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Set 2: Preparing for the Parade (w/ Jess Smetana) · Stugotz and Company

• 0:21
  Speaker 1: Jessica Smettana is with us.
• 0:22
  Speaker 2: Her fiance Lee is a Knicks fan, so by extension,
• 0:26
  Speaker 2: jess is a Knicks fan. Has it been being a
• 0:31
  Speaker 2: girlfriend of a Knicks fan the past seven years?
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  Speaker 3: Jess pretty bleak stew Gods. I was looking at the
• 0:36
  Speaker 3: Knicks roster in like twenty nineteen when we started dating,
• 0:40
  Speaker 3: actually before we even started dating. I don't think I've
• 0:43
  Speaker 3: told anyone this story, but Leem and I both worked
• 0:46
  Speaker 3: at Sports Illustrated. That's where we met. And it was
• 0:49
  Speaker 3: the night of the two thousand and nineteen NBA Draft lottery,
• 0:55
  Speaker 3: right and the Knicks had a shot at Zion Williamson.
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  Speaker 3: So Lee may Lee made dinner and we met back
• 1:02
  Speaker 3: at the office at like seven o'clock at night with
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  Speaker 3: him and our other friend, Dave, who's a huge Knicks fan,
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  Speaker 3: and we watched them pull the ping pong balls to
• 1:10
  Speaker 3: see where the Knicks would land, and when the Pelicans
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  Speaker 3: got the first ping pong ball or whatever whichever order
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  Speaker 3: it came in, Lee and his friend Dave just both
• 1:21
  Speaker 3: sank to the ground and I just stood there and
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  Speaker 3: laughed at them. And they were so sad. They wanted
• 1:25
  Speaker 3: Zion so bad, and they were so upset, and then
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  Speaker 3: I was seeing a video of them, of course making
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  Speaker 3: fun of them, and at the end of the video
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  Speaker 3: you just hear Lee go, well, I guess that means
• 1:35
  Speaker 3: we'll get RJ. Barrett like he was like, so that
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  Speaker 3: boy did? Wait? Yeah, and yeah that was That was
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  Speaker 3: where this all began.
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  Speaker 4: As part of that experience being able to see somebody
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  Speaker 4: at their lowest moment and being like, you know what,
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  Speaker 4: I love you now. I'm gonna love you through no
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  Speaker 4: matter what. If I watch you collapse to the ground
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  Speaker 4: off an NBA lottery, there's really nothing we can't get
• 2:00
  Speaker 4: through it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's definitely true. I mean we've had a few
• 2:02
  Speaker 3: of those moments in our relationship, Taylor. I'll save it
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  Speaker 3: for the wedding vows, but certainly the Knicks among the
• 2:09
  Speaker 3: lowest I've ever seen him, and I think that goes
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  Speaker 3: for Knicks fans watching the Knicks also, it's like, we've
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  Speaker 3: seen you at your worst, your absolute worst. We've seen
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  Speaker 3: some bad basketball and we've stuck through it, and we've
• 2:21
  Speaker 3: gone to games at MSG. Some of them have been
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  Speaker 3: huge stinkers. I'd say most of them have been huge stinkers.
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  Speaker 3: And there's always that glimmer of hope that like this,
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  Speaker 3: this Kevin Knox selection, this one's gonna be the one
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  Speaker 3: that changes the franchise or Frankmi Lacken or whoever it is. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and it turns out after all of this, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: for me, it's only been seven years, but the last
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  Speaker 3: few years it's like bad. They're actually building something. You
• 2:44
  Speaker 3: could tell it was different, and I'm still just shocked
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  Speaker 3: that they were able to pull it off as good
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  Speaker 3: as they've been the last two years. Like I personally
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  Speaker 3: felt a sense of disbelief on Saturday watching Game five.
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  Speaker 1: I would say that's grounds for a breakup.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if he alls to the floor emotionally because
• 3:01
  Speaker 2: they didn't get Zion Williamson, I'm surprised you're still with them, Taylor.
