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There's some awesome up until you said strip club.

That is something that seems like on a weekday with you were talking about rumberg.

Yeah, me and me and rams all whatever our day was over.

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Let me update some looks like here in our tournament, the East region number six Louisville.

I can't say that correctly.

Louisville is represented by hundred pants looks like the pirate forced to walk the

plank after a failed mutiny against his captain Jeff Samarge.

It's a double.

That is a double.

We should have had a picture of Samarge in there.

I could see with a long coat with like a hook.

South Florida is an 11-seed represented by Kurt Warner looks like the villain in a Christmas

movie that wants to take over the North Pole and make the elves ponds in his capitalist

scheme.

Number four, Arkansas is represented by Brock Purdy looks like a youth pastor.

That one's great.

You might actually be Arkansas is playing against number 13 Hawaii Hawaii is represented

by Tyree's Halliburton looks like a mischievous cartoon mouse.

North Carolina is represented by Chiefs.

His own or Clark Hunt looks like the director of a funeral home that makes candles out of

its surplus of embalming fluid.

If you're not watching these on YouTube like that is I think a lot of people might not

know what Clark Hunt looks like, but Clark Hunt and you got to be careful with that name.

What Chris Cody.

It's if it's first name we're Mike it would be an issue Clark is fine.

A number 11 VCU is represented by Tommy's though looks like a mailman.

It's why it's 14 seed just in fact it's 11 that funny, but just no, but the short ones

are good.

I like the short ones.

The short ones off of the long ones are also good Illinois Illinois got good offense.

Illinois number three seed is represented by Tony Reale looks like the overzealous

owner of an Italian restaurant who always greets you at the door with my favorite couple

when you walk in.

He make of the salad.

Three seed Illinois is facing 14 seed pen pen is represented by Adam Silver looks like

a javelin.

You have to stop Gonzaga three seed is represented by Aaron George looks like the most athletic

member of the Adams family.

I thought that was like a one seed.

It's good.

I got voted down for me.

That was like one of our top ones.

It is good.

The three seed Gonzaga is facing Kennesaw state of 14 seed represented by Joe Gerardi looks

like he has a favorite chair in the husband sitting area outside dealers.

Look at Samson.

Can't even smile when he sees his face.

I'm trying to take what dealers was.

There's no sir.

Oh no.

I'm sorry.

Now my don't penalize me.

How are you an elitist about everything?

Just tell me what that is and then I can laugh.

It's like bird eyes.

Not a mall store.

I've never heard of it.

It's a store.

I've never heard of it.

It's a store.

I like a mall store.

That's all right.

You know what I meant?

Have you ever heard of Macy's?

Yeah.

Of course.

Where do you think you got that tree?

Not the same caliber.

Macy's.

I think bird dines might be not only closed also it's it's just Florida isn't it isn't

bird dines is not.

It was.

Macy bought bird.

Also.

Also a mall store.

Number two Houston is represented by Edmalloy looks like the guy who brushes his teeth

in the company bathroom.

That is facing number 15 Idaho Idaho is represented by Conor McDavid looks like a mechanic.

He does that.

I wanted to ask you guys something based on the news around this MVP card of mixed

martial arts.

I saw that Nate Diaz has been added to it.

Against platinum Mike Perry.

Dano.

This is a very exciting car all the sudden.

I don't know man.

Ronda Rousey said the card sucks.

It's not a good card.

It's a bunch of washed up fighters and God knows washed up Dan and God knows washed

up.

He hasn't fought in like five years.

Did you just make my point?

I don't think he just defined no no.

He's got legs.

Well rested.

Exactly right.

Thank you.

Nate Diaz.

Ronda Rousey.

Gina Carano.

These are a lot of people who either haven't fought in a long time.

More in the case of Nate Diaz is just a name like he is punch drunk and he's been punch

drunk for years.

Was Gina was Gina Carano ever any good?

Not really.

She was more of an action star than she was of a fighter.

For the competition that promotion that she was at did it was a strike force a lead

XC.

Like that one became the other because I feel like she had a little bit of Anacorn

at Kovato.

I mean that promotion.

I think that promotion had network fights on CBS before it became a thing now with

the UFC.

But they did a really good job of building personalities up and was a very useful vessel

in the Kimbo slice experience got superstars that weren't actually like in the ring technically

as gifted as maybe their UFC counterparts.

