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[Assistant] No, you are not. Interesting. One lady said that she'd seen me in a film and then she said,


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[Assistant] That'll obviously be the most interesting story because he could easily go number one if Chicago hangs onto that pick.


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[Assistant] Uh, other than that, it was probably just the pure speed. We had 10 guys yesterday run a sub 4-5-40. Just to give you a little bit of comparison.


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[Assistant] So it is a fast group when you have a 38-35 Super Bowl, you are going to need to find some fast guys that can stop the fast guys on the other side of the football. And so that will continue on with the defensive backs today at three o'clock Eastern on NFL Network.


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[Assistant] I think they have to fix that defensive line. I know one guy, Myles Garrett. He's good. We're fine with him.


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[Assistant] Other than that, there's not a lot that we can depend on. I thought Isaiah Thomas, you know, he had a really good camp and then got a little dinged up. Uh, and I think he'll have a chance to participate in that, in that rotation as well this year.


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[Assistant] Uh, and Malik Jackson an and guys like that. Well, a year ago and it really c were games where there wer in the middle. Uh, there w guys who participated yest who were here in Indy but like a guy like Mazzie smi athlete out of michigan. Th


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[Assistant] You'll notice that the w when Daniel Jeremiah, our talks about this class, h as deep as it's been. Um, that I think that that ar


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[Assistant] I mean, really, you know, they're different players. They've been through, you know, Renfro can barely stay on the field at times.


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[Assistant] the dinged up phase. That's what always happened, whether it was New Orleans or New England or LA and then Houston, he couldn't stay on the field. It felt like he was there last year. I know that they had a little bit of an issue with


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[Assistant] It was an odd season for him, wasn't it? You know, we saw him get hurt in that first game and then he just never really got back into it and he's still considered.


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[Assistant] A high end first round pick. In fact, might even be the first receiver off the board. Depending on how things shake out.


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[Assistant] So it'll be nice to just see him out here and catching passes again. Uh, cause he is, he's a talented kid, but I don't think.


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[Assistant] I don't think you ever sit here and judge a kid based on what they do, what they don't do here. Uh, they still have other opportunities that they're pro days and things like that. So they do, they do take care of business when they have to.


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[Assistant] You know, it felt really kinda like a half against Washington and that was about it. There was too much.


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[Assistant] Uhm, one read backpedal run to the right. It was a lot of what Baker did when he wasn't very good. Uhm, with all that being said,


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[Assistant] And then in 2017 he played in an MVP level, and then he got hurt, and then he never really got it back.


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[Assistant] The fact is, if that guy does not get back to being a top eight quarterback, then all of this is null and void. That's just being honest. It doesn't matter. When you have spent that much draft capital and that much financially on a guy, now where he's eating up $55 million a year in cap space, if he is not elite,


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[Assistant] He can't just be okay. He's gotta be elite. Agreed. Or we're gonna be sitting here at the draft next year without a first round pick and wondering how the hell do we fix this thing? It can't just be good.


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[Assistant] You can argue both, my point is, Jay, you can argue both sides of this coin is that the Browns were 7 and 10 a year ago and had several games where we went, wow, that was really Cleveland of us. You know, like, so.


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[Assistant] Listen, I think Kevin Stefansky can really coach offense. I'd never, I've watched a lot of Jacoby Percent starts before this year because it's my job. He never looked as good as he did this year. Never.


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[Assistant] The draft is so vital for a team like the Browns.


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[Assistant] Uh, Karloftas, both first round picks.


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[Assistant] I am most concerned about, uh, Oscar Gonzalez. The swing is long.


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[Assistant] I think I'm most, uhm, confident in Stephen Kwan. And I know that the, the baseball...


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[Assistant] Sabermetricians don't love it because he doesn't have, uh, a great exit below off the bat and things of that nature and they feel like a lot of his hits are lucky, that's what they're qualified as. But man, in a year where there's no shift now,


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[Assistant] He feels like he's using a tennis racket out there sometimes. With his ability to put the ball wherever he wants on a diamond, which is hard as hell to do.


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[Assistant] But I just think that he's got some sort of innate ability, something special about him that can do it. Uhm, I do expect this to be very much in it in September. It doesn't mean that I think we're definitely


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[Assistant] A little bit, not only just bringing back Correa, but, uh, you know, Vasquez, they added behind the plate. Uhm, they made a couple of pitching moves that I think will help them.


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[Assistant] Hammered us. And he was the guy the last seven or eight years. And, uh, I'm just happy he's in Houston.


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[Assistant] You know, some of my favorites, like I've become really good friends with the guy named Will Bales, who's the builder of Hyper Shock. Last night, he got launched about 15 feet in the air by a former champion called Endgame. You know, and he's...


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[Assistant] That sounds like a, uh, that sounds like a stripper bot.


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[Assistant] I apologize, but you know, he was a great player. That's fine with me. I would take his, I think he signed like a four year, $66 million deal with the Cubs. So maybe that's what my agent was calling me about. Good luck.


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[Assistant] I didn't know a damn thing about it so I'm auditioning for it.


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[Assistant] And uhm, I'm watching some clips on YouTube, just like Jay's doing right now.


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[Assistant] It's a summer replacement on ABC. It did pretty well at the time. His buddies loved the show. They all watched it together. And I remember walking into his room one day and I said, you're welcome. You're finally not a loser.


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[Assistant] March 6th. Oh, March 6th. Is the likely date. Okay. I'll make a full announcement.


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[Assistant] Is 500 free? You gotta get there. Pretty much, right? You gotta get there, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Alright, here we go. Appropriately at camp. Taking Kent State minus three. Add a boy. Add a boy. Can't name a player on either team, but I do know this. Kent State is covered.


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[Assistant] When they've been favored by single digits, they've covered nine in a row. Wow.


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[Assistant] Coming off a loss, you know, they're a decent team and they are at home, but Kent State is as good as anybody in the conference. They're playing really, really well. And like I said, when they've been a favorite, they've covered almost every time, unless it's been a huge line. So only three even on the road. I'll go with Kent State. Trying to move to five and one now. Yes.


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[Assistant] For the non-Brown players, I looked at, and I know the Bengals players, but for the Ravens and Steelers, I looked at PFF grades for just, just the off, just the offensive line. But the skill position players, you know.


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[Assistant] No. No. No. No. I don't think so. And he was not a good defensive player.


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[Assistant] I was shocked only because you rarely see coaches get fired, assistant, like coordinators get fired at this time of the year unless there's a new head coach coming in and he wants to bring his guys.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Usually they get fired when Joe Woods got fired. So I was surprised, although I did hear from someone, might have been Jason, I don't know, uh, that maybe they weren't completely, was it you that said they weren't completely sold on Priefer, but they decided to stick with him, but clearly obviously we'll get the Ray Ventrone. Right. You know, with the Colts having a new coach.


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[Assistant] Five special teams in the league last year.


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[Assistant] The Browns had five open spots, I think, right?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'd have to look at the tree. Gee, what do you think about the special theme situation?


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[Assistant] But it's not just at play. It's not just at play. The Brown special team sucked the whole time he was here. They drafted this kicker. Everybody said he was going to be the next great kicker. He wasn't very good as a rookie.


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[Assistant] And whether you, whether that's his fault or not, the bottom line is everything that happens to those special teams goes on you. Yeah, it does, but I don't know that I've, I don't know that.


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[Assistant] Well maybe the reason they didn't do it sooner was because they had Ray Ventrone targeted maybe the whole time.


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[Assistant] And so maybe they were like, listen, let's not do this right now in case Ventrone doesn't become available. We don't want to rush and hire somebody else that we don't, we like Ventrone more. Who knows? In the end, it doesn't matter because in the end they made the change and they got a guy that we all like better, so.


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[Assistant] Look at, uh, look at, uh, the Browns actually being, uh, in theory a team that, uh, somebody wanted, chose over another team for an equal position. That doesn't happen very often.


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[Assistant] It's so weird with all the money spent in the NFL that every team doesn't have that.


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[Assistant] We talked about this with Jay Son, who's a track coach, yesterday, and it's like, I was asking, I think it was off the air. Yea, it was.


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[Assistant] I was like, cause see, your son works with the high jumpers, but he's not doing shot put, because that's not his thing. He doesn't know that.


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[Assistant] A lot of people have brought up he had some troubles off the field, which I had forgotten about honestly, and maybe that fact was in. But there's been other head coaches that have had troubles off the field that have gotten jobs. So I don't know, a lot of people say he's interviewed bad.


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[Assistant] I think he's in a tricky spot to succeed when he has no quarter. But I do think it's interesting that Matt Nagy, who was the offensive coordinator before him,


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[Assistant] Got a job right away, didn't do well. He's the OC again with the Chiefs. Right, crazy. So I'll be curious at the end of this year, if the Chiefs offense is good again, does Matt Nagy get a second job?