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  Speaker 3: Don't pretend like you didn't also fall to the floor
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  Speaker 3: after the Nicks missed out on another top lottery pick.
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  Speaker 4: I think I called that the second worst night of
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  Speaker 4: my life. The first worst night of my life was
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  Speaker 4: the night Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving chose the Brooklyn Nets.
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  Speaker 4: Jess I tweeted that that day, when Katie and Kyrie
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  Speaker 4: went to Brooklyn, the Knicks will never recover from that.
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  Speaker 1: How wrong you were.
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  Speaker 3: That's so good man. I forgot about the nets like
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  Speaker 3: the last like three months, I've forgot they existed.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, same for us. We listen. Our season never goes
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  Speaker 2: this far. It never goes this close to football. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what to do with myself.
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  Speaker 3: I know it's crazy to you guys. I couldn't agree
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  Speaker 3: with you more. But it's not over yet, because we
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  Speaker 3: still got the parade on Thursday. Yeah, that will be
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  Speaker 3: the real celebration.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So you attending the well, let's let's let's start here.
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  Speaker 2: Is Lee attending the parade? Does he want to go
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  Speaker 2: to the parade?
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  Speaker 3: We all want to go to the parade. We're a
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  Speaker 3: little Did.
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  Speaker 1: You live on the parade route?
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  Speaker 3: I believe yes, we're pretty close. We want to go.
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  Speaker 3: We are not sure what time we'll have to wake
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  Speaker 3: up to get a spot along the parade route.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: If it's before six am, it's probably not gonna happen
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  Speaker 3: for me. But I fully support if Lee wants to
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  Speaker 3: go get a spot at six At five am, I
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  Speaker 3: will walk the dog. I will make sure everything at
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  Speaker 3: home is okay. Maybe I'll try to meet him after,
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  Speaker 3: but personally for me not getting up before six am.
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  Speaker 4: If Lee needs somebody to go at five am, Jess,
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  Speaker 4: you know I will go with Lee.
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  Speaker 1: Stu Me and Lee's very nice of you.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, me and me and Lee's next experience was, Hey,
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  Speaker 4: we're gonna watch game three together at a bar. We
• 4:52
  Speaker 4: watch Game three together. The Knicks lose. After the game,
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  Speaker 4: we look at each other and go, well, it's been
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  Speaker 4: nice seeing you this series. We don't want to jinx
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  Speaker 4: the team anymore.
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  Speaker 1: I love you.
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  Speaker 4: Lee. Let's let's find somewhere else to watch the game separately.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. And it worked.
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  Speaker 2: It worked right, Yeah, you were zero to one watching
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  Speaker 2: a game together.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: And Lee told me afterwards he was like Taylor just
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  Speaker 3: kind of like turned into a pumpkin at halftime, Like
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  Speaker 3: he didn't talk for two hours, like the second half
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  Speaker 3: of the game. He was just frozen.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. And I was like, he didn't have a mic
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  Speaker 1: in front of his face.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I was like, I honestly I could see
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  Speaker 3: him being too nervous to speak because he was so
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  Speaker 3: scared that the Knicks were going to blow the game,
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  Speaker 3: which they did.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, you'll laugh at this.
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  Speaker 2: A Game four, at halftime, we got what felt like
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  Speaker 2: an angry group text saying tomorrow morning.
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  Speaker 1: Nine am, and that's all it said. It was definitely
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  Speaker 1: some Matt like he had thought we had lost that game.
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  Speaker 2: We're down by twenty nine. It was attitude. He was depressed.
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  Speaker 2: It's the lowest I've ever seen him based on a text.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't say much the text, but Mikey felt that
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  Speaker 2: you could feel the anger coming through that text, right,
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  Speaker 2: Mike It.
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  Speaker 1: Fuck you was written in the text. It just said
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow morning, nine of you and fuck you.
