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  Speaker 3: Well, if you like the NBA Finals, you're bummed out.
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  Speaker 1: And if you had the NBA Finals having a classic
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  Speaker 1: Game seven, you are a loser.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Much of the chatter that people are excited about is
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  Speaker 1: not Game seven. It's the Kevin Durant trade. Durant every
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  Speaker 1: three years is traded. This time he goes to Houston.
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  Speaker 1: More buzz on that. We'll talk about it as we
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  Speaker 1: go through the overnight. But it was the end of
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  Speaker 1: the road for pro bouncy ball. That's all she wrote.
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  Speaker 1: The NBA regular season. I went back and I looked
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  Speaker 1: begin two hundred and forty four days prior to Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and forty four days. It began with the
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  Speaker 1: Knickerbockers playing the then reigning champion Boston Celtics back in
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  Speaker 1: October October twenty second before Halloween of last year, and
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  Speaker 1: it ended exactly eight months later to the day. Eight
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  Speaker 1: months later. The thunder and Pacers brought the curtain down.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't bring the house down, they brought the curtain
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  Speaker 1: down there in the NBA Finals Game seven, small market,
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  Speaker 1: small markets. Were you watching? Were you no? You were
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  Speaker 1: not watching. I've seen the ratings. No one was watching.
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  Speaker 1: There were seven people watching.
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  Speaker 3: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: But we watched. It's our good mits for the day.
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  Speaker 1: We checked it out so you would not have to.
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  Speaker 1: And what happened well in Game seven. The thing everyone's
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  Speaker 1: talking about is not the game itself, something that happened
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  Speaker 1: early in the game. But in the end, Shade jogis Alexander.
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  Speaker 1: He was inefficient, but he had twenty nine points and
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  Speaker 1: ends up winning the Finals MVP Award as OKC pulls
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  Speaker 1: away in the third quarter and cements the lead in
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, and they zoom passed a short handed
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  Speaker 1: Pacer team one to three to ninety one turn out
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  Speaker 1: the last the parties over for Indiana and for Oklahoma
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  Speaker 1: for that matter. Game seven of the NBA Finals in
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  Speaker 1: the books now SGA he needed twenty seven shots to
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  Speaker 1: get to twenty nine points in game seven. I'm told
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  Speaker 1: that is not particularly good, but it didn't matter. He
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  Speaker 1: still won the MVP eight of twenty seven. That's my computer,
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  Speaker 1: like brain tells me. Twenty nine point six percent from
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  Speaker 1: the floor, nineteen misshots in game seven, and he still
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  Speaker 1: ends up winning the finals MVP.
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  Speaker 3: Which is the full body of work.
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  Speaker 1: But the story here is the injury and how it
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  Speaker 1: impacts the outcome of this game. So let us discuss
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  Speaker 1: yay or nay? The Oklahoma City Thunder Championship for Schee
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  Speaker 1: jogas Alexander downgraded, downgraded because of the Tyrese haliburt and
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  Speaker 1: achilles injury in the first quarter of the close out
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  Speaker 1: final game of this series. So I've got tears for Fears, spreadsheet,
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  Speaker 1: and prison camp and we will combine all of these
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  Speaker 1: things together and we are going to make a nice
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  Speaker 1: banana cream pie that you can throw in someone's face
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  Speaker 1: if you want.
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  Speaker 3: I don't care.
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  Speaker 1: So a to answer the question, the Championship for Oklahoma
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  Speaker 1: City yay or nay? The shay jogis Alexander Championship for
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  Speaker 1: the Thunder downgraded because of the injury to Tyrese Halliburton,
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  Speaker 1: pop goes the Achilles.
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  Speaker 3: Is it yay or nay?
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  Speaker 1: So the error on this one's pointing the direction of
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  Speaker 1: yay as in yes, as in absolutely sorry, not sorry.
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  Speaker 1: I know how these things work. We understand how these
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  Speaker 1: things work. It is not invalid.
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  Speaker 3: I am not.
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  Speaker 1: Saying that the championship of Oklahoma City is invalid. That
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  Speaker 1: is not what I am saying. Do not misquote me.
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  Speaker 1: What I am merely saying is that it is diminished.
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  Speaker 1: That is my point, okay, And you can't fight me
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  Speaker 1: on that.
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  Speaker 3: That's the reality. Right, every man, woman and child.
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  Speaker 1: Knows that was paying any attention to the NBA Finals
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  Speaker 1: that the moment Tyrese Haliburton went down, that's it. It's
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  Speaker 1: like taking the engine out of a car and expecting
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  Speaker 1: you to win the Indy five hundred right now. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: once in a while it'll happen, but normally you need
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  Speaker 1: the engine to win the race. And that was the moment,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, we went and looked. That's the moment
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  Speaker 1: Steven A. Smith started playing Solitaire that he knew the
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  Speaker 1: game was all. He picked up the solitaire right there,
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  Speaker 1: he said, that's it. That's a solitaire moment. Halliburton is
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  Speaker 1: the playmaker. We know that he's the head of the
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  Speaker 1: snake and all those things, and so you take him
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  Speaker 1: out of the equation, the arithmetic as much different. Is
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  Speaker 1: obviously much to You're not facing the real Indiana Pacers
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  Speaker 1: at that particular mallmt and so that's the reality. That's
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  Speaker 1: not the same test. It's like the questions are easier
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  Speaker 1: at that particular moment. And even with that, Indiana still
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  Speaker 1: had a very slim lead midway through the game. So
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  Speaker 1: twenty four minutes to go, Indiana had a slight lead.
