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Speaker 1: So our lead this hour, We're gonna start out with
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Speaker 1: the sore everone's been yapping about here, but I got
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Speaker 1: tons of Oh you're gonna do? Are you gonna do
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Speaker 1: a funeral on the air for the Lakers? So it's like, well,
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm not that. I'm not that kind of guy.
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Speaker 1: I would you know, why would I pile on? Why
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Speaker 1: would I pile on? Come on now, please, Rick All
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Speaker 1: and all those schmuck Laker historians. So the lead is,
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Speaker 1: it's pro bouncy ball kind of. While we were away
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Speaker 1: from the watchtower overlooking the world of sports, the Kingdom
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Speaker 1: of sporty sporty Kingdom, the Lakers had an inferno. It
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Speaker 1: was an arson. They took plays was so good it
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Speaker 1: was so great right in front of her eyes all
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Speaker 1: these cocky, arrogant sob Laker historians ha hedd you losers
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Speaker 1: so good. So if you missed it, they had the
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Speaker 1: double whammy, the double whammy, Look bye bye, he's out.
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Speaker 1: The hammy went whammy and hill Billy Kobe down for
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Speaker 1: the count. Both injured a big bowl of rice crispies
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Speaker 1: they got in that disaster of a game against Oklahoma
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Speaker 1: City at the end of last week. So the news
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Speaker 1: came out of the weekend that both will be out.
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Speaker 1: It was a combination of snap crackle pop is how
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Speaker 1: that went? Snap crackle pop and see you later. So
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Speaker 1: both out for the There's only a week to go
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Speaker 1: in the regular season, which is part of the problem,
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Speaker 1: and by the time they're able to go, more likely
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Speaker 1: than not the Lakers will be in can Kun having
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Speaker 1: a great time. So just to prove that they are horrible,
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Speaker 1: went out and played a team who was actively trying
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Speaker 1: not to win, the mav Res, the worst Mavericks team
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Speaker 1: in literally a generation, by design, by design, How did
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Speaker 1: that go? Cooper Flag, the main event went out there.
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Speaker 1: We used to have a caller name mister Maine. Event
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Speaker 1: and anyway, Cooper Flag, the Prodigy went out scored forty
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Speaker 1: five points, and the mav Res ended the longest home
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Speaker 1: losing streak in thirty two years. They beat the Lakers.
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Speaker 1: How good is that?
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Speaker 3: Oh?
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Speaker 1: It was so good? Yeah. So there you go, fourteen
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Speaker 1: games in a row, fourteen games in a row they
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Speaker 1: had lost at home, and then the Lakers game and
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Speaker 1: they beat him so great, I thought I had to
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Speaker 1: show that uniform. That's it. You just won the game
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Speaker 1: like that, all right, So let's go jumping off point,
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Speaker 1: let us discuss the question do you feel bad? Do
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Speaker 1: you feel bad for Lebron James and the Lakers there
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Speaker 1: that their roster has crumbled just before the finish line
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Speaker 1: in the start of the postseason. Do you feel bad?
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Speaker 1: All right? So I've got hair brained Smoothie and Thermo
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Speaker 1: nuclear missile, and we will combine all of these things together,
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Speaker 1: and we are going to put the biscuit in the basket,
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Speaker 1: is what we're going to do. So hey, let's begin here.
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Speaker 1: So no, of course, we do not feel a single
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Speaker 1: ounce of empathy for Lebron and the Purple and Gold
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Speaker 1: historians who warned us straight around on they can't walk
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Speaker 1: and tell you how great they are not anymore? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: not right now. So not one ounce, not one the
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Speaker 1: ounce not one. And if you're looking for a shoulder
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Speaker 1: to cry on, if you're that type, then we recommend
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Speaker 1: with the roster broken apart, you might want to call
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Speaker 1: your mother. Maybe your mom can help you out. Spiler alert.
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Speaker 1: This is not some kind of horrific basketball tragedy that
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Speaker 1: it's being panted out to be. It's not that at all.
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Speaker 1: In fact, I would argue, and I'll be Benny Brightsott
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Speaker 1: on this, that this is a blessing in disguise for
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Speaker 1: Lebron James and I'll tell you why. Okay, and Luca
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Speaker 1: for that matter, this is not a championship team when
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Speaker 1: they're healthy, they're not a championship team. And now they
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Speaker 1: had the ultimate get out of jail free card. Hello,
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Speaker 1: oh my aching hemmy went way and all that, and
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Speaker 1: then and Austin Reeves also hurt. So you look at it,
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Speaker 1: it's like it's just keeping it real. They weren't winning
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Speaker 1: anything this year. You delusional if you think that was
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Speaker 1: the case. So this is actually a good thing. It
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Speaker 1: is now they have the ultimate gift. The yeah but argument,
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Speaker 1: the hair brain, yeah but yeah, but yeah, but the
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Speaker 1: yebit rabbit. Yeah but yeah, but yeah, but yeah but yebit,
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Speaker 1: but we'd stayed help me yeh but yub it, yub it,
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Speaker 1: yubb it. Yeah yeah, okay, good luck on that. Yeah
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Speaker 1: but if Luca know what the reasons that were, what,
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Speaker 1: oh yeah, okay, you're not hoisting anything. Maybe boogers out
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Speaker 1: of your nose. You're hoisting. That's about it. So give
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Speaker 1: me a break. Now. Oklahoma City and I believe San
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Speaker 1: Antonio also much better than the Lake. The Denver will
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Speaker 1: beat them, and a bunch of team Minnesota is capable.
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Speaker 1: They beat them last year. It doesn't matter, that's all irrelevant.
