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Oh wow. Dan, you don't argue and you don't yell. You're so perfect. Except you have the face of a 600 pound man still got a gun to this incident.

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Eleventh hour show with these two guys on ESPN Radio.

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Thanks to him, he now has time for spending an hour with us. Mina Kimes and Pablo Torre get to join us right now on the Shell Pennzoil performance lot.

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Yes, we've got beef to settle here. Before we do that, however, Chris, I was remiss here in not telling you that Amino Hacen has a podcast. He just spent an hour with us, got a lot of good basketball information out of him. Chris, what is it that I failed to promote on his behalf so that he gets the publicity that he deserves from being on the show for an hour.

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Check out mean centerfold podcast he does with Zach Harbor. They review bad movies. I believe you guys has been on it.

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Check it out. OK, so Christine Lacy, here are your Kazue. And finally, new research finds that dinosaurs were doing well and could have continued to dominate the planet if they had not been wiped out by an asteroid. Speaking of dinosaurs, didn't do better.

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You really, really, Mike, already dinosaurs now, old man.

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Humor is what we're going to turn every time you think we make progress with ethanol. And then that's sinister. That giggle, that giggle in a cornfield at midnight, like that's evil and haunting. Like, I know you guys like it and you think, oh, it's just great when she sets fire to them and then runs off, but that it's horrifying evil. If you were in a cornfield at midnight and kids were singing, you often use that example.

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But I have a question. I was thinking about this, actually. Who goes to a corn field at night at midnight? Nobody would ever go to a corn field in the middle of the night is the scariest place on the planet.

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All right. Horror movies do this. I don't know where Mina is, but Amin is back. So before we get to Mina and Pablo and we'll do that in a second, I mean, tell people about the specifics of your podcast. Why do they need to be checking it out? All right, Xenophobe is the podcast where we watch poorly rated movies on Rotten Tomatoes and determine whether they were actually rated or not.

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The reason we started talking about designated survivors, because we talked by Anthony Michael Hall and Robert Downey Jr., who starred in this movie called Johnny B. Goode, which is a movie that we reviewed on Synovial. Wherever you get your podcast Synthpop, it's me and Zach Harper. And the latest episode we did was Drillbit Taylor, which is really, really bad.

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Wow. Yes. Pablo, what do you have for me?

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I am supposed to come on xenophobe sometime soon. And I know that because I just saw my calendar and it says Friday, November 20th, tomorrow in all caps. Nick Cage Jiujitsu movie comes out. Exorcized, I think is an agreement that Zac Inamine and I made to actually review in depth that new Nick Cage Jiujitsu movie, whatever that is.

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And it looks it looks like a banger. It definitely looks like right up to Godson's Alley. By the way, you guys, it strikes Mike Zali.

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Mike was just doing karate or jujitsu in the other room cage.

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I don't know if you're familiar with the plot of this film, but Nick Cage is a jujitsu instructor and he puts together this amazing team of martial artists to fight off aliens that are here to kill us.

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It looks amazing. And I don't know what it means. Talking about reviewing bad movies, we reviewed Tango and Cash, a classic. I mean. All right.

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So thank you again. I mean for your time. We appreciate you. But now we've got to get to Pablo and Mina, OK? Thank you. So xenophobe, wherever you get podcasts. You mentioned that.

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I already got that. We brought you back to do it. Thank you to many podcasts.

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I think we just hung around, if you want to, and watch all the blood splatter here.

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That's all right. So where do I start with this? First of all, Mina, how did the news arrive that Pablo had escalated your I mean, this has been years now. He's your nemesis. And how did the news arrive that Pablo had said you had not been accepted to Harvard? That's the only reason that you end up at Yale. Mike Ryan texted me and listen to the final few minutes of the big story, so yesterday afternoon, by the way, he asked me first to come on the show today and settle it with Pablo.

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I had no idea what he was talking about. And so then I went in to listen to the big story last few minutes yesterday. I'm caught up. I'm enraged. I'm ready to settle this.

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OK, well, all right. Let's take us through the rage because. No, Pablo. Hold on. You've had Pablo. You had first strike capabilities and you started this point. So, Mina, please go ahead. So for those who missed it, the context was Pablo, I think he was asked about, you know, Harvard and Yale, the rivalry said it's not a rivalry. Harvard's a better school. As an example, he told the world that I didn't get into Harvard would fight with you.

