring with a bull. You're
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Speaker 1: gonna win, because that is an amazing answer. And the
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Speaker 1: idea of a seventy year eighty year old being in
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Speaker 1: the ring with a bull, and the visceral feeling of
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Speaker 1: knowing that this person doesn't have the reflexes to get
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Speaker 1: out of the way at any moment. True story, true story.
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Speaker 1: I actually did run with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain
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Speaker 1: when I was in college and I was in Europe
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Speaker 1: between my junior and senior year. My buddy and I went,
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Speaker 1: took like an overnight train to get there. Showed up
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Speaker 1: in town. The town is full of just people dressed
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Speaker 1: in white with these red sashes, puke all over their
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Speaker 1: bodies because nobody sleeps. Everyone just drinks the entire night.
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Speaker 1: And then because you get up to run with the
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Speaker 1: bulls at eight in the morning, and so I am
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Speaker 1: being held up by my buddy, literally held up, and
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Speaker 1: everyone in the very small alley where the race starts
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Speaker 1: is screaming ole la la, and then they just they
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Speaker 1: they blow the horn. The bulls come out and you
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Speaker 1: are sprinting and you are lucky, lucky if you make
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Speaker 1: it out of there alive. You get into the bull ring,
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Speaker 1: and I'm in the bull ring and like I get
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Speaker 1: out of the main area and then there's like a
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Speaker 1: little circle area like a paddock that the bulls can
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Speaker 1: that you can get away. Someone open to the gate
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Speaker 1: of the paddock and it's between the bull ring and
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Speaker 1: the stands, and they let the bull inside, and the
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Speaker 1: bull is coming my way, and I reach up and
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Speaker 1: I try to grab onto the railings to lift myself
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Speaker 1: into the stands, and people start hitting my hands to
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Speaker 1: knock me off because they wanted me to see me
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Speaker 1: get hit by the ball. And at the last second,
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Speaker 1: someone distracted the bull and the bull went the other way.
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Speaker 1: It's like gets right out of like something like Star
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Speaker 1: Wars where they're like literally throwing in the kids with
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Speaker 1: that monster. It's exactly what it is, you know what
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Speaker 1: it is. It's like, uh Gladiator exactly. Yeah. I was
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Speaker 1: Russell Crowe. Yeah, I have no pity for it. You
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Speaker 1: chose to go there. You chose to roam the bulls.
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Speaker 1: Those people were doing you a favor. They said, you
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Speaker 1: want the bulls, Chad, We'll give you the bulls so
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Speaker 1: you can't. I did. Everyone apps to Europe like that summer.
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Speaker 1: They keep a diary. I did right this. In ten
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Speaker 1: years this may, I may look back and think this
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Speaker 1: was the greatest thing I've ever done, or who was
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Speaker 1: the stupidest thing I've ever done. I'm still on the
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Speaker 1: fence to be honest, all right, Part three the Old
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Speaker 1: Switcher Room. Late last week, the Jacksonville Jaguars signed Tim
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Speaker 1: Tebow with plans to convert the former Heisman Trophy winning
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Speaker 1: quarterback into a tight end. It sounds like an insane plan,
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Speaker 1: but it's a good reason to look back and talk
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Speaker 1: about some other famous athlete two switched positions buster In
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Speaker 1: late two thousand nine, This n C Double A and
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Speaker 1: NBA champion was a six three high school guard on
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Speaker 1: Chicago's South Side with zero scholarship offers. Less than ten
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Speaker 1: months later, he was six inches taller, converted to a
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Speaker 1: big man, and was the top rated high school recruit
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Speaker 1: of his two thousand eleven class. Who was Who is
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Speaker 1: this player? Said Anthony Davis. Anthony Davis Simon. One of
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Speaker 1: the most successful positions switches in history came from this
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Speaker 1: lightly recruited high school tight end who recorded eight catches
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Speaker 1: for seventy seven yards as a freshman at Central Michigan
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Speaker 1: before transferring to a Big ten program and switching to defense.
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Speaker 1: This player has since played in five Pro Bowls as
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Speaker 1: a defensive end and has twice led the NFL in sacks.
