Rachel Nichols
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So in the last game, you know, Ant talks a lot of trash, right? And he's trying to go at it with Gary Payton Jr. and all this stuff. And he's like, you're just trying to get to a game six so Steph can come save you. And GP's like, yeah, that's it. Yes. So he's going to be evaluated on a Monday. It does not sound like he would play the next game. Maybe they've got a three-day rest break after that.
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But anyway. Yeah, I don't know if they're going to get that far. What do you think?
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Yeah, which is amazing for the Warriors, right?
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I'm so happy for him. He's a great guy. First of all, I've always liked talking to him. You know, the trade happened. It was definitely disconcerting for him, his family, all of that stuff. It didn't start out well in Minnesota and then he got hurt. And in that time off, I think it gave him a minute to sort of settle and kind of know how the team works. And the whole time, the guys in the room.
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We're just pumping him up. Anthony Edwards, oh, we need him. Wait till Julius Randle gets back, all that stuff. And now I was with the Timberwolves last week. He's like the mayor in there a lot of the time. And it's just so fun to see like a good person doing well, beloved by the people who should love him. And I couldn't be happier for him. I think he's great.
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Turns out Steph Curry is important if you want to play basketball.
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Yeah, that was a nice game today, right? Yeah, it was gross. 14 points in the first quarter.
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By the way, we're kind of getting a little 90s basketball back, though, because they're calling nothing.
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See, I thought you were going to make an off-color joke with the air balls. But look at you.
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No, I mean, it's ridiculous. And the guys are buying each other around and just, you know, kind of really doing that. A lot of these guys have free reign and you don't see it the moment the shot comes off, but you see it right before that. And then it sort of sets the guy up to not have his correct shot. I mean, there's definitely an expression in basketball, hey, they can't call them all.
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So if you just keep going and fouling and fouling and fouling, eventually the refs are going to be, yeah, that one wasn't so bad. And I think we're seeing a lot more of that in these playoffs, and we're seeing that in that series.
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I do.
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I actually voted for Shay and it was a very, very, very hard vote. I mean, it really came down to like this and the, this, it came down to because Jokic is, I think, I think Jokic is the best player in the world. So the, this, it came down to was. the Thunder had 18 more wins than the Nuggets.
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At some point, I don't always vote for the guy who's the highest in the standings, but at some point that matters, right? And to lead a young team to those kind of numbers, I was really impressed. I still think there should be a separate award for who the best player is in the NBA because we don't have one.
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And it's funny, I filled out my awards ballot this year and I had to choose, guys, I had to choose who the ninth best rookie in the NBA was this year. Mind you, in the record books for all time on who in 2025 was the ninth best rookie. That's going down in the books, but not who the best player was. And there's years it's MJ, there's years it was LeBron, and they didn't win the MVP every time.
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And it's just sort of strange to me because there's already kids out there who've never seen Jordan play and just downplay everything he did. And he wasn't that good. Kind of like our generation does with Kareem a lot of the time. Yeah. And, you know, all we have in the end is the record books and the record books are going to show that Kobe Bryant won one MVP.
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And he obviously had a huge impact on the league. I just – I don't know why we don't have an award for this. The NFL differentiates between MVP and offensive and defensive player. The NHL has MVP and then, you know, the scoring and the goal scoring, whatever. We don't have that –
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Oh, for that award? Top dog.
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Yeah, and by the way, let's just call it that. It's perfect. Top dog award. Nikola Jokic. If you had to play a basketball game for the lives of yourself and everyone you know, and you had one pick of who the player was going to be on your team and everyone else was random assignment, who would you pick?
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He's so tall. I've sat with him before and watched a game. He's...
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He is a really nice guy, actually. He's just not a very nice player. And he's got to be careful, by the way. He's too technical and too... What's the other one? Not text.
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I don't know why. My brain is not here today. Blame it on the mimosas on Mother's Day. Yeah.
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And two flagrants from a suspension. That's what everyone forgets about the 2016 finals when he was suspended for a game and the Cavs turned it around. He wasn't suspended because of what he did on the floor when we all know what happened with the punching and the this and the that. He was suspended because it just hit a certain limit.
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By the way, once you reach that point, not only are you suspended for the next game, then it goes in every other.
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So if they do somehow make it out of this round, I mean, he could miss every other game if he keeps this up. Really? Yeah. He's got to be careful.
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You know why they made the rule in the first place, right?
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Rasheed Wallace, 44. That's right.
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He totally does, and it goes back to what I said a few minutes ago. You can't call them all out, right? You can't kick him out of every game. He's a popular player. He's integral to that team. He's obviously a former defensive player of the year, I think eight-time all-defense. Can't call them all. So, you know, he goes at it.
