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Good evening, everybody, and welcome
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co host, mister Smoking Jeremy B. How's it going tonight, Jeremy fantastic?

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Candy? How are you? I'm
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that mister Will how are you tonight? Glad to be back? Thank you,

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Thank you, Candy, thank you, Jeremy. Love talking sports.

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You know it. I talked about
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I'm doing pretty good. Candy?
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cool. Well, guys, we have

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some awesome topics tonight. We're going
to be talking about NFL and tackling players

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on knees or below out. We're
going to talk about the New Pact twelve,

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and then we're going to talk about
a little Caitlin Clark and how we

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think her influence on the game is
going to be here and now that she's

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declared for the WNBA. So with
that, we're going to start off with

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the NFL and talking about tackling players. So I'm going to turn it over

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to mister Smoke and Jeremy b for
this. The NFL is trying to get

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a rule through the owners during the
winter meetings and it has to do with

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specifically the tackling near the knee or
below area because of all the knee injuries

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that have happened during those segments.
Yes, four of those over the last

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three year or two years has been
due to Kirby Joseph. It wasn't intentional.

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You're going to go back and watch, if you watch the whole video,

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just still frame it. But at
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agree with it. But yet,
if we keep changing the way people have

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to tackle, eventually, is it
even going to be tackling football anymore.

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I'll go back to like the Pro
Bowl and do flag football, right,

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Yeah, Dan, your thoughts about
tackling knees, they're basically taking away any

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way you can hit a wide receiver. We're running back anymore. And I

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don't care what any of the league
people want to say about safety. Violence

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is still what sells football. You
take all the violence out and Washington numbers

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and the ratings drop. I agree, I agree, Hello ken Well your

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thoughts about tackling knees. It's a
two sided coin. But I agree with

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Jeremy and I agree with and it's
gonna be so hard to enforce because this

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is the way you tackle receivers and
running backs. Unfortunately, Kareem Hunt got

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tackled last year and his knee twisted
the wrong way in that didn't look good,

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and that was probably the big red
flag that said we got to get

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something done. Sooner or later.
These guys are gonna have devastating knee injuries

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and be out for a while.
So but it's also the way you tackle

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the receivers and running backs. Like
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it gets past this offseason the rule
change. But if there's a way you

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can demonstrate it with former players and
say we prefer this method over this method,

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do a tutorial, then we'll see. So, guys, are we

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starting to get soft here in the
NFL or what? Like? Where do

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you where do you stop it?
So you can't tackle the knee, you

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can't tackle with the ankles, you
can't talk tackle obviously the head, and

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I get the head, don't get
me wrong, But where do you stop

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it? Late said Jeremy, like
it's gonna become flag football or something almost

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because this is football is football,
you know, going in that you you're

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susceptible to these kind of and I
will say, how often is it?

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You're not. None of the players
are intentionally trying to hurt the other players,

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to take them out for any length
of time. All they're trying to

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do is make a play. Defense
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they're supposed to protect. Runners are
supposed to run, you know, like

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like Dan said, violence, I
hate to say this sells. Let's face

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it, in a hockey game,
do you want to see them just pass

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the puck or do you want to
see fights for the longest time you honesty

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fights? I mean, that's that's
what the NHL was, and that's what

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you enjoy. I think you're drawing
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they pass something like this, because
I think it just changes things and I

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think it takes too much away from
the defensive players or the people that are

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trying to, you know, tackle, because, like I said, otherwise

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than might as well be flag football, and that's not what the NFL is

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or has been. Any other comments
from the panel about this topic, Yes,

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of course. Now if they're going
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what are you supposed to do when
the running back of the receiver makes them

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so real small so the only two
places you could possibly hit them is then

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easier the head? Is that an
automatic foul coming in right there? Exactly

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right? Was add the same thing
number one when you're a smaller defensive back,

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because most of the defensive back is
the only way what to two twenty

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at most, So when they're trying
to tackle a two hundred and sixty pound

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tight end, what are they taught
to do? Go for the legs?