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[Assistant] All band. Uh, Sean McCoy's got heat attacks.


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[Assistant] The reality is, we often judge whether a guy is going to be, I don't know if Eric Bienem is going to be a good head coach or not, we often judge whether a guy is going to be a good head coach based on their success or their perceived success as an offensive coordinator or defensive quarter, which in reality is not necessarily an indicator for being a good head coach.


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[Assistant] Joe Mixon is probably the second best back in the league. That would be my guy. But... Naji is not that far behind. I went with Naji over Mixon, but it was close. But I'll tell you, an interesting guy, uh, who, who, who nobody's going to mention because he's not a prolific runner.


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[Assistant] P-Ryne. P-Ryne. Yeah, I knew you'd say him. Because he's a great, great...


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[Assistant] Uh, let me just think about it for a minute. So our choices are between, we've got Deontay Johnson, we've got the kid, what's his name with the Steelers? George Pickens. George Pickens.


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[Assistant] Well yeaah, right, but. So speaking of the tight end, Andrews is the starter.


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[Assistant] The problem in this, in this division,


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[Assistant] The weakest position in this division is tackle. They really are not good. The Browns tackles are average or below. The Bengals tackles are average or below. And the Steelers tackles are average or below. Ronnie Stanley and, uh...


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[Assistant] Is pretty good, but he didn't have a very good year according to PFF. Oh, he didn't? And their other tackle, whose name is now escaping me. Morgan Moses. He actually had a pretty good year, so I'd probably put, like, there's probably, there are like five good guards. We might be better off starting some of the guards. Okay, go with the other guard slot. Who else do you want?


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[Assistant] I'd go with Wyatt Teller at right tackle, but, um, Kevin Zeitler of the Ravens and Alex Cappa of the Bengals.


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[Assistant] Both really good as well. But I would start Teller, and I would start Antonio at guard.


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[Assistant] I know he was a Pro Bowl. He was hurt. He still had the second or third highest PFF grade of guards in this division. Did he? Really? Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Uh, he did take a step back. I would, I would. But I'm not basing it only on last year. Right. You gotta base it, you know, I mean, you base it on what you want. I'm basing it on last year.


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[Assistant] So let's give him the benefit of the doubt. What I would do is have Teller and Petonio at the guards. I'd have Tyler Lindabombe, the, I think he's either a rookie or a second year guy with the Ravens Center. I'd go with, I'd go with, uh, what's his name? Morgan Moses or the other guy. Stanley. Stanley at one tackle.


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[Assistant] And maybe go with both of those guys to tackle. Maybe take Alex Capper. The Bengals was a really good guard and put him at right tackle.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but he played the whole season, didn't he?


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[Assistant] I just, I'll take the sixth guy who's in his second year in the league.


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[Assistant] What was Linderbong's run blocking grade? 84.2. It was pretty good. Okay, you wanna go with him?


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[Assistant] No, uh, Kappa... But they have the best skill position, top to bottom. Kappa was the only really good player on their line, and he's not as good as Teller and Betonio.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that, that's why I received her. The rest of their line is not, is just mediocre. Right, so I think that, that's our team. That wraps up the, uh, the exercise. I wonder how that would compare against other teams and other divisions.


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[Assistant] See, you use them with convenience. And no, I've always said that. For me, PFF grades are from positions that don't have stats. That's what I, that's how I personally look at it.


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[Assistant] Fryermuth and... Nadji. Deontay Johnson. Oh, Deontay Johnson.


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[Assistant] So four bangles, uh, four bangles and four browns, I think, right now.


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[Assistant] Well, I'm starting, I finally had to go through this rigmarole to get, there's a new medication out. It's very expensive, so you hope to get coverage from you, and fortunately it's been covered by my health insurance. So I'm finally getting it today, and I'm meeting with, shout out to Dr. Jake May.


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[Assistant] He's a big Cleveland sports fan. He's my new dietitian. He's developing a diet plan which I'm meeting with him today. A specific diet plan that he's making just for me. It's not like Weight Watchers where one size fits all.


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[Assistant] It's very hard. You need an agent. I, I, I do. Uh, I fired my agent a few years ago, who I had briefly, did nothing for me.


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[Assistant] Uh, but I, I'm, I'm trying again. I'm getting back on the horse. You make all the fat jokes you want. It's okay. I have diet and failed, but this is, he's tailoring. I've never been on, in a situation where somebody tailored a weight loss program specifically for me and my needs and it wasn't all one size. Calories all, all predetermined.


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[Assistant] I don't know all the details yet, to be honest. I'm meeting with him today. Well, good luck with it. But he is... Keep us posted. We're pulling for you, brother. We are pulling for you.


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[Assistant] He was like our utility running back because he's a real good, you know, blitz pickup guy and utility guy that does a little of everything.


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[Assistant] Uh, the rest of us took Lamar. Well, who would you, you would go with Tashaun?


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[Assistant] Well, cause I thought, first of all, like,


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[Assistant] Because Sean played so bad at the end of last year and hasn't played, hasn't played at a high level in two years, I gotta see it. Even though I don't think, to be fair, I don't think Lamar played at a particularly high level this year either. However, I'm thinking of it from a team perspective, and I could, I could run gadget plays with Lamar as my second quarterback. I'm thinking of it that way too.


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[Assistant] And I said, I said I might put Tyler Boyd in there instead of Deontay because if I'm making a team again, Tyler Boyd is a slot receiver. Deontay's not really.


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[Assistant] Who they're bringing back. So that's good. Bringing back the OC.


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[Assistant] I think, I think maybe Alex Kappa had a better year than Wyatt Teller or, or maybe you put Alex Kappa at one of the tackle spots because I think he could play any position.


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[Assistant] Get back to the, to the football for a minute. I mean, I'm curious because today, like we wanted, especially G and I, we've been saying like pre for socks, got to get rid of them, but they fired Joe Woods right after the season. And now what? Two months later, almost month and a half later.


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[Assistant] They fire, pre-fir, and it looks like they're gonna try to steal Ray Ventrone, former Browns player from the Colts. Were you surprised when you heard they fired him today?


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[Assistant] What's that? John Harbaugh. Well, it's very easy. I mean, honestly, no offense to Stefanski, but I think you got, at this point, you'd have to go Harbaugh head coach, Zach Taylor offensive coordinator, and Mike Tomlin defensive coordinator, no?


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[Assistant] Because, first of all, I'm smarter than most football people. Naturally smart.


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[Assistant] By the way, yesterday, shout out to our man Earl, who did a show filling my old time slot on the fan. I couldn't listen to that, I tried. I actually forgot, and then I went back and listened to the first, uh, hour and a half of the show.


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[Assistant] The reason I bring it up now, beyond saying good for Earl for getting that good opportunity and he did a great job, but also one of the things I talked about that I thought he was really good at, one of his major strengths is his pacing. He had great pacing.


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[Assistant] Unlike Mike, when doing the PCC read, who had terrible pain. He went, he blew through it. That was breaking.


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[Assistant] I actually think of the foul ball he hit that would have won the World Series. Even though when you look at the replay, it's not really close, but in the moment,


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[Assistant] Off the bat, everybody said, that's it. Yes. And Jason Kipnis was just a popular teammate, a fun guy, a nice guy, he was always good in interviews, and he was a good player. You know, it's almost like


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[Assistant] But the problem is, I'm sure a lot of people, a lot of the Cubs fans that had tickets for that game bought them from ticket brokers and people like that that don't care about those things. But to buy them, we had to sell them. Well no, but ticket brokers should buy season tickets.


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[Assistant] What's the point of being a season ticket holder if you're not going to go to Game 7 of the World Series?


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[Assistant] Absolutely. Absolutely. And the Cubs, and the Cubs like the Browns, but even more so, are a national team.


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[Assistant] It's substantial. Yeaah. So. That's why I like it too. I toast it. But I like it toasted because I like the mix of the cold cuts, the cold, cold cuts and the warm bread. He got that. That's right. So I get there. I don't use, I don't use any dressings or.


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[Assistant] Boar's head deluxe ham, boar's head, by the way, shout out to Lake Road Market and Rocky River, one of the few places you can get boar's head cold cuts. Boar's head cold cuts are better than any other cold cuts. Boar's head is top.


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[Assistant] No, you gotta finish it. No, what I was gonna say is that, like, generally, I find people here are too passive. Okay?


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[Assistant] Yes, and nobody complains when their food's bad in a restaurant. That's why there's two like really famous restaurants in Rocky River and Lakewood that are trash and everybody loves them. I'm not going to say what they are because I don't want to ruin their business. I don't know that it would, but whatever. They're trash. Everybody's like, that's great because nobody sends food back. Whenever I send food back, people look at me like I'm crazy.


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[Assistant] I'm paying for good food. If it's crap, I'm not gonna eat it. I send it back. I'm not gonna be passive.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I lead it. I love the corned beef. But here's the problem. Here's why corned beef can't be won.


