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Look at this. The rarest of things. A media person who everyone likes. John Fanta, one of the

most recognizable voices in college basketball play by play broadcaster and reporter for NBC sports

here to get us smarter on the tournament. Everyone is a fan of Fanta. There are no exceptions here.

We're going to talk about his beloved Browns in a second here. But you know, yeah, I'm sorry to

do you already lost him? Yeah, look at it. Look at it. Look at how you killed John Fanta's passion.

What happened? On Christmas morning, you mentioned the Browns and you lost him.

Did you do that? Oh, don't even give me star guys. A meteorite hit Cleveland earlier this week.

And I thought to myself, is this the sign that we have finally found a quarterback? I am 30

and have yet to find one, yet to host a playoff game. And yeah, think again. Think again.

What did you just yell in the other room, Chris? Did you just surprise these 30? Is that what

just happened? That's... No, I'm in the other way. Like he's capable of his theory.

It was a good job. Yeah, we love doing that to him. I saw his face.

I couldn't not see his face. Excuse the double negative and the negativity in general.

I thought it was like 24.

Thank you. And thank you. I'll take that as a compliment. I appreciate that.

An excellent. That was the Dan I was flicking on. Why are you giving him that signal? Why?

You shouldn't do that on television. You're a professional broadcaster. Look at Tony in the back

eating pretzel nuggets. These are for you by the way. Laughing at you. John, I think everybody just

wants your sleeper picks that they don't want any... They don't want anything from you other than

give us the good stuff right now. Right. And so where are you going when people ask you that?

And are you annoyed by people asking you that? No, not annoyed at all. It's the madness. It's

that time of year. I'm going to start right now and tell you if I'm if I'm you guys and I'm

making these different picks and selections. I don't know how you could watch Miami University

last night and think that they're just done. I think they're going to be Tennessee. I really do.

I think that this team could win multiple games in this tournament because they share the rock.

They've got a great idea of who they are. And that starts with Brand Fires and Peter Souter.

And Elmer last night was phenomenal. So I don't think the Red Hawks tonight. I think they'd be

Tennessee. I've got USF over Louisville today. I think the bulls are really, really talented.

West Ennis and Isaiah Nelson are two guards who get after it on both ends. Brian Hodgson is a

coaching star and the and USF can pull that off over Louisville Louisville without McEl Brown.

North Carolina without Caleb Wilson. Give me VCU. Give me the Atlantic 10 tournament champion VCU

Rams. They got a guard named Jadry and Tracy. I think it can be an electric factory.

They're balanced. They defend well enough. It says Carolina's got to have transition to win.

When they're stuck in the half court, they're they're talent doesn't show guys because I'll be

honest with you. They don't they don't run a lot of offense. Carolina just doesn't run a lot of

offense. So I like VCU in that game. And I like Santa Clara to be Kentucky. I think that Kentucky

has been so up and down. Santa Clara's got a top 25 offense in the sport. So I've got the

Broncos. I have some blue bloods falling in this first round. To be clear, though, when you say

that North Carolina doesn't run offense, you are basically criticizing their coaching,

which isn't something that I hear a ton of on Hubert Davis. You're doing something there that

is camouflaged. It feels like if you say in the half court, they can't be anything. That's not

something that's not something that's well coached. Well, I just think that they that they're a team

that relies on I don't think that they're poorly coached. I just think that their offense is based on

okay, who is which some some some very good offensive teams are based on individual players who

can make things happen. But without Wilson, who is a stud and one of the best freshmen in America,

and you credit Hubert for going and getting him and bringing him in. I just worry about on the

NCA tournament stage, then their their shot selection because Caleb Wilson is the guy that keeps

them all together. Now Seth Trimbles got to play a great game today, but Seth needs to get downhill.

And so when I say that, I'm looking at VCU and their ability to defend and rebound and they're

at they're at they get up in you with the way that they guard. Film Artelli juniors their coach,

the son of the great film Artelli. And I expect VCU to come ready for the assignment of we're

going to make this team play in the half court. I think Hubert's got a lot of pressure on him.

There's no question about that because you know, he went to a went to the championship game. And

since then it's been it's been a series of of highs and lows. And yeah, it's team shorthanded,

but he's going to be challenged today. And you know, maybe I'll eat my words, but my point is

like they they got to be able to turn you over and get out in the open swords just who they are as

a team. They're without Wilson. They're not the same team in the half court coaching for his job.

Yes or no? No, no. I mean, if he loses this game, no, I fully expect it to be back next year.