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That's the context. So then Stew, Mike, everyone, I'm enraged not because he revealed that I didn't get into Harvard, despite the fact that I had higher SAT scores, was valedictorian and play varsity sports America.

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Derica, I'm not rage because he denigrated the institution, which frankly, I don't care about the rankings or how people regard the school. I'm not enraged that he brought my name up when literally nobody asked about it. I'm going to rage because I have to talk about this at all, because unlike Pablo Torre, I never bring it up. Right.

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How many times in the history of my relationship with all the all my history have appearing on our various shows, have I mentioned where I went to college versus the number, the sheer volume of times it has come out of?

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Pablo, you are a shooting up.

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You're not the worst because I know because I have social intelligence that people don't care when you bring it up because it is a I don't know if I can use the word the D word because have it is a tool ish thing to do.

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And yet here I am having to use the word Yale for the first time in the history of ESPN.

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I mean, at times I'm bringing it up only, you know, I just was that stunned by it.

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Forgive me there. I lost my composure for a moment. Go ahead.

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But do not allow this person to take the high road here. Do not allow it. Do not allow it. She is somebody.

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Look, I want to make this clear, I admire Mina Kimes, I've admired her work, her intelligence, her resume, her SAT scores, which, yes, are higher than mine by, I don't know, 50 points or something like that.

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So I admire all of her work. But to talk about how Harvard does it matter to her is like asking Batman if the people who killed his parents matter to her, like this is her origin story, the origin story of Mina Kimes, the superstar that we know won respect and appreciate who was good at everything. It starts with the institution that, yes, I happened to attend, coincidentally saying attended God saying saying, you know what? No, thanks.

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That is the fire inside of Mina Kimes that burns. So just don't let her pretend like it doesn't. His response was pretentious.

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Me, not yours was outrageous. His was pretentious. Notice how you use the present tense there as well, because he hasn't let go of the past.

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OK, and if you want to talk about origin stories, Pablo, you are basically my child. The legacy who got into ESPN daily, you are basically like I drive the field.

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Wait, wait, wait. You you you hold on a second. Because who who was that? ESPN first.

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Who was the person. Oh, the immigration policy for American Paskeville on ESPN was Pablo.

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She flew she flew back and left you a tortoise shell. She really did climb into as a pod catch.

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And I know it's a great podcast. Everyone is listening. Download, subscribe, read, download, subscribe. Do it over and over again. Thank you. Yes. Cobbler has done a terrific job. I say excellent work. I do not want to notice that I'm not criticizing the actual work product. I am merely pointing out, Pablo, that what we're forgetting to talk about origin stories, yours and mine are now inextricable from each other. And I think it's pretty clear who was the daddy who got in his own marriage.

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Oh, hold on.

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Hold on a sec. Oh, I will also point out, because we're establishing some sort of familiar relationship, that despite the fact that I was at ESPN before Menagh and despite the fact that I tried to persuade her, hey, come over here, leave the world of business, join me in the world of sports, which is all true, not of all cultures, but it's not a song that it's not real.

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I want to say this.

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I've always looked up to now as the veteran journalist who is older than me, who came into this world, I always considered myself a bit of a rookie.

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What you will get was the veteran. So I just want to make clear that, yes, I am I am newer to the planet.

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Also, if we're being really age, I don't think that's even allowed anymore. All right. Hold on a second. Let's just. Is that not allowed? It just feels like it's not allowed.

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It feels wrong to talk about cursing on the radio. Yeah, well, there is that we will come back. That was I was genuine. Just come back with Pablo and Mina as this continues. I may not take my big.

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We'll get to conversation in a minute if Dan wants, but it's time for straight talk brought to you by Straight Talk Wireless.

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Well, the conversational is this. You know that Lieberthal and Friends is a bit of a family with a whole lot of weirdos in it. And one of the podcasts that you can find there is the Mina Kimes podcast featuring Lenny and paramilitary also has ESPN Daily, which he borrowed or rented after Mina moved on to bigger and better things. What do you have? You know, the football podcast has been very popular. I know you need to get out of here to do important football things, but what what are you doing with the Mina Kimes podcast featuring Lenny?