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[Assistant] Because there's only a few places that make good corned beef.


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[Assistant] Most places corned beef sucks. Or a lot of places don't have it. Where a lot of those other sandwiches, there's a lot more places that you can get it.


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[Assistant] I'll tell you something else you're missing. If you're going to put a chicken parm in there, how about a little meatball?


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[Assistant] Wait, remember the Secret Saturdays? It was a short-lived animated series on Cartoon Network about a family of scientists chasing mystical relics and mythological creatures and cryptids all across the world. All while playing homage to classic Hanna-Barbera animated adventure cartoons like Johnny Quest and Shazan.


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[Assistant] That movie doesn't even exist! But seriously, The Secret Saturdays may just be an underrated gem on the good old CN. It may not have had longevity, but it did have its own unique vibe, blending the older style of storytelling and episode structure with newer animation techniques allowing for something totally different.


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[Assistant] Having fresh takes on classic situations. So on a classic Jordan Fringe way, we're going on our own adventure to take a look at The Secret Saturdays.


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[Assistant] You know, aside from the name of the Secret Saturdays, it's no secret that Saturday mornings were legendary. When I was a kid, they were the most important days that you'd wake up early, get your favorite cereal, and watch your favorite cartoons. It was literally...


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[Assistant] Unbeatable. The first thing that captured my attention with the show was that exact Saturday morning vibe. I mean, it wears its influences on its sleeves. It's clear as day. There's the classic, sometimes campy, sometimes wholesome dynamic to the show that from the jump makes it feel welcoming.


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[Assistant] This Family of Scientists connection is very well done, and a nice change of pace from many other drama filled action cartoons around the same time it came out. On the surface, it's a cartoon.


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[Assistant] But it's a cartoon that doesn't talk down to its audience. It never really straddles a line of too harmless or too dark. It knows exactly the tone it wanted to go for and it stuck with it. But just, who is the Saturday scientist family made up of? First, there's Zack, voiced by Sam Lerner.


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[Assistant] Wait, wait, wait, we'll get on to that later on, just relax. With the relationship dynamic Doc and Drew have, it would have been cool to see a show or something based on their adventures alone, and sorry Zach, it's really nothing personal. Zach does have an adopted brother, except he's a cryptid who is based on the real Fiskerton Phantom.


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[Assistant] Aw, he just wanted to say hello. Described as a gorilla cat, he simply goes by Fiskerton. Oh.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he has another adopted brother, well, technically not a cryptid, his name is Komodo. He's a Komodo dragon, but he's genetically altered. Then there's Zan, the adopted sister to Zack and a fairly accurate Ornithochirus, which is a pterosaur, and as a big dinosaur fan, Zan's the coolest, and I don't care.


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[Assistant] What you gotta say about it? The formula the show mixes together creates a show that follows this family who are the members of the secret scientists. Yes, they're not so secret if I know about them. They are a global organization who study and keep safe the deemed dangerous sciences out there not known by the general masses. The Saturdays specifically are tasked with protecting and learning all about the cryptids that hide amongst us as they travel the world in their flying air base. But what's a Saturday morning cartoon without its campy fun villain, right?


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[Assistant] This fella exudes theatrics and elevates his intelligence with style and finesse. Looking at him, yeah, my first thoughts were totally, who is this Tales from the Crip looking dude?


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[Assistant] Funny enough, he is a TV host, so that checks out. This in-show show is Vivi Argas' weird world. Outside of that, he's initially after the pieces of the Curse Stone, a Sumerian artifact that can lead to a very dangerous and powerful cryptid. Hmm, I wonder who that could be. Overall, he's a fun antagonist with a great character design.


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[Assistant] Voiced by Wilfredo, we start off knowing him as this villain character originally, but hey,


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[Assistant] It has this incredibly fun, extra level of style. And with all these designs and looks, it feels bold and ripped right out of the pages of a comic book. And I'm a sucker for unique, thickly coated styles. This show is drenched in it. I also really love that the show is based off a lot of items and relics on real mythologies. The episode Black Monday leans entirely on Aztec mythology. The smoke mirror of Tazkitlipoca brings evil doppelgangers of the Saturday family who come from a literal dark world.


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[Assistant] Anti-matter, but we'll save that for later. Or even take a look at Drew's Tibetan Fire Sword. This level of thought made the show not only a fun ride, but can be a jumping pad into learning about some awesome real world lore.


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[Assistant] The show was created by Canadian cartoonist Jay Stevens. You may have seen his other work before with Tuttenstein.


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[Assistant] Something I would love to look at covering in the future. And you may recognize his other animated shorts for Jet Cat during the show Kablam on Nickelodeon. He's also known for his work on many comic book projects. Jet Cat Clubhouse, Sin, and Atomic City Tales. Also working on licensed properties like Alien, Teen Titans, and Star Wars, just to name a few. And currently, Jay is working on his new project,


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[Assistant] His inspirations for it and more. It's legit some very well edited and put together content, so if you're a big fan of the Secret Saturdays, I suggest looking into Jay's other and newer work as well. Stevens. Pitched the idea of this show, which originally was going by the name


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[Assistant] Which, sure, it's fitting, but the concept as well was different from the final product, following some experienced and knowledgeable cryptozoologists that were once cryptids themselves. The three cryptids used to be Megamouth, Occupy, and Komodo. They also had a human with them on these adventures around the world named Francis, with the goal of preserving the secrets and mysteries of these interesting creatures before they would either be attacked or revealed to the world by humans and or the big baddie, Mansur Dodo. Unfortunately, this idea wasn't landing


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[Assistant] One of those picked up was Generator Rex, which would come in 2010 from the actual Ben 10 creators. But the Secret Saturdays would be set to release in 2008. Originally, the name went from Cryptids to The Secret Adventures of Zack Saturday.


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[Assistant] Which clearly was changed one more time into what we know it as now. Specifically influenced by Hanna-Barbera and their line of action cartoons, the way the show looks comes from the inspiration of Alex Toth, an American cartoonist whose work spans from the 1940s to the 80s, with such work as Fantastic Four, Sealab 2020, Space Ghost, and more, with many of them becoming more adult-themed spin-offs that you've definitely seen in the middle of the night on Adult Swim. Along with this idea,


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[Assistant] They need the right sound to create the perfect vibe of the show, leading them to bringing in Michael Tavara, someone we've mentioned here many a times on the channel, as his work has touched so many classic cartoons we know and love today. Before the show would premiere, Cartoon Network wanted to properly roll out an ad campaign to capture people's attention. In July 2008, commercials would cryptically advertise Cryptidsareal.com.


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[Assistant] With each commercial featuring Xon, Fiskerton, or Komodo. The mystery would continue, with the website itself hiding documents that would slowly reveal parts that were blacked out, discussing different cryptids as well as our main cast of characters. A very fun way to promote the show and to farm genuine engagement so that the user feels a connection in working to uncover all the secrets. Blueprints, anagrams, and other mysteries made this website a fun game of figuring out just


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[Assistant] The booklets that were titled Weird World were handed out. And like I mentioned earlier, that's the fake show that Argos hosts within the Secret Saturdays. With the booklet posting on the back, the cryptids are a real website. Full on Weird World commercials were aired which felt like the mystery was moving forward and giving out new clues in turn building more and more hype.


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[Assistant] And the Secret Saturdays would officially premiere on Cartoon Network October 3rd, 2008, for a total of two seasons ending on January 30th, 2010, with a total of 36 episodes. Also, it was the first Cartoon Network original series to be broadcast in high definition.


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[Assistant] Season one is pretty focused on the Kerr stone and the powers of the Kerr, with a race between the Saturdays and Argos to reach Antarctica first, which is said to be the final resting place of Kerr. Of course, along this journey in season one, we deal with a bunch of cryptid adventures with a major point that will be brought back for in the second season dealing with an ancient mirror that holds in it the dimension purely made of antimatter. This leads to learning of the evil versions of the Saturdays in which they are called


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[Assistant] The Mondays. And would you assume that the opposite of Monday is Saturday? I mean, Saturdays are


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[Assistant] Great, don't get me wrong. And Mondays, well, they do suck. But I've always viewed Friday as more as the opposite of Monday. Anyway, I'm getting sidetracked. Moving on. I quickly want to bring up another character though. Abby Grey.


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[Assistant] She shows up to help out on a mission, but then turns around and betrays them in the next episode. But what's more interesting about her character is her relationship to the family.


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[Assistant] Essentially, she was Zack's babysitter in the comic, so there was a little extra layer of trust that they had with this character. Abby is just an interesting small side character that pops in here and there. But the end of season one leads to the revelations that the whole time, Zack is actually her.


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[Assistant] Season 2 gets pretty interesting with Zack, as Argos pleads a case to help him teach Zack how to use his powers. But of course, not for the right reasons. Also, he's revealed as a cryptid himself.


