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[Assistant] They would come down to, uh, OU, uh, you know, different coaches. And it's the first time I had realized it. There would be coaches and scouts that would come down for practice and they would come down when I was a redshirt freshman and I didn't know who they was. I was just out there playing. Um, but there used to be a lot of teams come by and, uh, my defensive line coach is Eric Washington, um, who is, uh,


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[Assistant] He, he was the defensive coordinator for the Bears. He's also been a defensive coordinator for the Panthers. And so he would always say, yeah, all you, you know, all you need is two more years. But I mean, I tore every ACL guy I didn't have. I missed a whole calendar year. And, uh,


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[Assistant] He actually took it kind of bad. You know, he kind of cried when I told him my second ACL because he just knew what it was. Yeah, it's that difficult. So.


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[Assistant] I would have probably, I wouldn't have went no first two rounds. I'd have probably been a late round pick, maybe fourth or fifth or something.


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[Assistant] It's all you ask for is a chance. Get a chance. Depending on what it is. And then it's just about what team you go to. If you go to a team that, you know, is good and you get some good coaching and, you know, it fits your scheme. You're good. So yeah, I think I could have, but.


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[Assistant] At the end of the day, we had Mike Doss on here. He said, hey, no disrespect, you way better at this than you was at football.


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[Assistant] He was like, and that's a compliment, man. He was like, you was all, oh, you was all state, but on this? Yeah, yeah, you, you, you right where you're supposed to be. How was that? Was Mike good? Oh man, he was tremendous, bro. Tremendous. Him and Ty was going back and forth.


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[Assistant] He, Mike Dawes had to set the pecking order. He said, listen young pup, listen young pup, this is, this is the O2 national championship. Now don't get it twisted. We like that 14-15 joint y'all had, but that O2 was a different type of championship. I said, yeah, you right. That joint is against the U.


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[Assistant] That was the greatest team I've ever seen. I told him, I was like, man, yeaah. So he was great, man. Hit me up. Thanks for coming out. If you're watching, shout out to him too.


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[Assistant] That didn't happen. That didn't happen. But I did it one time. There is one time I did, you called it a love triangle.


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[Assistant] I had told my ex, my ex girlfriend was like, hey, uh, she was out, she was, she, I was like, hey, could you go in and, and check and pay? Cause I was, uh, I had, I forget I had something to pay or something. I was like, hey, could you go in there and click this thing or whatever and pay this or something?


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[Assistant] And so, I gave her the password to, to my, uh, to the bank account, right?


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[Assistant] She ran with it. She used that password on every single account I ever had. And I said, I'm good, I'm straight. So she used it on Facebook, nothing. Used it on MySpace, nothing. All that, nothing. She was like, you know what, let me put it in his email.


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[Assistant] Had hit me up, right? On the phone. She took that phone number, called her, about 15, 20 minutes later, my heart sunk when she called me, because I already knew what it was. It was just like a day of reckoning. And all I heard was on double phones, on three-way, Hey Garrett, how you doing?


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[Assistant] See what kind of company I am. That's right, that's right. How are you doing today? I couldn't be better. Happy Thursday, right? Thursday, Thursday, Thursday. I don't know. I can barely keep track of what's going on. Hopefully today's show will be longer than 20 minutes. I heard. We made it 20 minutes yesterday. We were on a roll to start the show and I think the internet went out in the building. I don't know what happened.


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[Assistant] Well thanks to WKYC for screwing up our show yesterday.


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[Assistant] We're obviously high priority in the, uh, in the family. Thanks a lot.


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[Assistant] Uh, alright, lots to get to today. Let's start with the, uh, with the best bet. I, I was lucky, honestly. I've been red hot, but I don't like my picks yesterday. I went one and one. I got very lucky just to win the one game I won. The Angels scored three runs in the top of the ninth. Good to get it, but I guess that's part of baseball. What are you gonna do?


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[Assistant] Yes, before I do that, let me tell you that yesterday's Bet Rivers podcast is still relevant today, of course. I interviewed, uh, Field Yates of ESPN. We talked about the draft and the impact.


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[Assistant] Which most of you are. Make sure you check that out. We talked some real football. I did talk with him about his expectations for Deshaun Watson. I talked with him about his expectations for Baker Mayfield in Tampa Bay. So if you want to hear what he had to say about that, check out my podcast. Also, I'm doing a new thing with Bet Rivers. We're doing these five minute preview videos in the mornings.


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[Assistant] Where we preview some of the big, uh, news of the day and, or a bet we're looking at for the day. And today I did five minutes with Bobby Valentine, former Major League Baseball manager. So check that as well. That'll be out at some point today.


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[Assistant] Uh, as for my bet, one on one yesterday, as we said, I really loved the Pirates yesterday and I crapped the bet on that one. They got smoked. I had the Angels minus. You went against the Pirates.


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[Assistant] Well, generally I'd say I know what I'm doing since I'm 21 and 10 picking baseball. Good luck finding anybody that's done better than that.


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[Assistant] Uh, the Orioles are going with Grayson Rodriguez, who's one of the best pitching prospects in baseball. Struggled his first couple of starts, really put it all together his last starting pitch really well. I expect that to continue against Kansas City today.


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[Assistant] So there you go. By the way, I go to my physical therapist's office yesterday.


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[Assistant] First of all, in baseball there's no gimme game. Number two, okay, every time I'm picking a team that's a significant favorite, I go on the run line, and if the odds on the run line are two, like, there was some game today, I don't remember which game it was, where I liked one team, but even on the run line, the favorite was minus 145.


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[Assistant] That to me was unfair, minus I am only taking minus 120 or lower, and I've taken some underdogs. So every team I've picked, whether they were an outright favorite or on the run line,


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[Assistant] Best odds they've had are minus 120, which everything's at least minus 105 is very rarely even money. Right.


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[Assistant] Jason, literally, I've said this once, I'll say it again. He would literally leave his head somewhere if it were not attached. Yeaah. Go ahead, G. Bush and Jason. Yeaah. Two people, the two of them and my son, most likely to leave something where it doesn't belong. Go ahead. Can you imagine something like Amazing Race or something?


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[Assistant] The first anniversary of the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show is Tuesday, next week, May the 9th. That's when we debuted last year and this Tuesday we'll have our anniversary. It's going to be a huge show.


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[Assistant] I've never heard of Rodney McCloud. Have you guys heard of Rodney McCloud? Apparently started most of the season for Indianapolis last year and had a decent PFF grade. I will say you have seen a lot of veteran free agents all of a sudden in the last 24 or 48 hours.


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[Assistant] Sign one-year deals. The reality is, for the most part, with rare exceptions, that a free agent signing now, there's a reason they're still a free agent.


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[Assistant] I mean, he's probably their third safety, right? I mean, isn't he most likely who else he got there?


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[Assistant] So yeah, I mean, Rodney McLeod's a veteran, uh, won the Super Bowl. You mentioned, Zach mentioned he played for Jim Schwartz. It was in Philadelphia.


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[Assistant] So he's been in the league a long time. Played for the Rams. He was with the Colts again. So he was with the Rams from 2012 to 2015. The Eagles from 16 to 21. And the Colts in 2022.


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[Assistant] He's, uh, he probably does, I don't know. The grades were still good, so. We'll see. He'll be there third safety, probably.


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[Assistant] Never heard of those guys. This guy, I should have heard of Rodney McLeod. Now that I'm like, looking at his bio.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know if he's totally, I don't know if he's totally washed, but it appears he had a decent year last year. So I would assume, since the backup safeties right now are slappies, that he's probably their third safety.


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[Assistant] Okay, so anyway, there's not that much to say about it since it's a depth move that


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[Assistant] Depth piece. Depth piece. Helps with the coaching. There you go.


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[Assistant] Alright, we'll leave it there, so another guy, a depth of peace and safety. Browns also signed a guard yesterday.


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[Assistant] You always see a bunch of veterans signed right now, the draft is over, and now teams are like, huh, what needs didn't we fill? Let's see if we can find a guy that can compete for a spot, the third guard, the third safety, the fourth, the fifth corner. Those are players that are signing now.


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[Assistant] Uh, most of the players still in free agency are not big names. I think the biggest names I can think of right now.


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[Assistant] Are what? Carson Wentz? Ezekiel Elliott? Frank Clark?


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[Assistant] Okay. Well, we'll leave it there. Let's get to the Cavs. Let's switch it up, guys. Kobe Altman wins, uh, second. Did we call it a win? No. He finishes second for Executive of the Year. First of all, I don't give a rat's ass about Executive of the Year. I couldn't care less.


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[Assistant] It got announced yesterday. Do we care? And is it fair that Colby Altman wins second place for executive of the year? What do we think?


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[Assistant] I don't care about any of those things. I don't care that they won 50 games. It doesn't matter to me. All that matters is win the championship.


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[Assistant] You either are a team that can win a championship or you can't. Right now they're a team that can't. And that's all that matters.