But they were big personalities that true and the way the combat sports went including

boxing like that's the big deal now is who can draw who's a who's it's a celebrity

boxing angle now and it's one of the biggest sports on the planet celebrity boxing is

out.

Is outlasting actual box.

So was the card flailing Tony is that what I'm hearing was it a late ad that is making

this.

You should know this is a competitor to UFC.

This is not UFC.

These are the fighters that are outside of the car when they when they do an ad like that

is it because it was flailing and I don't want to say flailing.

I think they're trying to put more thing because rather you got to build the card on one

fight and then from there you can kind of build everything out.

They had and the rouse fights that they again they use the Gina Carano.

Rousey fight as that thing but then you look at Francis and Gano who's been obviously

a big name in the in the UFC and also an MMA.

They're putting him against another guy who's kind of a tomato can.

Then you've got Nick Diaz who everybody loves or Nate Diaz excuse me who everybody loves

putting him on a card is going to attract people because people want to see Nate.

So and Mike Perry is another guy who's been a BKFC which is bare knuckle.

He's been out very publicly as far as the social media game.

It just made it seem though that this edition had changed it's exciting.

It's exciting.

I wouldn't say extraordinary turned it from okay to ordinary.

Oh, let me let me in a time what Mike is saying though about the combat sports.

If you've been listening to this show for a long time you know that I love boxing and

I especially liked and supported the competing styles of mixed martial arts.

I love the science of will Jiu Jitsu beat a ground game and all of that stuff when it's

just two people reduced to their courage and vulnerability and the risk of embarrassment

in front of others.

This is something that I have enjoyed as a science but Mike is correct and the dilution

hurts both my interest in it and my caring for the artistry that I'm talking about when

you distort it by just making it names or celebrities and your whole card is people

who haven't fought in nine years or people who are just using the last embers of their

fame to get people to do a pay per view thing because that's what the mix that is what

combat sports have become.

I totally understand where you're coming from.

You covered boxing in the 90s where you know it was still very strong everybody you weren't

too far removed from the glory days of heavyweights Tyson was like a power cord of excitement

and a cult of personality.

I understand how someone who actually covered the sport when it mattered would look down

on their nose.

I don't even look at it as related to boxing.

I think it's just a curiosity.

I think it's closer to big celebrity big brother than it is to actual boxing.

This is a new form of reality show where you get to see two known people and instead

of them playing like games they're beating each other up or attempting to and sometimes

poorly but still that has a curiosity that's like MTV the challenge yeah it has a curiosity

factor it may not interest you but it makes you more curious about their cards than it

does a run in the like we didn't talk about the last UFC card it wasn't a good card

there wasn't a big time name if you're a casual fan we're talking about this one.

The issue was there was two big tie names between Charles Lavera and Max Holloway and

the problem is the fight suck because Charles just took him down for four minutes every

single round.

But the talk the talking point about MVP is like this is what MVP does right like they're

not a sanctioned body of boxing they're not a sanctioned body of MMA they're kind of

a side show freak show dog and pony show where you're like all right can I get the biggest

names can I have Nate Nate Robinson fight Jake Paul can I have Mike Tyson who 65 years old

fight Jake Paul in a fight that we all thought was going to be one one thing and it was

completely different.

And I once looked down on my nose on it and now I've just adjusted my expectations part

of these things and it's just like a reality show side show attraction that I guess can

be kind of fun for one night.

The saying is look down my nose not look down on my nose.

That's true.

Okay thank you.

Thank you for the correction I had that wrong.

It's look down on my nose and I am looking down on my nose that you mispronouncing that

with great judgment but I the thing and I think you guys will understand this okay because

this is not just me being crotchety old guy complaining about how things were.

You know that I like merit and so it simply bothers me okay that a heavyweight division

of Joshua Wilder fury Ruiz and before that the Klitschko brothers gets dwarfed by this.