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Speaker 1: They're done, they're dead. Uh, see you later, bye bye,
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Speaker 1: out of here. And again they have the built in
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Speaker 1: excuse the Lakers now that you know the failure. It
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Speaker 1: was not our fault, okay, and there's other people because well,
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Speaker 1: they shouldn't have played in that game and just have
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Speaker 1: everyone not play and then just show up in the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: And that's that's a great product. That's a wonderful and
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Speaker 1: it's unwatchable. Most of the stuff out there in the
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Speaker 1: NBA Friday night over the weekend was by far the
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Speaker 1: single worst night in NBA history for lack of competition,
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Speaker 1: and that's plausibly what they're selling anyway. So there you go,
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Speaker 1: and wait, there's more. I'm not done with that, because
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Speaker 1: there's one other angle to this story far as the Lakers,
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Speaker 1: and they weren't good enough and now they don't have
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Speaker 1: to worry about it and all that stuff. Let's talk
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Speaker 1: about the shall we say, the the spoonful sour spoonful
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Speaker 1: of medicine that Lebron's got a taste here on this
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Speaker 1: one because you have to build an excuse and all that.
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Speaker 1: A lot of this is on Lebron's shoulders in many ways.
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Speaker 1: And I'll tell you why Lebron hog tied. In my opinion,
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Speaker 1: the franchise to draft Bronnie James, who, if you're on
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Speaker 1: is you might want him as your ball boy. Maybe.
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Speaker 1: I don't know how good he is at getting the
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Speaker 1: towels out there in the gatorade. I'm not sure about that,
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Speaker 1: but you might want him as that he won the
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Speaker 1: Jeneka lottery, happen to be born into the Lebron James family,
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Speaker 1: and Lebron's got influence and Genie Buss is a moron
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Speaker 1: and so Lebron convinced them, hey, take take my kid.
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Speaker 1: All right, We'll take a kid he can't play, take
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Speaker 1: him anyway, it doesn't matter, all right, So they took him.
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Speaker 1: The Lakers felt forced to take Bronnie James, who sucks.
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Speaker 1: We all know that. And I don't think he could
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Speaker 1: find the basket consistently. If he gave him a flashlight
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Speaker 1: and a map, it would be a problem. And so
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Speaker 1: he's not good. And now with the injuries piling up
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Speaker 1: and a guess who now has to step up? One
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Speaker 1: of the players that has to rise on up? Now yep,
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Speaker 1: ding ding ding ding ding ding. Nate, that's right, the
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Speaker 1: kid who shouldn't even be on a team. A Hey, Lebron,
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Speaker 1: how's that taste, Lebron? Yeah? Okay, so so great. So
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Speaker 1: now they need Bronny James to step up because all
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Speaker 1: these guys are out and he's one of the guys
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Speaker 1: that has to step up and all that. Oh my god.
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Speaker 1: So if the Lakers there is a dimension the multiverse
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Speaker 1: were they had a legitimate player at that position, a
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Speaker 1: player that we're developing that actually had some legitimate skills,
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Speaker 1: and instead they've got the family favor Bronnie James. Oh,
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Speaker 1: it's so great. So they don't even have a puncher's
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Speaker 1: chance when he's out there. It's it's a charity case.
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Speaker 1: It's a hey, he won, he won a raffle and
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Speaker 1: there you go. And so instead they've got Sesame Street
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Speaker 1: out there running around with Brownie James and it's a
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Speaker 1: fricking Muppet show. Meanwhile, speaking of Luca, there is some
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Speaker 1: controversy which nobody wants to talk about regarding that. So,
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Speaker 1: after consultation with a number of medical professionals, including his
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Speaker 1: own personal doctors, Luke has decided to take his passport
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Speaker 1: and head out of the country. Say what, Yeah, he
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Speaker 1: is heading back to Europe for what they're calling specialized
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Speaker 1: medical treatment on a grade two hamstring injury for Luka Dancik.
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Speaker 1: And they say, well, this will be an attempt to
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Speaker 1: expedite his return. Wink wink wink. All right, So question,
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Speaker 1: is there anything fishy, anything fishy about Luca leaving North
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Speaker 1: America to get treatment for his hammy? All right? So
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Speaker 1: when I hear specialized treatment in Europe, those things together
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Speaker 1: are a dog whistle, is what they are. And every man,
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Speaker 1: woman and child who's paid any attention over the years
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Speaker 1: knows where I'm going with is when the hammy goes wammie,
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Speaker 1: as it did. Here, Luca goes to the Witch's brewed.
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Speaker 1: It's bubbling up. He watched the witches brew. He wants
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Speaker 1: the witches brew and he's going over there to get
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Speaker 1: that magic potion. And you say, well, stem cells, but
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Speaker 1: it's more than just stem cells. It's just stuff that
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Speaker 1: makes you bionic and turns your blood into some kind
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Speaker 1: of weird superhero Marvel comic storyline and all that stuff.
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Speaker 1: It's the ultimate loophole. It's the ultimate loophole. You go
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Speaker 1: over somewhere like Germany and you get the super fruity
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Speaker 1: smoothie with the extra additives tossed on top, and you
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Speaker 1: blend that thing stuff that's banned in the United States.
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Speaker 1: Here God and uh Cadabra, hocus pocus. Now, the key is,
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Speaker 1: you gotta flush it out of your system before you
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Speaker 1: hit customs at LAX, the Tom Bradley terminal there at LAX.
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Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta through the make sure it's out
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Speaker 1: of your system. Then you know it's just a little
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Speaker 1: wink wink medical tour situation for Luca and the the
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Speaker 1: NBA knows it. They look the other way. Everyone tells it.
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Speaker 1: The Lakers, I'm pretty sure, are aware of it as well.
