Hour 2 – Cade Cunningham Collapsed Lung, Tracy McGrady

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5:08The news from the first hour Cade Cunningham with the pistons as a collapsed lung. And if you're looking for comparison, CJ McCollum had a collapsed lung a couple of years ago, I think, and he was out for three weeks. Once again, I don't have any information other than what Shams tweeted out that he has a collapsed lung. One thing that I was curious about, and Dylan, by the way, is sitting in Seton's chair. Seton is in for Marvin. Marvin out for a one game. I mean, Marvin is out for one day, and he'll be back tomorrow on the show. But I asked Dylan, I said, well, you look at the numbers here, because it almost felt like Cade Cunningham could be the default MVP if Shae Gilges had missed or misses a couple more games. I think Joker could only miss one more game there. Or maybe Wembee. Maybe Wembee can sneak in and win the MVP. That would be the WemVP.

6:10WemVP. WemVP. So if Cade Cunningham is out three weeks, will he not be, he had to have 65 games we not be eligible, Dylan? He will not. Cade Cunningham right now sitting at plus 7,500 for the MVP. Okay. From the top, SGA is minus 1,000. No, but I'm looking at the games. How many games is Shae Gilges missed? That's what we're talking about. So he's played 58, and there's 12 games left. So he has to play 7 of 12 to be eligible. SGA. Yes. Yeah, he'll do that. Yeah. Cade Cunningham is not going to be eligible. I don't think. Joker, I think, can miss one more game maybe. Is he missed 15 games and then Wembee, Wembee's been healthy after the blood clot last year. Yes, Paulie. Cade Cunningham with the pistons is sitting at 61 games played. Okay.

7:10Ooh. So if he's out, they might just keep him out for the regular seat, you know, a collapse long. Yeah, Paulie. Joker shed 54 games played so far with 12 to go. Ooh. He's not got to play all of them. He's not going to win it. SGA is going to win it. But I don't really, I don't think SGA or I don't think Joker cares. I really don't. You know, I think the media cares, but I don't, I don't think Joker cares. It's like, uh, okay. I know. I go back to my horses. Somebody did ask Joker, who was his goat? And he goes, I don't have goats. I have horses. Oh, that crazy sensey humor. Yes, Paulie. One of his all-time favorite clips is after he wins the title, one of the great moments of his life, they start talking about the parade. He is, what is this parade? I know. Tuesday. I know. That's where he was like, I'm out of here. I'm out. What is this parade?

8:10Parade. It's like shorts and shorts and they are. Yes. I'm butchering that accent, but we got the clue because parade. Yeah. Who's there? I'm out of here. I'm out of here. I'm out of jet. It's parade. And he was brought to tears when he won a horse race, legitimately inconsolably happy. And when he won a bronze medal as well. All right. So we'll get to phone calls. What's the poll question update and what are we going to go with our two, Satan? I'll get up to you from hour one here if you'd like. This year's NCAA tournament will be mostly chalk or non-not chalk. 87% of the audience say it's going to be chalk. All right. Yeah. Which poll question for hour two? Yeah. Dylan, what do you think? I'll fill this one, Satan. Thank you. The best sports day of the calendar. Round one, March Madness today. Wait, are we saying one day so if it's the final day of the Masters? That's one day.

9:10So you're, I think you've got to do. What are you doing? Sorry. Was that, was that on air? Yes. When you said first, you might not be here tomorrow. I'm, I'm Catholic. I could say that. Well, you said the masters. That was an honest reaction to having to pick. But that's one day. I got to say two days for March Madness Thursday and Friday. I got to go two days. Now, if I. That's not it. You can't do the best two days. Because it's the one day. All right. So, all right. Opening day and night of March Madness. Sunday at the Masters. Super Bowl Sunday. Draft. NFL Draft. NFL Draft. Opening day baseball. Yeah. Yeah. Um. Yeah, I see. The fact that the NFL Draft is something mentioned. And we can't find one day for like the NBA or really major league baseball. I mean, opening day kind of, but man, it's crazy. Yeah, but opening day is an opening day anymore.

