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Hour 3 - Not All Cylinders · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Ding dong. It's our number three. Boom Shaka laka. Here
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Speaker 1: we go. Talking about the NBA Playoffs, Kate Cunningham says
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Speaker 1: the Pistons played tight and laxa daisical at the start
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Speaker 1: of the game. They would go on to lose to
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Speaker 1: the Orlando Magic, the only upset, only real upset of
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Speaker 1: the opening weekend of the NBA Playoffs. How do you
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Speaker 1: process this? We'll talk about that. Also, did the Lakers
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Speaker 1: Luka Doncik get snubbed from the MVP Award and buy
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Speaker 1: or sell a report that Nike is struggling to sell
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Speaker 1: basketball sneakers as much as they were able to in
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Speaker 1: the past because NBA players are not as popular in
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Speaker 1: pop culture as they used to be. I want to
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Speaker 1: talk about that and more right now here. It is
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Speaker 1: say hello to our number three. Fair to say, not
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Speaker 1: And we are back at it again this hour and
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Speaker 1: our lead from pro bouncy Ball. What are you talking about?
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Speaker 1: You're just talking about pro bouncy ball now, Have you
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Speaker 1: lost your bloody mind? No, I'm not. We have the
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Speaker 1: editorial control to discuss the things that are interesting and
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Speaker 1: we have a rating system that we use on this
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Speaker 1: And our lead is from the NBA Playoffs. Did you
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Speaker 1: see the buzzer beater on Saturday? Did you see the
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Speaker 1: dramatic comeback there on Sunday? Did you see that activity
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Speaker 1: in the NBA Playoffs? No, of course not, because there
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Speaker 1: was none of that. It was lopsided city baby in
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Speaker 1: the NBA, and I thought, well, the playoffs begin, we're
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Speaker 1: gonna get some good matchups. There'll be some good stories
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Speaker 1: every day in the NBA playoffs. No, that's a lie.
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Speaker 1: That is incorrect. If you missed it, you didn't miss anything.
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Speaker 1: It's a continuation of the regular season. Pretty terrible weekend
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Speaker 1: of basketball. I kept waiting for some dramatic moment to happen.
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Speaker 1: I kept waiting for something to turn and I was like, Oh,
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Speaker 1: this is gonna happen. Man alive. I cannot wait. It's
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Speaker 1: gonna be wild. No, it didn't happen. It didn't happen.
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Speaker 1: So the first eight playoff games, the first eight playoff
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Speaker 1: games in the NBA Saturday and Sunday, four games each day,
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Speaker 1: were decided by a total of how many points do
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Speaker 1: you think A decided by ninety points? That lasts too much?
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Speaker 1: B seventy points, all right, B C fifty five points
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Speaker 1: or D none of the above. The answer is none
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Speaker 1: of the above. The eight playoff games were decided by
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Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty five points. That is an average
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Speaker 1: of sixteen point eight points and of course, some of
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Speaker 1: these were just over the top. The Celtics vaporized the Sixers,
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Speaker 1: that was ridiculous, and then you had the Suns get
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Speaker 1: smoked by OKC. Among those games, with the first eight
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Speaker 1: playoff games decided by an average of sixteen point eight
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Speaker 1: points per game, the only real drama o rama was
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Speaker 1: in Detroit. That's it in Detroit, as Paulo Boncero put
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Speaker 1: up twenty three points, nine rebounds, four assists, and the
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Speaker 1: partridge in the pear tree. As the lowly number eight
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Speaker 1: seeded Orlando they get a eleven point road win over
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Speaker 1: the top seeded Pistons in game number one, first round series.
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Speaker 1: That extends the longest home playoff losing streak in NBA history.
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Speaker 1: Congratulations to the pist who have not won at home
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Speaker 1: in the playoffs in almost twenty years. Where have you gone?
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Speaker 1: Isaiah Thomas? Where have you gone? Ben Wallace, Joe Dumars
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Speaker 1: and the prints of the Palace? Where have you gone?
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Speaker 3: Now?
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Speaker 1: In this game Detroit, they've now dropped eleven straight home
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Speaker 1: games in the postseason. That drought dates back to eight eight,
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Speaker 1: the last time they won a home playoff game. Kid
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Speaker 1: Cunningham scored a playoff career. I had thirty nine points
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Speaker 1: for Detroit in the loss. The better story is in
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Speaker 1: the losing locker room. Postgame, Kid Cunningham said the Pistons
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Speaker 1: came out a little quote two tight and lacks. He said,
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Speaker 1: they said they didn't come out with the quote right energy,
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Speaker 1: that's another part of the quote. So all that is
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Speaker 1: a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the better story.