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Speaker 1: It's j J. Wat Right, Yes, j J. Watt. Thank you, sir.
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Speaker 1: We're heam USA Today's High School Player of the Year.
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Speaker 1: In this then St. Louis Cardinals picture developed a devastating
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Speaker 1: case of the yips. In the two thousand n l
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Speaker 1: c S. He'd go on to switch positions and by
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Speaker 1: two thousand seven was a serviceable major league out fielder.
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Speaker 1: And it hit a home run in his first start.
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Speaker 1: I have no clue. I'm sorry, Rick Ankiel. Wow, I've
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Speaker 1: never heard of this guy in my life. Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: think he played for what the Cardinals. I kind of
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Speaker 1: remember him from, like when he came back and like that,
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Speaker 1: this whole crazy story of him even be able to
21:42
Speaker 1: make it back to the major leagues, crazy crazy story,
21:45
Speaker 1: crazy story. Buster. Well, then then I don't feel bad
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Speaker 1: that you missed it, because you weren't that close. Buster.
21:52
Speaker 1: This fourteen year NBA veteran was so famously adept at
21:56
Speaker 1: switching positions that the sports band of Phoenix, Arizona wrote
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Speaker 1: a song about the six eight Frenchmen shortly after he
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Speaker 1: won the NBA's Most Improved Player award in two thousand six.
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Speaker 1: French player who won Most Improved in two thousand and six, Yes,
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Speaker 1: do you know what year? He was drafted. Is that
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Speaker 1: a hint? I can ask for two thousand three? A
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Speaker 1: two thousand three? The frenchness is throwing me off. Oh Man, Boris,
22:37
Speaker 1: he frightens the opposition. Boris, you can play a position.
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Speaker 1: The Sons. You know you're introl because Boris did get
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Speaker 1: a trouble double Bors got it spurs right all right. Simon,
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Speaker 1: in the middle of a long and successful Major League
23:04
Speaker 1: Baseball career, Brewers shortstop Robin Yount change positions and went
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Speaker 1: on to win a second MVP award as an outfielder.
23:15
Speaker 1: Yunt is also the face of Robin Aid, a beloved
23:19
Speaker 1: fundraising lemonade still sold in stores across Wisconsin's reminiscent of
23:25
Speaker 1: another athlete inspired beverage, the iced Tea and Lemonade concoction,
23:30
Speaker 1: unofficially named for this Hall of Famer Palmer. I don't
23:36
Speaker 1: old Palmer. Simon is having his best performance ever in
23:41
Speaker 1: the trivia category. Normally you're very good in the prompts,
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Speaker 1: really well in the trivia raheem. After a successful high
23:50
Speaker 1: school career at quarterback, this future Super Bowl MVP and
23:55
Speaker 1: Dancing with the Stars champion was converted to wide out
23:59
Speaker 1: at the UNI Versity of Georgia was named first team
24:03
Speaker 1: All SEC before the Steelers drafted him in nineteen Um
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Speaker 1: he said, Super Bowl m v P Yeah, um is
24:14
Speaker 1: it um? Santonio Holmes hines Ward, Oh my god, wow, God,
24:21
Speaker 1: he wants to MVP hines Ward. I did too. By
24:25
Speaker 1: the way, I can't even remember, which must have been two.
24:28
Speaker 1: Don't remember you don't remember the trick play? You had
24:31
Speaker 1: a trick playing. In the following year, Randall l did
24:33
Speaker 1: a trick play. It was like Picksburgh just had wide receivers.
24:36
Speaker 1: I could throw bombs. Yes, I totally remember that. As
24:40
Speaker 1: in Biana Lum, I remember Antoine Randell LL Part three.
24:45
Speaker 1: Here's the prompt. New Jaguars coach Urban Meyer hopes reuniting
24:49
Speaker 1: with Tim Tebow will cause a late career renaissance for
24:53
Speaker 1: his former college quarterback. And I just want to say
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Speaker 1: one thing to the fans and everybody and get a nation.
