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[Assistant] Were you always too smart for your age to really like fall in love with the bullshit?


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[Assistant] And your concept of that changes a lot over time. I feel like that the one of the biggest things I learned over the past couple years is that the responsibility that you take on is what makes you a man. Like the shit that you take on like having


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[Assistant] Five, six, seven, eight employees under me that I need to pay full fucking salaries to and if I don't grind and if I don't make the money that I know I can make right now.


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[Assistant] That has made me such a better person. Right. Because knowing that I'm fucking over these innocent people who are literally waking up every day and doing everything they can to help me. Right. And that, I don't have kids, but I understand exactly what having kids does to you.


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[Assistant] So that's a crucial moment, like how do you, how do you teach him to protect himself and how to, you know, be able to move properly in the streets but also try to keep him on the right track? You know what man?


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[Assistant] Now I think about it, it's like that's why my dad didn't understand me as a kid is because he was never someone that was drawn towards crime.


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[Assistant] Or, you know, a fucked up way of life or anything like that. So he didn't even know how to make sense of what I was clearly being drawn towards when I was getting arrested when I was young for fighting and graffiti and shoplifting and whatever it was at that time. You know, it's like he...


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[Assistant] What uh, in terms of your tour life at this point, how is it different than when you were younger? I feel like everybody like learns how to tour over time and develops like a more sustainable version of what it is.


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[Assistant] Right, there's no temptation that could get you moving around doing a bunch of different shit.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's the truth. Hey, man, we just did hour 40 minutes. That's pretty good. Hell yeah.


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[Assistant] That was the ill shit when I was a kid, but none of those companies really do, like, I think GT barely even exists. I think Schwinn bought them, and I don't even know if they make them anymore, but they might.


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[Assistant] But yea, that, I mean, you know, that, that, that, that era of like riding bikes, cause I only got started in like 97.


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[Assistant] But Jesus Christ, that was such an amazing era when I think about being able to just see the X Games on TV and Matt Hoffman and Dave Merrill were both active at that time. I mean, that was, and I still meet dudes all the time. I'll meet dudes in their 40s in Southern California who like,


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[Assistant] Had serious pedigrees, like they were around all these dudes, they were out riding, it's like, the shit is, BMX is still dope, but it's definitely, back in the day it was amazing.


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[Assistant] Well, if you're looking for something to blow a shitload of money on, there's a huge scene of dudes who collect all these classic bikes and restore them and all that shit, and a lot of that stuff goes for crazy ass money, but some of the stuff is so cool just because it looks exactly like it's just in a bike shop back in the 90s or the 80s or whatever.


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[Assistant] In the freezer, that's funny that you know that. Yeah, we was on it dawg. We was on it man. I always wondered how much that actually worked. Putting it in the freezer. Probably didn't.


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[Assistant] It's a big honor, honestly. It's always mind-blowing for me when I get to meet the people that I spent big parts of my fucking youth listening to. That's dope.


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[Assistant] I'm interested to see what your son thinks about you coming on this. Cause a lot of times I get that from like, you know, I did like DJ Semtex from the UK and he pulls up with his, and I realized he's got like a 17 year old son that's like an aspiring Soundcloud rapper and that's why he wanted to do the interview is cause his son told him it would be dope. I'm like, oh shit alright.


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[Assistant] So I remember how annoying it always was to change your currency over another currency. I was just in Australia for two weeks and I did one cash transaction which was to withdraw $400 to buy a bullshit ass ounce of weed. And that was it. And even then I was paying for weed with PayPal. I probably shouldn't say that.


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[Assistant] I didn't need any cash, I like, I finally got a fucking Australian bill and I was like, man this is so cool looking, it's got a clear piece, everything.


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[Assistant] I used to live downtown and I would see motherfuckers like homeless dudes posted up with little laptops like plugged into the wall and shit and I'm like, how the fuck are you not getting robbed for that right away by some other crackhead?


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[Assistant] Three blocks away from projects where people get killed every month or every week or whatever. And I was just like, how the fuck did New York change this much? I've only been here like six, seven years.


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[Assistant] It's ugly when you see it side by side. Side by side is ugly as fuck, man. I was in Cape Town and I seen that so bad, like the biggest, nicest, high-rise buildings right on the fucking beach, these houses that must have been so many millions of dollars, and then there's shanty towns, like,


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[Assistant] I don't find myself drawn towards like, rich shit. Like fancy shit. I'm still in that like, young ass mind state. I never liked...


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[Assistant] I love a good walk. That's one of the worst parts about being like semi-famous is that I feel a little bit more nervous walking around.


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[Assistant] Damn. Hour 50, I ain't done a long one like that in a minute.


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[Assistant] I think I'm probably gonna, like the mental image that I'm gonna leave this conversation with is gonna be you with headphones in, walking three miles to Vaughn's in a really positive headspace. That's inspirational right there. Appreciate you man, thank you.


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[Assistant] It was too good to be true. Would you believe it how the money rolled in? But nobody wanted to ask questions.


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[Assistant] In June 2009, Bernard Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison. Both of his sons have since died.


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[Assistant] The trustee recovering assets for Madoff victims has collected over 10 billion dollars and has distributed close to 6 billion.


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[Assistant] He started this little stock trading firm, one of many in Wall Street's outer fringes at that time, and slowly built it up, building up customers. It was kind of like a wholesale firm.


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[Assistant] The investment advisory business operated, so far as we can tell, completely under the radar.


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[Assistant] We know to some extent that it began small. Customers of his who go back the longest started with very small nest eggs.


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[Assistant] Not just in U.S. money circles, but in foreign money circles as well.


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[Assistant] He attracted a partner who also had a good track record, Jeffrey Tucker. They joined forces and got Fairfield Greenwich up and going.


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[Assistant] Walter Knowles, bevy of lovely daughters married in two.


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[Assistant] Uh, families that were well known, uh, in those moneyed circles.


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[Assistant] And the Fairfield Greenwich sales team, if you will, the Walter Noel extended family, began to market its services far and wide.


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[Assistant] This went on for an astonishingly long time for a Ponzi scheme.


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[Assistant] I-I like to take games, change the names, and call it my own. So instead of filling the blank, this is...


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[Assistant] Guess their stat, where essentially, we're gonna guess their stat, and this is about the Browns offensive. Now there are no right or wrong answers, right?


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[Assistant] Fill in the blank, we've all done this. It is what it is. Some have one, some have two, but there's ten questions, so we're gonna run through ten of these. The first one!


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[Assistant] Nick Chubb. Oh wait, I lied. Justin Herbert through 25 last year.


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[Assistant] Nick Chubble rushed for how many yards in 2023? What'd he have last year?


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[Assistant] 1609 yards for one Nicholas Chubb.


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[Assistant] Alright, next up, this is total touchdowns. Not just rushing, but total touchdowns for Nick Chubb. How many this season?


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[Assistant] And G, I'm excited to see what number you whip up here.


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[Assistant] So he had 28 rush, 3 receiving in 2006. In 2005, Sean Alexander rushed for 27, caught one for 28.


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[Assistant] Next up is Amari Cooper. This is a double fill in the blank.


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[Assistant] Uh, I believe eight last year and just under 1,200 I will confirm, but I believe eight touchdowns was the number.


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[Assistant] Divas says 1,164 yards and 7 touchdowns. So essentially, a duplicate season of 2022 for Amari Cooper.


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[Assistant] Uh, no, I- I believe someone did last year. Travis Kelsey.


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[Assistant] Davante had 18, Tyreke had 15. So, it's not that uncommon. I mean, it's uncommon, but it's not impossible.


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[Assistant] This is what the chat said, and I was really curious, cause I think this is the one with the highest variance. I wouldn't be shocked if people went high, low. Michael Schupske in the chat says, this is the hardest to predict for sure. I agree. And as I read these through for the first time, we have some variance. Uh, I'll start with the highs and I'll just read them as we go, but 1200, nine touchdowns.


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[Assistant] Next up is the aforementioned Donovan Peoples Jones. Once again, a dual answer. DPJ will have how many receiving yards and how many touchdowns this season.


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[Assistant] And G's cooking something up in the lab. He is the Duke of knee-jerk and the king of bubble letters in guess that stack game. And he goes with 916 and 4 touchdowns. So, consensus.


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[Assistant] More will be more of the touchdown threat. DPJ may be similar yardage wise to Lassie.


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[Assistant] We do have a joku, but first we have some chats. We have DPJ for 1,007, 905, 230, 0, 611, 2 touchdowns, 808, 1,000, 21 yards, 6 touchdowns, 956 yards, 6 touchdowns, uh, 807.


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[Assistant] Let's take it. David Njoku couldn't do this without the starting tight end. PFF's number 10 tight end in the league. He will have how many receiving yards and how many receiving touchdowns this season.