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What's the next thing coming up?

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OK, well, first of all, I'm getting out of here to do your show, and I'm questionable.

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Some people think they just want to be with me, by the way, which is not going to be awkward at all. OK, but yes, that's going to be weird.

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The Minicam show featuring Lenny, it's been a cop show. We had a live show last night. It was a ton of fun. Dominique Foxworth and Michael Seymour swung by every episode. Every week there's a new episode. Lenny was also there and you can check it out. We're covering the football season as it goes on. It is. It's a blast.

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So before you get out of here to do the show that we're doing later, can you just Pablo yesterday said that Harvard was objectively better than Yale. And I didn't get to the specifics of that. But do you have a counter to that? Because we'll get to his opinion in a second. But when he says Harvard is objectively better than Yale for a number of different reasons, what is the counter?

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Well, put me in a tough position here because I well, as I mentioned earlier, I'm now being forced to defend something I don't care about, which is honestly, it's like a highly questionable we have to watch Bulgarian soccer and weigh in. And I truly don't care about the rankings of these colleges. But I will just say this. Harvard has produced notable alumni such as Jared Kushner, Ted Kazinsky, Dr. Oz Kissinger, Pablo Turei. Oh, my God.

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By the way, I learned during the break before the break in the last segment, he said I outscored him on the SATs by 50 points. In fact, it was a hundred points. OK, he lied. So if you want an objective comparison, one of these schools admitted the guy who didn't crack 1500 and it wasn't Yale, the double 50 burger.

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Wow. There it is, guys. There is your high road, taking a high road, taking right into the center of the earth.

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What a disgraceful allegation.

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I guess media guys only cares about numbers and test scores, which which leads me to believe that maybe she does care that Harvard is, in fact, ranked over Yale in every regard. And by the way, the idea that Yale has not produced objectionable alumni. Are you kidding me?

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Are you kidding me? No, no. It's his first one.

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But I want to I want to be I can't. I will I will get in trouble for naming all the people that I actually think are disgraceful from Yale for reasons that mean may also get in trouble for for saying previously.

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However, I also want to point this is this this officially feels like a trap in every level, like Mina Kimes, like I think this is safe to say about our company. Dan, if anybody could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and get away with it, it's me. A comment.

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Agree. Like you brought me here. I agree with that.

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To lose to a person who cannot lose. I feel like this was a giant giant trap.

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And you are correct. Said it yourself.

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Yes. Yeah, you did. Said it. You're the one who volunteered. Nobody asked you to say that yesterday that none of us knew the. I hadn't been accepted to Harvard.

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I mean. You know, you didn't get in, right? That's that's that's like a fact you tried to get in, but you did it and. You want to do that, right? Army of attack at. No, no more, since the first name is five is so aggro. Yeah.

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Play the music. Get out of here. Hurt you just got on the pole.

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Let that be the punctuation to the segment. Did she hang up. She did her HIVers so aggro. Get out of the million dudes coming out of an online porta potty.

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Get out of my kiss me to kind of gross. All right, get out of here. Her life is so aggro.

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You need to leave now. Greg, ESPN Daily. Get out of here. Get out of here. That is great. I thought I was gonna get out of here.

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We will get to Jay Bellus in a moment. I'm curious how he feels Godse because he's very logical and he's also very human and he has said a lot of things over the years about how unjust the system is in profiting off of athletes. I'm curious what his opinion is on just this general greed of how the college football season is going as they keep getting games canceled all over the place. But before we do that, we have to honor the power of the kazoos.

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And finally, at his physical peak, Mike Tyson had a 20 inch neck. That fight is, what, now eight days away?

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Mike Tyson. Thank you, Christine. Pay per view. Roy Jones, Jr.. I fear that that's going to make some people sad. Just seeing them in their 50s. You're going to think you wanted to see that and then you're going to say, I'm not sure I wanted to see that.

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I want to see it. I don't care. I'll go into it knowing I'm going to be sad. But I want to be sad. I want to see those who fight. All right. Fair enough. So Jay Billings is with us on ESPN Radio. Do you want to see those two fight? Let's start there. Are you someone who's interested in watching two 50 year old slug it out? I would love to see anybody fight. I think that's an undervalued thing in our society of just getting getting people that disagree together to put boxing gloves on them and see see what happens.

