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[Assistant] Alright, so for my final pick, I went back and forth on this one. I think this is going to solidify me getting the belt. He's arguably one of the most electrifying athletes that the Cleveland Browns has had since they returned in 1999.


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[Assistant] He was a undrafted guy who worked his way up to a multimillion dollar contract. I'm talking about the great Josh Cribs. Josh Cribs is a better athlete than nobody on my list. The return assassin. The guy who returned two against Kansas City. He got a couple against Pittsburgh.


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[Assistant] You do realize Josh Cribs is like NFL record territory, right?


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[Assistant] All time scoring points leader in NBA history, right? Okay. I got a tight end who's arguably the best tight end in NFL history with two Super Bowl range. He got two Super Bowl, right? I got somebody who broke the color barrier in American League and baseball who was what was a goaded


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[Assistant] Actually, London Fletcher was my honorable mention. It was a toss-up between London Fletcher and uh, and Josh Cribb. I've talked about London Fletcher. You want to go look at a Hall of Famer and look at their numbers. If you stripped his pitcher, Ray Lewis' pitcher, the numbers are very, very similar.


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[Assistant] Stop. Have you not seen what Josh did when some of the kickoff that came his way? Go look at his highlight reel. Sometimes you just got to be remember what's going on.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but everybody knows the game is typically lost or won based on one or two changes in the special teams. And he had plays in the special teams that didn't. You know who I thought someone might take a steep


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[Assistant] I digress, Jay, cause I tell the truth too. I'm very authentic with my takes. I keep it real.


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[Assistant] He has tied the NFL career record with 8 kickoff returns for touchdowns. He also has the NFL record with 2 kickoffs of 100 yards or more returns for touchdowns in the same


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[Assistant] I wanna thank God. I wanna thank all my friends and family who stuck it out with me. Thank Bob. I wanna thank Big Bro, you know, who kinda taught me the ropes. You know, I told y'all, I'm not next. I'm here now.


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[Assistant] So, I came up with something while I was sitting in the car. I think we're gonna talk about the, the whole contract situation. Justin Herbert just gotta think up to $215 million in guaranteed money. And the further we get away from Deshaun Watson's contract, the more I'm starting to understand that his contract is definitely unique and one of a kind, so.


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[Assistant] Well Bob, now I get why your point of view is so upside down.


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[Assistant] How are you guys doing? Two more minutes Dante.


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[Assistant] 32. Oh, you're about the same age as me. Yeah, I never remember thinking that, but like the version of Christianity I was brought up with was also very much like, you know, cause religion is what they tell you it is, and like for my parents it was like, treat everybody good, racism is bad, homophobia is bad, uh, anti-woman stuff is bad. That's like what I grew up thinking religion was.


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[Assistant] How did that just happen? I don't really know, but anyway, J. Cole, one of the biggest hip hop artists in the world, just pulls up to the shop, I'm in the fucking bathroom, I'm smoking, I'm shaving my head, I'm listening to this podcast, all of a sudden, Chris Long texts me, J. Cole is here. I'm like, oh my god. There's a little bit of...


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[Assistant] Pretext to this because my manager had told me that he had a conversation with J. Cole about me, but at the same time, you know, people tell you stuff and you don't really think it's going to be a real thing. I'm like, what the fuck? I run out of there. I throw on my fucking new Versace underwear that Rico reckless told me to get. I'm going to give a review of that later in the day.


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[Assistant] I jump in my web, I rush here. Walk in. J. Cole, I'm out of breath.


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[Assistant] I have no- I'm fucking frantic, I'm frazzled, I can't believe that he's actually in my store.


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[Assistant] What's the first thing I started talking about? I just mentioned I was just listening to this podcast. It was hella anti-Trump and I mentioned that it was by atheist author Sam Harris. Boom! We're in like a 30 minute conversation about religion. What the fuck is going on?


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[Assistant] Just good with people like able to like not make them feel offended even though he was kind of trying to not talk to him at that moment and then like just the fact that he was super interested in no jumper and stuff too was just like I don't know I'm a little like


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[Assistant] Just like, starstruck a little bit, just amazed that just happened, but hey. That's my man, I see Narco, we out here.


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[Assistant] Yo, J. Cole is hella fucking real. He's out here. No security. Chillin'.


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[Assistant] He's going crazy. He said we could throw any word at him and he'll do a freestyle. Let's try another one.


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[Assistant] The new podcast that I'm doing on my personal channel that is basically gonna take the place of the host chats that we used to do on the No Jumper channel. We did one like a week ago, but anyway, this is gonna be a new thing. For my, for my cast, I have Chris Long, aka The Cameraman.


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[Assistant] I'd talk more, not for the whole fucking tail, cause I'd fucking never shut up. I feel like if anything, I over-talk during this, but it is my podcast apparently, so I should probably over-talk, right? Yeah, you're good. You're alright.


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[Assistant] It is Saturday today, March 16th. It's eight o'clock something and Johan is still sleeping. So I've just been out with Nanook a little bit and feeding the birds.


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[Assistant] And eh, we've got a lot of questions for him now.


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[Assistant] So, I thought we should do this video now to ask Johan some questions today and


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[Assistant] I guess this is the case. Uh, he actually often expressed gratitude that I do film us and do


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[Assistant] I'm going to do this video more like a normal vlog. So you guys gonna get to spend a Saturday with us. You're gonna hang around with us, whatever we are doing. We have no big plans. We're just gonna be at home.


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[Assistant] A lot of people want to know about your hobbies. Like, what do you like to do on your free time when you're not working?


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[Assistant] But, but you are. That's even how we connected. I was so fascinated by the way you wrote because it really touched my heart and you write poems and-


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[Assistant] And you, I think you usually like to write in the winters.


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[Assistant] I think you have to, I feel like you have such a gift. Yeaah, it's just incredible. And I think it's a gift you have and I think you're meant to do something with it in this world. To create worlds.


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[Assistant] Because this is a little bit hard to remember, so we are not helping each other, but I think then we started discussing again that...


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[Assistant] Maybe we can actually open up the webshop again if you also start learning this. Yeaah. So that we could be three people helping and it would be easier for us to run it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we came to this point again that we can't continue this doing everything ourselves.


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[Assistant] Yes. So we didn't need to overwork and burn ourselves out. This needs some water. Yes. So.


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[Assistant] So I maybe can't answer exactly how long it is, but it's definitely half a meter maybe. It's really long, it's done like this.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I loved it. It was so nice to just, I don't know, focus on you and ask you questions and you did so good, honestly. You did.


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[Assistant] So, I guess this video is gonna be really really long.


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[Assistant] And, I mean, there is so many more questions.


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[Assistant] Hopefully there will be a part two someday. If you guys have any more questions, just write in the comment section and I will save them. Thank you so much everyone for watching this video. It was so much fun. I hope you enjoyed it.


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[Assistant] Did you lose your husband ma'am? Your husband wants to thank you.


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[Assistant] For caring for him and allowing him to leave the physical world with dignity and grace.


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[Assistant] She departed of Alzheimer's or some type of dementia or something of the brain and that you had to make choices and decisions connected to her departure.


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[Assistant] Uhm, they will acknowledge maybe the relationship, uhm, but uhm, never will call someone out on a name. Why is that? My thing, how I use my gift is I only want messages that are gonna help someone through the healing process.


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[Assistant] You feel like you fit in with like the Soundcloud crowd? You coming from more like a street background, street music?


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[Assistant] The Juice World thing has been a wave. Do you feel like, do you feel like the Juice World energy, or even to an extent the energy that you're bringing to the table? Because I feel like you were a big influence on Juice World.


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[Assistant] It's just like bringing out a different side of the Chicago experience, I guess. Like a few years ago, we got so much the violence and the, the, the...


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[Assistant] Damn, that's crazy though, just to think that like, it's all about just getting that right, that right one, that right mood.


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[Assistant] The kids will put you in the right mindset cause I feel like that's like if you, alright, like a lot of rappers have gotten shot and then the next song that they made was like one of the biggest and best songs of their career. Cause of that energy.


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[Assistant] You can't fuck around. You know, it's Miami and shit. So tell us about your new music that's dropping real soon.


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[Assistant] That classy shit that they want. Uhm, you still on Alamo? Yea, definitely.


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[Assistant] Not wittingly. There are cases where they could inadvertently, perhaps, uh, collect, but not, not wittingly.


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[Assistant] Here we are on a Wednesday Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show. Tyvis is here today. Tyvis, what's going on? You're up decked out in your Guardian's gear.