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[Assistant] I don't care how many regular season games you win. Kobe Altman's not a top five GM, we all know that. Uh, JB Bickerstaff is not a top five coach, we all know that. These awards are so stupid. Jason, you, you brought up a point there about this lifetime achievement. This, to me, this happens in basketball more than any other sport.


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[Assistant] I heard you got Dave McMenamin on, I can't remember what show he was on, flicking through the stations, and he was on, maybe it was NBA radio, I don't remember. But he was being interviewed by somebody.


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[Assistant] And they were talking about the MVP, and Dave said that he voted for Giannis.


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[Assistant] They played a great series, but in the end they couldn't win. Memphis Grizzlies. Yeah, by the way, one other quick thing before we get back to the Cavs here real quick is that...


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[Assistant] When you look at last night, I mean, you knew the Sixers were gonna get crushed, didn't ya?


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[Assistant] What was the point of playing him? Is it to get his feet wet before you go back home? I mean, you'd think, like, why not sit him until you lose the game?


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[Assistant] Go ahead, Mike, did you want to say something? Or you want to start the second Cavs topic? Alright, the second Cavs topic, uh, oh, Dillon Brooks, that's right. So, this has been a fascinating thing. Today comes out in Vegas that the Cavs are the favorites to sign Dillon Brooks.


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[Assistant] Yesterday, we were talking about this. Well, go ahead, Jason. We'll save you for last because we had started this conversation yesterday. So go give me your take first there, G, on Dillon Brooks to the Cavs.


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[Assistant] Let me tell you something. So here's the thing with Dillon Brooks. I get what you're saying. The Cavs do need a guy of his ilk because they're a soft team. He plays defense. He's a badass. I don't care that he plays dirty, which he does. However, we live in the reality of a salary cap in the NBA.


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[Assistant] And the Cavs do need multiple shooters and Dillon Brooks can't shoot. He's not a good outside shooter.


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[Assistant] So, if we, if there was no such thing as a salary cap, and the caps could just go sign five guys without having to worry about the salary, then I'd say yes, sign him and then sign three shooters as well. But you can't do that. They don't have the money to sign all these guys when you have these highly paid players.


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[Assistant] Well, but they would have to go way over and right now when they just lost in five games to the Knicks, I don't see them going over the luxury.


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[Assistant] And, and he should, yes, he's printing money. And they should all go over it. And they should all spend whatever they want.


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[Assistant] There's a limit to it that you can't just do whatever you want. So when they, when they need, as much as they do need toughness, they need shooting more. So that's why I wouldn't do it.


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[Assistant] If he takes a big jump, then even if they don't make a, you know, and they add, if they added an Austin Reeves, let's say, and then Mobley makes this really big jump. Darius Garland from year two to year three made a big jump, right? If that happens, yeah, we'll be looking different. The Cavs will be a very different team.


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[Assistant] But here's the point, like this is what irritates me. I'm really, I gotta say I'm so irritated by the NBA right now. Because...


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[Assistant] Forget, forget D-Wade, he sucks, he's not a big part of the future, we don't give a shit about him. Let's move on from that, because I gotta scream and yell about this, okay? Like, I am, I am 100% pro-union guy.


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[Assistant] Alright. Almost everybody in my family for three generations is teachers. The teachers union in New York is one of the best unions in America. I love unions. I'm pro-union. I hate the fact that half this country tries to break unions. It's awful.


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[Assistant] Okay. I'm pro player. I have talked about the billionaires, how much I hate most billionaires, how much I hate the owners. Okay. And it's even annoying that I have to qualify all this before I say what I'm going to say. The NBA players by and large are soft as F. Okay. They are coddled. They are


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[Assistant] Many of them are spoiled brats. The league is out of control in my opinion. That the players do whatever the hell they want. And any criticism, it's the end of the freaking world. Half the players can't take it.


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[Assistant] They never, not all the players. A lot of players don't honor contracts. They want to be traded every 10 seconds. Then they're unhappy again. They want to be traded. That's mostly Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant who want to be traded every 10 seconds. And I'm so sick of this. The NFL players, the NFL is the best sport in America.


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[Assistant] Alright, the most popular sport in America by miles. The players get screwed all the time in the NFL. And they need to fight harder for their own rights. They don't have enough power, the NFL players. And yet most of them are not widened like a bunch of babies, like the NBA, where the players have all the power.


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[Assistant] Adam Silver is gutless. He looks like a penis. Let's be honest. No offense to Adam Silver. He looks like a giant penis, or a really skinny penis. He does! His head looks like the head of a penis!


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[Assistant] In the NBA, yes they can trade you at any moment, but they can't, you still get paid if they cut you.


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[Assistant] Sure, but when you do it multiple times, like you're never like, I'm happy for one year and now I'm on it. It's like it's, how about looking at the big picture?


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[Assistant] Analyze, see, giving draft grades, as I said yesterday, for the current draft is stupid. Because we have no idea if any of you guys can play, and we're all biased towards our own team. Every, most bronze fans think the bronze did a great draft.


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[Assistant] And same thing for every other team, right? But when we look at past drafts, we actually have a clue as to how the team did. So on yesterday's show, G, Tyvis and I were planning to flashback to 2020


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[Assistant] And now that we know, now that we have three years of actual data,


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[Assistant] Give grades on all the players that the Browns drafted in 2020.


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[Assistant] And give them an overall grade for their draft. Well, as we started this segment yesterday, we mentioned in the beginning of the show if you weren't with us today, everything went kaplooey, uh, WKYC and Tecna decided we're not that important so they shut off the power, uh, they rebooted everything when we were on and we couldn't get back on the air due to technical difficulties.


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[Assistant] So, here we are, uh, a day later, and we wanted, we had a great conversation about it, which we recorded yesterday, but you couldn't see it.


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[Assistant] So now, we are going to go back in time to yesterday.


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[Assistant] And talk about this conversation that we're gonna have as here we are and then when we're done, Jason will get his take on what we said and we'll comment on that. But let's flash back.


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[Assistant] Twenty-four, no, twenty-three hours, thirty minutes ago. And go see the sexiest man in all of sports TV. There he is! Adam the Bull! I gotta point that way. Here he is. Let's go see what he has to say, along with the rest of the guys. Here we are. I gotta pee.


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[Assistant] Thank you, Adam the Bull, and do, I must say, you are looking very sexy today. Thank you. I gotta say I'm impressed with that. Uh, G. Bush times.


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[Assistant] I don't know what's going on. Uh, let's talk about this. The, you know, people love draft grades, right? And I personally think it's stupid to give a grade on a draft that just happened because we have no idea. But we can.


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[Assistant] Yeah, before you that guys, obviously if you were watching our like 15, 20 minute show yesterday, you know that we would start talking about this. We had technical difficulties and so the show really didn't happen yesterday. And we, we, we did start this by saying that when you look at it years later, it's not bad, right? It's not as bad as you thought.


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[Assistant] And there was some progression from some of those guys this year and some regression guys. We started to talk about Chedrick Wills, so let's get back to it. Thomas, you got em with?


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[Assistant] I think much of what you guys have said is fair. There's nothing I really disagree with. I gave him a C as well. You talk about the inconsistency in play. First of all, he's being graded on a different scale. You know, a guy who's an equal


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[Assistant] talent or an equal guy of accomplishment that's drafted in the fourth round, the sixth round are going to be graded a little higher because you have higher expectations. For a first round pick, when I draft a guy in the first round,


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[Assistant] I'm expecting him to at the very least be a rock solid quality starter. Minimum. That's the minimum of what I expect from my first round pick. And he's not that. Now the one thing I'll say in his defense is


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[Assistant] You talked about them picking up his 50-year option. And I think there's some thought, like, was it the right idea or not? I think in the end, I'm okay with them picking up his option. I think you guys are. And only 12 of the 32 players from that draft had their 50-year option picked up. So 20 teams, their guy is not even good enough


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[Assistant] To be a C. So okay, if you factor that in, I think also maybe we're a little harder on him than most guys to Brown's draft.


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[Assistant] Because he's replacing the guy. The best player the Browns have had in 20 years. Or 30 years or whatever. Or one of the best players they've ever had. Ever had. Period. Period. Right. And so that, however, the things you say are true. The bad plays are stand out bad. There are times where it feels like


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[Assistant] He, that, that, we, we've talked about it with Myles Garret. Myles Garret's so freakishly talented that it's not really a factor. But we've talked about, is that nastiness there? Like even I got, this may be totally unfair, you guys tell me what you think. But that picture of him in the freezing cold, wearing the head condom, I'm like, most offensive linemen are not wearing that head condom.


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[Assistant] I'm actually with G. Bush again and I was kinda, I'm like kinda right on the border between a B and a B minus.


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[Assistant] The only reason I went with the B minus over the B is because he hasn't played well enough long enough. I do like, I agree with what you guys said, he's trending in the right direction. He played his best football as a Brown.