10:11It's not anymore. It is. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to take that off the board. Dang. And the NFL season starts on Thursday. And that's one game. That's not a standalone that I would take over the masters or the draft. And even, you know, the opening round of the NCAA tournament. That really shouldn't be compared to the Sunday at the Masters. No. No. Yeah. That matter who's in contention. That matter. The golf course is the star. Yes, Dylan. Well, it matters to some. You know, if you might have some action on the golf or any cards for over on Sunday, obviously, that's not as magical. By the way, the new episode of the gambling podcast. It's available at DanPatrick.com. The podcast. Either way. The reaction that I got from a couple of people yesterday. Saying must listen. Todd Cast. Where Fritzie is basically all along with his thoughts.

11:11Dylan sort of guides him through and keeps him kind of in his lane. But the Todd Cast available at DanPatrick.com. And it might be approaching Joe Rogan type numbers. I'm guessing. I think that's the kind of popularity that I'm here. It's spotify going to steal him away. Is that what they may? Okay. I mean, they might. Yes, Bowie. Back to the poll question. January 1st, bowl games. There's three playoff games on January 1st. College football. I would absolutely have that in the mix. Okay. That's fine. Yes. My only problem with that is college football is constantly changing and shifting. We don't know if that's actually going to hold for indefinitely. Yes, Dylan. Thanks for giving day games. That one's pretty tried and true. The games usually aren't good. Yeah, but you're like tired and like the draft is NFL draft is a big deal. That first round. That's a big deal. And then the build up to the draft and maybe somebody's making a trade there.

12:15I, you know, Sunday at the Masters, though, on CBS. Hello, friends. Yes, Dylan. What about Olympics opening ceremonies? That's only once every four years, too. That's just a bunch of people parading, you know, carrying the flags, you know. I mean, respectfully. Respect. Yeah. Magic. But it's just a parade. Yes, he. So if we're trying to narrow this down a little bit, March Madness Day 1. Super Bowl Sunday. What about NBA Christmas Day? Did we say Christmas Day? Yeah, but nobody cares. I love that day. They all came in and basically blew that up. Yeah, but it's, man, I still think about watching basketball all day on Christmas. But if you have NFL on Christmas Day, then you're probably not watching the NBA. Hey, I do. I hate that. They bigfoot. They bigfoot everything. I know. Like, can't you guys just.

13:15They don't leave scraps for anybody. Yeah. Like I got to come in every room swinging it around like just. All right, guys. We get it. We get it. Okay. Yes, Paul. The idea of not watching the Sunday of the Masters is that bothers me. That's a six, seven hour noon to six. It's lovely. But the NFL draft is the right answer because how many fan bases? How many people you get hope that day? Your team is going to do on Super Bowl Sunday. If your team's not in it, you're going to go, okay, I'll sit around and drink and then I'll maybe place a bet. But you're not. And if you're not a golf fan or your favorite golfer is not playing on that Sunday, the NFL draft, everybody's involved in this. Yes, he. I do. I think I do feel like there's a strong case to be made that the options should be the first day of the tournament Super Bowl Sunday, the New Year's Day bowl games. That is a great day. That's a great day. Especially because you could just lay around all day and just watch football and Sunday

14:18at the Masters. Okay. Those are three or four equally awesome days. All right. I'm fine with that. You have to deal. I fit. I mean, Thursday, March Madness, it's like whether you're betting or not is pretty awesome. Yeah. If you're going off betting holidays, it's definitely number one. Yeah. Hands down. Yeah. But I don't bet. Not anymore. No. Sunday Masters though, because you get the Saturday Masters where you kind of nap on and have a few drinks and then you sort of feel rested and ready to go for Sunday. Yeah. We used to go to Vegas, high school friends for the first four days of the tournament. And that was paradise because you can make all levels of bets right there, cash them right there and then free drinks the entire time when you're watching the games. You know, this story about Matt Liner saying no to USC, unretiring is Jersey. It's got legs. I mean, there's so many opinions here of people. And then I have a friend who is a big USC fan. He says USC has a history of allowing recruits to wear retired numbers to close the recruit