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[Assistant] Alright, lots to get to on today's show. Coming up later, the Guardians did win their second straight and blowout fashion over the Pirates. We'll talk about, uhm, which team, this is a little confusing, but, uh, this is a Steve Becker special.


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[Assistant] Running back, wide receiver, one, tight end combo.


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[Assistant] From the National Football League. First video came out, which we'll show you in a minute, with Perry on Winfrey.


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[Assistant] Right, so that's all we know, but, uh, your first reaction there, Thomas, go ahead.


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[Assistant] And the bottom line is, we, he's not, as G said, he's not good enough.


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[Assistant] To me, he's no loss. Uh, I think, uhm, and I'll tell you what, we talked about this guy a lot last year.


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[Assistant] But if I'm the Browns, and now that I haven't spent the money on DeAndre Hopkins and I got whatever, 12 or 14 million in cap space right now, I'm calling in Dominic and Sue. I know we talked about him a lot last year, but, you know, when we heard the stuff from


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[Assistant] Uh, what's his name? Who just retired? Who said the things about Miles Garadon in that film? Malik Jackson. Malik Jackson.


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[Assistant] Like, it feels like maybe Adamic and Sue is the guy to light a fire under Miles Garrett a little bit. Like, Adamic and Sue's not going to put up with guys falling asleep.


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[Assistant] I don't think he's played at all. Maybe one or two games. But he was pretty solid his first two years in the league. So you'd think that guy, if he could be healthy, is probably the one has the most upside of anybody.


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[Assistant] Which is insane to say. Because. He's our boss.


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[Assistant] It doesn't matter that I think personally he's gonna do it this year, or G thinks personally he's gonna do it this year, or Tybus thinks personally he's gonna do it this year, he's still gotta prove it.


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[Assistant] When you, when you've either not played or not played well for two years, you got to prove it again. Yep. Before I can say you're number one on the list or number two. Now here's some combos, rounds chart.


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[Assistant] Tyvis and I are in agreement that the Eagles are number one. Yes. We're in agreement there.


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[Assistant] We both also agree I think that the Bengals are ahead of the Browns or no? Yes. Where we argued.


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[Assistant] Is, I said the Chiefs were ahead of the Browns and you said no. That's not what I said.


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[Assistant] That's not what I argued with you about. What was your argument? That's what he said. I thought you said the Browns were ahead of the Chiefs.


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[Assistant] If Deshaun Watson plays as good as Patrick Mahomes or close to it.


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[Assistant] Tony's got the most upsides. I would say Tony, uhm. Alright, have you, have you had, for this year only.


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[Assistant] Forget what team. Forget the rest of the roster. Would you rather have Travis Kelce and Kadarius Tony or Amari Cooper and David DeGiochi?


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[Assistant] Cause to me it's Kelsey and Tony and, and it's not that close for me.


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[Assistant] He's like, he said to me, do you have six? He said do you have six or seven in tier one? I said I have one guy in tier one.


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[Assistant] That's Patrick Mahal. Now the question is how many guys are on tier 2? Yeaah, that's legit. Now I expect Deshaun Watson to get back to tier 2 this year with Burrow and Herbert and Allen and maybe Trevor Lawrence.


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[Assistant] That's fu- I- I- Right. But- So- So the only- To me, Mahomes is- You know, that's a different animal there.


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[Assistant] He hasn't shown me nothing. It's not even a question.


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[Assistant] Jimmy Garoppolo won games with San Francisco. He didn't put up big numbers. No. Like he was just kind of along for the ride, it felt like. Right? Brock Pardee put up big numbers last year in a lot of those games.


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[Assistant] I, uh, I have to start him if he's healthy. You better. There's no way I'm starting. You have no choice.


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[Assistant] Are they still number one? The Eagles is flying high number one. The Eagles and Bengals would be number two. And then you have to start to put the Dolphins in a mix. By the way, I had the Chargers ahead of the Browns too.


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[Assistant] And then they're tight. They don't have a great tight end, Gerald. But the Browns don't have a great tight end either. I take the Joku, but it's close.


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[Assistant] The bottom of tier two, I think. Right? And Travis Etienne's good, but he's not elite. Yeah. Not yet. And like, I guess their first receiver is Ridley, or maybe Christian Kirk. Ridley. Ridley could be elite, but he's not.


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[Assistant] And he's gonna run. Now, will they maybe call for less direct runs by him? You know, as the play call? Maybe, so he'll have a few less runs, but when he gets in trouble, he looks to run.


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[Assistant] So he's still going to run a lot. They still, and I would expect, I think JK Dobbins is going to have a big year. I agree. Right. He's finally healthy, full year out, year plus.


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[Assistant] I think he's going to have a monster year this year, and I still think Andrews is their number one guy in the passing game.


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[Assistant] Well, if he plays over, if he plays 15 games, he'd have a shot at 12. I don't think either is likely personally.


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[Assistant] What you think he get hurt? You think they just see him now? No, I think he gets hurt because he's been hurt every year since his third year in the league.


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[Assistant] So I say, if I had to bet on one of those two things, I'd bet on him playing 15 games.


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[Assistant] An aggravated robbery incident. Okay, cause he probably took her phone.


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[Assistant] Also, we don't know for sure, but he's done with the Browns.


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[Assistant] I have a friend where I lived that he's from Australia, uh, but he's lived here since he was like 18, but, um, his and his sister still lives on Australia and she just came to visit. I think she said it was like 20 hours of flying.


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[Assistant] And I have another layer, because as someone who's Jewish, there's other countries that I won't go either.


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[Assistant] You're not supposed to talk until that came back?


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[Assistant] Is he definitely a Hall of Famer? Yeaah. Yeaah. Absolutely. Yeaah. The basketball Hall of Fame is a joke because it includes college and Olympic. People don't really like Chris Paul. I like Chris Paul. I like Chris Paul.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but it's not even close because we don't even know. Listen, Isaac Okoro is at best a bench player.


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[Assistant] I mean, if you just took shacks


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[Assistant] Shaq with Larry Bird's free throw shooting. Forget about it.


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[Assistant] None of them have any kind of elite skills.


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[Assistant] I don't buy it when it's 175 million, but I buy it for a billion. Like, what's the difference? I'm set for life either way.


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[Assistant] Hey listen, don't get me wrong, I want Amani Bates to be that lottery ticket that pays off. I hope it happens. Right.


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[Assistant] I just feel like people are counting on it now, and I think you get, you know, you're setting yourself up for disappointment if you're counting on it, especially in year one.


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[Assistant] But he could have been, Mike, he could have been with somebody else in like, in like camp or something.


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[Assistant] All I know is that those wide receiver ratings were so idiotic.


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[Assistant] I take that. It's just- It's just- It's just Josh Naylor's playing out of his mind. It's a shame he wasn't on the All-Star game. He had another huge game. Good to see Stephen Kwan getting hot. You know, I- I like-


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[Assistant] They played very well in these two games. And yesterday, they beat up the Pirate's best pitcher, Mitch Keller.


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[Assistant] He's a good pitcher, good young pitcher. But, uh, so yeah, they played great these last two days and the top of the lineup has gotten hot.


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[Assistant] The GM, the president, and other members of the front office. Okay? And what I, and, and,


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[Assistant] What I would say is I actually wouldn't say it's any of those things.


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[Assistant] And, uh, a lot of people, don't care. They don't want to win. They do want to win, but not at all costs. So it's like, is that at all cost?


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[Assistant] Uh, obviously their TV deal is a mess with what's going on with Bally's right now.


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[Assistant] Maybe. They probably shouldn't have lost their team, but, uh, but, uh.


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[Assistant] We'll see. I think Nashville, Tennessee might get a team. But, but the bottom line is we don't know how much they're making or losing. I do believe, I don't believe they, like some people say, all they care about is saving money. I don't believe that's all they care about. I do think they want to win. I don't think they look at it as a vanity piece, to be fair to them.


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[Assistant] I give them a lot of credit. I give him a lot of credit for hiring good people and letting them do their job.


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[Assistant] You stop them from doing their job by giving them no margin. Like the front office has made some mistakes in the last year, right? The Josh Bell contract bad, Zanino bad, straw contract bad. Three bad contracts in the last year or two. Uhm, not to mention this glut of prospects that they haven't been able to trade to get proven players. That's a failure by the front office.


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[Assistant] But the front office, which is still really good despite that, one of the best in the league.


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[Assistant] It allows you to make up for your mistakes quicker. And usually, usually, if you have a high payroll, there's just so bad you can be.