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Oh, man. Um... Where do I want him to be playing? I'd like him to still play Milwaukee. My second choice of where he would be playing, you know, the three teams that have the most assets to get him. are the Houston Rockets, the San Antonio Spurs, and the Oklahoma City Thunder, which is crazy. So can you imagine him next to SGA or next to Wemby?
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I think if he becomes available, those GMs that have been keeping their picks, they're going to pull the trigger. And I think that Thunder actually have the most of all. So we'll see who's willing to give up what. I'm a sentimentalist. I love how the people in Milwaukee love him. I love how he loves the city.
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He can't win there, unfortunately, because they're so tied up with not having their draft picks and salary and whatever. If he decides to stay, it would really be just a commitment to, hey, I know we're not going to win another title, but I'd like to be here.
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Well, they won't be really, really bad. You know, they'll be like a first-round playoff team or a plain playoff team, which is kind of, you know, with a fully loaded team is what they've been the last couple seasons because, you know, this year Dame was hurt and out for a while. Giannis was out last season, didn't finish the playoffs, and I think the season before he was out for a while.
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So they've gotten screwed by injuries. And my thing about, you know, trading for future picks is that you – You give away a guy who is still in his prime, who is key to the franchise. Because there's people out there, by the way, saying that the Bucks should trade Giannis even if he doesn't ask for a trade. That's a very popular NBA person opinion right now.
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And the idea is like, oh, he's got two years left on his deal. You could get a whole bunch of graphics for him. You got to do it now. Pull the trigger now. I get it. But you also have Giannis and Scubo on your team. And he fills the building. Bucks in seats. People love Giannis. watching him, he's got a great connection to the community.
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And if you trade him for a bunch of draft picks, you're hoping that, what, three years from now, you draft a guy who maybe one day becomes not quite as good as Giannis Antetokounmpo? If he wants to go, God bless. I totally understand. He has said he thinks he needs another title to sort of represent the player that he is. And if he asks out, he's been loyal to that team.
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He's played there for a dozen years. He got them a championship. Godspeed. But if he doesn't want to leave, I don't agree with this sort of NBA thing of pushing him out the door anyway.
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Yeah, so, you know, we'll see what he decides. Obviously, he's the first domino that has to fall.
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Yeah. I mean, it's a little complicated with the salary cap. And if he took the lead minimum, it would still only free up, I don't know the number, maybe $10 million for them extra. But $10 million is not a little bit of money when you're trying to fill MBA salary slots. And I just think that He's the most underpaid athlete total in the world right now.
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Nobody has done as much for a league, much less the teams he's played for, than LeBron James. He's responsible for the level of popularity that the game is at right now. He will never be paid enough.
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So if you realize he's just going to be underpaid either way, if you know that he is a billionaire and I don't count other people's money and he should do what he wants to do, I can only put myself in that position if it were me. I would say I will take significantly less, as less as it helps basically, to make sure that we get other people in here who can help us win. Because here's the thing.
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You can't buy a championship ring after you retire. All that money, it's going to go to your grandchildren's grandchildren's grandchildren once you're a billionaire. So he's not going to feel any difference in his life. But here's what he will feel if he wins another ring with Luke on the team, himself on the team, and maybe some other bigger star player on the team.
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Well, if he wins five rings, you know who won five rings? Kobe Bryant. And if he wins six rings hanging around on the Luka train, we know who the guy is who won six, right?
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yeah that's true it's a mickey mouse right the ring exists yeah the ring does you could find the ring somewhere yeah like a ring pop is a ring technically but whatever you guys want to call it he if he gets more i think that will change the way some of the people oh absolutely predispose not to like him i think it will kind of weaken some of their arguments absolutely yeah just make them like switch the goalposts yeah and be like he's not mj yet we
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I mean, it's literally what Tom Brady did. He gave back a bunch of money so he could win another ring as an old guy.
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They don't have the assets to go out and get Giannis. They just don't have the draft picks. They don't have the young players that people would want. So that little fantasy, unless, you know, I could never predict the Luba trade, so I'm not going to say never say never, but I don't see it happening.
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Look, they need someone who's a strong interior defender, who also is a lob threat, so that we can set up kind of the Luka, Derek Lively, like, alley situation. And frankly, on the wings, they need 3 and D players. And so right now, they're saying, oh, Austin reads, he's off the table, we love him, he's like family, everyone in the locker room loves him.
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And it's true, LeBron loves him, X, Y, Z. LeBron loved Anthony Davis, and...
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out they're gonna have to trade austin reeves if they want the level of guys around luca that they need because right now if you're an opponent and you're coming down the court and you see austin reeves on one side and luca on the other it's like turns files so like you get to choose which one you go through because they don't defend at the level that you need defenders to be elite in the league right now
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Like the Celtics, even when they were down 2-0, it weirdly felt like they were fine. And, you know, New York didn't beat them all season. The Celtics were historically fluky and sort of missing so many three-point shots. And by the way, we give the Knicks defense credit because Mikkel Bridges, Josh Hart, there's just so many guys who really stepped up in those two games.