If he had Caleb Wilson, he lost this game. There'd be a lot of pressure, but you know, I mean,

I'll tell you what, he you have a coach at Carolina. You're expected to be in the mix for a lead eight

final four. And they're they're just the injury kills them, but they're not. And last year they

they had a tough go at it. He was brought back this year. And so this they could win this game,

but then they got to face Illinois. And I don't think that they're going to be Illinois. I just

think Illinois is too much from I'll tell you who it's he's not coaching for his job, but he's coaching

in a game that really he needs to win. Mark Pope. I mean, you spent over 20 million on your roster,

but you're you got a nightmare draw like guy Santa Clara. They don't care who's on the other side.

They play their style. They move the basketball at a very high level.

They're good enough defensively. The Broncos can win that game. They got a long time guy on the

sidelines in Herb Sunday. And they got some really good talent. Kid named Elijah Mahi that I think

can really play. So yeah, you know, I there's there's very few people that are quote coaching for

their their jobs in the first round of the NCAA tournament. But there's some guys that if they don't

win, oh man, that that fire gets lit on the on the skillet. And it says next year, you better

turn this thing around. You better win in the tournament. Mark Pope's one of those guys because

they spent $22 million on their roster. And what are they? Dan, they're a seven seed.

Can you tell me what your thoughts are on Shaheen Holloway being named the Biggie's coach of the

year at declining to play in the NIT after losing to St. John's in the Biggie's tournament and

not getting an NCAA tournament bit? I have no problem with it. I wouldn't play in an either if I

were him because he played in the NIT two years ago. And his resources are more limited than other

places. And so then when he and his staff sat down to go ahead and build out the roster for the

ensuing season, the nearly the entire roster was gutted. All of his best players left for the portal.

They knew they were leaving as they were winning the NIT. And now you're three weeks behind everybody

else and how you're going to how you're going to go into the portal. Oh, and by the way,

you're in the back half of the Big East and in revenue sharing. And then I that's gotten better

at Seaton Hall. It's still not at the level that you conceded, John's and villain over our at

guys. So if you go and play, you know, they were invited to the crown, okay, which is an event

that's new. And it's an event that you got you have to wait two weeks to then play in it.

If you are a program that has to manage your resources and manage what you're going to do with

your roster, you wait. You wait one day, nor alone two weeks. I know people could say, well,

you know, they could be doing this while they're in the NIT. Well, that's everything or the crown.

That's everything that's wrong with college basketball because it's so hard to do both.

So I don't mind them declining it because frankly, their objective is we didn't make the NCA

tournament. We got a couple guys who are not going to be here next year. You know, a couple guys

were like, hey, I'm out. Like what incentive is there for me to play? You know, the crown,

you get $300,000 if you win. And there's no Big East teams in the NIT because that that league is

tied up with this other event. So I don't have an issue with them, you know, not taking that

invitation because in my opinion, it's better for for a program of their status to go and start to

look at what they're going to do with their roster, especially when the resources are what they are.

John, I'm a big fan. I was introduced to you when I was a Browns fan. You would pop up on my

algorithm, screaming into your phone, speaking for many Browns fans. So I want to ask you about the

the news that broke yesterday about the Browns exploring new ways to destroy their franchise,

petitioning the NFL to be able to trade picks five years in advance. Your take my take is

this is like when you are in third or fourth grade and you're in a classroom of 25 kids and

there's always one or two that find a way to send the teacher off the rails. Like there's always

that one guy that you're just like, did you have to take it that far? Do you have to take it that far?

You just ruined the rest of the day and we got to go an extra 20 minutes on math problems or on

science because of because of your butt. The fact is like I can't I just don't understand. I really don't.

I also and I said it when they did it. I don't understand why Andrew Berry has gone one for six

on drafts and because he's one for his last one, he keeps his job. You know, like I went first off

that rarely works to begin with an national football league where the GM and the coach are from

different regimes, different eras, nor alone in Cleveland. It's never worked. Ask my

how it worked out. You're pissed. Ask Tom Hacker how it worked out. It doesn't work. So you know,

when I saw that news, I just I was just like really like really the browns a city so starved

for football success couldn't have a sharper 180 in what the reality of the situation is.