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[Assistant] But yeaah, I mean, look, the Yankees stink right now, they're in last place in the American League East, but, but, uh, if you gave the Guardians front office a payroll of, I'm not even asking for Yankee Mets, I'm asking for 150 million, that shouldn't be unreasonable. They're at, what, 80, 90 right now? If this team's payroll was 150 million, how good could they be? Unfortunately, we don't


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[Assistant] Random stuff. In the playoffs, yes. Now that's why you have a long season.


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[Assistant] Now, the good thing about baseball, like basketball and hockey have long seasons, but to me they're meaningless.


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[Assistant] Because so many teams make the playoffs. In baseball, it's still hard to make the playoffs, right? Because only 12, even now when they've expanded it, only 12 out of 30 teams make the playoffs. That's the lowest percentage of any sport. So it's hard, but yes, once you make the playoffs, it is a lot of luck involved guys because, you know, uh,


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[Assistant] Let's say Mike Trout is the LeBron, or let's say Shohei Ohtani is the LeBron equivalent. You know LeBron.


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[Assistant] Maybe, let's say he plays, uh, 22 playoff games. Maybe he's gonna play one bad game. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] If he plays one series, he could go two for fifteen.


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[Assistant] Do you have any good TIVUS stories you can tell us that are acceptable for the airwaves?


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[Assistant] That's right. That's right. Now here's the important question, Marquis. Okay. We're running a 40 yard dash, you and me.


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[Assistant] I only have to go 10 yards. You gotta go 40. He's still gonna walk. Who wins the race?


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[Assistant] Do you, are you, so I assume you're following if anywhere somebody's coming anywhere close to that? Are you, are you like locked in to paying attention to that? Or is nobody even possibly coming close? I don't know.


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[Assistant] That's, to still be that good an athlete at that age is pretty amazing. It sounds so funny because 32 in the grand scheme of things is still pretty young. But yo, it's a young sport. Olympics and running and jumping.


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[Assistant] Good morning, Emerson. I'm confident. It'd be nice to have Juan Thornhill. That would be cool too.


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[Assistant] It would be good to have Miles Straughn. It would be good to have Trevor Bauer on all the guys I've...


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[Assistant] But I'd take, I'd take both of them and they'd be like. That'd be great. We interviewed Baker once before he was drafted and then we never got, well our radio station was the home of the Browns and we never had Baker on when he was a Browns quarterback.


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[Assistant] That would be great if we had him on. By the way, real quick, did you see the Jets? Even though they're being forced to do hard knocks? They're doing it their own way. They're refusing to allow them to video...


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[Assistant] Well, it'll be interesting. I don't know, man. I'm much more into this quarterback show than I am in talk. I'm not leaving. I don't even care about hard knocks. I'm much more interested in year two with a quarterback show and who's going to be on that. Mike, what do we have coming up in overtime? Remind me.


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[Assistant] Alright, that's coming up in overtime next on the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show.


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[Assistant] The idea that one of our own government agencies would go out and essentially break into Google's own data streams to go beyond what Google thought had been a skeptical and


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[Assistant] That is sort of a betrayal of the relationship that I think Google felt like it had with the government.


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[Assistant] No idea. I mean, the number of people at Google who can know about the existence of the letter is arguably like two or three.


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[Assistant] You know, presumably it's the lawyer who has been designated to receive them, so maybe two people at Google would know about it.


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[Assistant] You look at it on its face, it looks like it relates to national security. So you comply.


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[Assistant] Every search is in some sense an expression of intention.


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[Assistant] It's an expression of what you want to do, where you want to go, what you're looking for. And that maps very nicely with the desire of advertisers to target their messages towards people.


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[Assistant] Uhm, at the moment when they are intending to go buy something.


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[Assistant] Negative news stories, comments, blog posts and so forth that came out that day. And the alarm bell was really rung by privacy advocates who said, we cannot allow this to go forward. This is crossing a Rubicon. You cannot, uh, scan our emails.


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[Assistant] I got a phone call from a staffer for a state senator in California named Liz Figueroa. The staffer said, Senator Figueroa is deeply concerned about this practice of targeting ads to email messages. Uhm, she's very much interested in pursuing legislation that would ban this practice and uhm, could we have a conversation?


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[Assistant] And all of that goes away if people no longer trust, uh, the American government, uh, and the companies that are subject to its authority.


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[Assistant] Do you remember the incident in San Francisco where the technician Mark Klein had found the room with the splitter? Vaguely. What was that about? I'm not gonna talk about that.


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[Assistant] Welcome to the next session in the Medito beginner series.


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[Assistant] Mindfulness meditation is the practice of developing your awareness of the present moment.


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[Assistant] By consciously noticing our thoughts, feelings, and experiences moment by moment.


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[Assistant] We can change the way we see ourselves and the world.


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[Assistant] Let's continue with this type of practice in today's session. Take a seat and make yourself comfortable, sitting with your back straight.


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[Assistant] And your hands resting in your lap will help you stay comfortable but alert.


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[Assistant] Become aware of the sensations in the body. Relax and try to let any tension melt away as you breathe deeply.


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[Assistant] Whether it's to become more focused, more relaxed, or more open-minded, briefly focus on this intention.


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[Assistant] Focus on the breath wherever you can sense it. Try this in silence for a few minutes.


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[Assistant] If you've found yourself lost in thought, gently bring your attention back to the breath.


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[Assistant] The key is to learn to become aware of them as they arise.


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[Assistant] Observe the thought, and then go back to following your breath.


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[Assistant] For the last few moments, become aware of the sensations throughout your body.


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[Assistant] Don't try to focus on anything in particular. Just become aware of whatever arises.


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[Assistant] Practicing a short session like this each day will hopefully be the start of a long-lasting habit that will lead to a more peaceful, happier and open-minded life. See you next time.


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[Assistant] He didn't use his name and he said very cryptically and very vaguely that he had information that he wanted to discuss with me but could only do so if I were to install encryption.


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[Assistant] When we met that night in my hotel in the lobby, and she showed me these emails that she had been exchanging with this person who was claiming that he was a national security state insider.


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[Assistant] With access to very sensitive information that he believed to be very incriminating and stated very definitively that he wanted to turn it over to her and to me.


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[Assistant] We all knew that this was incredibly risky and uncertain, but the story had to be reported.


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[Assistant] Laura whips out this thumb drive and, and.


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[Assistant] In a very sort of almost mischievous way, he says, you know, guess what this is, and told me that she had just received a fairly large archive of documents.


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[Assistant] And I didn't sleep one second for the next 16 hours because the adrenaline made that impossible to do. Because I not only saw the magnitude of the documents, just the sheer quantity, the fact that we had in our possession thousands, not dozens or hundreds.


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[Assistant] That was really the first time I think I fully understood that this was going to be unlike any other story really ever in American journalism or politics.


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[Assistant] We had still no idea of who he was, what his age was, what his race was. Uh, we knew nothing about him demographically at all. Uh, and so the plan that he picked was that he would be holding a Rubik's cube in his hand.


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[Assistant] When this 29 year old kid who looks a lot younger shows up, it was extremely disorienting and introduced a real awkwardness to our interaction and kind of a shock.


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[Assistant] Especially for the first few days because we didn't know.


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[Assistant] He grew up in, in the community where lots of people who are in the military and the intelligence community live. His father was on the Coast Guard for 30 years.


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[Assistant] Here is this low-level analyst who is able to access, if you believe the government, 1.7 million documents and walk out of the agency with them without them having the slightest idea that it was taking place.


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[Assistant] I saw this woman at the Super Bowl halftime show and I had this wild idea. I thought maybe she could play a singer.


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[Assistant] I was campaigning for the Browns to sign Ionitis at the start of free agency and he has indicated he doesn't want to come into any team until at least midway through camp.


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[Assistant] Disagree with you guys on this one. I think they do need to bring another body in. To your point, outside of Tomlinson, I don't trust anyone else in that defensive tackle room.


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[Assistant] Right. But I want as many guys in there who I think could potentially be that second, third, fourth guy to weed out whoever I know for sure isn't. And I know that's, you know, icing on the cake maybe an extra over the top luxury to have, but


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[Assistant] I just don't feel confident in that group outside of Tomlinson that they have a guy that you can count on. I don't disagree with you. Maybe not week in week out, but


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[Assistant] For at least 70% of the season to be there as a stalwart, God forbid Tomlinson goes down. I would bring someone in, especially a veteran, considering how young the rest of that room is.


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[Assistant] That brings us right into our next topic. That was G. Bush. Sometimes you have the best transitions unintentionally. Look at that.