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I think that would be fantastic. All right.

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Mike wants to make that a poll question. Mike, what is the poll question? An undervalued thing in our society. Hey, put that on the put that on the poll at the Today Show, please. Jay, what do you make of what's happening with this college football season? Well, I mean, I'm not really conflicted about it, it's such a big business that they have to try to to get it in. I mean, there's so many people relying on it for their livelihoods all the way to media, not just the players.

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You know, the exploitation of the players as seems to be the topic. I kind of put that aside for for the Enterprise. I think they should go ahead and play. You know, my issue hasn't been that college football is too big or the coaches make too much or all that stuff I don't really care about. But I think they should make whatever they can. That's fine. My thing is just let the players in on it and let them compete the same as everybody else and the same as every other student.

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But like, I'm not looking down at these games right now going, ha, see, because they're doing this and they're they're playing in bubbles and they're isolating the players and all that stuff. Now it's pro. It was pro anyway. So I'm not I'm not playing that kind of gotcha game. But, you know, we didn't need this to know that the system is there are contradictions in the system and that there's hypocrisy everywhere. All you have to do is look before to find, you know, to see it.

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And it's just a little more obvious now.

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What do you do with the idea that the coaches this is very obvious that Muschamp has 25 million dollars in bailouts, that, you know, Wichita State's basketball coach finds himself in a situation where he can get bought out for, like, just really despicable behavior, a million dollars a year and get a seven million dollar buyout while you're not paying the players. Yeah, that's another contradiction and sort of the hypocrisy of it is they can say, hey, we don't have enough money to pay the players and then they're signing these ridiculous contracts.

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Like I don't have a problem with with Will Muschamp. He gets fired. He should get get paid according to the terms of his contract. And from afar, it does seem ridiculous that Greg Marshall, you know, they they don't feel like they can fire because they would have wound up having to pay him like 14 or 15 million dollars if they didn't reach that seven point seven dollars million agreement. That's how bad that contract was that they signed up to.

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And, you know, I'm sure you guys have talked about this a lot. Just the idea that, you know, university signed these coaches to these ridiculous deals thinking that that they may leave. And the truth is they're going to leave anyway. If they if they get a better offer, you know, having a huge buyout and all that stuff is not going to help. And signing them to these ridiculous contract is not going to help. But they keep doing it and doing it and doing it.

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And then they wonder why, you know, they have budget issues when they're you know, some of these schools have been paying, you know, for coaches at the same time because of folks they fired because they signed up to ridiculous contracts.

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Jay Bilas with us here on ESPN Radio. The draft show was great last night. You guys did a great job. I'm wondering, what were your takeaways, Jay? What were your takeaways from last night's NBA draft? Well, first, you guys, I cannot lie to you. There were several times last night I thought about that podcast that you and I did. Yes. Where you asked me to give analysis of things I knew nothing about and sound authoritative.

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And we were doing like tennis players and baseball players and guys had never heard of it and B.S. my way through it.

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You're the best ever on it. I yeah.

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Yeah. If you need me, just call me my you know, the draft was really weird last night, obviously, because it was it was in the ESPN studios. You know, the commissioner was there. There were no players, no fans, everything, you know, the way they had us set up, you know, for the social distancing and all that stuff. We had these old tables we look at the four of us looked like lonely businessmen at a at a bar waiting for somebody to take our drink order.

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That's exactly right. It's so so wait a minute. When you make a businessmen lonely, like is it it's it's also looking like the general veneer of afternoon sadness where some of the men are looking to get out of their unhappy marriages to their wives with a dalliance that shouldn't happen, like keep building and keep building this out for us.

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You know, like we were waiting for the businessmen special and God forbid somebody would come up and sit next to us. But we were all by ourselves, you know, the equivalent of the businessmen, wallflowers in our suits, because we don't really want to go back to the office, that we certainly don't want to go home.

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Yeah, there was an infinite sadness.

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So, OK, so we're going where are you basing anywhere, though? Because you know these players, you know, but you also know that so much of this is a crapshoot in terms of anything that we say about projection on these players. Like none of us actually know we can't. How the hell are we going to know whether Anthony Edwards cares enough about basketball? Because he's a guy who says, I don't care that much and how that's going to affect his future.