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[Assistant] Yes. Going into last year. Yeaah. Yeaah. But now, like, if you tell me he's gonna be a B plus by the end of next year, I would believe that. So I think he's headed in the right direction. I'm going B minus. So we're on pretty much the same page.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, it's, it's bad. Alright, I gotta say, these guys have been pretty harsh. I'm gonna go with a different tact here.


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[Assistant] You know how many games he's played in three years? How many? Remember, the Browns, the Browns have played 54 games the last three years. 17, 34, I'm sorry, 70 games the last three years. My math seems way off. No way. 60, 50.


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[Assistant] He's missed 30 games. He's missed 60% of the games. So what do you give him?


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[Assistant] I'm giving him a D minus. The only reason I don't give him an F is because he's had a few moments here and there. But 20 games for a linebacker where he's averaging less than four and a half tackles per game.


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[Assistant] He's made very little impact in the backfield. I think he has, I think he's had five tackles for a loss in his career in 20 games. I mean, that's, that's not, you know, I know he's a linebacker, not a D lineman, but a D minus.


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[Assistant] I'll go with Tyvis on this one. I'll go B-. Thank you. Because he was a fourth round pick. Okay. Right? If he were any higher, I'd go with you on the C+. But as a fourth round pick, you're looking for a guy who can contribute. That's what I'm thinking.


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[Assistant] Right? And he contributes. Listen, he's not a starter.


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[Assistant] He'd be a lower tier starter, but as a number two tight end, I don't think you're going to get a much better number two tight end. You talked about it. He's got good hands. He's reliable in small doses. He's a nice player. I thought two years ago he was really trending up. This year he wasn't as good. He's going to, you know, there's some inconsistencies, but as the offense gets better,


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[Assistant] He'll be a guy who be, who come in there sometimes as the fourth or fifth option and he'll get some chances and I think he'll make the plays when given the opportunity.


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[Assistant] I don't know why. That's true. That's a solid pick. That's a solid fourth round pick. Alright Mike. Two more to get to.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I don't know, I don't know. I thought he had some potential but he's barely played. How much has he even played?


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[Assistant] They re-signed Ethan Pochich, right? Pochich is back. He really hasn't played. So who's the starting center right now? Pochich. Pochich. It's not even close.


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[Assistant] If I had to give a grade, I'd give a C, just cause you're right, the plan worked. He showed some potential in those two starts, but he hasn't played enough and they seem to be moving on from him, so it's hard to give him better than that. Finally, Donovan Peoples Show.


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[Assistant] No, no, no. Listen, he was a six round pick, so if you're a starter as a six round pick, and not a starter because...


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[Assistant] I guess you could argue they had no better options, but like he's a, he's a decent number two receiver, and he's a good number three receiver, and he was a sixth round pick, so, and the special teams got better every year. I think he keeps improving, I think because of Eli, and maybe they will sign him, because they're not going to re-sign Amari Cooper, I wouldn't think, after this year.


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[Assistant] But he's a player, like he's a starting caliber player that you got in the sixth round.


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[Assistant] Alright guys, so let's wrap this up with the overall grade, right? So, you know, we gave some B's, C's early.


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[Assistant] If Delpit can, if Delpit and especially Jedrick can take their game up another level, then it becomes a pretty solid draft overall.


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[Assistant] Alright, bold. Take it back, you handsome bastard. Thank you, buddy. And yes, once again, you are looking great today. That, uh, that gray shirt that is exactly the same as this shirt, but a different color, but looks kind of a little greenish, brings out your eyes, my friend. We'll see you later.


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[Assistant] Yeah, to me, Jason's giving them an excuse for Jedrick Will's not, you know, like, what choice did they have? Jed is mediocre. He's average.


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[Assistant] Right, but I don't know that he's any worse than that. That was just a team decision, but I don't know that he's really any worse. And some of that's luck, like you can't.


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[Assistant] Well, that worries me. I don't know what their plan is, but like Draymond Jones was a disappointment in college. I know, you know, but, and he's so big, I don't know.


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[Assistant] Is he going to stay healthy? We'll see. Anyway, let's switch gears and talk about the guardians here.


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[Assistant] Uh, I actually think it was, should have been harsher. I would have given them a D. I mean, they, they, they were, you know, their record is, what are, what are they now? Game under 500? I can't remember. 300. What were they at the end of April? 14 and 17. In April? No, no, 14 and 17.


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[Assistant] When, to the, to that point, they had played nobody except for that one Yankees here. The Mariners were okay, but the Mariners were not playing well either.


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[Assistant] And so they've had a very favorable schedule, and they've been lousy. And the only reason, like,


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[Assistant] It's not a bigger disaster, it's because the division stinks. Now, I don't, again, I tell people this all the time.


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[Assistant] I'm not using that, I'm not writing off the team or panicking long term, but the team has been awful in April. I would give them a D for the month of April. Straight D, uhm,


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[Assistant] I can't, I keep trying to- Because your expectations factor in. And they've disappointed in all, in every part of the team is a disappointment.


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[Assistant] Well, I think you can win that way, but they're not playing that. They're not playing, like, there's no margin for error. If you're trying to score runs without power, you've got to be great across the board at getting on base. And they're not, for the first month of the season, they haven't done the things they did last year, Jason, in that way.


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[Assistant] That's doing better than you expected. Is there a single guy?


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[Assistant] Right field is a black hole right now. Yeah, he's back. They're getting nothing. And by the way.


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[Assistant] I mean, I know it's too late now because they signed the extension. When I was screaming all off season, go trade for Brian Reynolds, there were an awful lot of people telling me they didn't need a right fielder. Is that not the case, Mike? That there were a lot of people telling me they didn't need a right fielder.


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[Assistant] I mean, Bybee and Allen have done a good job. They've only, we didn't have, you know, we didn't even, honestly, I'm sure we both didn't think they were going to be in the big leagues at this point. Not necessarily. They've both done a nice job. You know, Bieber pitched a good game yesterday, but again, four strikeouts. I think he's had more than four strikeouts in one start.


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[Assistant] Because Jake Bowers was on the Indians. And he was awful. He was awful. He's awful. The Yankees just, I didn't even know he was in the Yankees. I didn't either.


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[Assistant] He was a total bug. He was a guy that I was told, and I'm sure you've heard this too, Jason, who thought he was a superstar before he'd done anything in the big room. Yes. He carried himself that way in the locker room. The guys didn't like him. No. And he stunk where he, he got a cup of coffee with the raise. He was okay. One of the worst treats.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I mean, right now, the lineup's been awful. You know, who's having a good season right now?


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[Assistant] Klausay has not been, you know, nearly as dominant. He's making you nervous right now. Most of the bullpen is struggling right now. Zach, please, Zach, you can't start him anymore, can you?


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[Assistant] Well, Patrick Wisdom of the Cubs, who's like, was a career journeyman, who's kind of found the role for the Cubs the last three years. He's not that good a player, but he's got a lot of power. Has 11 home runs by himself.


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[Assistant] And the Guardians of 17, I mean that's just crazy. They're dead last on that aren't they? No.


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[Assistant] Well getting on base, getting on base is the thing. How many guardians right now have it on base over 350?


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[Assistant] For him, that's really good. That's really good for him. Yeah. Uh, who's fourth?


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[Assistant] Again, I'm not panicking about guys with track records, like Jimenez I trust, he'll get it together. Rosario's been horrible, he'll get it together. Miles Troy is what he is, everybody got hot and bothered because he had a good spring training, like all of a sudden now he's gonna become a good hitter. Josh Naylor can't hit lefties, that's not gonna change.


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[Assistant] Because Naylor's really good against Wrighties. There's nothing wrong with being a platoon player. I don't know why this became a bad thing all of a sudden, being a platoon player. He's good against Wrighties. He's a hot and cold hitter. Wow. But, you know, I mean, listen, it's all bad right now. The good news is the division stinks.


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[Assistant] The Tigers, Royals, and White Sox will not be competitive. So you only have to worry about the twins. They're not that far behind. And...


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[Assistant] Hopefully you get McKenzie and Savalli back. But, uh, and you know, Quantrill was better in his last start. But Logan Allen and Bybee, as long as they're pitching well, gotta stay in the rotation. And you hope that Colossae can right the ship. You know, but you never could trust bullpens from year to year.


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[Assistant] What was his percentage of fastballs last year? Do you have that? Uhm, percentage. I'd like to know if that's changed significantly. Are you concerned, Jason, about Shane Bieber? 51% last year.


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[Assistant] You know, so their lineup right now is not very good. Five through nine is as bad or worse than the Guardians. Yeah, I mean it's lousy. So you know, you face, I think with Bieber though, like Bieber is, is on the verge of his first big payday, right?


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[Assistant] He's, you wonder if he's panicking. I know he's like, seems like there's no emotion there at all. But down deep, the fact that his velocity is way down, he's not like,


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[Assistant] His numbers look fine if you're not watching the games, but he's not the same guy. And he's losing money right now.


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[Assistant] And I sit on the verge of a payday. It's a year and a half away, but still.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, Peyton Battlefield pitches for the Guardians, so yeaah. Bailey Albert.