25:01
Speaker 1: I promise you one thing. A lot of good will
25:03
Speaker 1: come out of this. God bless your job is to
25:06
Speaker 1: take any past his prime professional athlete. Sell me on
25:12
Speaker 1: how reuniting with his college coach would jump start his career.
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Speaker 1: Raheem Europe First. I'm gonna go with Reggie Bush. I
25:21
Speaker 1: think if he reunited, reunited with Pete Carroll, it would
25:24
Speaker 1: jump and start his career. For one, I mean there's
25:26
Speaker 1: a couple of reasons. For one. Reggie Bush and the
25:29
Speaker 1: modern NFL would be incredible. Um, I don't think he's
25:32
Speaker 1: lost too much of his speed. I think, you know,
25:34
Speaker 1: things opened up a little bit more in this modern NFL.
25:38
Speaker 1: He would kind of be like a poor man's Alvacmar.
25:40
Speaker 1: But also, you know, one of the biggest complaints for
25:44
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll throughout this this whole era is that he
25:47
Speaker 1: doesn't let Russell Wilson cook. And he's not letting Russell
25:51
Speaker 1: Wilson cooking. He's giving Rasha Penny and you know, Chris
25:55
Speaker 1: Carson and all these guys carries getting them the ball.
25:57
Speaker 1: He's gonna get the ball to Reggie Bush. So I
25:59
Speaker 1: think Reggie Bush would you know, he came back, even
26:03
Speaker 1: at the age of thirty six. I think he'd make
26:05
Speaker 1: a little impact because I don't think he's lost much seat. Wow,
26:08
Speaker 1: the idea that Reggie Bush is only thirty six and
26:11
Speaker 1: has been out of the league for that long, I
26:13
Speaker 1: could totally see this. This This doesn't feel impossible in
26:19
Speaker 1: any way. I like it, Simon, you go next. Obviously,
26:23
Speaker 1: I really wanted to go with coach k and some
26:25
Speaker 1: duke player, but no duke players really work on the NBA,
26:28
Speaker 1: so I had to kind of skip that one. So
26:30
Speaker 1: for me, it's kind of where I'm thinking back to Oregon.
26:34
Speaker 1: They were so incredible at chip Kelly man and like
26:36
Speaker 1: that offense was I mean just overtook the whole college scene,
26:41
Speaker 1: and even when he came to the Eagles, chip Kelly
26:43
Speaker 1: was pretty good. I just feel like Marcus Mariota the
26:46
Speaker 1: only quarterback I've ever seen throw a touchdown to himself
26:48
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. He's got potential and it never really
26:51
Speaker 1: worked out where it's like he just never really had
26:54
Speaker 1: a coach I optimize his skill set. So I would
26:56
Speaker 1: love if Chip Kelly came back in NFL and had
26:58
Speaker 1: like a team with Mariota, we d see that old
27:00
Speaker 1: Oregon offense. So that definitely be my nomination. That is
27:04
Speaker 1: really interesting too. It's so it's crazy that combinations you
27:10
Speaker 1: guys are thinking of their you and rehieve they're so
27:14
Speaker 1: Parallelster I'm going big, all right, he's a little past
27:20
Speaker 1: his prime. I have been a supporter of said player
27:23
Speaker 1: for a very long time. He is a national champion
27:27
Speaker 1: collegiate player from the famous two thousand and three draft class.
27:33
Speaker 1: Carmelo Anthony and his former Syracuse head coach that Combo
27:39
Speaker 1: is the only Combo and Carmelo Anthony's entire career that
27:43
Speaker 1: has won at the highest level, and they did it
27:47
Speaker 1: an incredible fashion. Teams have been trying to get coach
27:50
Speaker 1: Jim to Uh to come coach in the league. Hasn't done.
27:54
Speaker 1: It hasn't worked. If that were to happen, the energy
27:57
Speaker 1: would be insane and inevitably create a really good team.
