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You're listening to the downbeat. I'm
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thirty five. Tell you what that
is. I also tell you Friday,

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we're doing the thing again. It's
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the thing that I'm talking about is
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So we're gonna do a little secret
Santa type thing again. Yeah, we

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did. Last year was wild ass. It was very wild gift exchange whiskey

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fest. I want a picture.
I think of me eating a key lime

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pie. I worked hard to get
that thing. That dinner was like one

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day before. Yeah, our Christmas
giveaway. You used Amazon Fresh to get

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that in yep, uh it Fresh. I don't know what I got.

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I don't have anything yet this year. I've got a couple of things in.

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But that's gonna be a Friday at
Mike's Jimini Twin during the Speakeasy two

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to six pm. Come hang with
us. We'll do the Annual Gift Rift,

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a little Freak party. Clip of
the earclip show countdown coming up at

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nine forty three thirty one Ding sings
at eight. You're not gonna want to

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miss that. We're gonna do sports
in ten minutes. But right now,

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as we promised last week, we
gave away Adam Sandler tickets to win Star

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World Casino on resort. He plays
there this Friday night after that. Friday

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is the fifteenth, and they have
Kevin Hart playing with Chelsea Handler and Tiffany

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Hattish as well. And if you
can pass the test of Kevin trivia,

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then you're going We'll start with collar
number five. Let's go ahead and throw

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them on the air. JJ who
do we have here? Hi? What's

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your name? Jeff? Jeff?
Hi, Jeff? Where are you calling

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from? Hey? Ponder how's it
looking out there? But it's a beautiful,

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beautiful morning. Beautiful? What are
you doing right now? Waiting for

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my daughter? You're ready for school? Great? As she in. She's

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going to cosmetology school. Oh so
that's she's a twenty or something. I

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don't know, like twenty two.
All right, Yeah, it's cool.

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Jeff. What do you do?
I'm like a therapist at the state school.

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Oh wow, cool? Really?
Yeah? What kind of physical what

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kind of therapy? Physical? Therapy. Oh okay, okay, right back,

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Danny, you're feeling good these That
feels good, real good. I

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think gosh, I can imagine being
like a psychotherapist at a state school.

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That could be tough. Right,
Yeah, that's nut's I know, a

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bunch of women, they're all crazy. What is it? What do you

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deal with the most? Like?
What physical concern Uh? You should gate

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training like learning to walk and transferred? What I heard? All right?

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What's your name again? Sorry?
Are o? Jeff? All right?

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Jeff, Jeff? You ready?
Let's do it? Man? All right?

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The answers will involve someone named Kevin
Kevin in honor of Kevin Hart.

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All right, Kevin, this actor
recently has become a meme in the last

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couple of months. Do you have
multi level clues? Here? Is that

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how this work? I might give
him another one if he's a pretty hard

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one, is it? Yeah?
I don't know what. He's a meme

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leaning on his kitchen sink, social
media all over the place. Well,

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now I got it, I got
partner. No, I don't have anything.

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Kevin Durant, Okay, keep going. Give him another not a great

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actor, Kevin Durant, a movie? Okay, he was married to on

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the on the on the sitcom,
he was married to Saved by the Bells

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Stacey Kerosi, also an actress with
a real name who was a scientologist for

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a while. James, who's not
giving a very good amazing? You know

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I've got I can't think of his
last name. I couldn't give this away

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with the US driver. Keep going, James. I'm trying to help you

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out, but I don't know this
one you called Jeff James, Kevin,

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James, Jeff. We knew it
started with the Jay. We are there.

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We had a sales thing last week. We're like, we're gonna stop

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just giving him away. We're gonna
make him earn it. And who's ever

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online one you're gonna win two.
Congrats everybody. I love you too,

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man, keep it real out there
and ponder bro. Yeah we're doing it

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man, all right, do it
all soundhold? All right? Thank you,

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James, And I want more real
quick. It's Tuesday. Get two.

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We didn't do an interesting I want
James to listen to my advice real

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quick, or Jeff, what is
the name, Jeff, keep an eye

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on that daughter of yours, because
you know what happens cosmetology school attendees,

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a lot of them turn into stylists. And I've never met a hair stylist

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in my life that wasn't wild.
Ass. That's true. So just that's

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true. Keep an eye lady does
my hair wild? But don't drop out

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of beauty school because then you'll be
in the movie Greece. You are so

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stupid our young demographics school. Yeah. Uh, twenty five to thirty four

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popped. Okay, let's do hobs
to the right line four real quick?

