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[Assistant] So it doesn't matter what your shooting percentage is, if you're getting three shots per possession, they, the vast majority of the Knicks possessions were one and done. The vast majority. And when they got an offensive rebound, it was stark. It stood out like, wow, they got two shots on that possession.


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[Assistant] They have to do, in game three, and everyone moving forward, what they did in game two. They have to, mission one, get on the defensive glass.


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[Assistant] Did you guys give JB his flowers after game two? Yes. I thought I was critical of JB coming into the series and really critical after game one.


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[Assistant] It's a learning experience. Right. He's got to be better at that. So my hope is I'm wrong. I would love to see the Cavs win one of the two, but here's my big fear guys. If they lose both of these and come home down 3-1, you know what 3-1 is.


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[Assistant] It also, to me now, it also means cubs over Indians. Oh my gosh.


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[Assistant] I just, I think there's no chance they walk in the garden like that.


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[Assistant] They are super cold. And then you're looking at calves in five because, uh, the garden is going to be flat for game four.


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[Assistant] Pledge, if you answer this question correctly, and the Browns do what you suggest,


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[Assistant] It's a possibility. So they're gonna give two thirds. For a second. To go up to a second, and that's who they're gonna take.


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[Assistant] I don't understand why your- Third round pick for sure. If I'm packaging picks.


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[Assistant] Now, sometimes, and this has happened very rarely, and you guys can back this up, and this is why I don't live in that world. That world is, uh, it's internet muscle. It's like fakeness.


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[Assistant] Would any of the people that write any of these toxic things on social media go up to the person that they're dragging on social media and say that to their face? I would. Come on, Tyvis, you're the nicest guy.


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[Assistant] I just watched a beef between two friends. Two people that I know and I think they're both good dudes. The Ryan Clark, did you see the Ryan Clark? The Brady Quinn? A buddy of mine sent me this whole chain between Brady Quinn and Ryan Clark.


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[Assistant] I hate your show. Well you know what? I hate it. You know what? But they'll tell you that on social media.


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[Assistant] I believe you would do that because you're real, you're genuine. But 95% of it, like the one or two times, and I've been doing this for 35 years.


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[Assistant] That someone has approached me in public and said, that show you're on is trash, man.


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[Assistant] I'm sure a lot of people have thought that through the years, but only two people have thought


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[Assistant] At a hall of fame luncheon. They have luncheons, I think, every month of the year. Yes. And this is exciting, obviously, because this has a lot to do with the leader. And you're introducing him. And I get to introduce the great G. Bush at this luncheon month. The man of many talents. Awesome, man. So that's really cool. The number two thing is time to get new.


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[Assistant] Give it to some kid. Give it to some kid. Hey, you challenged us. Guardians open up a series this weekend against the Marlins. They're, what are they? 500 now? Game above 500. Game above.


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[Assistant] That's right. Viewer questions in overtime. If you're not a member, drop the $4.99. Gets you membership access for the month.


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[Assistant] By the end of Day 2, Filmable Freddy had become a decent-looking, fun-playing game with unlockable upgrades from obtaining a high enough score. What's left to do?


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[Assistant] Why? To add levels, of course. Ever since Dragon Eremine in 2004, I've known that I've hated making levels for games. I love making the engine. I love deciding on how the guns will work, and how the AI will chase you and all that stuff. But when all that's done, and I know what the game's going to be like, and all that's left is just the simple easy process of adding levels,


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[Assistant] My interest suddenly falls up the cliff. Creating new environments for your player to explore is a much longer and far more tedious job than you'd expect it to be. In the past I've blamed that on boring gameplay, when more levels serve as being simply differently shaped rooms for your characters to fight through, and all I have to do is to decide where to place the enemies and health. That's boring.


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[Assistant] The first game of mine I enjoyed making levels for was Impossible Mission, a puzzle game that won an earlier competition over on the Daily Click. The site's admin, Rickus, sent me this handwritten congratulations letter and a USB stick containing all of the greatest games ever made on click products. Which has been a really nice resource to have.


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[Assistant] And the reason making levels for Impossible Mission was different, and fun, was because that game had gameplay. Before then I thought gameplay comprised of… more enemies in every room you encountered.


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[Assistant] But actually, a finely crafted puzzle game containing unique gameplay elements that can be combined in unique ways proved to be a lot more fun to make levels for. And I really enjoyed the devious process of devising new challenges for the player to fight through.


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[Assistant] Destruction Darius was the same. I had no problem adding more levels to that game because playing through them afterwards was a joy, instead of being just a job. Destruction Darius 2 has over 100 levels made, by the way.


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[Assistant] The only generic shooty game of mine I've bothered making lots of levels for is Deathgiver 2.


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[Assistant] What a shame it is that I invested so much time making levels for a game that had been so primitive in nature. All that work, for a game engine that took about a day to make the core gameplay for.


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[Assistant] What if I got one of my mega projects and decided to make levels for that instead? To wreck an aeromine with 10 levels, or to wreck an aeromine 2 with 5 levels? Back then, much good work was lost, for the lack of a little more.


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[Assistant] Flammable Freddy wasn't to suffer the same fate. It helped that I knew this game didn't require that many levels. It was all about mastering and replaying the levels which did exist, so I knew it was better to make fewer, but more fun


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[Assistant] Rather than for there to be dozens of samey boring levels that the player had to force themselves to grind through. By sticking to fewer levels, I could dedicate the time required to make each level feel unique, by giving them a custom theme and textures, and for there to be new gameplay elements to each.


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[Assistant] For level 2, I made it a desert theme, and added a new object in the form of a Destruction Darius 2 banner. Burning this would reward the player 400 points! More than anything else in the game. There's even an achievement if you manage to destroy all trace of Destruction Darius 2 in a single playthrough.


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[Assistant] A sly poke at how the project has been stuck in late development hell, and I want people to forget about it all.


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[Assistant] For now. For level 3, I chose a snowy theme and mixed the gameplay up by making it full of tiny islands that you'd have to hop between. I left a few bridges near the beginning for less confident players to still rack up decent points from.


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[Assistant] But for the best, you need to go island hopping. I don't know how successful this level was. I found that I would discover a decent path and then would stick to it, so this level has fewer choices than the rest of them do in my opinion. And I sprinkled snow onto everything here.


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[Assistant] And for the final, level 4, I set about making my dream for this game into a reality, by programming in dozens of NPCs just waiting to be set alight. But I had to be careful with this. One of the requirements for this competition is that the gameplay is repeatable and skill-based, which dozens of NPCs wandering about all over the place may somewhat work against.


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[Assistant] So I designed them with a few rules in mind. They don't move unless you touch them, then once you do, they begin running directly away from you.


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[Assistant] So although difficult, with practice you CAN get them all to behave exactly the same way every time. Consistency like this is the bane of my life. Destruction Darius 2 with its splinters and boulders flying everywhere, and CSGO with its weapon inaccuracy. There's been a long-ranging debate over whether these slightly random mechanics can be deemed to be skillful.


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[Assistant] Because while a player will never be able to control these random things,


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[Assistant] They can learn to live with them and to tailor their playstyle around them to make them work most in their favour. Which itself is kind of skilful. And possibly even more so than if every bullet just goes exactly where your crosshair is. But like I said, it is a topic of great debate.


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[Assistant] So what should I do? Should I invest an unknown amount of time into figuring it out? And to fix this bug properly?


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[Assistant] Or, since it's just for one level, should I just place the NPCs far enough away from the barrels to prevent auto-destination in the first place? I opted for the latter, because in my mind, the development of this game has gone past the stage of being about building solid foundations. It's now the end-game, where all I'm doing is applying the final touches to it.


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[Assistant] I opted for a botch instead. It's something that I'm aware I've done, and I know it's a weak spot of the game that could come back to haunt me should I ever revisit it and decide to extend it to 5, 6 or 100 levels in length instead.


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[Assistant] But given what Flammable Freddy is, it doesn't matter in the slightest. I mention this botch because these messy shortcuts do have a place in game development, and once you're experienced enough with it, you learn where you can get away with using them, and where they won't come back to haunt you and to waste your time later on.


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[Assistant] Just for this 4th and final level, to keep the gameplay fresh, I turned the idea of the game on its head. What if, instead of it being lots of islands surrounded by water,


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[Assistant] It was instead a large inland level with just a few bits of water dotted about instead. This was more like my initial idea for this game, where it forced players to watch the clock carefully and to ensure that they left enough time to extinguish themselves before the time ran out. There's just one problem with this.