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  Speaker 1: But don't tell me that this is the same battle
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  Speaker 1: tested Blood Soak Championship Game seven, iron willed win without
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  Speaker 1: Halliburton on the court.
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  Speaker 3: It's just not. It's simply not true by any way
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  Speaker 3: you look at it. It's not true right now.
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  Speaker 1: That being said, I know from doing this show over
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  Speaker 1: the years, and we've been here when this similar situation
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  Speaker 1: has happened, maybe not an achilles injury, but a major
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  Speaker 1: injury in the NBA Finals in my watch here at
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  Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio behind these microphones.
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  Speaker 3: So we've been here a while.
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  Speaker 1: And the thing that I know about this is it's
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  Speaker 1: like the old tears for fear song, memories fade, meaning
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  Speaker 1: like right now, in this moment, we will bring this up,
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  Speaker 1: we will mention this, we will say, hey, listen, that's downgraded.
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  Speaker 1: But over time it gets talked about less and less
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  Speaker 1: and it just goes to the back of history and
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  Speaker 1: he just kind of fades away and you'd have to
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  Speaker 1: like type it into chat GPT to kind of get
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  Speaker 1: the right answer and that. But just like Kevin Durant
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  Speaker 1: injured his achilles and Klay Thompson messed up his knee.
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  Speaker 1: In twenty nineteen, Toronto won the championship. It's been six
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  Speaker 1: years since that happened. Do people still bring that up?
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  Speaker 1: Don't bring it up. But the moment it happened, people
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  Speaker 1: brought it up. They're like, well, that's not legit.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: You know, way back twenty some years ago, the Pistons,
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  Speaker 1: the Four Pistons with Rashid Wallace and those Cats playing
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers, and Karl Malone was playing for the Laker.
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  Speaker 1: He got hurt, he messed up his knee, if I
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  Speaker 1: remember he was injured. They at the time around, well,
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  Speaker 1: there you go, that's why the Pistons were able to win.
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  Speaker 1: But now twenty some years later, people forget about that.
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  Speaker 1: They don't even know about it. Now, the other part
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  Speaker 1: of this page two which blows me away, like shiver
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  Speaker 1: me timbers, right, uh, there are those out there morning
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  Speaker 1: after quarterbacks, if you will, the morning after this was
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  Speaker 1: moments after the injury, who were going on and on
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  Speaker 1: and on by well Tyree's Halliburton should have never been
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  Speaker 1: allowed to play, should have never been allowed to play
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  Speaker 1: for the Pacers. It's malfeasance by the Indiana basketball team.
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  Speaker 1: They should never have allowed him on the court. He
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  Speaker 1: had a pre existing condition. Bad job by them. Oh no, right,
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  Speaker 1: oh no, he popped his achilles in the first quarter.
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  Speaker 3: So where are you at on this one?
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  Speaker 1: Where are you at on those that are screaming this
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  Speaker 1: is on the Pacers. They should not have allowed him
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  Speaker 1: to play. Haliburton should not have been out there. This
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  Speaker 1: is one of those things that blows me away. And
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  Speaker 1: I think some of this is actually just people just
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  Speaker 1: busting balls and just probably Boughty counts on those social
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  Speaker 1: media channels because it's the freaking finals, Like, what do
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  Speaker 1: you even having that coming? It's a chance to win
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  Speaker 1: a championship. No one, No one misses that game. And
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  Speaker 1: if you miss that game. You might as well retire.
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  Speaker 3: If Halliburton had said I'm not gonna play, I might
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  Speaker 3: pop my achilles. You might as well go get a
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  Speaker 3: real job.
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  Speaker 1: You can't show your face in any gymnasium anywhere from
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  Speaker 1: Maine to Maui.
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  Speaker 3: It's over.
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  Speaker 1: You have to play in that game, game seven of
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  Speaker 1: the finals.
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  Speaker 3: You've got to do it.
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  Speaker 1: And Halliburton did it, and he made some shots early,
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  Speaker 1: had nine points. He made three three point shots early.
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  Speaker 1: He got hurt. That sucks, and that's part of the game.
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  Speaker 1: And all these morons, I can't I really hope this
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  Speaker 1: is not legit.
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  Speaker 5: All.
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  Speaker 3: This is just like people trolling and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, come on, if there's anyone who actually believes
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  Speaker 1: that you have the greatest loser mentality of all time,
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  Speaker 1: science should study you.
