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[Assistant] You can't, back in the day I remember I had a job, like we was having like regular jobs and summer jobs and different things like that.


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[Assistant] It ain't like that no more. These dudes be out there working out. They do seven on seven. You know, camps now are almost like, uh,


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[Assistant] I think camps are like auditions. Like when you go to camps before it was like, hey, let me just get out of town and like, no, now these kids go to camps and they looking to try to get scholarships and get placed different places. Yeah. So that's really big. We got Antonio back.


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[Assistant] Your first class is pretty much an important one because it really sets the standard for what you're looking for, for somebody to be in a high school, National High School Hall of Fame. Give me a couple of the highlighted members that you're going to inaugurate and inducted to the Hall of Fame as part of your first class.


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[Assistant] Man, that, that year, uh, we forgot to tell him, like, so me and Antonio used to be in choir together.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah. Show choir. He recruited me, right? He recruited me. And the only reason that I got in there is because I wanted to go to prom with this girl named Collette Sims. And so Tone was like, bro, I'm not hooking you up with her unless you join choir.


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[Assistant] Well, you know, they go ask, they asked me about the masculine record. They tell you, they, as soon as I came in, told them, they said, yeah, Boogie said they got the countdown right up. Cause Boogie, he plays for the USFL. He said, yeah, they got the countdown to beating their rival or whatever. They said they ain't beat them since 16. Like what, what is that like?


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[Assistant] To be a player and for you as a player to understand, like, that I have two state championships and never, like, remember losing a masculine. And how difficult that is that now as a coach because, like, you bear, you bear those things too. Like, is that something that keeps you up? Is that something that burns you, uh, when you go to sleep? How does that, how do you feel about that?


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[Assistant] Uh, yeaah, before we let you go, let everybody know when the inauguration will be, when the first class goes in, uhm, and what to expect, uh, you know, moving forward from the National High School Hall of Fame.


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[Assistant] Probably the, give me your best G Bush story. Oh. Oh yeaah, oh yeaah, yeaah, yeaah, that is. There's a, there's a bunch of G Bush stories. He had to really think hard for that cause there's like. To do a clean one. You gotta do clean ones bro, like you know what I'm saying? You can't have like, you know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] Yeaah, yeaah, you know, I had, uh, it was kind of strange because Jay had, I think he has either saw Jim Brown,


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[Assistant] Or, or he had known somebody that had saw Jim Brown, he said, you know, he was, you know, wasn't looking too good. And uhm, so that got my, our wheels already behind the scenes thinking, right? And so, you know, when the timing and the news passed down,


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[Assistant] I think one of the best things that I can say about Jim Brown is not only, you know, what he did on the field, but like what he did off the fields. Uhm, you know, I was watching on YouTube and as I, he, when he passed away, I went down and I was looking at some of his interviews and he,


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[Assistant] He was either talking, he was on a late night show and he was talking, uhm, to...


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[Assistant] Uhm, the governor of, I believe it was either Alabama, Mississippi or Georgia, one of the, one of the three. Uhm, and he was just sitting there on this late night show and


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[Assistant] Just to give you the climate, you know, the climate where everything happened at that time, they was talking about segregation.


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[Assistant] Now at the time segregation was part, you know, it was still going on. And the governor was saying that he was, he was against desegregating schools.


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[Assistant] And it was crazy because Jim Brown was sitting there.


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[Assistant] And he was so articulate in debating, uh, a politician, uh, about why it was ridiculous that segregation was still going on in schools, uh, in the South. And to me, I really, it really dawned on me.


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[Assistant] The, at the levels to different certain things, right? Jim Brown was, was, was talking about civil rights when you couldn't even drink from the same water fountain.


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[Assistant] That's a whole different level. Like we talk about people kneeling for the flag and different things like that. But here's a guy who was a football player.


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[Assistant] That still had the ability to come out and say, not only am I a great football player, but I'm going to be able to be articulate enough to really sit down and debate civil rights and what things need to be in this country.


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[Assistant] And so when people used to tell athletes in early 2000s, 2010s, it was a really cool thing for people to just say shut up and dribble. It was really, it was really a thing where


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[Assistant] People felt comfortable in saying, just stick to sports. But sometimes that's why you gotta go back and you gotta check on your past and your history. If you gon' tell me, just stick to sports.


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[Assistant] And I'm supposed to listen to that. I gotta go back and watch what Jim Brown was doing when he couldn't even drink from the same water fountains. It wasn't no such thing as just sticking to sports. That was his life. That was his everyday life. He was, he was a person that only was in it. He lived it. So,


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[Assistant] I go back and watch that and I just give.


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[Assistant] So much upwards from Inspector Homage to what he did because he's, he's able to have people like myself be able to say and talk the way I do with confidence because I know that certain times when you speak against certain things, it's not going to be, it's not going to be liked in the moment. It's not going to be popular.


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[Assistant] You also have a right and responsibility to speak to those things. And Jim Brown was a pioneer, uh, for all African Americans, especially athletes, about being socially aware, socially active. So I really, uhm, I really want to salute Jim Brown for that because he put us on, on a map doing that.


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[Assistant] I agree too. You know what? You're right. I agree. I mean, he meant that much. I, I mean, when you, when you universally ask,


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[Assistant] Like I'll donate to who I want to donate to. I'm a sucker for like, if it's like...


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[Assistant] So, okay, so, you know, now that Jason said that, I, I do, uh, matter of fact, we sponsor families during uh, Christmas. For toys and stuff, you know, they get the list of families.


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[Assistant] So uhm, Mcnuggets, what do you do? I'm not sponsoring nobody, screw that.


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[Assistant] He can feed himself. Congratulations. I like that. Please don't say it was under 26.


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[Assistant] And then, I put all my cookies in the freezer.


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[Assistant] So, I put all my cookies in the freezer, I put them in there with the thin mints, and it's devastating, bro. You can't, like, they go down so smooth. Like, you're like, I'm only gonna eat three a day.


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[Assistant] I'm uncomfortable with men giving me, bringing me heads and stuff. I don't know how I feel about that.


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[Assistant] Behind the scenes, behind the scenes I've been told there are five, and I'm not even going to name the groups.


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[Assistant] I'm not even gonna say nothing. There are five groups that you don't mention and you don't act like they even exist. I know one of them. Yeah, I know.


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[Assistant] We don't condone that. We love bicyclists. We like helmets and everything and we like birds. I'm not messing around with nothing.


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[Assistant] Tom, do you have any people that send you demo tapes? Like you're so good at your job. Do people send you demos and say, do I have a chance?


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[Assistant] You know, Hammy, you talked about the, the train moving and uhm, you know, when you look at the right field position,


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[Assistant] You know, last year, it looked like the, the Guardians had found, you know, and Oscar Gonzalez, you know, their long-term answer out there.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but this year, Will Brennan has been playing well. He's been mixing into that rotation. Do you think, uhm, how do you think this ends? How do you, who was the real long-term answer? And how long do you think the platoon will still go on with, you know, two young players?


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[Assistant] You know, along that, uh, that line of train of thought.


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[Assistant] Does Tito think that they'll eventually, you know, get themselves to be middle of the road or are they planning for this being the long haul? Like, hey, this is what we are. We're going just to find different ways to win some ballgames.


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[Assistant] Four seconds at the end of the first set. When you, when you look, when you look at it, yeaah. So you, you gotta look at his, his body type, like.


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[Assistant] So, LeBron is always gonna be a person, like Jason said, like when you get, the further you get along, right?


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[Assistant] And you make it to the Western Conference Finals. You start to envision yourself in the finals. You start to visualize it.


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[Assistant] And great players need to visualize them having success. So when you do lose and you lose in the fashion they lose to, it's devastating because you're like, we just lost to the Nuggets and they beat us bad.


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[Assistant] He's going to realize, okay, I got to go back in the lab and I got to recreate myself.


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[Assistant] If I could get the same thing from Anthony Davis, remind you, there's a lot of pieces of parts that are new for this team. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] I don't understand the story. The playoffs is the Denver, not the never nuggets. They're second best, right? But the Miami Heat story. We'll get to that.


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[Assistant] Mike, you think they're winning or you think the Heat are gonna win? If the Heat win is the greatest, you gotta go with the Nuggets. Like, the Nuggets have been... By the way, if the Heat win a championship, is Eric Spolster the greatest coach ever?


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[Assistant] I mean, coaching, this, I text Earl, I said listen, coaching counts bro.


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[Assistant] Like, I know we like to say that these dudes booting hoes and people getting fired, but this counts, bro. Like, this dude don't have nobody. This is what I'm saying. These Vincent guys. Well, it's like they carried away. They do have Jimmy Butler. They don't, they do not have people. They got Vincent and, and, and Duncan Robin.


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[Assistant] And if he, and to be honest with you, if he wanted to...