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You sound angry a lifetime of hurt even though you're only 30 years old and I need to clarify

that Chris Cody was surprised that you're only 30 because of where you've arrived in the business

at 30. He doesn't see you very often on these lists of top 100 under 30s and you should be because

it's fairly amazing where you've arrived at this age but the most the browns have hurt you

in your lifetime is blank. I would say when they hosted the Rams on Sunday night football I don't

know if you all remember this. This is this was when Freddie Kitchens right was in his one year as

the coach and I I went week one to the Browns Titans game and they got crushed. They were not

competitive and then I went week two to the Browns the Jets game because I live in New Jersey full

time now and I'm at MetLife and Odell Beckham has an 87 yard touchdown reception and run and so

Dan I'm kind of thinking you know what this is going to be all right. It was a season rich with

expectations. They had like six prime time appearances on TV okay. So the next week

they're taking on the Rams on Sunday night football and they had a they were dry they should have

they I think they they forced three or four turnovers off of Jared Goff and the Rams and you know

Al Michaels and Chris Collins were their column again but they're first trip to Cleveland in

over a decade so I was excited and whatnot. They had a fourth down and nine real Browns fans can

remember this said a fourth down and nine and Kitchens called the draw play. Mike says it's

fourth and 12. I was like yeah it was a fourth down but Browns knows where Brown fans know where

they were. As soon as he said the Rams I knew exactly where he was going. Dan it could have been

fourth and one. They didn't gain anything. It could have been fourth and 55. He thought it was

third down and three and he ran a draw play and I remember sitting there and watching this and

thinking to myself I need help. I need I like I this is this is a situation where I need to check

in somewhere because I I've been watching this for at this point 25 years and I actually thought

that this was going to be the time that things were going to change and then I word is my meant

where is my crazy brain go to my crazy brain goes to Bill Bella check getting the job in North Carolina

and finding out that he hired Freddie Kitchens and thinking to myself well this will be a dumpster

fire and it in fact was so that was the worst thing because I thought that I thought that with Baker

I thought that with job Garrett all these pieces were going to emerge you know the night the night I

had the most fun like I drank a whole bottle of fireball the night they beat the Steelers and the

wild card. That's aggressive. It's just like watching Rafa's burger watching Rafa's burger on

the bench crime. I was just I was just an amazing experience as a brown fan. But my God the what

they proceeded to do was just I was just hard to fathom it was it was hard to fathom. The the

Freddie Kitchens thing the the the draw on the fourth down yeah my my daughter was born like hours

later she was a week early and I'm convinced it's just because she wanted to be born to yell at

Freddie Kitchens. Yeah I mean like yes and that's the life of a Cleveland sports fan. My son was

born about eight hours after the calves remember the calves Pacers play off game this past year

where the calves are up by like nine with like a minute to go a minute and a half to go and they

lost the game because Halibird and said like that was when Halibird and really that's why he ran

into the paint and then ran back and then hit the three from from the top of the key was at the

game that Max Cruz sent the group chat a message and then went over nine. Yeah it was really you

know just like that's type of stuff that you that you just you just love I mean I could go wait I

could go through the years of the patch Sharmer era in Cleveland was dark. I mean holy smokes some

of the offense being run which chance he stuck you in the wildcat like please please spare me I

mean I'll never forget when LeBron this is oh no I was not oh seven I know you go nine and the

calves are facing the magic in the playoffs and the magic were Shard Lewis could not miss a shot

in that series him and Hito Turcolum and Lewis hits a huge three and my dad is in the living room

and he starts walking up the stairs and I said dad there's one point one to go and then LeBron hits

a game winner and he comes running down the stairs almost breaks his leg and is going crazy but my

point is like my dad was walking up the stairs because that is up until 2016 that was really the

life of a Cleveland sports fan and and in football baseball I mean in baseball we've been so the

16 world series it hit me like a ton of bricks you know they were up three one they should have

won that series and they didn't you can't drink a whole bottle of cinnamon whiskey like you just

can't it's tough you can't do that and whiskey is I lift them a lot here but no you can't drink a bottle

of fireball like that's not they what whiskey what was the next day like phenomenal it was a victory

Monday yeah I mean it was glorious I had a I had Taylor Ham you know I had Breck I had a nice

breakfast sandwich in New Jersey and we got rolling with the day like I was listening to the local

Cleveland sports talk that you guys have probably folks some fun at no you know and uh you know

Tony Rizzo was in Cleveland ringing his cowbell and people were dancing McFadden and Whitehead

ain't no stopping us now and I thought we were going to go in the Super Bowl uh true or false