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He do we have here? Jj? Hi? What's your name? Bernesso?

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Sonesso? That's right? Guys.
How you doing, dude? All

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right today? Yeah? Just here
at work? Oh? Now what do

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you do? Uh? Drag board? Lest there you go. You you're

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sitting in one right now. No, I'm walking around trying to get away

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from the noise. Really, thank
you acting like you're busy on the phone,

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hiding in between the product between the
product. Nice. That's an honest

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that's a damn honest man's work,
man's man. Teach us a thing or

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two. We have soft hands and
we sit in conditioned rooms. Yeah sounds

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nice. I'll trade. Do you
have a hard hat on right now?

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A hard, what hat cheeky?
All right, Arnesta, where are you

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calling from Garland? I like to
know. I always like to know.

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All right, Ernest, here's the
deal. The actue will be Kevin in

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some form. Kevin to give you
mints. This very popular actor, some

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would call him an a lister,
just had a big falling out with the

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hit show that he was on.
Take a guess. I'll give you a

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couple of guesses. I'll give you
one and we'll give you another hint hit

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TV show that was on Paramount.
Okay, we gotta see Yellowstone. M

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h Yeah, this act Oh my
god, I can't remember his laughing.

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Don't help him, Kevin. Let's
put him on the clock. A freaking

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come to my mind is Kevin Bacon? But for Kevin, he said Kevin

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Bacon because he's hungry. All right, you have ten seconds for this?

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Is it? You know it's Yellowstone, You know his name's Kevin. You

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have eight seconds? Oh my god, you have five. I know it's

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the guy from Yellowstone, the old
guy, the one that was frying with

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the ex wife right four. Yeah, Oh my god. He's gonna cost

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you. It'll cost you to guess. How did you get that the bell.

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What a genius for Nesto is Costia
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Kevin Hart, Hey, can I
go with you? You're getting two

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tickets. I'll have my wife if
I can take you. Yeah, she's

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gonna say no, Probably she'll let
you bring your friend. You'd come home

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at like four thirty in the morning
and still awake. Yeah, you're trying

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to Bel's gonna be like, no, can't go home yet. We gotta

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go play some black jackport. Let's
go all right, hell yeah, all

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right? Our next to congrats man, you want a pair of tickets with

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Kevin Hart. Win Star World is
here this Friday? That what three more

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pair to give away throughout the week? Dude, big one win Star appreciate

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that. Love Woodstar World Casino and
Resort. Like playing some golf out there

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as well, Kevin Hart. Next
Friday, go get your tickets. Let's

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do sports at seven and now sports
at seven. Oh yes, Christmas season,

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it's up, honest guys, and
I think a lot of our homes

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are going to be filled with hungry, hungry family members ready to feast on

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some holiday goodies. But you don't
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rickety the boat, but you got
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stupid? Is the police, Nabbi
DoD Little Sailor? I mean, I

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don't know what you lost? Yes, use that goodbye? What are these,

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nana all? They're clam tarts?
Clam tarts? He made them so

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quick, they're microwavable. Oh man, thank you so much for to jos

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Uh send him and clam tarts for
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days now, God, that sounds
terrible. Before we play this dirt audio,

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h it's the Mavericks are back at
it tomorrow night. Uh, cowboys

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did lose out on Shack Winard,
the linebacker. He signed with the Eagles.

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He chose the Eagles over the Cowboys. Now he also had he might

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have taken more money, who knows, and the Cowboys doctors might have been

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like, eh, he's not hasn't
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but he's the linebacker's position they need, and he had. But Shack Lenard

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has a history with Sirianni. So
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there and said signed up, signed
up paper, fine there right there,

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all bust up kill yeah, family
a Shack Leonard will not be joining the

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Cowboys, but joined the And it
won't matter unless we get to January and

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Shack Leonard, you know, deflex
a pass or the like. There's there's

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gonna be a third and two and
we kick it out to Tony Pollard and

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Shack Leonard makes the tackle to end
our season official. Like I We'll just

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watch as dumb as this all is
that it's been a week of Shack Leonard.