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[Assistant] How many sacks will the Browns offensive line allow?


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[Assistant] What about 2020? You have that? Do I have that? Of course I have that. Gotta be less. In 2020?


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[Assistant] Oh, they're very low on the list. They only allowed 26x.


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[Assistant] Now, as mobile and elusive as the Sean Watson is, he has been one of the more highly sacked guys in his career, partly because Houston's offensive line is horrendous. Right, but also because he holds onto the ball for a long time. But also because he holds onto the ball, that's some of the beauty of what the Sean Watson does, but it also leads to some sacks. 34 for bowl, 20 total for G and Kivus. No, no, no.


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[Assistant] So, I'm gonna say one as in the least amount of sacks. This doesn't number something counts. Least amount allowed. Least amount allowed, excuse me.


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[Assistant] So Tampa Bay only allowed 22 last season. They're number one. So 34, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, maybe 9.


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[Assistant] 39, the popular answer here. Jeff shardy says 14. Jeff shardy?


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[Assistant] Kevin Stefanski will call blank number of trick plays that for sure won't backfire in 2023. Take this however you want.


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[Assistant] Programming note, update live on the air.


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[Assistant] Don Jamison, comedian. Bullet asked me if he could come on Wednesday. I thought he meant next Wednesday. I didn't realize he meant today. So Don's gonna join us.


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[Assistant] For the last 15 minutes of today's show, I just texted him, asked him for his email, sent him the link, which means we gotta squeeze in a couple things. We'll save top five as a recorded overtime for the people out there. Our top five will record after the show. We'll post it.


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[Assistant] Before our members, who we love. We love you all, but we especially love the members. Uh, so we'll save that, we'll replace with Don Jameson, but we gotta get to Bo Nailer and the Guardians if we're gonna get everything in before Don Jameson and Bull.


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[Assistant] We had a different guardians topic this morning. Yes. You said, Hey, I gotta, I gotta go off on this. The floor is yours.


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[Assistant] Wait, oh my god. Zenino's walk to strikeout ratio. Do you have any idea what it is?


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[Assistant] He has struck out 50 times, uh, 60 times this season.


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[Assistant] Give every excuse in the book as to justify the Zanino hiring.


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[Assistant] Essentially, we're not convinced that he knows that bad yet, and also, we're gonna sugarcoat and shadow the fact that we wanna save his service time. Bone Nailer's service time.


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[Assistant] Awesome, well that took us literally to 12 on the dot, maybe our most punctual.


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[Assistant] We have no fence riders. You guys remember how it works? I give you a definitive yes or no question. You have to pick a side of the fence. And then we will discuss and only one answer of our six is unanimous. So this should be a good...


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[Assistant] Can I tell you why I said yes? Why? Please do. It seems too obvious for it to be no. I think, G, what you said last night on Twitter.


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[Assistant] And it came from a different Donovan Mitchell situation, makes perfect sense. The Cavs are looking at the landscape of the Eastern Conference, which I think is open.


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[Assistant] And saying, we may not be there, but we also don't know who's there in the East. There's a new coaching staff in Milwaukee. There's a new coaching staff in Philadelphia. James Harden could be on the move. The Celtics.


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[Assistant] Have issues with their two stars. They're not.


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[Assistant] So the Eastern Conference, there's not, Denver's the, the top top. It's them and everyone else in the East. I think there's a giant conglomerate. And I don't know what the splash move is, but I do think they look at the...


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[Assistant] I think getting rid of Alan would qualify as a splash. Just getting rid of Alan would qualify as a splash.


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[Assistant] He's really good. Jalen Brown, what he's good at, he is elite at. He's just not a well-rounded or completely well-rounded. He's very good. Obviously second team all NBA. He's a top 15-20 guy in the league, but he has his flaws.


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[Assistant] Steve, you can take it. Question number two is Nikola Jokic, the joker, the undisputed


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[Assistant] They only had one first round pick this year, I'm not sure who you're referring to.


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[Assistant] Oh, you know what? In the playoffs, Denver traded a future pick to Oklahoma City for somebody, so that must have been the guy they got. Oh, it says the 30th pick of the 2020.


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[Assistant] Whatever, I'm looking at the draft results, he was taking 30th to Oklahoma City.


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[Assistant] Alright, next question, involves another western conference team.


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[Assistant] Will Damien Lillard be a Portland Trailblazer next season? We had a 4-2 split on this side, but the three of you out there all said yes he will. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] In the history of the NBA, the team that's giving up the all-time NBA star in their prime is not giving a first round pick.


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[Assistant] They're not, no, you could do, I think there's a framework of a deal and it's unlikely, but you know, we proposed it Garland and a couple picks if they had any for Lillard, but you're not getting a pick back.


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[Assistant] By the way, Garland averaged 20 points, 5 assists, and shot 43% from the floor in the playoffs.


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[Assistant] If Damian Lillard played the appropriate number of games, he would have been a first team All-MBA goalie.


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[Assistant] Next question. This is the only unanimous one. We could go through it pretty quickly, but we are still waiting from the league's office on the length of John Moran's impending suspension. I asked, do you think it will be at least 22 games or longer? That's essentially a quarter of the season and everybody emphatically said yes.


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[Assistant] His camp is saying it was a toy gun. There's no confirmation. John Moran's camp is now saying the gun was a toy gun.


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[Assistant] He did not guarantee it, but he says he's coming in Tuesday no matter what. He should guarantee it. Let's go. Two questions left. This one is an even 3-3 split. Will the Cavs compete for a top two seed in the Eastern Conference next season? Three of y'all said yes, three of y'all said no, and the three who said no are the three sitting out there today. Interesting.


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[Assistant] Yes. Well, I mean, depending on you look at the competition.


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[Assistant] This is not unanimous. Our one unanimous was the John Moran. Right, right, right. Will the Nuggets repeat as NBA champions next season? Two said yes, four said no, and the Yesers are me and G. Bush. G, tell them why.


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[Assistant] Plus full benefit packages, paid time off, and a signing bonus you can apply.


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[Assistant] Online at precast.com slash careers to learn more. I'm going to set this up.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna play a clip and I'm gonna let you all run, but over the weekend, The Athletic did an interview, more of a Q&A really, with BabyGronk's dad.


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[Assistant] We'll get there in a sec. He did an interview or a Q&A with BabyGronk's dad. For anyone who doesn't know, BabyGronk is a 10 year old. He's a fourth grader who goes around to football camps and has developed quite the following on social media. Now,


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[Assistant] In the interview, or Q&A with the athletic, BabyGronk's dad said, called himself a marketing genius, says he's trying to set up his kid for future success and build him a, a cushion in case he doesn't turn out to be a football star.


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[Assistant] But then it got taken to another level when after the Q&A came out,


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[Assistant] This one in particular is not crazy popular, but he's been on other ones that are very popular.


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[Assistant] He went on that show, which is pretty big. Uh, he's been on a couple bigger ones. Okay. On a national platform.


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[Assistant] And that is accurate, and we can talk about that on the back end, but I do want to play the clip just so if you're not familiar, do not know who we're talking about, you will see the interactions between a father and son here. Steve, you can play the clip with Soundful.


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[Assistant] Lonzo may never play again because of some foot injuries, and a lot of people think that that is traced back to the original big ball or shoe that they launched.


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[Assistant] It's like San Miguel something, by the way, the podcast that we play the clip from has deactivated all their social accounts.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we gotta move on to our next topic. This was a last minute edition. Boy, you mentioned it. But, uh, we have comedian Don Jameson joining us in one second. But first, let me remind you guys that July 12th to the 16th, you can check out


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[Assistant] The Firestone Companies Championship at the famous Firestone Country Club. All your favorite golfers will be there, including some UCSS members as well. For all your information, head over to colleaguegolf.com. And with that, let's welcome back Don Jamison. What's up, Don?


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[Assistant] No overtime, we're gonna record a video, we'll post it for you guys later. We gotta wrap up 30 seconds early to avoid getting cut off by the internet servers. See ya later! Peace!


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[Assistant] With wisdom and grace, this modern-day renaissance man has left an indelible mark on our community. Michael Bienis.


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[Assistant] Thierry de la Villahouche would say to them, look, come to dinner, we'll have your friends, a good time, good wine, uhm, and then here comes the hard sell. I've got this great money manager in New York, he makes money whatever the weather. I can introduce you, put money into my fund, I'll, I'll hand it on to Bernie Madoff.


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[Assistant] They told their investors they were conducting extraordinary levels of due diligence into their investment managers.


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[Assistant] Fairfield's focus was on marketing and selling the product, which was Madoff, rather than on kicking the tires and checking to see that Madoff was real.


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[Assistant] If they had spent as much time on due diligence as they did on marketing, uh, we wouldn't be here today.


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[Assistant] That's a good question. Uh, considering that Fairfield, uh, uh,


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[Assistant] Has offices in New York and Madoff is in New York. Madoff is not in Bermuda.