I mean loser sentence we have reality show host presidents nothing's a meritocracy anymore

everything's like what's your IG follower count that's fine but do you understand why

it is I'm objecting to it yes I mean I highlighted it I get it especially if you actually

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the other thing to them and i understand that this is a shot a side show and and the celebrity

boxing angle of it but what jake has done for women for women boxing has been massive that's great

he's been put putting Amanda serrana closer feels like all of these different people on the map

in such a big way that female boxing just cannot do it is uh it's the meme though of uh when uh when

someone uh you despise makes a good point yes jake paul has done a good thing while also uh undercutting

what it is that i thought chris is making fun of me here where he's like marit yeah i thought

that's what we were doing in sports i thought marit is what we were doing i did all marla's mic

i'm sorry is it all marla's i don't know what that means so jake paul is he only promoting non marla's

marla from league of their own the ugly baseball player who was so good but hey pan the camera back

pan the back she's not jena david she's not lori petty because the picture you just showed

there was no marla's anywhere that i could see so you say that jake paul is doing a lot for women

boxing is it as boxers or as pinups absolutely as boxers like as boxerana is one of the best

of all time clueless or she was one of the best of all time like he's propping these people up

and putting them in paydays and paychecks that they would have never seen other ones i'll give you a

good example my dad wanted to see the jake paul mic Tyson side show attraction i watched that too

on the undercard there was a big time women's boxing match they headlined another card my dad

really enjoyed the previous fight he's as casual sports fan as you'll meet and he wanted to

tune into that because he's aware of these names because of jake paul and i will push back some

on the meritocracy thing i know it's maybe 10 years too late but ronda rousey and let's give jena

carano some respect jena carano headlined a card against cyborg and that was a big deal that was

a national story it's real monster rating this is a fight that people wanted to see in it's hey

day ronda rousey versus jena carano and yes they're both celebrities and yes they're both

attractive i'm that sells fights i it's awful it's probably gonna be awful but i know that going

in i i'm curious i do want to see this fight it is a worthy main event for what this card is but

your dad wouldn't have paid my only point is your dad paid for paul Tyson the fact that he got

thrown paul Tyson paul is Netflix that's the only way my dad would watch so he doesn't pay extra

is all i'm saying for the undercard no but i have done that but he he's watching a women's

headline boxing card which is just crazy ronda rousey whether you like her or not a legitimate pioneer

this is as wrong as dana white has ever been because he said that would never happen in his sport

and then she was headlining a ufc card and he he didn't think that was going to happen and he

behaved he chased after ronda rousey while she was fighting on his hands and knees like a puppy

because he was so happy to have a star because what has happened to his sport since a lot of ground

game people from mountainous regions that end up making the sports making making the sports my son

loves you have fun rousey ruining the sport rousey saved Dana's ass at one point he needed a star he

did and he kind of got lucky right after he got Connor and now he's he's kind of searching for that

next big thing at a hugely important time and and you can tell that paramount is trying to position

him like i don't know if you saw the the profile that cbs news did on him but he he's trying to be

more inclusive with the his platform again which is just laugh out loud funny it really is one of

the biggest moments in combat sports history like we all remember where we were Tyson buster

Douglas were either watching or heard about it for the first time like i remember where i was

when ronda rousey took that kick right to the face holy and yep and it all ended or were you i

was at a friend's house we're watching nice there's no way to prove that wrong why try to test me like this

i got the shakiel and the other thing yet right yesterday why try to test me know what you got the

what do you talk about what do you mean he was not on the left wing you mentioned Tyson Douglas you

mentioned Tyson Douglas and uh i thought because i also remember where i was i was at the rath

scalar at the university of my army bar and there are very few instances like this where i can go

back 30 years and remember where i was on something is Tyson Douglas second only to the miracle on ice

when you look at biggest upsets in the history of all of american sports uh because uh my

ryan recently has been talking about uh the heat as a play in team as if they weren't one of the

biggest upsets in the history of the sport by going through yana's and the seltics and everyone

else as an eight seed but when you think of second greatest upset history of american sports and i

i've got at the table i've got Douglas Tyson and i go all in what are you beating me with

what is it that you guys are finding that you're saying uh because that might have been just about

the last time that boxing mattered the way that i wanted to matter instead of being these jake uh

jake paul circus shows that are reality television and don't have much of anything to do with with

merit or or i thought that's what we were doing in sports i thought we liked the fact that we were

trying to reward merit that uh you know we were having arguments here for years about who's a

better team and you guys always say well they played they played and what happened here you don't

get to make the argument that they're a better team if they lost in a one game sample i don't

know if it might be comparable in terms of skill but the attention that it true was not the same

because again Mike Tyson was the biggest star arguably on the planet at the time but