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[Assistant] And for the sake of this conversation, just before people in the YouTube chat tell us, well, Kobe Altman's not technically the GM, he's the basketball president.


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[Assistant] Chris Antonetti. So yes, we understand they're not technically the GM, but in this discussion, who is the best decision maker of the operations of said teams? So for this discussion, we're talking about Andrew Berry, Kobe Altman, and Chris Antonetti.


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[Assistant] I think there's a case to be made for Altman, for Antonetti, I think as G eloquently put, Barry may have the highest ceiling if this Watson thing pans out, but at the moment, I think it's too early to crown him over the other two.


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[Assistant] Speaking of fans, you wanna hear what they had to say? Sure. And whenever we bring you...


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[Assistant] Classic Yeti. So we have, we have two different polls on this. We have one in the community tab.


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[Assistant] Okay, before we read the comments, in the poll chat, so this is in the current live chat poll, over 175 votes, Andrew Berry also first with 48%, Antonetti with 32% in this poll, and Altman with, uh, with 20%, excuse me, in that poll. Speaking of counseling. Oh, sorry.


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[Assistant] This poll just proves how Brown's biased our fanbase is. That's right. I don't think Andrew Barry's a bad GM by any means, but he's far from the best between the three. I mean, that's laughable.


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[Assistant] It was one of each. Altman had 25%, Antonetti had 23% in the community tab poll. In the live poll, Antonetti had 33% to Altman's 20. So overall, Antonetti was second. Probably second. Altman was third.


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[Assistant] I do want to read a couple other comments. We had 36. Uh, it's interesting.


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[Assistant] Although Andrew Barry had over 50% of the 700 votes, nobody of the 36 commenters.


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[Assistant] Hotsteel7305 says, I know this hasn't been the best year for Antonetti, but frankly, every other choice is embarrassing.


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[Assistant] And then one more I'll read here real quick from TKNK5GL. It's Antonetti. It's not even close. Imagine the Cavs or Browns only spending less than half of what the rest of the league spends and still getting the Super Bowls and championships. It has to be Antonetti.


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[Assistant] It is time to move on to our next topic here and...


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[Assistant] It's something that we have to talk about after what we saw the last couple days. We wanted to talk about the Guardians offensive bats exploding yesterday, er, for yesterday's show, and then we had Marky's Goodwin come on, so that kinda got scrapped. So the new topic we're gonna hit today, has Tito lost his touch with the Guardians?


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[Assistant] After Sam Hentges blew another late inning lead, he took out Savalli after 87 pitches, and at some point,


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[Assistant] Bull, you said it the other day, you think this is his worst season yet. Has he lost a touch? Am I over-exaggerating or over- overplaying what we've seen this year? But it seems like time after time again, they've had chances to close out games late and it just hasn't ended up in wins.


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[Assistant] A director Steve just asked this question, and I'm assuming he's not the only one out there that doesn't know.


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[Assistant] No, I was trying to see that there's no like definition. I guess it's just in the CBA that you can't trade.


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[Assistant] Steve Becker just sent us a little note that said it happened in 1965 when they officially banned the trading of draft picks and then in 1985 it got strengthened when quote, in response to the Expos dumping first rounder Pete


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[Assistant] Incavelia. Incavelia in a one sided trade with the Rangers because he refused to sign with Montreal. Right, I remember him. Been like that for a while.


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[Assistant] Cavaliers here, guys. This came out a little earlier today, but Ty Jerome signed his contract out of the bi-annual vet minimum, which means they still have 3.6 million dollars left to use on the mid-level exception. So with that question,


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[Assistant] I ask you guys this. The Cavs are 2.7 million dollars away from the luxury tax threshold. Do you think they are done making moves this offseason?


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[Assistant] It's like to bring in shrews, they traded jetties so they could make the salary work.


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[Assistant] Jared Allen has... He signed... He has this season and then two more. Two more? He has this season, the following season, and then the following season. So two more after this year.


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[Assistant] Chris Fedor put out an article in uh, cleveland.com as two potential guys that Cavs may still have interest in who are still available on the free agency market. That's Kelly Oubre Jr., the athletic wing from Charlotte, and Christian Wood, the stretch four slash five.


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[Assistant] Yeah. I mean, if I asked myself that question, I would say, no, I don't think God is a great fit. Dallas traded legitimate assets.


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[Assistant] I just don't trust a guy like that who had a team give up things for him, have him in house at a position of desperate need, and then just be like, nah, you're okay. You can, you can walk in free agency and uh, Kelly, I just don't have to fit. He's a non-shooting threes better than a Kuro. Don't get me wrong.


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[Assistant] I just don't trust his ability. He's been on four teams now in six years and he's been on a couple of good teams. And he hasn't stuck in the good teams. He scored 20 points last year in Charlotte. They had three players average 20 points per game. Someone had to score on that team.


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[Assistant] I don't think it's a great fit. I don't think you'd take $3 million either, but even if you would, I don't really like either of those two ways.


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[Assistant] Truly beneficial upgrades. Yea, is he better than Akuro maybe, but I- I just don't think it makes the Cavs any better.


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[Assistant] Of Isaiah Mobley, Amani Bates, a future second round pick, and Craig Porter Jr. for Otani.


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[Assistant] I was seeing, and you always hear, and gee, you played, so you know this, I never played football outside of second grade, so I can't speak on this.


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[Assistant] And I don't want to curse, but he's like, dude, you can hit me. Don't, don't punch me like that. And he came back.


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[Assistant] Kurt Cousins was never on the injury list last season for the Vikings. He was never listed as questionable. He was never listed as doubtful. He was probable most of the time, but very rarely even shown on the injury report.


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[Assistant] So he wasn't on the injury report whatsoever. And he talked about week after week spending 10 to 15 hours with trainers outside of the facility in his own home just getting his body ready to prepare.


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[Assistant] So about, about that trainer, my sports director when I was in Texas, so the Jimmy Donovan to Nick Camino here as Nick Camino.


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[Assistant] He, uh, he worked in Tyler and covered my homes in high school.


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[Assistant] And he says that he did a story when Mahomes went to Texas Tech on that trainer. And this was before he had moved to Kansas City and built this massive facility that's essentially Mahomes' playhouse.


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[Assistant] It's, yeah, he does, but it's, it's when Mahomes comes in, it's Mahomes' playhouse. And then when he's not there, everyone else can come in. And he did a story when he was working in East Texas and Tyler and Mahomes went to White House, Texas, White House high school, which is right outside Tyler. It was like an old barn that he turned into a workout shed like that, but obviously not that extreme. And he was like, after I worked out with, or after I went into that story, I was like,


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[Assistant] This dude's a looney bin. He's got no freaking clue what he's talking about. He's talking about neck movement and it's like, if Mahomes trusts him, and this is the best high school player I've ever seen.


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[Assistant] I had to tell myself it didn't hurt so many times to convince myself I just wasn't in pain.


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[Assistant] I'm curious and Jason, I wonder if you know, my home's talk and Kelsey talked about this too on a different podcast. So, but it lined up.


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[Assistant] They have a period in practice every week where players can come in with trick plays and present it to Andy Reid. They'll run it and if Reid likes it, they'll try to like tweak it but put it in the play.


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[Assistant] One of, if not a top Mount Rushmore level offensive mind in the history of the sport. It's like, hey, if you have an idea, let me see it. If I like it, we'll figure out a way to make it work.


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[Assistant] I think Lamar Jackson would be a lot of fun in this. He intrigues me.


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[Assistant] That's what I'm saying. He'd be fun. Deshaun Watson is a guy who, if everything came into place and he allowed it and the NFL, that would be, I don't think it's possible, but he'd be one.


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[Assistant] We do have time for final takes. I want to look at one thing real quick before we get to final takes because there may be one more thing I want to hit on with quarterback. And there is, I forgot.


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[Assistant] Give me your two biggest winners from the documentary. The two people that you can't, or it can be losers, but two people in your opinion.


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[Assistant] My opinion of her changed the most of anyone in the series from where I thought it would be to where it ended.


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[Assistant] And, and it's not a shot at him. He seems like a nice guy, but the season went poorly and obviously he got benched. He left. It was weird.


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[Assistant] His storyline didn't add anything to me. Maybe if it was like Baker fighting for his life, it'd be different, but I could have known all the Mariotas.


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[Assistant] But I wasn't rooting for him, and obviously you know how it ends. We know he got benched, we know he left the team, we know Mahomes ends up winning the Super Bowl.


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[Assistant] But I felt myself throughout his progression, just couldn't really buy into it.