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  Speaker 3: You are such a loser.
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  Speaker 1: That people should study how big a giant loser you
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  Speaker 1: are and how you got to that particular point where
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  Speaker 1: you wear the giant l on your forehead because you're
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  Speaker 1: a loser. Right again, no IF's ants or but you
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  Speaker 1: got to play. If you're Haliburton, you cannot not play.
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  Speaker 3: You can't. They have to amputate you. Let you gotta
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  Speaker 3: play like there's no no, you can't even in this
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  Speaker 3: soft modern world we live, and you've got to play
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  Speaker 3: in Game seven.
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  Speaker 1: And for those that are, you know, grumbling and again,
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to think this is all nonsense. You should
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  Speaker 1: have played in the game. Why he wasn't one hundred percent,
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  Speaker 1: I would argue, I don't think I'm wrong on this.
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  Speaker 3: What do I know, though?
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  Speaker 1: I do the overnight show that nobody is one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 1: By the time you get the Game seven of the Finals,
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  Speaker 1: you've been playing for eight months of basketball, although many
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  Speaker 1: of the players take a lot of time off, etc.
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  Speaker 3: It's one of those things.
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  Speaker 1: You patch it up, You rub some dirt on it,
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  Speaker 1: get some dirt, get some mud, rub it on there,
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  Speaker 1: and you go. And that's what you're supposed to do.
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  Speaker 1: You gut it out Game seven NBA Finals. That's what
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  Speaker 1: you want Halliburton to do.
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  Speaker 3: What he did it. Now, there is a dimension in.
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  Speaker 1: The multiverse where Halliburton goes out there and he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: pop his achilles, same scenario leading into the game. He
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  Speaker 1: goes out there and plays and plays well, and the
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  Speaker 1: Pacers end up winning Game seven, and rah rah, And
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  Speaker 1: there's a parade in Indianapolis in a couple of days
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  Speaker 1: and all that. So when you dig a little deeper, though,
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  Speaker 1: I had an epiphany as I was cruising over here
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  Speaker 1: to the hallowed hallways of Fox Sports Radio where legends
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  Speaker 1: like Rich Horrera and others James Washington to work back
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  Speaker 1: in the old days here and I was walking in
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  Speaker 1: from the parking lot and I walked by the trash
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  Speaker 1: which hasn't been picked up since Friday.
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  Speaker 3: It's a nice smell, nice aroma. So I walked in there,
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  Speaker 3: and you know what this is?
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  Speaker 1: This is the spreadsheet warriors that have taken over yet again,
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  Speaker 1: another example, another example. It's been about fifteen years or
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  Speaker 1: so since this has become prevalent in modern sports. That is,
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  Speaker 1: the spreadsheet warriors have led to the brain rot among
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  Speaker 1: a segment of sports fans, the analytical Nerd Society of
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  Speaker 1: North America that have said, hey, I've got a graph
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  Speaker 1: that shows injury assessment, injury risk assessment, and this guy
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  Speaker 1: I cannot play out of an abundance of caution? Can
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  Speaker 1: I do it right? And they're all up in arms
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  Speaker 1: and it's not right. He didn't follow the probability model.
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  Speaker 1: Tyrese Holli Merton I'll bear him.
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  Speaker 3: And to that, I say five. Wait, fright is what
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  Speaker 3: I say.
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  Speaker 1: Again, Haliburton. If he hadn't played, he'd be healthy right now,
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  Speaker 1: he wouldn't have a pop achilles and he would have
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  Speaker 1: been haunted by the Kulda woulda should have for the rest.
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  Speaker 3: Of the man's life. Indiana, He's not getting back here.
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  Speaker 3: It's not like the Pacers.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be another generation before the Pacers get back to
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  Speaker 1: the NBA finals. And you're telling me he shouldn't have played,
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  Speaker 1: all right, tell me you dumb without telling me you're
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  Speaker 1: dumb right now. Last word, So let's address the Komodo
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  Speaker 1: dragon in the room. Now, what is the Komodo dragon
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  Speaker 1: in the room? Well, the Oklahoma City Thunder have just
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  Speaker 1: won their first championship as the Oklahoma City Thunder. Now
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  Speaker 1: some will say, well, I'll go back to the Sonic Tis.
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  Speaker 1: I don't count the ghosts of Seattle because I believe
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  Speaker 1: it in the next couple of years, the Sonics will
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  Speaker 1: be born again. They will have the SuperSonics back in Seattle,
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  Speaker 1: and all the championships and all the glory will go
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  Speaker 1: back to Seattle and all that. So those ghosts I
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  Speaker 1: leave behind the team unceremoniously hijacked out of the Pacific
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  Speaker 1: Northwest and they abandoned Seattle because of the oil tyrant
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  Speaker 1: that bought the team from the Starbucks dopes and then
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  Speaker 1: moved it to Oklahoma City. But now we're hearing the
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  Speaker 1: whispers and we're seeing the comments on social media and
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  Speaker 1: the gas bag gasps. Well, they've already been labeled dynasty.