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  Speaker 2: Right anyway, So Taylor did his part. You know, it's
• 6:08
  Speaker 2: odd because people are congratulating me. Just just did it
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  Speaker 2: before we started here. Hey, congratulations winning a title. I
• 6:15
  Speaker 2: didn't win anything. I mean, I didn't do anything, And
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  Speaker 2: so I don't know how to respond to these things.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like what Taylor is congratulated, He's like, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: It takes full credit. Why are you congratulating me? And
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  Speaker 2: what did you do to help the Knicks win an
• 6:28
  Speaker 2: NBA championship?
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  Speaker 3: Jazz, you know what Stegot's us us fans us Nick fans.
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  Speaker 3: We did everything we could because this series, especially the finals,
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  Speaker 3: like Taylor said, anything you were doing for Game three,
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  Speaker 3: don't do it for Game four, and I would even say,
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  Speaker 3: whatever I was doing in the first half of Game four,
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  Speaker 3: I stopped doing it in the second half of Game
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  Speaker 3: four because I wanted the Knicks to turn around. Even
• 6:51
  Speaker 3: those twenty nine points whatever it was at halftime, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it was seemed like an insurmountable lead. I wanted to
• 6:57
  Speaker 3: sort of do like a reverse Jink situation. I even
• 7:00
  Speaker 3: made plans Stutts to go hang out with my friend
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  Speaker 3: out east this weekend because I thought, you know, if
• 7:07
  Speaker 3: Game five is not a close out game, I'm gonna
• 7:09
  Speaker 3: go out of town for the weekend, like like many
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  Speaker 3: New Yorkers do in the summertime, because it's you know,
• 7:14
  Speaker 3: ninety five degrees in the city. And I knew as
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  Speaker 3: soon as I made those plans, game five was going
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  Speaker 3: to become a close out game, and it did, so
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  Speaker 3: I ended up staying in the city this weekend, and
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  Speaker 3: that was that was because of me trying to reverse
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  Speaker 3: Jinks the Knicks into having a comeback.
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  Speaker 1: Well, congratulations to you for winning an NBA championship.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I would also add that the last thirty
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  Speaker 3: six hours, I have liked every single video that I've
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  Speaker 3: seen of like these talk shows that I don't watch,
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  Speaker 3: like Good Morning America, like Jimmy Fail, whatever it is.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just like, I'm going through my phone, Michael Bridges,
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  Speaker 3: Instagram Live, and I'm liking everything. There's not been a
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  Speaker 3: single piece of Knick's content that I have not immediately
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  Speaker 3: liked because it's just made me smiles.
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  Speaker 2: Which one has made you smile the most, like laugh
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  Speaker 2: the most? It has to be Michal Bridges, right.
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  Speaker 3: That was when he was singing to his dog. That
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  Speaker 3: was probably the most relatable thing that I've seen. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I think the five of them on I think it
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  Speaker 3: was Good Morning America and they get asked a question
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  Speaker 3: and no one responds. That was very funny because they're
• 8:24
  Speaker 3: all so hungover, like But I would say the other
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  Speaker 3: thing that has been really funny ste Guts is I've
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  Speaker 3: listened to so much of Jalen Brunt's podcast over the
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  Speaker 3: last like two years, however long it's been, and this
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  Speaker 3: man is so stoic and monotone and emotionless and as
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  Speaker 3: soon as they want on Saturday, all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 3: I'm hearing him speak with this tone of voice that
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know he I didn't know he could do
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  Speaker 3: that like he's saying things and I'm like, he's smiling,
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  Speaker 3: he's happy. It's been absolutely jarring to see. So every
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  Speaker 3: clip that I've seen of Jalen Brunson smiling looking happy,
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  Speaker 3: I've been like, I support this, I endorse this. So
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  Speaker 3: this is you can do that more often, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Because until they won, you thought he was incapable of emotion, right.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's just the most stoic, to an extreme
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  Speaker 3: I would say, to an extreme word. In press conferences
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  Speaker 3: sometimes I'm like, oh my god, like this is the
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  Speaker 3: driest thing I've ever heard in MyD No.