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[Assistant] I don't know how many games it was, but it clearly was the same exact routine. And it reminded me of Jason. I'm sure, you know, this like Steph Curry's pregame routine where it became a spectacle, especially when they were on the up and up and he would go to every room. It was the same thing. He'd make the same amount of shots from the same spot. Mahomes did the same thing. He ended it with the fadeaway jump shot and then catching a pass from Chad Henney.


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[Assistant] That was cool. Also thought Andy Reed and the little little nuggets we got of Andy Reed came across really cool.


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[Assistant] I know we talked about this when it happened last year on the show. And then Mahomes brought it up when like the mayor called it burrowhead and all that stuff.


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[Assistant] And then Mahomes was like, yeah, it did kinda piss me off. And I know on this show you were like, yeah, players don't really care about that. And I do agree with you for the most part. But hearing Mahomes say that, did that change how you think about- Yeah.


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[Assistant] I was expecting Lord Vader. The Jedi. Where is he? Oh, he's alive. For the moment. He's been in the arena for seven days.


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[Assistant] What are the Imperial security codes for this sector?


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[Assistant] I'm gonna count down nine cards. We'll do something amazing with the ninth card. That'll get us nice and warmed up. That's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Okay.


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[Assistant] Rebel, I'm gonna, I'm gonna tear this card. You can actually, can you hear that? Yes. Watch.


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[Assistant] No, no, no. It's important. If you would have said a different number, different card. That pocket right there. Right here. Watch. Hold onto it tight. Now. Shut the front door.


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[Assistant] We've got this driver's license spot. We'll use that in a second.


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[Assistant] Can you help me with this? Yes, of course. Uh, take the cards. I want you to deal down onto the table one at a time, face down into a pile. Yeah, and just keep going. But if you want to, you can stop and shuffle those cards.


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[Assistant] And you get to hold onto my wallet. Sure. Close it up. Fine by me. Okay, uh, one last thing. Priyanka, could you, uh, cut the cards, put them right there. And take the other half, put them on top, but at like a weird angle.


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[Assistant] Yes, and if you would have done it even a little bit differently, it would have been even more random. Three of diamonds is our cut card, is gonna disappear from the pack, and appear in the wallet. It's done.


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[Assistant] Remember, you weren't even done shuffling. You were shuffling as we were taking the video and all of that. And this is your phone. I want you, yea, open up that camera and go to the last video taken.


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[Assistant] Right. And I want you to turn it so that the cameras can see and that you can see.


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[Assistant] And I'm gonna give you four playing cards. Okay? I'll give, uh, I'll give our ladies each. Rebel, that's for you. Oh, thank you. Excellent. Priyanka, that's for you. I'll even take four cards for myself. Now here's how this works. Can I put this down? Absolutely. Okay.


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[Assistant] If you follow my directions, the magic will work wherever you are. At home, if you follow my directions, the magic will work wherever you are. If you don't follow my directions, this is a waste of time. Okay, so.


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[Assistant] Get to a spot where you can see the screen, and uh, I have no idea what cards you have in your hand, so you can mix them up if you want. And then,


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[Assistant] Hold the cards face down like this. Give them a little bit of a spread, because we're going to tear these cards down the middle. This is a fun moment to just, uh, show your strength. It's like a miniature, uh, phone book that you can rip in half. Hold them sideways like this, Rebel.


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[Assistant] Rip them in half all the way through so you have two little piles of four cards. Everyone should be doing this yet? Yes, everyone do that. Rip right through those cards.


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[Assistant] Now, it's up to you. Everyone in the audience is gonna make their own decisions. Watch me. You can take the right hand, put them on top of the left hand, put them on top. Up to you. One on top of the other.


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[Assistant] Everybody take, uh, the top three cards. Take a look. One, two, three. Take those top three cards, and bury them someplace in the middle. Not on the bottom, not on the top, but someplace in the middle. Okay? Yep. Perfect.


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[Assistant] Oh, I forgot something, but that's a good time to do it. Take that top card right there. Don't peek at it, but sit on it or put it in your pocket. Set it aside so you can get to it later.


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[Assistant] We're all gonna do this differently, all around the room. It's up to you. You can take one, two, or three cards, up to you. One, two, or three cards, and bury them someplace in the middle. Again? Again. Not on the bottom, not on the top, but someplace in the middle. Again. Okay. Very good. Done.


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[Assistant] Take the next card, that top card right there. Trade with your neighbor. Here, I'll trade with you. You can trade with Rebel too, if you want to. You wanna trade?


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[Assistant] Or you can do one, two, or three cards. Do nothing, or one, two, or three. One, two, or three cards. And again, bury them someplace in the middle.


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[Assistant] Take the next card. She loves me not. Drop it on the floor.


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[Assistant] Loves me, move that card to the bottom. Loves me not, drop it on the floor.


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[Assistant] With members from both sides of the aisle coming together in song.


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[Assistant] We dropped these massive bombs called daisy cutters on Taliban troop positions in the northern part of the country.


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[Assistant] Essentially let Afghan forces to rise up in different parts of the country, uh, and push out the Taliban regime.


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[Assistant] To one of almost utter bedlam, looters set upon government buildings, upon businesses, fires break out.


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[Assistant] And there are thousands of U.S. troops in the city at that point. But they don't have orders to stop it.


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[Assistant] Military commanders wanted to show how additional forces deployed by President Obama could turn the tide of the war. To show how US forces could knock back the Taliban.


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[Assistant] Taliban fighters would sneak in. They would lay more roadside bombs. They'd lay in wait and ambush.


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[Assistant] What was thought to be a war that could be turned around with some additional troops really starts to look like it's fundamentally unwinnable.


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[Assistant] Marjah brings the challenges of Afghanistan into much starker focus in the White House.


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[Assistant] For Donald Trump, the candidate, and then the president, 9-11 is something very different than it was for George W. Bush or Barack Obama.


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[Assistant] 9-11 is not an event that is used to create unity. It's not an awful, awful moment that, that calls on us to come together.


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[Assistant] 9-11 for Donald Trump becomes a wedge issue.


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[Assistant] It becomes something he can exploit to further division and distrust in our society.


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[Assistant] If we look at January 6th as one measure of where we are as a nation.


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[Assistant] Did Bin Laden succeed in some way in fundamentally dividing us and bringing pain to us in ways that we couldn't see at the time?


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[Assistant] If we don't take a proper accounting of what we did in these past 20 years,


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[Assistant] And what the impact has been, not just half a world away, but what the impact has been within our own borders. Then we have fundamentally misunderstood the legacy of 9-11.


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[Assistant] The January 6th insurrection at the Capitol was the logical endpoint of the 9-11 era.


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[Assistant] To the rest of the world, the people in orange jumpsuits were a symbol that the most powerful force in the world, the United States government, was willing to use the full extent of that power to just brutalize people, including innocent people.


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[Assistant] And I think it permanently damaged our capacity to speak about things like human rights, to speak about things like democracy and the rule of law.


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[Assistant] Voted for it because they were afraid of being called weak.


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[Assistant] We have Democratic as well as Republican members of Congress voting for war that does anybody really believe that if they were president they would have chosen to do that?


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[Assistant] That undermined I think confidence in the American public and their leaders.


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[Assistant] Who can I trust anymore? The Democrats voted for this war too. How can I, why should I trust them any more than I trust the Republicans, you know?


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[Assistant] Abu Ghraib was a moment when the curtain kind of fell on America and enough Americans saw what the world saw, which is that this has gone completely wrong. We'd gone to war thinking of our better selves. And now we were a country that was occupying Iraq.


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[Assistant] And torturing its people in kind of grotesque, almost casual ways.


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[Assistant] When it's very kind of curious, accident of history, the Iraq war opens the door to the first black president, uhm, and to Barack Obama himself.


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[Assistant] He basically created an argument. How can you trust these people after they got this so wrong?


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[Assistant] What Obama tapped into was not just the anger at the Iraq war, but the anger at how fake everything felt, uh, about it. From the news media to how politicians justified their actions, to just the failure to properly account with this horrible thing that had happened that was leading Americans to die.


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[Assistant] The political incentives are such that the risks associated with ending wars are seen as far greater than the risks associated with kind of being in them.


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[Assistant] There was this calculation that, well, what happens if there's a terrorist attack? You know, that would be the end of a presidency.


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[Assistant] And the entire Congress had a complete meltdown, including Democrats.


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[Assistant] What I felt very cutely in the Obama years is a lot of that nationalism and xenophobia that was stirred up in those Bush years, because it wasn't going to get expression and some victory in Afghanistan or Iraq.