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[Assistant] Since it's the last level of the campaign, it doesn't matter whether the player lives or dies, so this was an epic fail on my part. So I added a 1000-point bonus for simply surviving a level, which fixes the issue with the last level, but then causes problems elsewhere. A 1000 is quite a lot of points, meaning that the bulk of your first playthrough's highscore will comprise of this survival reward.


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[Assistant] Which in a way undermines the value of the other points that you can earn. But at the same time, if you earn a high score, it's assumed that you're going to survive at least 3 of these 4 levels, so it's on you whether you want that last 1000-point bonus or not. Because it could be that you might think you could earn more than 1000 points by dying, but by spending those last few seconds alive, igniting all those barrels in the corner of the map instead.


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[Assistant] The first time I playtested this level, I accidentally left one of the NPCs hovering in the air, and I found it so funny that they instantly plummeted into the water below that I kept it in. It also helps show other players that you'll gain points by forcing NPCs to leap into the water.


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[Assistant] This isn't my favourite aspect of the game, but I'm sure it's just something I'm aware of that other players don't care about in the slightest. I initially planned to have a boss battle against Inflammable Ivan. It would be exactly like Flammable Freddy, and it would be the two of you running about the level trying to set the most stuff on fire.


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[Assistant] But it didn't gel with the rest of the gameplay, and I didn't have enough time to add this in, so that had to be cut from the game.


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[Assistant] I decided that having flammable NPCs was an easier and more rewarding element to feature instead. But if I ever do make a sequel to Flammable Freddy, a battle against Inflammable Ivan could find a place, possibly serving as a whole new gamemode or something like that. It could even pave the way for a 2-player mode.


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[Assistant] I was making notes as it went. To see how they played the game, how soon they understood the burning and water features, and whether or not they got enough points to earn an upgrade. And if so, if they even understood how to upgrade stuff. It's at this point I changed the value of the scores and added more bushes, in clumps around the level. Because there's no point in setting a single 50-point bush on fire.


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[Assistant] It was on this third day that I added health bars to everything so that players could see, at a glance, how close things were to igniting. Though I think some players in playtesting just assumed this was a sign that they were already burning, and represented how long they would burn for or something like that.


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[Assistant] But I was all like, screw it and left it at that because I couldn't think of how to make it any more obvious. I also rechecked the value of stuff, based on how the different props felt to destroy in testing.


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[Assistant] I also had to consider the weighting of the levels. Of course, surviving the level is worth more than just the thousand-point bonus it gives you. It opens up a whole extra level for you to gain points on as well. It's expected that players will reach level 4 IF they're aiming to get a new highscore.


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[Assistant] With this being part 4 of this video series, I have the benefit of being able to read what you've all been saying in earlier episodes.


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[Assistant] First of all, I think I upset some artists by saying that art wasn't important. And that was unfair. I want to make it clear that I have a lot of respect for graphics in games, and admiration for the talented and patient artists who work on them.


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[Assistant] I know a great guy who's always showing me mock-ups of my games that he's made using the art-styles he's currently messing about with, and it puts my work to shame.


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[Assistant] I want to collaborate with him to release fun, pretty looking games at some point in the future. So I like art, and I respect it.


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[Assistant] But I believe gameplay should ALWAYS take priority over the graphics, wherever those two things meet. A game about fire, everywhere, could very easily have become a mess to look at, and difficult to read. Which was why my emphasis in the last video was on keeping the game readable, even if it meant sacrificing the billowing smoke clouds and toning down the fire effects everywhere. I was just trying to make the point that while graphics is all nice and all,


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[Assistant] I've also received the usual old comments from people saying that I should be using different game-making tools, and about how much I'm being held back by what I'm currently using. If you're saying this as a genuine naive suggestion, then thanks, but no thanks.


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[Assistant] However, normally this sort of thing is said because they're spoiling for an argument about which programming language is the best. I swear game development is the worst for breeding this kind of fanatic. You know who you are.


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[Assistant] So I'll make it very simple. I am NOT going to change the tools that I use. Here I am, having made a game that I'm happy with, in just a couple of days, using tools that I enjoy working with and have mastery in. The last thing I need is a change of tools.


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[Assistant] So when people try to argue this with me, I can only see them as being offensively dismissive of my own approaches and achievements in game development.


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[Assistant] Another more interesting suggestion that I got was that I should have got Flammable Thready playtested by other people earlier in its development than I did. Guess what I'm going to say to that!


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[Assistant] No! If I had infinite friends and infinite time to make this game then yes, I probably would have got a few people to test it earlier than I did.


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[Assistant] But my friends are finite in number. Very finite in number. And I'm not going to waste their first playtesting on an early build which in no way resembles the final product. Up to a certain stage of development, I think I am a talented enough game developer to be able to critique my own creation.


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[Assistant] Before this point, playtesting is more about obvious bug-fixing and the broader brushstrokes, which I am already aware of, and will be capable of doing on my own without the input from others. I don't want for early playtesters to be distracted by these things. Which they will be, with an alpha product. I want to get the game to a stage where playtesters can focus on the FEEL of the finished game.


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[Assistant] So that's why I leave it to a relatively late stage before getting other people to try my game for the first time.


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[Assistant] IF, when they finally play it, they all decide that the game's rubbish and I should change


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[Assistant] Fair enough, I've left it too long before playtesting it and my game is going to be a failure. I'll be honest, if the game turns out to be terrible,


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[Assistant] Then it's on me for having made a bad game. With a project of this length, all I can expect from playtesters is for them to help point out the problems that the players will have on their first, second or third playthroughs of the game.


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[Assistant] And to tell me what they think would make these first experiences more enjoyable or intuitive. At the end of the day, it's on me to have created a game that's got enough depth to it to justify a 4th playthrough. Here's my last lesson for you. If you're planning to make a game,


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[Assistant] Don't let it outstay its welcome. If anything, you should make it shorter than players want it to be, so they voluntarily choose to replay it.


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[Assistant] I have made many songs, yet it's the newer ones I skipped through the most, just because they're longer. My first songs were very simple, very basic, but they're short enough that they end before I tire of them. And I've decided that I should be making games in the same way.


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[Assistant] I used to think that every game had to try and be the best game ever, worthy of dozens of hours of playing.


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[Assistant] I bloat those games with features and stuff believing that more is better. Bit like Cyberpunk did.


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[Assistant] But now I don't see it that way. It's far better for a game to be short and sweet. To be happy being what it is, instead of chasing something that it isn't. And something needs to fill those gaps in your life between those sprawling, epic games that will consume hundreds of hours of your lifetime.


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[Assistant] So I set out to make Flammable Freddy exactly that. A stop-cap, that's merely a handful of seconds long. My challenge was to ensure that players would want to experience those few seconds several times. Optionally. Voluntarily.


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[Assistant] So that's the secret to Flammable Freddy's success. It aims for not much of your time, in the hope that you'll want to replay it several times. And I think it succeeds in doing that. For long enough, perhaps, that the short-term appeal of setting fire to stuff can last for long enough to ignite the longer-term goals like achieving a high score, or in becoming a diamond, and thus completing the campaign.


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[Assistant] If Flammable Freddy does this, then it's been a success, even if it pales in comparison to the ambition I had for my earlier games.


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[Assistant] The third day of development was over, and I had a finished game. But, there's one more video in this series.


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[Assistant] Because I found myself in the enviable position of having a finished game several days before the competition for it ends. What is this madness? This should never happen!


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[Assistant] Whatever will I do, having reached this several days sooner than I should have done? Find out next time.


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[Assistant] What? It's a hillbilly festival that raises money for Shriner's Children's Hospital. Uh, no thanks. You're lost.


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[Assistant] How about Thunder over Luleable? And that is? Firework show you can see from space. Why? Cause everybody likes fire. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Everybody likes fire. You guys hear about that guy that lit himself on fire in front of the Supreme Court?


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[Assistant] Anyway, so there was a story in a book where there was like this dystopian government that was dividing minority communities using highways, right? Oh my god.


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[Assistant] Who are we meeting today? So, we're meeting a guy called Jun Lee Comedy, who I've been following on Instagram for a while. Interesting surname.


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[Assistant] Did we, did we come to the right place to try our first breakfast burrito?


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[Assistant] Something I wanted to ask. Like we said, you do a lot of interaction with your fans. Some of the stuff people send you is nuts.


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[Assistant] Jun, thanks so much for today. It's a pleasure. It's been so nice. Thank you. Absolute pleasure. And, uh, hopefully we'll see you around.