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[Assistant] After 18, if Lebron still plays for the Cavs, they're still going to the finals. He could have went to the finals 12, 13 years in a row.


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[Assistant] They pun it and it was like, and then it was strange. They were like, oh no, we're not going to give up this Colin Sexton number eight. What?


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[Assistant] Now listen, the love affair, eh, listen, eh, Boston.


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[Assistant] The level fair of Jason Tatum and Brown, this is- They were dogs in game. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Man. But he's been awful in the fourth quarter in this series. They lost this series in game two when he was pump faking traveling every other- I know. What are you doing?


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[Assistant] See, in our nice little small Midwest towns in Cleveland, we can afford to punt on things. Oh, we don't like his attitude. We don't want it. Oh, he's going to be a more of a problem than it's worth. When you in certain cities, when you will play, when you coach and you play for the Lakers, their job is to go for championships each and every year. Yeah. They don't care.


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[Assistant] If it's the, if it's the world of Transformers and Unicron come up and pull up and about to destroy the whole planet, Optimus Prime says I can go get Hot Rod or Megatron. Give me Megatron and I can use Megatron for at least four to five battles and I can at least have a chance. But you can't come out there with Bumblebee.


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[Assistant] Stone and Jones believed that they had been instrumental in getting Donald Trump elected.


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[Assistant] Or that certainly they had driven successful narratives that helped to, that helped to get him elected.


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[Assistant] What people like Alex Jones and others showed us is that conspiracy theories are an effective political tool.


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[Assistant] A big element of Alex Jones' show and his theorizing generally is that things are false flag attacks, uhm, that is attacks perpetrated by the government or elements within the government to create fear, suspicion, division, or to bring us all under the sinister control of the New World Order or the One World Government.


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[Assistant] The belief that evildoers are meeting in secret to abuse children is really old. It's the blood libel.


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[Assistant] The idea that Jews were meeting in secret to murder Christian children and use their blood in rituals. And we can see elements of the blood libel in a lot of conspiracy theories even through the present day.


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[Assistant] We want to go live right now and show you a picture of the World Trade Center, where I understand... Do we have it? No, we do not.


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[Assistant] We have a breaking story though, we're gonna come back with that in just a moment. First, this is today on...


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[Assistant] On the guardrails of our democracy, so relentlessly assailed have made us numb and blind to the consequences. Does none of that matter anymore if he's the president of our party?


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[Assistant] The scheming persists and the danger will never recede. He has done it before. He will do it again. What are the odds if left in office that he will continue trying to cheat? I will tell you 100% if you have found him guilty and you do not remove him from office.


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[Assistant] He will continue trying to cheat in the election until he succeeds.


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[Assistant] Roger Stone is a self-described dirty trickster.


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[Assistant] As a tattoo of Nixon on his back.


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[Assistant] I mean, he was in high dungeon. He's crying, he's weeping, we're like, this is pure


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[Assistant] And it ran constantly, cause it was a ratings getter.


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[Assistant] A match was struck on Alex Jones' show and it goes from 0 to 100 on Google Trends. 96 hours.


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[Assistant] He's basically making a goodbye video. His two daughters, like, in the car on the way driving north on 95.


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[Assistant] See, that's a great question because we, we talked about Mikey's trade quite a bit and no disrespect to him. We've made it clear. We love him dearly, but.


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[Assistant] I think I'd lean towards that if I had the option. I think that's, that's the beauty and the frustration that comes with free agency. And you look at teams like Cleveland, they do go get Donovan Mitchell in that trade. And I agree with you, G. Bush, like you have to kind of maximize your opportunities here, not just to win now because you made a win mount now move to get him, but you're also convincing him, Hey,


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[Assistant] Jamil McGee's a dude that has already played here, uh, was kind of, not the coach on the floor, cause that's disrespectful to what he is as a player, but like, was one of those mentors and veterans that the guys just really, uh, gravitated to in the locker room and like, it could just be a welcome face and,


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[Assistant] Also, probably a decent enough to be like your third or fourth big off the bench, but the real prize here is that first round pick from Dallas, which is 10th overall right now and-


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[Assistant] San Antonio, uh, who wants to trade back into the lottery, maybe add to Victor Vemignano to maybe go pick from some of the younger players that they have the wing spot that are more NBA ready and ready to help you contend with Donovan Mitchell on your roster.


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[Assistant] You have to wonder what Kyrie's gonna do, and I don't think anyone knows what Kyrie's gonna do, not even Kyrie knows what he's gonna do at this point.


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[Assistant] Pretty desperately if you're Dallas right now, and for Cleveland at least, it's more so the question of hey,


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[Assistant] Is an older defensive minded big man who is a rim runner can be


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[Assistant] Similar to Robin Lopez, but maybe it's more cost controlled and you can use him as a trade asset. Reggie Bullock is a big, small forward. He's...


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[Assistant] And there's still room for him to grow. And then if you're San Antonio, like I said, they're looking to get another lottery pick. And Isaac Okoro is a guy who...


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[Assistant] Give him more of that breathing room to develop that he may not have had, uh, during his time with Cleveland just because of just how weird his situation has been. And then for Dallas, uh, Devontae Graham is just that extra ball handler. He's not the same type of player as Kyrie, but maybe that's your insurance policy in the event Kyrie walks. You get that rim running big man and then...


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[Assistant] So if you're a team like San Antonio, you're willing to eat that cost because you're looking to rebuild and not play for the playoffs right away and you get a first round pick in the top 10 out of it. So it's a little expansive. I appreciate Mikey making that graphic. When I sent it over, I'm like, there's no way he's going to be okay with this because there were.


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[Assistant] And it's pretty well known in the ether at this point that Portland's looking to trade this pick and get.


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[Assistant] You send Alan to Portland along with Isaac Okoro just as a bit of a sweetener, but then you take back use of Nerket who is...


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[Assistant] A little bit more oft injured and banged up than Alan, but provides you some of the similar defensive upside. Nasir Little is a guy who...


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[Assistant] I'm not sure just because there is a pretty deep drop off after about the top 5, maybe 6 guys in this draft class and just Portland is such a weird case where


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[Assistant] They fell off and they want to keep Dame happy and not trade Dame that they're probably willing to talk shop with a lot of teams just to move that pick to, again, they're such an oddly run organization where they just keep


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[Assistant] Hello! In the previous video I talked about how I changed and balanced the game mechanics of Santasatnas to make it into a decent RPG. But this wasn't enough. It also needed playtesting and feedback from others.


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[Assistant] With RPG games, this is more important than with other genres since it's infamously difficult to get into and tends to have a steep learning curve. Thanks to advances in technology, I was able to watch playtesters stream their experience for hours as they got to grips with the game for the first time.


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[Assistant] I grew frustrated as they missed obvious clues, and cheered as they beat harder enemies and slowly grew to love the game. You can often spot the EXACT moment where it clicks for them, where they finally piece together enough about how the game works to be able to see the bigger picture.


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[Assistant] It could be when they've levelled up enough to take on a harder enemy, or bought a weapon that transforms one of their characters from a weakling into a battle-hardened badass. But the moment that stage is reached, everything changes. They take control of the experience.


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[Assistant] They love discovering that fireworks better against some enemies than others, or cheating death by healing just in time. These elements are what make RPGs more rewarding than button-mashing combat games and it's thanks to the balancing that I did in the previous video in this series that makes the long-term gameplay of this game so rewarding.


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[Assistant] If I had unlimited time, I'd watch them play through until they complete the game, but I needn't fear about them giving up once they get hooked.


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[Assistant] The real challenge is getting people through the first 20 minutes. I suspect that 95% of people who start the game will fail within this time. Unlike the RPG veterans, they won't see it as a challenge to overcome.


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[Assistant] They'll decide that it's not worth it and will quit the game, never to return.


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[Assistant] So it's up to me to make the first part of the game as easy to get through as possible. I started with the first battle, which was hard enough to kill some of the characters. I gave the first maggot you fight half the amount of HP and made it so that both of your characters can attack the moment the battle begins. You'd really have to try to fail in this fight.


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[Assistant] Simply clicking Attack Attack Attack is enough to win, but hopefully players will also discover the Heal and Black Magic attack, which is intentionally overpowered to begin with to compensate for the limited uses due to your low amount of MP.


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[Assistant] I had to make the weakest weapons and enemies pointless. The first enemies are intentionally meant to be a challenge if you have the starter weapons, but new players were finding it too hard. So instead I gave Santa a decent sword and Casper a bow, both of which are better than starter weapons, and made the starter MAGA enemy easy enough to be beaten even at level 1.


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[Assistant] This gives new players some time to learn the game mechanics before finding the enemies challenging. The discoveries are less about, how do I inflict damage, and more about why does one character do more damage and take less than the other.


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[Assistant] This at least let everybody beat the first few enemies. Or at least, I thought it would. One playtester chose to retreat from every battle before getting killed in one hit by the first boss.