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  Speaker 1: Abby yells at him.
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  Speaker 2: She found herself yelling at him, like say something for right, right, And.
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  Speaker 3: He finally man when he had the towel over his
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  Speaker 3: head after they won and Josh Hart went up to
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  Speaker 3: them studds goosebumps.
• 9:37
  Speaker 1: Ye would you make of that? Source sport Wemby, huh.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Wemby. Here's the thing. I don't hate Wemby as
• 9:44
  Speaker 3: much to him most people do. At the moment, I
• 9:48
  Speaker 3: would have been if if the Western Conference Finals were
• 9:51
  Speaker 3: the NBA Finals, I would have still been rooting for
• 9:53
  Speaker 3: the Spurs, like I did not want to see the
• 9:55
  Speaker 3: Thunder winning championship. So if there were any other team
• 9:58
  Speaker 3: but the Knicks, I think I would have for the
• 10:00
  Speaker 3: Spurs in the finals. But I think Wenby's going to
• 10:03
  Speaker 3: have his time. It's just not not yet that that
• 10:05
  Speaker 3: team was not ready to win a championship. You could
• 10:08
  Speaker 3: tell that they were not as resilient as the Knicks
• 10:11
  Speaker 3: over the last five games.
• 10:13
  Speaker 2: Jess has experienced New Yorkers, and you, as someone who's
• 10:16
  Speaker 2: been to multiple championship parades because you root for every
• 10:19
  Speaker 2: single team, I don't think Taylor is aware of what
• 10:22
  Speaker 2: he's getting himself into. So, Mikey, I'm thinking there might
• 10:26
  Speaker 2: be a situation Taylor needs to get into the city
• 10:28
  Speaker 2: on Wednesday night, you don't want to wake up Thursday morning,
• 10:31
  Speaker 2: and you get yourself to the parade, and I'm thinking
• 10:33
  Speaker 2: perhaps a sleepover with Lee, Jess and Taylor.
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: What do you think?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Taylor, we do have a fold out couch.
• 10:40
  Speaker 3: You're welcome to it.
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: Willow, that's where you're going to sleep. Taylor's gonna say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I thought I thought Lee and Taylor would share the
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  Speaker 1: best Honestly.
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  Speaker 3: That might happen. Willow has a really nice memory foam
• 10:54
  Speaker 3: bed too, so if you want to sleep there and
• 10:56
  Speaker 3: she can sleep on the foldout, that would also work
• 10:59
  Speaker 3: for us.
• 11:00
  Speaker 2: Now, the real KYJSS is finding someone who has an
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  Speaker 2: office that oversees that has a balcony that oversees the
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  Speaker 2: parade and you just hang out in the office.
• 11:07
  Speaker 3: Right Stecott's my father in law to be. The minutes
• 11:12
  Speaker 3: after the game ended, was like, can someone look up
• 11:15
  Speaker 3: real estate listings along the parade route so we can
• 11:19
  Speaker 3: go and rent out empty office space and throw ticker
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  Speaker 3: tape out the wind. I'm like, what on Earth? All
• 11:25
  Speaker 3: morning today he's been texting about, like where can we go?
• 11:28
  Speaker 3: Is there a rooftop bar on Broad I'm like, there's
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  Speaker 3: no chance we're going to be able to get in
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  Speaker 3: one of these buildings. But I will say I have
• 11:35
  Speaker 3: been to a ticker tape parade in New York City
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  Speaker 3: before the last one that I don't know if it
• 11:40
  Speaker 3: was the last one, because I think the Liberty may
• 11:42
  Speaker 3: have had one. But the twenty nineteen World Cup Women's
• 11:45
  Speaker 3: World Cup team that won the World Cup had a
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  Speaker 3: ticker tape parade and I was working at Sports Illustrated
• 11:49
  Speaker 3: at the time, so it was like three blocks away.