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[Assistant] The secret scientists turn on the whole Saturday family themselves and want to capture Zack so he doesn't become a threat to the whole planet. And Van Rock is also no longer a bad dude and works alongside Doyle. But for how long?


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[Assistant] But the whole planet becomes the battleground for a global war with Zack taking on Argos in a showdown using their individual incur abilities. Zack is too much for Argos to handle though, and he is now forced to retreat from that battle. Oh, after this, remember I just said not for long for good ol' Van Rock here? Welp.


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[Assistant] Argos then captures Zack in an attempt to drain his powers to have an unmatched curb power mixed with both Zack Mondays and Zack Saturdays. But I guess Argos here really isn't a scientist as combining matter and antimatter together results in


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[Assistant] From the throwback vibe to the characters journeys, it really is quite a fun ride. But there is a clear issue that is present in the second season compared to the first season, with that being how season 2 felt very rushed to get to the finish line.


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[Assistant] Season 1 had 26 of the 36 episodes to develop this story of learning that Zack is Kura reincarnated. We get time to learn about all the characters and see how the story develops, and Season 2, however, was less than half of the runtime with only 10 episodes. That start off with a 6 month time gap.


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[Assistant] Allowing so much stuff to happen off-screen rather than on. I guess the easiest way to put it is that Season 2 expands so much with little being fleshed out. The building mysteries in the first season bring a nice pace of being a part of the grander narrative, but Season 2 feels more spoon-fed.


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[Assistant] Leaving out the room for you to go along with the journey and rather just run through it. But can the show itself be blamed for doing this? Well,


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[Assistant] Not really. The story isn't bad, it just felt rushed. Which is due to how Cartoon Network handled the show, mixed with the lower ratings it was having. It was moved in schedule, put on hiatus as it was trying to build its audience, which resulted in less viewership and people not being able to catch the show when new episodes would premiere. At the same time, the toy line, the real moneymaker, was starting to pop out and make a presence,


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[Assistant] But if there was no show for people to connect to or even know about, why would someone buy the toys? So whatever factor above led to the 10 episode season 2, at least we got a wrapped up narrative that gave some closure to the show.


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[Assistant] A rarity in cases like this. Speaking of the extras outside of the show, Mattel was making the toy line of action figures, playsets, and more for The Secret Saturdays. Now, the sales of these, like we mentioned, weren't super great. Especially not for the hopes that Cartoon Network had. But there was even a little bit of controversy with the toys. Well,


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[Assistant] Remember that fire sword I mentioned way earlier in this video? Well, they made a toy of it that came with lights and sounds, but the toy was deemed too loud.


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[Assistant] Reaching a decibel level of 121. Well, at least they didn't make the claw with that awful sa- OH MY GOD NO!


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[Assistant] Probably the coolest thing they released based on the show was the Secret Saturday's Official Cryptid Field Guide Encyclopedia,


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[Assistant] Which will give you information on all the cryptids in the show, what they can do, where they would live, and more. Oh sick, free poster! There of course were other books released. Along with every other Cartoon Network property, The Secret Saturdays was featured in the DC Comics published Cartoon Network Action Pack comic book regularly. As far as video games, the standard fare of Cartoon Network flash games were around, like Code of the Cryptids, Cryptid Lab, and Hunt for the Curse Stone. We also saw Secret Saturday representation in TKO with battler skins, as well as a character


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[Assistant] Also, developed by High Voltage Software and First Playable Productions, The Secret Saturday's Beast of the Fifth Sun, a full-fledged video game, would release on the Nintendo DS and Wii, as well as the PlayStation 2 and PSP on October 20th, 2009. As far as any other media appearances of The Secret Saturday, we of course saw them in the OKKO Let's Be Heroes crossover Nexus event briefly, but more significantly, on October 5th, 2013, we got a special episode of Ben 10 Omniverse, titled TGIS, or


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[Assistant] Thank god it's Saturdays, wherein which we get to see the Saturdays return, albeit with a lot of changes, from their complete designs being redone, as well as none of the voice actors returned, except for Argos. While it was great to see these characters again, it certainly had a different feel.


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[Assistant] Ben does have a crush on Drew Saturday and I completely understand. The show also only ever received two DVD releases containing five episodes each and some cool bonus features that would show the animatics behind the scenes with both DVDs releasing in 2009.


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[Assistant] At least you can purchase each episode of the show on Amazon in standard definition. Though, for some reason, Amazon splits it into three seasons? Weird. Come on, HBO Max.


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[Assistant] The second season was a cool direction to take the show, having season 1 be about finding and then understanding the Kerr and its power, and then in season 2, ultimately leading to its destruction. There's a nice bit of duality there. But with how short this show ran and the longer time moves away from it, I just hope that the Secret Saturdays doesn't become a secret.


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[Assistant] But let me know your thoughts on The Secret Saturdays. Do you have fond memories of the show, or was it something you never checked out?


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[Assistant] Tell me in the comments. Thanks so much for watching. Make sure to hit the like button and subscribe for more content like this. Follow me on Twitter and I'll be back with another video soon, but until then, later.


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[Assistant] Congratulations, by the way. I got to see you, uh, at the Emmys that night. It was very good to see you, and you know, I assume you're aware, maybe you're not, that I love the show, uhm, to the point where it may become annoying to you.


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[Assistant] You do have one season left. You've shot the season already. Yes, we finished in July. You finished in July. It was the Emmy night, the first time you'd seen, like, Nikolai Kostor Waldo. Oh, that was another thing, with Nikolai Kostor Waldo. You said he's your brother from another brother. Oh yeaah.


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[Assistant] And immediately, online people are like, oh my goodness, Jamie Lannister and Tyrion are maybe they have a different mother and now we've learned this.


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[Assistant] When you were a kid, did you have a movie or TV show that you loved so much you were obsessively a fan of? Uhm.


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[Assistant] Yeah, in other words, it weren't the choices we had now. We were forced to watch PBS when we were children. Yeah. I love, uh...


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[Assistant] I feel like there are almost too many choices now. We're bombarded with everything. It's really hard to find an actor out of work right now.


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[Assistant] Hi, I'm Jimmy Kimmel and this is the internet. I made it myself. Hit subscribe if you like it.


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[Assistant] Really professionally, like, like a year and some change now.


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[Assistant] It kinda depends on what I got going. You know what I'm saying? As far as today, that's what I had going on. Some days I might be having to go do a concert. One day I might have to fly out that day. One day I might have to film for a TV show. One day I might just be in the studio. One day I might just be streaming all day doing video games. One day I might be, you know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] I'm partner at Twitch. Okay. Shout out to Twitch. I just got partnered. Twitch.tv slash Soulja Boy.


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[Assistant] Fortnite, Call of Duty, see what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] When I be playing GTA, I feel like I'm living my real life cause like, you see what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] No, no, no, no, no, when it's called you can buy your crib, customize a car, buy a car, run a business, run an enterprise. Like I'm like wow, this kind of look like my real life, you know what I'm saying? You walk in, you see all your cars, you see your house, you got your friends, they can come over to the crib. Like this is like a real, like my life with digital, virtual.


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[Assistant] Any kind of soda. If I got some green apple left over, pass me that. But other than that, just pass me, uh, uh, pass me a cup of, find me a cup, a cup of ice of soda.


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[Assistant] Nah, it made me just be in a good vibe in the studio when I'm creating a record.


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[Assistant] Yeah, everything here was toned down. The drink was completely cut out and the gas was toned down. So it was probably like the most, you know.


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[Assistant] I just feel like it's the culture, you know what I'm saying? I feel like, you know, I don't know if it's a trend, but I just feel like, you know, it's a part of the culture, you see what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] So boom, basically what happened was, uhm, I had a lot, I was in the media a lot. I was in the media.


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[Assistant] It was just a lot of unwanted attention. So, it was more clout that I could handle, you know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] Man, just me being everywhere. You know what I'm saying? It's just like, it's too much attention, man. When I came out with Crank That, it went number one.


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[Assistant] It sold 10 million, it sold 10 million copies.


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[Assistant] And that was a lot of clout, you see what I'm saying? But I dealt with that nice. This past shit, like when I was just all in the media.


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[Assistant] It was like people had my image fucked up and my character fucked up. They really started believing what they were seeing, you know what I'm saying? It wasn't really like that. So it was just like, you know, I'm like, damn, they really believe this shit. So I'm like, let me sit back and cheer and, you know, come back the right way. You see what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] On God. Somebody pass me an iPhone charger. On God, you right.


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[Assistant] It is what it is. It come with the territory. You see what I'm saying? Most people that take a break, they don't come back. You know what I'm saying? Ain't no such things coming back. You see what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] It's a blessing that I was able to, you know, do what I had to do and still come back.


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[Assistant] How long you been, little bro? Like 10, right? Oh no, probably like 9, 8. Like 8. Some crazy shit.