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[Assistant] One of our guys is saying they might have, uh, heard him for relating to someone having a handgun. So.


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[Assistant] Yeah, exactly. To the distillery. So, real nice. Was it nice? Yeah. Good food and good whiskey. Yeah.


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[Assistant] These police officers knocked him down and grabbed his left arm and pulled it behind his back with such force that it cracked it in half.


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[Assistant] Of the ordinance itself, would you please raise your hands? Is there anyone who is opposed?


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[Assistant] It's a bit chilly in here now. Time to make a fire, cause we've been away all day, so.


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[Assistant] Everyone knows the most stressful thing about Thanksgiving is making the turkey. Not necessarily, Steven. What if inside the turkey there's a bomb and you don't know which wire to cut?


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[Assistant] It's true, John. Family can be stressful. And so can cooking. But personally, I have nailed my turkey prep system. First, take the turkey. Remove the giblets.


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[Assistant] Save those for the gravy. Then stuff it with all your favorite things.


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[Assistant] Man, this turkey is finally fulfilling its destiny to be dead and in my mouth. Hmm. Cause that's all a turkey is good for. I mean, untalented ones.


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[Assistant] Once it's full, throw your turkey in the oven, and very important, cook it. If you need some help, you can always call the good people at the Butterball Hotline. Take a look. Bird, you're supposed to play the thing. Roll it, Jimmy.


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[Assistant] I headed to the Butterball Call Center in Naperville, Illinois, where I met Carol Miller, a 33-year Butterball veteran. Welcome.


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[Assistant] Mhmm. Over all of it or just the thighs?


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[Assistant] Okay, do you call it stuffing or dressing? I call it stuffing. Okay, wrong answer. Bye bye!


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[Assistant] Um, right now, um, I mean guy that I really think will bounce back, but he's off to a horrendous start is Blake Snell. Um, you know, yeah.


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[Assistant] He's not throwing the change up, which is, which is like very beneficial. And honestly, if you looked at his numbers from last year, he just was absolutely putrid. It got hit a lot and just really messed up his pitch mix. The second he dropped that pitch, he was absolutely phenomenal. That second half was incredible with what he was able to pull off. And I think that it,


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[Assistant] I think that right now it's just kind of more of like beginning of the season jitters and he's going to get on a course correct. Uhm, a guy that's just like surprisingly going off, uhm, that personally I don't know if I'd really, uhm, I really would dump this guy, would be Jarrett Kellnick of the Seattle Mariners. The guy was, guy is crushing it. He was a top tier talent, uh, prospect and then I kind of just took a,


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[Assistant] Took a dump on what he was doing and couldn't really translate into the bigs until this year. I'm very, very impressed at what he's doing. Uhm, God, what is he doing so far this year? He has...


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[Assistant] What, 52 at bats, uh, I'm sorry, 47 at bats, eight runs, five doubles, four home runs, eight ribs, three stolen bases, about 362. I think this kid's going to be an absolute stud this year. They've been waiting on him for a while, haven't they?


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[Assistant] You know, he is who he is, right? He's going to do his thing. Last year he had a decent season. I don't foresee him taking a flop this year. He's going to bring his batting average, batting average back up. He's going to get you a standard 11 home runs and he's going to be brought home a whole bunch of times because he's going to get on base. He's absolutely stellar. Uhm, in regards to, we said Bell, correct? Yeah. Uhm, Josh Bell.


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[Assistant] I mean, you know him, he's a big power bat, always has been.


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[Assistant] Bull, you know what we do take pride in here at UCSS?


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[Assistant] Yeah, so guys, we have a little bit of breaking news here. Uh, Steve, you want to take tieboard full? Cleveland Brown's First Energy mutually agreed to end Stadium Naming Rights Agreement. Our home stadium will return to its former name, Cleveland Brown Stadium.


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[Assistant] We're going to do pairing on Winfrey first, and when we get into Brown's talk, as every day, it's brought to us by Lincoln Electric. Lincoln Electric is now hiring for great jobs, so if you want to get into the electric welding business, go check out our friends at Lincoln Electric.


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[Assistant] And so, an update on Winfree, he is currently out on a thousand dollar bond wearing an electronic monitoring device and he has a court date on Tuesday. According to the reports, he was trying to force Mac home with him to leave the area when she refused.


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[Assistant] He tried to use force, bystanders intervened, Winfree backed off.


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[Assistant] And now there's an emergency protection order for Mack against Winfrey, which if he prohibits from doing anything and having any contact with her whatsoever.


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[Assistant] Let me figure out where my USFL is here because the USFL is back.


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[Assistant] Yes, and they are sponsoring us. Sunday, April 23rd, the US LFL is back in Canton.


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[Assistant] I think you also have to factor in that, uh, Tua had way less of a career this year than Burrow did. So those two hit those yardage with their quarterback being injured. Yeah.


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[Assistant] So we asked them out of the top four that we were talking about, Smith, Waddle, Higgins, and Godwin, who the chat would go to. It was undeniably Waddle, 55%. T Higgins coming in at second with 26%. Uh, Smith coming in at 12% and 5% for Godwin. The chat is with you guys. The chat is with me too.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so the voting is starting for all team NBA, and we're here to ask you guys, is Donovan Mitchell a first team LNBA guard? And we asked you guys last night, you sent us in some picks, do you guys want to run us through those picks? Bull, we'll start with you and we'll go around the whole thing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I just want to chime in real quick, guys, and remind everybody that your 12 o'clock lunch hour of the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show is brought to you by Colleague Racing, the official NASCAR team of Northeast Ohio.


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[Assistant] Gee, I'm gonna take you to a Cleveland emo night one of these nights. It's a very mixed crowd there. I'll show you.


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[Assistant] I totally missed what you said. We're going to talk about Giannis and his mental struggles through the bubble and how he talked to Kevin Love and kind of worked it together. And honestly, it's just a really endearing story from Kevin Love. Steve, if you want to take the tag board, this is the first quote that ESPN posted yesterday in 2020. I was ready to walk away from the game. I had that conversation. Yes. With the front office.


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[Assistant] I don't think I have the time to turn it off, be myself, kind of just be me.


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[Assistant] And he admitted that he talked to Kevin Love. I talked to Kevin Love and told him how he inspired me to open up and helped me to be a kind of a better version of myself. And he was literally tearing, tearing up when I was telling him that.


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[Assistant] He never imagined he would be the one to help me figure this out and cope with all this.


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[Assistant] NRA people said, wait a minute, we've got other things to worry about than teaching guys how to shoot or how to hunt and so forth or collect guns. And that's when, that was the transformative period.


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[Assistant] I think NRA benefited tremendously through the Clinton years because of the extreme radicalism of the anti-gun


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[Assistant] Call them left-wingers, uh, I call them regressives, not progressives.


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[Assistant] The base of the National Rifle Association believes so strongly it's more a religion or what a religion used to be. There's a passion involved in it.


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[Assistant] He was a very, uh, quiet man. I was amazed he was a lobbyist because he did not have the, uh, hail fellow well-met attitude or personality that I associated with politicians or with lobbyists.


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[Assistant] Wayne could put a finger to the wind and see which way it was blowing.


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[Assistant] And he would position himself so that neither side would be offended and might even think that he were in fact on that side.


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[Assistant] Oh, they're gonna come out and blame NRA. We're really in trouble now. But I just feared what might happen.


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[Assistant] We see as the president now, dusting off every tired old gun control bill that's been around his administration for the last six years.


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[Assistant] When Newtown occurred, it was like Columbine all over again, and we immediately knew.


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[Assistant] There would be a big push among politicians to...


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[Assistant] Seize the opportunity because they're kind of like vultures on the gun issue. They have to wait until there's a pile of dead bodies and then they come swooping in, uh,


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[Assistant] With their cat calls and everything else. It's very disgusting.


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[Assistant] Was not aiming at loopholes, it was aiming at nailing down some remaining freedom that American people have.


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[Assistant] Gun control simply kills people, and for Senator Manchin to wave the bloody shirts of those children from Newtown is despicable.


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[Assistant] We put out an alert saying, please, if you belong to the NRA, call this guy at this number and ask him to urge the powers that be to oppose the bill.


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[Assistant] You know, at some point, you just say, nah, I'm not doing that. Like, you know, you want to get everything done and out the way, Bull, but you know, sometimes when you look at the case that's put in front of you and you hear some of the, I guess, details of it, you're like,


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[Assistant] Come on, man, like, you... And then, you know, they, you know, it just seems like a lawyer that's playing tricks, trying to play, he's trying to play the, the Busby role, like, he's looking at his playbook.