15:24Darnell Bing and Jordan Addison. They allowed them to wear the Jersey numbers, 20 and three. Those are numbers retired for Mike Garrett and Carson Palmer, who won Heisman trophies. He goes on to say Dishon Jackson chose USC over Cal, but insisted that the current wide receiver Mike Williams give him is Jersey, the number one to wear. Williams said no to Sean Jackson went to Cal, so he could wear Jersey number one. Wow. That doesn't seem crazy to you. Yes, that does that I'm going to transfer because I want to wear number one. I'm going to this school instead because I want I need to wear this number. That seems crazy. Yeah. But they have allowed recruits or do close them to wear, you know, two jerseys and one by Heisman trophy winners at USC. Nathan in Virginia, I Nate, what's on your mind today? You speak and about one week by day away from 200 pounds.

16:32I have a fun thought for you in the day and that's regarding the Jersey retirement and obviously tying in the max cross we deal here. Do you guys ever see the human element getting pulled out of sports? For instance, it's been spending 200 million on Max Cosby. You ever see someone spending 200,000 on a robot that looks and tackles like Max Cosby? I didn't think I was going to get that question today, but, you know, I know AI is coming. AI is here. Yes, Bowie. His question was really good up to a point. Like I was like, well, they have TGL where the golfers are on, you know, simulated environment. Then he went robots instead of Max Cosby. Will we have an NFL AI league? No doubt. Right. You could see that where they say, hey, we're going to have off season simulation. Yes, he do. Do they have like robot boxing now?

17:32They have the Rockham Sockham robots. Where like you people make robots and it's like, all right, let's see who's robot beats up the other robot. They absolutely do. It's called the National Havoc Robot League. It's based 20 minutes from here and they have inventors and engineers put together different robots and it's like they get into the ring against each other. It's called the National Havoc Robot League. I've seen it in person. It's, we got to go. I can get a ticket tickets. But how would Jake Paul do against one of those robots? He could unplug them, I guess. But some of the robots are like, hey, he'll fight any but as long as he's making money and be like, I'm going to fight a robot here. The robot will know the plan. But the robots are sometimes like small little things and like cars and different types of robots. Yes, he. If the over under on Jake Paul and a robot was 30 seconds, he would survive. Who is the one that is still like sipping his dinner out of a like a straw with a broken jaw? Yeah.

18:33Is that Jake? Yeah. What's the other one? Logan? No. Logan. It was like Paul. Chris Paul. Paul Paul. Yeah. Who got his jaw broken? Jake. Yeah. But he did make a lot of money. Yes. It's only worth it. He ate that punch too. He was smiling on the ground. Oh my God. I was like, that hurt. For sure. Well, that's when you want to be kind of a fake tough boxer and then all of a sudden you get hit by a real fighter. And you could see when his eyes, because he knew it was coming and it's one of those where you go, oh my God, this isn't in the script and then boom. And then that probably will affect his jaw, the rest of his life, I kind of moved over. You know when they do when somebody died and they show the skull and they're like, damn, what happened to that guy? A Picasso. He got. Yeah. Yes. His eyes are over here and his ears over here and never Mr. Potato head.

19:35Yeah. That's that's kind of Jake Paul when he got punched. It's like, damn, look at that. The daffy duck where his bill spins round the back of the day. All right. Let's take a break here. Tracy McGrady. He'll join us coming up here momentarily. We're back after this. Be sure to catch the live edition of the Dan Patrick show weekdays at 9 a.m. Eastern 6 a.m. Pacific on Fox Sports Radio in the I Heart Radio app. Hey, this is Jason McIntyre. Join me every weekday morning on my podcast straight fire with Jason McIntyre. This isn't your typical sports pod pushing the same tired narratives down your throat everyday. Straight fire gives you honest opinions on all the biggest sports headlines, accurate stats to help you win big at the sports book and all the best guests. Do yourself a favor and listen to straight fire with Jason McIntyre on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. The March tournament brings volatility, upsets and momentum shifts.