28:02
Speaker 1: You know, in Round one with the prompts, I was
28:06
Speaker 1: leaning towards Raheem when he talked about usual suspects and
28:11
Speaker 1: the Bucks, which I loved, and then you came in
28:14
Speaker 1: over the top with Happy Gilmore and right now I've
28:18
Speaker 1: been loving the idea of Reggie Bush and Pete Carroll
28:22
Speaker 1: and then you give me Mellow and Beheim. Mellow to
28:24
Speaker 1: me one of the most interesting NBA careers because he
28:31
Speaker 1: went from being the guy who everyone thinks is this
28:33
Speaker 1: superstar score but can't win in Denver to being a
28:37
Speaker 1: guy who was a score but was selfish and the
28:40
Speaker 1: wrong player for the Knicks, to being a guy who
28:43
Speaker 1: was beloved for how he did on the international stage,
28:46
Speaker 1: to a guy who's out of the league and now
28:48
Speaker 1: making his bones as sort of the savvy veteran with
28:51
Speaker 1: the Portland's team that is always on the cusp. Such
28:54
Speaker 1: a mere curial figure. The problem for me on that
28:57
Speaker 1: one Beeheim seems like the big gist asshole in the world.
29:01
Speaker 1: Like the way he talks to people, the way he
29:05
Speaker 1: treats media, how dismissive he is. I just don't like him.
29:10
Speaker 1: You're an idiot and really disloyal person. A few other
29:15
Speaker 1: things I could add, but I'm not gonna go there.
29:18
Speaker 1: I can't give it to you because it's a personal animus.
29:21
Speaker 1: It's a great answer answer you definitely come in a
29:25
Speaker 1: strong second. I'm giving it Raheim. So right now, this
29:29
Speaker 1: is exciting because right now, going into the final round,
29:33
Speaker 1: Raheem is at three, Buster is at three, Simon is
29:38
Speaker 1: at three. This is fantastic. We have the potential for
29:41
Speaker 1: a runoff. The topic is NBA most improved player. First,
29:46
Speaker 1: close your eyes, hold up the number of fingers of
29:50
Speaker 1: what you would like to risk in your final wager amount.
29:54
Speaker 1: So just close your eyes and hold up your fingers
29:56
Speaker 1: one to three. Got it okay. Julius Randall of the
30:01
Speaker 1: New York Knicks was just named the NBA's Most Improved Player.
30:06
Speaker 1: He's trying to become the fourth recipient of the award
30:09
Speaker 1: to win an NBA championship during his career. Here are
30:13
Speaker 1: the other three. The first was the aforementioned Boris Dia,
30:17
Speaker 1: who won the award in two thousand six with the
30:18
Speaker 1: Sons and won a title with the Spurs in two
30:20
Speaker 1: thousand fourteen. The latest was Pascal Siakam, who won the
30:23
Speaker 1: award and a title in two thousand nineteen. The third
30:27
Speaker 1: was this player, this player, who won the award in
30:31
Speaker 1: two thousand eleven. He became the first player in almost
30:35
Speaker 1: thirty years to post a thirty point thirty rebound game,
30:38
Speaker 1: and his fifty three game double double streak was the
30:42
Speaker 1: longest since the A B A n B A merger.
30:46
Speaker 1: He was not selected as an All Star that season,
30:50
Speaker 1: despite leading the NBA and rebounds per game, but was
30:55
Speaker 1: chosen by the commissioner as an injury replacement for Yemming.
30:59
Speaker 1: A few season mons later, he'd be traded to an
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Speaker 1: Eastern Conference power, where he'd secure his first and only
31:06
Speaker 1: championship and where he remains to this day. Who was
31:09
Speaker 1: the two thousand eleven most improved player in the NBA.
31:25
Speaker 1: It's a curious thing. Make a one man another man
31:30
Speaker 1: sing buster you like? My first inclination was la Marcus
31:45
Speaker 1: Aldridge because the guy get you know, but he hasn't
31:49
Speaker 1: he hasn't won, but he's on the Spurs now. No,
31:51
Speaker 1: I can't think of who it is. You have lost
31:55
Speaker 1: two points, you are down to one point. Raheem, what
31:59
Speaker 1: is your answer? Kevin Love? Come on, Kevin Love? Six points?
32:06
Speaker 1: Has six points? Simon? What's your answer? I got it?