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[Assistant] Seeing if that playbook'll work. Now, if you already decided that the man can't be there, why would you say, I'm sick, but didn't you?


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[Assistant] I'm sick today, but tomorrow, when would you like to reschedule? Tomorrow? Uh, you do know we've already.


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[Assistant] Said we were, we can't be here on that day. So it's, it's, it's, you know, at the end of the day, uhm, you know, they'll deal with it. Uhm, I don't think it's a big deal. I just think it's the normal goings of what you talking about with lawyers, like you said.


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[Assistant] No one should be fooled. It's all about getting the maximum amount of dollars in this case, at the end of the day. And the more the lawyer gets for the plaintiff, the more he stands to make, or he or she stands to make.


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[Assistant] Okay, well that's good. Brad dropped the ball here. But I will say that there is some semantics here. There is, there is semantics. It's a lot to be said. That's fair. That he didn't ask for a trade. He said he would like


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's bad timing for Greg because they just got here today and they, they trying to maneuver, trying to get settled. Like they trying to be like, hey, because here at this point, bull, what good would it be to ask for a trade right now, right before the draft?


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[Assistant] Sometimes, that's why I don't break, I don't break.


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[Assistant] I don't break news. I'm an opinion guy. And sometimes a lot of people give you a lot of stuff that you know that is useless facts.


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[Assistant] And let's be clear, man. See, this is why, I love this outlet. Look. Hey, I ain't gotta, I'm speculating. I'm just reading the tea leaves. What you mean? It's what I do for a living. Look, man. Be careful. Hey, when they put his name in that Jerry Judy, when they had his name in the Jerry Judy mix, it was almost like, oh, for real?


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[Assistant] I'm in a Jerry Judy trade. Nah, uh, here's what we gonna do. Give me Drew Royals in the house. So they got Drew Royals. Now mind you, this is the same kind of move Duke Johnson did.


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[Assistant] Duke Johnson, when he was here, he was behind all them running backs, remember? He was behind Kareem Hunt and Chubb. They was like, Duke Johnson, I'm sorry bro, you not, he got Rosa House and what he did, he came out during camp and he was talking about, I'm gonna sit out. Now here's the thing.


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[Assistant] Newsom don't have levers right now. The only way levers he gets is if he gets to camp. And if he gets to camp and say Emerson gets hurt.


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[Assistant] Right? He can do something, but if he gets to camp and he's still sliding in here, the only leverage he has is to sit out here.


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[Assistant] But, but it's, but here's the thing, here's the ticky, and why it's, and here's the thing, here's why it's believable. You was drafted number one.


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[Assistant] So your first round pick, Brad to tell you, it's a certain level of moxie, it's a certain level of arrogance that come, I am a first round pick.


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[Assistant] Greg Newsom saw Martin Emberson was like, oh, this dude, he wasn't worried. He wasn't, he just do different. And then Emberson came in and never really hit that spot. And Greg Newsom actually


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[Assistant] See, now in time it's different too. Like, the team demorphed. Like, before it was like, we used to go crazy over minuscule parts. Oh yea. Oh, defensively, we need him to play. And now you got a quarterback, now it's like, well, I mean, you know.


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[Assistant] And the only reason, only reason he made, see he made, so, so Brad made a misstep, Greg Newsome made a misstep.


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[Assistant] When he was tweeting back and forth with people and they was asking them questions and he was saying no?


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[Assistant] So, so Greg Newsom was tweeting back and forth with, with individuals and he said, hey, are you, you gonna play the slot? And he said, no. Then he doubled down doing it a couple of weeks later. Like somebody came back and asked him again, like, so you cool with playing the slot?


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[Assistant] No. Now here's the problem with that. You should have just went and got Drew Rosenhouse and chill. That's right. If you would have did that, see every, we wouldn't have known what was going on, maybe some savvy fans, but the organization would have known. Yeah. Okay.


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[Assistant] We, we, we want you to play four. 75% of the time.


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[Assistant] I remember Tim Kish was from, he was from Arizona, he came to OU. He came there after all the other coaches left, right?


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[Assistant] And he had us playing attacking upfield. I'm like, man, this is great.


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[Assistant] And then we got another after we played that year, we went wanting something. They got him up out of here quickly. Wanting something. Bye!


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[Assistant] And then he got the job at Indiana, and I'm like dang man, I learned first hand what the culture fraternity was. Right in Indiana, my boy got him that I played college with, he's like yea bro, he got us out here getting touched too. So, uh, yeaah. Then they brought in Tim Daruder. Now Tim Daruder,


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[Assistant] Uh, was at OU, but he eventually went on to coach Vaughn Miller at Texas A&M. Coach would be everywhere. So when we got Tim DeRouder, he came in and was like, he just was like, oh, you talk too much.


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[Assistant] You talk way too much, bro. You be talking like...


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[Assistant] And I'm like, oh, for real? They're like, oh, and she's like, yeah, and for real. So now I'm looking at him like, well, my position is threatened because now I'm like, I'm getting up there. I'm a sophomore. I'm a redshirt junior at this point. They got young boys, young pups coming in. They starting to recruit from other different positions, other different


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[Assistant] And I'm looking around like, yo, what's the deal? So now you going out, now you got to practice harder. Now you, now you got to put your head down. You got to come in front of sprints because now the coach necessarily don't get hurt. Don't get hurt necessarily. They don't have to like you like that. They didn't recruit you. So when you look at Greg Schwartz, they come in.


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[Assistant] All of a sudden, G-G NU is like this.


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[Assistant] If I'm at that nickel position, if I perform too well at nickel,


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[Assistant] He like, he's gonna keep me there, right? So even if it was Joe Woods, if Joe Woods knew him, he could be like, yeah, I don't know. We seen tape on him on the outside, right? Can we, maybe we should bring him to the outside. They ain't gonna outright cut you.


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[Assistant] But when you got a new coach, everything's a blank slate. And when you inside, you gotta think of it like this. Tyvis said it the other day. He said, you parted a run fit.


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[Assistant] The slot corner is integral to the run fit and he's been slight of frame. He's been injury prone. Do you want to be coming up hitting these big backs?


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[Assistant] That, like, I don't, people tell me, like, man, like, the stuff y'all think about on a daily basis, I don't think about.


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[Assistant] They be like, what you mean? Well I'm at a different point in my life. I'm just trying to get it.


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[Assistant] So like the stuff y'all think about when y'all go talk to management, when I go talk to management, it's two different things at certain points in your career.


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[Assistant] You just gotta put your head down and ball. That's it. Like you gotta, I'm in my dry phase. I ain't, I ain't coasting. I ain't listening. People talk about some guy hit me up. He said, what are you doing with your 401k? I said, I didn't even know I had one.


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[Assistant] At this point, what you talking about? Like, I still got time to go. So Greg Newsome.


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[Assistant] Guess what? They're going to have you looking around and say, man, this guy, we can bring him up. We got the number one corner on the board. They're probably leaving free agency.


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[Assistant] Listen, here's the thing, here's what I would talk to him about.


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[Assistant] I learned this, I learned this one way, well, I didn't even learn the hard way. I just learned it. I said, look, when


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[Assistant] Is I go to the Mary Kayes. I go, uh, uh, to the Daryl writers. I go to some of those individuals and be like, Hey,


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[Assistant] Uhm, are y'all kinda hearing this? What you think about this? Do you know this person? How do, how well do you think this person is reputable? And even if they got some conflicting information, at least I know, cause here's the thing.


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[Assistant] Those guys been in the game. If you know about it, they know about it, right? In most cases. I did break the Terry Francona story. If you know about it, they've heard at least some whispers of it. Nobody had heard it when I, when I mentioned it. Nobody! That was my story. Adam the Bull is Willy Wonka.


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[Assistant] You be like, oh man, this is great, man. This is, you know what? Listen, I'm, and then you go back and you tell yourself, who winning? I'm winning this one. I'm up, I'm up five. I'm the one with all the stuff. I'm like, yeah, I'm tall. I'm dark. I'm handsome. Yeah, I'm winning this one. I should win this relationship, this, this situation. So you win, you get something on the board. You get something on the board. You're like, yeah, I'm on the board.


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[Assistant] You, you, you bat over your head. You may get a second date with somebody else, but now they winning.


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[Assistant] They got a job. Their car look a little different. They look like they've been working out more than you. And they use all the right words. And when you go, they go to a hot restaurant and you done went up top. You all over at Blue Point Grill. You, you are, you spinning all your little cake. And then she hits you with the, you got a couple of years young pup.