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But the Celtics are the Celtics. I mean, they just have all the pieces back that won that title last year. I think it'd be so fun as someone who lived in New York for 20 years. I think it would be so fun to see the garden rocking through conference finals, maybe even an NBA finals. The outs are not with them right now, even though they're up to one. But, you know, who knows?
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Krzysztof Korzykis ends up being out for a while. Something else fluky happens.
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Yeah, I mean, remember, the Pacers had a lot of injuries in that series, so it's not even really fair to think back on that. I love this Pacers team. You know, it's funny. When Tyrese Halliburton was named the most overrated player as voted by the players in the NBA, did you guys talk about that?
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Okay, so here's what's funny about that poll. The Athletic, which did the poll, to its credit, listed how many guys answered each question. There's about 450 guys in the NBA. Only 90 of them answered the question of who is the most overrated. So less than a quarter of the guys in the league even answered the question.
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And then if you go with the percentage that voted for Halliburton and you do the math, first of all, it's weirdly like 12 and a half guys. I don't know how a half a person player votes, but let's say it's 13. 13 guys. There's 13 guys. in this league who think Tyrese Halliburton is overrated. That's it. That's all.
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It could be the guy who didn't make the Olympic team because Tyrese took that spot. I mean, he could be hated by a guy. This is the pettiest league on earth. The pettiest. There is no more petty than this league, the NBA. So I don't know. I think he keeps bringing it up, overrated, overrate that, right? But he's an excellent player.
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And even though the Cavs, you know, were so strong throughout the season, when the Cavs went down 2-0, I was like, oh, they're in trouble. Whereas with the Celtics going down 2-0, I was like, we'll see.
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Yeah. Right. Yeah. And look, Rick Carlisle is a great coach. They're so fast. Great transition. They're really fun to watch. So if they're the ones who advance, it's going to be fun. Eastern Conference finals either way.
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Yeah.
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I mean, the most likely places are D.C., Charlotte, and Utah. Actually, in D.C., for him, if I was Cooper Flagg, of those choices, I hope the Wizards get the number one pick.
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What we see is a great place to live. It's an international city. I cannot say the same for Charlotte. I cannot say the same for Utah. And, of course, if he went to Charlotte, he'd still have all those fans from Duke right there, but he's going to have plenty of fans. He'll be fine wherever he goes. It would be huge. You know how long it's been?
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Since the Wizards made a conference finals, not won a title, not made it to the finals, just made it to the conference finals.
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So that would be 44 years. You're close. 46 years. 46 years. It's been 46 years.
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Yeah, man. Well, even if they end up number two, I think they're in good shape. I mean, we'll see. They've drafted really, you know, they drafted very smart and not the best draft last year. And they've got, this draft is a great draft and next year is a great draft. And I wouldn't be surprised if they were in the lottery again next year. And then they'll have a really good young team.
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I mean, the Thunder? I don't know.
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Yeah.
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By the way, my thing, it could happen, was for San Antonio, obviously. Yeah. Thunder or not in the lottery.
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What about Wimby and Giannis?
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A little 20 yards action?
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I'm not a huge college basketball person, so I wait until the draft lottery happens. I wait until the draft happens. Then we see who's on which team, and we go from there. I know the top three or four guys, maybe even five deep, are considered really good.
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I don't want to pretend that I know more than the guys who study this year round, but it's a deep draft, and I think there's going to be a lot of picks even throughout the first round that we're going to see. Giannis himself, I think, was a 15, 16-number pick. Yeah.
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That kid, though, was really good. That kid could end up on the Wizards easily. Both of them.
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It's the best stadium in the NBA by far. And he brought all these people, all these fans from the wall over to Denver for game seven. You can't tell me that's not the coolest, man. I don't know of another owner in pro sports who would do something like that. And by the way, how much do you think he had to pay for those game seven seats?
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He gave everyone a PlayStation.
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That was the thing. He redid the locker room, he gave them comfy leather office chairs, and every locker was a PlayStation. And that was it. Everyone was a player.
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Well, this is crazy. Before the season, I picked the Boston Celtics. With the Boston Celtics down 2-1 in this series, I still picked the Boston Celtics. And there's no disrespect to the Knicks. And again, I really do love this Knicks team. They're so much fun to root for and so much fun to watch. They're the best complete team, and they just won last year. All those guys have a ton of experience.
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They have international experience, so they can play in any way. I think Joe Mazzola is a completely capable coach, and all the sort of noise around him is just sort of Celtics fans who get very worried and like to say things. But I just don't think they're Celtics. And, of course, if the Knicks win this, great. I'm happy to be wrong.
