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ones who get it done. Sometimes

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I just can't tell what's happening. Are

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we doing cold open? That was a

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cold open. Welcome

0:58

to Oddball. I'm Amino Hasendat. Over

1:01

there is Charlotte Wilder in her

1:03

alternate location. We got a lot

1:05

of fun to get to today. Hey, this is what we're

1:07

going to talk about. We're going to talk about the Clippers.

1:10

Are they still soft? Also, Michael

1:12

Porter Jr. has come out and stood up

1:15

for his brother. Family

1:17

ties. We'll hear what he

1:19

had to say. Also, Wizards,

1:23

maybe they're going to stay in Washington

1:25

after all. There's a lot of politics,

1:27

man. It's amazing what

1:29

a little taxpayer money will do for a person.

1:33

Plus, Kelly Oubre doing his

1:36

best habbaked impersonation. Except

1:39

he didn't call anybody cool. We'll explain

1:41

a little bit on that, but let's

1:43

start with this guy, Draymond Green, man.

1:47

Charlotte, he got ejected again.

1:50

He got ejected in the first quarter

1:52

again, the only player in the last

1:54

20 seasons to

1:57

get ejected twice in the first quarter of the

1:59

same season. These it. Is.

2:01

Nineteen career ejection was places

2:04

him. Second, Placed my only

2:06

Rasheed Wallace. He was arguing the

2:08

gall with a rare cause. The

2:10

there for soon. Man.

2:12

Just wouldn't stop. And then

2:15

he got a deal. got the heave ho. Driving

2:18

Steph Curry to an

2:20

emotional brink. Perhaps. I really

2:22

think he was crying and I don't

2:24

blame him because stray mind is arguing

2:26

a call on steps be asks and

2:29

staff is like he's shaking his head

2:31

as three months doing it's keep pushing

2:33

dream underwear the back of his hand.

2:35

He's like that streamline keeps go. It

2:37

honestly mean it looked to me like

2:40

Draymond was trying to get ejected because

2:42

the rest didn't toss him. At. First. He

2:45

taught him one tray mind. Get.

2:47

Going and and mouthed what what

2:49

looks to be i'm. Not.

2:52

The same reist. Of things to

2:54

call a person So hands.

2:57

Wet. Boozer Golly gee will reduce. The

3:00

as he does college you

3:02

workers which rests famously hate

3:04

on. And images walk

3:06

to the locker room. mate a either side

3:08

at the as at some point he sort

3:10

of run out of things to say. Er

3:13

den his passengers who

3:15

moving on the line

3:17

between controlled rage and

3:19

just. Absolute Implosion. That's

3:22

gonna what makes them special woods or

3:24

midsummer great competitor. A mix of a

3:26

very defensive player or just amo be

3:28

honest with you, I don't understand.

3:31

How is he had that mad four minutes into the.

3:34

Like usually it's an accumulation of was almost I

3:36

would observe a lot has been. Oh no your

3:38

life is no part of him as his life.

3:41

That. Cause Melissa's keep going. This game is

3:43

still the game. The night is young.

3:46

Know version of that. And. That's

3:48

why it seems to me like it's

3:50

almost as he. He's like a powder

3:53

keg. It's like there's something that I

3:55

don't want to psychoanalyze from afar. But

3:57

if I were to, it feels like

3:59

there's some. About the end of as

4:01

this is dynasty of this career cause they

4:03

are much closer to the and in the

4:06

beginning that you know that their keys on

4:08

the edge in a way he used to

4:10

be on the edge in a way where

4:12

it was like great This is healing your

4:14

game and this is getting your teammates rest

4:17

up but now he's on the edge In

4:19

a way where it feels like he is,

4:21

he's tipping into selfishness as as evidenced. By

4:23

Curry's react to this is one

4:26

of those things were given the

4:28

time. Exhaust the and is

4:30

no part of this that so long time ago

4:32

that. As a me on

4:34

as auto good and by the way

4:36

post game speakers that he deserved a

4:38

good a jerk. Goods like there was

4:40

no part of any with anybody for

4:42

the worse dolls and that was like

4:44

well you know, conciliatory or even defending

4:46

him It was as good as as

4:48

other games I'd like. that was his

4:50

yelled at him as you said says

4:52

Ryazan and stuff about like. Know.

4:54

Whole night. Was he himself

4:57

was on an emotional ads you

4:59

see when he that shot but

5:01

no I'm a conference are over

5:03

June so wait is by by

5:05

celebration was there was a slightly

5:07

in Hangzhou know that that the

5:09

that night November's news so it's

5:11

almost got like six games and

5:13

then ah yes augmented events and

5:15

are sincere. When he

5:17

wears his this is there's an

5:19

emotional kind of. Frustration.

5:22

As boiling over for. That's

5:24

exactly the word I was getting. His Mean:

5:26

when I saw him crying or what appeared

5:28

to be crying I was like I completely

5:30

at and I get that like. That

5:32

yet the dislike the got into his

5:34

eyes like that that such as that.

5:36

Such a human reaction when you're frustrated

5:39

when you been dealing with the same

5:41

thing not just with the season button

5:43

in some ways for for years. And

5:45

what was interesting to me that stance

5:47

is always been so good about not.