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Speaker 1: As we always know, he's in the losing locker room,
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Speaker 1: So let's discuss how the question on this one Caid Cuttingham.
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Speaker 1: Caid Cuttingham says, the distance played tight and lax, as
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Speaker 1: in laxadaisical at the start of the game. How do
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Speaker 1: you process this? So I've got three U pay phones
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Speaker 1: and jury duty and we will combine all of these
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Speaker 1: things together and we are going to roll snake eyes.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna do it. We're gonna roll snake eyes. So,
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Speaker 1: first of all, Cake Cunningham calling the Pistons performance tight
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Speaker 1: and lax, that is not insight. That is a trip
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Speaker 1: to the confessional is what that is? For a father,
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Speaker 1: I have sinned. You cannot be both tense and lazy
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Speaker 1: in a playoff playoff opener as a top seed. That
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Speaker 1: is not nerves. That is a system malfunction, is what
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Speaker 1: That is a system malfunction. The Pistons have been waiting
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Speaker 1: eighteen years, eighteen years to get back to elevance, and
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Speaker 1: they showed up like it was a Sunday lazy shoot around.
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Speaker 1: And that's it. You only get one opportunity. I learned
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Speaker 1: this years ago. You only I read it a fortune cookie.
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Speaker 1: You only get one chance to make a first impression,
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Speaker 1: a good first impression. And Detroit face planted on national TV.
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Speaker 1: This was not just a Orlando win where it was
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Speaker 1: back and forth. No, they led wire to wire. Now
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Speaker 1: the Pistons were within striking distance, but from soup to nuts,
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Speaker 1: they never trailed the Orlando Magic. I was just reading
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Speaker 1: a story over the weekend about either the Orlando Magic
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Speaker 1: are all messed up, They've got all these issues and
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Speaker 1: all this stuff, and so you give the Magic some credit,
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Speaker 1: just a little bit, just a little bit of credit.
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Speaker 1: I said, Okay, fine, congratulations, you went out there and
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Speaker 1: you won the game a way to go, and they
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Speaker 1: were essentially playing with house money and they punked Detroit.
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Speaker 1: That the fact that the Pistons never had the lead
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Speaker 1: in this game. However, again, this is still about It's
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Speaker 1: not about Orlando and where they're at and all that
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Speaker 1: dysfunction junction. What's your function? This is about the Pistons,
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Speaker 1: and it's definitely about the pistons here because you look
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Speaker 1: at this and you can't suck at a time. You
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Speaker 1: can't suck in the pistons. They sucked at a time.
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Speaker 1: You cannot suck right out of the gate, game, game opener,
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Speaker 1: tone center, all that you're setting the tone for the
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Speaker 1: playoff series, and the time at the tone will be
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Speaker 1: you stink. The time at the tone you stink. And
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Speaker 1: the Malor report card. I wrote down not A, not B,
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Speaker 1: not C, not d F. I wrote down three U
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Speaker 1: four not PU, although you could also use PU. I
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Speaker 1: wrote down three to U on the mallor scorecard, which
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Speaker 1: is unprepared. That's on the coaching staff, unfocused, that's on
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Speaker 1: the players, and unserious. That's on everyone involved. And the
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Speaker 1: fact that your headline player says the team needed essentially
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Speaker 1: a wake up call. That's what he implied. That is LT.
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Speaker 1: That is loser talk, is what that is. That's something
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Speaker 1: you say in January or February, the long days of
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Speaker 1: the basketball season, not in April, not in April, all right,
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Speaker 1: and Kate Cunningham, that's the headline. This is his team.