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Speaker 1: It's a pharmaceutical vacation, all right. People do this all
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Speaker 1: the time, right, people go it's people here in the
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Speaker 1: US go to Mexico to get treatment because it's cheaper
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Speaker 1: candidate or somewhere like that. And you take your luck
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Speaker 1: with that. You say, well, maybe it'll be fine. Who knows?
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Speaker 1: All right, now, last word to the complaint department. We
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Speaker 1: go to the complaint department. We go where multiple star
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Speaker 1: players have gone rogue in the NBA, and I love it.
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Speaker 1: I love this part of it. So while we were
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Speaker 1: away here you had Joel and Bead, who's occasionally a
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Speaker 1: basketball player, didn't play very much, my part time employee
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Speaker 1: for the Sixers, and he was asked recently why he
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Speaker 1: did not play against the Wizards. This was last week.
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Speaker 1: Instead of just giving the company line, well, I wasn't
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Speaker 1: feeling great or and I just want to rest up,
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Speaker 1: make sure I'm ready to go so I can go
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Speaker 1: fishing in the off season. No no, no, no, no.
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Speaker 1: He did not bite his tongue. He did not play nice.
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Speaker 1: No no, no, he said. Joel Embiid quote. I was pissed.
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Speaker 1: It's good opening quote. I wanted to play basketball. I
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Speaker 1: was not allowed to play basketball. I think this is
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Speaker 1: more of a question. He said, for Darryl Moury, the beloved,
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Speaker 1: beloved executive. Who the basketball writers they all have knee
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Speaker 1: pads for They love this guy. So then he we
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Speaker 1: pivot over to Yannis and the box. So you got
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Speaker 1: Joel embiid ranting in Philly. Then you have Giannis and
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Speaker 1: this is even better. So Adetakoobo stunningly turned apparently on
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Speaker 1: his own team, something that doesn't normally happen. He went
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Speaker 1: rogue against his own team. This the league is investigating
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Speaker 1: the Bucks for cheat, for tanking Forset. If they investigated
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Speaker 1: the league for tanking, there would be seventeen eighteen teams
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Speaker 1: in the NBA, maybe not that many close to it
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Speaker 1: that would be found guilty on all charges high crimes
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Speaker 1: and misdemeanors. So anyway, the NBA interviewed both the team
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Speaker 1: and a dent to Coombo, Yet the two parties are
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Speaker 1: said to have told two totally different tales on what
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Speaker 1: exactly has happened. I dent to Koombo letting the NBA
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Speaker 1: know that he wants to play, and the team refuses
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Speaker 1: to medically clear him to play. And for the last
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Speaker 1: couple of weeks, dent To Cuombo has put on a
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Speaker 1: show for the Masses series, participated in pregame warm ups
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Speaker 1: we were told, and had no signs of injury at all,
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Speaker 1: and then when the game starts he goes to put
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Speaker 1: on his street clothes and gets hemorrhoids on the bench.
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Speaker 1: All right, question, with both Giannis Denta Cumbo and Joe
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Speaker 1: Enbi publicly calling out, publicly calling out their teams for
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Speaker 1: not letting them play, what is this signal to you?
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Speaker 1: All right? So we've been watching over the last couple
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Speaker 1: of years, under the guidance of Adam Silver, under the
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Speaker 1: guidance of Adam Silver, watching the absolute death of the competitor.
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Speaker 1: There was a point where you had you didn't play
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Speaker 1: and it was like the shame on you and you
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Speaker 1: needed the machiese mo to play, and then we did
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Speaker 1: a complete one to eighty from that. Now we're starting
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Speaker 1: to tick the other direction, which is a good sign.
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Speaker 1: It's a good thing that we're going the other direction here.
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Speaker 1: And I like you because we've seen the death of
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Speaker 1: the competitor and all that stuff, and so finally there's
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Speaker 1: a couple of players that are like, well, no, I'm
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Speaker 1: going to push back on that. I don't like that
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Speaker 1: at all. And Joel Embiid is out in front on
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Speaker 1: the camera, as we said, basically calling Darryl Moray a
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Speaker 1: liar in Philadelphia, which is just fricking great. I love it.
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Speaker 1: And he's one of the early early nerd ball guys.
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Speaker 1: Darryl Moray like big time nerd guy, you know, just
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Speaker 1: that whole thing. There's a conference in Boston, the Nerd
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Speaker 1: Sports Conference, and he's like the god. He's like a
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Speaker 1: demi guy at that thing. Anyway, So Joel Embiid out
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Speaker 1: in front of the cameras calling Daryl Moore a liar,
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Speaker 1: which is wonderful. And I'm healthy and I'm pissed and
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Speaker 1: let me hoop and all that stuff. It's a total circus,
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Speaker 1: which is I'm fine with. And this is no more
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Speaker 1: mister nice guy, a no more mister nice guy situation.
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Speaker 1: And Embiid is done being the poster boy for load management.
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Speaker 1: He was always trust the process and all that, and
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Speaker 1: he lives in that online bubble and a very nice
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Speaker 1: in that online bubble for guys like Embiid that don't
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Speaker 1: do their job and the whole load management generation of
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Speaker 1: the NBA, and Giannis is out there throwing spinning back elbows.
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Speaker 1: He's out there throwing spinning back elbows at his own
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Speaker 1: front office, which I also love. And he wanted an
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Speaker 1: off ramp at the trade deadline and they blocked it.
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Speaker 1: They didn't trade him, and so he's sending over a
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Speaker 1: Thermo nuclear right into the the Bucks Bridge if you
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Speaker 1: will here, and this is a pivot point. I do
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Speaker 1: believe we are at a pivot point, which is good.