Miles Garrett will not be a Cleveland Brown in three years that's probably true yeah true true

on that I just don't like and that's the cynic in me because you know you just feel like he's

going to try to end and it's somewhere else and he's going to want to win a Lombardi Trophy day

and I don't know why he wouldn't want to do that um but like it's a really weird dynamic like he's

an amazing player he's going to go into the pro football Hall of Fame but you know like when you're

when this franchise they lack great leadership quality it's it's just part of it's part of

one it's one of their issues and starts at the top so I'm not putting that on Miles but like

if on Miles I'm trying to pursue a Lombardi Trophy and I don't think it's going to happen in Cleveland

your final four real quick I've got two things I want to end with your final four just give me the

four teams you've got Duke Houston Arkansas Michigan I have in front of me our looks like tournament

it is a tournament where we ask our listeners to basically write what some people in sports

look like just based on their appearances I have four teams for you in our tournament I'm going to

give you all four you tell me how you feel about how we've seated them here number five St.

Johns is represented by Scott Hansen looks like an orthodontist they're playing against number 12

northern Iowa northern Iowa is represented by mean of times looks like the innocent bystander who

sees the villain behind the superhero and shouts look out Clemson is an eight seed Clemson is

represented by Rex Ryan looks like the father-in-law who when finding out your wife is pregnant

awkwardly high fives you and says glad to hear your old equipment still works now that is

but that's a one seed so I mean it's gonna be hot whatever the next one is doesn't really matter

but go ahead that is the best thing I've heard a long time number nine I was represented by Mike

McDaniel looks like the barista who asks if you've ever tried journaling while making your

rope milk latte Hansen's perfect because it's New York to me and I get it I like it

mean of times it was such a loaded explanation but I can understand to me that was the

Rex Ryan a father-in-law yes father-in-law who when finding out your wife is pregnant awkwardly

high fives you and says glad to hear your old equipment still works it's perfect because like

it's an it's an eight nine game and that to me is like what that situation is like the father-in-laws

high-fiving you so it's supposed to be a positive moment between you two but then he gives that

compliment if that can't be compliment at the end and you're an eight nine game so even if you've

won in that immediate moment you're about to get your ass kicked uh let me give you a couple of

more here number seven Kentucky is represented by Fernando Mendoza looks like he makes his

animal crackers fight each other before he eats them

which could happen it could happen I mean it could it could actually happen like I mean it could

it could and that fits the bill okay keep going this is going to I think uh I think you're

going to feel this is ranked to low number 10 Santa Clara's represented by Adam Silver looks

like a dandelion with all the seeds blown off I don't even know what I'm supposed to say

no you don't have to say anything we're going to just keep it moving here I was state I was state

as a two-seed I was state is represented by Kurt Signetti looks like the uncle who comes to your

house for Thanksgiving and before even saying hello says your door knobs loose

every time I see that I just think of like the Grinch I don't know I can just it looks like a

character from Whoville I just does like it it did so it's so Jim Carriesque and it's perfect

that yes again like what is going do you think that he practices that in the offseason do you think

looking unhappy I think he does I think he's worked all his life at looking unhappy and then

he's succeeded out of the gym he's in a mirror he's yeah he's mastered it yes no he goes to the gym

looks in the mirror gives off unhappy does reps of unhappy do you think because right now he's

that he's the hero right I don't know how people in on your show think like he's the hey this is

so cool they did this he took a program that's not a blue blood do you think that he will

sorry to get away from the bracket games do you think that he will forever be the feel good or

that he'll that he's going to become a villain we hate him he's already a villain oh you guys started

India I'm like oh I hate you one of the great mom glad that struck a chord underdog stories

in the history of sports and you guys hate him I wanted to ask you based on what you were saying

earlier about resources who did the most with the least this year oh that's a very good

question hmm hmm well you'd have to you'd have to look at at a school like Miami for sure

you'd have to look at a school like usf for sure I think St. Louis for what they have to be like

a firm eight nine and you know they're they certainly are a team that you could point to Josh

shirts is the coach there he did a real nice job with his team you know it's not like Fred

Hoyberg has all the money in the world and he's a top four seed the NCAA tournament guys

Nebraska's never won an NCAA tournament game like ever so I think that that that would be one

uh that would come to mind how about the reverse how about the reverse uh the least with the most

well you I mean for Kentucky to not be a top four seed is is kind of wild uh it's crazy and then

I know Richie Saunders went down with an injury but like people thought BYU would be an

a final four contender they're a six seed in this tournament so you know I don't I think that um

I think that those would be the the two you know who's another guy who I think is gonna win today

they're gonna win the first game that I know I'm from Cleveland but I'm telling you right now