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[Assistant] Well, that's hogwash and anyone with any sophistication, uh, should know that.


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[Assistant] No one could have credibly believed that Bernard Madoff had to use a couple people in a little accounting firm because he was concerned that his secret sauce, his secret investment philosophy was going to get out.


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[Assistant] Say it again bro, say, man what kind of question is that? You see my Instagram? Say that, ready?


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[Assistant] I'm gonna get massages, I'm gonna get body, full body massages by some baddies. Alright, ready? Go. You wanna ask it again, bro? Yea, yea, yea. Alright, go.


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[Assistant] I'm the number one 4th grade purple player in the world and that's it. Ready? Stand right there.


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[Assistant] A really fascinating discussion I stumbled upon online.


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[Assistant] And it was about the new Bryan Cranston and Kevin Hart movie.


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[Assistant] Uhm, have you seen it? It's a beautiful story that has been adapted. It's from a French movie originally called The Untouchables. And it's a story of uhm, uh,


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[Assistant] I guess in the movie it's an African man who lives in France, French guy, and he gets employed by this rich paraplegic man to come and like look after him. And it's like a, you know, odd pairing and they get to know each other and it's a beautiful story. And I saw Kevin Hart and Bryan Cranston are remaking the movie and it looks like it's gonna be good. And what's interesting is


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[Assistant] There was like a big, you know, outrage online that started up yesterday where people were complaining saying, why is Bryan Cranston playing a disabled person? Why didn't they get a disabled person to play a disabled person?


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[Assistant] And, I'm not gonna lie, my first instinct, cause I love Bryan Cranston, my first instinct immediately, I was like, are you being serious with that guy? Come on man, we're going too far now.


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[Assistant] You know, obviously online, everyone just swears at each other. Nobody speaks anymore. No one has a conversation that's nuanced. But there was one, one actor...


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[Assistant] Where there's a person in a wheelchair, I think, wow, this could be it.


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[Assistant] This could be the moment where I have all of the tools necessary to play this part. Do I get a shot at playing it? And...


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[Assistant] And he was like, because when you think of it on the flip side, they never call people with wheelchairs in to play able-bodied people.


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[Assistant] And they'll get able-bodied people to play people in wheelchairs.


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[Assistant] And I was like, snap, I just, I never thought of it like that. You know, my perspective obviously as someone who is not in a wheelchair, I just, I never thought of it that way.


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[Assistant] And I said then, I was like, it's powerful because you don't think about representation, you don't think about how important it is for people to see themselves on screen, like in a real way. And at the same time, I don't think Bryan Cranston did anything wrong. You know, I don't think everything has to be a fight. It's just like a moment to be like, hey, maybe next time in Hollywood, people can look at that and go,


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[Assistant] Maybe you can get a relatively unknown actor to play that role, and then put an A-lister opposite them. Maybe it becomes their breakout. Maybe this becomes the thing that blows them up. And that's where you realize, like, how powerful representation is. Because if you are a person in a wheelchair,


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[Assistant] How many movies come along where the lead character is in a wheelchair? There's virtually none. And I honestly, even myself, I was like, oh man, I have to try and understand that a little bit more. Uh, it was eye-opening. And I did understand it when he said it like that a bit because I remember when they announced the Lion King.


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[Assistant] So I get, but I will say like it was, it was just a beautiful moment. I hope I'll try and be a part of that as a human online and in real life.


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[Assistant] But I appreciated how that guy who is an actor in a wheelchair took a moment to go,


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[Assistant] You didn't do anything wrong to me, but let me explain to you my point of view.


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[Assistant] It could mean anything. I'm not even picky about those things. I'll be a tree.


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[Assistant] Uh, it's our secretary of state, it's our governor. I think that we would be lying if we said that we never got worried, we never got scared for ourselves or for our family members.


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[Assistant] President-elect Joe Biden today denounced the rioters who stormed the Capitol and blamed President Trump


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[Assistant] We know that it is a problem. It is absolutely a problem. Uh, it's a disturbing problem and it's one that we're going to address. We're going to understand what the


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[Assistant] You're a reporter. You've looked at the data. We know that, uh, veterans in America make up a small percentage of the overall population, definitely much less than 10%.


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[Assistant] But when you look at the number of those individuals charged, uh, we see that, uh, there was an outsized representation of that veteran population in that space. So we need to understand what happened. We need to, to do deep dives into the data to get a greater understanding of why this took place, why this happened.


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[Assistant] Well, I'll tell you, as society shifts, uh, and evolves, so do, so too do the nature of the threats. So we're trying to get a, a good handle on what we're actually facing so we can make the right type of recommendations and process in order to address it.


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[Assistant] I'll give you Seth Walters reasoning for putting the Browns where he did. Then we're gonna run through all 32 and then we'll discuss whether or not the Browns were properly ranked.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so I'm gonna read you the reasoning. Oh yeah. Why he ranked the Browns at number 11. Right. And then we'll go through the entire 1 through 32 to determine whether or not the Browns are properly ranked. Yeah. Ranked too high, too low. But here's Seth Walder's reasoning.


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[Assistant] Posting a total QBR of 38, it's fair to wonder whether he holds the rest of the players on this list back heading into 2023. If he gets back to his Houston level of play, Cleveland would fly up the list. That was Seth Walder of ESPN.


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[Assistant] To give you guys context, he ranked the Browns number 11. Right. And we're gonna run through 1 through 32 that we'll discuss. Here's who we put 1 through 5. Steve can take it full.


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[Assistant] At number one, the defending super bowl champions, Kansas city, Cincinnati at number two, Philadelphia at three, Miami at four, Buffalo at five.


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[Assistant] Here's 6 through 10, you have Dallas, the Chargers, the Jets at 8, the Ravens at 9, and San Francisco at 10, then the Browns coming in at number 11.


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[Assistant] Jacksonville at 12, Minnesota, Seattle, and the Giants rounding out 12-15. You have the Saints at 16, the Raiders at 17, Lions at 18, Steelers, the lowest AFC North team at 19.


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[Assistant] And the Denver Broncos at 20. We have 12 more to go. The Rams, Titans, Panthers, Packers, and Bears go 21 through 25. And the last seven.


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[Assistant] The Bucks at 26, the Patriots at 27, the Commanders at 28,


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[Assistant] Texans at 29, the Colts at 30, the Falcons at 31, and the Cardinals at 32.


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[Assistant] Miami was, uh, number not- no.


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[Assistant] You know, the, and this is funny because the Jets core is Aaron Rodgers, who's obviously 39, very old. Then you have Sauce Gardener.


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[Assistant] And G Bush, their core, Bosa, Trent Williams, McCaffrey, George Kittle, and Fred Warner.


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[Assistant] If you were to use, and this is not, I'm not advocating to use Madden rankings by any means to do a core ranking, but all four of those guys, all five of those guys are 95, 96, 97s. You look at the other teams in the top five, even though some of their positional values and importance on the field.


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[Assistant] I know where you're going with this, G. And that's a dirty trick to play on people.


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[Assistant] G, you had no issue with where they're ranked. Jason, are you in line with Bull and G that 11 feels about right for the Browns' core?


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[Assistant] Lamar, Mark Andrews, Marlon Humphrey, Roquan Smith, and Ronnie Staley.


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[Assistant] He's a five time all team, uh, first team all pro and a three time second team.


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[Assistant] I didn't get served at a bar, like a month ago. They're like, you're not 30. I'm like, no, trust me.


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[Assistant] The charges against Parion Winfrey were dismissed. He was facing a misdemeanor assault charge. You could take graphic full. He completed a pretrial conversion program and according to Harris County court documents, the charges had been dismissed, walks away empty handed.


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[Assistant] So there are eight spikes on the collar to represent Cam from Canada's favorite stat. The eight championships the Browns have won throughout their.


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[Assistant] Uh, I don't know the ones on top of my head, but in the top left corner of his ear, that's supposed to be the state of Ohio. I don't know how they get rid of that being Ohio.


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[Assistant] It looks more like a heart than Ohio. That looked like...


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[Assistant] Show the Browns championship history, which they've won eight championships in their franchise history, don't forget.


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[Assistant] The dog pound and the logo of the...


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[Assistant] Uh, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is on the collar. It's a guitar pick, as Anthony mentioned. So yeaah, there's a lot of subliminal messages built in here.


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[Assistant] I have not seen the name of who did this. I'll be honest, I have not seen-


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[Assistant] Actual things in case you missed any, Ohio's in the top left corner, football for the nose, there's an east end zone, a guitar pick, the spikes for the championships, the guardian bridge, uh, something with a dog pound and the helmet and then the stripe matches the helmet.