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[Assistant] It suddenly began to be repurposed to, we oppose Obama. We need to take our country back.


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[Assistant] We oppose anybody who can be cast as the American Other.


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[Assistant] I've made a point of trying to meet people where they describe the buzz overhead and this feeling of dread, of just living in a kind of permanent surveillance of an American killing machine.


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[Assistant] A superpower spends trillions of dollars over a long period of time figuring out different ways to kill people.


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[Assistant] You know, think of how many ways the United States has killed people since 9-11.


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[Assistant] It's all the language, all the rhetoric, all the xenophobia, all the nationalism that is impossible without 9-11. We have to recognize that.


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[Assistant] It's convenient to say that Donald Trump broke America. No, America was broken. And so Donald Trump became president.


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[Assistant] It's the same language. It's the same us versus them thing. You can just slot in Antifa for Al-Qaeda. Slot in the radical left for radical Islam. It's triggering the same emotions.


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[Assistant] In the same way that Bush marshaled the whole country to kind of take on this generational fight against terrorism, this war against terrorism.


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[Assistant] Trump marshaled his half of the country to think of itself as literally in an existential war against the other half of the country.


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[Assistant] I do believe it could have been prevented with...


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[Assistant] Revisions to the way we were permitted to operate before 9-11.


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[Assistant] The U.S. internet hubs handle so much of the worldwide internet traffic. So I said, let us allow


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[Assistant] collection between U.S. and foreign foreign to U.S. against the terrorism problem.


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[Assistant] I just refused to believe after all I had been through for 37 years that all of a sudden things would change.


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[Assistant] And they'd go back to the old ways, back to the early 70s. I didn't believe that they could possibly have just flip-flopped and gone 180 degrees the other way. I just didn't believe it.


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[Assistant] My wife was hysterical. She couldn't believe.


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[Assistant] What had just occurred, I couldn't believe what just occurred, and I had no, no insight into why it had.


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[Assistant] I cut off virtually all social contact with friends. It was, it was rough. Very rough.


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[Assistant] I've been cutting some threads and putting these on, the dobs.


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[Assistant] For sure. Hey, tell me about the state of 1017. How's it going? You got the double, the double necklace. Very rare.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Dallas is going crazy right now. I feel like you're part of a movement. There's a whole bunch of heat coming out of that.


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[Assistant] Well, hey, there you go. Uhm, alright, so, so, you've just been traveling like non-stop. Do you get homesick?


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[Assistant] Is there anybody who's performing a Rolling Loud that you were excited to see?


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[Assistant] You also see girls at, uh, Rolling Loud that look like the Explore page, which is kinda wild.


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[Assistant] Alright, hey yo, tell me about the music you're working on, the project that's supposed to be coming out this year and shit.


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[Assistant] See, that's how we know you're gonna be a winner. You got that workaholic gene in you.


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[Assistant] Hey, Asian Dolls, good influence. Everybody at home right now watching this video, you're thinking like, I should go to the gym, I should go get some money, I should- Get off YouTube, go do something.


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[Assistant] It got hyped up by the fans though cause your fans and her fans were both going to war in the comments.


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[Assistant] Oh my god, yo. But you guys, I feel like next time you do a video in LA, can I get a Leno Plug or Cameo?


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[Assistant] Yeah, especially here. Everybody loves football season. Yeah. But everywhere, of all the places I've lived, this is the place that


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[Assistant] You guys ain't got nothing to argue about. No, because what we found out is we're kind of baseball twins. Yea, like we really are. We are aligned on our beliefs on so many things, particularly with the Guardians. Yea, absolutely. I've missed you guys. It's great to be with you again. A lot to get through today. This is a well-rounded show. We've got Browns.


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[Assistant] A, are we trading Bieber? You know, I've talked to some of the folks that I know that follow the sport. No one really knows. I've heard they're dealing him.


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[Assistant] I've heard they wanted to, but the market is cool because he hasn't been so great. Right, he hasn't. So I don't know. My take is if you're not gonna get a haul for him, keep him.


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[Assistant] Well yeaah. And the Mets, the Mets are very interesting to me too. Absolutely. The Angels are sitting on the greatest player we've ever seen. Right. I think all of us would agree with that. I think they should trade them. I think they should too. But they won't. Well think of this, Artie Moreno, and this is, they've talked about this during the telecast of the All-Star Game, which I loved by the way. Yeaah. Do you want to be


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[Assistant] The guy that, I mean, the guy that sold Babe Ruth from the Red Sox to the Yankees, he is the modern day Babe Ruth. He's better than Babe Ruth.


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[Assistant] I think you're right, they would want to say, wait a minute, was this, was this, but if you're already Moreno...


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[Assistant] You may get yourself into a bidding war that you now can't lose. That's true. You're right. And I don't know that that number could go up to


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[Assistant] That's a great team sponsor, by the way, Dairy Queen. Yes. I mean, you get free product after every game.


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[Assistant] She looks good there. She looks like she's a nice happy smile. Good, good prognosis here. Is she gonna kick this thing's butt?


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[Assistant] Couldn't say enough good things about it. We're going to start with the Browns.


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[Assistant] Malik Jackson on Good Morning Football on the NFL Network a couple of days ago.


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[Assistant] Pretty pointed things to say about Miles Garrett's leadership slash lack of leadership that he noticed during his time in Cleveland. Let's roll the clip and we'll talk about it on the other side.


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[Assistant] What was he saying without saying it or maybe with saying it?


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[Assistant] I'm a rookie quarterback coming in with a huge contract and a lot of expectations legacy expectations.


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[Assistant] I'm going to lay in the weeds and watch others lead. And when I feel that this is more my team, I'll step forward. I thought the way he navigated that was the way a player should. The guys that come in rookie season,


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[Assistant] Big chested, screaming, yelling, trying to own the team. They're doing themselves a disservice. At least what I've seen in my history. Miles, leaders are born.


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[Assistant] It's either baked into your DNA or it's not. That's right. And it plain and simply is not part of Miles Garrett's makeup. I agree. And does it suck? Yeaah. You want your best player to be your leader. Ray Lewis.


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[Assistant] Tom Brady. You want those guys, uh, Drew Brees was another one. You want those guys to be the vocal leader because their play is already speaking volumes for what they want everybody else to do.


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[Assistant] The troubling thing for me, and I want you guys to add it to what your thoughts are on this. My takeaway from that...


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[Assistant] Was that Miles Garrett doesn't take the classroom side of it seriously.


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[Assistant] And that to me can be a huge issue, and here's why.


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[Assistant] I've heard all the greats on both sides of the ball say that God given ability and desire will get you so far.


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[Assistant] It's the guys that have the God given ability, the desire,


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[Assistant] And then the work ethic, like a Peyton Manning, to study harder than everybody else in the game, to go to the elite great level.


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[Assistant] I have watched Miles Garrett and as good as he has been, this is gonna sound like a diss, as good as he has been, there's still something missing for me. I know he can be better.


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[Assistant] I know he can be elite. He can be one of the best that's ever played that position.


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[Assistant] But after hearing Malik, to me, my takeaway is...


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[Assistant] Two things happen. One, it keeps them from being elite. Two,


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[Assistant] Your best player is now setting the tone for the other 52 guys on how they can act.


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[Assistant] It's a different era of football. I understand that it's a different era but I'll just say this. I don't think that much has changed from the day Ray Lewis left the game.


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[Assistant] But defense is on the field for half the game. Yes they are. And I need a defensive leader. I need a Ray Lewis. I need a Mike Singletary. I need a guy that's gonna do that.


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[Assistant] To the star being the leader, not just on the court or field, but in the locker room. And with an example, it's Michael Jordan.


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[Assistant] I, I, I, I believe that. I haven't seen another renegade leader like, like Mike.


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[Assistant] That hurt his team and it was through his own recklessness that caused that. I think in large part, I don't want to say he's been given a pass because we were critical over that. And I think some of the media was critical about that. I think to me the takeaway is this and we'll transition to our next question in this topic because this is where I think the rubber meets the road.


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[Assistant] Mikey astutely put the question down here. Can the Browns reach their full potential? Whatever that is.


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[Assistant] If, I mean, obviously the goal every year is the Super Bowl, but whatever their full potential is, can they ever get there without Miles Garrett being a


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[Assistant] They don't have another player on this defensive roster that is going to be considered an all-time elite at their position.


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[Assistant] But leaders, G, you know this, set examples.


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[Assistant] And the term leader, if you break down what it means...


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[Assistant] It means you're asking others to follow in your path. Right.