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[Assistant] Bailey Ober just got called up, Reese. He's been up and down the last two years. He's nothing special.


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[Assistant] A pitching advantage in this series with no, you know, but, uh, I will see. I don't know, I mean, like,


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[Assistant] It's so funny, we felt really good about the team coming in. They feel really shaky right now, but I'm still highly confident that at some point in May,


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[Assistant] They're going to click and things will start getting better. It's the trademark under Tito.


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[Assistant] He's a showcase piece that can go get you a bat. And the infield glut that they have. They gotta move some of that to get something else. Go ahead, Mike.


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[Assistant] Phil, how does a kid from Ohio end up at Michigan instead of Ohio State?


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[Assistant] Man, that had to be tough as a kid growing up. And especially like nowadays, every team is on TV. So maybe, you know, it's not that big a deal when kids go all over the country. But in those days, obviously it was a different situation.


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[Assistant] So then, you play four years at Michigan, you get drafted by the Pistons, and after a couple of years you end up on the Cavs. What was that like? I mean, being from the area, and then ending up playing for the Cavaliers.


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[Assistant] Phil, I just wanna, if you could, we're having a little static when you're talking, unfortunately. If you could just move your phone a tiny bit, maybe that would help it.


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[Assistant] By the way, Mark Price will be on the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show, uh, one week from today. So we look forward to that. So you were on the 1976 gold medal winning Olympic team. So there's, there's actually a lot of interesting names of note there, guys who were coaches, guys.


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[Assistant] Who are executives in the league years later. What was that experience like? And I was looking at the scores from that year, and you guys only beat Puerto Rico by one point.


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[Assistant] I don't, I don't think of Puerto Rico as a big basketball country. So give me, if you could tell us your thoughts on the Olympics in general and what happened in that game specifically, is there a really great player there we didn't know about? That we can't remember?


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[Assistant] Thanks Phil, we appreciate you taking the time. Thanks for joining us.


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[Assistant] Alright, good talk to you, Bill Hubbard. Former Cavalier.


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[Assistant] Not just still going. Like usually the players that are still playing in the NBA at 38, the few of them that there are, are like barely playing.


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[Assistant] That doesn't make any sense. Hall of Fame is not about one year. It's about a career.


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[Assistant] That is the ultimate lifetime achievement award. Yeaah. Like that's the one. Right. And I don't like, on the other end, I don't like, we see this in baseball a lot.


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[Assistant] Mike, you're telling me, if you have player, I don't even know if there's an example of this, but if you have player A who finishes between second and fifth in the MVP, eight out of 10 years, but never wins it. And player B never finishes in the top 10, but one year finishes first.


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[Assistant] You'd rather have that guy in the Hall of Fame than the other guy? That makes no sense. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] That's a, it's not apples to apples. Why? Because NFL careers are much shorter and Tyrell Davis for his entire, and I, I don't know that I would put, would have voted Tyrell Davis in the Hall of Fame personally, but Tyrell Davis when he played was great. The whole time he played. Derek Rose was not.


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[Assistant] It's a basketball hall affair, which is so lame. It includes your college. It's ridiculous. I don't know. Just stupid. So Mikey came along with Anthony last week. We haven't had a chance to talk about this. They both came to my little league practice. Did you guys hear about this? No.


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[Assistant] Alright, put him in, I don't give a crap. There you go, it's done. But Mikey, his pitching was rough.


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[Assistant] I was expecting big things from you. I mean you're a young man for crying out loud.


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[Assistant] Thought you would help me, and you did. And it was not, very nice of him to come, and very nice of Anthony to come, and I appreciate that they did. But I thought you'd be throwing more strikes. But in your defense, you got better as the day went along. I had another friend of mine who came from out of town, he practiced with us last weekend.


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[Assistant] And he was the same thing, he was a total disaster. And he's really tall, my friend, he's like 6'2". And he was throwing everything high, and then as the day went on he-


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[Assistant] At this point now, the season has started. We were supposed to have two scrimmage games this week. They both got rained out. It's opening day Saturday and the game's gone. I don't know how much practice left.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we only have, so we had 6 4th graders and 6 3rd graders, and honestly the best kid on the team, one of the 4th graders, we don't have him, he's not going to play this season because he's playing another sport. So I said to my son today, we're going to win the whole leffin thing even without him. So Aaron, his batting practice has helped out. It has, he still swings and misses a lot.


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[Assistant] Is he a pitcher? No, because he cannot, he has no clue where the ball is going.


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[Assistant] So, my hope is by the second half of the season he can pitch. I have, we've been doing fielding and hitting lessons, with extra coaching, and now he's just started pitching. Cause if he can get some command, he throws really hard. Make him 99. We'll see you in overtime, Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show.


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[Assistant] First line a little awkward, but the, but I get it. And, uh, the rest of it makes a lot of sense.


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[Assistant] A supreme court face-off, 30 years in the making.


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[Assistant] And behind the scenes, one powerful Republican senator.


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[Assistant] And behind the scenes, one powerful Republican senator, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.


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[Assistant] ...outmaneuvering Democrats, confirming conservative judges were McConnell's specialties. Brett Kavanaugh would be his crowning achievement.


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[Assistant] Reagan could secure conservative control of the court.


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[Assistant] Reagan's attorney general made a phone call to Capitol Hill. He wanted to alert one powerful Democratic senator.


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[Assistant] Kennedy headed for the Senate chamber. To the liberal senator from Massachusetts, Bork was a dire threat.


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[Assistant] ...was a full-on political assault led by liberal Democrats.


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[Assistant] With protests, phone banks, and attack ads.


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[Assistant] The Judiciary Committee hearings led by the Democrats were broadcast on national television.


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[Assistant] It was a cast designed for classic television drama. The Attackers, Biden, Heflin, Metzenbaum, Leahy, and Kennedy.


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[Assistant] And there were the defenders. Conservative Republicans, Simpson and Grassley.


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[Assistant] In an effort to save him, Bork supporter Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson asked him one last question.


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[Assistant] It was a searing experience for first-term Senator Mitch McConnell. Enraged, he took to the Senate floor.


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[Assistant] McConnell threatened that he and his Republican colleagues would use the same tactics when it mattered.


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[Assistant] The sustained applause is from members of a new conservative legal group, The Federalist Society. It is for their hero, Robert Boyle.


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[Assistant] ...with Bork at Yale and Antonin Scalia at the University of Chicago as the faculty advisors. Ted Olson spoke at their first convention.


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[Assistant] Protections for criminals, gay rights. The Federalist Society founders thought the courts had gone too far to the left.


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[Assistant] During Reagan's presidency, more than half the political appointees of the Justice Department had ties to the Federalist Society, as did all twelve Assistant Attorney Generals.


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[Assistant] Within 10 years, they had built 120 chapters, 3,000 members, with a budget of $700,000.


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[Assistant] The cast was familiar. Biden, Kennedy, Simpson, Metzenbaum, Heflin.


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[Assistant] It would be hard for the Democrats to forcefully take on an African American nominee.


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[Assistant] No issues of character had been raised during the hearings.


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[Assistant] Allegations of sexual harassment by Clarence Thomas.


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[Assistant] As the story broke, Senator Mitch McConnell rushed to the Senate floor.


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[Assistant] The Republicans had watched Bork attacked for his ideology.


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[Assistant] Clarence Thomas was 43 years old. He vowed to stay on the court for 43 more years.


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[Assistant] McConnell watched as Democratic and Republican presidents tried to tip the balance of the court.


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[Assistant] Through it all, McConnell had been climbing to power inside the Senate. Majority Whip, Republican Leader, and finally Majority Leader.


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[Assistant] I'm still holding on to that grievance about what happened to Robert Bork. He waited for the right moment to use it.


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[Assistant] McConnell kept the Republicans in line. There would be no hearings, no votes, no consideration of Judge Garland.


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[Assistant] McConnell's ally, the Federalist Society, had become one of the most powerful forces in Washington.


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[Assistant] Their revenue had grown to more than $26 million. There were now over 60,000 members.


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[Assistant] But in 2016, as McConnell blocked Merrick Garland, the Federalist Society and the Republicans had a problem.


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[Assistant] They were worried about the Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump.


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[Assistant] McConnell had a plan. He knew a lawyer, Don McGann.


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[Assistant] They told Trump that promising to appoint federalist judges


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[Assistant] He attended a meeting with the heads of the Federalist Society and the Conservative Heritage Foundation.


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[Assistant] McConnell had helped Trump get elected, and he'd held open Scalia's seat.


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[Assistant] Veteran Justice Anthony Kennedy unexpectedly resigned.


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[Assistant] Mitch McConnell understood the stakes. Kennedy's replacement could lock up conservative control of the court.


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[Assistant] McConnell, Trump, and the Federalist Society again swung into action. The president nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh.


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[Assistant] Who had joined the Federalist Society at Yale Law School.


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[Assistant] And at the confirmation hearings, the Democrats immediately put up a fight.