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This is so weird. And I talked to him about it. It was probably a month, six weeks ago, whenever, but they don't know. At least when I spoke to him, they did not know what this was. It was a virus, but there wasn't any sort of thing that they could identify and then treat.
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So they obviously are doing things to treat him, but there is nothing they have found so far that make it like go away and he'll never have to deal with it again. And it's bizarre. And this poor guy who's had all these injuries is, Finally got to a place where he was pretty healthy and playing on a team where his skills were really needed. And now he's got this thing.
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He looked awful in game one and for a lot of game two. Right. I mean, he looked paler than the wall behind me.
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I'm not sure it's day-to-day because I assume that it sort of starts to come on or it doesn't, right? So I don't know if it's like every other day he doesn't know how he's going to wake up. I think like he'll start to feel a little bad and then feel a little worse and then feel a little worse.
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But yeah, I mean, look, my title winner prediction will be completely on the ropes if he can't significantly play in these playoffs because he is part of what gives them such a huge advantage.
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No one? No. I mean, everyone? That's actually the correct answer.
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The Founders should be the pick out of the West, right? Because they were ten shoulders above everyone the entire season. They showed in the last game they played that having young legs really matters, right? They completely outplayed Denver in the fourth quarter.
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and the fact that they can play so well on only a day's rest there's a great stat i have it here so the thunder you know they're the youngest team in the nba still when they are just on one day's rest they are a 17 point differential they score 17 more points than the other team on one day's rest i mean it helps to have young legs man and i just sort of think that they've They've rocked it.
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They've shown it. And I don't know if there's someone else who can beat them, but we'll see. I'm not as confident on that side of the bracket. And I think a lot of who comes out of the West is just basically who ended up seeded with who.
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I don't understand how that would be true since Jason Tatum has the advantage of having been in a lot of playoff games and showed up for them. That's a good point. By the way, I don't think it's Jerome Bean's fault that he's gotten hurt. He's had some really weird injuries. Remember he broke his eye at one point?
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So it's not that he's soft. I mean, the man's... You know, huge. Obviously, he's a tree trunk. But the truth is, the best ability is availability, as they like to say. And he has not been available for a lot of the time that Philadelphia has needed him. And Jason Tatum has been an iron man. I mean, he has been there for that team. Over and over and over again.
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I don't know how you can make a comparison.
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what they were wearing. Yeah, it was a bad argument.
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Here's how you know, okay? If you put Joel Embiid – if you switch them, if you put Joel Embiid on the Celtics, he wouldn't do as well because he would be on the bench in street clothes for sections of the time, and the Celtics would greatly suffer because of it.
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So you can say they're better – I don't care what the numbers are. You can't score 16 points or this many points or whatever – when you have a sweatshirt on. So that's the answer. Very good.
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Very simple. Okay. I've got a couple of questions for you guys, by the way.
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Right. I do need PFTs caps tape. Where are we? What's the panic meter? How are we doing? How much agape do you have?
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Carlson looks old.
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and i'm scared that that's going to be a closeout game that i'm going to see the cap season end right in my face so i've already put a must win on monday monday night's a must win for the caps definitely must win not i can't lose definitely must win they agreed first period and the goalie just stood in his head and we'll have to see yeah all right my second question for you guys um
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Can I get another recurring guest t-shirt? Because mine burned in a fire.
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Like the contents of your house, which is hysterical because you go to where my house was. It is literally just a field of ashes. There's no argument over what was there, but you still have to make the list. And of course, an itemized item. It wasn't just, you know, 10 t-shirts. It was the part of my take t-shirt and then all the valuable jewelry and then the rest of the house.
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Yeah. So when, you know, it's crazy how quick it was. We lived in Pacific Palisades, Malibu area. That was the day that there was this crazy hundred mile an hour winds. The fire chief later said it was like a five alarm fire inside a tornado. Like there was just nothing anyone could have done. And we could see the flames coming down the side of the hill toward us, which is a lot.
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So you're just rushing around the house, trying to get out, trying to grab some things. Um, but we didn't have a chance to grab much. Otherwise, of course, the teacher would have been right. And then, yeah, then it's the after. And I just don't think that's what I didn't realize that when I saw disasters on TV, I would be like, Oh my God, those poor people, they lost their homes.
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They lost their stuff, stuff, the stuff that can eventually be replaced. It's, huh? I don't have anywhere to live. That's interesting. My kids don't have this. They don't have, you know what I mean? So we're, we're just getting into a new place. That's why there's white balls behind me. Um, I still need glasses apparently and I need my t-shirt back.
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I don't want to insult anyone, but the insurance industry in this country, whether it's medical insurance, fire insurance, whatever it is, sucks.
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All right, good luck on Thursday. Bring it.