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[Assistant] You fine, cause all you wanted to wa- Listen, she, she decided to go out on a date with me. It really ain't no L like that.


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[Assistant] You feeling great about yourself. You're back into the, you, you are now relevant because now.


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[Assistant] From that angle, yes, I get it. I don't know. This is the very, this is the most interesting thing.


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[Assistant] So my thing is, I have no clue what to expect from anybody other than Donovan Mitchell. Not, not one. I don't, I just don't, like, I don't know if Mobley is gonna, like, what is he gonna do? I don't know if Darius Garland is gonna be


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[Assistant] Listen, they are going to make you, them guards give that ball up, they gonna blitz them off that pick and roll, they gonna trap them, they gonna make sure, that's why I'm trying to figure out with Darius, Darius Garland has to be aggressive.


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[Assistant] He has to be aggressive in these games. And by the way, I wouldn't be surprised if the Knicks win a game, a couple games in Cleveland. The Cavs to win this series are going to have to win a game in New York. Easily. For sure. They're going to have to win a game in New York.


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[Assistant] I think Jalen Brunson is the number two guy.


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[Assistant] I don't have no prob, I don't have no problem with it, especially if you projected somebody gonna bring a little different.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm gonna take Brunson at three. I'm talking about, I'm talking about, I'm talking about four. Yeah. Uh, well, I don't need two cards, but man, give me, uh.


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[Assistant] Okay, I, this is very close. I'm gonna, this is Darius Garland by a smidge. He's a guard. He's gonna have a Brock in his hands. I'm gonna go by a smidge. He's more approved. Uhm, he's more accomplished of a player right now at this point.


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[Assistant] Mowgli belongs in the conversation, but I don't have a problem. I mean, Garland is averaging. I mean, Garland shoot 41 from 3.


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[Assistant] I mean, he's shooting about 48% from the field. I mean, the dude, and he shoots about a top 86, 87, 88% from the free throw line.


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[Assistant] Here's, here's the reason this is a very interesting one and I really can't, I can't argue with Brad on it.


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[Assistant] Here's the thing. Well, come on, Mikey. Let me see you do that.


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[Assistant] Is a dude that can get 50. Yeah. R.J. Barrick can get 50. Jared Allen can get 50.


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[Assistant] Not necessarily for the team. Listen, I would have went with Jared Allen, but I'm not mad at the rationale behind Paris Levert. When Paris Levert is on, he on.


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[Assistant] So they done got, everybody off the Cavs is off the board. Who the, who the, who the last two started for the net?


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[Assistant] No, no, no, no, no, no. He, he, he's hitting jumpers. He's hardnosed. He can defend. He been in playoffs. Yeaah. That's, actually to be truthful. He can move up. That's a dude. He can bump up. That's a dude.


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[Assistant] Man, I'ma tell you what man, it might, it's gon' come down. It's gon' come down to coaching too, man. You know, I keep going back to this tie loop.


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[Assistant] Tai Lu was able to pull so many strings in those playoff runs, even when the Cavs did not have the best roster.


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[Assistant] They would say, okay, just figuring out how, like even the philosophy, like they figured we can't out, we can't out small ball these dudes, right? So what we need to happen is,


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[Assistant] We tell LeBron and Kyrie, we need 40 a piece. Right. Like, and usually when you telling them we gonna play Isoball, you're dead.


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[Assistant] And just, they're gonna be out of bounds plays, there's gonna be some different things, and his rotation is gonna be key. Because somebody, like OG says, somebody gonna melt. And if you catch him melting.


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[Assistant] If you see that popsicle sitting on that schoolyard bench and it's 85, you better get that popsicle out of here because guess what? It will melt. They need to be having guys ready and ready to go with veterans too.


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[Assistant] Hey, hey, look bro. Hey listen, and my thing is, listen, or you can just let him shoot the fair one. Shoot the fade. Like, listen.


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[Assistant] He didn't get no suspensions. No, hold on, hold on. Dre mind, Dre mind, I might be waiting on him. I might invite him and his family out to a nice dinner and sleep him right at the table at Olive Garden.


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[Assistant] There's a run on quarterbacks. I've seen Anthony Richardson, Will Levis is now being talked to. We already know CJ Stroud and Bryce Youngwell at the top of the board. Could you possibly see a run on quarterbacks from what you're hearing with general managers around the league?


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[Assistant] You know, Pete, I'd say we need 4,000 yards and 30-plus touchdowns from Deshaun Watson. Can you give it to us? Because that's where we need to be at. That's a big number.


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[Assistant] What are your thoughts about Kevin Stefanski? Uhm, is he on the hot seat if they do not make the playoffs this year or come close to it?


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[Assistant] Listen, I don't, I've been trying to, I'm the Duke of Nietzsche.


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[Assistant] Y'all been trying to work with me on being tempered. So I- It's hard. It's hard. I give them to like Memorial Day. Who, Josh Bell? No, the whole squad. Well, the squad's playing well. I know, the squad's playing great. So, so, but here's what I expect as we just had another, we just had another individual go to the-


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[Assistant] I'm looking to tread, I'm looking to tread water. If I can be 500, maybe a couple games here or there.


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[Assistant] Four or five games above 500, I'll take it. I'm not gonna kill them for it. They just gonna have to figure out ways to win baseball games every single way.


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[Assistant] We need Gaddis to step up. He pitched well Gaddis' last start. We like, we need him to step, the big fella gotta step up. And listen, I ask again, I've been pounding the table, when is one of these young thoroughbreds gonna come up here? Like, we might, if, if we, if they continue to pitch well, cause, cause Biden was almost throwing no hit baseball the other week.


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[Assistant] He's grounding out weakly to the pitcher. I mean, he's just dribbled down the first baseline. I mean, hopefully he gets there, but I will say this though.


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[Assistant] I would, I would, I would hate, I would hate to play the Guardians. Yeah. Because you, you can theoretically play the Guardians and come away feeling good about every, every single game. You're like, how did we lose?


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[Assistant] We hit home runs. They didn't hit any home runs. They only had like four stole. They had like four hits the whole game and they won three to two.


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[Assistant] Practice sliding now, mate. They be like, yeah, move your body while you slide. They do all the little things well.


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[Assistant] By the way, I, like, I, I disagree with Jason. I don't know why. I saw at Washington and I got extremely excited. I was like, ooh, the Nationals, we don't see them. Oh, they suck. I know they're terrible, but I get to see, I get to see the Guardians play like other teams. I love interleague play for some reason. I don't know why.


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[Assistant] Who literally says, hey, I need, I need center field to be, I need center field to be 425. I need left field to be 310 so everybody can hit home runs like the Yankee Stadium. Like, so, so who's creating these rules?


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[Assistant] So why don't you do this? Based on how much money you make or how much assets you got as a owner, you say, alright, signing major league top notch pitchers is very expensive.


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[Assistant] So here's what we're going to do. We're putting a wall in left field. It's going to be bigger than the green monster. And every, every dimension is 400 feet. Nobody's hitting the ball out of here. We're going to play with double A pitchers and we're going to keep everything in front of us to play defense.


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[Assistant] Listen, if I ain't paying nobody, I got to, we gotta go play in this green, everything is a green wall. Yeah, but if I don't have to pay the pitchers, I got a bunch of scrubby pitchers, everybody's hitting a double off the wall. Double, double, double, double.


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[Assistant] And they've rolled out this bull. If you're on the internet, if you're watching on YouTube, they've rolled out the baseball games.


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[Assistant] Their highlights of the game. Oh, the highlights. Ten minutes.


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[Assistant] Hey listen, I'm gonna tell you, that's the biggest thing you've done.


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[Assistant] See, I was looking, this card show came up. Now me, I'm kind of a little, a little bit of a strange guy. Like I was like, so do you have Pokemon trading cards? There will be. Oh, my son is into that. There will be, there will be.


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[Assistant] My son's got Big League Chew at home right now. See, I'm a little more of the younger generation. When you talk about the, see back then,


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[Assistant] We used to have the Beckett, right? Yep, still there. So the Beckett used to come out. He used to get these cards. He used to see everybody think they got a dope card until they realized.


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[Assistant] That it's a, it's a side card. You'd be like, this is really not a Don Russ. This is not really a top, you know, flair or there's not, it's like one of them, like generic cards, right? And then so they bring it to you like, well, no, no, no, this is generic.


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[Assistant] Do people bring you their individual cards and be like, hey, what do you think this is worth?