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[Assistant] So for the other 52 guys on this roster.


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[Assistant] Who aren't among the old time greats at their position. If they look to him,


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[Assistant] And do as he does, they're never gonna reach their full potential. 52 guys. You have a Malik Jackson looking at Myles Garrick going, damn, he's falling asleep in the meeting room.


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[Assistant] Yes, he's making. And quite honestly, TJ, why? You know, we've talked about TJ before, but when I watched the Steelers play, TJ jumps off the screen, whether it's a pass player or a run play, he is a disruptive force on every play where


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[Assistant] You know, and what do I know? Because the PFF grade tells me I'm completely wrong. But there are times that I watch the Browns games and I have to look and see if 95 is in the game.


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[Assistant] That's, that's, I gotta say, I'm kinda shocked by that. That's terrible. I mean, not terrible.


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[Assistant] I truly do feel bad about that because he's so freaking awesome. He's so incredibly good. But our expectations are him to be the best ever basically. That's why I said before, I just feel like there's something missing. Like I'm watching him and guys, I don't think it's beyond the pale to say he could be


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[Assistant] A Lawrence Taylor Impact type player. He could be Aaron Donald. I know that the numbers will tell you that it's Miles Garrett. I just, my eyeball test.


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[Assistant] It is something fascinating that I've never really thought about, but he is the guy, if you were to say, okay, how do you explain Patrick Mahomes? He's the guy that will make a throw from any foot position that he has.


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[Assistant] He can be completely facing left and go this way.


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[Assistant] He's noticed his influence. I'm starting to see, I saw Burrow do it a couple times last year. I'm seeing more and more quarterbacks.


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[Assistant] that are able to make those throws, those Mahomes throws. Yeah. And I think that's his influence on the game. They're looking at it. They're working on it. The neck and spine flexibility tip. Everybody's going to put that on their rotation of things. And the other


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[Assistant] To me, it seems like he's playing chess while a lot of the other guys are still playing chess. And baiting a guy to go to his weakness?


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[Assistant] Which person, not player, which person in the Browns organization had the most positive impact on the preceding season? I think it's going to be him.


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[Assistant] And then their performance after he was there for year one. Now I know Detroit didn't budge, but if you remember that Detroit team he inherited was all time bad. They had nothing on that side of the ball. But look what he's done in the other places. He has significantly improved their defense. And if that happens here,


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's astonishing how the running back, which was already devalued.


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[Assistant] Says one of two things, he doesn't want to sign, he doesn't want to be in camp.


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[Assistant] I would not. I would not either. And what do you mean by long term? More than a two year deal. Yeaah. I don't see their need for it.


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[Assistant] It's a bad time to have your best player be a running back. You can't spend a lot of money at that position.


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[Assistant] But I, I go back to the greatest show on turf.


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[Assistant] When the Rams were at their best, when they were blowing teams out and scoring 45 a game, they had Warner obviously who didn't have the pedigree of a great quarterback.


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[Assistant] So it's dollar cost averaging. If you can get a hundred yards a game from a back, but you have to pay him eight million a season.


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[Assistant] And the teams that reward running backs with too many of those allotted dollars are in spots at other positions and they don't win. And it's amazing to me how that position has been devalued. My young football years were the 70s.


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[Assistant] Frank O'Harris in Pittsburgh led them to four championships. Those teams that were all time great were often times, Terry Bradshaw, look at his numbers. Terry Bradshaw would be cut today. He threw about half of his.


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[Assistant] It is completely changed how we value that position. And if you overpay at that position,


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[Assistant] Now, I think Belichick is the guy that really turned tight ends into field stretchers and game changers. But now, look at the impact. I think the best pass catcher in football right now is a tight end. And I would say Travis Kelsey. He's the guy I want my quarterback throwing the ball to the most.


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[Assistant] All right, uh, we're going to turn the page. Do you want to do a reset? I know we're not quite at the top of the hour. Do you want to do any business?


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[Assistant] It's a great leaderboard, by the way. I mean, it's names that everybody will recognize. This is one of the five majors for the uh, for the senior store.


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[Assistant] I was like, what? Guys, I gotta tell you, I've been going to golf tournaments my whole life. I've covered them for years. I've never, and that includes Muirfield, when Tiger Woods played the first memorial. I walked the whole first round of the memorial with him.


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[Assistant] And there were crowds and there were oogle, you know, people ooing and on and ogling him the whole time.


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[Assistant] I've never seen heads turn on a golf course. Like Paige Spirani.


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[Assistant] It's crazy. She's become the Kim Kardashian of that space, of the golf social space. If she promotes your product, she's getting six figures to do it. Whether it's a tweet or an appearance.


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[Assistant] I'm guilty that I told Bull today, I find, and it's a guilty pleasure because when I'm typing his name into the Google search bar, I'm like, what the hell am I doing?


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[Assistant] Now, take into account, and this is part of the phenomena, take into account that he was a two-time high school player of the year. I know that.


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[Assistant] Where guys with that kind of potential stub their toe out of the gate.


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[Assistant] Have a couple of hiccups. He transferred. He had a gun charge. Yeaah. He had some things we have seen on rare occasion where the player gets control of the wheel and puts the car back on the road.


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[Assistant] Everybody's like, he's a great player. So what I'm saying is, so I think everybody has is a ball of clay. His ball of clay was pretty freaking special. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Now, as he molded it into the bust that's become him, there's been some missteps.


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[Assistant] So what I'm saying is based on the ball of clay, based on the raw materials that this kid had at 15, 16 and 17.


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[Assistant] Wait a minute. Hold on, you're saying with absolute certainty. You're not saying I think he'll be with the charge. That's what Kobe Altman said.


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[Assistant] I agree with that. I agree with that. But I will say, my guilty pleasure, and this is, this is the reason people are clicking on these, these shorts, these clips. He is, he's caught our attention.


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[Assistant] He's got really high end potential.


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[Assistant] And I think to your point, I want Cleveland to be careful not to turn that potential into expectation. Because here's my thing.


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[Assistant] It's a lottery ticket that I've scratched off and I have the first three numbers.


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[Assistant] I, to be a major contributor in three years. That, to me, that, that's it.


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[Assistant] And then after this I got something else to move on and go again. So here's the exercise. Ready? Your eyes are closed. The calves have peaked excitement.


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[Assistant] Right. They have a core of young, all-star caliber players that seem to all, chemistry-wise, fit together. They're all great guys. Last season,


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[Assistant] In this wild experiment, they couldn't find the missing puzzle piece that had a three on it. They couldn't find it. They tried all kinds of pieces, but nothing clicked.


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[Assistant] And you find that with that pick, you could grab a player who was a two time national player of the year who happens to be a three. Right.


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[Assistant] I will say that it means what spring training means in baseball and it means what the NFL preseason means in football. It means this much.


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[Assistant] That's all he played. Right. As a rookie. Again, if he's averaging 12 points a game after watching that and saying yeah, he definitely had a bad shoot a string, a bad string of shooting. But after watching that, I wouldn't have said if he's averaging 12 points a league, a game in the summer league that, oh, he definitely can't play. But I have watched guys in the summer league where it's


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[Assistant] I'll give you four games in Steph Curry's regular season last year, where if you pull those numbers, you're like, wow, he's old. He got old.


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[Assistant] Uh, we'll switch to Guardians now. Uh, Bull's Passion, My Passion, Baseball, it's back the second half of the season. Ah, second half of the season.


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[Assistant] But we're getting ready to, after the break, post-break, we're going back to the, to the Diamond, and the Guardians are in a funny spot, they're 45 and 45, but they're in first place, albeit half game or whatever their lead is over the Twins. For them to win it, they're gonna have to have a monumental second half.


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[Assistant] From somebody who presently isn't having a monumental scene.


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[Assistant] Yesterday, saying that he's gonna start the Texas series with the big club. What does he have to do?


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[Assistant] And I'm not even going to do this again because it's probably not fair to him. A young player on this team that had expectations that is not performing.


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[Assistant] Why is it that a player like that is getting more leash?


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[Assistant] Where Gonzalez, who was a playoff hero. Yes. If you would have told me last October, as he was circling the bases after hitting a walk-off


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[Assistant] Well, the player that I'm talking about strikes out four out of every ten at bats, I believe.


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[Assistant] gets a brief look and then is sent down. It's to your point.


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[Assistant] I've asked myself this question a million times. Tito gives players room.


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[Assistant] To, to, to miss. I think in the off season the conversation with him was you absolutely, to sustain what you've been doing, you absolutely have to develop plate discipline. If you don't, you'll be out of the game in two years.