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Speaker 1: He was the top pick in the draft and all
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Speaker 1: that back in the day. He's matured. I didn't think
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Speaker 1: he would ever get there. But he's become an all
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Speaker 1: star level player and not going to win an MVP,
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Speaker 1: but he's an all star level player. And you don't
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Speaker 1: get to narrate the failure like you're doing a podcast
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Speaker 1: hosting a podcast. You own it, and he did own
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Speaker 1: it to some degree. And the Pistons played like they
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Speaker 1: expected Orlando to roll over into the fetal position and
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Speaker 1: start sucking their thumbs, and instead the Magic chuckled and
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Speaker 1: absolutely molly wa They curb stomped the Pistons in terms
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Speaker 1: of the fact that they show now the game was
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Speaker 1: mathematically within reach, although watching the game you never got
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Speaker 1: the vibe. I didn't that the Pistons were ever going
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Speaker 1: to mount a challenge there. And so good teams respond,
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Speaker 1: We'll see what happens with the Pistons. Good teams respond,
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Speaker 1: the fraudulent ones just explain what went wrong and they
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Speaker 1: don't have any answers. So this was definitely a warning
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Speaker 1: sign regarding the Pistons in the postseason. All right. Now, Secondly,
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Speaker 1: we go to Lala Land and the while we were
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Speaker 1: away from the watch post. While we were away, there
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Speaker 1: was a decision made by the NBA and they awarded
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Speaker 1: the appeal. They ruled in favor they being the NBA
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Speaker 1: in favor of Luca being eligible for end of season awards.
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Speaker 1: You might remember that Luca was unavailable because of injury,
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Speaker 1: did not meet the threshold to make the award words
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Speaker 1: in the NBA, and so he was allowed an exemption. However,
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Speaker 1: it turns out he will not win the MVP award. Now,
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Speaker 1: how do we know, Luka Danchik and the Lakers, despite
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Speaker 1: leading the NBA in scoring, will not will not be
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Speaker 1: the MVP. Well, it turns out that in order to
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Speaker 1: win the MVP. You this canna blow your mind. You
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Speaker 1: have to be a finalist. What do you try? But
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Speaker 1: you have to be a final Yes, you have to
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Speaker 1: be a finalist. Guess who's not a finalist? Ding ding
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Speaker 1: ding ding ning? Yeah that's right, Luca. Uh yeah. They
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Speaker 1: ann asked on Sunday the final three for the MVP
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Speaker 1: eligibility are Shay Jogis, Alexander the Great, former Clipper, Nikola
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Speaker 1: Jokic of the Nuggets and Victor Wemba Nyama, the Parisian
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Speaker 1: prodigy of San Antonio. Those are the final three for
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Speaker 1: the MVP, and he's not gonna be me. Here's the question.
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Speaker 1: Did the I saw some up in arms complaints, This
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Speaker 1: is not fair, this is not right. Lucas should have
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Speaker 1: been a finalist for the MVP Award. So did the
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Speaker 1: Lakers Luka Doncik get snubbed not being a finalist for
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Speaker 1: the MVP Award. So I would say n oh, that
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Speaker 1: would be no. As in he got evaluated. Is a
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Speaker 1: proper evaluation, That's what this is. And the idea that
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Speaker 1: just because you are the scoring champ of the NBA,
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Speaker 1: you automatically automatically pass to go and you get behind
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Speaker 1: the velvet ropes. You go behind the velvet ropes, your
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Speaker 1: tiptoe behind them, and you get invited to be a
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Speaker 1: finalist for the MVP Award. That thinking is the same
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Speaker 1: as like, you know, I need to make a phone call.
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Speaker 1: Where's a payphone? Well over there's hardly any payphones. That's
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Speaker 1: a relic. You don't get a pa. Well, no, I
12:54
Speaker 1: want to type up a story. Do I have a typewriter? Well, no, no,
12:57
Speaker 1: those are like museum pieces at this point. Those are collectibles.
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Speaker 1: Typewriters like Tom Hanks collects typewriters, that's his thing. The
13:05
Speaker 1: regular people do not do that with the typewriters. It's
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Speaker 1: ancient history. It's old tech, is what that is. So
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Speaker 1: Luca put up video game numbers, video game numbers, and sure. However,
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Speaker 1: the MVP, unfortunately, is not just purely a statistical based situation.
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Speaker 1: They have that weasel term valuable. How do you measure valuable?