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[Assistant] I have no other information on him besides his name is Houston. And real quick, we asked the internet what they thought of the new


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[Assistant] Alright, we got a baseball topic before Greg Newsome joins us and then Gilbert Arena is a jam-packed star-studded second hour here at the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show, but we gotta talk a little gardens. They were off last night. They played the Padres in San Diego tonight.


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[Assistant] And during their most recent homestand, the bats were electric. They have the most hits, the most runs, and the second highest batting average in Major League Baseball since the homestand started. So what I want to ask you guys.


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[Assistant] Is whether you're gonna buy or sell some of the guys in the lineup. Okay. Continued hot hitting moving forward. So over the last two weeks, five guys in particular in this lineup have been red hot.


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[Assistant] And we're going to do a little happy face sad face by cell on whether or not you believe that not necessarily at the pace they've been at for two weeks, but whether or not it's an indication of better hitting or worse.


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[Assistant] Are you guys ready? We have five players and just to explain the graphic first on the left side of the graphic, you will see their stats from the last 15 days. On the right side of the graphic, you will see their season totals. So are you buying the continued hot hitting or are you selling? You think they'll regress back?


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[Assistant] To what they've seen so far this season. We start with Josh Bell. In the last 15 days, Bell is hitting 333. He has two homers, nine RBIs, and an OPS of 970 on the season.


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[Assistant] He's only betting $2.36. He only has five homers in total and an OPS of $7.07. Buying or selling the continued hot hitting of one Josh Bell.


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[Assistant] Next up is Josh Naylor, who has been on absolute heater over the last two weeks. In his last 15 days, Josh Naylor is batting 438.


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[Assistant] He's mashed a home run at 16 RBIs and an absurd 1.119 OPS on the season. He's still been the Guardian's best hitter. He has 8 home runs. He's hitting 282 with 48 RBIs. OPS just under 800.


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[Assistant] Next up, my personal hero, my best friend, future president of the United States, future seven time AL MVP, Will Brennan. In the last 15 days, Silly Willy, at Silly Willy 18.


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[Assistant] Alright, next up is Jose Ramirez who has seen a recent power surge in his last 15 games. Jose's batting 305.


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[Assistant] Last but not least, the fifth and final guardian who has been on another world offensively over the last two weeks is one Andres Jimenez. The guardian is a hundred million dollar man heading into the season. Over the last fifteen days,


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[Assistant] He's hitting 292, has a home runs, driven in 10 of his 19 RBIs on the season, and his OPS is at 806 compared to the entire 2023.


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[Assistant] Where he's hitting just 242 for total homers, 19 total RBIs and an OPS of .669. Are you buying or selling the fact that Andres Jimenez has found his swing?


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[Assistant] It is officially noon, which means it's time to remind the good people out there that the Lunch Out of the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show is sponsored by Calling Companies Championship July 12th to the 16th at the famous Firestone Country Club. Head to callinggolf.com for all the information on who will be there, how to get tickets, and what's upcoming. As soon as Greg Newsom is ready, we will


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[Assistant] Punch him up and let you guys know he is not in our queue yet, but this tweet just came across our timeline, and I do think it makes sense to talk about it real quick as we talk about the grand scheme of the AFC landscape. Steve, take tag word full here. This is from Ian Rappaport. Bill's coach Sean McDermott told reporters that wide receiver Stefan Diggs is not at mandatory minicamp, and he is quote, very concerned about it.


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[Assistant] So according to Tom Pelicero, who we like, he's been on the show.


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[Assistant] Rills receiver Stephon Diggs, who is absent from mandatory minicamp today, is making 24.4 million in 2023, including a 22.745 million dollar signing bonus as part of a March restructure.


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[Assistant] That's a mountain of dead cap, meaning his contract isn't really tradable from Buffalo's end. And completely unusual situation.


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[Assistant] No, Tyreek's making 30 million this year. Okay. Okay. Who's next?


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[Assistant] Yeah, Diggs is 6, essentially. So Tyreek at 30, Devontae Adams at 28.


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[Assistant] Uh, DeAndre Hopkins technically was a $27.3 million capper.


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[Assistant] We mentioned this earlier, like I said, as soon as Newsome hops in, then I will, uh, let you all know, but we mentioned going to the USFL game to see Boogie play this past weekend. Jason spoke about his son and AJ and Sebastian, AJ being a supersized 12 year old, 13 year old. We have the picture, uh, just for proof now. These kids are the same age. I mean, come on.


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[Assistant] NBA Championship. Miami made it close, they fought to the end, but in the end, Jokic, Murray, and the rest of the Denver Nuggets were too much.


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[Assistant] Remember that play? Yea, they, they got contributions all over and Bull, one thing that you've said consistently since the end of the regular season and start of the post season, I wanna...


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[Assistant] Emphasize here, and it's a sad thing. I don't have any pleasure or take any pleasure in saying this, but...


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[Assistant] I'm going to give you two numbers that prove the regular season is completely irrelevant now. Yes, it is. One, on the road this year, Denver, who won the title, went 19 and 22 away from home. Right.


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[Assistant] I just didn't really care. They didn't try. Nope. Doesn't matter. And then you just reference the phenomenal defense from both teams in this game, right? In the regular season, Denver defensively ranked 18th, Miami ranked 13th.


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[Assistant] Well I'm saving the question for tomorrow when we have someone else sitting in Jason's chair who I think will argue for one member of the Milwaukee Bucks.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so tomorrow's top five and I didn't want to get into it today because Greg knew someone was supposed to be on. We're still working on getting him on. Gilbert Arenas is coming out in 15 minutes. But it's the five guys who don't give a crap about anything that comes along with winning or being a superstar.


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[Assistant] And they asked him in the post game interview room, the press conference, are you excited for the parade? And he looks at the PR guy in the nuggets and goes, when's the parade?


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[Assistant] We have the sound play. I just tried to explain it. Uh, Steve, you can take and play full sound full. Anthony, this is Jokic.


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[Assistant] And then the follow up, which is not in the clip, is someone explains he can go home Friday. He's like-


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[Assistant] We have Greg Newsome, so we'll continue the NBA talk in a sec, but what's up, Greg? How you doing, man?


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[Assistant] I got one real quick for you, Greg, and we got Gilbert arenas coming up in a sec. Gilbert.


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[Assistant] If you can hear us on the back end, let us know you can hear us so we can get you in here after Greg Newsom.


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[Assistant] Greg, with the home run derby coming up, do you have a home run celebration ready? And maybe is that a preview of your first interception celebration that we know is coming in 2023?


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[Assistant] We got Gilbert arenas in the queue, we are just confirming that. Hopefully he can hear us.


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[Assistant] 1230 Eastern Time is part of the underdog content network. It's available on the iHeartRadio app and everywhere else podcasts are heard and with that.


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[Assistant] You played against LeBron for essentially a decade and you saw kind of two different versions of LeBron. The beginning of his career, the super athletic guy, then you saw the beginning of his Miami career when he kind of embraced the villain personality.


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[Assistant] Which version of LeBron was better to you? And I heard you on a different podcast say LeBron was the smartest guy you've ever played against. Can you give us a little example of maybe what made him think about basketball and see the game in a different way than most people who ever walked this planet?


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[Assistant] And his new show, and let's plug it one more time because Gilbert was so, uh, helpful with us. It is...


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[Assistant] The Gills Arena, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, 2.30 Eastern Time, 11.30 Pacific Time. It's Gilbert Arenas and Josiah Johnson, part of the Underdog Content Network, available on the iHeartRadio app, and wherever you listen to your podcasts. Gilbert Arenas, the legend. Thank you again. Thanks, man. Thanks for having me.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's about as good all the time as you're gonna get. And it was for everybody. We will see everyone tomorrow. Big show. Ty, this will be in.


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[Assistant] There's a couple more here. Anthony, you wanna chime in on something? Yeah, his mouth is supposed to be the guardian bridge, if you look at it. I see it!


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[Assistant] You gotta use your third eyeball. There's a guitar pick down on his collar as well.


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[Assistant] The top of the nose is supposed to be a football too. I remember seeing that. Can I see that again? The football?


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[Assistant] A lot to get to today. Jason is back today after being at Brown's camp yesterday. You're at the Guardians game yesterday. You're a man with people. Busy day. Busy day. That's it. He was socializing with fans. Now he doesn't.


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[Assistant] Pick a plan? Well, there's plenty on the docket today. The NBA finals continued last night. Uh, did the...


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[Assistant] Nuggets leave in Jamal Murray at the end just to get a triple double. Does anybody have a problem with that? We'll get to that a little later. Uh, we got plenty of baseball to get into. Mandy Bell is going to join us.


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[Assistant] Obviously she, in addition to covering the Guardians, has been very involved in...


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[Assistant] You know, raising money for ALS with Sarah Langs, who's an MLB researcher, very good.