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[Assistant] And as the Republican-led hearings got underway, Brett Kavanaugh would follow the Clarence Thomas playbook.


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[Assistant] From his office, McConnell watched the hearings. It all seemed to be going smoothly.


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[Assistant] Bork, Thomas, now Kavanaugh. The fight for the court had become personal. McConnell blamed the Democrats.


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[Assistant] Some of the senators that day had also been at the Clarence Thomas hearings. Patrick Leahy was one.


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[Assistant] The president picked up the phone. On the other end, Mitch McConnell.


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[Assistant] Kavanaugh had become a combatant in the war between Republicans and Democrats.


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[Assistant] On the Republican side, Lindsey Graham led the fight.


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[Assistant] With McConnell's Republicans almost entirely in line.


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[Assistant] Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Thomas, Alito, Roberts. The Federalist Society and Mitch McConnell now dominate the Supreme Court.


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[Assistant] This is shaping up to be the hypocrisy hearing. And that's hard to do in the Senate.


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[Assistant] Well, Donald Trump came out of nowhere to win the primary. He beat me and everybody else, but he was not a...


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[Assistant] Republican in the sense that most of us understand the word to be. Bottom line, his judicial philosophy, what he saw to be a conservative judge was unknown.


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[Assistant] My friends on the other side, you can't lose the election and pick judges. If you want to pick judges, you better win.


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[Assistant] This is the most unethical sham since I've been in politics. Boy, y'all want power. God, I hope you never get it. I hope the American people can see through this sham. God, I hate to say it because these have been my friends, but let me tell you when it comes to this, you're looking for a fair process.


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[Assistant] You came to the wrong town at the wrong time, my friend. This is not a job interview. This is hell. This is going to destroy


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[Assistant] The ability of good people to come forward because of this crap. Your high school yearbook.


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[Assistant] Please, urge your senators to vote against the Bork nomination. Because if Robert Bork wins his seat on the Supreme Court, it will be for life. His life, and yours.


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[Assistant] You good, dude? Yeah, I'm just reading this. That gets me down too. Reading these documents of texts from Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' wife. I knew you read our texts! Calm down. These were subpoenaed as part of the Jan 6th Commission. She says some...


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[Assistant] Yeah, he don't do plans. Excuse me? Yeah, he says we're just gonna let Democrats make some plans and then we're gonna make fun of those plans. That's it. You seem surprised. No.


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[Assistant] Try me. I hate hearing that phrase. I got some good news. Please, anything. The Amazon workers of Staten Island unionized. Communism! Shut the f-


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[Assistant] Too bad you lost. We remember the Alamo, we just don't talk about that part. Enough, you two! Sarah Palin's running for office again. What? You heard me.


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[Assistant] This is a circus. It's a national disgrace. And as far as I'm concerned, it is a high tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas.


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[Assistant] And it is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order this is what will happen to you. You will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured,


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[Assistant] By a committee of the U.S. U.S. Senate rather than hung from a tree.


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[Assistant] Uh, 13 and 7 on baseball bets. Wow, that's pretty impressive. Almost 2 up and today he's going back to the baseball well with his Bet Rivers bet of the day. Hey Ohio, Bet Rivers Online Sportsbook is the place to be for every single game. Now is the perfect time to join Bet Rivers Sportsbook because if you use the positive code SPORTS


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[Assistant] Giving a run and a half against Miami. They won by 11 yesterday.


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[Assistant] One last, last thing. G Bush and Jay were not here yesterday. You guys were at the Pro Hall of Fame luncheon. The full video of G's speech is on our YouTube page. Check it out. But G, you want to give us a real quick, you know, one minute teaser of kind of how it went yesterday? Congratulations.


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[Assistant] Have we seen at any point this season, Jared Allen have a traditional back to the basket post-up? Have we seen, like, I, I, we haven't seen Evan Mobley do it either. We've seen him have a little bit of a jump hook from the high post, but.


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[Assistant] I don't think that's in either of their games yet. Alan's way more developed than Mowgli, as Mowgli can still kind of generate that kind of offense as he develops, get stronger.


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[Assistant] And Mitchell Robinson's massive. Like Mitchell Robinson is a physical specimen. He's seven feet tall. He's 240 and he's 26. He's in his physical prime. And I know the lights going on and off. So if you guys got dark, uh, yeah, it's all, we just said, yeah, that's, that's, uh, we'll get that addressed. That's the cut.


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[Assistant] Big time players step up and have these like transcendent games. And game four seemed like an opportunity for Mitchell to do that. Going against a team that didn't trade for him. MSG. He's from New York City.


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[Assistant] And this was the chance for him to come in and just say, pretty much throw a middle finger up and say, F you guys, Cleveland gave up more. You could have had me. You didn't want me. I'm going to make you.


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[Assistant] Make you feel wrong and prove you wrong for that decision. And that is why it was so disappointing to me that he came up so short.


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[Assistant] Online at precast.com slash careers to learn more. We asked the poll.


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[Assistant] The always trusted, always ingenious YouTube chat poll that if the Cavs lose this series, will JB be fired? 55% said no.


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[Assistant] Which is actually different than what we initially thought the poll would come through.


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[Assistant] Alright, we're gonna pivot from the Cavs to the Browns and we're gonna tap into Boogie's expertise here. This was a bit of a research project turned question I wanna pose to you and this segment's gonna be brought to us by the USFL. They are back in Canton.


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[Assistant] All over the country, including our good friends in Pittsburgh. And by good friends, I mean just Boogie. No one else in Pittsburgh. Boogie the only Pittsburgh person we like on this show. Check him out at USFL.com. It is phenomenal football action to get to see future stars like Boogie play before they reach the next level.


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[Assistant] Uh, guys, did you know the last time a brown not named Miles Garrett recorded 10 sacks was 2014?


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[Assistant] The same year a player on the Browns recorded five or more interceptions. And we know.


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[Assistant] The Browns have made quite the upgrade in both the secondary and the defensive line this year. So my question for you guys today is, what is more likely to happen this season? A Brown, not named Myles Garrett, records double digit sacks, or someone on the Browns picks off at least five passes.


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[Assistant] Boogie, I know you played with LA for a year. You got to kind of learn up close and personal from Aaron Donald. What did you kind of take away from him that...


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[Assistant] You didn't learn from playing with other DTs on the highest level like that. What makes him so special compared to the rest of the guys in that position in the league?


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[Assistant] Yeah, it is 12 though, which means the lunch o'clock or the lunch hour of the Ultimate Cleveland Sports. So it's sponsored by Colleague Racing, the official NASCAR team of Northeast Ohio. We're going to get into a little Jets. My favorite time of day is lunch o'clock.


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[Assistant] But we have two things I want to mention and this is guardians related both. Uh, we're going to say R.I.P. to Bull's hopes and dreams because Brian Reynolds has agreed to an eight year, a hundred and six million dollar extension with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Meaning his pipeline dream of trading the farm for Brian Reynolds is officially dead on site.


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[Assistant] We'll talk about it in a sec. Also, Tanner Bibby was scratching the start in Columbus.


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[Assistant] I told you, I'm rebranding him as Bibi. I know. Has been scratched from his start in Columbus and the Guardians just need a starter tomorrow. So I think he's going to make his major league debut tomorrow. It sounds like it. Yeah. Just tweeted that out. So be on the lookout. We will talk Guardians in a sec and specifically Manny Ramirez.


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[Assistant] But yesterday, and we'll wrap up our football talk today with this.


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[Assistant] The Aaron Rodgers trade finally went through. Can you talk about a drama that took 17 weeks too long to finalize? These are the trade details, the Jets.


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[Assistant] Get Rogers and a pick swap essentially go from 13 to 15.


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[Assistant] Plus a fifth round of the Packers move up from 15 to 13. They get a second round pick this year, a sixth round pick, and a conditional pick next year. It'll be a second round pick. If he doesn't play 65% of the snaps, it'll be a first rounder. If he does play 65% of snaps, a large price to pay for a quarterback who may or may not play for more than a year.


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[Assistant] Well, yeah, it's a pick-swap. 13 for 15, right? Yeah, it moved down two spots.


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[Assistant] He's gonna start game one. Wait, wait, wait, before you say it, let's put something on it. Jason, you like to gamble? I like to gamble? Uh...


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[Assistant] Alright, let me ask you a question while we're on the Jets topic. Take out Jalen Hertz from the NFC. Okay. I'm gonna read you a list of the other NFC quarterbacks. Let's pick the second best NFC quarterback and figure out where he would rank among the AFC best. So, take out Hertz. Hertz is obviously, you know, way above everyone else, but...


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[Assistant] These are the options for number two. Dak, Jared Goff, Kirk Cousins, Derek Carr, Matthew Stafford, Daniel Jones and Gino Smith. Daniel Jones in there, bro. That's a giant's home. I'm listening. I'm reading this from NFL on CBS. They just tweeted.