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[Assistant] I disabled retreat for the first fight to make sure that you HAD to kill it and level up before you could start the game properly, which I think is rewarding for the players as well. I even had to make the second enemy type you encounter, the rat, easier than I would have liked as well.


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[Assistant] It's still rewarding with large amounts of experience and money, making the first bit of the game super easy to conquer just so that new players aren't scared off by the challenge. Anybody who has beaten the game in its original, harder state will call these changes DUMBING DOWN. But it's soooooo important to make new players feel powerful.


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[Assistant] That way, they invest enough time into the game to learn how to play.


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[Assistant] After the first 20 minutes, they've developed their characters enough to want to overcome challenges, rather than just to give up and to quit. I can then up the difficulty and they feel committed to beating the game.


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[Assistant] It turns out that by the time players reach the window boss in Santasatnas, they're ready for that challenge. The third enemy type is a wasp and is a lot harder than anything players had to face before, but nobody complained that it was too difficult. It does, however, poison players, making them lose health in future battles unless they use an antidote or cleanse spell.


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[Assistant] This wasn't a problem for me since I knew how to get the cleanse spell, but new players had to use antidotes and were quickly run out of them since they weren't able to get any more since the first island doesn't sell them.


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[Assistant] I quickly corrected this error and made CLEANS a spell that you start with. It's one thing to get poisoned. It's another thing not to be able to cure it. I made some exciting discoveries that will really help me in future RPGs that I work on.


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[Assistant] The amount of health you gain per level really matters. If it's too little then levelling up isn't as rewarding as it should be. But on the other hand, if you get too much then you end up in a situation like Borderlands, where enemies are impossible one minute, and then too easy the next.


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[Assistant] The difficulty jumps between areas had to be big in this game since we didn't make many enemy types, so each would have to challenge the player to improve both their stats and equipment if they are to stand a chance against the bosses. Oh yea, bosses. What are they good for?


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[Assistant] I used to think that they were to be a challenge. Compared with lots of easy battles slowly eating away at your health and MP, bosses are a single fight that is difficult in other ways. But now, I know that they're there for your own good! In one bit of Santasatnas, for example, you steal a boat and crash it into the next island where the enemies are a lot harder. Imagine that you had struggled through that previous area.


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[Assistant] You're now screwed, so you have no chance of beating normal enemies and therefore no way to improve and to get more money. If you saved after crashing that boat, you can't complete the game and your save is ruined.


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[Assistant] This is particularly bad for RPGs where it's common to invest a lot of time and effort into them.


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[Assistant] Bosses stopping you from entering a new area act as a way of preventing this from happening by ensuring that the players are up to a certain standard before confronting standard enemies of a higher level. The other problem that people had was knowing where to go and what items did. There are probably tidier solutions, but I just typed a load of explanations and put them on the screen. I made it so that you could see the enemy's health and battle timer.


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[Assistant] This is something that Final Fantasy games have never done, but the feedback it gives you really hammers home how effective your weapons are and how much attacks such as wound and slow affect the enemy's battle speed, giving you the advantage. I extended this to the world map. It always tells you what sort of enemies you could face in your current location. It takes away a bit of the mystery


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[Assistant] And people still got confused! So I made it even simpler, even advising people on what sort of level or equipment they should have before advancing to the next area.


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[Assistant] I made this advice less useful as the game progressed to encourage players to explore, but it seems that for the first half hour of gameplay you need to lead people by the hand every step of the way. I don't regret it though.


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[Assistant] Very hard. You can probably just about do it by training against the trees, but the Spartan island in the north lets you get XP, money and the ultimate weapons that will make the job easier.


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[Assistant] In conclusion, I'm pleased that the skidmark that was Santasatnas has been transformed into one of the most enjoyable and complex games that I've ever worked on. Give it a go in its new state. Redesigning it has taught me a lot and has got me into the mood for making a new RPG that's bigger, better and buggier than ever before.


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[Assistant] I went looking for you, you weren't here, you weren't in your room, so where were you? I was out. Yeah, well I kinda got that part. What was so important that you had to go out in the storm?


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[Assistant] I mean, I wonder who did it. Don't you?


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[Assistant] We don't have to walk around being mad at him anymore. We don't have to keep thinking about how he made it so that Jack wouldn't have to pay for what happened to your mom. I mean, chill in here.


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[Assistant] Dad, I said that I wanted Jack to be punished for causing mom's death. And for his dad to be punished for covering it up.


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[Assistant] Besides people calling me Hollywood and movie star and what I'm doing on the football field. Besides that, it wasn't.


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[Assistant] I got the respect of my peers pretty much. They don't really trash talk to me.


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[Assistant] He was just standing there quiet. I said, yeah, you don't know these songs, do you?


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[Assistant] A week prior, I had eight tackles, two TFLs, the sack, you know, at a nose guard. That's rare. So I didn't get those stats, but I still had a couple tackles. I had the TFL.


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[Assistant] The next three weeks, uh, we're home, you know, you just let me know, you know, the UCSS fam got tickets on me. So when y'all want to pull up, you know, I got, uh, uh, can get y'all some little on field pregame stuff.


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[Assistant] This show, uhm, has been a blessing for me. Uhm, these last few home games, there's always somebody in the stands saying how proud of me they are. They watch me every week on the show. I had a dude bring me a poster last week, you know, saying he can't wait to watch me on you guys' show again. So it's been a blessing. So I would love for you guys to get down there. You know, I'ma hold you to it. Don't make me come find you now.


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[Assistant] Are bigger than the program, you get what I'm saying? He's one of them, but not in a bad way.


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[Assistant] Great decisions, you know, off the field for the most part, so there's no reason.


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[Assistant] For him to be at OTA's flag because those are for guys like you mentioned from the USFL XFL rookies trying to get those reps. Cause you know, if Miles was there and taking those reps, other guys wouldn't get opportunities to, to progress and get better and get real live reps. So he will kind of be taken away from those guys. So.


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[Assistant] I don't think people should get worked up. And I believe you're right. It's not a red flag that he wasn't there because a lot of big time guys don't go to the voluntary.


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[Assistant] OTAs, I know Aaron Donnell when I was there, he wasn't there at OTAs, you know, and he came back and still had 16 sacks, so it'll be alright.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think it's more so of a big deal when you have a team that has a lot of injuries. You don't get those extra few days you were to get certain guys back as if you were playing on a Sunday. But if you're


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[Assistant] You have no injury bug that's biting your team. There's no problem at game because you know, you get Friday, Saturday and Sunday off before you start your next work week or you might have a bye. So you'll get 10 full, 10 full days off. So it's really pros and cons just depending on how your team is constructed at that time.


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[Assistant] We're playing the Houston Gamblers. They have the number one Russian team in the USFL. They have a great running back in Mark Thompson. And we have the number one Russian defense in the USFL.


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[Assistant] Gotta give, uhm, also want to mention that this Saturday, or this Sunday, I believe is, uhm, the Ohio Football Legends.


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[Assistant] Today in the USFL, so about 15 former Ohio State Buckeyes and Cleveland Browns will be at the game signing autographs and things like that. I got a list for you guys to name off, so I'm uh, Jim Trestle, Cardell Jones, Wyatt Teller.


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[Assistant] Eric Metcalf, Greg Cruitt, Frank Menafield, um, Hanford Dixon and, and, and others. So those guys will be at the USFL games.


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[Assistant] I'm sure you guys know, are more familiar with those guys than me, but uhm, they're legends. Some Buckeye, some Brown, so they'll be here at the Sunday game in New Jersey.


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[Assistant] And things like that this Sunday, the Ohio Football Legends Day at the in the USFL.


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[Assistant] Oh, absolutely. I did get this week, you know, All American is on Netflix. It's number one show on Netflix. I've got a couple of, were you all American? So it's been a blast. Nice.


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[Assistant] Hip-hop, rock, different type of sound. You'll never hear that song before, I promise that. I don't think you'll hear a song like that neither. It's like a trap song, but it's not hype. It's like a mellow, like a mellow fool.


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[Assistant] You can like, you can turn into it, you can just cool to it. I posted a clip of the water part too, and like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, my DMs are crazy. I got lots of my DMs everyday. I got fans, supporters, everything. Rappers, everything. I got like hundreds of DMs a day.


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[Assistant] I'm trying to go places I haven't been. I was just in Italy. I was just in Germany. Like, I did a little small Europe tour. UK, all that. Toronto obviously is my home. I had like, I had like a show with like 2,000 people.


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[Assistant] Hey, dropping this month, 22nd, raw start, new deal, new situations, you know, moving up, that one.


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[Assistant] All of this is valuable material if Youtubers want to make a video on this game. I guess I'll mention the music as well.


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[Assistant] Go away. You absolutely heard what you thought you heard. Cool. Stop.


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[Assistant] You stay right where you are, I'm fixing to send the Texas Rangers to come and get you. You can't do that. Sure I can. They're the Texas Rangers.