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Yeah, that's really the hardest part, is your your, you know, making judgments and saying, you know, going by with your beliefs. But that is true. None of us know and nobody's ever known. And and I think when, you know, it's easy to look back and all that stuff, I mean, everybody, myself included, you look back on your the time you felt like you hit a home run instead of instead of the numerous strikeouts we've had on thinking a guy is going to be really good and he wasn't.

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But, you know, this year there's a ton of that stuff. Like, I think we're kind of in a period or at least I feel like I'm at a period where I've had I've had to adjust the way I look at the game because I've always like James Wiseman to me from Memphis. You know, five years ago, 10 years ago, he would have been the number one pick and we wouldn't have discussed it because he's 71. A mobile can shoot it.

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I mean, he's what used to be number one pick stuff. And now the big guys are like running backs in the NFL. You know, it's like, OK, well, unless unless it's Derrick Henry, you know, we can get these are dime a dozen and we just use them up and we can get a big guy, a serviceable big guy on the open market any time we want. And I don't I don't look at the game that way.

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Wow. Jay, this is real.

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It's interesting because I think of you as being uncommonly expert with a lot of this stuff, and you're telling us that it's hard for you to analyze basketball because it's never been played the way it's being played right now. Little bit a little bit like you're kind of looking at is a big guy is valuable and why not? And so he's got to be you know, we're not seeing low post, big eyes. That's why the biggest surprise in the draft for me was that the big guy from Kansas, Udoka, as Ibuki got drafted in the first round because I didn't see him as a first round pick, my thing he doesn't score outside of five feet, can't make a free throw, but he can he can block a shot.

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He can he can rebound. And and around the basket, he pitches like he set a record for field goal percentage for the NCAA and is in his time at Kansas. So, you know, that one didn't make a lot of sense to me and and a couple other things that didn't make some sense throughout the draft. I mean, we saw a bunch of guys like you saw the shift in, you know, the value of these three and these guys, what they call guys that can make a perimeter shot and they can guard multiple positions, especially switch.

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So you had guys like, you know, like Devin Purcell and a guy, you know, all these different different players that can do that. Isaac Kokoro, who's going to have to, you know, become a better shooter. But it was a bunch of guys like that in the draft that that did really well and got taken a little bit higher than you'd expect. And some of the guys you thought would get taken got pushed into the second round.

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And Bobby Marks gave us a stat yesterday that I couldn't believe, you know, the last twenty years since the year 2000. Seventy percent of second round picks don't really make it like they just, you know, their cup of coffee players. And and I thought it would be I thought would be a higher number than that, honestly, because you tend to look at those successes like a Draymond Green or something like that that comes out of the second round and becomes a really good player or has a long career out of the second round.

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It really doesn't happen that often.

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Jay, once the draft term you used last night, because I was laughing at you, I was thinking about the podcast as well. What is it that you're tired of using? Was it motor or wingspan? All of it, because you can't if you're going to talk about 60 players, you're going to repeat yourself and it's like if they put 60 different sports cars up there, you know, you're going to say the same thing over and over again or 60 different.

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Like, I wind up watching these cooking shows a lot. And for some reason, like, I'll watch Beat Bobby Flay or Chopped during the pandemic. And the judges say the same stuff all the time. And and I watch it anyway because I like it. I watch the competition of it. That makes me like you.

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You've made this whole thing sound a little bit sad. Like you. You love college basketball. You love professional basketball. You love basketball, you love talking. You love talking about basketball. You've made this all sounds and. Well, no, but after you after you go through the draft, that was my 18th draft and I do kind of laugh about, you know, the drinking game of me saying wingspan. But, you know, after a while, like it is it is instructive about some of these players and the length they have because that makes them disruptive defenders.

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You know, it really doesn't matter how tall somebody is. I don't care how long your neck is unless you're blocking a shot with your forehead. It matters how long your arms are and what you're standing reaches and what your wingspan is. But after you talk about that and people hear it a number of times, they don't want to hear it anymore. And even when you're doing a game, you'll you'll repeat something during the course of a game, because our bosses tell us, you know, the research shows that most people don't watch the entire game.