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[Assistant] I think they call it a deck. I got it. I got it. Jigglypuff, right? And I'm gonna check it out.


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[Assistant] I gotta tell my mom to bring my, see I got a Joey Bell card and it says Joey. And I do have a Kobe Bryant rookie card.


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[Assistant] I mean, do cards always, so do great players always appreciate? Is it like a house or an asset?


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's just so simple market, market supply and demand.


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[Assistant] And obviously their performance. Yeah, right. Yeah. No, this is, hey, this is, this is the funnest event that I'm actually looking forward to.


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[Assistant] Right, right, right. It's gambling. Like, Madden is huge. The only reason Madden is cool anymore is because they sell digital packs. These digital packs of cards you buy to use in a game. That's the whole game now. Like, the whole digital. I'm not buying no digital cards.


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[Assistant] Did your mom just text you about cards? My mom just text me. I don't know if you can see this. She says, uh, we can't read it.


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[Assistant] I got Jordan's rookie card. So I'm like, oh, so you got Jordan's rookie card. Listen, everybody, listen, mom, I don't know Michael Jordan. Brad already told me, don't even ask. Get away from him. Get away from him. He ain't getting it done. You gonna have to deal with that on your own.


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[Assistant] Is there anybody else? No, as we, as every generation. Cultural icons, you get Jordan, who still stayed.


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[Assistant] Cause I had all the pennies, the air pennies, and then I remember, like I told my parents- Man, that guy's so big and then he flamed out. I told my parents that I was going to try to divorce them if they didn't get me them pennies that said air on the side.


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[Assistant] Like I told him, I said, listen, y'all don't give me these. You don't love me. You don't love me as a person.


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[Assistant] Oh god, oh god, that's okay, that's okay, we can fix this. We can actually fix this really easily. Just grab this, look over at our trunk, and mount.


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[Assistant] Why wouldn't someone like yourself run for political office? You have all the money that you possibly need. You've accomplished a great deal even though you are only 34. Why wouldn't you dedicate yourself to public service?


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[Assistant] Benjamin Netanyahu at war. He is at war. He's under siege. In conflict with the President of the United States.


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[Assistant] An epic story of Israel, America and the life of Benjamin Netanyahu.


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[Assistant] His audience, the Republican-controlled Congress, the President's fiercest critics.


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[Assistant] It was a direct attack on his foreign policy legacy.


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[Assistant] The clash with the American president was only the latest in a lifelong battle.


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[Assistant] Lieutenant Netanyahu would be part of the Special Israeli Strike Force.


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[Assistant] Netanyahu and the others dressed in airport mechanics white overalls.


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[Assistant] In the days after the raid, Netanyahu received praise from Israel's president.


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[Assistant] Essential experience for a young man who spent his formative years in America.


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[Assistant] He attended elementary school in New York, high school in suburban Philadelphia. He picked up flawless American English.


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[Assistant] Bibi's father believed he was forced to leave Israel because of his strident right-wing politics.


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[Assistant] As a history professor in America, Dibi's father Benzion drew a dark picture of the threats facing the Jewish people.


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[Assistant] It was a world view passed on to Bibi and his brothers.


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[Assistant] The brothers were told it was up to them to protect Israel.


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[Assistant] Baby watched as his father's dire warnings were transformed into reality.


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[Assistant] Thousands of tanks from Egypt, Jordan, Syria surrounded the Israelis.


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[Assistant] The 1967 war lasted only six days.


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[Assistant] By the end of the 67 war, Israel occupied the Golan Heights, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and the Sinai. Israel had more than tripled in size.


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[Assistant] The occupation of land inhabited by Palestinians would ignite decades of conflict. But for the Israelis, it was an historic victory.


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[Assistant] Bebe had skipped his graduation to return to Israel for the war, to dig trenches. He would witness a turning point in Israeli history.


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[Assistant] And then to the devastating loss of his older brother Yoni, a national hero who was killed in action.


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[Assistant] Not long after his brother's death, Netanyahu began a new life on American television.


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[Assistant] Having graduated from MIT and Americanized his name to Ben Netai, he would fight for Israel in his own way.


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[Assistant] By the 1980s, he was appointed an official spokesman at the Israeli embassy in Washington as Benjamin Netanyahu.


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[Assistant] He returned to Israel to build his own right-wing political base.


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[Assistant] By the early 1990s, Netanyahu's hardline politics were out of fashion. The talk was no longer of war, but of peace. Negotiations were underway with their Arab neighbors.


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[Assistant] The ceremony was carefully scripted. There were speeches, the signing of the Oslo Accord and all eyes were on Arafat and Rabim.


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[Assistant] Netanyahu was building a coalition of the ultra-religious right and security minded conservatives.


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[Assistant] As head of the conservative Likud party Netanyahu himself became the face of the opposition to Oslo.


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[Assistant] More than 100,000 supporters singing of peace.


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[Assistant] Netanyahu's close advisor at the time vehemently disagrees.


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[Assistant] As the nation mourned, Bibi Netanyahu faced the political consequences of Rabin's death.


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[Assistant] And Netanyahu had a new and powerful opponent. The American President.


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[Assistant] But Rabin's legacy was in jeopardy. His successor, Shimon Peres, would have to win an election. And that meant facing Bibi Netanyahu.


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[Assistant] Clinton's political operatives opened a back channel with the Paris campaign.


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[Assistant] Clinton authorized hundreds of millions in additional military aid.


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[Assistant] And return to Israel to personally campaign for Shimon Peres.


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[Assistant] Netanyahu was behind in the polls by 31 points.


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[Assistant] It was the number 18 bus, right through the heart of Jerusalem. A symbolic act.


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[Assistant] Netanyahu had promised security to the growing number of Israelis scarred by the violence. It worked, barely.


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[Assistant] Just over one month later, Prime Minister Netanyahu was at the White House.


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[Assistant] Waiting, alone, for a face-to-face meeting with Bill Clinton.


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[Assistant] Behind closed doors, Clinton would demand Netanyahu continue the Oslo peace process and personally meet with Yasser Arafat. It didn't take long for the meeting to become contentious.


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[Assistant] But Clinton wouldn't give up on the peace agreements. And Netanyahu couldn't ignore him. The US was Israel's biggest supporter.


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[Assistant] Netanyahu decided to go along with one key Clinton demand.


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[Assistant] He drove 50 miles to the border of Palestinian territory in Gaza. At the Erez crossing, he met his enemy, Yasser Arafat.


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[Assistant] It was a meeting Netanyahu had insisted would never happen.


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[Assistant] Netanyahu said he feared his father would disapprove of the gesture. But once started, the handshakes just kept on coming. And he took other steps.


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[Assistant] He pulled Israeli troops out of the West Bank city of Hebron.


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[Assistant] And signed a treaty agreeing to further implement Oslo.


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[Assistant] But close observers say he was slow walking the peace process.


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[Assistant] Erekat and others say Bibi's maneuvers could be maddening.


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[Assistant] Before long Netanyahu's political support began to erode.


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[Assistant] By election night, it was clear Netanyahu was headed to a decisive defeat. To Ehud Barak.


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[Assistant] He brought together Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak for the high-stakes negotiation.


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[Assistant] Among the most contentious issues, the future of Jerusalem.


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[Assistant] Netanyahu worked at rebuilding his political support and found a receptive audience.


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[Assistant] Netanyahu would watch as terror struck beyond the Middle East.


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[Assistant] And in Israel, the violence continued as even more efforts at peace collapsed.


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[Assistant] By that summer, he was ahead in the polls. And as his advisors began to prepare for the future, they say they were worrying about a different election.


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[Assistant] In America, it looked like the Democrat might win.


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[Assistant] On his first day in office, he set a new tone. His first phone call


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[Assistant] To Yasser Arafat's successor, the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.


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[Assistant] Later, his first television interview. He chose an Arab TV network.


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[Assistant] and he decided to send a signal to Palestinians and Israelis he wanted to restart the peace process


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[Assistant] Obama had built his political career on his ability to bridge differences.


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[Assistant] Not long after the city had elected its first black mayor, Harold Washington.


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[Assistant] As a candidate, Obama forged an alliance with the city's powerful progressive Jews.


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[Assistant] Newton Minow and Judge Abner Mikva were two of his closest Jewish supporters.


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[Assistant] He would be elected with more than 70% of the Jewish vote. Many of them shared his belief.


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[Assistant] That Israelis and Palestinians could sit down and resolve their differences.


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[Assistant] Obama sought to make those progressive ideals a reality, doing what no other president had done.