32:10
Speaker 1: I got Kevin Love. I can't believe it. You got
32:13
Speaker 1: your cars? Grand finale answer? Raheem and Simon both have
32:19
Speaker 1: six points? Do you guys deserve this one? I have
32:22
Speaker 1: nothing to say congratulations. That was a good question. I
32:25
Speaker 1: was tricky because I was like, who the hell won
32:27
Speaker 1: a championship and they're still on that team because it's
32:30
Speaker 1: the East, and I was like, oh, hey, Kevin Love,
32:32
Speaker 1: you've just been sitting there for like six years. Now, Well,
32:35
Speaker 1: Matt Mitchell, we need a runoff. Do you want to
32:37
Speaker 1: take over for the runoff? Sure it is with great
32:41
Speaker 1: pleasure that I announced yet another Thunderdome Sudden death challenge
32:46
Speaker 1: between Simon Hunter and Raheim Palmer. This one will concern
32:50
Speaker 1: the NBA Draft and the New York Knickerbockers. NBA draft
32:58
Speaker 1: was loaded with talent. Kobe Iverson, Marbury Ray Allen, Steve Nash,
33:04
Speaker 1: Marcus Camby, even Jermaine O'Neill was taken all the way
33:08
Speaker 1: at seventeen. Unfortunately, the New York Knicks, who had three
33:13
Speaker 1: first round picks that year, chose shitty players. There are
33:18
Speaker 1: three first round draft picks were John Wallace, Walter McCarty,
33:23
Speaker 1: and Dante Jones. Who's who of mediocrity. I'm especially fond
33:28
Speaker 1: of John Wallace as he's a native of my own Rochester,
33:31
Speaker 1: New York, and was coached by Jeff Van Gundy, who
33:35
Speaker 1: once coached at my high school, McCoy Jesuit, and referred
33:38
Speaker 1: to it as his favorite year coaching in his entire career.
33:41
Speaker 1: But I digress. The question is John Wallace, Walter McCarty
33:47
Speaker 1: Dante Jones played for a combined eighteen NBA seasons in total.
33:53
Speaker 1: Without going over, how many career starts did those three
33:59
Speaker 1: NBA players have? This is real drama chat. The stakes
34:03
Speaker 1: for Simon would be for the first time in the
34:07
Speaker 1: illustrious history of the Thunderdome, he will have gotten the
34:12
Speaker 1: correct answer in the grand finale after wagering all of
34:16
Speaker 1: his points, putting him in position to actually win. Has
34:21
Speaker 1: he won the thunder done before? Chad? No, incredible, Simon,
34:27
Speaker 1: you go first. You guys just love stacking it against me.
34:30
Speaker 1: It's ridiculous. I have no idea. I don't even remember
34:32
Speaker 1: what the question was. That's how I was, just like,
34:34
Speaker 1: what the hell is this talking about? Right now? I'll go, um,
34:38
Speaker 1: a thousand, No, change that to a hundred because apparently
34:41
Speaker 1: they're terrible. So I guess a hundred one hundred is
34:44
Speaker 1: Simon Hunter's answer for career starts for him. I think
34:48
Speaker 1: John willis, what do you play like? Seven years? Um,
34:51
Speaker 1: Dante Jones and Water? I have no idea who um
34:54
Speaker 1: water is. I'm gonna go around one. John Wall started games,
35:02
Speaker 1: Dante Jones had a foot injury and started zero, and
35:05
Speaker 1: Walter McCarty got traded to the Celtics, which he started
35:09
Speaker 1: quite a number of games hundred and eight. In fact,
35:13
Speaker 1: eight is one fifty three Raheean Palmer almost gets it
35:17
Speaker 1: on the nose. Yes, listen, man, listen, I sat off
35:25
Speaker 1: the top of the show. You're a University of Pennsylvania alumnus.
35:29
Speaker 1: The ability to look at numbers and contextualize them that
35:33
Speaker 1: is really important. You've figured out how to do it today.
35:38
Speaker 1: You are the Thursday Thunderdome Champion. Simon. I'm sorry, Fuster,
35:44
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35:47
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35:51
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