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24:44JJ Reddick's last year at Duke, which was before anybody knew who Steph Curry was. He was, he shot 42 percent on 330 attempts, which is almost kind of game. And it just makes you wonder, is it the Duke hatred factor that he doesn't give me credit for that? Well, I think because JJ was a good pro, not a great pro, and then Barclay came out the other day and said that Steph Curry ruined the NBA, well, he didn't ruin it. It's all the other players who think they're Steph Curry, who might have ruined it. Tracy McGrady, Hall of Famer NBC Sports NBA Studio Analyst and Re-Launching, one's basketball league, the premier one on one basketball league in the world. Good to see you, T-Mac. Did Steph Curry ruin the NBA? No, he ruined the NBA, he actually can shoot the balls. I want to see him shoot. But you got all these imitators now, and I've talked about this before.

25:47He probably had more of an impact on how people play the game than anybody else in the history of the sport. Yeah, that's just bad coaches and GM's going out, trying to think and that could find a next Steph Curry and have all these guys shoot grease. We talked about Vegas and Seattle getting franchises, expansion franchises. And I saw where you talked about this. Do we have enough quality basketball players to add two more NBA teams? You seeing the watchers from Wizards Play? I'm just kidding. But bam, did it sit in 7th and 8th like, do we need more of that? I'm just saying, I see bad basketball around the NBA. I know some players have heard like, you know, Tirees Howling Burton has heard in Indiana. But what that product that we're seeing is bad. I've curryed in those guys. I heard it go to state. We just had a boss by go to state, New York Knicks game in the garden.

26:53No, man, like the talent, don't get me wrong. There's a lot of talent coming out of college. There's a lot of talent in NBA, but when I'm saying you're trying to start a franchise, where is like the Steph Curry, the Dame Lillards that can carry the franchise? I just don't see that type of talent out there. Can these guys play? Absolutely, but it's more just going out scoring buckets. Like, there's a lot that comes with having to be a franchise guy if you're trying to start new franchises. Got a problem with Bam out of bio, scoring 83. Not at all. It feels me in that position to, you know, make history. I'm going for it. Dan, you're going for that too. Regardless of how you get it, you're going to try to make history. So, no, I have no problem with that. I have the problem with how the defense has played on him and how the strategy has played on him to stop him. I have a problem with that, but not him going out and getting it, no.

27:55Would you go for 62? Yes. But if you wanted to, how many could you get? Or have gotten? Well, there were times in my career where I didn't even play the fourth quarter and I finished like with over 50 points. So, yeah, if I wanted to, I had an opportunity to hit 70, 80 points. That's 62 point game. I missed nine pre-girls. I missed nine pre-girls and I missed eight of my last, like, 10 shots. I just got tired. And that wasn't a game where I actually felt like I was in a rhythm and it felt great. My 52 points and three quarters against the wall is I felt extremely in rhythm and felt like I could go for, you know, 70 that night. But I didn't play the fourth quarter. Who do you think could get to 90? And today's game? Yeah. I think Donovan Mitchell, I think Devin Booker, those who come to mind right now.

29:04I think those two can't really do it. Well, you got to be bald dominant. You got to be able to hit threes. You've got to be able to get to the free throw line. I think Luca would be the guy who would come to mind for me. Yes, my apologies and throw Luca in there as well. There's not many of them. It's guys that can generate files at a high rate, not those free throws down and also add in about, you know, seven, eight, threes makes and just a ton of free throws and field goals. So if you get to about 18 to 20 field goals and you're shooting like 30 free throws and you ask them, freeze with that. Yeah, and Luca can generate that. How do you think Kobe would have reacted if he were still alive to Bams 83? He would have been professional amongst you, but privately,

30:07I'll come and say something. Talking to trace McGrady Hall of Famer NBC sports NBA studio analyst and one's basketball league is back one on one. Explain the relaunch and who is involved in this. Yeah, so the relaunch, if you look at like all turn of the sports, they're doing extremely well. And I just think over the years, me finding what my passion is and that's sports. I love sports. So a year ago, I invested into the Buffalo Bills and got some ownership in that. And when you look around a landscape ownership and our professional sports, there's not a lot of people look like me that have ownership in these franchises. So with me, I wanted to revamp and pivot with Miley and start something to where I actually can give out equity and ownership in teams. So I'm starting OBL with the battle of the cities.