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[Assistant] I'm actually gonna file a restraining order so that you can't arrest us. Okay, and then I'll ask a court real nice lie to overturn that. This is a train wreck. Have you ever actually seen one up close? What? Do you want to? Why are you even here? You've added nothing of value to this whole meeting. Well, at least I'm not New York.


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[Assistant] He resigned. Who? Andrew Cuomo. Yeah, and all it took was what? The President, the Speaker of the House, and 59 of your state legislators asking him to do it? Still a few hundred million less than what you had for Bunker Boy. Wait, wait, wait.


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[Assistant] What's a Cuomo? Governor Cuomo resigned. Did you not know that when you said it? Nope. I was just making a general statement.


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[Assistant] Honestly, New York, I thought you and I could be friends, and then you'd go and do this? Calm down over there, Governor Recall. Governor Recall? Is he still under warranty?


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[Assistant] What's going on now? People hate Newsom so much he's actually getting recalled. I personally think that a forced resignation is worse, so. I agree. Forced resignation is way worse. Thank ye- Oh, it's fine.


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[Assistant] Destruction Darius 2 looks like ass. And judging from the comments in the previous video, that's what a lot of you judge a game on.


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[Assistant] And you're going to be sorely disappointed with this video because I have no intention of making this game pretty any time soon. This is intentional. Needless details only get in the way of making the game.


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[Assistant] The more unnecessary stuff I add, the more I'll have to tear down when tweaking with the stuff that goes on behind the scenes. So in case it isn't obvious, yes, this game WILL be getting pretty graphics, sounds and effects. But the gameplay is my main priority right now, as it should be for you too. I mean, pretty graphics can only get you so far once you start playing the game.


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[Assistant] And I myself have been bad with this in the past. When working on a sequel it's all too easy to get caught up in the new exciting features and stuff. But if I want this to be bigger and better than the original, it needs strong foundations. Solid, reliable core gameplay.


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[Assistant] But no. Every object from the original is here, as well as the health and end goal system. All that's missing is the polish.


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[Assistant] And it makes a big difference to how satisfying the game feels, even for me. But I've got to remain strong and to focus on what matters. I will eventually do the polish, and I'll do it better than in the original.


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[Assistant] But for now, try to turn a blind eye to the graphics as I talk you through how the gameplay is better than the original in every way.


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[Assistant] For the first game, I made all of the gameplay mechanics in just one day and I think I did a pretty good job. But with Destruction Darius 2 I've dedicated entire evenings to just a tiny fraction of the game, like getting the boulders to bounce correctly. This might seem silly at first. I mean, how much satisfaction can a bouncing boulder give you, even if it's the most rounded and polished boulder on earth?


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[Assistant] I'd say about 20% more than the original games could. Diminishing returns are clearly present here, but I think that extra 20% can make all the difference between a good game and an excellent one. I hope to apply the same amount of love to every bit of Destruction Darius 2 to make it a worthy sequel. I've found ways of improving things that I didn't even know needed changing.


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[Assistant] All it takes is time to experiment and to think about what really worked and what didn't with the first game's formula.


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[Assistant] Yet, even though I started this game from scratch, a lot of it is the same as the first. I wouldn't blame you for not noticing the differences. The brick walls still take 2 explosions to break, wooden crates still fire out splinters and yes, they're still as terrifying as ever. But I don't think you'll be able to go back to the first once you've played this one.


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[Assistant] It's the simple things. Instead of a mysterious red health bar at the bottom, you now have a basic 5-point system. Some things take one away, others, two.


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[Assistant] When you get hurt in this game, it's easy to understand what it means and why it happened, which is something I always found a little vague in the original. About a decade ago I made an above-view shooter, but unfortunately lost the file.


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[Assistant] It was pretty much just a controllable character and about 6 weapons. But each and every one of them had about a dozen ways in which they could be used. For example, there was a taser that would shoot out a spark a small distance. But it wouldn't ever reach the end if you spun around so you could repeatedly fire it to build up a super-powerful attack before releasing it. You could use it to block bullets if fired at just the right time.


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[Assistant] The attack could even go through walls slightly if you stood in the right place. Every weapon in this demo of mine had enough complexity to master that you could quite happily play through entire games with just one of them. It's a game I'd very much like to try again at some point. But for now, the mines in Destruction Darius operate in a similar way. Left and right-click still throws mines different distances, but the timings have been adjusted.


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[Assistant] If you throw a short distance immediately followed by a long, the shot will detonate and blast a longer one across the level.


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[Assistant] It's a simple system with a vast amount of opportunities. For the sake of gameplay, I've sacrificed realism. Your character can still only throw them in 32 different directions. I could have made this higher. I really could have.


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[Assistant] But fewer angles makes it easier to line shots up and rewards practising those tactics. Only the very centre of the mine is solid. This means that it will pass through walls a bit instead of clipping the corner and bouncing off, which was annoying in the original.


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[Assistant] Everything on-screen is 50% larger, which lets me add more detail to things at the expense of view distance. I know how frustrating this can be if done too much. Dirac and Aeromind 2 sprites were so large you couldn't even see from one end of a room to the other and it ultimately ruined what was so fun from the original game.


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[Assistant] But don't worry. The resolution has also been upped and the gameplay works well at 1280x720, full HD and even at 4K. I intend to get this game working for all setups and the screen and everything on it scales to any dimension. I'm making sure that the whole game runs smoothly, even when there are hundreds of explosions going off.


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[Assistant] The amount the screen shakes depends on how far away from them you are when their minds detonate.


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[Assistant] Don't get me wrong, I reckon the sequel could have worked if I kept it all the same but just added more objects, levels and features. But I haven't just done that.


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[Assistant] Even now, with an identical level to the original, Destruction Darius 2 already plays better. Maybe just 20% better. But 20% better in every way. And when you feel that difference dozens of times a minute, it quickly adds up.


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[Assistant] Now it gets exciting as I venture into unexplored territory. I can either polish what's here, or keep it looking like us, but add new and exciting features. And I think I'll probably do that and keep this game in the ugly Christmas stage for a bit longer.


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[Assistant] I know that you're really angry with Sonny.


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[Assistant] But no matter how clearly you see this or how rational you think you are, Sonny won't be.


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[Assistant] So you gotta look at, look at what you're doing right now. You gotta start thinking things through.


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[Assistant] Ah, I like the way it scrolls across so you can see your goal at the end.


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[Assistant] Who can, who will lose more things in a month? Jason or G? Oh, it's me. It's not even close.


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[Assistant] By the way, yesterday Jason wasn't here, I wasn't here, I'm in the rest of the week, Mikey McDuggets was off, he's back, we'll get to that. But, you know, one other thing I just wanted to hit on real quick.


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[Assistant] So yesterday, when the show was over, I wasn't able to pay attention to the show yesterday. I was very busy yesterday. And Mikey was away and we got this long, in our text group, we got this long text from Steve Becker, our executive producer, about how good the show was yesterday. Apparently it was a very strong show.


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[Assistant] So I was like, okay, these guys are going on and on, it was a great show. So I said, well, let me just see how good it was. So I didn't have time to watch the whole show yesterday because I was kind of busy. So I went on to Rotten Tomatoes.


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[Assistant] Rotten Tomatoes, you may not know this, they don't just do movies, they do TV shows. Really? They give grades. The critics give grades. And apparently, yesterday's show got an 8.2. I see it right here, an 8.2.


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[Assistant] Here's what they said. That 8.2 is pretty good. That's out of 10. That's really good. It says, here's what they wrote up. This was some of the, this was the overall, so different critics give a breakdown on each show, and then they give a consensus, and this was the consensus, okay?


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[Assistant] A very strong show overall, great. Earl and Anthony got a little big for their britches and showed up late for work the following day.


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[Assistant] Apparently Cecil got a call from a closer friend than Earl and was going on that guy's show instead.


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[Assistant] Alright, the bet today is, what did I take? I don't even remember.


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[Assistant] Oh, the Giants, that's right. They've got Alex Cobb pitching today.


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[Assistant] Against the Phillies. They're at home. And Cobb's pitched really well so far in the season. The Phillies have been lousy. One of the disappointing teams. Uh, and they have been particularly poor on the road. So the Giants...


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[Assistant] Uh, we'll get some good pitching tonight and they will win their plus 102. It's basically an even game. So I'll take the Giants in this one. There you go. Knocked out with my keys.


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[Assistant] There you go. Mikey, you have a story for us.


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[Assistant] Alright guys, so obviously yesterday on the show, Jason and I weren't here, G was, and you talked about the big acquisition. Yes sir. I assume you guys were all in favor of it.


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[Assistant] Does anybody, Jason, I assume, uh, you're good with it as well? Yeaah, for what they gave up.