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  Speaker 3: So we just walked down to Broadway. It was awesome
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  Speaker 3: and huge, huge crowd. Probably nothing close to what the
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  Speaker 3: crowd is going to be like Thursday, but huge crowd.
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  Speaker 3: It was also, I want to say, June or July.
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  Speaker 3: The ticker tape was flying out of the Woolworth Building.
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  Speaker 3: There was you know, streamers everywhere and confetti everywhere. It
• 12:07
  Speaker 3: was so much fun and it was just such an
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  Speaker 3: awesome environment. But I would say whatever is gonna happen
• 12:14
  Speaker 3: Thursday is gonna be much closer to the crazy twenty
• 12:17
  Speaker 3: sixteen Cubs World Series frenzy where there were like a
• 12:21
  Speaker 3: million people crammed into downtown Chicago, but a much shorter
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  Speaker 3: parade route because it's only going from Battery Park to
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  Speaker 3: City Hall, which is not far.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna feel like when the Rangers won the Stanley
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  Speaker 2: Cup with Mark Messier. It's gonna have that kind of feel, Taylor.
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  Speaker 2: I'm telling you, if your plans to go in there
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  Speaker 2: on Thursday, man, you're gonna have a tough time getting there.
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  Speaker 2: Like I don't know if you've thought this through. I
• 12:40
  Speaker 2: mean I haven't.
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  Speaker 1: We're trying to help you, man. You need to get
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: into Manhattan on Wednesday night. You should go there now.
• 12:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you should leave now. You can get here by
• 12:53
  Speaker 3: Tuesday night if you leave now.
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: Yes. How was Championship Night?
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  Speaker 4: Like?
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  Speaker 1: Put us there? What was Lee doing? What happened?
• 12:58
  Speaker 3: It was crazy? Like Lee was not okay. I would say,
• 13:02
  Speaker 3: like probably the most worried I've been about him as
• 13:06
  Speaker 3: a fiance or a girlfriend. Yeah, including like multiple you know,
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  Speaker 3: natural disasters and pandemic Like it was a scary. He
• 13:15
  Speaker 3: basically turned into like a seven year old boy at
• 13:18
  Speaker 3: one point, Like I saw the years melt off of
• 13:20
  Speaker 3: him and he just became childlike and was sort of
• 13:23
  Speaker 3: like rocking back and forth on the floor, and like
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  Speaker 3: I said, he didn't talk for like an hour, and
• 13:29
  Speaker 3: he wanted he wanted to watch the game at home
• 13:31
  Speaker 3: because he watched the first two games and Game four
• 13:33
  Speaker 3: at home, so he didn't want to like go out
• 13:34
  Speaker 3: to a bar.
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: Like with Taylor and blow you guys, tell you yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But as soon as the game ended, you guys, I
• 13:40
  Speaker 3: mean you could hear the screams outside and then people
• 13:44
  Speaker 3: started blowing off fireworks and we could just hear just
• 13:48
  Speaker 3: thousands of people out throughout the entire city screaming. So
• 13:53
  Speaker 3: we went out for a drink afterwards, and our neighborhood
• 13:57
  Speaker 3: was completely swarmed. It was nuts. We found a bar,
• 14:00
  Speaker 3: one of our favorite bars. The owner was in such
• 14:03
  Speaker 3: a great moody, you know, got us drinks and then
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  Speaker 3: Lee's parents came and Lee hugged his dad and they cried.
• 14:08
  Speaker 3: It was very cute and it was very very special.
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  Speaker 3: We took a picture together. I saw the largest rat
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  Speaker 3: that I have seen in my life while we were
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: taking this picture, and it, truly it didn't FaZe me
• 14:22
  Speaker 3: because I was like, I love New York so much.