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[Assistant] Creating peace between Israelis and Palestinians.


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[Assistant] To help bridge the differences between Israelis and Palestinians Obama turned to veteran conflict negotiator George Mitchell.


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[Assistant] But on the ground in Israel, Mitchell quickly found that Obama's hopes did not match the stark reality.


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[Assistant] In Gaza the extremist group Hamas was in charge.


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[Assistant] And there was a political challenge. Israel elected a new prime minister.


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[Assistant] The president's staff were anxious about Netanyahu's victory.


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[Assistant] Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, a veteran of President Clinton's clashes with Netanyahu, warned Obama.


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[Assistant] The strategy would be to show the Arab world that Obama could take a hard line on Israel, could create some daylight.


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[Assistant] That May, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived at the White House.


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[Assistant] Obama insisted that Netanyahu stop the construction of Jewish settlements on lands captured in the 67 war, which were claimed by the Palestinians.


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[Assistant] A settlement freeze. A recurring demand of American presidents.


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[Assistant] But it was a deal breaker for the right flank of Netanyahu's fragile political coalition.


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[Assistant] And in front of the press, Obama doubled down, making the demand in public.


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[Assistant] For Netanyahu, his first meeting with the president couldn't have gone worse.


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[Assistant] The President of the United States was now an adversary.


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[Assistant] During his first days in office, he had signaled a change in tone. With the Netanyahu meeting, he had tried to show he could get tough with Israel. And now in Egypt, he would personally make the case.


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[Assistant] It was billed as an unprecedented address to the world's 1.5 billion Muslims.


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[Assistant] Among them, Michael Oren, Israel's ambassador to the United States.


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[Assistant] For many of the Israelis watching, the message was clear.


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[Assistant] Just 6% of Jewish Israelis said they considered him pro-Israel.


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[Assistant] The president had lost his point man. And his Middle East policy was in trouble.


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[Assistant] And there was mounting criticism by Jews in Israel and America.


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[Assistant] Then this man in Tunisia lit himself on fire.


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[Assistant] At the White House, President Barack Obama watched the protests on television.


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[Assistant] For three decades, Mubarak had been an American ally.


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[Assistant] A president decided to get involved. He would tell Mubarak to leave.


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[Assistant] And in front of the cameras Obama repeated his demand.


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[Assistant] In Israel, Netanyahu expressed amazement at what Obama had done.


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[Assistant] Israel had made peace with some of its Arab neighbors, including Egypt.


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[Assistant] At the time, Dan Marador was the Deputy Prime Minister.


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[Assistant] Obama wanted a reset of his approach to the Middle East. He told his staff to prepare a new speech.


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[Assistant] He delivered the speech in front of a room filled with staffers at the State Department.


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[Assistant] He spoke for nearly an hour but the speech would be remembered for just one line.


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[Assistant] It was a familiar demand, but one never endorsed so publicly by the President of the United States.


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[Assistant] And as it turned out, he was planning a trip to Washington the next day.


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[Assistant] When Netanyahu landed, his ambassador could tell there would be trouble.


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[Assistant] At the White House, Obama and his top advisors had heard from Hillary Clinton that Bebe was angry.


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[Assistant] Just as in their first meeting, the press was summoned.


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[Assistant] But this time, Bibi Netanyahu would lecture Barack Obama, taking a hard line on the peace process.


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[Assistant] Watching it unfold, Chief of Staff Bill Daley.


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[Assistant] The president had a choice. Try to push Netanyahu even harder, or walk away from the peace process.


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[Assistant] The Obama White House was keenly aware of the political costs of confronting Netanyahu.


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[Assistant] Indeed, under Obama, the United States has continued to provide Israel with as much as $3 billion a year in military aid.


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[Assistant] Now he could focus on an issue he believed was more pressing. The fear that Iran was building a nuclear weapon.


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[Assistant] Netanyahu's military and intelligence services delivered the bad news.


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[Assistant] His defense minister, Ehud Barak, once a rival, was now on his side.


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[Assistant] Iran, Barack said, was entering the zone of immunity.


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[Assistant] The president's top advisors warned that an Israeli strike could ignite a war in the Middle East.


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[Assistant] But as the possibility of a strike grew, Netanyahu had a problem.


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[Assistant] With his military wary about a unilateral strike,


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[Assistant] Netanyahu reluctantly asked Obama for upfront assurance that if Israel went ahead, the US would back them up.


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[Assistant] At just this time, the president's reelection campaign was beginning.


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[Assistant] So Netanyahu decided to take his argument for striking Iran directly to the American voters.


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[Assistant] On TV show after TV show, he urged Obama to commit to military action if Iran crossed a red line.


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[Assistant] Netanyahu decided to do something no other Israeli prime minister had done. Appear to actively support the president's opponent.


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[Assistant] And Netanyahu's conservative wealthy Jewish supporters in America initiated a media campaign.


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[Assistant] On election night, Netanyahu watched with anticipation.


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[Assistant] And saw an opportunity to show diplomacy would be more effective than Netanyahu's confrontational approach.


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[Assistant] The secret meetings continued for months in the Gulf state of Oman.


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[Assistant] But Israeli intelligence soon found out, and they were monitoring the travels of William Burns and Jake Sullivan, the US negotiators.


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[Assistant] Netanyahu rushed to Ben Gurion Airport for a face-to-face meeting with Kerry.


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[Assistant] While Kerry waited in the first class lounge, Netanyahu stopped for a word with the press.


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[Assistant] Before leaving, Netanyahu went before the cameras one more time.


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[Assistant] Later that day, Netanyahu summoned Obama's former advisor, Dennis Ross.


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[Assistant] In an emergency phone call from Air Force One, Obama tried to calm Netanyahu down and persuade him that a deal with Iran would make Israel safer. But it didn't work.


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[Assistant] Netanyahu believed the Iranians would only respond to the threat of force. To him, if that was not an option, Obama was surrendering to the Iranians.


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[Assistant] Instead, Obama went to the American people to sell a deal that would impose limits on Iran's nuclear program.


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[Assistant] He could count on the Republican Party to be against the President and enlisted AIPAC, the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee, to go on the attack.


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[Assistant] A large number of Democrats boycotted the speech, choosing to stand by the president.


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[Assistant] It was rhetoric he had perfected over decades, delivered to a receptive crowd, 26 standing ovations. But in the end, it would not be enough.


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[Assistant] Without the Democrats, the Republicans alone could not stop the deal. On the one issue he cared most about, Netanyahu would fail.


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[Assistant] Netanyahu had promised Israelis security through strength, but still presides over a fearful country, uncertain about its future.


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[Assistant] The days when the Jewish people remain passive in the face of genocidal enemies, those days are over.


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[Assistant] We must always remember the greatest danger facing our world is the marriage of militant Islam with nuclear weapons.


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[Assistant] America's founding document promises life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Iran's founding document pledges death, tyranny and the pursuit of jihad.


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[Assistant] I cannot imagine the growth of international terrorism in the last 15 years without the pivotal role played by us or Arafat's PLO. What we are doing is trying to stop this kind of terror from spreading.


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[Assistant] The Arabs tried regular war, they failed. They tried terrorism, they failed. They have now embarked on a new strategy. It's called anarchy and trial by media.


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[Assistant] What the Security Council is doing is sending a very clear message. It's saying basically this. It says, we condone all Palestinian violence against Israel. We condemn any Israeli countermeasures.


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[Assistant] And you know, we've been around for almost 4,000 years. We've experienced struggle and suffering like no other people.


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[Assistant] I think it's important to place a red line before- I think it's important to delineate a red line for Iran. A red line should be drawn right here.


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[Assistant] Governor Romney, Mitt, it's a pleasure to welcome you in Jerusalem. Uh, we've known each other for many decades. God, we were so young then. And for some reason, you still, you look young. I don't know how you do it.


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[Assistant] The world tells Israel, wait. There's still time.


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[Assistant] I want to thank you all for being here today. I know that my speech has been the subject of much controversy.


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[Assistant] Today the Jewish people face another attempt by yet another Persian potentate to destroy us.


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[Assistant] We must all stand together to stop Iran's march of conquest, subjugation and terror.


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[Assistant] May God bless the state of Israel and may God bless the United States of America.


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[Assistant] Uh, the American culture, the American language, uh,


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[Assistant] What's coming for us is that there will always be a hostile world.


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[Assistant] That would not care for the security and welfare of the Jewish nation. And one thing that we should do is do it ourselves.


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[Assistant] The feeling here in Israel is that we look at a very close and clear danger of being exterminated.