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  Speaker 1: It's they won one championship.
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  Speaker 3: Dynasty. Here we go, dynasty in the making.
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  Speaker 1: Is that how you see it? So I'll go first here.
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  Speaker 1: I look at this like a prison camp. Okay, team
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  Speaker 1: wins title and everyone and their mother becomes hypnotized and mesmerized.
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  Speaker 1: Prisoners of the moment, prison camp, prisoners of the moment.
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  Speaker 1: Slow down, have your little champagne there, have you a
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  Speaker 1: little parade, knock yourself out. Let the confetti hit you,
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  Speaker 1: and then let it hit the ground. At least it
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  Speaker 1: can hit you and then hit the ground and all stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And you can probably hold off on building a statue
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  Speaker 1: for SGA at least not yet. It's a classic recency bias.
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  Speaker 1: We heard the same things last year with the Boston
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  Speaker 1: Celtics winning the championship. They're on their way now, the
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  Speaker 1: Celtics are going to control the NBA for years to
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  Speaker 1: come because they have Tatum and Brown and oh my
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  Speaker 1: god and all that stuff. Now, one ring does not
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  Speaker 1: become the forecast for three or four or five and
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  Speaker 1: one finals, MVP Award, you don't become the face of
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  Speaker 1: the NBA. You're not catapulted up to that level. And
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  Speaker 1: Sam Presty, my god, he's got the cleanest ass in
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  Speaker 1: the NBA. Every TV guy, every media guy in the
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  Speaker 1: NBA has been kissing Sam Presty's ass, going on and
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  Speaker 1: on the executive for Oklahoma City. But they suddenly the
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  Speaker 1: new gold standard and all that stuff makes me want
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  Speaker 1: to puke in my mouth. The dynasty stuff is rather ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: Those require something called repetition, which is the problem. Relevance
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  Speaker 1: over the period of time more than I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: one year, and they are earned because of overcoming injury
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  Speaker 1: like surgeries, and players get, you know, getting unhappy. They're
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  Speaker 1: in a small town. They want to go somewhere else.
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  Speaker 1: You also have the salarycap. You've got to juggle because
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  Speaker 1: everyone's gonna get a lot more money and all that.
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  Speaker 1: So I just don't see it for the thunder, I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't see it. I maybe I'm wrong. I don't
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  Speaker 1: see them as a dynasty. They can prove me wrong
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  Speaker 1: if they want, you know, run it back, do it again.
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  Speaker 1: But even that's not a dynasty. You gotta do it
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  Speaker 1: at least a couple more times. And do it when
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  Speaker 1: guys get hurt, go out and win again with injuries, right,
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  Speaker 1: and when contracts expire and players demand, hey, I want
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  Speaker 1: more money.
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  Speaker 3: The disease of me.
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  Speaker 1: Pat Riley used to talk about that egos getting the way,
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff, and do it when you're being targeted
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  Speaker 1: and you're not the fresh faced underdog start team and
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  Speaker 1: you have nothing to lose in all that. Now, as
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  Speaker 1: for the building of the roster, I would like to
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  Speaker 1: address that. Have the Thunder crack the code? Have they
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  Speaker 1: given us the blueprint that all the other NBA teams
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  Speaker 1: are gonna copy? That would be a no, no way.
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  Speaker 1: The Thunder. I look at them like in baseball, the
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  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Race. These are two teams that can do
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  Speaker 1: what they have done because of where they are. The
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  Speaker 1: Thunder are like the Tampa Bay Rays in baseball. It's
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  Speaker 1: Frankenstein's lab, is what it is. You've got no media pressure.