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So they'll tell you, repeat your best stuff. So something you say in the first 10 minutes of the game, don't think that just because you've said it, you don't need to say it again. You don't need to repeat it. So you hear from from people saying, why did you why did you say that three times? We heard you the first time. I can't explain all that stuff. It's just the way the business works.

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Before we let you go, and we do have to let you go in your 18 years. And I say this is someone who said that the 016, Detroit Lions, we're going to make the playoffs. What's the most wrong? You've gotten it with something you've said on the draft show. Dwight Howard, I thought when Dwight Howard came out of high school that he was unskilled and he was just a spectacular athlete and back then I wasn't sure that that was enough.

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And so I thought, you know what? Emeka Okafor is is a finished product and he's the safer pick. And then you go. And then after you watched a couple of years in the NBA, you're gone, you idiot. Like, his athleticism trumps everything I could to keep. So, like, what were you smoking? Because I could.

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But that was the thing with Dan, like like it's like now when I'm talking about the running back big guy thing in the draft, like back then I was still wrapping my head around how good a high school player could be in the draft. And and I got you know, I threw up all over myself on that one.

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I'm so proud to live with that. All right. See you later, OK. Sorry to bring up a bad memory. Thank you for being with us, Jay.

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Always appreciate it. Yeah, I'm going back to my lonely table now. You guys later. Don Lemon Libertador, the school president of the Big Ten, did not want football this year, I think it was unanimous. It was like, I don't know, twelve to three or something like that.

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Still got you not know what unanimous. No, it was overwhelming. Thank you.

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Seven in the third, this incident live at our show with these two guys on ESPN Radio. ESPN Radio is presented by Progressive Insurance. That's it. Yes. We don't have a lot of segment here, but join us on the postgame show where we will. Talk about everything that happened today, because there was a lot today, David Samson brought fire. Fire after fire on the local our big city was fun, Pablo and Mina, that escalated in a way that was jarring to me and I'm sorry that I curse.

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And we had to dump it because my reaction was a genuine one. I couldn't. I mean, Mina. Mina hit Pablo pretty hard, defensive, angry and cruel, proud of what we did.

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Today is our best show of the week. Top to bottom local. Our big suey was great. Let's just fart around in that post game.

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All right. Very good at Libertador. So let's update the polls. We got to get the sponsor here in four the polls. Go ahead and do that.

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Go to LinkedIn dotcom slash sports leading up a couple from yesterday at Labrada Show on Twitter. Do you skip a meal when you know you're going to have a big dinner? Anthony, does 65 percent of the audience said, yes, that was me, which was less sincere by the gods thanking Dan or apologizing to Dan. Seventy five point five percent of the audience and apologizing today, and I think I thanked him for a bit of information. Oh, no, what you did.

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Look, in fact, we're going to stop the polls right now and we're going to relive what you did to me yesterday. So we've got these tiny little segments that have one too many sponsors in them. And yesterday, I'm simply filibustering so that we can have a show that has something outside of sports and has a little pop culture in it and isn't just a total sports show. And I'm talking about John Oliver and you guys doing whatever he's doing with his sausage fingers, have paying attention, not listening, just letting me carry the load around like a crucifix.

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And then when I'm done with the story, with jazz hands getting the applause for just who got my teammate says to me, I sent him a text last night about this. My teammates said just derisively and with tone. Thanks for sharing that. Like he knew I was working so that he could get into position. And he just undercut me in a way that was totally cruel and people didn't even see it. It's just you got to grabbing the applause while standing on my neck.

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Truly his best moment from yesterday. By the way, Dan, what are you having for lunch?

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Thanks for sharing is what you said or something like that. You won the segment. While all I was trying to do is the show, try to give the audience something so that you could get into position to make your joke. I think I spoke on behalf of everyone that admires my glove, the cadence, the delivery. I've nailed it.

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Yeah. Sheepskins. Yes. Sorry about. Yeah, there's the sincerity of the apology as well. Just useless cashing of checks on my neck. The Stewart story. You've carried this one around with you.

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I got a great deal of resentment. I had trouble. I was so exhausted. Those by six o'clock last night, just tired of always getting defeated and checkmated by him. A bleep hole.