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[Assistant] She comes up with all these stats that nobody else knows and sadly was diagnosed with ALS at the age of 28, I believe, and they are like best friends. In fact, I just ordered one of those t-shirts.


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[Assistant] That everybody's wearing now that says baseball is the best.


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[Assistant] Uh, anyway, so we'll get to that, we'll get to that a little bit later, so a lot to get to. Mikey McNuggets though, we gotta start with some football today in a minute.


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[Assistant] It's impressive that he's gotten all the guys he has so far. He's traveled, you know. I mean, he's not an established media member, but he's done enough that he's getting these interviews. He's done a nice job with that, so.


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[Assistant] By the way, I was doing, I've been doing these videos for Bet Rivers where I, it's like previews of the big events of the day.


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[Assistant] And most of the time it's been about, you know, the sports I know, but today I actually recorded a couple, one that'll be out today, one that'll be out tomorrow, about, one was about soccer and one was about tennis, where I obviously don't know as much, especially soccer.


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[Assistant] No, it wasn't about the messy, because it's always involving a bet, you know, whatever. I didn't realize that Manchester City...


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[Assistant] Which is an English soccer club. They have a chance to win, like they won their league and then they won this other thing.


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[Assistant] You become only a second team ever to do it. But the reason I bring it up is because I asked the guy named Nigel Seeley who's like a betting expert. He does a lot of soccer and tennis and stuff over and he's from England.


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[Assistant] And I asked him two things that I was curious about, uhm, that I thought maybe you guys would find interesting. Number one, I asked him, you know, how popular is the NFL becoming in England? And he says, it's popular.


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[Assistant] You know, he said like two-thirds to three-quarters of the people that go are Americans. And the second thing I asked him was, is Ted Lasso popular in England? I was curious. And he goes, no, because he says, I think about 1% of people have Apple TV in England, so nobody really watches it. Oh wow. Wow.


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[Assistant] He did say there's a lot of betting on the one o'clock games. Because the one o'clock Eastern games.


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[Assistant] Uhm, start right after their regularly scheduled soccer matches end.


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[Assistant] So he says there's a lot of actually betting. But he was telling me, first of all, gambling's been legal in England since 1971. Wow. Alright, that's 52 years ago because I was born in 71. What the hell is going on in that parking lot?


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[Assistant] There's a guy named Herbie who's like the fix-it guy here, does all these odd jobs around WKYC.


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[Assistant] I don't know what his main title is, but that's just what- is that what he- I mean what's his-


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[Assistant] Billy's Supervisor. He helped build this building. He's out in the parking lot, maybe, what, 10 yards from the front door of our studio.


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[Assistant] No, he's doing something on the ground though. There's like, sparks flying all over the place. Anyway, nobody can see that.


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[Assistant] They just have a nice backup back at Alexander Madison, who they're ready to turn the page to, and they need to cut payroll. Their money is different. He's gonna go, if I'm Miami, they don't really have like a lead back. I'd go after Delvin Cook if I'm Miami.


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[Assistant] Uh, MaryKKab at Cleveland.com said the Andre Hopkins to the Browns is a long shot.


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[Assistant] The browns were the favorites at Vegas. I don't know if that's worth much in a situation like this.


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[Assistant] Now, that's a quote from Mary Kay. It's not necessarily a quote from someone else.


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[Assistant] You know, obviously she has her ins with the team. She has connections with the team as much as anybody that covers the team.


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[Assistant] Uh, clearly this information is coming from the team and if you read the article, uh, Mary,


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[Assistant] I mean, the team just isn't interested for whatever reason. That's the way it seems, Jason.


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[Assistant] We thought maybe that the Andre Hopkins wouldn't be interested in the Browns.


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[Assistant] I don't know if he is or isn't, but the way this article reads from Mary Kay is that the team is not really interested in him. I obviously disagree with that. I think they should be, but it is what it is.


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[Assistant] The fact that he's visiting the Titans to me means he doesn't necessarily care about winning, but I don't know. What's your take on this?


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[Assistant] A lot of guys, it's never enough. No, I hear you, but let me just say this. First of all, you say well what they say publicly doesn't matter. Of course that's true, I agree.


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[Assistant] Also, comments like Mary Kay's comment about, well the Browns like their wide receivers, they're happy. Well that's also...


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[Assistant] That's also what else are they going to say? Are they going to come out and say, well, we're not really happy with our wide receiving core, but we can't afford the Andre Hopkins. They're not, the teams don't tell the truth either. Now they didn't come out in public. You said that, but her saying that is...


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[Assistant] The Brown's Y Receiving Corps is definitely better than it was last year on paper. We gotta remember it's on paper.


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[Assistant] No fan base, I think, does a better job of over-hyping their talent than the Browns. Oh, they all do.


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[Assistant] We're near the top. Yes. We're near the top because we're so desperate for it.


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[Assistant] We're so desperate for it. The bottom line to me is


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[Assistant] You gotta make sure that when you get to that point where you gotta start cutting guys because of the cap, because it will happen eventually, that you have good enough players to back them up and it's not a big deal. Good organizations do that.


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[Assistant] Fine, but there's a few teams that are close, and now there's some others that are coming, right? Philadelphia's gonna be there, Cincinnati's gonna be there soon.


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[Assistant] But what are you rolling it over for? What are you rolling it over for? Because in this AFC...


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[Assistant] There are at least three teams that are way more proven than the Browns are. At least three, right? That have accomplished more, that are better, that the Browns, that even if they're not, maybe the Browns get up to that level, but they gotta prove it. And you, and those teams are loaded.


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[Assistant] And everything, like we're excited because the Brown's wide receiving core is better. I think it's better. I like Elijah more, but let's face it.


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[Assistant] That's all they did was Elijah Moore. Now they drafted a kid to throw up. They drafted David Bell last year. He was useless. I don't know that this kid can play. Nobody knows if he can play. So Elijah Moore is better than whoever they were using as their third receiver last year. How much better is he? I'm not sure.


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[Assistant] The fact that he's visiting the Titans tells you with 100% certainty that it's if not all 99%


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[Assistant] Yeah, sure. And there's nothing wrong with that. There's nothing wrong with that. And that's his right, sure. Go make every dollar. I just would think that, like, again, I'm not in that situation. If I were a supreme athlete that was great enough to make 150 million dollars as a wide receiver, maybe I'd feel differently. But me being a fat, out-of-shape guy who was never good enough in football,


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[Assistant] I think to myself, I made 150 million dollars. I think I'd rather win than make every last dollar. That's what I would do. I think I would do, but I don't know.


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[Assistant] No, I'm talking about wide receivers. Yeah, I mean Elijah Moore, he hasn't done much in his first two years with the Jets.


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[Assistant] When the guy played last year and he played with nobody, who was out with his quarterback? Colt McCoy? Most of the games?


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[Assistant] I-I-I would do it. You know what I'm saying. And the guy still put up wide receiver one numbers.


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[Assistant] I would say that in the end, if Hopkins signed somewhere else, I'm disappointed, but I'm not going to blame the Browns for it. Tennessee is where veteran receivers go to die.


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[Assistant] And who'd they use that first round pick on? The receiver, wouldn't it?


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[Assistant] But I didn't see much. Yeaah. I mean, you know, they, they're just, they're a run, they're a real run heavy team, obviously. Alright Mikey, what do we got next here? Well first, before we move on to our next


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[Assistant] The perfect bronze offense for me is about 62% throwing the ball.


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[Assistant] I know I got Nick Chubb, but you know what? I'm gonna give Nick Chubb his 18 carries.


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[Assistant] I won 18 carries for Nick Chubb, and then I'm going pass happy the rest of the way. Uh, then, you know, if I'm up, if I'm up in the fourth quarter, then I, you know, run out the game with Nick Chubb, which is why they won the games he carried 20 times, because they were winning and he ran out the clock.


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[Assistant] Where the receivers are catching the ball going towards the end zone and not coming back to the line of scrimmage.


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[Assistant] Guys are catching the ball on the run so we can get some yak.


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[Assistant] Yards after the catch have been an elusive thing for the Cleveland Browns. Seems like every time they, every time you catch a ball with past quarterbacks, guys are falling down, they have to jump up to catch it, they're running back to the line of scrimmage. I want to see these guys on the move.


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[Assistant] Where they catch the ball, a guy like Elijah Moore, who's got really good speed, can take the ball, take off, because the Browns don't get enough chunk plays in the passing game. That's been a flaw for this offense, not just in Kevin Stefanski's tenure, but basically forever, that the Browns were not a big chunk play on offense, probably since Derrick Anderson that one year with D.A.


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[Assistant] And it's been missing and it's part of the reason the Browns lose a lot of games. If that part of the offense happens this year, which I think this team is capable of with their quarterback,


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[Assistant] And the upgrades at Y receiver. And they're tight end too.