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[Assistant] I think it's great. I'm not ready to tell you the Browns have the best defensive line in the league. That's absurd. I'm not ready to tell you they got the best defensive line in the division. Right, right, right. We gotta see it on the field. Right. But on paper, it is, as G was saying on the phone, yes, it's way, way, way better than it was last year. Oh, 100%. I would still argue...


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[Assistant] That they don't have a definitive second starter at defensive tackle, even at this point. Right, like who's their second defensive tackle?


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[Assistant] Well, I think that, listen, it's not without question marks. However, you spent the money on Tomlinson, you spent the money on Olbo, you made this trade. You've added three guys that we know can play.


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[Assistant] In addition to Myles Gary. So now you, you have four guys on your defensive line. Now it's three ends in a tackle. But you have four guys on the defensive line that you know at worst are going to be quality starters. They had one last year, maybe two with Clowney, maybe.


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[Assistant] He was a mess. Now they have four. That's a huge difference. Now how much did the Browns go from awful to average on the D line or do they go from awful to excellent on the D line? That we're not going to know until we see it, but we know it's going to be better. That we know for sure.


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[Assistant] The Browns have significantly upgraded their defensive line, we know that.


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[Assistant] I would think at least they're going to be average on the defense line. At least. Minimal, right?


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[Assistant] And they suck last year. So even if they're average, that's a pretty big upgrade. And I think we'd all agree they'd probably be better than that, but I'm going to at least say the floor is average now. We know the secondary on paper is good. It disappointed at times last year, but it's good. We all like the Thornhill edition. The Browns have committed


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[Assistant] To those two positions. With draft capital, with money.


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[Assistant] They've committed nothing to linebacker, right? I mean now, they have in the past, but a position which was


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[Assistant] They've added nobody. They brought back the guys from last year who were mostly injured. They haven't added a single, like the only additions in that position are undrafted free agents. So you've made no significant additions there. Do we believe, I'll start with you G, that they think our linebackers are fine,


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[Assistant] With the defensive line being a lot better, they'll, because of that, they'll play better? Or is it just, well we can't fix everything at once, so let's go all in on the D line, and if the linebackers aren't that good, we'll, we'll hope for the best. I don't know, what do you, what do you say to that?


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[Assistant] Clearly now, Jason, linebacker, if you're analyzing this team, position group by position group, it's the worst position group, no?


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[Assistant] Right, this is JOK's last year, if he doesn't get it. I believe so. If he can't...


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[Assistant] Finish your line back. Well, this is not, this is more D line, but, but, uhm, uhm, so the browns.


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[Assistant] Gee talked about it, complete overhaul of the defensive line. And think about, you know, they still have some guys there that have been here, but outside of Miles Garrett, is it possible?


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[Assistant] That every other defensive lineman on this roster when the season begins was not on this team last year, besides Myles Garrett.


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[Assistant] Oboe are all definitely on this team. Yes. Right? Along with Myles. I think Alex Wright and Jordan Elliott are back from last year. For sure. You don't think Winfrey is definitely back? I don't think he's definitely back. And Eka's definitely on the team. He was a high pick. Eka's on the team. So we know that there's going to be four new guys on the defensive line. Minimum. I think if Hurst is healthy, again, he missed the last two years, so who the hell knows? Maybe this guy will never play again.


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[Assistant] They're, obviously the talent has been upgraded and the potential is there certainly to be the best in the division and one of the best. I think it, it, the Browns could have a top five defensive line. I think that is possible. Absolutely. But I can't, I can't make them top five when none of these guys have played for the Browns except for Miles Garrett.


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[Assistant] So until I see them do it, I'm not putting them top 5. I think you gotta earn it to some degree before you're given that grade, but that doesn't matter. The potential is clearly there for them to be that. That's how I see it, but I'm not like


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[Assistant] I'm not ready to go there. There's some good pass rushes in this division and the Browns gotta prove it, but.


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[Assistant] It would not surprise me if the middle of the season we're saying the Browns have a top five defensive line in the league.


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[Assistant] Well the Ravens defensive line was also very good second half of last year. Bangles have a pretty good defensive line. I do think


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[Assistant] There's something to be said, and gee, you know this better than anybody, because you played defensive line, and we think about this with offensive line, but I think it's important for defensive line too. There's the chemistry of guys playing together, right? Like, I think on paper, I see the talent that the Browns have on the defensive line, and the talent that the Bengals have, and I do think the Browns have more talent than the Bengals do.


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[Assistant] Uh, DJ Reader at D-Tackle is better than any individual player. The Browns have a D-Tackle. But overall, as a group, I think the Browns, the Bengals are a...


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[Assistant] Like, a pretty good defensive line. I think the Browns on paper are better than that. Are top five potential. However, the Bengals guys have chemistry, so they might be a little better in the beginning of the year because they're used to playing together. They know each other's moves. And so there's something to be said for that. So we gotta see it on the field. But certainly, on paper, they got a ton of talent.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and it is interesting that he and Tomlinson and Darius Smith do have some chemistry together because obviously they played together and it's going to be exciting to see. The Browns, you know, we've been scarred.


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[Assistant] By optimism for the Browns so many times. Yes. That's hard. You don't want to go over the top. We, we were doing Friday our predictions and I said nine and eight when I saw the schedule. I don't know. G went with 11 wins. I don't know what you're, Jason, you weren't here. I'd probably be, I hate


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[Assistant] Let's go. And the Browns potential, the Browns potential is through the roof. If Deshaun Watson


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[Assistant] We've said this a thousand times, we'll say it a thousand more. It all comes down to Jean Watson, right? The rest of the roster is there. This team has no excuse.


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[Assistant] There you go. There's three legit Super Bowl contenders in the AFC. The Bengals, the Bills, the Chiefs. Do we all agree on that? Yes. The Browns have the talent.


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[Assistant] Alright, there's nothing, like, that group is set. Those other three teams are there. The Browns are not blowing past those three.


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[Assistant] In the mix with the other three teams, the Chiefs, the Bills, the Bengals. Can you be as good as those teams and then on any given day maybe beat them? There's never gonna be a situation where you're gonna be clearly better than those teams. Those teams are great. Correct.


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[Assistant] They've been proven over the last couple of years, the Chiefs in particular who have won through Super Bowl. Can they get into the mix with those teams?


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[Assistant] Like he was going on, I think the Browns are the biggest sleeper team in the league. So listen, in the end, it doesn't matter if people respect or not respect your team. When you gain respect. Right. That's right. I think go to the playoffs and win games that matter. You get respect.


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[Assistant] Still there. By the way, shouldn't the Browns, I would expect with Jim Schwartz, them to be creative enough that we would see Sidariah Smith, Oboe, and Miles Garry. I was thinking that. Yeah, I was thinking about that, right?


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[Assistant] And speaking of pressure, there's a ton of pressure this season on Kevin Stefanski. Oh yeaah. Because on paper, Andrew Berry has done a magnificent job this offseason. Case A-men. And they brought in, they, and whoever you give credit for, they have up


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[Assistant] Again, on paper, huge upgrade at DC, huge upgrade at Special Teams Coach.


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[Assistant] So we'd expect those units to be better. I'm expecting the defense to be good this year. I'm expecting special teams to be way improved this year. It's all on the offense and it's all on Deshaun Watson. Deshaun Watson's young enough that a year out and a suspension should not ruin his entire career. Correct.


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[Assistant] They've never had a more talented quarterback than Deshaun Watts. No, I don't think so. Never. I don't think, I don't give a rat's ass about Otto Graham. Don't bring up Otto Graham to me. I don't care about Otto Graham. There were eight teams. I don't give a shit about Otto Graham.


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[Assistant] So 81% said either the best in the division? No, 67. 33 said none of the above.


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[Assistant] No, no, no, 80, I think, wasn't it a total between best of the division and none of the above? Wasn't that a total of 80%?


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[Assistant] At this point. By the way, one last thing on the Browns before we move on and get to some, some Cav stuff, guys. This was not on our rundown, but of course Tyvis texted right before the show and goes, Brown's Twitter is talking about Zeke Elliott. Some random, you know, people on Twitter. I don't know who this is.


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[Assistant] How many times, does anybody think Zeke Elliott makes any sense for the Browns? And you guys, what do you think?


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[Assistant] The running back position is a young man's game. More than any other position in football. I got a young back, I gotta see what he's made of.


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[Assistant] Let him go somewhere else and do it. I think he can still contribute to the team. I don't think he's a fit here, and I agree with you. If I had to choose between Zeke and Hunt, not that I really want either back on this team, on this team, that wouldn't be back for Zeke. I actually think Hunt would make more sense between the two, because at least he's more of a pass catching back.


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[Assistant] I'll tell you where he should go. I don't know if they're interested in him.


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[Assistant] If I'm him, the team that makes sense is the Chargers. Because their back, their only back is Eckler. And he's more of like the scat back, you know, pass catching back. He's really good. But you could use Elliott as like your goal line, fourth down back with the Chargers.