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  Speaker 1: It's a po dunk town Oklahoma City. You've got that
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  Speaker 1: small town fan base that's just happy they have pro
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  Speaker 1: sports there.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: You've got zero pressure, and you can trade away and
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: just play the lottery game, lottery ball for years to come.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: I can do that.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: That playbook will not work in a big league city.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: Right in a big league city, there will be pressure
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: to have star players. There will be pressured to have success,
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: and you will become irrelevant because the word apathy will apply.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: If you try to do that, people will come apoplectic,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: they will not watch your product. You will become irrelevant.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: You can't do it, you can't get away with it.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: But in time like Olahoma City, you can do it.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: Just like the Tampa Bay Race. They don't nobody cares.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: They just they have a good team every year, but
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: they don't have stars. And they get stars, they get
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: rid of them and that's it.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: That's that.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: Now, what about the dopes And I'm getting some of
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: this crap. They're like cockroaches. They come out here and
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: they're like, oh man, this gotta be a tough day
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: for the Clippers, you know, ripping like somehow, I'm the
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: spokesman for the Clippers, which I'm not. I don't trust man.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: I don't go to those games much anymore. I used
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: to back in the day. I hope the Clippers do well,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: but the idea and we'll just address it like this.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: The dopes that are out there, what do you make
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: of this? Wow, the Clippers, this should have been their championship.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: They traded away SGA. This is embarrassing for the Clippers.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: My god, Now I understand where this is coming from. Listen,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: I love busting balls as much as the next person.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: I know that's all you're doing.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: I get it. You know, who Miller, you should feel
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: so bad.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: You know, it's low information trolling at its finest, and
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: that's really what social media is all about.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: I get it.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: You know you're just busting chop. You know you couldn't
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: name two guys on the Clippers or the Thunder. It's
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: revisionist history. And to say that the Clippers shouldn't have
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: made that trade. I would have made that trade one
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: hundred out of one hundred times. Even after Oklahoma said
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: he just won the championship, right as Emin m crooned
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: no regrets, right, Kawhi Leonard was the player everyone won
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: every single team in the NBA won and Kawhi Leonard
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: the price of admission.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: It was a claw game to get the claw.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: He said, I want Paul George, which is a dumb decision,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: but that's his choice. That's his choice. Kawhi Lenners says,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: I want Paul George, Paul George Blouse. But that's who
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard wants. So you trade Sga.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: That's the price of admission fresh off of title in Toronto.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: That's what you had to do. You do it every
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: single time. You don't look back.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: And you make that trade, and you know the Clippers
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: they're still relevant and they'll be a contender for the
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: foreseeable future. They have a legit owner and all that.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: But of course you'd make that trade. And Sga hasn't
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: become what he became with the Clippers. He would never
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: become that with the Clippers, so it's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: This hour is from the life and times of Aaron Rogers.
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  Speaker 1: We continue to have content on a daily basis from
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, whether we want it or not, whether we
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  Speaker 1: want it or not, So our lead. This hour is
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: from the Burg From the burg Seelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: saying that he's pretty sure, pretty sure that twenty twenty
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: five will be his last season in the NFL. I
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: don't know if you saw this or heard about it,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: or maybe in a play for pay play for pay
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: appearance the BFF there that pays him. Pat McAfee and
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Rogers were playing grab ass and Rogers opined on the future.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: And the possibility that this is it this next season.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: Take a listen.
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm pretty sure this is it.
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: That's why we just did a one year deal. You know,
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: this was really about finishing with a lot of love
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: and fun and peace for the career that I've had.
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: I mean, I've played twenty freaking years, you know, like
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: it's been a long, long run, and I've enjoyed it.
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: And what better place to finish than in one of
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: the cornerstone franchises of the NFL with Mike Tomlin and
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: a great group of leadership and great guys in the
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: city that you know expects expects.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: You to win.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: Okay, So there you go.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: That's a lot of generic stuff there at the end
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: of Cornerstone franchise. He did give us the butt, which
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: means everything you said before that's a lie.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: So he did say that. So let us discuss the
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: question as you just heard, Steelers.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Quarterback Aaron Rogers says he's pretty sure that twenty twenty
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: five will be the final NFL season.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: Do you buy it? Do you buy it?
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: So my take on this, I've got Doctor Drew, Pokemon
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: and Eskimo Pie and we will That's why I got canceled.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: We'll combine all of these things together and we are going.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: To make the Gabba Ghul for our buddy in Florida,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: the Goabba gool all right, So to kick off here,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: after a minutes long Mallard deliberation, Aaron Rodgers by saying
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: he's pretty sure, do we buy that we are jaded wheelists.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: I attempt to live my life as a jaded realist,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: and I take this with a with a little pinch,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: that's a little pinch of kosher salt, Assume nothing and
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: question everything, especially.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: With Aaron Rodgers.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: So I would like to use the Mallard Rosetta stone
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: to translate what Rogers actually to the good people who
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: like the Pittsburgh football team. So Aaron Rodgers at this
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: point he needs, like doctor Drew to come in. And
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: because he's battling addiction, he's got an addiction problem. He's
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: addicted to attention. Loves the attention there. It's like iohwask
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: out there in the jungle somewhere.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: It's skin. Get enough of it.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: And his favorite pastime, based on doing a daily talk show,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: is that Aaron rodgers favorite pastime, next to spending hours
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: talking about pyramids, UFOs and darkness retreats, is talking about
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. And when he says he's pretty sure the
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five is it, well, that's a bold declaration.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: He's forty one years old. He turns forty two during
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: the NFL season. That means, using the probability meter, that
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: there's still at least a five percent chance, at least
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: five percent chance that he has.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: One of those.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: I feel great. I didn't think my body would feel
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: this good. But I found some drugs somewhere out in
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: the in the Amazon, and holy crap, I'm I might
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: be forty one forty two, but I feel like I'm twenty.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: Six years old.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: I feel great, I feel amazing, and you think I
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Am going to walk away. Like, let's say the Steelers
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: end up just a wee bit short that they actually
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: win a playoff game. They get past wildcard weekend and
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: they win a playoff game, and they make a little
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: bit of noise and then Rogers, you got retire at
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: that point.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: No way.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: So even though he says, probably this is it, not
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: so fast, not so fast Rogers. Over the last several years,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: going back to his last days in Green Bay, Rodgers
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: has turned this will Heat or Won't He into a
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: mellow drama.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: It's like a.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Docu series, if you will. He knows a thing or
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: two about that. It's an art form. Aaron Rodgers has
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: turned this into an art form, and he learned it
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: from Brett Farv and others that have done this in
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: the past, and so Aaron dipping his toe, just the
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: toe into the waters of adoration. By saying this, by
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: saying what Rogers said with his bff Pat McAfee, he's
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: essentially setting himself up for a love tour, one of
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: those dopey retirement tours where you get the golf collapse
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: and they have.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: The pregame tribute.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Let's go down memory lane the time that Aaron Rodgers
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: shoved it down our throats and you get the Jumbo
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Tron sizzle reel. You get that going and all that. Now,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: did Mike tom a serious question? Did Mike Tomlin bring
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers in and friends Mike Tomlin France? Did they
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: bring Aaron Rodgers in on a one year therapy session?