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[Assistant] Uh, then the Browns, if that happens, the Browns will be a very successful team this year. So that's my, uh, dream offense for the Browns.


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[Assistant] At the same time. Jason, when we heard at the end of the show yesterday, Deshaun Watson say, hey, this offense is totally different. We got excited about that. Did you? No duh.


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[Assistant] I think 69. You don't want to be just in the top 13. You want to be near the top of the top 13. You beat me to it. 69%. Nice. So yeaah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no doubt about it. I think, I think the bottom line from all of us is the passing game has got to be dynamic.


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[Assistant] The teams that win generally have dynamic pass offenses. Yes.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and it's hard to do that, running the, being a run-heavy team, and, you know, most run-heavy teams these days don't have success in the playoff. Tennessee has it, Baltimore has it.


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[Assistant] It's hard to come back when you're a running team. And when you have teams like Kansas City, Buffalo, and Cincinnati who are as prolific offensively, and that's not even including


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[Assistant] The Jaguars whose offense is really good. The Chargers who have not done anything in the playoffs, but they've got a really talented offense.


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[Assistant] I mean, Miami, you know, if two is healthy, how good could they be offensively? The Jets, if Aaron Rodgers has gas still left in the tank, could be really good. There's a lot of big time pass offenses in this conference and you've got to be able to keep up with them. The Browns got to throw the ball a lot. They got to throw the ball a lot to win.


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[Assistant] We'll see if they're capable of it. They should be. But you're right. Watson's gotta be close to that 70% mark. That's where we expect him to be.


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[Assistant] Alright, listen, we all hope it happens. You know, I'm just, I think we gotta be, realize that there's a lot that's gotta be proven. Yes. Elijah Moore.


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[Assistant] Elijah Moore was drafted high, but he's got 900 yards in two seasons.


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[Assistant] He had his opportunity with the Jets and he didn't make the most of it. Now it's soured and now he's got an opportunity here. I like the trade. I've always thought the guy had a lot of potential, but right now it's just potential. And same thing for this kid, so.


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[Assistant] So, so you got, uh, they could keep seven. They could keep seven. Cooper, DPJ, Elijah Moore, uh, what's the kid? Tillman. Right, so that's four definites. Right. Marquise Goodwin.


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[Assistant] I don't know that Marquis Goodwin is definitely on the team. I think he is. You think he is? I wouldn't say definitely.


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[Assistant] No, Schwartz is not going to be on the team. So yeaah. I don't think, uh, I'm not getting anybody's name right now. Uh, Jaquem Grant.


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[Assistant] I mean that just changed the rules. They can't, they don't even take kickoffs back. Because Jakim Grant is just a return guy and they've got other options. So I don't, so I would think, so the four, so Godwin's five, David Bell's six, who else we talking about? Why wouldn't he make the team?


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[Assistant] And if they keep a seven, then it might be Joaquin Grape. Maybe it is Joaquin Grape, but I don't think he makes it. Who else is in the, I mean, Schwartz is not going to be on the team. Who else would be in that competition for another guy?


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[Assistant] There was another receiver, who was the receiver that had like 100 or 200 yards last year? Another rookie.


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[Assistant] Or maybe Anthony Schwartz has decided. What would be the point of keeping Anthony Schwartz as the seventh wide receiver? If you're gonna keep a seventh receiver, it's gonna be a guy who can play special teams. And that's not Anthony Schwartz really, so.


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[Assistant] I don't think there's any way he's on the team unless the team has a bunch of injuries.


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[Assistant] Uh, that, that would be a disaster. Alright, a lot of other players spoke yesterday at Brown, uh, mini camp. We do and before we get to that though,


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[Assistant] Were they, when they did the full team practice, was it, were they running a lot of three wide receiver sets? Some, yea, some.


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[Assistant] They need that. I agree. Because their whole, Kevin's such a vanilla guy. You need the other coach to be a little fiery. Jim Schwartz is a little bit of a red ass. All like that. You need that because Joe Woods was kind of like Stavansky. Very laid back. So you need, if the offensive guy is chilled.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you want the DC to be, and it seems like Ray Ventrone was saying yesterday, seems like he's like, still thinks he's playing, in a way.


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[Assistant] I do think it's good that the brown specifically added


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[Assistant] A few players who are special teams guys. I feel like it's, it's a part of the team that the Browns have kind of pushed to the side over the years. They've not focused. They really made it a focus bringing in a, like a, a highly thought of special teams coach, a guy who played the position.


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[Assistant] I can't even remember their names because it's such obscure guys, but like,


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[Assistant] And I think it's important to have some of those guys, and the Browns really have it. Well, I think they tried addressing it with Grant, and then he got hurt. Well, but not just the return guy, I mean, these are guys who are like, they play all four phases, they block, they tackle, they, you know, they do all this stuff, the little things that don't show up in the box score.


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[Assistant] That are important to getting those extra yards on special teams.


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[Assistant] I'll go, I'll make this bold statement, because this is crazy in Brown's history. Yeaah. If the Browns have a big year, like win double-digit games, go to the playoffs, win at least a game, because, I mean, you gotta, you know, it's gonna be hard to win in the playoffs. Yes. Yes. Because it's, the AFC's tough. But if they have a really good season,


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[Assistant] And Deshaun Watson looks like the guy we traded for.


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[Assistant] I think Kevin Stefanski will make it to double-digit years, as coach Brown. I would say that right now.


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[Assistant] Because, for all my- Your knees are jerkin'. Your knees are jerkin' like jeez.


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[Assistant] Uh, my, my reasoning is this, for all my criticism of Jimmy Haslam, I'm not a fan of Jimmy Haslam at all.


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[Assistant] You said something the other day that I actually agree with. I think he is dying.


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[Assistant] To be like the Steelers, and have a coach that's there forever. But he's done such a shitty job at picking coaches, that it's not even been possible.


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[Assistant] So if Kevin Stefanski takes this team to the playoffs for the second time in four years, and most importantly, he gets the most talented quarterback in the history of the franchise,


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[Assistant] To play like the most talented quarterback in the history of the franchise?


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[Assistant] They're locked in together, and he's not, it would have to fall apart so bad for him.


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[Assistant] See, I read, I read Connor Orr's article on SI about bold predictions, 100 bold predictions, and about 13 of them were bold. If you're going to make a bold prediction, saying a Browns coach is going to make it to year 10, that's a bold prediction.


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[Assistant] Was Sean Payton, before he left New Orleans, he was there 10 years, wasn't he? Payton was there 10 years. Was he? 10 years ago.


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[Assistant] I feel like I've said this before, but I'll say it again. It is the most critical year, by far, in recent Brown's franchise history. Because...


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[Assistant] That is the great quarterback for the Browns for a while, and they're winning and they're in the mix every year. Or, he just has lost it?


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[Assistant] It's tough. Now you do have the two, two of the three, uh, division games where at home, which is nice. That helps. And three and four overall at all.


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[Assistant] That's cool. It was impressive to watch. I'm surprised they let them do this and weren't worried about torn ACL.


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[Assistant] By the way, the 2001 Browns lost their first game but won three in a row after that. Does that count? Does not count. No. Three and oh.


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[Assistant] By the way, I found the last time the Browns started the season 3-0. When? 1993.


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[Assistant] Really? Now they finished that season 7 and 9. Was that the 51 and not, no that wasn't 51. They, you know who they beat the first game of the week? Who? The Bengals at home. Oh yeaah. In Cleveland.


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[Assistant] Uh, Bernie was the quarterback. The Browns beat the Bengals 27-14, beat the Niners 23-13, beat the Raiders 19-6. Unfortunately,


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[Assistant] Bernie, Bernie played six games that year. I think, well.


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[Assistant] I think that might have been when he, I don't know. And Vinny Testaverde started 6th, Vinny Testaverde started 6th, and Todd Philcock started 4th. Wow.


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[Assistant] Uh, the quarterback was Steve Young. Steve Young threw three picks in that game. No touchdowns, three picks. Oh, that was Miami he broke his ankle against. Nevermind. Okay. Anyway, that was it. So it's 30 years. It's been 30 years since the Browns won.


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[Assistant] And let's face it, the Browns have had a lot of injuries on their offensive line.


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[Assistant] He, maybe, maybe the first ta backup tackle up.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, I don't think it's even close. Ah, you know, Tellers had one season where he played at that superior level. Yeah. Nicronio's done it basically every year of his career. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I think I can handle filling 20 seconds. I'm trying to find out when my t-shirt is coming. But anyway, Guardians did win last night.


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[Assistant] Getting the victory over Boston and Mandy Bell is here. We're talking with Mandy Bell from MLB.com. Obviously she did that.


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[Assistant] The video with her, with her best friend, Sarah Langs.


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[Assistant] Who horrifically was diagnosed with ALS at the age of 28. Do I have that right, Mandy? Yep.