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Speaker 1: How do you do it? What's valuable to one person
13:28
Speaker 1: is not valuable to another person. So it's impact, its wins,
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Speaker 1: it's two way accountability. And much of the argument against
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Speaker 1: Luca is he's essentially a designated hitter. He does not
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Speaker 1: do much of anything on defense. And the Lakers they're
13:43
Speaker 1: not elite the money, they're historians. Oh, it's just what
13:47
Speaker 1: a great season. JJ Reddick wanted a parade because they
13:49
Speaker 1: finished in fourth place, So that doesn't seem all that
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Speaker 1: good to me, and the voters would agree. So you
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Speaker 1: know you want to him in the topic. If you're
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Speaker 1: making the argument that Luca Danchik should be in the
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Speaker 1: top three, someone's got to be giving the boot Who
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Speaker 1: you kicking out? Smart guy? Who you kicking out? Who
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Speaker 1: you do? Who are you giving the boot to? Who's
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Speaker 1: getting the booty? Who's getting the booty? Is it gonna
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Speaker 1: be Sga the former Clipper, the engine true for the
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Speaker 1: number one seed Oklahoma City. You're gonna boot him out?
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Speaker 1: Is it? The joker? Nikola Jokic, the top player breathing,
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Speaker 1: although he plays in Denver, so he doesn't get the
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Speaker 1: proper due. That's fine, that's fine, Nikola Jokic, who would
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Speaker 1: much rather watch a horse race than play in the NBA.
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Speaker 1: Or Victor Wembanyama, the Parisian Prodigy, the alien bending the
14:39
Speaker 1: time space continuum and and that's it, bending reality. They're
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Speaker 1: in the in the Alamo, if you will. All right,
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Speaker 1: so this is not a snub. This is actually having
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Speaker 1: some standards and all that, and Luca flirting at this point,
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Speaker 1: he's flirting in that weird I call it the Beard
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Speaker 1: zone where he's having a similar career to James Harden,
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Speaker 1: Luka Dacik, where he's putting up great stats. He's a
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Speaker 1: one way player, is not a two way player, and MVP.
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Speaker 1: These are the prime years of Luca and if you
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Speaker 1: look at the food chain and where you fall. He's
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Speaker 1: pretty far back considering the stats that he puts up,
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Speaker 1: pretty far back. He just is James Harden, for years
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Speaker 1: with the Rockets, would put up outrageous numbers. He did
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Speaker 1: win an MVP Award in Houston. But often you think
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Speaker 1: about the numbers Harden's put up and how many MVPs
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Speaker 1: he should have compared to what he does have. And
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Speaker 1: so it turns out the greatness is not just the points.
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Speaker 1: It's performing under the immense pressure of big games. It's
15:46
Speaker 1: actually occasionally making a play on defense. And that's also
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Speaker 1: that's also part of it. And so those are all
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Speaker 1: things ingredients if you will, that are in the in
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Speaker 1: the recipe. And so that's the reality. So despite av
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Speaker 1: thirty three and a half points per game, which Luca did,
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Speaker 1: and averaging almost eight rebounds and eight assists the game
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Speaker 1: and all that not enough. All right, Meanwhile, the final
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Speaker 1: thought here to the business of basketball. Now, I've said
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Speaker 1: in the past, and this is true, I'm not a
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Speaker 1: shoe guy. I'm not a shoe guy. That being said,
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Speaker 1: I had when I was a kid. I had some
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Speaker 1: pretty good collection. I just wore them of shoes random shoes.
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Speaker 1: So there were some reports over the weekend indicating that
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Speaker 1: the people at Nike, that little clothing company out of Oregon,
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Speaker 1: that Nike is having some issues selling basketball shoes. And
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Speaker 1: the reason that was given is because NBA players are
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Speaker 1: not as popular as they used to be and it's
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Speaker 1: directly affecting Nike able to move basketball shoes. Now, I
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Speaker 1: thought this was interesting. Now, financial experts claim that it's
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Speaker 1: a combination of factors. One of the factors is the
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Speaker 1: lack of player popularity is now directly hitting Nike in
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Speaker 1: the revenue, and then it trickles down obviously the revenue
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Speaker 1: stocks and all that stuff, and it becomes problematic. So
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Speaker 1: the question buy or sell, buy or sell? Nike struggle
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Speaker 1: luggin to sell basketball sneakers because NBA players aren't as
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Speaker 1: popular as they once were in pop culture, So I'm
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Speaker 1: going to buy this now. I would also argue that
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Speaker 1: if you lowered the price of the basketball shoes more
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Speaker 1: people would buy them. God forbid you do that. But