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Is this like, all right, Rogers, the Jets poisoned you.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: They poisoned the soup, so we are gonna give you
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: good soup and then you can leave on a positive note.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: I thought, maybe I'm wrong it was I thought they
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: brought Rogers in to chase the Lombardy right, to chase
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: the little right. Training camp has not started. We're still
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: about a month away. A little less than that for
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: some teams. And already Rogers he's half out the door
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: before the door even opens, like the door is not
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: really open. He's like, a might not play now, before
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: you hand Aaron Rodgers, before you hand Aaron Rodgers the
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: gold watch?
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: What do you get? Gold watched? You get the retirement plaque?
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: That boy and all that. The drama is not over right,
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: file that away.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: The drama is not over because even if Rogers said
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna retire a week later, he'll pop up somewhere.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: Maybe I'll play I don't know, maybe all right now.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Furthermore so, during the grab ass session Aaron Rodgers there
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: with his buddy there McAfee, Rogers claimed that he doesn't
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: like being in the public eye.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: He said this, yeah, I like being the public eye.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: He says, he plans to disappear. Do you see this?
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: He saw it right, So he plans to disappear once
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: his NFL career is over, he said, quote, I don't
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: want the attention. Rogers said, I know that's a narrative
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: out there. Well, this is all done. When this is
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: all done, it's then he names some character from the
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: usual suspects. You won't see me, Roger said, you will
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: not see me. I won't be public.
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: I don't want life.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: A public life, he said, I want to live a
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: public life. All right, So this is Rogers at age
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: forty one. Let's break that down. Let's chop that up
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: with a knife. Here, let's chop that up.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: So Aaron Rodgers saying he does not like the spotlight.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: That's what he said.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: He does not plan to, you know, to be in
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: the spotlight. He doesn't want a public life. He doesn't
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: want that. When he said, and on this one, are
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: you buying or selling that? Are you buying or selling that?
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: So this is rather obvious, Like even Marcella and Brooklyn
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: can figure this out, Like the idea that Rogers after
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: the football season ends is going to go abra cadabra,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: hocus pocus poof, I'm out, see you.
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: Later, goodbye.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: I'm gone, like a magician that runs out of those
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: little bunny rabbits and has no more magic hats or magic.
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: Wands, and I'm like, I'm out, I'm done, and.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: Like no camera all right, Roger's gonna go somewhere where
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: there's no cameras and there's no Papa Razzo.
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: We're not gonna get that.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: No more headlines, no more clips of him in the
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: Daily Mail, walking alone on the beaches of Malibu. We're
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: not gonna get that. And people trying to find his
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: mystery wife, they still haven't found this person. Do you
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: think there's a real person there?
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: What if Ai?
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: What if he married Ai Rogers like married an AI
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: bot and that's his wife. But they he got a ring,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: and then the AI bot has a ring, but they
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: can't wear it because they're not a real person and
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: all that. It's what, you know, how much money they're offering.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: I have some people that work in that world, in
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: the paparazzo world, and there's a lot of money out
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: there to be the first group that gets whether it's
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: the Daily Mail or TMZ or page six of the
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: New York Post or whatever, all the usual suspects, radar online,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: all those type places, to get that first.
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: Glimpse of the woman Rogers married.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: But what if there is no woman? What if she
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: doesn't exist? What if it's all make believe? Now, that
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: would be even better. Oh well, situation, yeah, that be
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: that'd be wild. What if it's like a psyop by
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers he just he just decided to f around.
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: He's bored.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: He's like, all right, I'm just gonna make up that
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: I have a way I get. I find it hard
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: to believe that he could get married. There's no They've
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: checked every court house in America that they can, the databasis,
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: because when you get married, it's a business contract, or
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: you get married it's an agreement.