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Is you take out their legs,
they can't keep going, And it's a

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fundamental way of tackling a guy bigger
than you. If you take that away,

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and you take that and give the
advantage to a two hundred and sixty

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pound tight end that all you gotta
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there's gonna be a lot more broken
tackles in the league. I agree,

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I agree, I agree, and
like I like, we said,

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where do you stop? Like,
where does it stop then? Because now

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all of a sudden you can't tackle
there? Can you tackle with the ankles?

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Can you tackle with the feet?
Can you tackle? Like? I

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mean, let's face it, you
can get injured a lot of different ways.

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You can even get injured not contact
in football, like it just it

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can happen. And do we like
to see the injuries that take players out,

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No, of course not. But
it still is that kind of a

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game, and you kind of learn
to expect some injuries, hamstrings, whatever

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it could be. But I get
the whole head in head and keep away

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from tackling in the head and using
the helmet. I get those. But

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as far as players are on the
knees, again, it's part of football

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and as long as they're not really
trying to take somebody out and take their

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knees out and really injure them.
You gotta be careful here because how are

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you going to enforce it and everything
too. So okay, well we have

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the Pack two. Let's talk.
Let's talk about them and what's going on

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with them smoking Jeremy B. This
was your topic. The Pack commissioner,

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I can't call him the Pack twelve
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to keep his two teams in the
Pack two or the two packs I like

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to call it, because there's only
two teams in it, and that's Washington

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State and Oregon State. Correct,
Correct. So the reason why he's trying

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to keep it going is they're going
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Mountain West teams and probably Hawaii just
to keep it going because Hawaii's always been

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a travel destination destination for the PAC
twelve anyways, or they're out of conference.

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If they add them to the conference, that makes it a little more

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viable. I think he wants to
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eighteen conference to keep it alive.
Dan, your thoughts, there's a reason

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there's only two teams left in that
conference because there's the only two new two

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that nobody wants it do it exactly
realistically, If the conference isn't going to

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give you a shot into the playoffs
for winning it, there's no point for

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teams to be there. I pulled
the conference. Will your thoughts? Yeah,

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Supposedly they're trying to keep the teams
encouraged by media rights, but really,

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like, and I get it,
they're gonna try and bring in Mountain

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West teams like Hawaii and maybe Boise
State these other teams, but like,

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these games are on late at night
anyway on the East Coast, and they

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don't get a lot of viewers.
And for the conference to stay alive,

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they're gonna need eight six more teams
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And you know what, I hate
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but I wouldn't be surprised. Somehow, some way, I know they were

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left over because no one wanted them. But somehow, some way, I

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feel like the PAC twelve or the
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be a conference anymore. Okay,
So this conference has been in existence one

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hundred and eight years as ten of
its members are poised to join other Power

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five conferences Beginning July one, The
soon to be two team Struck Conference struck

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a scheduling agreement with the Mountain West
for the upcoming football season, and both

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the Beavers and Cougars will be affiliate
members of the West Coast Conference in twelve

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sports, including men's and women's basketball. Now, they have said that the

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league, the NC two A,
has given them a grace period that allows

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them to operate as a two team
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But how realistic is it to keep
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that? Makes makes it very different? And honestly, as many teams have

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jumped from one conference to another conference, are we heading to there are only

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being three or four conferences? I
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the NFL and you know AFC and
NFC like are we are we headed towards

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that? I have said for the
past two years, with the way teams

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have been jumping ship and going specifically
mostly to the Big ten in the SEC,

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You're gonna see if it continues this
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changing everything so often and enforcing the
rules and ways that are unlike they may

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succeed from the NC Double A and
form their own college football league. Yeah,

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exactly, and personally I think that, No, it seems obvious.