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[Assistant] I, by the way, I'm just looking, I'm looking right now because I ordered my t-shirt.


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[Assistant] How did you, like you guys don't live near each other, how did you become such close friends? For those who don't know, before you even answer that, clarify, for those who may not know, I mentioned it earlier in the show, but tell us about Sarah, you know, like,


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[Assistant] What she does in baseball, for those who may not know, may not be big baseball fans, and then how did you guys become so close?


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[Assistant] What's, what's so awful is that, uhm,


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[Assistant] You know, ALS has been around forever. It was first became famous, if you will, with Lou Gehrig, of course.


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[Assistant] It was often referred to as, it's still often referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease. There's no cure. Uh, they've been working on it for years. It's heartbreaking. I, I did, uh, emcee, I emceed at a number of events here in Cleveland for the ALS Foundation.


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[Assistant] And it's so heartbreaking what the families have to go through. It's so hard on everybody involved.


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[Assistant] In particular, in this case, when it's a young person, you know, it just, it just makes it, it's just so unfair. It's so, you know, like, I know life sucks sometimes and these are one of the times that it sucks.


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[Assistant] But she seems to have a great attitude and hopefully one day we will have a cure for this because this disease is just so horrible. How is she doing at the time, you know, at the moment?


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[Assistant] M-Manny, in terms of, you know, the t-shirt, which I reference, if you want to talk about that, or anything else, or any other way to promote for people donating, you know, the floor is yours for that.


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[Assistant] And nobody, you know, it doesn't matter if you're rich or whatever, just, you know, donate what you can.


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[Assistant] Uh, Manny, on a much lighter note, wanna talk some Guardians with you, obviously.


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[Assistant] It's been an ugly season so far. Fortunately for them, the whole division's terrible. Uh, and so they're right there, even though they've pretty much played lousy baseball for much of the season.


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[Assistant] It's a weird position to be in because it feels like they're kind of a bad team or at least a below average team and yet it almost seems like no matter how poorly they play they're just not going to be out of it. Now you want them to play better but how do you feel about their chances to at least make the playoffs as of right now?


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[Assistant] Mandy Wall, obviously the offense has been a little better lately and I agree that home runs isn't everything. I'm still really concerned about the offense. You're getting zero production out of catcher.


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[Assistant] Uh, every year, uh, whether it's Jay Crawford or somebody else here tries to convince me that this is the year that, that Miles Straw's gonna hit. He's never gonna hit. I know he's a great defensive player. Uh, but he can hit. So you got two holes in the lineup. And...


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[Assistant] Yeah, home runs aren't everything, but like they're on pace for under a hundred home runs. I just don't know if you can consistently win when you have no power whatsoever.


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[Assistant] We've talked about Shane Bieber maybe getting traded. I hope that if they do trade Bieber, and I obviously want your take on whether you think they will, that they try to trade him, that it's more of like a major league, major league trade to get a proven hitter. I know it's not easy to do, but like,


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[Assistant] They can't just keep trading for minor leaguers. They've got enough minor leaguers. You've got to get some proven hitters, I think, in this lineup that can slug. Do you think Bieber will get traded? And do you think they will make that kind of trade for a proven hitter?


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[Assistant] Is, can you explain to me and the fans, because I get this question every day, and I don't have a good answer.


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[Assistant] Why is Bo Naylor not on this team right now? And will he be sooner rather than later?


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[Assistant] Will Benson in a small sample size off to a rough start of the ball. He did a home run yesterday for Cincinnati. Mandy, last thing, in honor of your friend Sarah, I want to talk about a stat that has nothing to do


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[Assistant] With the Guardians, and that's the season that


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[Assistant] The average baseball fan is not talking about, but Louisa Rise.


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[Assistant] Of the Miami Marlins. Is hitting over four, I actually didn't see what he did yesterday. But I don't go, oh no, actually he got two more hits, he raised the batting average to 403.


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[Assistant] We haven't seen a guy hitting over 400 this late in the season in a while. I think Joe Mauer was the last guy to be hitting over 400 in June.


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[Assistant] I mean, what this guy has done has just been remarkable. It's pretty cool to watch. I know I'm interested in it. I don't know how many fans here are, but are you paying attention to it?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, he's just been absolutely remarkable. Anyway, Mandy, we're told you're going to Greece. Have fun. How long are you going to Greece for?


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[Assistant] Have a great time. We appreciate you taking the time to join us today.


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[Assistant] Alright, there's Mandy Bell, does a great job covering the Guardians for MLB.com. You know, before we get to the NBA real quick.


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[Assistant] But he'll get hot eventually. I would think so. To this point, for him, it's a bad season.


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[Assistant] So there you go. All right, NBA finals last night, guys. Denver Nuggets pull away in the third quarter. They were up by I think 19.


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[Assistant] And he made a little run at the end of the third quarter. I could get down 14. They eventually got it to 10, but they were never really.


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[Assistant] In that game, and I thought what stood out to me...


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[Assistant] Had been, they were like, we have to play them hard until the shot clock hit zero. Because their defense last night was fantastic.


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[Assistant] I thought they were great. What a performance. And two triple doubles? Yea.


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[Assistant] Now, I don't like that they kept Jamal Murray at the end of the game would seem like just to get that triple W, that last rebound, but whatever.


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[Assistant] I never heard of the guy. He was great in that stretch of time they played him.


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[Assistant] He was an animal out there. What a performance, Jay.


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[Assistant] Well both of these teams are very unselfish. I find, I think both teams are fun to watch. They're easy to root for, both of these teams.


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[Assistant] It was the first 30-20-10 game in the history of the NBA Finals, right?


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[Assistant] Well, you, Larry Bird's a top, so you're saying Yogesh is already a top 10 player in the history of basketball? I think he will go down as a top 10 player in the history of basketball. I think you, I think probably right. You're probably right.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but still just the fact that we're having a discussion and yeah, I mean, there's similar, you know, I don't know, I think Bird.


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[Assistant] Right, right, right, that's right. Like, is there any weakness to his game? Like, how, overall, how's his defense, Jason?


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[Assistant] Yeah, and I'll ask him about this too. This is a most important basketball question. Have we done a top five most punchable faces in the NBA?


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[Assistant] But he's got a very punchable face. And I'll tell you what, congratulations to the Heat because both of their white dudes have very punchable face. If I have to see Tyler freaking Hero wear that stupid bucket hat on the bench one more time, I want to punch him in the face just to knock the bucket hat off his head. That guy looks like a freaking homeless guy.


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[Assistant] So like, one arm, I was off, I've never in my life, and no one has ever picked me up with one arm.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but I don't know basketball analytics like the other sports. I gotta learn more.


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[Assistant] You're doing this thing where you're traveling to meet all the Browns. Like, who's setting these interviews up? Do you have somebody doing it? Are you doing it yourself?


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[Assistant] Okay, you'll tell us off, off there. So, have you reached out to all of them already or no?


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[Assistant] I know, I wanna talk to him about that. So which of these, which of these interviews so far do you think is the best?


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[Assistant] All the ones you have left to do, which is the white whale, if you will.


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[Assistant] See, Johnny, obviously we know a lot, but I just feel like you might get the craziest stuff yet out of it.


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[Assistant] Right, right, right. Yeah, listen, you could, maybe it's eight years from now, who the hell knows? You could get through it eventually.


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[Assistant] Hopefully not. When you do these eating challenge, like you're like, I'm at the stadium, I'm gonna eat a hot dog every time the Brown score or whatever, whatever you come up with. Have you gotten yourself super sick from doing this?


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[Assistant] Better, my advice was better to even, if you feel like you can't like reach it.


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[Assistant] Better to bounce it, you know, straight ahead, like a one hopper, than to throw it over the catcher's head.


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[Assistant] I can't remember now what it was, but you had like three of your buddies, and you did some sort of draft that I found really funny, and now I can't remember what it was exactly. But I like the way you edit it, you do those quick edits.


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[Assistant] You talk about toxicity of social media, which obviously is a lot of that. Do you, do you get a ton of hate? I do, but I believe, I feel like you guys


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[Assistant] I mean that's, that's the bottom line. James is not a homer. A lot of the media in this town are very homery, if you will, I'm making up that word, but. That's a good word. And so if you are not a homer, then you're gonna get hate. And that's just part of the deal. As I've said a hundred times.


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[Assistant] The funny thing is though, like, sometimes you dwell on the hate when the majority of people probably love you, and it's just the 10% of loudmouths that are assholes out there that, that, you know, they're jealous or they don't like what you're doing. Who gives a shit?


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[Assistant] I think it's like 11 different cheeses, 10 pieces of bread, side of fries, side of something else. That sounds like a heart attack.


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[Assistant] I don't remember the exact number. It was me and three buddies at a Tony Roma's. Did they have Tony Roma's out here? Yea, yea, yea.