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: You have to file paperwork with the court and all
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: that for tax reasons.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: But nowhere, nowhere, have they found any evidence that Rogers
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: got married wild So is it one of those things
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: why I got married? But we didn't want to go
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: through you know, we didn't want to We don't want
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: to go to courthouse. We want to sully the marriage.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: You know, we don't want to sully the marriage anyway.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: So back to the point at hand. So Rogers again
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: plans to leave you know, leave me alone is what
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: he's going to say, and all this stuff, and he's
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: going to play that card from the bottom of the deck.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Yet he has been headlining his own personal circus as
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: the ring master for twenty years. In fact, he actually
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: built the Big Top. Aaron Rodgers built the Big Top.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: And so I give this whole thing SIDEI I just
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: give it Saday Rogers. Yeah he could. He moved to
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: the woods somewhere. Absolutely, he can go out and become
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: the unibomber. That's a dated reference, but get it. Get
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: a shack somewhere in Montana, knock yourself out right, live
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: off the grid. Just sip kombucha tea and contemplate the
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: time space continuum, the meaning of life and what happens
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: when you die, like all the rest of us.
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: But I will garan effitty you if he does that.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: He will have a sound guy, He'll have a lighting guy,
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: he'll have a camera guy. There'll be a whole crew
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: for the upcoming.
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: Netflix docu series Rogers Off the Grid.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Now Now, Rogers says he does not like attention. Again,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: you don't like the attention and all that stuff. And
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: it's kind of like a peacock saying I'm a little
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: down on feathers. I don't enjoy the feathers. But you're
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: a peacock. You're all about the feathers and all that stuff.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: And this is the guy who's strutting through the NFL
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: for now multiple decades, twenty years, a generation, collecting controversy
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: and like Ferg Dog collects Pokemon cards. I mean, it's
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: out of control, right, It's out of even during the
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: off season, Rogers, he says one thing and he does
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: something else, which is classic passive aggressive behavior. But let's
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: just look at what Rogers has done. So a guy
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: that doesn't want the public life. Here's some of the
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: things Rogers has done in the off season. Okay, Rogers,
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: I believe, and I don't think I'm wrong on this.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers has appeared three times in the off season
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: on the only podcast that most you know that gets
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: actually legitimate numbers, that Joe Rogan podcast. So he's popped
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: up on that three times. And he's hosted Jeopardy. Remember
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: that a couple of years he hosted Jeopardy for a
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: couple of weeks Jeopardy. He also considered a run for
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: a third party vice president of the United States. Now
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: somebody that does not want the spotlight considering a run politically, Okay,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: all right, now, last thing quickly. The new Browns wide
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: receiver Deontay Johnson gave a quote that I thought, here's
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: another one of these stories. I said, Babylon B. I said,
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: that's sat tire, that's like the NFL's version of NBA Sentel.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: It's sports My Guy's sports Talk Barry who I had
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: on the podcast I do a couple of years back. Well,
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: the Browns wide receiver Deontay Johnson recently admitted that he
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: refused to enter him Now, this had been a rumor,
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  Speaker 1: but he's now confirmed it. He refused to enter a game.
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  Speaker 1: Why was he a upset with the coach? Was he
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  Speaker 1: be hurt and he didn't want to play because he
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  Speaker 1: couldn't play because he was hurt? C Was it a
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  Speaker 1: contract situation? He was upisode with a contract or? D
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  Speaker 1: because he was chili.
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  Speaker 3: Yeap, The answer is D. Yeah, the answers D.
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  Speaker 1: He said he refused to enter game in forty one
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  Speaker 1: degree weather last year in Baltimore because he felt ice cold,
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  Speaker 1: ice cold. Now, I live in LA. I'm soft, right.
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  Speaker 1: It's warm in LA most of the time, but in
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  Speaker 1: the winner, every once in a while we'll have a
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  Speaker 1: week where it gets down.
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  Speaker 3: Into the thirties. I don't think it's that cold. I
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  Speaker 3: don't think it's that bad.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, forty one degree weather last year in Baltimore, he
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  Speaker 1: said it felt ice cold. Deontay Johnson didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: go out there and put some bad stuff on film,
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  Speaker 1: is what he said. So will wide receiver Deontay Johnson
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  Speaker 1: be haunted?
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  Speaker 3: Woo?
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  Speaker 1: Will he be haunted by admitting he refused to enter
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  Speaker 1: an NFL game because it was too cold. So if
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  Speaker 1: there is an any kind of cosmic justice, you would say,
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  Speaker 1: absolutely this, you cannot do that, Just like Anthony Richardson
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  Speaker 1: taking himself out of the game for the Colts last year.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't cold that day in Houston.
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  Speaker 1: Things you can't do for a thousand Alex the the
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  Speaker 1: jeopardy line there, because you gotta think this is gonna
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  Speaker 1: haunt him like an Eskimo pie, you know, Poltergeist eating
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  Speaker 1: an Eskimo pire.
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  Speaker 3: So you can't do it.
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  Speaker 1: He did the thing you can't do. And of all
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  Speaker 1: the things that you confess to, like, why would you
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  Speaker 1: think that would go over well seriously, Like, oh, so
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  Speaker 1: it was colder than a polar bear's nose.
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  Speaker 3: No, it wasn't. It was not he said it was
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  Speaker 3: ice cold.