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Speaker 1: The wins are shifting, the wins are moving a little
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Speaker 1: bit the other direction there, and we are finally going
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Speaker 1: to make playing basketball something that is of some value. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And I keep saying, oh, they got to play lust garnames.
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Speaker 1: There's too many games, yeah, which has gotta be the
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Speaker 1: single dumbest argument I've ever heard I have. I don't
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Speaker 1: understand how dumb can these people be. So I say, well,
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Speaker 1: if you play, They say, well, sixty fives, okay, so
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Speaker 1: let's play sixty five games. The players will play forty
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Speaker 1: five games. No, No, well, well if you play forty five,
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Speaker 1: they'll play every game. No, they won't play forty five games,
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Speaker 1: They'll play twenty five games. Do you not understand the mindset?
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Speaker 1: That's the probably It's not the number of games. You
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Speaker 1: can play one hundred and fifty games. It doesn't matter.
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Speaker 1: You can play ten games. It doesne that play five.
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Speaker 1: all nice. We're back at it here as just a
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Speaker 1: few hours ago. As the crow flies to the East Coast,
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Speaker 1: people complaining about, oh, it's such a late game over
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Speaker 1: really not o'clock over? A bunch of losers. Stay up,
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Speaker 1: you dope, I stay up all night, you mal rons. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: we will not waste any time. We'll get to the
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Speaker 1: main event, the main event inside the Dome in Indianapolis,
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Speaker 1: the Hippodrome, the final act as the end of the
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Speaker 1: road for March Madness. That's all she wrote here in
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Speaker 1: early April, dust steam May's Michigan squad looking to complete
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Speaker 1: the mission on an absolute burner in the tournament, and
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Speaker 1: they go against Dan Hurley's Yukon squad. Didn't you watch?
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Speaker 1: Were you engaged in this? Were you locked in in this? No?
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Speaker 1: We had Iron Eagle Bill Raffrey, who's like a thousand
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Speaker 1: years old onions still calling the games, and Grant Hill,
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Speaker 1: the three amigos right out there calling the game on
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Speaker 1: the TV. And don't worry if you did not watch,
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Speaker 1: We watched so you would not have to. It's our
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Speaker 1: good Mitch for the day. And in the end, when
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Speaker 1: all the confetti had fallen, Chigan is the champions, as
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Speaker 1: they hoisted the national title trophy there at mid court.
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Speaker 1: Out Mustling out Mustling the squad from Yukon sixty nine
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Speaker 1: to sixty three. Now it is interesting to note if
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Speaker 1: you took Yukon and the points you won, So I
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Speaker 1: should just put that on a little nobody's betting on
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Speaker 1: these games, of course, but Yukon did cover the six
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Speaker 1: and a half to seven. The line was just before
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Speaker 1: the end of the game. Michigan wins this game. And
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Speaker 1: they made not one, but two more three point shots
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Speaker 1: than you and I made two. They made two three
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Speaker 1: point shots. What do we I say before the lust
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Speaker 1: of that happens before the three point shot was put
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Speaker 1: into college basketball. But anyway, final fourth most outstanding player,
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Speaker 1: Elliott Cadot, don't you know as he wins it and
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Speaker 1: led the Wolverines with nineteen points, including the first three pointer,
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Speaker 1: which came at seven oh four on the game clock
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Speaker 1: in the second half. And this is the program's second
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Speaker 1: tight You got to go back to nineteen eighty nine. Now.
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Speaker 1: It is a fun fact to point out that while
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Speaker 1: many people assume the position that the Wolverines won a
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Speaker 1: championship when they had the Fab five, that would be fake.
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Speaker 1: That is the Mondela What am I trying to think of?
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Speaker 1: The Mandela effect? The would go the Mandela effect people
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Speaker 1: assume if you're of a certain age, Well, Chris Weber
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Speaker 1: and those guys Jalen Rose. They must have won a championship,
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Speaker 1: but that's the Mandela effect. No, they did not win.
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Speaker 1: They did not win the championship. They got to the
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Speaker 1: championship game a couple of times, but timeout time out, No,
20:34
Speaker 1: they didn't. Didn't get it done, all right. The better story, though,
20:38
Speaker 1: is in the losing Lockerum, it's a good jumping all point.
20:40
Speaker 1: As Yukon goes down. We had Yukon winning the whole thing,
20:43
Speaker 1: so we're bummed out by that. Let us discuss the
20:46
Speaker 1: question what went wrong? Simple question? What went wrong for
20:52
Speaker 1: Dan Hurley's Yukon squad? As they had the leaded a
20:57
Speaker 1: couple of points early in the game, midweight were the
21:00
Speaker 1: second half, it was close, only down by four at halftime.
21:04
Speaker 1: They end up losing by six. So what went wrong
21:07
Speaker 1: for Dan Hurley's Yukon squad. I've got rampage, foot locker
21:11
Speaker 1: and flirty techs. Yeah, and we'll combine all of these
21:16
Speaker 1: things together and we're gonna have a confetti party, is
21:20
Speaker 1: what we're going to have. So a Dan Hurley's team,
21:24
Speaker 1: as we talked about in the lead up to this game.
21:26
Speaker 1: I know you listen to everything I say, unless you don't.
21:29
Speaker 1: But the lead up to this game, we talked about
21:31
Speaker 1: how Yukon could win this game, what they had to
21:33
Speaker 1: do to win this game. They played the way they
21:35
Speaker 1: won it. I truly believe Yukon played the way they
21:37
Speaker 1: wanted in this game. They dragged Michigan into a grinded
21:41
Speaker 1: out game. Michigan get close to ninety points like they
21:44
Speaker 1: had knowing ninety plus in every one of these games.