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[Assistant] Uh, uh, it depends on how you feel about me, you know what I'm saying? But at the same time though, I fuck with Lil Yachty, you see what I'm saying? I always fuck with Lil Yachty, he's cool. And, and, and, you know.


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[Assistant] Uh, brothers argue, you see what I'm saying? Brothers fight, brothers argue. So I looked at him like fam, you see what I'm saying? But it was just like, uh, misunderstanding, miscommunication, you see what I'm saying? And then shit just got blown out of proportion, that's how I feel. But, you know, how I feel about Lil Yachty is I fuck with him, you know what I'm saying? I seen him comment on, uh, academics Instagram and he was like,


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[Assistant] Like that's a kid, like even if he's just looking from my, on my Instagram, like looking at the Instagram, like the posts he left on Academia's page, he was like, man, Soulja got a big ass hat.


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[Assistant] You know what I'm saying? The shit that he hit me with, like some little kid shit, I shouldn't have handled it as an adult. But at the time nigga, I was still on my young nigga shit too. You know what I'm saying? Like, nigga what? Fuck you. Nigga what? Fuck y'all. You know what I'm saying? Young nigga shit.


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[Assistant] And I was like, damn, I could just laugh at Nasim. I'm like, okay, he's just a little kid. Cause I used to do the same thing. I used to drown on niggas too. Like big ass, ugly ass niggas. You know what I'm saying? But like once you get older.


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[Assistant] I fuck with Lil Yachty, man, and I feel like this shit was all just misunderstanding.


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[Assistant] I just feel like at that time, I was just going through a lot, you know what I'm saying? I was booking on anybody who said anything about me. You know what I'm saying? I just feel like he just fell into that.


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[Assistant] That category, when he hit me, he just caught me in a bad time, bad mood. Right. And it was just, it went too far. You see what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] You know, since I'm a tiny nigga, I don't want to do it no more. It makes so much money. You get older, you know, move on to something different, another career.


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[Assistant] I don't know if this shit worth it, you know what I'm saying? Like is it really worth it? You know how you get caught up in your feelings? But that's as you was just growing as a human. That's what I had to realize. It ain't had nothing to do with fame, fortune, money, or my image or nothing. It was just me as a human being. You as a human being, you gonna do human being things.


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[Assistant] I was just depressed, bro, when I was like, man, you know what, should I, should I, I fuck this shit? Like, everybody be hating, like...


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[Assistant] Yeah, I was depressed. And I was just like, should I, uh, quit? Because ever since I first came in the game, I've always been confident. I never gave fuck about nothing. And then...


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[Assistant] Uh, I just came to this point where I start caring about what everybody think, you know what I'm saying? I really start taking everybody's opinion and I start looking at the comments, niggas was hating me. It was just like, man, just people had my image fucked up.


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[Assistant] I got out of that, you know what I'm saying? And now I'm a strong enough person to know that, like, I'm that nigga. I'm the shit. You know what I'm saying? I've done a lot for hip hop. I've done a lot for my generation. I'm that nigga. But I just gotta show people that I'm that nigga.


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[Assistant] You know what I'm saying? I was showing people just wiling out, you see what I'm saying? So now, I can sit back and look back and be like, okay, and learn from it. You know what I'm saying? Like yo, not knowing that that's not gonna happen again, but knowing why did it happen.


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[Assistant] I'm so glad I got through it though, bro. It's a blessing. Now I can look back and just make my journey even so much stronger.


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[Assistant] Nah, ain't nobody finna disrespect me. True.


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[Assistant] Oh, as far as the situation would occur again? Yeaah, something like that. Yeaah, I'm definitely, yeaah man.


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[Assistant] Coming from the mindset that I have now, I wish I was thinking like how I'm thinking now back then. You know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] It makes the story even more beautiful because...


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[Assistant] Pass me the Bear Woods, pass me the Bear Woods out of her purse.


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[Assistant] Yo, what's up? What's up? Where the bag? Yea, give me that. Oh, what you left in the car, son?


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[Assistant] Are you good? Nah, go take it. Go take it and get it. I need it.


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[Assistant] If I ever really fuck with him, okay, I don't think we never spoke, but I was like, I used to see his little videos, Warren Chirac, and he used to always be like, Chirac Savages and you know, little shit on YouTube. And then after that, uhm, when he posted, what academic started doing, he posted, he posted the,


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[Assistant] Warren Shirek, then he would just always post stories about me. Whatever would happen to me in the news. Soulja Boy did this. Soulja Boy was here. Soulja Boy, he always posted about me, you know what I'm saying? And it was cool. I watched his page. He was a cool nigga. And then...


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[Assistant] Like out of nowhere, I don't know, he just started saying like, oh this nigga written Airbnbs and you know what I'm saying? Shit like that. And I was getting mad because


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[Assistant] I knew that it wasn't true. I'm like, bro, this is not no Airbnb. Like, come on, bro. Like, what is it? Like, you know what I'm saying? So I felt he had a personal vendetta against me and was trying to mess up my image. You know what I'm saying? So that's why I got mad. You know what I'm saying? But honestly, bro, like, I don't, like,


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[Assistant] If academics watching this, like bro, it was, you, I'll tell you Adam too, it was no Airbnb, you know what I'm saying? It was a crib that I had, and then I would put it on Airbnb to rent out to other people while I was going away on tour.


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[Assistant] Understand? So that's what happens with some kind of way. I guess he seen my house on Airbnb. He thought I rented it from Airbnb.


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[Assistant] He screenshotted it and posted it on his page and just, you know, hating on me. So I was just like, damn, why is this dude hating on me?


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[Assistant] I, I, like, am. And I start, and we just went back and forth, back and forth. And, you know, when I started beefing and shit, he just posted all the beefs and he just escalated a lot of shit and just, you know what I'm saying, but.


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[Assistant] You know, I fold academics because he always will report on me, whether good or bad, he always will report on me.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but, you know, I was just like, man, but now today, I love academics, bro, because...


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[Assistant] If it was the old me, I'd have been like, man, fuck this nigga, man. Goddamn, I told you, dawg. Pull out the slips. You know what I'm saying? But now I just like, I looked at it, I just laughed and just kept it moving. And then boom, the next week he posted, he was on, uh, what's the name of that show on Complex?


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[Assistant] That was on the, that was on the everyday struggle and he said I got a hit with my new single with Hit My Line. He said he gets a hit. So I'm like damn, he called it too.


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[Assistant] Shout out to that nigga Academis, he ain't had to do that. At least he finally showing love, at least somebody recognized, you know what I'm saying? That's crazy that he called it too, cause that's finna be my first single. You know what I'm saying, I just signed my record deal last week.


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[Assistant] So I don't know if he got inside information that somebody from the label told him or not, I don't know, but I flow with academics though.


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[Assistant] Unblock me on, he got me blocked on Twitter. Unblock me on Twitter, academic.


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[Assistant] AJ gon' give me a big ass bag. I'm tired of spending my own money on everything. You know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] It's dope to partner with somebody that believes in you, put a bag behind you. Take everything to the next level. I've been coming out of pocket, everything, music videos, promotion, radio, everything's coming out of my pocket directly because I am the label.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, that's crazy too bro, like I just realized that too.


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[Assistant] Excuse me, I was playing a lot of videos and mostly like five or six other videos, my own people didn't, like everybody and they never seen them. I never seen this video, I never seen this, I never seen that, I never seen that.


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[Assistant] Well, okay, I gotta get this label. This shit crazy. Like if you're not a hardcore Soulja Boy fan, you're not checking for me, you're gonna think I ain't dropped this album since a long ass time ago. You think I'm gonna drop a song like, I been dropping mixtapes every year. I been dropping albums every year. I been dropping songs every month. I ain't stop, you know what I'm saying? It's just, they indie grind and shit the motherfuckers.


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[Assistant] You know how I record? I go in the studio, boom. You know what I mean? I do a whole album in two days. You see what I'm saying? Boom.


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[Assistant] Three hours, four hour session, you know. Four hour session, I'ma drop at least five songs. See what I'm saying? As soon as I hear the beat, I'ma go in the booth. It's gonna take me five minutes to lit. See what I'm saying? As I make the beat, she did. If I make the beat, boom. It's gonna take me longer. I gotta make the beat, then I gotta write, then I gotta rap.


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[Assistant] But he was at the front row of my show and he was at my show. I did a show in 2011 in Florida. He was in the front row. And he was nine years old. Nine? And now it's 2018. He like, what, 17 or something?


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[Assistant] Set a lot of weight. Set the weight, man. You know what I'm saying? Gotta put you down. You dig what I'm saying? When I was walking around with the cameras back in the day.


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[Assistant] They said I was the police, you see what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] Man, I respect every last one of them dudes. Every dude that came through the crib and, you know, went and got successful and all that, I respect them. You know what I'm saying? Because...