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No recruits are gonna say go to
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Oregon State, Washington State, Yeah, I want to play, unless it's

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like a hometown kid who only gets
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lose so many recruits because of this. Yeah. I mean, if you

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actually look at it, Washington State
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they get. It's kind of like
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Michigan State versus Michigan Yep, leftovers. I'll look at the recruiting classes different.

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The four and five star recruits that
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out of ten will go to Michigan, Ohio State or some other school in

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another state that where the weather's nicer. The three the lower end four,

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three and two star recruits go to
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leftovers. Yep, No, I
agreed. I was just saying I agree

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with Germany leftovers. That's horrible.
Yeah, it's horrible talking about people like

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that. Will Sorry, true.
Third sometimes it does. It does,

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Okay, So we're gonna talk a
little bit of basketball now. Iowa star

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Caitlin Clark will enter the twenty twenty
four WNBA draft. She announced today.

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She is the all time leading scorer
in women's college football with three thousand,

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six hundred and fifty points. She
only needs eighteen points on Sunday against Ohio

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State to pass Pete Maravich is n
C two a record of three thousand,

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six hundred and sixty seven points.
How do we think she's in the WNBA?

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And do you think she has increased
the heightened awareness of women's college basketball

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and WNBA? And do you think
she's gonna influence young girls to follow in

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her footsteps? This time we're gonna
start with Dan. Well, she's definitely

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heightened college basketball for women. But
you know, in my personal opinion,

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that is the height of the sport
for women. College basketball is where they

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get all their attention. The WNBA
nobody really cares about it because it's a

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newer thing. You don't have all
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It's more of a fundamental game that
nobody cares about anymore. They want ball

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range, threes and big dunks.
And I think Katelyn Park's a hell of

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a player. I think she's gotta
be a star in WNBA. But I

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don't see one individual person being able
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to make it where it's attractive to
people to watch. Okay, that's fair,

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that's fair. Will your thoughts as
you guys know, I'm on a

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w NBA, NBA and C doa
a show with our friend Megan and so

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we we talked about Caitlin and the
other women in Caitlin's phenomenal and yes,

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people say, oh, back then
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Well, we can't help that now
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changed from the NBA, NFL,
MLBU have you know when I'm talking about.

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But she has brought attention not only
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They sell out arenas. There's been
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years who have brought the women's basketball
game going up and up and up,

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and Caitlin's only making it better.
Like Kobe, Kobe was a girl that

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his daughter was gonna probably play at
Yukon or one of the major basketball women's

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schools, And yeah, it's getting
eyeballs all around the country. Like I

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said, it's selling out arenas.
And it's gonna be very interesting because she's

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projected to go number one, which
I do think she will to the Indiana

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Fever and she'll be playing with for
Aliah Boston, Melissa Smith, Kelsey Mitchell,

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and Erica Wheeler. And you know
what, do I think show average

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triple doubles like she does in college? No? But do I think shall

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have a good stat one? Yeah, I'm expecting maybe like fifteen points per

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game, maybe thirteen points per game, six assists and two rebounds. But

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yeah, she's bringing eyes around the
country. Men. Women NBA players sometimes

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go to WNDA games like it's it's
it's awesome what she's doing for smoking Jeremy

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b your thoughts. See, the
Iowa has gotten to the point where courtside

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seats are ten thousand dollars a piece
to watch Kitlyn Lark right now, the

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nosebleeds are around fifteen hundred apiece.
It's not how much it's costing you go

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to that small basketball court. But
at the same time, she kind of

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dominates the news for Iowa basketball right
now as a whole. The Iowa's men's

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basketball team hasn't been doing that good, and it's all about Caitlyn Kark Clark.