21:46
Speaker 1: It was a grind it out game. They played in
21:48
Speaker 1: the mud. In the mud. They played in the mud
21:51
Speaker 1: just like they had designed, and they did not plan
21:54
Speaker 1: Dan Hurley did not plan on doing some karaoke, and
21:58
Speaker 1: they did the karaoke there. They cranked up the old
22:00
Speaker 1: Commodore's tune. Brick house. It was a brick house and
22:06
Speaker 1: maker miss They always a maker miss maker miss, got
22:09
Speaker 1: to make it or miss it, all that stuff. So
22:10
Speaker 1: Yu Khon struggled significantly from anywhere on the court. They
22:16
Speaker 1: just could not make a shot. Neither team shot the ball. Well,
22:19
Speaker 1: you toss in the Komodo dragon in the room. The
22:26
Speaker 1: foul trouble, specifically what we call a rampage by the
22:30
Speaker 1: zebras a trampling by the Zebras in this game, Dan
22:34
Speaker 1: Hurley's team. It's an unpopular opinion. It needs to be said.
22:38
Speaker 1: They got squeezed. Dan Hurley's team got squeezed. And that's
22:42
Speaker 1: the reality here. You can roll your eyes all you went,
22:45
Speaker 1: Oh you just way you say that you lose her.
22:48
Speaker 1: I know, call like I see it, and that's what happened.
22:51
Speaker 1: Now you can say that's what should have happened, and
22:54
Speaker 1: you're okay with it. That's fine. It happened. They got squeezed,
23:00
Speaker 1: and you know, you can do what you want with that.
23:02
Speaker 1: The numbers don't lie. Michigan. I believe it was twenty
23:05
Speaker 1: eight foul shot attempts. Yukon had fifteen, and that is
23:10
Speaker 1: a plus thirteen gap. Closed the gap, closed the gap.
23:15
Speaker 1: It is interesting to know that the Yukon Huskies on
23:19
Speaker 1: real basketball, not with official intervention, with real basketball, straight
23:23
Speaker 1: up Yukon actually outscored Michigan. They scored more baskets than
23:29
Speaker 1: Michigan did, all right, and so, but Michigan had the
23:32
Speaker 1: whistle whistle, whistle whistle, and they had that, and so
23:36
Speaker 1: the foul trouble wrecked the Yukon rotation and any kind
23:40
Speaker 1: of rhythm that they had was knocked out although they
23:43
Speaker 1: really didn't have much neither team had much rhythm at all.
23:45
Speaker 1: It was just a horrific, horrific game in terms of that.
23:50
Speaker 1: And he said, well, it's good defense. Was it really
23:52
Speaker 1: good defense or just horrific offense? But the whole thing
23:54
Speaker 1: was a buzzkill, right, The whole thing was an absolute buzzkill.
23:57
Speaker 1: And you're asking a team shooting thirty percent to overcome
24:02
Speaker 1: the officials who were clearly leaning towards Michigan for whatever reason.
24:06
Speaker 1: And so there you go. It wasn't just the Michigan Wolverines.
24:11
Speaker 1: It was the sixth, seventh and eighth man which happened
24:15
Speaker 1: to have the zebra thing on there. And that was that. Now,
24:18
Speaker 1: As for me, Chagan, the champions of college basketball, a
24:23
Speaker 1: team that will live in the annals of Wolverine basketball.
24:27
Speaker 1: Yaxel Lendenburg the crown jewel, the crown jewel of the
24:32
Speaker 1: Wolverines transfer portal class for the Ages. As these guys
24:37
Speaker 1: came in, got checks, and they produced, and they won
24:40
Speaker 1: and all that. He was asked after the game. You
24:43
Speaker 1: saw the postgame coverage there about being well, he wasn't
24:47
Speaker 1: as specifically about being mercenaries he was asked in general.
24:49
Speaker 1: He brought this up on his own, as Lindenburgh brought
24:53
Speaker 1: this up on his own. He was asked how this
24:55
Speaker 1: Michigan team is going to be remembered, and he said, quote,
24:58
Speaker 1: they might still be calling us mercenaries, but were the
25:02
Speaker 1: hardest playing team in college basketball. We're the best team.
25:06
Speaker 1: You know what that means, best team in college basketball,
25:10
Speaker 1: and we want to be one of the greats. Ever
25:13
Speaker 1: I think he meant greatest, but he said greats. All right,
25:15
Speaker 1: so question the star the jewel. And I actually like
25:19
Speaker 1: this guy. He's a good quote, and we need more
25:21
Speaker 1: guys like that. Like he said at halftime that he
25:24
Speaker 1: was just terrible, and he was and normally guys don't
25:27
Speaker 1: admit that, and I thought that was great. And so
25:29
Speaker 1: he just didn't play well in this game. And I
25:32
Speaker 1: tip of the old headphones that he did say that.
25:34
Speaker 1: As far as this particular quote, we're parsing the words here.
25:37
Speaker 1: The actually Lendenbergh defending the mercenary label. So I still
25:43
Speaker 1: might calls mercenaries, but the hardest playing team all that stuff.
25:46
Speaker 1: So is Michigan the champions of college basketball? The biggest
25:51
Speaker 1: beneficiary of the NIL or the biggest abuser of the name,
25:59
Speaker 1: image likeness in college basketball. So the answer is not
26:05
Speaker 1: it is not that they're the biggest beneficiary. It is
26:08
Speaker 1: not that they're the biggest abuser. The answer is see
26:13
Speaker 1: all of the above. That's my answer, all right, see,
26:18
Speaker 1: and that is the point of whatever this is now.
26:21
Speaker 1: I know President Trump's trying to change it, and we'll
26:24
Speaker 1: see if that actually works. They'll supposed to be some
26:26
Speaker 1: legal battles to prevent some of those things from happening.