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[Assistant] I don't know. I think it's just a, uh,


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[Assistant] Alright, real quick, while Anthony's looking for that, real quick, I'm gonna remind everybody about the membership tiers, the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show, before we talk to the little guardians here, as Anthony tries to deal with his demons, aka his internal battle with Tagward on a daily basis here. It's still happening.


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[Assistant] We can make it work. Don't get Anthony and Earl in here too. That's the next line. But to get the next level emojis, this is actually not a, uh, uh, false. It's a fact. We need more members. We only unlock certain emojis when we reach certain membership thresholds. So if you want to see a


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[Assistant] The fact that the LeBron James Lakers are one win away from advantage in the second round of the playoffs. Spectacular how they do that year after year. LeBron remains undefeated in that sense. Uh, do we have tag board working? Yes. We'll see it one time and figure it out.


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[Assistant] Hey Boogie, question, and Steve, keep this up. When, when coaches put in plays, maybe trick plays during the week, do you sometimes know like, hey, there's no way in hell this is gonna work.


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[Assistant] He once scorched earth on the Pro Bowl, and because we're talking Browns, it's a good time to remind you guys real quick that Lincoln Electric is hiring for all great jobs in the manufacturing world. If you guys need a job, check out Lincoln Electric or good friends over with Lincoln Electric are hiring for great jobs. We also talked about Myles Garrett saying his motto for next year is, I just want to have fun. So, uh, we kind of went into him on yesterday.


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[Assistant] It is 1230, which means it's time to remind everybody that the Lunch Hour of the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show is sponsored by Call of Gracing, the official NASCAR team of Northeast Ohio. In about 10 minutes, we're going to play a brand new game with Boogie, the Hollywood star, USFL star.


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[Assistant] Listen, if I knew he was in a commercial with Rihanna, maybe I've stepped up the game a little bit, but I still think it's gonna, it's gonna hit. But for about 10-15 minutes here, guys, real quick. The Guardians announced that Manny Ramirez will be inducted into the Hall of Fame later this summer. So my question for you guys today is, should the Guardians retire? Ramirez is number 24.


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[Assistant] No, so what we did was, and I got this idea from my friend Leah, shout out Leah for, uh, being more creative than me, but I stole the idea, we're gonna do it here. We went back through the archives boogie, and there's eight.


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[Assistant] There's some fake ones and some real ones. We're gonna see if you could remember what you tweeted, and we're gonna see how good I can do impersonating Boogie as a tweeter.


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[Assistant] So Steve, play the music. I'm going to read you a tweet. You're going to give me a real or fake. Not true or false. Real or fake. A real if you really think Boogie tweeted this. It's real and it's spectacular. Or fake if you think, uh, the production team here came up with the Boogie tweet. Am I right too? Cause shit's not true.


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[Assistant] Alright, so let's start the first initial game of Did Boogie Tweet That? Question one, or I guess tweet one.


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[Assistant] This USFL XFL football beef is getting good. Fire emoji, guitar emoji. Real tweet or fake boogie tweet?


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[Assistant] From at boogie the goat eight. Whoever drafts me is getting a dog for real for real. Did boogie tweet that? Do we make that up?


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[Assistant] Alright, next one. Tweet 3. You ready Steve?


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[Assistant] Tonight I'm yelling Bella ciao Bella ciao Bella ciao ciao ciao. Hashtag money heist.


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[Assistant] SGBG myth, temple of keys, 4th street, lgbg, we'll be going crazy tonight, even jack in a box will be lit. 100 emoji, party emoji.


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[Assistant] Those post-game wings hit different after a dub. I'ma house 20 of these easy. Real tweet. Thanks.


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[Assistant] We got three more in five minutes, I trust this. Alright, let's speed, speed race. Next one. No, we got time. Okay.


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[Assistant] Real or fake? It's crazy it takes forever to get in shape, but only three days to lose it all.


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[Assistant] That UNLVQB is gonna have nightmares about me for weeks lol boy was running for his life for 60 mins.


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[Assistant] Care less about the outsiders and naysayers. Feeling 100% confident about tomorrow. 100% emoji. Fist emoji. Hashtag bring on the power.


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[Assistant] She was very polite and just looked dead honest.


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[Assistant] You were both. You'd never tell Patricia what to do. No. She did what she wanted to do. And she was good at her work.


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[Assistant] A ring for bracelets. So it's not finished yet? No. No. Wow, beautiful. I will let you continue with it.


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[Assistant] Right now it's the middle of the day and this is how high the sun goes up now.


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[Assistant] It's just a little bit over the horizon, or over the trees. But at least it's better than the very north parts of Sweden, because they have the polar nights right now, where the sun never goes up.


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[Assistant] So I'm not gonna do that now, but I can just shortly answer that we met. Through the blog, didn't we?


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[Assistant] I said to him that, oh, you are so welcome to visit me anytime. And I thought that he would come, like, immediately. And you didn't do that.


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[Assistant] Hey guys, I'm in my studio again as you can see. I've been spending some hours here, just doing some work.


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[Assistant] I just wanted to say thank you again, because uhm, yeah, if you saw my previous video, I read some comments and questions.


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[Assistant] And one of the comments I read was from Asia. She was, eh, writing a comment that really touched my heart. She was feeling depressed and...


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[Assistant] Yeah, if you haven't seen it, just watch my previous video. Just as usual, there is so many beautiful comments, but this time it's a bit special because there are so many beautiful comments to ask here.


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[Assistant] I mean, some of you even started like a thread on the comment section. It's like a thread where people write comments to her to give her, you know, love and support and...


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[Assistant] I mean, I've always felt that, like with my blog, I have the most amazing readers, and on my Patreon community, it's like my family, and now on this YouTube channel,


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[Assistant] I don't even know how you come here, everyone. I just...


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[Assistant] I don't know how to thank you, and I guess it's something special to see.


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[Assistant] You guys interact with each other and give each other love and support because it's so rare on the internet today to see that.


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[Assistant] I guess I will talk about this so many more times because I'm never gonna stop appreciating this. I'm never gonna take this for granted because your support means so much to me.


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[Assistant] I shared a photo on my Instagram the other day, talking about how much I wanted the snow to come, so I could go on my sled again. Well, it might still be a little bit early, because the surface maybe isn't that frozen yet.


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[Assistant] So maybe the sled just go right through the snow, down to the ground. If there's a beautiful winter night with stars, I just love to go on the sled and have music in my ears and bring the lantern and


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[Assistant] When I've been on the sled for a while, you know, you get tired, I just sit down and look at the stars. That's like one of the best things during the winters.


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[Assistant] Now it seems like I can soon do that again. So now I thought I would just prepare the sled. Maybe tomorrow I can go on a sled ride. That would be nice. So I usually use


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[Assistant] Candle wax to make it go a little bit faster. I guess you could do other things to make it better, but candle wax is good. And this sled is actually super fast, even though it's super old.


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[Assistant] Wow, it's no clouds tonight, so the sky is full of stars. I really wish there was a camera.


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[Assistant] Alright, I'm gonna go on my first little sled ride now and see if the surface is good enough. Thank you so much for watching today and I'll see you in a few days. Take care everyone! Muaah! Lots of love! See you soon! Bye bye!


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[Assistant] As you can see, I'm out in the forest. I'm just having some quality time. Taking some photos and shooting some films. It's so nice to be outside like this.


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[Assistant] First of all, I just wanted to say thank you for your beautiful response on my previous video.


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[Assistant] Where I took a ice swim or ice bath. I don't know really what you call it. It seemed like a lot of you liked the video and


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[Assistant] That you felt inspired, and that's what I wanted to do with the video. I wanted to inspire you.


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[Assistant] Get out there to face the things that keep you stuck, if you know what I mean. After I took the ice swim last week, I have felt so good.


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[Assistant] I have not been freezing at all. It's really true that taking ice swims can be really healthy for you.


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[Assistant] Actually this morning I was walking down to the lake with my dog and I just felt this urge to take a new swim again. So from now on I'm gonna take ice swims.


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[Assistant] As often as I can. I would love to do it like once a week, but at least once a month I will do it. So I was inspired to start with the ice swimming by Wim Hof, the Iceman. If you haven't heard about him, you should check his channel out.


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[Assistant] I can put a link down in the description. But he has a lot of interesting films on his channel and...


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[Assistant] I, I always feel very inspired by people who, you know, prove that we can do so much more than we think.


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[Assistant] Because we really can, I know that. So yeaah, I think you should check him out if you wanna feel more inspired about this subject. So it's Monday today and


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[Assistant] I haven't done a vlog in a couple of days and that's because it's just been a lot of things happening.


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[Assistant] We have been really busy, but yesterday and Sunday...


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[Assistant] Our friends Åsa and Arvid and their kids came and visited us. They live in the neighborhood village about 30 minutes from us and


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[Assistant] They came to help us fixing a ventilation system in the smithy. You know, Joanne, when he makes jewelry, he needs to melt the silver, and it gets really bad smoke from that. And he has just a little ventilation machine, I don't know what you call it, but it's not that good.