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I think she has the chance to
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what it is. But you know
what, I wanta see her drafted the

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girl that looked her off last year
after the national championship game. I want

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her to go to the team that
is their rival because that would make for

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some heated stuff every game. Oh
yeah, yep, that's true. Okay,

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So now it's my favorite segment,
the segment that I came up with,

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which is where we all talk about
my town and it's either a story

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from the town you currently live in
or the town you grew up in,

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favorite team that you grew up watching, or whatever. So we are going

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to start with mister will Cool Cool. So I lived at Charlotte, North

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Carolina and the Shaw Hornets are planning
to hire Brooklyn Nets executive Jeff Peterson as

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the head of basketball operations to replace
a long time basketball operations Mitch Cup who

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is as we know, with the
Lakers. And mister Peterson is thirty five

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years old and he has connections with
the Hornets co owner owner Sorry and team

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governor Rick Chanall back to their landa
days when they were both working for the

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Hawks, and he was also instrumental
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He also has a connection to current
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was in Brooklyn, mister Peterson was
working for the Nets. So it's cool

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to see a young mind who's six
years older than me go into a big

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role like this in a state that
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basketball in North Carolina. And hopefully
this brings a winning culture to the Hornets,

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and they haven't made the playoffs in
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more people the games and and sells
more tickets and as people buy more merchant,

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get us more good players so we
can build up and become a more

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prominent basketball team. So that's going
on in Charlotte. Okay, Dan,

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what's happening? First of all,
what is your town and what's happening there?

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I live up in Valleyview, Pennsylvania, in the middle of nowhere,

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in the middle of nowhere, and
the closest thing any anything sport related to

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me would be penn State and the
one you think coming out of there is

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Chop Robinson looking like Michael Parsons at
the combine. That that is it is?

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There is there a team that you
follow more that you let you would

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like to talk about. Though I'm
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in Point Pledge in New Jersey,
and I'm a big Giants fan right now,

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I guess that entire team is a
total mess. But our coach was

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rated one of the most like coaches
by players in the entire league. We

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may be able to keep our start
running back. I pray to God,

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yes we don't want him go on
to Baltimore. No, No, okay,

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really not much, Okay, Jeremy, Well, here in Michigan,

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we got a lot to talk about. It looks like the Red Wings,

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even though they lost tonight, are
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as the eighth seed in the playoffs. And we all know how that worked

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out for Florida last year. So
I'm not saying they'll win it all,

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but the chance is there. So
you're saying there's a chance, which means

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that the Tigers do as good as
they're projected to do. Michigan for the

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first time that I can remember,
can have three teams in the playoffs in

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their respective seasons in one calendar year. Amazing. We all know the Pistons

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aren't going to be in the playoffs
for probably for the next ten years,

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the way the great they're going.
It's true, that is true. Okay,

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So I struggled with what to come
up with. I'll be honest with

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you guys tonight, because I do
live in South Florida. So there are

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the Florida Panthers. They're doing well. FAU men's basketball is doing good.

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USF men's basketball is doing good.
In fact, we're going to the FAU

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game on Saturday, so I'll be
sitting down on the court taking pictures again.

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And then I'm but my heart is
in Wisconsin because that's where I grew

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up. So I am, yes
Packer fan. Uh so the dismay of

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some of you. But I'm gonna
talk a little bit about books. So

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I read a re the other day
that they were talking about Damian Lillard and

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how he's lonely in Milwaukee. Well, of course he's lonely in Milwaukee.

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His family doesn't live there. His
family still is in Portland. His mom,

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his kids, will even make this
street. But I will also say

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for all of the naysayers of Doc
Rivers, and I have yet to yet

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to hold my opinion, but the
Bucks defense has moved from number twenty second

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up to number six in the NBA
since Doc Rivers, So he has improved

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the team. Now whether he can
take us all the way, because there

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are a lot of people that think
Doc Rivers cannot coach in the postseason,

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that has yet to be seen.
But he has didn't improve over a team

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that got rid of the defensive player
of the year and started out really bad

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because they move the defensive player of
the year. So they have improved that.