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[Assistant] You know, I'm just, I'm just me bro. I'm just a humble dude. You know what I'm saying? Like I'm just, I don't, I don't.


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[Assistant] But if in a perfect world, I would've signed all of them to S-O-D-M-G. To my label. You know what I'm saying? Every one of them, the artists that I've discovered why they was, before they got signed up, before they got big. You know what I'm saying? All of them. If I had all of them on the one umbrella, we'd be the powerful label in the game right now. You know what I'm saying? From Trill Sammy.


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[Assistant] To Riff Raff, to all, to everybody that came through, fuck with me, you know what I'm saying? Sauce Walker, Lil Rich Pablo.


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[Assistant] Everybody that came into the crib, you know what I'm saying? That would be a hard ass label. But it is what it is. I love all them. I want all them to be successful, you know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] Yeah, CEO status. CEO of SODMG Records. I discovered a lot of time, you know what I'm saying? Discovered a lot of niggas before they popped.


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[Assistant] I ain't been wrong yet. Every nigga that I pulled up on, they doing good right now. They all involved.


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[Assistant] But you know, you gotta look at it like this, man. He won a million. You know what I'm saying? But at the end of the day...


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[Assistant] You gotta grind, you understand? It's not like the old days.


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[Assistant] Indeed, he's not giving out million dollar deals. The major's is, he could sign to SODMG for 150,000.


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[Assistant] I coulda took em, and that's just events. We still was gonna put, uh, uh, that's not talking marketing, that's not talking...


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[Assistant] He was gonna get, you know, definitely a good deal. But we pretty much just took him boom from SODMG and then to a major. And then they would have gave us the million.


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[Assistant] But you know how, you know, they be young, everybody young, they live and learn. We just have, Lil B just called me, like,


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[Assistant] A week ago, he said he wanted to sign back to SODMG, he wanted to drop an album with me. Riff Raff, Riff Raff just called like a week ago, like.


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[Assistant] Two days after that, he said he wanted to come to S.O.D. S.O.D.


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[Assistant] We're putting that together right now. We're going to do a whole tour and everything. You know what I'm saying? So everything coming around, man. 2019 looking real nice.


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[Assistant] What's your, what's your exercise like? It's push-ups and regular shit, not that, not, not too extreme.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, those are the nice ones. Just a little nap. 4 hour plane rides and shit like that.


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[Assistant] Look at my drip, my flex is incredible. Sippin' on high-tech Ajaida edible.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, the real, okay, okay, yeaah. I get what you saying. I can still do that too though.


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[Assistant] I feel like I'm all the way in the loop. I know what's going on. I'm the OG, I'm the GOAT. Always in the mix.


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[Assistant] I chose to make you feel like I'm not in the mix. I made the decision. It wasn't, it didn't happen organically. It wasn't like...


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[Assistant] Or he's just not around. Now I think I made myself not around you. You know what I'm saying? I made you think that I don't know what's going on.


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[Assistant] Because I ain't coming on certain shit. I watch everything, I see everything, I know everything. I ain't finna just act like I do, you know what I'm saying? I act like I don't, I just sit back and chill. I'm connected, bruh.


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[Assistant] But now I can look back and laugh at it because it was funny.


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[Assistant] But at first, when it first happened, I was mad though. But now, I'm good now.


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[Assistant] I don't care, like, it's the same. You know what I'm saying? Whatever, whatever. I'm not worried about that.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeaah. But not really. They just came back. I let them come back and I just don't let that happen again.


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[Assistant] Man, I definitely want to clear up the image if it's a bad perception. You know what I'm saying? Because at the end of the day, I know I got a good heart. You know what I'm saying? I know that.


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[Assistant] In this relationship that most recently, yeaah, I've thought that...


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[Assistant] Man, follow me on Instagram, like I said, at Soulja Boy. Uh, go stream my new single, Hit My Line, out right now.


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[Assistant] John Podesta, in his role as chairman of Hillary Clinton's campaign, gets a lot of email. So he has other people who are, you know, checking out his email as it comes in.


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[Assistant] Was sort of fresh inside material from the other side that he had, uhm, to draw on. I mean, for Donald Trump, it's sort of a godsend.


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[Assistant] Ukrainians hit the street all over the country, including in Kiev. And that's how my dawn starts because they want Europe.


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[Assistant] Putin is very, very good at weaving a narrative that suits his larger political purpose.


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[Assistant] It was very useful for him to make me and us the poster child for interference in another country's affairs.


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[Assistant] Clearly, they were looking to discredit me personally as the main negotiator at that time to thereby reduce US influence.


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[Assistant] I think that Putin successfully calculated that the hammer would not come down on him in a critically painful way if he did things deniably, stealthily, if he probed, uhm, and if he sort of boiled the frog, uh,


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[Assistant] Hotter and hotter and hotter rather than attacking directly. And he was right.


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[Assistant] As we are watching what's happening, those of us who


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[Assistant] Seen this movie before, whether it was in, uh,


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[Assistant] Very clever on Putin's part as well, because President Obama, conceivably,


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[Assistant] Could have been accused of doing the very thing that Putin himself.


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[Assistant] The most important thing that we could do was to deter Russia. And the best way to do that, we thought in my office, was to make the Russians afraid that they would have to pay a higher price for their military intervention. The higher price would be a price in Russian lives.


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[Assistant] If we had anti-tank weapons, the Russian tanks coming at the Ukrainians would get hit and Russian soldiers would die.


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[Assistant] The Russians were not really denying it. This is classic Russian tactic where they


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[Assistant] They, it's deniability. There's a veneer of deniability, but...


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[Assistant] At the same time the Russians are telegraphing with kind of a wink, we'll see what we can do.


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[Assistant] You can too, but I have a spreadsheet because I love spreadsheets.


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[Assistant] in your calendar. I know. But you like spreadsheets. I like my calendar. I put so much stuff in my calendar. I try to keep other things out. That's fair. That's good. You know what I'm saying? So happy birthday.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't, we don't have a bet today. No, but I just wanted to give you credit for yesterday. Ohio State got destroyed. Three in a row that you've hit. Yeah, I'm on fire right now. Brad, what's wrong with the Buckeyes?


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[Assistant] Ohio State had beaten Iowa a couple of weeks, like a month ago.


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[Assistant] I mean, certainly, yea, you would. Greg, Greg Newsom, I, Greg Newsom had an okay year, but, uh, he's unhappy being a slot corner.


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[Assistant] And they have two corners that are better than him, so. He's not cracking that line up here. No, so I, he's, I mean you need three good corners, especially.


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[Assistant] You know, in this AFC, with the Bills and the Bengals and the Chiefs, and the Jaguars now probably, but uh, he is expendable for, and Jerry Judy's young.


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[Assistant] But I look at it, I put most of the blame last year on the coach and Russell Wilson. I don't put much on Jerry Judy, uh, and he's young. I mean, he's only like 25 years old. So to get a guy who still has upside from what he's, cause remember, even if you want to say Russell Wilson is a good quarterback, which he wasn't last year, but he was in the past,


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[Assistant] Before that, Jerry Judy played with complete scrubs in Denver. Yeah, and did okay. And did fine. Again, he hasn't put up superstar numbers.


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[Assistant] Okay. I think Judy's upside to me is higher than what Amari Cooper is now. Because of age? Because of age, yeaah.


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[Assistant] The bottom line though is Denver just hired Sean Payton. He ain't trading Jerry Judy especially because they might cut Cortland Sutton as a cap casualty. So he's not going to get rid of both of them.


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[Assistant] Right, they're not, whereas the Texans when we get to that deal, they're starting over. The Broncos are trying, their hope is that Sean Payton could get Russell Wilson back to what he was in Seattle. Correct. And so they're not going to give up his best receiver.


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[Assistant] I am not gonna, would I take Michael Thomas on the Browns? Of course I would take Michael Thomas on the Browns. Would I rely on him being the key wide receiver? I get this off season absolutely not.


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[Assistant] No, no, I think there's, I'll tell you another guy who's, who's very interesting, who could be a cap casually before we get into the trade, is Keenan Allen.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, Keenan's older, isn't he? Right, but he's older than Michael Thomas. Sure, but he hasn't missed three years like Michael Thomas has. You're right.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uh, Brandon Cooks and Jerry Judy to this, obviously Brandon Cooks is older, so you'd rather have Jerry Judy from an age standpoint. In terms of production, they're close. I mean, Brandon Cooks has had a couple of thousand yard seasons. Jerry Judy has not. I think Jerry Judy certainly has some upside that Cooks does not. However, in this case, I'm giving up two third round picks as opposed to a proven


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[Assistant] You know, solid player. Now, if Greg Newsom doesn't want to be here, yeaah, maybe I say to the Texans, well, we'll give you Greg Newsom instead of one of the draft picks. But I've always been a fan of Cooks. Last year was a mess for him. He was very unhappy there. He wanted out. He didn't play the full season. And he got hurt. He did miss a few games last year. I don't know how many he missed.