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[Assistant] The guy's obviously seen his better day. Alright Mikey, let's switch things up. You've got a good question for us when it comes to the NBA. By the way...


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[Assistant] By the way, before you ask us this Cavs related question, we just got to talk for a minute because I don't know how much you guys talked about it yesterday. And Jason and I weren't here yesterday. What an embarrassing performance. I guess we shouldn't be surprised. You know, Mike mentioned Doc Rivers got fired.


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[Assistant] Sorry, my bad, I forgot about that. Go ahead, we'll get to it later.


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[Assistant] Shoot. He's a white dude, isn't he? The white guy who shoots you. I knew he was white!


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[Assistant] And what was, what did Beasley shoot this year? Thirty... Thirty-seven, thirty-eight. Yeaah, I was going to say thirty-five.


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[Assistant] So let me ask you guys a question. Cause I'm not gonna be a phony. I don't know, I don't know these guys well enough to make it a good opinion. So I'm gonna bring it to you guys.


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[Assistant] Who's the best? You like Di Vincenzo the best? Yeah. Who do you like the best? Di Vincenzo? Mikey, who do you like the best of those three?


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[Assistant] Well, I guess you could just say you're Jewish. Yeaah. That's a whole distinction. I feel like I'm in my own category.


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[Assistant] How much better is DiVincenzo than the non-Livert guys on that list? Or even Livert?


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[Assistant] He's better than him. So, Dean Vincenzo's a better shooter than anybody they got. Of the others. More consistent. Yes. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Uh, and he's what, 24 years old, 25 years old, something like that. He's older than that. He just turned 26. Okay. Just turned 26. He's not old. No, he's not old. I mean, it seems like...


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[Assistant] Is he the best guy they can reasonably get? Probably


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[Assistant] Is Philadelphia gonna blow things up after another embarrassing loss? They fired their coach.


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[Assistant] And I know this guy's making an absurd amount of money, but is there any way they could trade for Tobias Harris? The Cavs. The Cavs? He's making like 40 million next year. I know he's overpaid, but he's a good player.


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[Assistant] If Tobias Harris is in this starting lineup, how much better are the Cavs? A lot.


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[Assistant] And I'm not killing them for trading with Donovan Mitchell. But I will kill them if they're not willing to go into the tax to make the team as good as possible and try to win a championship next year.


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[Assistant] I'm not saying trade Evan Mobley or whatever, no I'm not saying that, but if I have to trade Jared Allen or Laverte, if I have to go over the tax, I'm a freaking billionaire!


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[Assistant] And the bottom line is the Cavs don't have a lot of assets to trade. So the only way they can get better at that position is to probably trade for a guy who's overpaid and the team wants to get rid of. Is there a guy better than Harris?


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[Assistant] Okay, so let's say, let's say they had to trade, uhm, is there anybody else they could trade besides Jared Allen? No, right?


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[Assistant] Tobias Ha- the Sixers just want to get rid of his contract, correct?


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[Assistant] They would, they would trade him just to get the cap relief. Is that fair? They're not looking for much in return. You think that's fair or no?


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[Assistant] To get Tobias Harris. No, that's not enough money. Money has to match. Yes it is!


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[Assistant] Keep going. Oh my god. Well, you have to trade Jared Allen.


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[Assistant] There it is. So let me ask you this. Could you trade Alan and those three slapdicks that I mentioned? You keep LaVert


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[Assistant] By the way, one other thing in the NBA, tonight, game one, Western Conference Finals, Lakers at Nuggets, the Bet Rivers line is six and a half, Nuggets are favored. The Nuggets are favored to win the series.


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[Assistant] They are minus 165, so not a huge favorite to win the series. The, uh, the Celtics by the way are minus 500, so they're a huge favorite. Who do you guys like in the series? Who do you like tonight and who do you like in the series?


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[Assistant] But you know he's so smart that he knows that he can't do it as often as he used to.


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[Assistant] If the Nuggets win a championship this year, do we now have to say Jokic is the best player in the NBA? Yes.


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[Assistant] The guys won two of the last three MVPs. Easily could have won it three in a row. Easily. The only reason he didn't win this year is because of what Kendrick Perkins said.


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[Assistant] I think there's probably a lot of truth in what Gene's saying in defense of people who won't say it.


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[Assistant] If he wins a title, I gotta look at him as the best player in the NBA right now.


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[Assistant] I don't think outside of Janus any of those guys can be number ones to a championship anymore, do they?


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[Assistant] And by the way, to be fair, LeBron belongs on a list by himself. Those guys don't belong on a list with LeBron. Fair.


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[Assistant] He feels to me like, like I felt about Dominique Wilkins when I was a kid. Like, awesome player, scores a ton of points, but is never going to win anything.


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[Assistant] Just moments ago, from... Rotten tomatoes? No, from the toilet paper factory, they said, please stop insulting us by calling Joelle and Mead soft. Hehehehe. Charmin' soft.


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[Assistant] I don't know. I don't know if that made sense. My point is he's softer than soft, so I'm with you on that. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Who, John Marant obviously has mental health issues. He's, he's got problems. You guys talked a lot about this yesterday.


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[Assistant] Sorry to cut you off, Chi, but I don't know how much you got into this, so I just wanted to say-


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[Assistant] Okay, let me just say one quick thing on John Moran. I'm sure maybe this came up along the way because I see some people with the defense of, well, if it was a white dude holding a gun, did that come up yesterday? Did anybody bring that up?


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[Assistant] Okay, well I've seen this on Twitter and I want to bring this up.


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[Assistant] So, there's this thing like, you know, we often see, like,


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[Assistant] NRA rallies and all this lunatic stuff with guns because people are like obsessed with guns like it's porn. Uhm, that, you know, how come if a white guy's holding a gun, uh, it's not a big deal, but now a young black man's holding a gun, uh, it's a big deal. Well, there's two things here. Number one, for me, it's a big deal if anybody's showing off with a gun.


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[Assistant] To me, if you're playing with a gun like it's a toy, I don't care if you're black or white, you're an idiot. Okay? It's that simple to me. It's not a toy, it's a very dangerous thing where people would die in all over the freaking country from these things. So to play with it, like you're a big shot, number two, if you need a gun to make you think you're tough, you're not tough.


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[Assistant] If you need a gun to be tough, then you ain't tough, alright? So, but, yeah, I mean, there are some crazy lunatics that celebrate some people with guns. That's a separate argument from this thing. The bottom line is this guy's coming off like a crazy person, and he's setting a bad example for young people that look up to him.


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[Assistant] And so we don't want to see this. That's just my thoughts on this. But I wouldn't trust him to be the leader of my basketball team. Because he obviously makes bad decisions.


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[Assistant] A couple things over the weekend that got lost.


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[Assistant] You look at the statistics, obviously they're not as good as they were last year. You look at his hits allowed, his walks allowed, his runs allowed, his blown saves. He's more than halfway


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[Assistant] Like, he's already blown as many saves this year as he blew all of last year, see?


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[Assistant] You got it right there. Good job, Earl. Last year you walked 10 batters the whole season.


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[Assistant] It is when you only walk 10 all of last year. He's on pace for 20 this year. That's a huge difference.


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[Assistant] That's ten more baserunners! Not to mention the fact that he's given up more hits. And he's blown some big games for this team. Now...


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[Assistant] The Guardians, again, I'll say it for the millionth time, are very, very, just like Jason does, shooting, shooting, shooting, shooting, shooting. I'm gonna say they're very, very, very, very, very, very, very lucky that they are in an ass division. Yep. With ass teams. You look at the rest of the American League,


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[Assistant] Nine of the other ten teams in the American league are good or at least decent. Except for Oakland. So.


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[Assistant] Last year he had nearly an 8 to 1. Bring up those, can you bring up those comparison stats again?


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[Assistant] Last year I believe he had almost an 8 to 1 strikeout walk ratio, which is fantastic.


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[Assistant] Almost 8, uh, yeaah. Almost 8 to 1. This year, it's less than 3 to 1. That is a massive


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[Assistant] Because everybody throws in the 90s now, in the mid and upper 90s. The guys that only stand out and throw over 100, but another thing is, when your command is off,


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[Assistant] Even if you're throwing hard, if your command is off, guys will be able to lay off pitches because instead of them being borderline, they're not going to swing because they're way off the plate. And that's what's happening a lot to him.


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[Assistant] It's funny, it's a good point, because we said all off season, a lot of us were like, ah, Gonzalez could be, could have 15 home runs in May or could be in the minors. Well, it went the minors route. And you know, you said it right, Kwan's been okay, but he hasn't been, he hasn't taken a step forward. By the way, Tanner Bybee was great on Sunday.