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  Speaker 3: This rat the size of a possum, could do whatever
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  Speaker 3: it wants to me right now, and there's nothing I
• 14:28
  Speaker 3: would do about it. It was it was magical.
• 14:30
  Speaker 4: What was pat Riley doing there?
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: I was. I was going through the role I was
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: debating between Riley Wenby.
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  Speaker 3: This rat was Wemby sides. This was the Victor women
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: Yama of rats. It was like, honestly, I think if
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: my dog was face to face with this rat in
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: the street, my dog, who is like fifty pounds, would
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: run the other direction.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, but pat the rat, he chose wisely.
• 15:09
  Speaker 4: Jess on the topic of Lee acting like a seven
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: year old, what did you think of Timothy Schallomey in
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: the in the locker room after the game, because he
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: also looked like a seven year old that was getting
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: the chance to meet all his favorite players for the
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: first time.
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: He went back on the plane with them.
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, I've said this before, but like Chalomey
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: and Lee are so similar in a lot of their
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: you know, like they they both grew up in like
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: a similar place. They both were like child actors, Like
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: they're both huge Nick fans. Like they they remind me
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: of each other. So when I saw Tommy in the
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: locker room, I said, in a in a parallel universe,
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: this was Lee and this is his childhood dream, and
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: I love that for him. And look us Timmy fans,
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: we've been down bad this past year, Taylor, Like, it's
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: not been good for us, and things were finally looking
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: up over the last month with this Knicks run and
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: like people starting to like Timmy again. Then he goes
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: and does like a calci ad and everyone's pissed at
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: him again. So I got mixed feelings on Timmy right now,
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: but I was happy to see him there. I mean,
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: he's a true fan, you know, It's like he's not
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: one of those like posers who's like, oh, like I'm
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: you know, I sit court side at MSG. I'm I'm
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: a big shot celebrity. Like, no, he's him, Mariska, Tracy Morgan,
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: Ben Stiller. I mean, they're they are in the trenches
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: with the knicks even when they're not good.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: But what is KRK Carpentry doing?
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's a great question. I love this one
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: photoshopped his dog in that.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: I believe it. I thought you fell for it.
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: For that's amazing. Yeah, I mean it was a good photoshop.
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: I don't blame you, but it was.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: It got me. Who else is it? Fake? Nick fan?
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: Taylor Swift no business being there? Right enough?
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: Well, okay, I don't know if you saw there was
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: like tons of beef between Monica McNutt and the Swifties
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: over the last weeks. Two guys, because I guess Monica
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: McNutt said that she hadn't seen Taylor at MSG all
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: season and that she was at like the Cavs game,
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: you know, the series before with Travis and was like
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: basically his say. I don't know exactly what she said.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: I didn't hear it, but like she said something about
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: how she's not you know not like a diehard Knicks fan,
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: and all the Swifties on at Monica McNutt and then
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: Jalen Brunson after the championship game to Monica McNutt said
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: on the mic, cut her some slack, all right, like
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: she's she's a good one, And I like that he
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: did that because Monica McNutt is awesome.
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: Yes, dude, this is something that Jess has experience in.
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: There are a few celebrities that you cannot say anything
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: about because their fans will come after you, and right,
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: and the Swifties are at the top of this list.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, And yes, like Taylor said, I have experience with this,
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: there are certain female pop stars you should never talk.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: About publicly, like who else Beyonce?
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: She's definitely one of them. Yes, right, For a while,
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: Nicki Minaj was one of them. I'm not sure if
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: that's still the case. I won't name name, but there
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: are others. Taylor Swift, I think is probably among the
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: most tread lightly celebrities out there.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: So when her and Travis get married at Madison Square Garden,
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: will the next championship immediately become the second biggest event
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: in the last six months?