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[Assistant] The guy's always had big time speed, even at his age, and he has that chemistry with Deshaun Watson because they played together. Yea, which is why I like that one better.


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[Assistant] By the way, I've been a big defender of Donovan Peoples-Jones. I think he's a decent wide receiver, but the Browns are coming up to a decision on him and what they're going to have to do. Well, didn't he, didn't he make that decision easier with the year that, I thought he had a good step forward. He did, but like I saw some people saying,


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[Assistant] The contract the Bengals signed Tyler Boyd to a few years ago. Tyler Boyd got


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[Assistant] Just under 11 million a season, to be the Bengals. At the time, he was...


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[Assistant] They're a number one receiver, but he wasn't really a number one receiver. He's really a three.


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[Assistant] But I'm like, I know it was a couple years ago, but to me, Tyler Boyd's way better than not having People's Jones. And he didn't get 12 million. I know it was a few years ago, the prices go up.


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[Assistant] Right, well, if they bring somebody of that level or higher, it becomes their fourth option, because the joku's probably their third option behind. You're likely right. Right.


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[Assistant] Some of the other guys that I'm interested in are not necessarily speed guys, like people have mentioned DeAndre Hopkins, Mike Evans has been mentioned, not necessarily speed guys. I love the idea of trying to make a big trade for DK Metcalf, although I doubt the Seahawks would do it and you'd have to give up a lot to get them.


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[Assistant] I just think there's better options than Hopkins at this point.


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[Assistant] It's a red flag for me. Steve Tweet texted us, he's like,


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[Assistant] The Browns went all in when they traded for Deshaun Watson. You pushed all your chips to the table. You can't half ass it now.


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[Assistant] You gotta bring in whatever pieces. That's right. You need to put around. Can you imagine? The filet now. Again, I think it's very unlikely they could get DK Metcalf.


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[Assistant] But can you imagine if Deshaun Watson is even close to what he was in Houston and you added DK Metcalf? Wow. I mean this offense would be one of the best in the league.


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[Assistant] Pay it. That's it. I mean, if you hadn't made the trade for Watson, then we could argue LeBuilding it through the draft and all. We don't have time for that nonsense. And by the way, I don't have time to do the draft. Like, you gotta get it right now. Because if they don't get it right now...


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[Assistant] Stefanski's getting fired, Berry's getting fired, ABD put that, I don't know. They're all gotta go. And here's another fear.


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[Assistant] Or it all goes off the rails. Because if they don't win, or if Watson's not the quarterback we thought he was, it's a disaster.


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[Assistant] I will say this, in terms of a Nick Chubb trade, I doubt he's gonna get traded. The reality is he's worth more to the Browns than he is in the trade market, even if you didn't want to trade him.


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[Assistant] That's not true. Joe Mixon was making more than 4 million last year. He's still on his rookie contract. No he's not. He was. Yes he was. No he was not.


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[Assistant] What's that? Yeah, did it kick in? What were the terms? I mean, I don't know what his base salary was from last year, but when he signed the extension, it was a couple years ago he signed the extension. He's been illegal while now at this point.


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[Assistant] Think about some of the best, think about some of the best backs the last few years, right? Yeah. Nick Chubb has never gone to the Super Bowl.


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[Assistant] Derek Henry's never gone to the Super Bowl. Christopher Caffrey's never gone to the Super Bowl. Uh, Jonathan Taylor for, you know, two years ago didn't go anywhere close to the Super Bowl.


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[Assistant] To that point, Jay, I would not be surprised if the Bengals cut Joe Mixon this year.


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[Assistant] The difference is, in theory, Watson's going to be a top 10 quarterback. Daniel Jones will not be. Uh, and certainly Nick Chubb's been more productive.


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[Assistant] Exactly. Supply and demand. Right. There's not a lot of teams that are going to pay a ton of money for a running back. Uh, Barkley and Jacobs, I bet will get good amount of money, but that's it.


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[Assistant] I think Philadelphia had a bad game plan. They, uh, Miles Sanders was their best back all year, they barely used him. Well, cause he wasn't getting anywhere. No, but they didn't, how many carries did he have? I don't know, but he wasn't getting anywhere.


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[Assistant] Herbert Mobile, Alan Mobile, Burrow Mobile, Daniel Jones Mobile, Kirk Cousins Mobile,


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[Assistant] Yeah, let's do that. So guys, ladies, $1.99 a month is the standard tier.


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[Assistant] I'd say 8 to 13 minutes, maybe even 15 minutes of overtime, starting just after 1 o'clock.


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[Assistant] Jensen, it's an interesting point, because we've talked about maybe, because it seems like they could use another like veteran middle of the road, like a guy you could use as your third or even fourth starter in the playoffs, right?


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[Assistant] There was, I was saying a few months ago that it was rumors that the Mets would be willing to trade Carrasco. What's, what do you think, I mean like Michael Wacha was a free agent, he just signed, I know it's San Diego. I'm trying to think if there's any starters left on the market at this point. You think Carrasco is a reasonable option or is he even making too much money at this point?


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[Assistant] That's a fair point. Let's get to one of the new guys in Josh Bell.


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[Assistant] Obviously the one thing lacking from this team last year was power.


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[Assistant] Josh Bell's got power. I even think, like, when he first came into the big leagues, I thought he was going to be an all-star player, and he's, you know, he's been a good player, but not quite, I think he was an all-star maybe once. Uh, I think there's another level to his game, and I think there's a chance the Guardians can bring it out of him. Do you think there's another level to his game?


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[Assistant] I think the good thing too, Jensen, I was saying this yesterday, the Guardians have so many good young players that even if there's some


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[Assistant] Because you know, I mean, you know as well as anybody, like, it's not basketball and football where a guy usually, once he's good, just stays good. We saw, I mentioned, you know, Cody Bellinger was like, on a Hall of Fame track, and now he signs a one-year prove-it deal. So this happens all the time at baseball, especially with young players. But the Guardians have so many young players that, let's say Oscar Gonzalez,


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[Assistant] Had a down year and then maybe it's 2024 that he bounces back.


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[Assistant] Well, maybe Will Brendan picks up the slack. Or, I know it's a different position, but maybe Gabriel Arias picks up the slack. Like, there's so many other young guys that I think even if they get sophomore slumps from some of them, somebody else will step up.


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[Assistant] Jensen, let's wrap it up with the pitch clock because this is a big one and as a former pitcher, I'm curious your take on it.


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[Assistant] I'm, I'm really less worried about the starters, because all the guardian starters work pretty quickly. But guys like, especially Karen Cech, uh, to a lesser degree, Klaus A, they work slower. How tough an adjustment do you think it's going to be for all these guys, but especially the guys in the bullpen?


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[Assistant] The only thing we're always going to worry about with Tristan McKenzie is can he stay healthy because he's so skinny. I know. His body and the delivery is very, his delivery, like the arm speed he's getting and the power on that throw he's getting and his size, it makes you nervous. He's Brad Sellers skinny.


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[Assistant] Every night. Steven A, I'm curious your take on this. We were having a debate.


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[Assistant] Uh, yesterday carried into today. We were talking about the th- we- obviously LeBron the best calve ever. We got Kyrie as the second best calve ever. My man G. Bush said,


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[Assistant] That Kevin Love is the third best Cav ever. I said you're crazy. I put Price, Daugherty, and I would even put Larry Nance, maybe ahead of Kevin Love, just in their Cavs careers. What say you?


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[Assistant] You know what's amazing is that like Steven Asimov is a huge personality, not only nationally, certainly in New York as well. When I was working on The Fan in New York, I was a part-time host, right? So I didn't have


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[Assistant] Much traction in New York. Some people knew me, but not anywhere close to me. And I, the Knicks once called, I once ripped Dolan and the Knicks doing a weekend show at 3pm on the fan. And Dolan called Mark Chernoff.


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[Assistant] To complain, I don't even think he knew my name. To complain that I was ripping him and ripping the Knicks. And I'm like, this is why they're never gonna be any good. Because he always worried about me ripping his team.


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[Assistant] It was funny. By the way, Steven A, I enjoyed the Mike and the Mad Dog reunion on your show. That was really fun.


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[Assistant] Because people always say to me, you hate when people disagree with you. I was like, no, I love it, so I can argue. And that's exactly what he said.


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[Assistant] Can't help ourselves. Same thing. When you're in die hard fan base, you're hooked. I mean, that's it. Yes. I love when people say, well, I'm just going to root for another team. No, you're not. No, you're not.


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[Assistant] Because can is such a weird, like. You know, will they? Can, well, of course they can, but yeaah.


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[Assistant] What is Embiida, who is much better defensively, averaging?


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[Assistant] That could be interesting. The UCLA team up. But you're right. I think Brad's right though. If, it's a big if. But if Durant and Paul and Booker all stay healthy for the playoffs, it's going to be a hard team to beat.