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[Assistant] He was great. And by the way, you know, I never talk about wins for a pitcher because it's a stupid stat, doesn't prove anything, but they should change the rule. Think about what happened in that game Sunday. Was it Sunday that Bybee pitched? I think it was. So Bybee goes seven and two thirds, gave up two hits, I believe. Correct.


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[Assistant] And I think one other baserunner, because he hit a batter in that last inning when he came out. Correct. So there's two on, two out, Frank Kona. It's a one-one game, because he had given up a run, he blew the one-nothing lead. Gave up a run in the eighth. Frank Kona takes him out, brings in Karinczek. Karinczek faces one batter, gets the final out, and then in the bottom of the eighth, the Guardians take the lead.


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[Assistant] Well Karen Cech gets the win. How stupid is that? I know that's been the rule forever. Baseball should have changed that a long time ago. And they have the leeway to do that. Just give the official scorer the option. Well that's what you do. If the starting pitcher does not go five innings and if a team has the lead,


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[Assistant] After five innings, and the, or, or, and the starting pitcher doesn't make it through five, then the official scorer picks the winning pitcher. He's got the discrepancy. In a situation like that, you should do the same thing. I totally agree. Tanner Bybee should get the win. I totally agree. I mean, not James Karenchek who got one out.


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[Assistant] He's gotten in trouble with walks. His two bad outings this year, one in Columbus and one with the Guardians, he had a lot of walks in those games.


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[Assistant] Oh, he's not going back. No chance. No chance. He's going back. Uh, by the way, one of the thing great weekend for Josh Naylor. It's late eighth inning home runs three days in a row and Phil Nevin, the manager of the angels.


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[Assistant] I think this was also on Sunday. I don't know why all my days are blurred in my head.


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[Assistant] Did one of the, yes, because it was Sandoval pitching against, uh, Bybee because they were teammates in high school.


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[Assistant] And Sandoval's a really good pitcher. Kind of under the radar because he plays for the Angels, but the last couple of years he's been really good.


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[Assistant] Phil Nevin, the Angels manager, and I don't know, and I knew you mentioned before, like, I haven't heard his reason for this. Yeah, I don't know. Pablo Sandoval, again, he's been one of the top, I'd say 25 pitcher in baseball the last two years. Left-handed pitcher, but really good. He pitches into the eighth against the Guardians. The Guardians have a runner, it's a tie game.


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[Assistant] The angels, with Sandoval on the hill, intentionally walk Ramirez. And, again, Sandoval a lefty.


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[Assistant] He pulls the lefty to bring in Carlos Estevez, the face nailer. Now, Estevez is their closer. He's had a great year. He's had a great year. Fair. However, he, this is his first great year. He's not been very good before this year. So he's been good for a few weeks. Kudos to him.


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[Assistant] Sandoval A is a way better pitcher than Carlos Estevez, even at 90 pitches or whatever he was. And Josh Naylor,


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[Assistant] Is to me, maybe I'm not following some guy closely on another team. But I follow baseball pretty close. I can't think of a player.


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[Assistant] That is more of a different player versus lefties versus righties. He is a borderline all-star against right handers. And he is


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[Assistant] Not even a major leaguer against lefties. And that's not an exaggeration. He cannot, and when he does hit lefties, he only gets singles, pretty much. He has zero power against lefties. Whatever. Now we're talking over 300 played appearances.


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[Assistant] I'd rather nail or face a lefty on fumes. Who's a good lefty on fumes. Because the odds that Naylor's gonna hit a home run against a lefty are almost nil. Yeah, I can't argue that. I mean, I don't understand that, but fortunately it worked out in the end.


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[Assistant] So, we'll see. I mean they're under 500, they're what 19 and 21? Is that their record?


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[Assistant] And that's why I'm not going too crazy about it. And there's things I don't like. And they do need to make a deal at some point. They need another


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[Assistant] He sucks. Alright, Cam Gallagher is a journeyman.


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[Assistant] Bo Nailer's killing it in AAA. He is. Even if he's not, like somebody, I saw somebody say, well he's not polished enough as a plate, as a, behind the plate. Mike Zanino sucks behind the plate. He didn't always suck, but he's old, he can't do it, and Bo Nailer's hit, crushing it in AAA.


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[Assistant] If Bill Nailer doesn't turn out to be a good player, and obviously we'll wait, he's barely played in the big leagues, then they should have traded for Sean Murphy, but whatever. Let's see what Bill Nailer's got. Come on now!


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[Assistant] Tough look. I mean, I might be able to get one hit in 49 trips. No, I'm kidding. Go ahead. Okay.


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[Assistant] By the way, Coco Crisp, I called his games, uh, in the minors, where he was going by Covelli. Covelli, yeah.


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[Assistant] I betcha they all have single digits, right? Steve, take it.


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[Assistant] He was like making fun of the culture or something. I don't remember what he was doing. Now he's getting killed out there. Good.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, cause Carrasco's earliest career was piling up some losses. Yeaah. And then he went to the bullpen. And that kind of turned him around, that kind of turned his career around. But you can take L's in the bullpen real easy. Good, that's true.


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[Assistant] By the way, Jan Gomes is actually having a pretty good year for the Gubs this year. Out of the blue, he hasn't been good the last year. This looks like a trick question, but it does, right?


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[Assistant] Use some good lineups. Yep. Lonnie Chisholm is such a scrub. It can't be Gomes.


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[Assistant] It was a great game. I didn't like the pitcher hitting question, but I liked the game overall. You can steal that. Mike, Mike screwed it up in the beginning, which kind of screwed us up in the beginning, but that was a fun game.


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[Assistant] I wonder where Daddy Slazar is today, by the way. Maybe he's selling pop to Chris Perez's


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[Assistant] Alright, I got two things I want to talk about. One serious, one not that serious. Serious thing is, uhm,


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[Assistant] I'm very excited to say my wife is home from the hospital. She got home last week on Thursday. Thank you. Thanks to all my friends and family that were so supportive and, but let me just say, uh,


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[Assistant] I don't wanna, you know, well, I guess I shouldn't talk about this. People always wanna know, like, how's she doing, how's she doing?


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[Assistant] You know, when you get, if you don't, if you don't know anybody that's had leukemia and it's had a, uh,


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[Assistant] I don't mean to downplay other types of cancer because all cancer is very serious. I'm just saying you don't understand. So if somebody in your family had another type of cancer, you can't relate to what we're going through because it's completely different. Does it mean yours is not serious on its own, right? I'm not trying to say that. But you can't really relate unless you understand and


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[Assistant] My wife is out of the hospital, but not out of the woods. And so it's still a really tough time for my family, but we are so, so happy to have her home. On a much lighter note, yesterday,


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[Assistant] No, Sunday was the first episode of the final season of Fear the Walking Dead. And let me just say to the Walking Dead family out there, if you still watch Walking Dead, the last season of the original Walking Dead was great. They bounced back after a couple of subpar seasons. I love the show, I'm obsessed with it.


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[Assistant] The first episode of Fear the Walking Dead for the final season.


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[Assistant] Who was British by the way? I bet you didn't know that, that the guy's British in real life. Uh, look up, check it up, you would never have guessed that. But anyway.


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[Assistant] That's Wood's butt. One final thing. Mike had a plan for overtime. We're blowing it off. I don't want to talk about Webb Benaiah. Nobody gives a shit about him. I'm not talking about him. I want


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[Assistant] immediate questions on the YouTube chat from anybody that's on our overtime. I want fan questions about non-sports things. I don't want to talk about sports and overtime.


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[Assistant] Non-sports questions only from anybody that's going to be at overtime. Send the questions in the chat to the guys now. I'm not talking about Web Minaya or whatever the hell his name is. I don't care about his name. He's not going to be on the Cavs. Who gives a rat's ass? We'll see you tomorrow. Tivus in for Jason. G and I are here. We love you all.


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[Assistant] That's a beautiful thing. She's something else, man. Before we get started, man, thanks Boogie for stopping in. Thanks to USFL for landing us Boogie today. And as always, USFL is, uh,


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[Assistant] Yes, I had a question for you all. We're all talking about what he brings on the football field, and I think that's great. But we've had plenty of conversations on this show about the Browns lacking that Alpha dog in the locker room. Right. Did the Browns finally get their Alpha dog?


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[Assistant] Yeah, before we bring in what I call the GOAT, I want to let you all know that this next segment of the show is brought to you by Lorraine County Community College. Your classes, your future.


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[Assistant] So go get full benefit package, paid times off, and sign a bonus. Just go apply at precast.com slash careers to learn more. So we asked the internet, was Zedaria Smith the missing alpha dog?


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[Assistant] Michael Ribovich, I apologize if I did not say that right. Jay, you should share your friend's parlay to the coach's tier. I don't know what sportbook he uses, but I know that FanDuel lets you share a link to your bet. So we're gonna talk about membership.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we're going to talk about, uh, me and you are going to talk about how to give memberships in the second. Yes. Yes. But before we do that, let's roll this video from you all talking about membership. Okay, great.