31:09And I have eight cities that, you know, that is a part of OBL. And in these respective cities, I identify like influencers or people that have heavy influence and it's from these cities like New York, Jadokas, my guy in the hip hop community. He's going to be the owner and the GM of the New York team. Of course, my cousin Benz Carter from the Florida area, gave him the Orlando team. John Wall, my guy from Raleigh, North Carolina. He's the owner for the Raleigh team. Tim Hardaway Senior has the Miami team. So on so far as I have 18s and 8 GMs that I'm bringing on board and giving these guys 15% equity. So and with that, when you look at sports, there's not a lot of guys that are actually from that city that they play in. And I wanted to bring that to sports. I wanted a community to back and support a kid

32:12that they probably seen from, you know, elementary and middle school plan basketball. So I have these guys that are going to be from these respective cities, getting the support and the backing from the community is what I want to invest what we created along with having opened it up, you know, some equity for some of these guys to own franchise. What was your favorite football team growing up? It was the Cowboys. And reason Ben and Smith is the Florida guy, the oncenters is the Florida guy and Michael Erwin, all Florida guys. And I grew up watching those guys. So that's why I was a Cowboys fan. Many, many, many, many years ago in my career, I decided, I'm not gonna be a Cowboys fan. Wait a minute, if they were good Tracy, would you still be a Cowboys fan? Yes, but we're not. Yeah. Yeah, I said, if we're gonna be mediocre,

33:13I might as well stick with the hometown team. So now I've been a Bucks fan for well over, you know, 15 years. So I'm a Bucks fan, not a Cowboys fan. I'm riding with my own team, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. But wait a minute, you're part of the ownership group of the Buffalo Bills. Yeah, of course, but you, yes, that's obvious that I'm a Buffalo Bills fan. Okay, all right, just wanna throw that out there. Oh, all right, what kind of football player do you think you would have made? That's a quarterback. I was a quarterback and receiver. I played football. Well, I was, where you Alan Iverson? Yeah, yes. Okay, wonderful. Even now, if you find that note about me throwing a football, I was throwing a football, 60 years, easy. Who plays the position the way you used to play it? Kind of had Randall. That's where my inspiration came from.

34:15Randall kind of had my first autograph. I remember my mom working at a while where it was forced. Working at Disney. And I was a kid, man. And she came home one day because she used to tell me, she used to see all these pro football players. When they, I think they had like the pro-go down there of, they had something down there when I was a kid. And she'd see all these guys. So she came back, she came home one day and told me, she's seeing all these guys. I was like, my, give me a autograph. My favorite player is Randall Cunningham. So she came back one day and had a, I got an autograph from Randall Cunningham. My first ever autograph. That was my guy. Could you see one-on-one being somehow put into the All-Star weekend? I can't. You seeing the same dumb contest? You saw the same dumb contest then? I didn't see much of a slam dunk contest, but there were guys who jumping, yeah. Yeah, there you go. You know who I work for then? You know what network I'm on?