Jamie Dixon does the most with what he's given TCU guys should not be good in basketball like

they should not be an NCAA tournament team I've been to multiple their games they don't they

their crowds are not great he's got okay money I mean uh for if you're TCU all the money's got to go

to big 12 football I'm winning in football um he's got decent but like his his rosters just okay

and they're in the tournament they've been to the tournament almost as many times under him as

they've been as a school in their history so that's a guy that doesn't but yet Kentucky BYU they

they weren't able to make it work with what they had I'm going to give you three more teams from

our looks like tournament I was mentioning that I was state represented by Kirk's dignity as a

two seed they're playing 15th seeded Tennessee State that's represented by Dan Orlowski looks

like a judge on chopped kids edition now I'm gonna do UCLA UCF here number seven UCLA is represented by

Cal Raleigh looks like a motorcycle highway patrol officer he does facing facing ten seeded UCF

which is represented by Freddie Freeman looks like the neighbor who always waves first and means it

that's a win yeah that is a win yeah that to give me the ten see there in an upside a quote upside

I'll take that you're a win sir thank you for being on with us enjoy the work and congratulations

on all of your success you're fun to listen to and your information's always good sir anytime

guys thank you god bless you and for the sake of this show for the Cleveland Browns

where are you behind you where like what are the other things in the strip mall behind you like

what is that a strip mall like where physically are you right now in your car I'm in the driver see

I am not driving and I am in an undisclosed location in Florida okay but around you behind you

there's a salon there's a massage part no no it's it's just a note it's the it's the it's the

it's the airbnb okay there's no strip mall not in a no I'm in a resident box see you later thank you

sir appreciate the time and the insights thank you guys have have a lot of fun today

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three still gots we're gonna get that off the world for our three colon our group chat has a

pretty good feeling about this one this is the dan lebert our show with this two gots

i love that i love john fanta and i actually really enjoyed that trip down browns fandom memory lane

john got seven an idea back here to continue playing our r&b artist game and it started with

Freddie kitchens which is a damn good r&b artist name so he started our list of football coaches

that sound like r&b artist Chris Cody here we go Romeo Cranel

r&b artist

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it's a good list better 30 year old fancier jeremy better at what

better 30 there isn't a better person than john fanta oh that's an unfair spot i mean it is like

started with j i thought you were going to say jeremy oh no jeremy like that's not that's not

no i get it to you that that's i know he's not your fan you know you know i he doesn't have three

Emmys i doubt that john fanta i don't i doubt that john fanta has three Emmys i well just wait

don't count them out there's no one better than me wow uh after a man uh we were talking about

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other famous songs throughout the years put it on the pole and they were excellent at levitard

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who tell me please damn um well damn wasn't a school five in middle school whatever

wherever you were in the early 2000 find a middle schooler after they judge a volleyball game

that was a weird time i don't know what happened there it's okay why do you rub your shins to pacify

yourself that's the only one it's really bad i find people tell it really quickly and i

knew what dandond day when Chris touches his soul like oh he does not feel good about this uh what

the way we started the interview with phantom right because i well i did have an actual reaction

to him being 30 but it was just because of i was like he's so famous and great at what he does

i was thinking older and you know i didn't feel good about that so i touched my ankles

it's a strange soothing coping mechanism it's it's it's it's it's it's i know i know i get

the stroke of the shit like climb out of your body uh put it on the pole at lebitard show

have you ever soothed yourself in times of awkward anxiousness by rubbing your shins and ankles

because i don't think i've seen a whole lot of tells quite like that i imagine that that is

something you do at the poker table it's why you don't have a poker way but afro man a trial

of the century i do think you have to be more famous than this but why is it the trial of the

century okay dan so let me explain uh very quickly i'm going to read a little bit of a synopsis

of the actual case itself which is in Adams county ohio you got this share of deputies rated

rapper afro man's home on a search warrant alleging drug trafficking and kidnapping but found no

evidence filed no charges and caused property damage afro man then use that security footage because

he has security cameras all over his house to create a parody video in which he says that he

has intercourse with one of the sheriff's deputies wife and then they go and sue him because they're

like hey you can't say that about us like you can't do that and then he won basically on the free

speech to live crew thing of like hey it's music like i have my free speech i can say whatever i want

and also i didn't cause any bodily harm or property damage like you guys did to me so this is him

walking into court and then you can't tell me that this guy right here does not scream trial of

the century in a full-mink white coat and then a USA tuxedo because he means business dan look at that