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[Assistant] Arvid, he's an electrician just as Johan, but he's really good with the ventilation systems, so he came and fixed


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[Assistant] A really nice ventilation in the smithy. And we are so happy for that because I guess the most important part is to have a healthy environment when you work.


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[Assistant] Also, we had a really fun day. I got to hang out with them and they're two really adorable kids, Malte and Ola.


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[Assistant] Yeah, as you can see, we had a really nice Sunday. I always laugh so much when I'm with them, so it hurts in my stomach.


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[Assistant] And now it's a new week and this week is a bit special because uhm, I'm not gonna have as much time to film this week as usual and that's because in about a week I'm gonna have my very first musical performance ever.


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[Assistant] I have to admit that I'm very nervous. I mean, I really look forward to this. Uhm, I feel ready, but


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[Assistant] Sorry, it's a bird. So I feel ready but it's still a very big thing for me cause I'm gonna perform for a lot of people. And in this moment I can't tell you more about this performance but


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[Assistant] In about a week I will definitely let you know all about it.


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[Assistant] I just feel like I need to have some days now to focus and to practice because I really want to feel comfortable. I want to feel as relaxed as I can because I want to do a really good performance. I feel like I need to go into


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[Assistant] Another mode. I need to focus and I want to, you know, charge up for this performance. I probably won't film as much as usual this week, but hopefully me and Johan are gonna get the key to our cottage this week. So we will try to go to the cottage in the weekend.


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[Assistant] Northern mountains here in Sweden. It's like about three hours from here. We did that about a month ago, so I still don't really understand that this is real. It's like too good to be true. I really hope that we can go there this weekend.


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[Assistant] The sun is setting now and the mist is beginning to rise. It's so beautiful.


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[Assistant] And it's getting a bit chilly in the air. It's like one degree celsius now. So yeah, I just wanted to give you a little update on what's going on. And if you don't get any more videos from me during this week, then you know why. I'm preparing myself for a big step in my life.


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[Assistant] I hope you will all have a wonderful week and take care and I see you soon. Muah! Bye bye! Oh!


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[Assistant] Listen, we try to go out there and respect everybody's rights. We're not out here saying, hey, we're going to violate this person's rights. That's not what we're here for. I'll tell you, our main objective is to go home at the end of the night.


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[Assistant] Fuckin whole life and existence and fuckin family members and friends and I don't give a fuck who you with, what you look like, what you are, everything goes and there is no rules, there is no you can't say that, the only rule is, A, keep it verbal or


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[Assistant] This goes back to, uhm, Adam, this goes back to, so I, I, I was born here in America, uhm,


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[Assistant] I was, uh, here until I was like about nine years old, and I went back to Beirut, Lebanon, and I lived in Shuaifet, which is an area on the outskirts of Beirut, between Ha'i Islum and Beirut, and, uh,


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[Assistant] I grew up over there and I was in the remnants of a war, bro. Like, so uhm, my childhood is a lot different from all the rappers that you, that you have had come up here, period. I don't think anybody has had a similar childhood to mine except like when I came back to America I was already 15 but that between 9 and 15 years old,


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[Assistant] Uh, I had two hours of electricity a day. Uhm, I mean little simple things bro, like there was just...


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[Assistant] It just, we didn't have what we have now, uhm, I was just, you know, I found hip hop because it was just a form of escaping and, uh, it was, I was an angry kid, I was fucking, I was causing so much problems and I was like a fucking pyro, I was an arsonist, I was doing all this fucked up shit and I found my escape through like,


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[Assistant] Through rapping, because I was always competitive, but as soon as I started listening to rap shit, you know what I'm saying, I wasn't.


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[Assistant] Like, oh yeaah, let's make music. I was kind of on some like...


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[Assistant] I started writing bars, right? None of it was internal, it was all external, it was all, you look like you, you, you, fuck you, fuck that, fuck everyone that's with you. Everything that I wrote was like an antagonist point of view, you know what I'm saying? So like, I started, and this is some crazy shit, I started thinking like, damn, I wish there was something


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[Assistant] That exists like this that I can be part of. Then I found out about like, battling.


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[Assistant] Even seeing a CD was like, yo, this fool got a CD. Like everything was like, you had to wait for somebody to come back from like America at the time. Cause they still didn't have like, they opened up a Virgin later and all this shit. But in the beginning,


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[Assistant] Like it was crazy, so my homie, upstairs, we had a Sudanese who's a real African American because he was Sudanese but he lived in America, but he spoke fluent Arabic, Lebanese to me.


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[Assistant] Like because Sudanese, they speak Arabic, but his accent was even like from Beirut. So it was like, we had this crazy thing.


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[Assistant] And he automatically shouts out to Ibrahim Hashimat, man. Uh, we, we, we like, he started giving me these CDs, DMX and Onyx and all this shit. Like, so Onyx was the first real motherfuckers I listened to to bring you back why I yell so much and all that. So I started listening to just like.


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[Assistant] Angry rap and just antagonist shit and I just fell into the fucking battle shit so hard.


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[Assistant] That I never escaped it and never gave a fuck about anything else. Everyone's like, oh, don't you want to make music? I would like make music here and there, but it never would fulfill me like just crushing somebody. And it was just a feeling that I just...


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[Assistant] I'm telling you, and like, it got to a point where we were like, what the fuck is this? People were like, what's a battle rapper, right? And then that's when 8 Mile came out, and it changed everything in 2003. Yeah, well, in 2003, there was at least three or four years there of, like, what's a


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[Assistant] Rap always comes from a inner struggle or an outer struggle. And for me, it was just everything around me. And I was just a really fucked up kid that hip hop was the only thing that could balance me, bro. It kept me out of all, like all the trouble that I was getting into. I probably should have died.


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[Assistant] I think I always attribute it to the pen. I just stayed at home writing. The past fucking 20 years I've been at home writing.


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[Assistant] No, okay, so I had came back to America by the year, uh, 2000 or 90, late 99, 2000, I had came back and...


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[Assistant] I had forced my parents to bring me here because I was telling them I was going to play soccer and get a scholarship and I immediately bailed on that.


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[Assistant] I don't know if this was pre-8 mile or after, but I was at like a Snoop video shoot and I ripped badass apart and like he just started throwing money around. I was embarrassing him and Warren G was watching the shit. I was young bro, but like there was nothing. It was like ciphers. You would catch people battling. You would come at them and like whoever.


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[Assistant] Whoever, uhm, I got it, nevermind, I'm trippin'. Fuckin' base head right now. Alright, so uhm, so like whoever would be there at the time, like that's, that's who we're boutta be lookin' at.


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[Assistant] That's who you would be battling. Like there wasn't a set up thing. There wasn't a career thing over it. There wasn't a writing. You couldn't know who you were going to battle. There was no.


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[Assistant] It was a real thing, bro, and you had to go till someone stopped. You couldn't even just be like, yo, yo, here's a minute. I'm done. Like how battlers do today. They made it easy. They made a cookie cutter. Now anybody could be a battler. They memorize a minute. I can put you in a battle tomorrow and you'll be incredible. I'll make you memorize.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I don't know. Uh, I know I started going to house parties. That's how it became like the most official it could be was when these house parties, when the DJ would like cut them, but in the beginning we were battling on beats. Like it wasn't a lot of acapella.


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[Assistant] Either cut the music or throw on an instrumento and everybody in the party would just move for that, for that 15-20 minutes these house parties with kegs in them would turn into a quick fucking hilarious rap battle and that's where I started doing this shit. Once this bitch came out to shut down a party in Chatsworth,


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[Assistant] It pisses me off, no, I don't care, like honestly at this point my skin's so thick I don't give a fuck, but it pisses me off when people say it's good enough or better than my unique shit, cause I'm always writing original shit and I find it that everybody I battle just says simple shit that the crowd can relate to and everyone's like, you lost.


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[Assistant] Especially because like it changed now, like for a period of time, the battle scene was more like Wu-Tangy and more about the lyrics and like the big L.


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[Assistant] Big, big pun type of people. Now they're like literally like.


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[Assistant] Soldier boy type of stuff, like, and that's no disrespect, but I'm just saying, like, it's just, the same people now that fuck with battle rap, now like swagged out shit. They like cadence. Aura. Vibes. What's the vibe like? Like, oh, I like the vibe. I ain't tripping on what he's saying.


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[Assistant] I don't give a fuck what he's saying, the vibe is right. Like for me, I think it should be an even balance, but I don't think the words should ever be sacrificed. I don't care what your vibe is like.


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[Assistant] That's cool, you, you, you got, you know, go do a track with the Migos or some shit, but like that don't, I don't feel like a battle should be judged on that main lead, but I do think it is a, it's a really important part, your character, you know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] Imma be honest with you, I think they're actually good, and I'm like one of these people that, even though I'm a very hardcore lyricist, I've killed people like cannabis, I've, you know, I, people know me as that guy, like, that really takes the shit serious, and they expect me to be like, oh, mumble rap, fuck all these guys. Right.