35:16Yeah. What is that? NBC. And we covered All-Star weekend. I'm fighting like hell to get one-on-one basketball and so I'll start weekend because I think that will be the draw of All-Star weekend. Like these kids that are watching the NBA, they will go crazy. We will get more younger people in Saturday night to watch that event. Yeah, but Tracy, I got to get stars to be in it. Why? Well, it's like the slam dunk contest. Nobody cares if you don't know who these guys are. It's competitive, but that's the point. That is the point. If we're trying to expand teams in the NBA and we don't have a lot of stars, couldn't we make stars? And that could, couldn't we identify who these guys are if they get on this platform? That creates stars. So now a guy that you don't know about, if you haven't heard, he getting this one-on-one game

36:18and you realize, I'm gonna be checking for this guy. He's really good. Like you would take a liking to some of these guys that you don't know in this type of setting. Yeah, you imagine Wembe out there trying to, somebody trying to guard Wembe one-on-one? Hey, man, get in the trophy. Who is the best one-on-one player in the NBA? You're not, he will be a very difficult draw. Oh, man, because you, how would you affect this shot? Seven fight, you can't, I see some of these guys like my height, my length trying to guard here and contest this shot, and they're so far away from affecting it, it is, he's amazing. Well, good luck with the league, the relaunch of one's basketball league, one-on-one, and he's tracing the gradey. Good day. Good pleasure, man, keep doing your thing. Thank you, buddy. That's a team act there, Hall of Famer,

37:18works for NBC with the NBA studio analyst. I remember there used to be a one-on-one contest. And Mike Nulin of the Houston Rockets might have been the guy who won the one-on-one competition. And I think Maravitch was in it, I think Ice Gurr, I think they had some names in it. Yeah, I see. I think Tracy is spot on about something too, because I know in my social media feed, one-on-one videos, I get a hundred of them, and the reaction to them is massive versus a dunk, or something like that. Watching that battle one-on-one is way more compelling than, say, like a dunk contest. Let's see, Josh and Florida. Hi, Josh, what's on your mind today? Hey, Dan, how are you? Great. 5'7, 198. Thank you. Couple of things real quick. First of all, I wanted to thank you guys most importantly.

38:18I don't think you guys really realized what you guys do for a lot of people like myself, the way you entertain, the way that you can't retire. Just don't wait, you're gonna have to do this thing all the way till you die, I'm sorry, brother. And last night, to give you a little perspective, 208 in the morning, I get up to, you know, use the restroom and guess what I tune into? Just go with it. And so I wanted to get your take on that because that hotel, that cast with the Sandman, you're up there doing your deal with the Coconut Coosie deal. Can you just share a little bit with fans? Like I said, see you do that. And how talented you are, where it was so natural and it is so funny. And I've seen the movie a hundred times. But I had to stay up till 3'30 in the morning just finished watching it. Thank you. Thanks for the experience. Thank you, Josh. Yeah, I had a great time.

39:21But it's the most nervous, one of the most nervous times ever because I'm on stage with Jennifer Aniston and Nicole Kidman. And they had no idea who I was. Sandler wants me to add lib. Dave Matthews is sitting next to Sandler in the audience, making fun of me. And, but I'm up there with Aniston and Kidman. My Kidman's a serious actress. And, you know, I had my lines and I went as scripted and then I stopped. And then Sandler go in front of everybody. You know, there's a hundred people in this audience and then on stage. And you hear this in the back. Danny, Danny, add lib. Oh, I felt like I was two feet tall because I got Aniston and Kidman looking at me like, are you an actor? I mean, that's what they were saying with their eyes. Well, Aniston might have been saying something else with her eyes. But Kidman was like, are you an actor?

40:22And I was crushed. So the next day we reshoot the scene and I came in and I just started saying whatever came to mind. And I'm like, what are you gonna do? Take away my scholarship and Aniston and Kidman, I think had a little bit of respect for me. Yeah, see. Dave Matthews strikes me as the kind of guy too who, I'm not saying he's rooting for a train wreck, but he might enjoy it if it was happening. Well, okay, part of the problem, the first night I met him, I went to dinner. Sandler put me across the table from Dave Matthews went there with his wife and kids. And Sandler goes, Hey, Dave, this is Danny. You two will get along. You guys are good at drinking beer. I went to shake his hand, knocked the beer in his lap. And Dave goes, well, I prefer to drink it. And I go extremely quick, wedded Dave Matthews.