Andy Ruiz being a Anthony Joshua at that point seemed unbelievable you're right

George Foreman coming back at 45 and winning the uh the heavyweight title i told you i was there for

that yeah i told you i got seats behind shack i didn't see i had great seats but that's how i

feel every day every seat i get is behind shack uh my jets in 69 uh before yeah yes it's

very big upset well i i think that the Rams uh the Rams losing to the Patriots of Bill Bella

checked that year uh that weren't the Rams in the Super Bowl a 17 and a half point favorite

yeah how do you think they they made that game so close 17 and a half the giant speed in the Patriots

when they were undefeated that's a big upset but they not as big not i i look up for me what

Kurt Warner Tom Brady and Bella check Brady's first year beating the greatest show on turf look

up for me what the point spread was in that game and tell me whether or not there was a point spread

that large in a game in a football game last year because uh the the 17 and a half point and the

18 point football spread isn't really a thing anymore that's a college football spread

but you rarely are getting two touchdown spreads in the pros and i'm pretty sure Brady's

Patriots do i have this wrongs as long i remembering this wrong i think 17's a little high i think

it's closer to 14 maybe 14 is what i have here so a lot that's the end of that whole story then

i mean it's still an enormous number yeah it's 17 and a half 18 a two touchdown favorite in the

Super Bowl Ohio State being Miami that was somewhere around 14 also right yeah we're just doing

American sports right yes uh what yes because you were no but no because i think a season long

thing like the Premier League or Jamie Vardy and in Golo Conte doing it with lesser city is

something that we'll never see again that's correct like that that is the international example

that you used all the time uh can you look up for me Jeremy please the name at Super Bowl that

says he's talking about there what was the point spread against the Colts in that Super Bowl

different age different passing uh numbers everything was different than the internet is telling me

January 4th 2026 this year week 18 the Baltimore Ravens were a minus 20 favorite against the

Cleveland Browns the Colts were 18 to 19 and a half point favorites depending on where you

were placing your best so do you put any of those pretty good then with Douglas and Tyson do you

know Douglas and Tyson I still think is is second thank you for people who aren't old enough to

have experienced it it what because because that fight it was in Tokyo so most of us here in this

country weren't watching it live and it was a foregone conclusion hold on Tyson's fight bus who the

hell is buster Douglas nobody took it serious and then when you get the news the next morning

that Tyson lost what do you mean Tyson lost we thought it was fixed when it happened actually

I was at the age where I thought that it was inconceivable that an upset like that it wasn't conceivable

so it had to have been a drop so how did you guys watch it if it was in the Tokyo dome time and all that

I didn't watch that one like I found out about it the next morning it was a newspaper I didn't watch it

either when I say I know where I was it's delivered news it's not because I'm actually watching it

it's because somebody is saying a bar someone is really and and all of our reactions were the same

like what do you mean what do you mean that Tyson lost to buster Douglas one of the strangest

things I've ever seen in my sports life is Mike Tyson grabbing for his mouthpiece on his hands and

knees and not getting off the floor because the fight because him disabled he beat the shit out of

him it was yeah he how did you guys see the video I have a flashing memory of like a news

like a one of those brief 30 second things and it's just a still image it was a still image of

Mike Tyson like with his boxing glove searching many of them you had to go to HBO much later like weeks

later to get video if you didn't attend the event people today and it does make me feel old but

the way you guys get to live with content is like a dream come true all the way from sports to

porn to anything it's just all there had to be said and we just didn't have that that wasn't my

life and so buster Douglas what was your life like my life was looking through squiggly lines

you remember Mike Tyson was supposed to be a special guest referee at WrestleMania but he got

knocked out by buster Douglas they that invited buster Douglas instead he didn't train it all for

the fight he had a standup comic in his corner giving him the wrong not not the wrong advice not

merely the wrong advice they didn't have like fluids very common boxing things in his corner

that because he didn't take the fight seriously in any way at all folks listen up quick break in

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Chuba yeah let me get to something here I don't know if you guys have seen Max Truce recently

basically Sam Merrill has taken his minutes in Cleveland I don't know how you guys feel in

general about Cleveland Boston wins last night against Phoenix Boston Jason Tatum has fit right

in have they lost yeah they lost by two against Oklahoma City since Tatum's return but Boston's

not more than once Boston's not doing a lot of regressing Boston remains a very good team as