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[Assistant] Ah, it doesn't work like that because a lot of these guys, their voice is like instruments. Like you gotta, you can't judge them like a trippy red type of dude. Right.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I don't sit there and look at Trippie Redd and I'm like...


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[Assistant] Like, no fucking, like, it's, it's a different thing. He's an artist. You know what I'm saying? Like, my whole thing is, I think people would get along more if they created like two separate genres for real, but there must be some type of white people at the top not allowing that.


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[Assistant] To be a battle rapper I think is the only thing that I don't think anybody could do and I think, uh, you know, Cassidy tried and...


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[Assistant] Because like, you know, these fools, I think like, because we are those lyricists, like, certain people really like pay attention to what we say and they get mad about shit. Because our opinions really matter. So like, Joe Budden will chime in if I'm dissing him, you know what I'm saying? Like, but I think...


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[Assistant] Regardless of all that, that dude's a solid person, but his battle thing, what wasn't solid about him is thinking he was just, yeah, I'm just going to walk in here. Like he just kept on playing this off. Like it was a walk in the park for him. And like that, like that for us, all of us watching it was like, all right, man, like first of all,


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[Assistant] Him and C- Cassidy had similar things to where they like nurtured the environment around them, like that was stoned by Shady Records. Hollow was going up against the whole fucking Shady-


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[Assistant] You know what I'm saying? Like Joe Bunn is there, like daddy's taking care of him almost. You could say like that's their, their throwing the event, right? You know what I'm saying? That's different than just stepping into a fucking pit. This is why I respect cannabis, bro.


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[Assistant] Cannabis no one could take from him, that he came in there, he had a couple of bodyguards or whatever, and that's what you're supposed to do.


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[Assistant] But like, he had no control. He gave the control to the grassroots movement. He left it in the hands of the fans and everybody else. And that's why nobody could, you know, I feel like Cassidy and Joe Budden, they kind of, they brought the industry with them, you know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] I guess that depends on your character, right? Because I get mad all the time, but it's fake. Right. Like I'm not really mad. Sometimes I've had people say, look, he's out of character, but they don't understand. No battle rappers ever really pissed me off.


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[Assistant] That's a good observation, because at the end of the day, and shouts out to Dumbfounded by the way, he probably got a lot of fans watching this, uhm, you should definitely do an interview with him too, and a couple of others we're gonna mention. Uhm, I think Dumbfounded, uhm,


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[Assistant] He's a very dangerous, humorous guy. He's a guy from LA that I grew up. He's been my rival. I battled him the first time in 06, bro. A lot of these guys weren't even rappers. Like we were out here warring. You know what I'm saying? Like me, like this is the thing too. There's a difference. A lot of us battle rappers, we're not overnight people. You can't just be like somebody gave us our job or,


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[Assistant] Oh, I met so-and-so agent that gave me this hookup, or I met this guy. Like, we really put in the work throughout our whole life so our fanbase will never be taken from us, the solid one. And Dumbfounded has that and has built that out there. So my point is of this, he's so funny that just him catering to them in a battle with me would annihilate me.


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[Assistant] And I knew it because I'm too serious. So there has, there was a part of me that was like, yo, I'm turning into a monk for this battle.


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[Assistant] You know, even though he's Korean, but like, I just think, I just, you know, whatever. I mean, I'm playing to a lot of people's ignorance too, like, a lot of the stuff I was saying, like, where I was like, uhm.


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[Assistant] I came all the way from the land of the rising sun, like when I started it. And I was like, I was woken up every morning to your dad banging on the side of a giant drum. And every morning he made us stand in line and synchronize our hums. And instead of the Bible, I mean, they told us about how our life begun. And instead of the Bible, we were reading scriptures out of the book of street fighter one. So it was, it's like.


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[Assistant] And that's another thing is my, my jokes, like my, my racial jokes too, my cultural jokes, they're all like extremely humorous and they have a lot of-


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[Assistant] Yeah, but it's like, it's like people know too, like they love this shit. Like the people, some people they get offended because they don't have like...


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[Assistant] Not used to it. And I, I, I, I feel for those people, but they have to understand we're building each other. We're not tearing each other down.


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[Assistant] Us and Asians, Arabs and Asians, I think, have it the fucking worst in battle round. Like, I mean, there's never been a battle where people didn't bring it up to me, and if they did, you know, maybe a couple times they didn't. But almost every battle.


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[Assistant] Well, here's the thing, I think when you're in, when it's a culture,


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[Assistant] Gotta have respect for the culture too, I think, uhm, I think as fucked up as this to say, I think...


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[Assistant] I think like making black folks, like making black jokes, jokes about black folks is probably the most corniest shit you could do in a battle and it's the only reason why is because there's so much...


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[Assistant] There's so much shit that comes with that. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like you, you don't want to sound like other people that really mean some other shit. You know what I'm saying? There's so much shit that comes with it. There's so much sensitive topics, especially in this country that has slavery and all types of fucking shit tied into it. I don't think...


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[Assistant] Unless it's like, supposed to be some really funny shit that's humorous, I don't really enjoy those just because whenever there's realness attached to something, I don't like it. As long as it's funny. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, if you tell a dude like,


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[Assistant] You're so black, I bet you have a perfectly organized shoe rack.


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[Assistant] Like a white guy will be like, you're so black you look like nighttime.


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[Assistant] It's like, yo, you a cornball, you know what I'm saying? And it's the same for Asians, though. I hate people that go, yo, you eat dogs and cats. Like, where the fuck is the punchline? This is what you say. Could you imagine what's inside his kitchen? Spicy chicken? Brian Griffin?


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[Assistant] Also be able to poke fun at yourself. Like, I love like when people are like, you're so Arab, da da da da. As long as I know it's not coming from a place where you might possibly mean something else.


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[Assistant] Which has happened with certain rappers and I have to ignore it. Like, it's like, I know you probably feel, cause when somebody tells me, yo, you, uh, poo, work at 7-Eleven, first of all, you're disrespectful to Indians and just every, like, people from Bangladesh and Pakistan and just, you just fucked everyone off, and me, and like,


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[Assistant] You know what I'm saying? Like, I just, I like it when somebody will tell me some real shit about like what I am and they're like, nah, this, you know what I'm saying? Like, and they really...


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[Assistant] Like some, some lines are amazing, bro. I battled a blind guy in Australia, and I said some-


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[Assistant] You know what I'm saying? Shots out the man as I fucking love him. You know, he told me after the battle, he's like, if you would've...


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[Assistant] If you would have pitied me because there's a lot of people that battle him and they're like...


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[Assistant] Dancing around the topic and even though you're blind, I still one of a kind. Like they're trying to be all fucking sentimental and shit and come up with all these angles.


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[Assistant] He literally came up to me, he's like, I fucking love you. Like, you really made me feel like an equal competitor. Cause I treated him like a fucking insane motherfucker. I didn't treat him like he had a handicap. You know what I'm saying? Right. Uhm, one of the lines he told me though, so I don't stray off was, he said a crazy line to me. He said,


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[Assistant] I'm trying not to butcher it, but it was like, even though I'm blind, and he said, he said something like, he said, you're Muslim, I'm blind and I'm Christian. So he said, does it matter our religion? Cause he said, you're Muslim and I'm a blind Christian. So neither one of us could see our women. Like that shit was like, I looked at him, I'm like,


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[Assistant] Uh, my, my debut was beating the world champion when I, when I came, cause like, what happened was, so I'm gonna give you a little brief history, like Battle Rap.


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[Assistant] Was in the streets of New York, you know what I'm saying? It was a prevalent thing out there. People were fucking really doing it, like, on the corners, but there was no structure to it. And it ended up, like, kind of dying out because there was no real...


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[Assistant] As a whole, there's a hip hop thing, so it stayed alive everywhere else, see what I'm saying? In 2008, uhm,


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[Assistant] A league called Grind Time popped up. Right. This is a national league.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and done on a serious level with all main fucking battle rappers. And, and the World Rap Championships had just happened two years before that, and the winners, Thesaurus and Immaculate, shouts out to them too, they, they won the $50,000 prize, which was like the most that was given to battle rappers at the time. That's a lot of money, you know what I'm saying? They give them 50 racks. So they were both the champions together though.


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[Assistant] So when this league started, Lush won.


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[Assistant] Shouts out to Lush, who pretty much was the main guy on the west coast putting on, on, on these battles, called me and was like, yo, we're putting you up against him. And this was my first introduction. I came in and I beat him, you know what I'm saying? And I think that's what, like, immediately people were like, oh, holy shit, there's a new fucking crazy guy. And let me explain something. Everybody rapped in a certain way.


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[Assistant] Uh, one, one thing nobody could take from me is I'm a pioneer in my own style, you know what I'm saying? Everybody rapped. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Very formally, 4 bars, 4 bars, 16 or 8s, you know what I'm saying? And I came in rapid fire multisyllabics with like 3s, 7s, 9s, 11s, 13s and 17s and shit that they couldn't even...