41:23But yeah, he was rooting probably against me that day. That's tough. Alrighty, let's take a break here. And we got phone calls coming up. We also will unveil our final four. And then we have a snake draft. This is the disappointment draft. Dylan, is that what we're calling this? It's been renamed from the Arizona draft to the disappointment. Yeah, let's not put my Arizona Wildcats in there. Had I known, Dan, I would have never. Okay. All right, we'll be back after this. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows at FoxSportsRadio.com. And within the IHARDS Radio app, search F-S-R to listen live. The March tournament brings volatility, upsets, and momentum shifts. With Webow predictions, you can trade strategic positions on college basketball outcomes, react to matchups and assess probabilities as the tournament unfolds. Whether your bracket is busted or you're on the way to the top of your leaderboard, bring your strategy to your trades in real time. Get started by downloading the Webow lap today

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46:30in here, Marvin might have company with a day off. Anybody want to admit anything? Paul. Are you asking me as a person or as a journalist? Because as a person, I'm not a narc. As a journalist. Yeah, let's go. All right. As a journalist, do you know how this got knocked off and broken? I can't see that well at my left eye. What about your right eye? I heard something break while there was a lot of fixing of cords going on hours ago. I did not see who did it. Okay, back to you. Anybody want to admit anything? Todd? I have a question, not an admittance. What is it better that that just had been just thrown in the garbage the piece of it or just leave it laying there? Todd, I would have seen it. You would have known it was just missing. Yes. So it's almost like someone's almost taunting you. Look at the broken pieces of your Sammy Sosa thing. Just leaving it like that for you. Yes, Dylan. Do you have any working theories on suspects?

47:30Or I do. I do. In fairness to the Danettes, I don't think anybody is guilty. Now, there could be guilty of a cover-up that you don't want to tell me who did this, who might be a backroom guy. Oh. And that could affect the most valuable BRG. Yes, Dylan? I mean, I like Pauli's non-radding position that he's taken. Like, there was a time when like a bunch of Hell's Angels got arrested and no one flipped and they all got off. It works. Yes. Yeah. But if we're following Paul's example, if one of those guys said, actually, I'm not a person, I'm a journalist, I can rat him out. Yeah. What? None of the Hell's Angels did. How might the punishment change if it's admitted now versus you find it on one of the cameras or days or weeks later, someone finally comes to, by the way, that was. You have tilled the top of the hour. Wow. That's eight minutes. Yeah. And I can go back and look at security camera, footage.

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49:34because I'm calling my shot based on this. I'd probably bet a finger or a Sammy Sosa ankle that there was Eric Weeks, the cameraman. It is. Weeks, the cameraman admitted. Probably two hours after the fact, it would have been nice in the moment to say, hey, I'm really sorry about this. Yeah, Satan. I just sort of jump in there with a partial, I feel tangentially responsible. Cover up? No, no, no. Where are you there? No, I definitely. Yeah. Okay. You're part of the cover room. No, I'm not. I just allowed the investigation to take course. Content in. It was sort of my issue that Eric Weeks was fixing. I didn't instruct him to start smashing things, but it was my thing that he was addressing. So I'll take 10% of that. Is anybody else involved in this? Did anybody else know about this and covered it up?

50:35I would have guessed based on the use of the word and measurable as J. No, J has been working in the back. No, J, no, J would never, J would feel terrible if he did this. He would immediately come forward. I know that. There's more to this story. There he is. We're going to play the disappointment draft coming up. We'll reveal our brackets as well. Final hour in this Thursday right after this. It's here at T-Mobile. Get the new Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra with Galaxy AI on us. Okay, we don't need the trumpets. We know it's awesome. Couldn't help yourself, could you? We'll get ready for this at T-Mobile. You get a five-year price guarantee. A kazoo? Get the new Galaxy S26 Ultra on us. Did I mention at T-Mobile, there's no trade in needed? Guarantee excludes Texas IP supplies to month the price of on that we're talk texted 5G data on the beyond plan.

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