Detroit struggles some as the the nicks have done some struggling they played five games in seven

days I don't think people know how tiring that is or care but they haven't been very good

over some of that stretch but Cleveland now has Max Truce returning and he was emotional because

he's been gone how long Jeremy is Max Truce been out has been like seven months and it wasn't

anticipated to be like that he hasn't played this season he came back a couple of nights ago it

was his first game back he hit six of seven threes and this is a guy who really helped change

their culture last year by bringing this type of attitude that he has the kind of confidence you

did tonight where you were able to and willing to take shots early into shot clock and

in shot clock as well what does that say about the common as if you've been rowing on the time

then you've been away from the team excuse my language but I worked my ass off

yeah it was a bad one I just had to do that no it was a long road but I only know one way to work

and that's as hard as possible and I did that every single day and tonight's tonight I'm just

happy to play I mean I had a good night but that again that doesn't matter we lost so I love that

that was nice people do not realize how hard players work to come back from injury they just see

them come back oh he towards the killies oh now Tatum's playing no one talks about what they do

the hours and hours of rehab the brutal rehab you know eyes and tears because no one's paying

attention there's no cameras there's no love you do get paid but it is hard I'm a huge

Max True sky big fan of his I think he's like one of the rare examples of guys that the heat

developed went on to sign a big inflator area track and he he approved dividends like right away

and he was a big part of their culture change what has Cleveland done to him I this is all a setup

to remind you in the audience that before their game five elimination game against the the

Pacers he sent a group text to the entire team if you don't believe then don't show up for work

and the Max screws went over nine zero points he's he's wearing Cleveland though I don't want to

look shame anyone but terrible this was one of the great looking guys can we put up a photo of him

just a couple years ago I mean we have other photos you can't be a leader if you've gone over four

at the plate I just know you went over nine from the field it's one of it's a funny story all right I

like Max I'll go a step further on this okay when David says people don't have any idea how hard

these guys work there's another couple of layers to this okay it's not merely that when you're

injured to even your teammates you become invisible you cannot help them you are an afterthought you're

always in the training room so you are not a part of what they're doing so that's element number one

the second element of this you work as hard as you have your entire life to get where he has because

he was cut by the Boston Celtics he was rejuvenated here but he's been hanging on to the fringes of

the league and you realize your mortality on how quickly your opportunity can be taken because Sam

Merrill's taken all those threes now for them and he is not been he has not been a key contributor to

anything they're doing this season and then the third thing and this is the one that's most troubling

and I don't think anybody listening to this thinks of this people in their early 30s having their

bodies betray them when their bodies are the economy for their entire family when the body is

the only thing that makes them known to others to have the body fall apart on you when you're relying

on your body and then you have to work that way I think injuries are part of the game but I don't

think fans consider any of that it's a big difference though when you're injured in the middle of a

guaranteed deal versus when you're injured as a free agent or without a team when you're alone

rehabbing when you're part of a team you're apart from the players but you've got staff around and

you've got the paycheck coming every two weeks when your injured is a free agent or without team

affiliation that's a level of loneliness and a level of fear that's very different and I assume Max

was in the middle of a long-term deal I like I like the R&B singer game Ruben Drone's that's a good one

Roma Dunezé keep it going here because there are any number of athletes that fit this description

but please put Max Cruz the screws on the screen again please because he does look far different

and I don't know if you can go hair bun when you've got that aggressively receding a hairline my

mother had a huge crush on Max Cruz that made my father uncomfortable my father we have somewhere

get me that video my father went to the arena with a chain like my that video is somewhere

to buy for the nail in it you don't it has them had to pull my father off of Max Cruz because of

the crush my mother would not have a crush on this samurai what's this hair bun situation and

what's this receding hairline situation poppy was worried for real that Lordis would have a

actual thing because that makes me smile I think he'd love that we've got to get that video of

my father you call him poppy a cook yeah no I'm saying it's sort of fun to if you if you

fun if you're a cook if your wife can play the player don't ever call me a cook well didn't

somebody call Moalee that early in the show Moalee talk is that you Tony no possible Moalee talk

that's Jeremy that sounds like you Tony Moalee talk that's this Jeremy I'm willing to think it's

Jeremy yeah because I make mistakes around here adding its arbitration Mike Ryan you missed

the argument the best I've seen so far between Tony and Jeremy that started today's show

and Samson was mentioning some of this on nothing personal we are the show best equipped to tackle

the subject matter of Donald Trump very cavalierly just sort of saying yeah I'll have the honor of

taking Cuba and your thoughts as somebody who wasn't here for the middle of the argument on where

it is that we find ourselves today where I believe the streets of Miami will rejoice the way