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Oh my god, Oh Cowboys won, Eagles lost. He's gotta be

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leaning Cowboys now. All this Shack
Leonard will impact the end of the Cowboys

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season. I can't help but feel
like we're on a uh San Francisco crash

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course. Although so if you win
this week against Philadelphia, you'll be tired

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of the Philadelphia. Now your record's
more difficult than theirs is. Now in

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the stretch, they've your schedule.
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Philadelphia's made it through the gauntlet,
and our gauntlets kind of just beginning is

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we will have Buffalo, a desperate
Buffalo team. We'll have Miami on Christmas

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Eve. At Miami, you'll have
Detroit Detroit to who will be grappling for

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playoff position. That was a wild
ass game against the Saints, by the

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way, Yeah that was good.
That was a wild game, and there's

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a lot so I mean, Detroit's
good, definitely beatable for sure. But

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you know, if you don't win
the division, you're the five. You'll

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take on the Saints of the Falcons
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and then you'll get the forty nine
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how this plays out. In true
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Cowboys season will be shack Leonard pancaking
Tony Pollard, who's playing center is yeah,

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just smushes him. Let me make
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think the Cowboys are gonna win this
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after that at Seattle, I think
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big favor to beat the Eagles Yep, Monday night. Yep, damn.

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I could see that because that is
not out of the question, man,

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Eagles at Seahawks. Seahawks would be
playing for their ass. The Eagles losing

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three in a row yep, especially
Jalen Hurts is not one and he does

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not appear to be. And then
they then they have Giants Cardinals Giants to

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end the year, which is lay
probably clean sweep there if it's gonna happen

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there, because it looks like tiebreaker
scenarios will show you that if they have

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the same record, and assuming the
Cowboys win this week, yeah, it

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looks like the Eagles would have Yes
most of the Tiberak. They need to

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lose again, so good, I
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that position by losing to the Cardinals
earlier in the year. Still a good

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team. That's on Sunday. We'll
deal with that. Let's listen to Dirk.

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Dirk went on the Stephen Jackson podcast
and he's talking about the early days

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of Luca. This is all the
Smoke with Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson.

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Love it, Love that this exists. Love athlete podcasts existing. I told

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you, guys, for a while, I've been a fan of a like

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shoot wrestling podcast that's where guys are
long retired and they tell you all these

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crazy stories from behind the scenes of
like the nineties and eighties, and it's

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just so fun. And I've been
screaming other sports need to do this,

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like just tell us everything. But
the problem is that world is kind of

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fake and they don't really care what
these dudes think. But nowadays you still

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do care about your other teammates and
most team sports and you can't like annihilate

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bridges I suppose like they do in
the world of wrestling. But I do

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like this. And Matt Barnes and
Stephen Jackson have a cool podcast where they

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really do kick around some cool stuff
and try to get into some some interesting

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angles. And yeah, we had
sweet sweet Dirk on there for an hour

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and five minutes. Oh yeah,
good, very good. Listen to the

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whole thing. Yeah yeah, but
this is the cut that I think made

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the news yesterday. This one's everywhere, is the whole thing. Yes,

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yeah, So it's Dirk essentially talking
about when Luca arrived, like literally seeing

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him for the first time, and
what how the team responded to. All

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right, well there's the guy,
and like I guess his role or lack

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thereof, and Luca's success and where
they are now. It's pretty juicy.

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My end of career wasn't pretty.
You know, we're struggling. There was

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some talk of tanking going on,
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change things. I didn't think that
was gonna be this kid. I didn't

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think it's going to be this kid
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in this practic facility. You know, he looked at his sick. He's

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a big boy. But I'm like, I'm not sure this is gonna work.

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Is he quick enough? Is he
athletic enough to go by guys like

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he is in Europe? And so
there were there were plenty of doubts there

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from from everybody on the team.
And you know how you meet already before

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training camp starts. Uh, you
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you hoop every day and you work
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to test him a little bit,
and you know, foul him a little

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bit here and there, and there's
scrimmages and and you can already see that

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this kid's got something about him.
He's got that swag. He knows how

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to play. He was he was
getting some in one mixtape passes out of

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So we were we were we were
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to be a really good player.
But I didn't think he was going to

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go to that levels, right,
I mean, he's my role with him.