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  Speaker 1: It was forty one degrees. For now, He's gonna play
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  Speaker 1: for the Cleveland Browns. And I got some friends, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're on in Cleveland. We got friends are from Cleveland.
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  Speaker 1: Forty one degrees in Cleveland, and let's get out and
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  Speaker 1: grill some burgers and some hot dogs. It's it's grilling season.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go play some golf. It's forty one degrees right Well, in.
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  Speaker 3: Fact, we'll have an outdoor barbecue on the lake front.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we're gonna do. In Baltimore, they consider that
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  Speaker 1: a heatwave. My guy sports with Coleman, who lives in Baltimore.
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  Speaker 1: When it's forty one degrees, he gets the suntan locean
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  Speaker 1: and he goes outside. He's like, I'm gonna put on
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  Speaker 1: the banana hammock and I'm gonna go out there and
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna enjoy the weather. But thanks for oversharing by
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  Speaker 1: the in otherlands, and I'm good as a talk show host.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad that Deontay Johnson chose to let the world
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  Speaker 1: know that he is unable to handle forty one degree weather.
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  Speaker 1: And the kicker of all things here is that the
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  Speaker 1: player says he didn't want to go back into the
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  Speaker 1: game because he didn't want.
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  Speaker 3: To put out bad film. Is what he said, bad film.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't want to look bad on the tape.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, newsflash, news flash, This just into the Fox
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  Speaker 1: Sports radio studios. Here from my man. Uh, you just
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  Speaker 1: announced to the world in your own voice. Here on
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  Speaker 1: your in your own voice, you have now been immortalized
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  Speaker 1: as a guy that couldn't handle essentially a McDonald's soft
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  Speaker 1: serf cone that that's too much for you.
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  Speaker 3: You're talking about self inflicted blooper. Is winning so important?
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  Speaker 4: Listen?
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  Speaker 3: Winning isn't Everything's the only thing. It's time for another
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  Speaker 3: Mallard game show.
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  Speaker 2: We surveyed one hundred people named sports teams associated with losing.
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  Speaker 3: Dcurs.
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  Speaker 5: I believe the answer is to Clippers.
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  Speaker 3: That is the top answer forty points. It's Mallard militia hute.
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  Speaker 3: Let's play the if you come on down.
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  Speaker 1: welcome in our contestants. We have Steve and San Francisco.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, Steve, Welcome, you do a bad an accounting for You.
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  Speaker 1: Are present and accounted for and ready to play the game.
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  Speaker 1: You were gonna go and hold on a second, you're
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  Speaker 1: going to go against eenie meenie miney mooe.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go Mick.
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  Speaker 1: Mick is in Maine and he is going to play
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  Speaker 1: and me puns the right line up. Hello Mick, welcome
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  Speaker 1: you doing? Bill?
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  Speaker 6: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: I just hung up on him?
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  Speaker 1: Who goofed? I've got there, all right. Mike is in
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  Speaker 1: New Hand. I'm sorry, Mick, butterfingers.
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  Speaker 3: Mike.
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  Speaker 1: Are you there, Mike New Hampshire. Oh, look at you?
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  Speaker 1: You drive in your truck. All right, very nice. You're
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  Speaker 1: gonna play the game. Let's get to the game, so
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  Speaker 1: we don't screw this up. I gonna punch you in.
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  Speaker 1: We've got Steve and San Francisco. Gentlemen. Here we go,
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  Speaker 1: let's play the feud. Come on down, here we go.
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  Speaker 1: The category the top five answers on the board. One
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  Speaker 1: hundred people surveyed. Name something people postpone doing for as
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  Speaker 1: long as possible. The top five answers on the board.
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  Speaker 3: We got buzzing in.
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  Speaker 1: Steve is going with colman Oska Beede. Well that is
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  Speaker 1: very specific, but I think you mean going to the doctor.
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  Speaker 3: And that is on there. So we'll give you that sure,
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  Speaker 3: why not? Absolutely?
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  Speaker 1: And you get to go again. There, Steve, something people
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  Speaker 1: postpone doing for as long as possible. Four answers left? Five?
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  Speaker 1: What all right? That's all right Mike in New Hampshire.
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  Speaker 1: You're name something people postpone doing for as long as possible.
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  Speaker 1: There are four answers left on the board.
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  Speaker 3: Going to church, going to church? That is not on
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  Speaker 3: the board. Back to Steve. Just think about it. You
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  Speaker 3: go ahead, Steve Laws No, no, all right, Mike. I
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  Speaker 3: thought this would be easy. I got like five on
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  Speaker 3: the top of my tongue. Go ahead, Lorena, what do
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  Speaker 3: you have laundry?
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  Speaker 5: No?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I have your cleaning. Yeah, that's on that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it is on. The other ones are paying the bills,
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  Speaker 3: getting married and going to the dentist. Well, Steve, you
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  Speaker 3: technically won, but I mean, come on, that's a That's
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  Speaker 3: not a great game. That's not a great game.