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[Assistant] Let me give you, let me give you the stat. How many playoff wins does Kevin Love have without Lebron?


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[Assistant] I think when we came out, we was ready to play. These guys coming out now is not ready. So you're waiting for opportunities, these guys. You still have to pay them.


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[Assistant] And I think that, uh, the way the game had changed, you got that stretch four and five. I mean, basketball is basketball. You still got to put in the hoop. You got, you got guys taking more shots, but the field goal percentage is a lot lower when we play. So it's a lot of difference, but.


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[Assistant] Everybody said, well, we couldn't have played back then. No, you couldn't. No, you couldn't. It's easy to play now. All you have to do is run up and down the court.


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[Assistant] Hey, that's the new, that's the new thing there. You can pay a guy 50 million dollars. He played when he wanted to play. And I think


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[Assistant] Why Brooklyn didn't trade Kyrie to the Lakers because


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[Assistant] Cause, you know, the owner of Brooklyn, he's something special. He do a lot of things.


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[Assistant] And uhm, it's just, it's just a little man, I don't get it. I mean, you have to play.


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[Assistant] Well, what got me into cooking, like when you're playing in the NBA, we played, we had to get our own bags, have to do this, carry them to the bus, you know, wake up call. We had to get up, be grown man, get up on out. They ain't call us. They would wake up. You had to either come to the bus, come on time or miss a bus. So you get a lot of principles. So my thing with on the road was we eat so much food.


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[Assistant] All that just picked up over my years in the league, but you know, my grandparents, my mom, they're great cooks. So all that come and play with that. And I just learned how to cook the basic meals first. Then you work your way up.


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[Assistant] You never know, I could've got caught up, but uhm, it all worked out. Uhm, I just, my man, Jay Crouse.


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[Assistant] Going so down south at a Division II, Virginia Union, to draft a guy like me. I give him a lot of prouts. A lot of people just threw him on the bus. So I just came out with a book about seven months ago and I praised Jerry Kraus in the book about a lot of things. And I think the guys keep throwing him on the bus about in the Bulls organization.


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[Assistant] Uh, wow, that's a lot of stories. I just tried to say, I remember my rookie year, uh, he took me to the All-Star game.


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[Assistant] You know, I think that playing with him showed me a lot of things about learning, you know, lesson, how to treat people, how to, how to advance yourself within the game.


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[Assistant] Uh, my story is not great, but I can tell you a lot of good things came out of, you know, playing with him and playing in Chicago. And then Brad came and he showed you that we was, we were a real close-knit team because we didn't, even though he was Michael Jordan, we go inside the video together. We would hang out, hotel room, fighting one another.


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[Assistant] It was crazy. We went through a lot my rookie year and to get out of that safe and alive.


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[Assistant] You know, when you do your report, you got to have something that like, okay, you know, every team needs 12 guys, we know that. But can these guys in practice make another guy better by working hard? Not just being on the team, just, I'm getting a check.


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[Assistant] Well, I'm still outside, you know, they've hit me twice and we had a vacation. Matter of fact, we got a open argument on April the 19th gonna be a big decision. Okay, it's just bad the way that happened. That's awful.


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[Assistant] Turn back his mother and daughter from the radio, news of City Hall, from a play his daughter, her daughter was going to.


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[Assistant] He found, he had a face recognition. So the lady...


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[Assistant] Yeah, I came, I walked down about 30 flights of steps, sit in my seat. I just left for me, I was for the other guys. And uhm, sit there.


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[Assistant] And they just, then after that, they started grabbing on me and one thing led to another. He tried to say I hollered at him.


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[Assistant] Ain't like they, I had bought them tickets that night. He didn't give me, they didn't give me them tickets. So I don't know what's going on. He's just, he's just a lot, he just, he's a, I don't know. He's just like a lot of tension. He's a control guy and this stuff been going on. Not just the owner and Phoenix been doing wrong. This may have been doing the same thing for years and years. So we're going to see what happens.


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[Assistant] You talk about these younger kids now, when you played, you talking because somebody went in your mouth. So I'm just saying.


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[Assistant] He's taking advantage of the situation on TNT.


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[Assistant] Hey, that's why a lot of guys kind of mad at Pat Riley. But my thing is, I say when you're in shape, you ready to go to war. So a lot of guys just, I mean,


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[Assistant] First year or last year, I'm glad we're on the air. So last year was my first year with the Oakley Foundation, you know, once we got all the paperwork straightened out. And I had the big event in Cleveland last year. I did four things in Cleveland. And you know, MEA,


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[Assistant] I call them up, you know, they know what's going on. I call them like eight months before, you know, they come, they know they come to Cleveland and I talked to them a couple of things about what I was doing.


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[Assistant] So to make a long story short, about a week before, they backed out of everything they said they was going to do. So I had a weekend, I did five different things. MEA didn't contribute nothing. They didn't invite me to the cocktail party.


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[Assistant] Last year, last year in Cleveland on Carmella and Jessa Jackson. So this year in Utah, they put my picture up on the board like I'm there in town. I didn't even go. I'm so embarrassed.


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[Assistant] They're gonna drop this thing on a Friday, and they're gonna own news coverage over the weekend. This was going to be a big story.


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[Assistant] We saw a lot of our numbers growing like crazy, as did the rest of the media and the news world in particular.


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[Assistant] I don't think there was a lot of thinking about that idea. I don't think there was any thought that the news content in particular had more value or had more need for protection than any of the other pieces of content on Facebook.


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[Assistant] I was surprised by a lot of things when I joined Facebook and as someone who grew up in the media world, I expected it to be more of a sense of how people interact with media and how important media can be to certain people's information diet.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I'm sure it was. I didn't necessarily know how viral it had gotten, and I certainly didn't believe that anybody believed it.


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[Assistant] I think if you ask the question that way, it would have been...


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[Assistant] But I think when you ask then the next question, which is the harder and the more important question was, which is, so what do you do about it? You then very quickly get into issues of not only free speech, but


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[Assistant] To what degree is it anybody's responsibility as a technology platform or as a distributor?


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[Assistant] To start to decide when you've gone over the line between something that is clearly false, uhm, from something that may or may not be perceived by everybody to be clearly false and potentially can do damage.


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[Assistant] I think it was very easy for all of us sitting in Menlo Park to not necessarily understand how


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[Assistant] Well, he was no right, somewhat right from wrong.


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[Assistant] I do think you should reach out to Shaq on social media or on the TNT page perhaps and challenge him. Say let's go big fella, let's do this.


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[Assistant] Have you met this person? No. So, what do I do? You'd knock on his door.


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[Assistant] Or her. We don't know it's a guy. Knock on the right door.


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[Assistant] And you politely say, we all have our own times of day that we need to get up.


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[Assistant] I set my alarm at the time I need to get up, and I don't let it go off for 15 minutes, and that's...


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[Assistant] He's already in a weird spot, you know why? The guy already is labeled Mike.


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[Assistant] A D. Right. Automatically. It's like bro, chill. I'll get my alarm in a second and he's over there pounding on the wall.


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[Assistant] Yeah, now here's the other problem. He knocks on the door and a bombshell opens the door.


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[Assistant] T.V.'s Mikey McNuggets. I'd like to offer a little peace offering here. Here's a couple of these shirts.


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[Assistant] Absolutely. They're 1000% wrong. And you know what? In all likelihood, well now they do know because you banged down the wall. So the first time I could see them, you know, uh,


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[Assistant] We slipped up. But after day two and day three of you pounding on the wall, that's an


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[Assistant] This is a Chinese spy balloon, bro. You gotta blast this thing out of the sky. Now! I'm gonna knock on the door this afternoon.


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[Assistant] It's a little like, uh, Groundhog Day. It starts with the alarm going off every morning. Yeaah. Alright, uh. Do you guys get up the first time the alarm goes off?


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[Assistant] I don't set an alarm. I never set an alarm either. Really? Yeaah.


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[Assistant] And the older you get, that's how it works. And trust me, I used to tell people, I'll never be that guy. I will always need an alarm clock. And then, I don't know at what age, at some point I just started waking up whether I wanted to or not.


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[Assistant] Your heart rate goes from like 55 to 100, like this. The second your feet hit the floor. Alright, let's do bulls better today. What do we have?


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[Assistant] Hey, you gotta have talent, man. And that's it. Like, that's it.


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[Assistant] They draft a certain caliber. They're looking at the mind. A lot like Belichick has done in New England. And if he sees


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[Assistant] A-a pile of clay there that he can mold?


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[Assistant] That's the Parker and Janobly thing. That's how they work. Now he doesn't have the two twin superstars that are going nuts, but it will be interesting to see how long he stays there and what he does with this iteration of the Spurs.


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[Assistant] Understand that we're doing this because we're two days out of football season. So we've got a lot of exercises that we're going to do between now and next August, this August, that, you know,