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[Assistant] Coming in Israel is one of the line of mythical heroes of Israel's independence.


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[Assistant] Post-red books rivaling the diaries of Anna Frank.


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[Assistant] Netanyahu was one of the earliest people who brought up this message. That there's a war going on, and it's a war between good and evil.


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[Assistant] And that you have to stand up in that war and you cannot just run away. You have to fight it and win it.


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[Assistant] Oh, the Prime Minister is a cheap political propaganda trick that was taken by his political opponents, mostly from the left, in order to delegitimize Netanyahu as a political public and to delegitimize the positions of Likud.


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[Assistant] Uh, in the Israeli open political debate.


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[Assistant] Israelis loved Clinton. If he ran here for primacy, he'd win easily. No matter which banner. Uh, Israelis loved Clinton. Bill Clinton.


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[Assistant] From grassroots was this piece is killing us.


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[Assistant] Uh, you can just do like a Google search like, how do pe- like, buying YouTube viewers or something like that and like they have packages, it's like you can pay this much- How much? I think it's like, one time we looked at it because we were suspicious of it happening. It was like 15 bucks for like 8,000 viewers or something.


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[Assistant] And it's like some, uh, some certain draft shows that thought they were competing on YouTube decided oh we have a hundred thousand people watching and five people in the comments.


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[Assistant] Also might be the most legendary human to ever coach in football in history. The things that that guy was able to do with beer.


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[Assistant] When did you learn that though? Like, who, who, DeMarcus Ware brought that in, but then, did you just have to like, try these all in game ag-


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[Assistant] Okay, so, training camp happens, one-on-ones, first day of one-on-ones with pads, offensive line, defensive line. Poor fucking Costanzo's out there, okay? He's out there on an island all by himself.


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[Assistant] That was a rough morning. We were also pumped for Frini to be on Sports Science. Here we go. He did the whole shoot and then we watched it and that scientist was like, he's spinning as fast as a figure skater spins in the Olympics. And they got Frini spinning and a lady in a tutu spinning right next to her. This is tough.


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[Assistant] Hello everyone, welcome to this week's episode of the Sky Sports F1 podcast with me, Matt Baker. Joining me to look back on F1's return to China for the first time in five years, I'm joined by our very own David Croft and also making his Sky Sports F1 podcast debut, Christian Hugo, who hosts not one,


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[Assistant] But two Formula One podcasts, The Fast and the Curious and F1 Explains. Great to have you with us, Christian. How are you doing?


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[Assistant] It gives Stefano Domenicali a real, a real problem now. A good problem in the sense of it. It's so clear how much Formula One has changed in China. It's now...


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[Assistant] I think yeah, well, and to go back to your point, Crofty, you can't just put Zhou Guanyu in a team just for the Chinese Grand Prix. It's one weekend of the year. And by the time we get to Abu Dhabi at the end of the season, it's all going to feel very, very different. And we have seamlessly moved through so many topics. This is wonderful. Great start.


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[Assistant] Superb, superb weekend including a PT for Lando Norris. We're going to get into Max's future with a new war of words brewing is what I'm going to call it between Toto and Christian. We're going to talk about that instant that we just mentioned between Lance Stroll and Daniel Ricciardo. We'll also talk about Ferrari's


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[Assistant] Worse weekend of the year so far, plus a little bit on whether or not we think the new sprint format was a success. And there's not much time to change it because we've got another one coming up in a couple of weeks in Miami. So let's start with McLaren because I think the McLaren story is really, really interesting.


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[Assistant] However, I think driver of the day and perhaps the most notable performance was that of Lando Norris. Um, pole for the sprint, uh, in a rain soaked sprint shootout, an incredible performance from him there. Qualified P4 for the race and finished second. Crofty, what did you make of


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[Assistant] Lando and McLaren's performance this weekend, would you say it was a, a real marker, a real, a real proof that they have moved a lot further forward in the, in the, in the, in the pack for this season?


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[Assistant] Christian, Andrea Stella said after the race, if we keep this strong trajectory for the next 12 months, why not? We may reach Red Bull. If you're a McLaren fan reading that, that's really exciting, isn't it? That a team principal is saying that. And also slightly strange because we're not used to team principals building up


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[Assistant] Chances it's normally downplaying them, then when you outperform them, everyone thinks you're a genius.


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[Assistant] Yeah, because if he does end up winning a world championship with McLaren, that's going to be such an amazing story. The team that have brought him through into Formula One that he's got that long association with, the relationship with Zach.


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[Assistant] If McLaren had a brilliant weekend, Ferrari maybe had a...


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[Assistant] Average to slightly disappointing weekend. Uh, P4 for Leclerc in the race, P5 for science. And...


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[Assistant] Because I wonder if this was the first weekend where we started to see the cracks appear between Carlos and Charles. And I say this because there were two key incidents, right? One in the sprint race and one in the race.


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[Assistant] Perhaps I'm just getting a little bit close to each other, uhm, Leclerc felt Carlos was over the limit in the sprint race. And then in the race, at the beginning, we saw that they lost out in the opening couple of, uh, couple of corners and then lost places. And that was because they were fighting each other.


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[Assistant] Is this, Christian, maybe indicative of a little bit of the situation that they find themselves in, in that we've got Charles who knows his future, he's set, and Carlos is driving for himself now, isn't he? He's the one who's


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[Assistant] Ultimately fighting for his place in Formula 1. It's inevitable, isn't it?


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[Assistant] I take that back. What I will do though is segway perfectly into the, into the same frustration that Daniel Ricciardo has on Lance Stroll as you have with me right now because we got there. I think we got there. I think we got out of it. We got out of the football chat.


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[Assistant] One of the big talking points from this weekend was that incident after the safety car restart where Lance Stroll went into the back of Daniel Ricciardo. There was an interesting discussion after the race in the pen. Lance Stroll thought it was the concertina effect that got him into the hairpin which resulted in the accident.


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[Assistant] So, Daniel I think was okay about it, he then wasn't okay about it when he heard what Lance had to say from you, from your perspective, Crofty, in the commentary box.


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[Assistant] How did you see it at the time and how, how do you see it now with the additional information that's been provided by the two drivers?


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[Assistant] Would potentially at least soften the blow to Daniel. Christian, it was a shame, wasn't it? Cause actually Daniel was having quite a good weekend. Was running in ninth and was on to score points. He's been after a good weekend for a while and that looked like it could have been, could have been that good weekend for him.


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[Assistant] It's actually two drivers under a lot of pressure, isn't it? Right. No. If you think about it, Daniel's also probably feeling that. Do you think that's fair to say, Crofty? He's feeling the pressure at the moment. Five races in and he's yet to put a performance down that, that is notable.


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[Assistant] And Toto Wolf, uh, and this is down to the future of Max Verstappen where he's going to be racing next year. We know that he's got a contractor with Red Bull till 2028.


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[Assistant] However, Toto is making no secret, is he, of wanting to sign Max. He said previously he would love, to quote, to sign the F1's reigning world champion, but...


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[Assistant] Where do you see Max racing in, in 25 and 26 and beyond? Do you, do you think this is starting to become a bigger story than it was? It used to be, it was maybe a bit of fun and it's just started to take, take hold.


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[Assistant] Christian, do you think he's just keeping his options open? Because he could come out publicly and say, this is all complete nonsense. I am 100% committed to the end of my contract in 2028, but he's not, he's choosing not to really do that. There does seem some ambiguity on his future.


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[Assistant] It's great. Yes. Long may it continue. And look, if we get to...


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[Assistant] Both of those teams actually fighting for a championship, it will no doubt ramp up even further. It'll be back to 21 again. Right, final topic, which maybe we might all agree on, I don't know, was the sprint weekend.


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[Assistant] Changes from 2023 into 2024. Uh, my thoughts, I thought it was really good. The only slightly strange


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[Assistant] The first thing I felt, and Crofty, I don't know how you felt in the commentary box on this, was going from a race on Saturday morning to qualifying on Saturday afternoon. That was just a little bit odd to go from the sort of the highs of a race all the way to qualifying, but I do think it's a much better format this year than last year.


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[Assistant] But then if you only do it if you finish, that was my, Crofty, that was the point you've made that I hadn't thought about. If, if it's only for finishers, because, because you shouldn't, you shouldn't score points if you, if you don't finish the race, right? You shouldn't get 20th and get one point. Correct. But if you don't finish, sorry, if you finish the race, you get a point. I, I, yeah, I see that. I see that too. I see that being beneficial.