Venezuela's did throughout Miami when we did what we did as a country to Venezuela when the Cuban

people stop suffering I believe that there will be a great celebration in the streets when this regime

falls I cannot quite stomach this person's motives in being the one who gets the credit for finally

bringing to freedom an island that's been rotting for 70 years I'm saying he's got to get credit for

and it'll justify I think what is very clearly a failing administration to a lot of Cuban American

magas they'll be able to overlook some heinous corrupt stuff and I think people on the left side

of the political spectrum that I identify with that right now eat it this is this will be a

tremendous thing a liberated Cuba and I think it's a byproduct of what happened with Venezuela

as messias that is right now and I know people are hopeful for free elections and regime change

even though Donald Trump was confused as to the gender of the the current leader of Venezuela

it's the right hand of Maduro and they're still in place and the US has their oil cutting off

that power spout it's why all these Cuban special forces people regarding Maduro that was the

final nail in the coffin there is zero there is national power grid failure in Cuba and now you

have taken what precious little human human what am I looking for here at there there is just a

base level of life at Cuba that they're willing to suffer through and being able to turn on the

lights is one of them that's one big check human necessity yes and yes thank you and they don't have

anymore the people might literally tear what's left of the government to shreds if this continues

much longer they're just going to tap out this is a TKO that like this is 60 years in the making

Donald Trump is fortunate enough to be in this place right now in history and I'm really happy

for the liberation of that island I'm happy that it's happening in my lifetime it's just a matter

of time and I'm not going to give you some liberal spin on it I'm worried about having this

administration in place for such a pivotal time given that Venezuela's a mess or or can be if we

don't hit all our marks there but it's better than what they had and I'm honored and privileged to

be alive to watch that regime fall or be choked out he's a full consequentialist what he's saying is

that it doesn't matter that the big orange buffoon as you call him is the leader of this he's saying

I'm alive and I'm so thankful and honored to be alive to watch this happen the only mistake that

Mike you made there my opinions there's been four administrations in a row that could have argued

that this is the moment so there's there's stuff going on now for sure but don't say that all

of a sudden today there's something happening in the world Cuba's been a rotting island for 70 years

there there is something that Donald Trump did that if that fast forwarded this so he's the one

that is on the clock when it happens and it was his actions in Venezuela Venezuela was propping

up this island and Donald Trump is there look it might have happened over time if Obama's

plan for it was able to be seen through Donald Trump when he got in the office undid all of that the

crippling sanctions meant that there was only one country that was really booing Cuba and it was

Venezuela and when he and was primarily Maduro that was doing it when you eliminate Maduro there's

nothing left there were crippling sanctions all through my childhood yeah and and Russia has helped

Cuba before too but I would say and this is more word of mouth than anything because I have watched

my mother go to the local places that would allow her to wire things to family in Cuba swallowing it

eating it because she never knew whether it would get there whether someone else would take it whether

they would take a percentage of it this is the worst that it's been on the island in my lifetime

in terms of them having nothing and that's the thing it's almost as bad as the collapse of the Soviet

Union that 100% crippled the every single thing that they had on that island this is worse they have

no electricity they have no food they have no transportation they have no medical care they have

literally nothing so we talk about displacing it's like displacing is almost almost a good thing

I'm just hopeful that people like Marco Rubio have the presidency or enough to make sure that when

this change does happen we don't we don't leave them alone but we left Puerto Rico to their own

devices and they're still trying to dig themselves I don't want to skip past though the point that

Jeremy is making which I think is an important one given that I saw my family tells all the stories

of displacement my family had a home and then you go to not having a home because they're putting

up trump hotels there like you can't trust these people to do this correctly then they don't have

homes now the government owns them they don't have power they don't have anything I hear you I don't

like the guy I'm worried about the Trump casinos on the Havana shoreline but it's better than what they

have right now Mike you know I have one rule to live by right don't place paroles on multiple

long shots don't say a game is one when it hasn't hit triple zero always drink your gig or

myster ice cold that's the rule everything else is merely a suggestion everything else everything

else wearing clean underwear every day well that's just a personal decision brushing your teeth

obviously smart but not a rule never pee pee on an electric fence okay maybe there are two rules

but the one that is a hundred percent that I insist on completely Yagermeister must be drank ice

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