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: Honestly, that's a good call, probably, And I still can't
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: believe that she's getting married at MSG, Like that is
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: so strange. As someone who is planning a wedding right now,
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: I can't even imagine what is Like, how are you
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: having this many guests at your wedding? We are having
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: like a decent sized wedding, And I'm already like, I
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: can't do this. This is too much.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: Yes, Taylor, that's your dream though, right, so I mean
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: get married at a mecca?
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: At mid court? Oh god, jess, what do you make here?
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Just shifting over to college football here, what do you
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: make of Soresby no longer at Texas? To Key is
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: going to the sublement mental Draft. I didn't realize we
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: still had one of those. But someone's gonna take Swordsby
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: because the talents is just so overwhelming that a GM
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: is gonna, for lack of a better term, roll the
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: dice some bred than Sorsby.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's been really hard to not make gambling
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: analogies when like talking about anything in sports, but especially
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: this scenarios. I'm like, oh man, I don't mean to
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: make a joke here.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: What jokes are we hearing? Like taking him would be
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: a crapshoot.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, like exactly, Like, are you going to take a
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: gamble on a quarterback with a with a gambling addiction.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: It's like, seems like a real risk, right, Yeah.
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: He's betting on himself going to the supplementum.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: True, exactly, It's hard. Okay. So I would say since
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: Texas Tech has made his mental health like the thing
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: that they keep talking about and all of their press releases,
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: I do think if you are concerned with his mental health,
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: this is the best option for him because he would
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: have been public enemy number one for this entire football season,
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: especially because Texas Tech. You know that I think they're
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: gonna be really good. This again, here's another gambling thing.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: Their win totals like ten and a half this season,
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: which is the highest in the Big Twelve. They are,
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: their schedules not very hard, and so they would have
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: had a ton of games, and he would have played
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: in front of national audiences and probably made it to
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: the playoff. If you know, they've met the expectation ten
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: and a half games, they probably are a playoff team,
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: and he just would have gotten absolutely eviscerated throughout this
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: entire thing. Like I think it would have been really
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: hard to perform under the circumstances. So I think this
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: is probably the best thing for him and his mental health.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: If he's, you know, has this gambling addiction, if he's
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: going through anxiety, if this has been as bad for him,
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: and you know, he had to do thirty days in
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: an impatient rehab facility, Like I think being the quarterback
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: for Texas Tech this fall would have been pretty rough.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: That being said, I I question how voluntary any of
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: this is because if you're reading between the lines, and like,
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: we're recording this Tuesday morning, so I don't know if
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: more reporting will come out before this does. Like whose
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: decision was this, Like did they feel like this was
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: the safest option because of the text the big twelves
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: filing that they filed on Monday that would have potentially
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: risked further down the road him being ineligible after the
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: supplemental draft deadline, or was this Texas text saying like
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: this has been a huge pr hit and we kind
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: of wanted this to be over, so we think you
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: should go. Like, I'm kind of curious who made up
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: their minds here. I'd like to think it was him
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: and he and his agent and his family and his
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: team were like, let's just cut our losses and go like, right,
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: we still have a chance in the professional leagues. Like
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: you're a good quarterback, you can do this. And I'd
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: like to think that that's what happened, but I'm really
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: not sure Steve Gottson until I find that out. I'm
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: kind of kind of curious what happened over the last
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: twenty four hours.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: Don't you feel like it's some sort of combination, like
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Texas Tech is like, Hey, this story is it's gaining
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: too much traction. There's too much criticism here, Swords be
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: saying and his with NFL gms, someone's gonna take them, Jess,
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: because you're so talented and nflgms don't care.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: And maybe it's just a joint decision. Hey, you're gonna
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: get drafted.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: Let's just go to the NFL now and get this
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: away from Texas Tech and college football in general.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: You know, yeah, I mean it's possible. But I'm also
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: I wonder how threatened they were by the Big Twelve
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: being able to say you're banned from Big Twelve postseason games,
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: or you know, we can put sanctions on you or
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: whatever because I guess like one of the things. And
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: obviously I'm not a lawyer. I'm you know, I'm not
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: working at a law firm, So this is just based
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: off of what I've read. The Attorney General for Texas
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: wrote a letter last week that apparently opened the way
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: for the Big Twelve to post a lawsuit asking a
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: federal judge if they could enforce their own rules basically,
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: And so I wonder if that hadn't happened last week,
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: if the Big Twelve, if Texas Tech just thought like,
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: the Big Twelve can try, but they don't have enough
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: teeth to really go through any sort of punishment or
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: sanctions for us, And if that's what changed over the
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: last week, then they probably did tell him like, hey,
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: you should go because we're not really sure if you
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: are going to be able to play. And then you know,
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: once we get past the supplemental draft deadline, it's too late.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: So I am kind of curious like what exactly it was.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: But yeah, in my heart of hearts, I hope that
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: it was just someone making an adult decision in the
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: room and saying like, this is what's best for you
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: and you should do this.