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[Assistant] We, we went for all you can eat ribs, and it was like one skinny dude, and then two guys who were like big like me, and we went for all you can eat ribs, and I think we were trying to see who ate the most, and I ate the most, I think I had 64, 65. Oh my god. In like a one hour, or two, maybe we were there two hours, I don't know, this is a lot, I was like 20.


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[Assistant] If you had to do one contest for a million dollars, eating, eating, what food would you choose?


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[Assistant] Inside the worst nuclear disaster of the century One year later


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[Assistant] Men who risked their lives to save the Fukushima nuclear plant reveal what really happened.


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[Assistant] This would affect not just Japan, but the world.


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[Assistant] A story of those tense days, inside Japan's nuclear meltdown.


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[Assistant] The earthquake that shook the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was the most powerful to strike Japan since records began.


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[Assistant] ...has forbidden its workers from speaking publicly about what followed. But one year on, they are starting to tell their stories. Some have asked for their identities to be hidden for fear of being fired.


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[Assistant] The workers stayed calm because they knew Japanese power plants are designed to withstand earthquakes. The reactors automatically shut down within seconds.


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[Assistant] But the high radioactivity of nuclear fuel rods means they generate intense heat, even after a shutdown.


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[Assistant] So backup generators kicked in to power the cooling systems and stop the fuel rods from melting.


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[Assistant] Takashi Sato is a reactor inspector who no longer works at the plant.


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[Assistant] Just up the coast, the fishermen of Fukushima knew what was coming next.


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[Assistant] He was racing straight into the biggest tsunami waves to strike Japan in hundreds of years, hoping to crest them before they broke.


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[Assistant] The biggest of the waves was more than 40 feet high and traveling at over 100 miles an hour.


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[Assistant] At the nuclear plant, a worker was filming as his coworkers fled to higher ground.


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[Assistant] At 3.35 p.m., the biggest of the waves struck. It was more than twice the height of the plant's seawall.


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[Assistant] It's now known that TEPCO had been warned by a government committee of scientists in 2009 that its tsunami defenses were inadequate.


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[Assistant] This man is a senior nuclear engineer who still works at the plant.


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[Assistant] Most of the backup diesel generators needed to power the cooling systems were located in basements. They were destroyed by the tsunami waters.


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[Assistant] This is the frantically scribbled log the engineers kept on a whiteboard in the control room as the nuclear plant slid towards disaster.


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[Assistant] 1542, nuclear emergency declared.


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[Assistant] 1558, loss of water level readings.


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[Assistant] 1636. Emergency core cooling system malfunction. No water can be injected.


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[Assistant] TEPCO turned down Frontline's request for interviews with plant workers, but put forward the managing director of its nuclear division.


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[Assistant] He acknowledged the company had never imagined that one of their nuclear plants could lose all power.


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[Assistant] Two hours had passed since the tsunami. The coastline was devastated.


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[Assistant] Norio Kimura, a farmer from Fukushima, lived just two miles from the nuclear plant. He'd been out working when the wave struck.


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[Assistant] Survivors were gathering at the local sports center, unaware of the unfolding nuclear crisis.


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[Assistant] Noriel's father was missing. So was his wife. And his youngest daughter, Yuna.


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[Assistant] The Japanese government ordered an evacuation of everyone within two miles of Fukushima Daiichi.


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[Assistant] But Norio and others ignored the order and kept searching for their families.


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[Assistant] Just along the coast, the nuclear plant was still without power.


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[Assistant] The workers had no functioning instruments to reveal what was happening inside the reactor cores. They improvised.


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[Assistant] The scavenged batteries allowed vital monitoring instruments in the reactor 1 control room to work again. Just before midnight, the workers restored power to the pressure gauge.


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[Assistant] The resulting pressure meant the workers could not get water onto the fuel. Even worse, it meant the containment vessel might explode.


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[Assistant] A disaster that could leave parts of Japan uninhabitable for decades.


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[Assistant] TEPCO now knew they had to release radioactive gases into the atmosphere to prevent the reactor from exploding. But to take such a desperate measure...


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[Assistant] The company needed the permission of the prime minister himself.


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[Assistant] Tens of thousands died of radiation sickness and cancers.


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[Assistant] Yet now, Japan's prime minister felt he had no choice but to authorize the deliberate release of radioactivity.


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[Assistant] The company had never imagined they might have to vent a reactor without electricity.


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[Assistant] The workers poured over blueprints to try to work out how to open the vents.


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[Assistant] The handwritten plant logs show that radiation levels were now rising.


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[Assistant] The engineers suspected something that the Prime Minister and TEPCO would not acknowledge for months. Nuclear meltdown had begun.


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[Assistant] Back in Tokyo, six hours after the order to vent the reactors, there was still no news from the plant.


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[Assistant] The prime minister began to suspect that Tepko was hiding the truth. He decided to go to Fukushima Daiichi himself.


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[Assistant] He was later criticized for interfering with the emergency work at the plant. But he says he had to find out what was really going on.


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[Assistant] At Fukushima Daiichi, the Prime Minister met directly with the TEPCO engineers. He insisted they vent the reactors.


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[Assistant] The plant manager, Masao Yoshida, was known for being frank.


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[Assistant] He knew the radiation near the vents was at potentially fatal levels.


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[Assistant] The Prime Minister knew his orders might condemn the men who went into the reactor to death. But he felt Japan's future was at stake.


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[Assistant] Or risk exposing his surviving daughter to radiation.


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[Assistant] By just after nine o'clock on the morning of March the 12th, the villages around the plant had been evacuated. At last, TEPCO ordered the venting team to go in.


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[Assistant] The plant logs show the first two volunteers set off at 9.04 a.m.


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[Assistant] Each worker was limited to 17 minutes in the reactor building.


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[Assistant] After nine minutes the workers found the wheel for opening the vent.


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[Assistant] That afternoon, a thin plume of gas signaled that the pressure in the reactor core was falling.


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[Assistant] The venting team appeared to have saved northeastern Japan from a catastrophic explosion.


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[Assistant] The Fukushima workers began to think the worst might be over.


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[Assistant] The workers could focus on getting vitally needed water into the reactor cores.


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[Assistant] The engineers feared that the reactor core itself had exploded, scattering radioactive fuel over the plant.


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[Assistant] In the control center, they watched the radiation levels and waited to learn if they would survive.


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[Assistant] After an hour, the radiation level stabilized. The engineers figured out what had happened.


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[Assistant] Leaking hydrogen had exploded in the roof of the reactor building, but the reactor core itself was intact.


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[Assistant] In Tokyo, the Prime Minister's Chief Cabinet Secretary was playing down the crisis.


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[Assistant] The Prime Minister and his team were later fiercely criticized for hiding the severity of the disaster from the Japanese people and the world. Behind the scenes, they knew the situation was sliding out of control.


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[Assistant] It was now only a matter of time before the fuel would melt through into the open, spewing out much worse levels of radiation.


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[Assistant] Norio Kamura and his surviving daughter were still in that danger zone when they got the news.


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[Assistant] Back at the plant, the situation was deteriorating.


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[Assistant] The explosion had already set back efforts to get water into the melting cores of reactors 1 and 2. Now reactor 3 was also in meltdown.


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[Assistant] Another hydrogen buildup meant the reactor 3 housing could explode at any moment.


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[Assistant] Colonel Shinji Iwakuma and his team wore suits that shielded their bodies from radioactive particles.


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[Assistant] But provided no protection against lethal gamma rays.


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[Assistant] Their mission was to inject water directly into the core of Reactor 3.


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[Assistant] The soldiers were now surrounded by lethally radioactive debris.


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[Assistant] They were injured in the blast, but managed to flee the scene before anyone received a fatal dose.


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[Assistant] Parts of the nuclear plant were now completely off limits to the workers.


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[Assistant] Radiation levels near one of the reactor buildings were at 1000 millisieverts per hour.


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[Assistant] After an hour of exposure at these levels, radiation sickness sets in. A few hours would mean death.


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[Assistant] The Prime Minister was awakened with a disturbing message.


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[Assistant] He says he was told that TEPCO planned to withdraw their workers from the plant.


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[Assistant] At that moment in Fukushima, the plant manager Masao Yoshida had gathered all the workers together.


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[Assistant] Meanwhile, the Prime Minister was arriving at TEPCO headquarters in Tokyo, determined to stop total withdrawal.


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[Assistant] To this day, there is controversy about what TEPCO intended.


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[Assistant] The company executives say they never plan to completely abandon the plant.


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[Assistant] That morning, TEPCO evacuated all but a skeleton crew, led by plant manager Yoshida. The remaining men were to become known as the Fukushima 50.


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[Assistant] For now, they were locked down in the central control room.


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[Assistant] Hundreds of workers were on standby a few miles away, ready to lay pipes that could pump water into the reactors.