is that a tuxedo it looks like suit suit it just looks like an american flag but he's got one Z

but then he's also got the tie too and just so you can get a a sense for how right he was

this is him explaining his side of his defense what they did searching your house gave you the right

to do everything you know i have a circumstance that i got freedom of speech after they run around

my house with guns and kicked down my door i got the right to kick a can in my backyard

use my freedom of speech turn my bad times into a good time yes i do and i think i'm a sport

for dealing stuff because i don't go to their house kick down their doors flip them off on their

surveillance cameras then try to play the victim and suit them i mean dan trial the century he

didn't even need a lawyer it was came in says first first amendment right and i banged his wife

possibly and the guy who said he had to take the stand and the and the judge and and the the

attorney asked him did afro man bang your wife and he's like i don't know he probably didn't say

bang your wife but i'm trying to lighten it up for the uh for the family what embarrassing question

to be asked can you imagine people uh an afro man make you a cuck let's uh let's uh listen here and

watch afro man celebrating his giant uh victory in the trial of the century yeah yeah we did an

America yeah we did it freedom of speech right oh right oh yeah god bless america yeah power to the people

yeah yeah yeah so there's been a lot of talk about AI slop and videos going around and

yesterday just was talking with the guys pants fall isn't even a real video if you would have

told me this was AI i would have been like yeah you know what it is it absolutely is because where

is afro man coming in with a white mink coat with a USA suit around NPCs behind him screaming yeah

america power to the people you know that his twitter account bio has him as a 2024 presidential

candidate and in no he did he had a short run uh put it on the pole please uh at levitard show uh

was afro man uh in the trial of the century and also put it on the pole did you know that two

live crew went all the way to the supreme court to win a free speech case i'm curious how much of

the younger audience actually knows that you mentioned a i slop i read that val kielmer uh with

his family and his family's estates approval val kielmer val kielmer uh we lost him uh to cancer and

the movie is called as deep as the grave they are resurrecting posthumously val kielmer and going

to make a movie that he wanted made was trying to make what but was too sick to make and i'm

wondering as we head down this path as soon as a i figures out how to make people care about a

movie star the movie star will be entirely replaced to this minute the movie star is worth less

than the movie star has been worth but still has a relevance there are a number of people that will

still get you to watch a movie just because they're the one making it but we're not far off

from a i being able to figure out how to make fake personalities that people actually care about

i i hear this argument all the time and people are essentially forecasting this for the movie

let me ask you this question do you think sports fans ever want to hear a i talk sports i think we're

in an industry that's pretty safe yeah i i genuinely do you can have the greatest a i personality

but ultimately sports fans want to commiserate with another human being because of what it makes us

feel and if you have an entity that itself can't really feel or at least you can't trust the way

that it feels you're not going to connect with that person and while i do think that there will be

a i movies and i'm not even saying they're going to be bad i think they'll be considered like animated

movies it's always going to be a gimmick to real life human beings i feel some kind of way about it

but if it's is dying wish to have artificial intelligence make this movie and its families on

board i understand it let's give it a whirl but i i never anticipate humans messing with this on

a total complete level understand what you're saying there however in this particular case

they're resurrecting the dead this is not it's not a person but that's not the first time

that's happened but it's not it's not a person that's going to be starring in your movie but

they're going to recreate a person that you have feelings about that is someone who might have

gotten you to a movie once upon a time and you're largely not going to be able to tell the difference

there are many people who will watch it who will not know that that person is dead there are

many people who will watch it who will not know that the person that's acting for them is not a real

person i agree with mike on everything he said sports related content with a i just may not

hit the same can a i do this at a position by the way where the e you up in swathe where they

swallow you up and you know what f*** that i even tried to say that all right but you haven't

said much since then i couldn't do it play it again what what we talked about at a position by

the way where the e you up in swathe where they swallow you up and you know what f*** that i

even tried to say that all right but in a video he's trying to pull the extension cord of the

pair of units i couldn't even help the Jeremy really like that Jeremy Jeremy and Jeremy

enjoying somebody else drowning in a position by the way where the e you up in swathe where they

swallow you up and and you know what f*** that i even tried to say that all right but in a video

pair the Jeremy laugh with the david samson laugh pair have them both go back and forth here i

think i like that one so much just because you guys jump on me for saying double you wrong so when

it's that bad it was a bad it was a bad you said dumb you said you said dumb you when we were talking

about the women in the dumb you NBA getting their ass in negotiations but in a video