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I guess we're we're friends where we're
cool where you know, when I'm

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town, we go to dinners or
whatever. Mentor would be a little strong

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because he doesn't really need me.
I mean he's he's as you guys see,

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he's he plays like a thirty two
year old veteran now he reads the

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game, how how he carries himself
on the court, And I mean I

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didn't really I wish. I would
love to say I helped him and talk

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to him about it, but it's
just the guy just came. He's been

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a pro since he's like eleven years
old, and that's how he plays the

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game, like there's nothing can rattle
him during the game and he just does

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his thing. And and so his
his development has been incredible, and I

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didn't think he could get better from
year to ear, but he's still showing

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it and I'm super happy for him. There's not a more honest, clear

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speaking, easy to understand when at
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So what did he mean here or
was that a backhanded compliment? I mean,

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Dirk is he's the perfect human.
He's the perfect human. He truly

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is. President. Yeah. Well, also Luca retweeted him and said,

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you guess we are friends? Yeah, that's all with the crying emojics,

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we're friends, a laughing emoj You
guess guess we're friends. We just go

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the Rangers playoffs together. It's also
interesting to me though, was like Matt

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Barnes and Stephen Jackson at time absolute
MAVs villain. Yeah, you know Matt

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Barnes, we hated him, Dirk's
heyday. You know, Steven Jackson with

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both the Warriors and the Spurs at
times we absolutely hated. And there's dirt

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just chilling with us for an hour
just laughing. It's all different when you

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hang him up man. I was
thinking, imagine that when Luca literally was

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on the airplane coming here, you
know, drafted and going all right,

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Dallas, and you go to Dallas, you land and then you know they

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pick you up and limo or whatever
however they do it now and then you

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say, all right, when tomorrow, d After tomorrow, we'll go shoot

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around with some of the boys.
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practice even just kind of will go
bang it around a little bit. They're

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getting their first look at you,
you know, and they're just eye and

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you no matter how welcoming. Yeah, the the Maverick the current Mavericks at

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the time were you know, it's
hey, what's up man, and you

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do the half hug and all right, then they check the ball to him,

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like I mean, that's just an
epic moment. I wonder if Steve

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Verah, the photographer somebody has video
of like they don't probably right because they

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met in a gem. Who knows
where is the maps, second practice court

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or whatever, but just that moment
checking in the ball and saying, here

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we go and to those guys,
you know, to see It's one thing

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to watch film of him when he's
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he gets off the plane and walks
into the practice facility and you put eyes

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on him for the first time without
seeing him play in person at all,

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he doesn't pass the eye test.
Yeah, he's tall and he's he's a

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big guy. But all of the
things Dirk had in question when they just

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looked at him, were very very
reasonable, like, oh, this is

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the kid, though, that's the
guy. That's the guy. Yeah,

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okay, all right, lily White. He's got a baby face skinnier too,

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you know, you can t see
it, like they have a little

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old picture of him, and it's
But the other thing is comparing to trust

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that to Dirk when Dirt got here. Dirt got here and was like homesick,

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yeap, and I don't know if
it's gonna work. Yeah he played

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in year one. Yeah he almost
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So I think Luca got off that
plane with I think there's so much

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self confidence that that kid has,
and so much belief in what he is

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capable capable of doing, and that
he probably thinks and truly believes that he's

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the best player in the league and
that that I don't know. I don't

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know if I bet well, I
bet he learned pretty quickly. But I'm

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saying, like that first check ball
when he's like, because he I guarantee

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you, no matter how good you
are in European basketball and how much confidence

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you're having yourself and where you're drafted, you still, you know, look

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at the NBA as Michael Jordan and
Lebron and like, do I even I

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don't know if I want to say
he questioned if he belonged, but he

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didn't know until those first practices.
And then he tries something and does something,

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and then you starts all right,
okay, and then I bet real

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quickly he learned, yes, this
all translates, this works, I'm I'm

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okay, and then he started lighting
it up. And then I bet real

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quick, super cocky or confident,
whatever you want to call it, all

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came back to him and he realized. But I mean, even when we

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drafted him, I don't think we
thought he was going to be just this

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triple double machine, like maybe the
leading scorer in the NBA. I don't

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know, you know, I think
Dirk said it in that audio he's like.

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Even then, we were like,
damn, he's got a love something.

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But we didn't expect this to be, you know, one of the

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one of the best players of his
generation. We didn't know who's gonna be

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on a Lebron like pace. And
I don't know. It's a great question.

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I wonder what he thought when he
first got here. It has to

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be some apprehension, no matter how
much bluster confidence you might exude. If

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he's ripping off a one mixtape passes
and your first like your teammates, you've

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probably got that. He's not dribbling
like Hot Sauce was. But no,

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there's that or escalade, the catalade. Escalator is my guy, was my

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guy, but he was everyone's guy. I think. All right, coming

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up at eight the dingu Power Hour, prepare your buns. We'll continue the

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