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Speaker 1: I'm buying this. The general premise hook line and sinker,
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Speaker 1: I am Nike isn't per se the problem. It's the
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Speaker 1: product that they're tied to and the way things have
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Speaker 1: gone under the leadership of Adam Silver, He's allowed this
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Speaker 1: to happen, and really just the general mindset of so
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Speaker 1: many of these guys, not that they're not talented, however,
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Speaker 1: the stars in the NBA today have never been lazier,
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Speaker 1: never been lazier. They act like they're building the you know,
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Speaker 1: some giant skyscraper and it's just grueling work and it's
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Speaker 1: a nightmare and all that stuff, and oh my god,
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Speaker 1: load management the death of popularity for the NBA. Load
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Speaker 1: management has turned a marquee sport a group of players
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Speaker 1: that were beloved for doing things that mere mortals cannot do,
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Speaker 1: and has turned them into part time performers and has
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Speaker 1: had a group of indoctrinated dumb dumbs who are like, well,
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Speaker 1: some of the fans are supporting them. They're just the
18:51
Speaker 1: problem is the vast majority actually have common sense and
18:55
Speaker 1: they're like, well, we're not going to bond with a ghost,
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Speaker 1: and these guys are ghosts. They show up for fear
19:00
Speaker 1: fifty eight games a year if you're lucky. That's not
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Speaker 1: star power. It's not that scheduled maintenance and a lot
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Speaker 1: of scheduled maintenance, and so it is a crisis of
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Speaker 1: charisma for the younger generation of NBA stars and unlike
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Speaker 1: previous generations where Michael Jordan took the baton from Magic Johnson,
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Speaker 1: Larry Burden and Kobe Bryant took it and continued upward
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Speaker 1: and onward, and then Steph Corey took it. Who's there now?
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Speaker 1: Victor Wibayama is a fine player to watch it all that,
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Speaker 1: it's great and Anthony Edwards in Minnesota and these guys
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Speaker 1: although they're just not moving it. They're just not moving
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Speaker 1: the needle. And a lot of it is why am
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Speaker 1: I going to go out and buy a signature shoe?
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Speaker 1: It's very difficult for Nike to sell a signature shoe
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Speaker 1: shoe for the signature player when they treat the regular
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Speaker 1: season like they're on jury duty. How can I get
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Speaker 1: out of it? What can I do to not play? Yes,
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Speaker 1: I like even look, I'm gonna go over to Europe
20:01
Speaker 1: to get treated, not even though the same treatments available here.
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Speaker 1: But I just want to get away the missile goat
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Speaker 1: man to be great. I missed my hanging on the bench,
20:09
Speaker 1: sitting on a bench holding in these days. It's a
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Speaker 1: shame the actual shoes have more personality than the people
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Speaker 1: wearing the shoes, the stars that are wearing them. And
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Speaker 1: Nike built its empire on selling icons, legends of the game,
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Speaker 1: and now they're marketing what influencers. That's what we're looking
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Speaker 1: at here with jump shots occasionally. Okay, that does not
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Speaker 1: seem like a great transaction to me. The NBA didn't
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Speaker 1: lose ratings overnight. It lost emotional investment. That's even worse.
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Speaker 1: Like the rating is actually not all that bad in
20:47
Speaker 1: the NBA. The connection, the bond, that's the problem, right,
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Speaker 1: the emotional investment, grip by drip, it's just not there.
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Speaker 1: You have other things to do. And if these guys
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Speaker 1: don't want to show up to work, why are you
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Speaker 1: gonna sit there and watch a bunch of backups. It's
21:02
Speaker 1: like going to a Broadway show and they have the
21:05
Speaker 1: fill in. Okay, Well, a Broadway show, if if the
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Speaker 1: person above the marquee does not perform, they give you
21:11
Speaker 1: your money back. That's the standard practice on Broadway, and
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Speaker 1: in the NBA they don't. Now you don't have to
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Speaker 1: watch it though, you don't have to sit there and
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Speaker 1: watch it. And so it's like, I don't think Nike
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden forgot how to show it, so
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Speaker 1: shoes now again the price that they can lower, the price,
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Speaker 1: they'd sell more product, more inventory and all that. The NBA, though,
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Speaker 1: that's the bigger issue, Like they have gone years and
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Speaker 1: years and they just don't think it's that important, and
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Speaker 1: they've tried to change the rules and people complained about that.
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Speaker 1: Why do you have a sixty five game role whether
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Speaker 1: the players don't want to play, okay, but you're being mean.
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Speaker 1: You should You shouldn't make them aasure. You want to
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