26:30
Speaker 1: We'll see how that plays out politically. But for now,
26:33
Speaker 1: this is what we have, right. So, this is the
26:35
Speaker 1: system that's in place in college basketball. Just like Indiana
26:39
Speaker 1: just brought in a bunch of players and they won
26:41
Speaker 1: in college football, Michigan brought in a bunch of players
26:43
Speaker 1: and they won in basketball. This is how you play
26:46
Speaker 1: the game. This is how it is done here. And
26:49
Speaker 1: so as they say at foot locker, if the shoe fits,
26:52
Speaker 1: you should probably buy it. If the shoe fits, you
26:54
Speaker 1: should probably buy And this isn't a loophole. This is
26:58
Speaker 1: the business model under Dusty made. The Waverines did not
27:01
Speaker 1: accidentally trip into the portal and land six transfers. No,
27:07
Speaker 1: this is not some kind of clinkie dink that took place,
27:10
Speaker 1: and every man, woman and child knows it. That is
27:12
Speaker 1: a shopping spree at the super mall, the nil super mall.
27:18
Speaker 1: They got the platinum credit card and they went out
27:20
Speaker 1: and they went for it. Lindenberg their top player imported
27:24
Speaker 1: from UAB, every key player, every single key player that
27:31
Speaker 1: got it done. A seventy five percent of the point
27:33
Speaker 1: score in the championship game came from players who were
27:36
Speaker 1: at other schools, started at other schools around college basketball.
27:41
Speaker 1: So it's like mall go on Amazon Prime, same day
27:45
Speaker 1: delivery and no development, no loyalty needed and all that.
27:51
Speaker 1: Just your welcome. And so the critics yelling mercenaries, mercenaries,
27:56
Speaker 1: all mercenaries and all that. Yeah, no kidding, thank you
28:00
Speaker 1: very much, Captain Obvious. That is the modern Division one
28:07
Speaker 1: men's basketball and football model. Everyone is a hired gun,
28:11
Speaker 1: every single one of these guys who's any good and
28:14
Speaker 1: Michigan just better at getting it done. So that's how
28:18
Speaker 1: you have to do it. And it's I would say,
28:21
Speaker 1: a good thing. Anybody that's got eight to twelve million,
28:24
Speaker 1: that's what these teams are. The payrolls at eight to
28:26
Speaker 1: twelve million. That's what's going to cost you. And Duke
28:29
Speaker 1: had a bigger payroll. They didn't get it done at
28:32
Speaker 1: eight to twelve million. So and so are the world
28:35
Speaker 1: reasons abusing the nil No, if you're still saying student athlete,
28:44
Speaker 1: you're a dinosaur, is what you are, right. It's free
28:47
Speaker 1: agency with mid terms, it's all that. And so the
28:52
Speaker 1: Michigan is not abusing the nil thing at all. Only
28:58
Speaker 1: you think the rules. Using the rules properly efficiently is
29:03
Speaker 1: somehow cheating. If you believe that, then okay, that's fine.
29:07
Speaker 1: But Michigan break the system. They understood the system and
29:11
Speaker 1: they went out. They used and we'll use them out
29:13
Speaker 1: of the mount seventy five percent of the players were
29:16
Speaker 1: in the portal they got one hundred percent of that
29:19
Speaker 1: was intentional. And there are zero apologies given they're not
29:23
Speaker 1: in this case. They're not the villains. They're not. This
29:27
Speaker 1: is the modern form of college basketball. This is a
29:30
Speaker 1: manifest destiny. And like I said, anybody who's got the money,
29:34
Speaker 1: you should hire the right coach. You spend eight to
29:36
Speaker 1: twelve million, you got shot to win a whole championship.
29:39
Speaker 1: That's it. Whoever you are like the anti eaters of
29:43
Speaker 1: uc er. Fine, if they had twelve million dollars in
29:45
Speaker 1: the right coach could go out and win the championship. Right.
29:48
Speaker 1: If your program isn't doing this, you're already behind. So
29:52
Speaker 1: it is all right now. Last word to the victor,
29:55
Speaker 1: goes the rumor. As the confetti has fallen. It is
30:00
Speaker 1: not cold yet to confetti. It has fallen down from
30:02
Speaker 1: the arena there and the vultures. If you look up,
30:05
Speaker 1: the vultures are circling overhead. We are already hearing rumblings,
30:11
Speaker 1: the rumble and the tummy that me Schaghan head coach
30:16
Speaker 1: Dusty May, I believe it's only been there two years,
30:19
Speaker 1: is expected to receive NBA interest as the offseason gets
30:25
Speaker 1: going here for many teams. Once there's only a few
30:27
Speaker 1: days to go in the regular season of the NBA,
30:29
Speaker 1: then the playoffs will take place, which will go one
30:31
Speaker 1: for like seven months, and then they'll have the silly
30:34
Speaker 1: season in the NBA. The chatter is that Dusty May
30:38
Speaker 1: will not will not go to any college job. However,
30:42
Speaker 1: he's not shutting the door to the pros. That's a
30:46
Speaker 1: different story. So the question our NBA teams genuinely intrigued
30:52
Speaker 1: by Michigan coach Dusty May Or is this the old
30:56
Speaker 1: classic agent plant smoke? So Michigan has to pay more
31:02
Speaker 1: money and pay a premium to give Dusty may an
31:06
Speaker 1: extra extra large check to keep him around. So this
31:09
Speaker 1: is not, I believe fairy dust. After a minute long
31:12
Speaker 1: Mallard investigation, Dusty May put the transfer portal avengers together.