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[Assistant] So speaking of memberships, Jay, I know a while back you asked about how to give memberships. Yes. Well, I'm sitting here last week working and I decided to give our beautiful UCSS family some, uh, memberships. So this is what you got to do. Okay. From your own YouTube page.


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[Assistant] You go to our page, subscribe, and then you become a member.


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[Assistant] Well starting now, every month, I think I'm gonna give five memberships. Just once a month. Very smart. If I can afford it, I might give five more.


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[Assistant] So make sure you see your favorite golf legends playing in the Carlin Companies Championship, July 12th through the 16th at the famous Firestone Country Club.


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[Assistant] He's batting 256 with 32 RBIs, 9 home runs, 34 hits, and he scored 28 runs. That is really good. No, that's insane. That's really good.


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[Assistant] At the famous Firestone Country Club is fun, family-friendly events all weekend long.


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[Assistant] Uh, including a new fan zone experience, free attendance for kids and concerts every single night.


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[Assistant] There's something there for everyone. Learn more at callitgolf.com. All right, so we're going to switch gears here. Uh, real serious topic. So we all wake up yesterday and we see reports of John Moran for the second time in about two or three months is on Instagram live, flashing a gun. He's ruining it Jay, right before our lives.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so like, this, this, this really made me feel some type of way, just like Typhus, just like G. I know me Typhus and uh, G actually talked about it before the show.


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[Assistant] They bought us facade and this image of being from the hood and glorifying the hood is cool based off what you say on TV. But when you really, when you live it in real life time.


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[Assistant] You, you can play some serious consequences that you can't come back from. And it's just unfortunate that this dude has worked his ass off to get to where he's at.


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[Assistant] And because you got a little bit of money, you think you can buy this facade of being from the hood when you're not built like that. That type of behavior will get you killed.


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[Assistant] And that's just unfortunate that nobody loves him enough to let him know that.


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[Assistant] Playing the Call of Company Championship July 12th through the 16th at the famous Firestone Country Club.


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[Assistant] There's always something for everyone. You can learn more at callitgolf.com. Before we get to final takes.


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[Assistant] Tyva says something, Boogie, you say something that I personally can relate to.


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[Assistant] That when you grow up in the hood, first of all, a real OG is somebody that's trying to steer you in the right direction. And if an OG see potential in you, they will steer you in the right direction. I had an OG. His name is Rooster. Rooster is no longer alive. He's no longer with us. He was tragically murdered two years ago.


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[Assistant] But Rooster would see me jumping off the porch, doing things I ain't had no business, doing things that really was not becoming of me being successful.


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[Assistant] A real OG is somebody that's encouraging you to go the right way.


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[Assistant] So if you calling somebody an OG and they ain't really pushing you right, they don't love you for real.


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[Assistant] I actually asked this question to Brandon Stokely, I spoke to him this morning, and I asked him, do you guys as a, like, when you were a player, do other players, like, how much do you look at the schedule when it comes out?


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[Assistant] He says, when I get, when we get the schedule, I look at three things. When's the bye week? Where are we going? Prime, no, primetime games. Oh, prime, okay.


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[Assistant] And, do I have to play anywhere in the freezing cold in December? Those are the three things he looked at.


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[Assistant] Still need to be, still need to be paid for. Right. Charge more for like vans and buses, do they?


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[Assistant] Yeah, listen, I'm just, what's my baseball record now, Mike?


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[Assistant] Okay. So all my picks are, again, I don't pick anything more than, uh, more than minus 121. Actually, technically I had to raise yesterday with minus 121. So I cheated. All they covered. You want to do the reading?


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[Assistant] Check out yesterday, uh, today's Bet Rivers podcast. I talk about the schedule, the NBA playoffs and more. Uh, yesterday I had the Rays against the Yankees and they beat them by six runs I think.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uh, but I didn't take them today. I got two games for you today.


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[Assistant] Let's bring him up here. So I got the Rangers minus a run and a half at the A's.


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[Assistant] The Rangers, I think, with, even with the run and a half are still minus 110.


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[Assistant] But, uh, to win by two runs or more in Oakland. Oakland's won three games at home all season.


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[Assistant] Uh, so in this game you have Adam Wainwright pitching for the Cardinals. He just came off the injured list and was terrible in his first start. He's in his last year. He's like 42 years old. The Red Sox have James Paxton pitching this game. He also just came off the injured list, has barely pitched the last few years, pitched like one or two innings his first time out. So the Red Sox


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[Assistant] Offensively have been fantastic. The Cardinals lately have been hitting. So I expect a ton of runs in this game. I expect to be a very high scoring game. I think that's a safe bet. That's the Boston Marathon.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's gonna be huge. So there you go. Cardinals Red Sox over 10. Very good.


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[Assistant] So I have been on the fence on this all day, which is very out of character for me, but I gotta call myself out because I've been very indecisive about this.


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[Assistant] I originally went through the schedule, you know, with that silly game and went 10 and 7 and then I said, eh, I'm getting carried away here. The Browns gotta show me a little more before I show 10 win confidence in them.


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[Assistant] I went through it again. I got to nine. So this morning I texted Mike and I said, switch me up to nine and eight. But then I was like, no, I got to stick with my first prediction. So they kept it at 10 and seven. And then right before the show, I said, guys, I'm switching it to nine and eight, even though it's going to say 10 and seven, you can make fun of me if you will. So officially I'm going with nine and eight.


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[Assistant] That's more flipping than you've ever done on anything.


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[Assistant] My initial reaction was 10 and 7 and I decided I didn't want to switch, but I, I felt like, I feel like the last couple of years I've been giving the Browns too much credit without them proving it on the field. They gotta show me more. Even 9 and 8 is two more wins than last year. I do think Watson's gonna play better. However, it's a tough division.


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[Assistant] It is tough. And, uh, we thought Baltimore was wilting. Right. Not so much.


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[Assistant] And, you know, I keep wanting to write off the Steelers. I think I'm gonna learn my lesson this year. I'm not gonna write them off this year.


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[Assistant] Right, of course. I hope so. Let that be the case.


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[Assistant] No, they couldn't get over it. You know what's stupid though? Like, you guys, like...


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[Assistant] I mean, they've been the one of the worst franchise.


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[Assistant] By the way, there's four teams. No, they don't, but, but, but you know what? The market size doesn't matter as much. The Bengals, the Bengals with Borough have become a more popular national team than they were. They're not popular, but they're more, they were bottom in terms of popularity.


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[Assistant] And I believe you will. I mean, four is still a lot. It's more than a lot of teams, but there are four teams with zero primetime games. And probably should be more than that.


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[Assistant] Right? They know. Right. I mean, last year, it wasn't this way when they went to the Super Bowl the year before because Joe Borough had been hurt as a rookie. Right. We didn't know how good he was going to be.


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[Assistant] If, if they somehow lost a game where Watson threw for four touchdowns at 357 yards and Burrow just got a touchdown at the end to win it, like, you're certainly not going to be upset about Watson.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Do you want to talk about a team that really got screwed by the schedule? How about this? The Giants, between weeks two and nine. That's eight games. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Has to be a win. Has to. Well, especially for Jay and I, who picked them to lose week one, then you gotta win.


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[Assistant] I think the Titans are bottoming out this year. I think they're gonna bottom out and be terrible.


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[Assistant] What do you think? I got the Ravens game as a win. That was a tough one but I got that as a win at home.


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[Assistant] I mean the Niners question every year is their quarterback. Yeah. Minus quarterback, I think they have the best roster in the league and I don't even think it's that close. I agree. But I think they do.


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[Assistant] Through, uh, the winless season would be an interesting 30 for 30. Just that stretch.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it would be crazy. All right, Mikey, what do we got to go?


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[Assistant] Brad and G have 5 and 2. I'm at 4 and 3. You're at 3 and 4.


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[Assistant] That's a win, that's another game you have to win. I mean, that's even easier than the Colts because it's at home. Kyla Murray, I don't know, he probably won't be back by then.


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[Assistant] Everybody got to win on that one? Yes. I got to win on that. Alright, so you guys have 6 and 2. Yeaah. It's amazing. 5 and 3, 4 and 4. Yeaah. Okay. Correct.


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[Assistant] I got that as a loss. I got it as a L.


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[Assistant] Loser. It's an L. That's an L for me. All right, six and three. Uh, no, that's nine.


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[Assistant] Alright, so seven and three, six and four, and then Jay and I are both five and five now.


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[Assistant] I feel like I need to see the rest of the schedule because I can't remember.


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[Assistant] And I got him with five wins right now? Okay, so I got, I ha-


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[Assistant] Yeah, I got a win over the Bra- at Denver. A win at Denver.


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[Assistant] Russ, Russ was Rusty last year. You got him now 8 and 3, I think, G. Yup. And the three of us are all at 6 and 5. Yup. Right.