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But good luck to all the teams. As March Madness is going to

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start, they're going to start.
Their teams are playing in the last five

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two weeks, three weeks, I
want to say, of the seasons,

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and then their conference's coming up two
weeks. Well, it is a good

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time for college basketball, and it's
a good time to be watching college basketball

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because they are vuying for things,
and like the NHL, they're going to

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be vuying for playoffs. At the
time of year, you see good games

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and teams try and rise or you're
going to find them fall flat on their

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face and not go anywhere. So
I would just say go out and joy,

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And there's nothing like going to see
some of these in person. Yes,

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you can watch things on TV,
but there's there's something to be said

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about actually live. You know when
we when we had COVID and everybody was

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couldn't go. You had to watch
things on TV. But go see some

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of these. Go support some of
the college games and see the excitement.

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But my one thing is if you
do go, do not stirm the courts.

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Don't injure players. Please safety.
You can be excited and you can

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go down on the court, but
you do not have to storm the court.

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There is a difference Dan and he
I kind of saw you, Yeah,

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devil, don't injure players. I
watched that clip of that guy like

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probably fifteen times, and he body
checked the fade. He put himself in

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Horm's way. Yeah, the fan
reacts. All the bunch or push to

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the back happened, and then as
he got hurt. It wasn't because it

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was initiated by the fan, but
at the same time they got to do

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something to kind of regulate it,
to get the opposing team off the court

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a little better. Maybe get some
of the backups already in the locker room

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and then just leave it with the
five guys that are on the floor there

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with the coach. Do something to
limit how many players are on the floor

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before the fans storm on it,
especially at a big rivalry game like that,

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because that's when it's gonna happen.
It doesn't happen at your normal games.

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It happens at those big rivalry games, especially when one's way underrated compared

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to the other team and they knock
them down when they're a ranked team.

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I don't care who you are,
those kids are hitting the floor. They're

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gonna be like a down with the
sick. You know, many of fields.

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No, I'm saying a storm many
of fields. Mm hmm. I

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was at the USF FAU game.
And then for any of you that no

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college basketball or no the state of
Florida, USF is in Tampa on the

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West coast and FAUS in Boca,
and they are in the East coast.

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FAU was ranked, USF was not. USF has a ten thousands plus seat

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stadium. FAU has like a three
thousand seat stadium. They played at USF

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USF stuffed that stadium. It was
full. It was the largest crowd they've

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had. It was over ten thousand. And Yes, USF came away with

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the win, and so yes,
they stormed the court. And it was

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interesting because I was literally taking pictures
on the court. So they came and

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they stormed around us, and it
was interesting how they tried to still usher

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the FAU team off the court because
obviously they wanted to celebrate with their home

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court and they had some security,
but not enough that there was still getting

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pushed around and stuff like that.
So yes, I think something has to

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be done. I'm not exactly sure
if there's somehow they've got to be able

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to hold people off until people go. Jeremy wants to say, so something

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I can. I can see it. Oh two hours ago, broken by

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JPA Football Report, which is a
Jaspery Football that writes for the NFL network's

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website, the Lions are expected to
meet with i'm on ra Saint Brown's agent

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at the NFL Scouting Combine to discuss
a long term contract. That's something I

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was saying that that I'm wanted.
He's said repeatedly on his own podcast he

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wants to be a lion for life. This is breaking news. That's the

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only reason why I'm saying it long
term is not three years, people,

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that's that five to seven year range. I'm thinking it's gonna be like five

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or six. I don't think it'd
be seven, but bye, I'm happy

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with that, even at the twenty
five million. With the way they can

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stretch that contract out, it's a
good I love it. Okay, breaking

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here, So guys, it's been
a great show. Any any other comments

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anybody wants to come up with point
out? Nope, Well then we're gonna

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go around the road. How they
can get hold of you and how they

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can see you see your shows,
how they can Dwayne Keaton says eleven years,

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twenty five to twenty eight million.
Well, the rumored amount was twenty

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five million, and am Hanrau already
said that's perfect to him on his podcast,