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[Assistant] I'd love to have O'Neal, but I just don't want to, I don't want to chip away the pitching depth that we have right now.


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[Assistant] Let me ask you this, I think Oscar Gonzalez still has trade value. Uhm, if the, if the Guardians aren't going to call him up.


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[Assistant] And I hate to be definitive about this and kill anybody's hopes, but in today's modern game, the way it's played, a team with two corner outfielders that can't hit home runs, can't win a World Series.


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[Assistant] Zach, we have to start with your reaction to, uh, GM bulls trade proposal. Do you like it?


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[Assistant] Zack, that's what I was gonna ask you. My comfort level with this trade, the one for one, my comfort level with this trade would be much higher if you told me that


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[Assistant] In early August, Mackenzie's gonna come back and he's gonna be Tristan Mackenzie.


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[Assistant] But at this point, and I don't know if it's just my cynicism, but at this point, I'm looking at Mackenzie as offering nothing to this club this year and thinking he's going to need Tommy John. Talk me out of that position if you can.


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[Assistant] They're done, but I don't, I know Artie Moreno says we're keeping him, but if they start the post all-star part of the season two and seven and they've got a very difficult schedule, if they start two and seven and suddenly they look up in their double digits out of the wild card,


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[Assistant] August 1st, is Shane Bieber on the Guardians or somewhere else? In your, in your opinion.


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[Assistant] Alright, one more question and Mikey's got something for you. Uh, we haven't really entertained this thought.


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[Assistant] Because it was just a foregone conclusion that Bieber was absolutely out the door.


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[Assistant] But because of his struggles and because of his diminished trade value,


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[Assistant] Is there any whisper at all of perhaps going back to negotiating with Bieber on a long-term contract? He has to be thinking that his value on the free agent market once it happens is going to be less.


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[Assistant] Maybe the Guardians roll the dice and think this is a temporary hookup. Let's face it, we kicked dirt on Justin Verlander when he was 10 years older than Bieber is right now and he had, uh, you know, a revival.


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[Assistant] Sabathia as well. Is it possible that there's, that that, is that ship completely sailed?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think, I think the number is at least ticking down and, uh, and, and so maybe it would be in his benefit to talk to Cleveland about a deal, but it doesn't seem like that's going to happen. Mikey has a question for you.


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[Assistant] I agree. Yeah, we get to see more of Zip. I'd like to see him stay in the American League, uh, not in our division, but I'd like to see him at East Coast American League so we can watch more and appreciate him more because


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[Assistant] They are now at a level that is actually awesome. You look at it and say, how in the hell can they have so few home runs? The Braves.


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[Assistant] Well, Zach, it's like some softball leagues, if after you've hit two home runs in an inning, the next one over the fence is a home run. So you're trying not to hit home runs. Well, is it out? It's an out. I mean, yeah. So I mean, that's literally like, I think the guardians think that that's the rules they're playing out. We're not allowed to hit any home runs.


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[Assistant] Like 20 games or something. Somebody actually printed one on me.


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[Assistant] Uh, Mike, I know there's only a couple minutes left and you had, you had talking about the schedule for next year on there. Yeah, real quick. I know it's not a full topic. I just wanted to get Bull's thoughts on this. Ten games to start the season on the road.


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[Assistant] Nine games to end the season. I thought Jason said they were home the last week.


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[Assistant] I've never heard- That's crazy. In a vacuum, every game counts the same.


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[Assistant] Managers will tell you if you, if you force them.


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[Assistant] To say what, what are the two biggest stretches of the season? Most important.


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[Assistant] Now sometimes the tail end means nothing because you're out of it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, which I think is, we talked about this yesterday on Channel 3, that's a stroke of genius. It's April 8th. It's usually the home opener is a four o'clock start.


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[Assistant] The eclipse, the total eclipse happens at 310. If you don't know, Cleveland is in the absolute heart of the path.


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[Assistant] So at 310 on April 8th next year, when progressive field will be packed with fans, and 50 major league baseball players, it's going to temporarily go dark. It will turn into complete and total darkness.


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[Assistant] Well, when it's in the total eclipse, you see the edges. It provides very little sunlight. You're not supposed to look at it. They'll hand out glasses. So I have an idea. We need to get


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[Assistant] Eclipse glasses so you can look at the sun and I want logos on both arms because that shot is going to be everything.


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[Assistant] But not really just like his friends and his family, like he really left the world with a lot of blessings and it's like something that you just gotta take in and really like appreciate. Definitely. And that's what I've been doing honestly, it's like, it's a beautiful thing bro, like without him.


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[Assistant] Without ski and my friends, I would, I would be nothing. And I feel like without each other we would really never be shit anyway. So it's like, it's just a beautiful thing like, to really like, experience. You know, as sad as it is, you can find the beauty in it.


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[Assistant] It was too beautiful for this world to last too long, I feel like, you know?


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[Assistant] Way too beautiful. He knew, he knew he was gonna go early and it was just like...


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[Assistant] I mean, you know, you never expect it to happen for things to happen the way that they did, but like,


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[Assistant] I feel like he prepared all of us. You know what I mean? If you really listen to his music, he really prepared us for like the worst and it happened, you know?


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[Assistant] Florida in the building, you did what I was saying. What are you guys getting into tonight? Are you going to the club or what? Uh, I'ma probably watch Juices set and then I don't really know. I don't know what's going on. What are you doing?


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[Assistant] I don't think that's any of your business, Wolf. Why?


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[Assistant] How about because it works? That's why. Am I good enough for ya?


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[Assistant] Certainly kept you two off the scent for a while. A short while.


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[Assistant] Crane could be hollow bones tomorrow, and you wouldn't see me cry at drop.


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[Assistant] But that doesn't mean I can tell you anything. You have friends, don't you? Well, I don't want Crane's friends for enemies.


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[Assistant] It doesn't matter cause I'd never do it. I'm not a house cat and I don't play well with


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[Assistant] You know that it will pierce the protection around the girl's speech. He says pulling the truth out of them will prove his innocence. It won't, though. Damn thing lost its power decades ago.


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[Assistant] Images as they started to come out from Guantanamo really captured global attention.


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[Assistant] It brought what many believed to be American values or what America claimed as its values in conflict with the images that people were seeing.


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[Assistant] As these troops were going to Iraq, these wars were being lost or they looked like they were losing these wars.


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[Assistant] Suddenly Americans started to ask, why are we here and is it worth it?


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[Assistant] Is it worth the costs, not just in terms of taxpayer dollars?


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[Assistant] Is it worth the cost in terms of human lives and in terms of values?


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[Assistant] President Bush announced to the world that America's war on terrorism will expand.


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[Assistant] This year so far, I have been working on renovating an old little house that I bought last year. And that will be my future art studio.


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[Assistant] It's a lifelong dream coming true, and I have really put all my heart and soul into this little house. And all my previous videos this year has been about this renovation, since it has taken up most of my time and energy.


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[Assistant] But as you all know, renovation projects always end up becoming so much bigger and time consuming than you first think.


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[Assistant] Going on road trips is on my top three things that I love to do most in this life.


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[Assistant] It has something to do with that absolute freedom that I feel when I pack the car with all my camera equipment and all the stuff that I need and then just drive away on unknown roads without a time schedule and explore new places.


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[Assistant] I love the feeling of not knowing how the next moment will be like and what I will see and what I will experience. Everything is unknown, and in that space is where so much new things can grow. It's a break from the daily routines and I think we all need that once in a while.


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[Assistant] The midnight sun is a trustful companion throughout the whole night. And even though I drove over 800 kilometers to reach my first destination, it felt so easy.


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[Assistant] I felt like I was flying across the beautiful landscapes, and I took some breaks and naps whenever I needed it, and I stopped here and there whenever I saw something beautiful along the road that I wanted to capture.


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[Assistant] It was early in the morning when I finally reached Abisko, which is a beautiful place among the mountains in the very north of Sweden. And I was welcomed with some really strong winds. It's really, really windy outside.


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[Assistant] The winds are so strong. Do you see? Here is the midnight sun.


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[Assistant] I spent my day in Abisko just driving around to different places and enjoying the beautiful surroundings.


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[Assistant] The shape of these mountains has always fascinated me. They are called Lapporten, which can be translated into the Gate to Laponia. They look so majestic, especially when you see them in real life, since the camera can't really make them justice.


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[Assistant] So it's 9 o'clock in the evening and we are getting closer to prime time. I'm kinda waiting for the night to arrive so I can start. Or, yeaah.