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: Just switching to the world Cup. There is a Stu
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: Goats of the World Cup going around right now getting
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: free stuff city to city. What can you tell us
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: more about this? This Freddy super fan.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: So this guy Freddy, he popped up on my timeline
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: last week like around this time. He was driving around
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: the Southeast. He's, you know, posting all his pictures of
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: stuff that he was seeing in America, and I was like,
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: this is so awesome. Look at this BUCkies. This is
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: a gas station. I can't believe this. And it was
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: very charming and cute, and a lot of you know,
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: American fans who are very down on this World Cup
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: for a lot of obvious reasons, were like, this is
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: a feel good thing. There's all these you know, people
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: from abroad coming to the US and finding the joy
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: in the simple things, the things we take for granted
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: this country, like a ginormous gas station that sells brisket
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: and has just so many bathrooms in it. And so
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: it was very it was very cute. And then as
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: time went on, I kind of had this thought last
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: week like if I'm not saying Freddy is in the CIA,
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: but if I were in the CIA, one thing that
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: I would do to make America look awesome. Would be
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: to have European travelers post a bunch of pictures about
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: how awesome the United States is, yes, and make other
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: American Americans be like, oh, oh, this isn't so bad,
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: Like we have a pretty good year, we have BUCkies,
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: Like how bad can it be? Not saying that he's
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: in the CIA, but I'm saying if I were in
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: the CIA, that's probably what I would do. But then
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: I thought, you know, maybe that's too cynical. Maybe he's not.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: Maybe they're like, you know, this is just organic. But
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: Stu Gotts he started getting all the people all over
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: the place started finding this guy and giving him free stuff.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: And then I thought, maybe I'm being cynical, but the
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: wrong way, where like, this guy's not a government plant.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: This guy is just doing the American grift of if
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: I post a lot, I'll get free stuff. Because now
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: he's just gotten so much free stuff. JJ Watt got
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: him a hotel room in Houston. What yeah, oh oh yeah,
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: like beautiful hotel room. He hooked him up with bagels
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: and schmears and all this. I mean, just like he's
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: getting all this stuff Stu Gotts, And so I thought,
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: you know, maybe Freddy is more American than we think.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Yes, maybe he's me.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: Maybe maybe Freddy is just Stu Gotts. His Twitter account
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: does say it's based in Germany. I don't know how
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: easy it is to fudge those things. I'm not again,
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: I'm not claiming he is a CIA plant. I'm just
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: saying it's doing a good job of marketing the United
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: States to people who may not have the best opinion
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: of the United States.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: Yes, is the Twitter handle at Stutts ninety, I mean,
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: does it really? Yes, it's my burner account, it's at
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: freddie la seven. The least surprising thing that Jess said
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: was JJ Watt inserting himself into this story. Well, he
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: always does, I mean, that's what he does. Yes, free
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: the hotel room, right that he didn't get for free.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: The hotel comped it. And you know, you know, JJ
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: looks like a hero.