31:20
Speaker 1: And now the NBA's they're out there. Those executives are
31:23
Speaker 1: sending those two am flirty texts, Hey, big fella, you
31:28
Speaker 1: up like that kind of stuff. You know, hey, what
31:30
Speaker 1: are you doing? You know that thing? So that's how
31:33
Speaker 1: they go in. The NBA is circling like the vultures
31:36
Speaker 1: over the rotting carcass of an animal out there in
31:40
Speaker 1: the serengetti, and they're like, hey, wait a minute. You
31:43
Speaker 1: know you goose teams like Orlando and the Wizards and
31:47
Speaker 1: the you know, some of these other suck bag teams Memphis,
31:51
Speaker 1: and hey, we're gonna have a top five pick of
31:53
Speaker 1: the NBA tram lottery, and we need a new coach
31:58
Speaker 1: in New Orleans. All these terrible jobs and there is
32:02
Speaker 1: a supply chain shortage of coaches. It's the same cycle
32:07
Speaker 1: every year. It's paint by numbers, paint by numbers, hot
32:11
Speaker 1: coach in this case transfer portal Maestro and Boom goes
32:16
Speaker 1: to the dynamite, next big thing. And so Dusty May
32:20
Speaker 1: is holding the Golden Hammer. And I would be shocked
32:24
Speaker 1: if Dan Hurley gets some more calls from the NBA also,
32:27
Speaker 1: But this is about Dusty May, the coach of Mi Chagan.
32:31
Speaker 1: So he's he's got leverage literally coming out of his
32:34
Speaker 1: nose and his ears and his eyes. It's oozing out
32:38
Speaker 1: the leverage out of his nostrils, his ears and his eyeballs.
32:43
Speaker 1: It's it's wild. And Dusty May is he's at a
32:46
Speaker 1: fork in the road. Does he get He's obviously gonna
32:50
Speaker 1: get a raised at Michigan. That's a given. That's how
32:52
Speaker 1: that works. He's gonna get a raise, must be nice.
32:55
Speaker 1: They don't most companies don't give those out. They're too cheap.
32:57
Speaker 1: But he's going to get a raise, and so and
33:00
Speaker 1: otherwise he's he could get that raise or go to
33:03
Speaker 1: the NBA and follow the Muppets and be Gonzo Gonzo
33:07
Speaker 1: the Muppet, bye bye. So the plot thickings. We keep
33:10
Speaker 1: an eye on this story in the coming days.
33:12
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33:18
Speaker 1: Do we introduce our contestants real quick? Yes, all right,
33:20
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33:23
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33:31
Speaker 1: Ben and Banks? What's cracking? Ben? What's going on?
33:36
Speaker 2: Let me get this mountain of money or what?
33:39
Speaker 1: Uh So? Who do you want to partner up with?
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Speaker 3: My?
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Speaker 1: Man? Manuel? Who would you like to team up?
33:42
Speaker 2: You and me, babe?
33:43
Speaker 1: You and me? All right, we're in it, man. Well,
33:45
Speaker 1: hold on a second, Lorraina picked the one or the
33:48
Speaker 1: one of the three, one of the number three? Okay,
33:51
Speaker 1: you have picked Jimmy. Okay, stop. Jimmy's in Saint Paul. Hello, Jimmy.
33:56
Speaker 1: Welcome's going have you? Jimmy? You're ready to play mallards?
34:02
Speaker 1: Amount of money? Yes? Ah? You do sound very coffee.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't.
34:07
Speaker 1: I don't know if I like that. You want to
34:09
Speaker 1: check the other guy? I'm good, I'm good.
34:11
Speaker 3: No, No, I'm good, I'm good.
34:14
Speaker 1: Can you give the illusion that you're going to dominate?
34:16
Speaker 1: For Coop? I all right, all right, all right, what
34:22
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34:24
Speaker 3: Lou This is the Paul Rudd edition of Mallards mount
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34:31
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34:37
Speaker 3: and this is forty Manuel, you were on first.
34:40
Speaker 1: Which category would you like? I'll take that last one? Forty?
34:44
Speaker 1: This this is forty. Oh, this is forty yeah, Salon,
34:49
Speaker 1: all right, you're right, forty. Jimmy, which one do you want? Jimmy?
34:53
Speaker 1: All the clueless, clueless? All right, that's about right, all right,
34:57
Speaker 1: perfect if it fits, all right, whole lot of Thank you. Gentlemen,
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35:41
Speaker 1: Let's do it. Here we go. We've got Manuel in
35:43
Speaker 1: guardena a talk radio calling legend from the jungle, and
35:49
Speaker 1: Jimmy in Saint Paul. Hello, gentlemen, Menuel, you're teamed up
35:54
Speaker 1: with me. Jimmy is with Cooper bos and you picked
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Speaker 1: Believe Manuel, you pick? This is forty correct the Paul
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Speaker 1: Rudd Edition. Yes, yes, all right to these athletes are
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Speaker 1: currently forty years old. Are you ready? Manuel? We need
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Speaker 1: the first and last name. This is where you say yes,
36:15
Speaker 1: I'm ready. This is Lee. I'm ready, Baby, they are.
36:18
Speaker 1: You can play along. We'll put forty five seconds on
36:20
Speaker 1: the clock. We're on our way. Go. A quarterback for
36:22
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons when they choked against the Patriots and
36:25
Speaker 1: the Superman Ryan Yes, nickname Megatron for the Lions, Johnson
36:31
Speaker 1: center for the Orlando Magic. After shack he ended up
36:35
Speaker 1: by Yes, defensive back for the Broncos, was a key
36:38
Speaker 1: part of their Super Bowl win Super Bowl fifty. Played
36:41
Speaker 1: for the Baby played for the Patriots and also played
36:44
Speaker 1: for the Buccaneers. All right pass. Russian hockey player for
36:48
Speaker 1: the Washington Capital Alex Yes. Pitcher was with Tampa Bay
36:54
Speaker 1: with traded to the Dodgers. His dog is named Astro.