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So I think it's gonna stay right
there. I think it was just

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a matter of the years because the
rumored contract was three years, twenty five

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million a year, not including signing
bonus or guaranteed money. So I think

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we're going to be looking at that
five to six years. That's where I'm

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thinking it is okay, mister,
let's just start with our guests, Dan,

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how can people get a hold of
you? How can they subscribe to

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your channel and tell everybody? Uh? Well, you can subscribe to necat

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Fighting Jeremy Smoking Jeremy B on YouTube, necat Fighting page there wand Doom Creations

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on Facebook uh x, and my
favorite is TikTok because that's that's where I

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want to do everything from now on. It's so much more fun. Okay,

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okay, will how can people find
you or get a hold of you?

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Wednesday nights you can find me on
the NFL Roundtable hosted by Smoking Jeremy

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B and Von Doom aka Dan Leonard
fund me here on Thursdays or on the

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zip Off hosted Buyden Meghan Price.
Fridays. You can find me on the

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Lion's Fan Cave chat hosted by Jeremy
B again and Von du Ma Kay Dan

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Letter again. Thank you everybody much
love. I appreciate all of you.

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Sounds good, Jeremy. Well,
as you've already heard, you can find

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me a knee cat fight at the
Motor City Lions, which is my YouTube

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page. As my other two guests
here has already alluded to, You can

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also find me and Motorcitycat Fighters on
Lions Villain Squad, on NFL News and

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rumors. I'm all over the place
on Facebook. Then there's of course smoking

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Jeremy b on X and on Instagram, and of course on all things South

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Florida Tribune, especially when it's fire
Up. I'm always on fire Up,

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occasionally on Inside the Big Skin,
occasionally on what is it? The Professor

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and the Pupil. So I think
that all the shows that I pretty much

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i'm a part of in the South
Florida Tribune network, which is on the

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you haven't done it, guys, go

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we don't just talk Lions. We
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talk all around the NBA, WNBA, NCAA. We go all over the

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board. Because that's what good news
programs do. And let's give it to

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my host Andy. But before I
take off, I want to say the

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same thing I do to all the
fans try every day to be a better

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person than you were the day before. It's the only way to make the

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world a better place. It starts
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awesome love guys. Okay, So
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can always see Last night they did
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where they do one on one with
the book authors and they talk about books.

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So last night it was about a
guy that he wrote a book about

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boxing and how you can use that
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know, doing your traditional weights or
this talks about working out as a boxer

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and how that's a great great exercise
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as well, So go check that
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you can sometimes see Fire Up Michigan, Fire Up Wisconsin, Fire Up

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Florida. We typically do Fire Up
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never know, we might sprinkle in
something else. We also have Motor sitting

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in the Mad Mall Show. Oh, we have all kinds of different shows,

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but our shows are always on YouTube. We do put them on our

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writers such as Jeremy. We have
my husband Scott and George Iikhorn, who

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is normally on this show. We
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he birthday George on the twenty ninth, so he's probably like fifteen right now.

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Yeah, you now that many birthdays, but so happy birthday, George.

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We miss you, and Ralph we
miss you too. You are on

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vacation, on a much needed vacation, so let's see. You can always

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can find their writings. You can
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NFL teams that send us their transcripts. So we had the Jaggs sent us

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transcripts this week as they talked from
the combine. We also have Fau sends

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us all kinds of things us have
through sends us things once in a blue

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moon. Let's see who else sends
us you just name it. Go over

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there and check us out, see
what it is. And you can see

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some of my pictures that I've taken. So thank you guys, You guys,

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this has been a great show.
I appreciate Dan, you coming on

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as a guest. Thank you very
much for coming on with us. Well,

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of course, thank you, and
of course is my co host.

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Thank you, Jeremy. Where would
I be without you? Good thing?

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I don't find I do all right, bench you do good but for Jeremy,

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Dan and well, thank you guys. Have a great week and catch

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some good sports. Thanks