36:57
Speaker 1: He was part of the Mookie Bets trade from the
36:59
Speaker 1: Red Sox. Want a sa A couple of cy youngs
37:01
Speaker 1: I believe played with the Tigers. No, all right, no, no,
37:08
Speaker 1: David Price. David Price, the dog named Astro. Remember David Price?
37:12
Speaker 1: Now and a key to leave. Was the cornerback for
37:15
Speaker 1: the Broncos.
37:17
Speaker 2: We never got that.
37:18
Speaker 3: Would we get one hundred and twenty points? All right, Jimmy,
37:22
Speaker 3: we have yeah, we have clueless. Uh.
37:25
Speaker 1: These athletes were all part of legendary bloopers. Are you ready?
37:32
Speaker 1: All right?
37:33
Speaker 3: Forty five seconds, let's begin. Former Cowboys quarterback he botched
37:37
Speaker 3: the extra point. Hold, he's a broadcaster. Now, no, the
37:45
Speaker 3: other one, the others he's Mexican heritage.
37:49
Speaker 1: She was all right? All right?
37:50
Speaker 3: This guy was the Jets quarterback who did the butt fumble,
37:55
Speaker 3: Matt Yes, did you say the first one? Yes?
38:00
Speaker 1: Okay?
38:01
Speaker 3: Uh.
38:01
Speaker 1: This guy called the time out when he didn't have
38:03
Speaker 1: one for the fab five. Yes. This guy was a
38:08
Speaker 1: Eagles wide receiver. He dropped the ball before going into
38:10
Speaker 1: the end zone. Oh, you can't say that, You can't
38:14
Speaker 1: say that, all right? This guy was a forward. He
38:18
Speaker 1: called it.
38:18
Speaker 3: He dribbled out the clock an he didn't known, all right,
38:24
Speaker 3: nobody knows who that is. Tony sixty point. DeShawn Jackson
38:28
Speaker 3: was the one that we were looking for. There, Oh
38:31
Speaker 3: the good news. Did you get to go again?
38:33
Speaker 1: Yes?
38:33
Speaker 3: All right, Jimmy, do you want anchorman or the perks
38:37
Speaker 3: of being a wallflower.
38:41
Speaker 1: Anchorman? All right?
38:42
Speaker 2: Uh?
38:43
Speaker 3: These athletes all went on to become TV analysts. Forty
38:47
Speaker 3: five seconds, let's begin. The big Diesel for the Lakers. Yes, uh,
38:53
Speaker 3: this guy had a gap tooth. He was a defensive
38:55
Speaker 3: end for the New York Giants. Yes, this guy was
38:59
Speaker 3: the ball quarterback for the Steelers in the seventies. Yes, uh,
39:04
Speaker 3: this guy was a forward. He played four years at Duke.
39:08
Speaker 3: Then he was on the Pistons and the Magic. He
39:11
Speaker 3: was hurt a lot. Yes, this guy was a catcher
39:14
Speaker 3: in baseball for like twenty two years. Then he called
39:16
Speaker 3: a bunch of World Series games for Fox. No, this
39:21
Speaker 3: guy's nickname was Stink. He was an offensive lineman for
39:24
Speaker 3: the Broncos and the Redskins. He's an analyst.
39:28
Speaker 1: Now he could spell his name, he wouldn't get it.
39:33
Speaker 1: This guy was all right, oh wait, did you say it? No,
39:38
Speaker 1: he did said that was before the buzzer? What did
39:40
Speaker 1: you say it was after? He didn't even he didn't
39:44
Speaker 1: even know Jimmy you no, he didn't get it. Just
39:45
Speaker 1: give up? Cool? Okay, yeah, all right? How many points
39:48
Speaker 1: was that?
39:49
Speaker 3: That was another one hundred?
39:50
Speaker 1: What's sixty? All right? You guys? Are you ready? Manuel
39:54
Speaker 1: to win the game?
39:55
Speaker 2: Now?
39:55
Speaker 1: Manwell and Guardina? Yeah, all right, the Perks are being
39:58
Speaker 1: a wallflower. These athletes offanusic has despite not having big personalities,
40:02
Speaker 1: put forty five seconds on the clock and we're on
40:04
Speaker 1: our way. Star wide receiver for the Washington Redskins in
40:08
Speaker 1: the nineteen eighties. Mo, yeah, there you go, all right,
40:13
Speaker 1: A white guy slugger for the Cleveland Indians in the
40:16
Speaker 1: nineties and the two thousands. Yeah, that's a one hundred pointer,
40:20
Speaker 1: the Sandman for the Yankees, the greatest closer in the
40:29
Speaker 1: Duncan's great the white guy. He was a catcher for
40:33
Speaker 1: the Twins. Hometome hour. Yes, greatest running back for the
40:38
Speaker 1: Lions in history. Uh yes, star for the San Antonio Spurs,
40:44
Speaker 1: the center for the Spurs when they were winning. Roberts
40:47
Speaker 1: after him, after him, second saund we want, we want, Well,
40:51
Speaker 1: Kim Duncan, we won the game. Look at that? Wait
40:56
Speaker 1: another win? You gotta go to day at Yeah, he
41:00
Speaker 1: was talking, was a power could Yeah, they called him
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Speaker 1: a center too. You just stopped with your complaining. Bad
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Speaker 1: clues by you. Mark Schlaverth was whos right, Yeah,