5:50

Betraying. Any emotion when it comes to dream

5:52

on like. To him on gets ejected Steps

5:54

like okay back to work This is the

5:56

first time. That I had

5:58

seen. Staff not hub. be able

6:00

to even with his body language like stand

6:03

up for his teammate. Charlotte,

6:06

have you ever exited

6:10

a place of employment or

6:12

any other work event by

6:15

just outright just on

6:18

multiple people there in their face letting them

6:20

know how you really feel? Yeah,

6:23

actually. You have? Yeah,

6:25

I was 21 and I was

6:28

working at the summer camp and the board was

6:30

this group of like old white dudes

6:32

who were being really who just

6:35

were like obnoxious to my staff and

6:37

so I asked them a meeting at the end of

6:39

the summer and we all sat down in a

6:41

circle and they started telling me why

6:43

I was wrong and I tried to talk and one

6:45

of them like hit a gavel on the side

6:47

of his chair and said, I motion we don't

6:49

listen to Charlotte anymore and I stood up and

6:52

I was like, you are all

6:54

I can't even remember

6:56

what I said because I was in a rage blackout but

6:58

my chair tipped over and I went one by one

7:01

and then I walked out and

7:03

called my dad and I was like, I don't

7:07

know if we can go back

7:09

to the Rockport Bow Club anymore.

7:12

It felt awesome. Wow. That's

7:15

pretty cool. I believe it or not, I've never done that.

7:17

I have not done that since I was 21 but

7:19

it was a rush and so I understand

7:22

what Kelly you pray junior was doing last night.

7:25

He was upset about a couple of

7:27

no calls at the end of the

7:29

game. One of them was

7:31

led to a jump ball where he drove

7:33

fast. Quiet Leonard and quiet Leonard rode him

7:36

with his offhand in his lower back

7:38

and then pinned the

7:40

ball in a wedgey shout out

7:42

to no dunks right there.

7:44

The ball got stuck. It was a jump ball. Quiet

7:48

Leonard was pushing him with his left hand

7:50

in his lower hip the whole time. Then

7:52

the second call as he

7:54

drove past James Harden and rose up, I

7:57

believe it was Paul George who tried to maintain verticality.

8:00

and got a lot of contact, which after

8:02

the game, the refs said probably should have

8:04

been called a foul. We're

8:06

waiting on that last two-minute report. Yes, that's

8:08

a cool-ass story, Charlotte. Now, I've never had

8:10

that happen. The closest I had was my

8:13

last year when I was with the Suns.

8:15

I was miserable. I was like, I can't wait

8:18

to get out of here, right? But

8:20

I kept waiting. I kept playing Powerball because I

8:22

was like, this is what I need to happen.

8:25

I need to win Powerball, and I swear to God,

8:27

this was going to be my plan. My

8:29

plan was I was going to

8:32

hire Usher. I was going to

8:34

win Powerball, and I was going to hire... I was going to go

8:36

to Usher and said, I don't care

8:38

how much it costs. I need

8:40

you to fly in,

8:43

bring with you like a little marching band

8:45

or whatever, march into the

8:48

offices. I will scan you in, go to

8:50

my boss's office, and I need you to

8:52

sing, I quit. Hit

8:55

high notes, have the drummer do

8:57

the drums and stuff, and then I would walk in and

8:59

I'd be like, and then

9:01

I would leave. That was my dream, and

9:04

if anyone wins Powerball, wants to quit their

9:06

job, if you want to do that, absolutely

9:08

go ahead. Just remember, shut your boy out.

9:10

Just say, hey, I was watching Oddball and

9:12

Amine told Charlotte how he would read

9:15

people their rights on the way out the door

9:17

as he quit a job. I love it. I

9:19

support it wholeheartedly. The amount of planning I devoted

9:22

to that, like figuring

9:24

out who's his businessman.

9:27

How can I get in contact? He was all types of... And

9:30

I was like, the route, I was planning the route, like, okay, I'm

9:32

going to have them park in here and they're going to park

9:34

on the fourth level because then they don't have to take an elevator. They

9:36

can just go right up. I

9:38

had this whole thing mapped out. The

9:42

route they would take inside the building to the maximum

9:44

number of people in cubicles, it was like, is that

9:46

Usher? And they would get up and follow and see.

9:49

Man, dare to dream. All

9:51

right. I

9:54

mean, we've got an update on the bedding

9:57

situation scandal. John

10:00

T. Porter is in a little

10:03

bit of trouble. He's under

10:05

investigation for betting irregularities. And

10:07

his very famous and very

10:09

rich brother, Michael Porter Jr.,

10:12

of the world champion Denver

10:14

Nuggets came out in defense

10:17

of his brother. He said, I've known my

10:19

brother my whole life, as most people who are

10:21

brothers are often want to do. He

10:24

said, I know what type of dude he

10:26

is, and I know he's excited to play

10:28

basketball. And I highly doubt he would do

10:30

anything to put that in jeopardy. I'm

10:33

gonna be honest with you, man. I

10:36

love the love he shows for his brother. I

10:39

wish he had talked to a PR person first,

10:41

because I highly doubt Lee's

10:43

open like, you know, like, I

10:46

don't think she'd do something like that. Instead of saying,

10:49

my brother would never do something like this. Like it

10:51

was my brother. I'd say, my brother would never do

10:53

something like this. I highly doubt it. And

10:56

I'm like, the only thing worse though, I mean,

10:58

is that what if he did talk to a PR

11:00

person and the PR person was like, it

11:03

is so likely that he did this thing.

11:05

You gotta leave a little room for doubt.

11:08

Then he goes on to say later on in

11:10

that same kind of statement. So

11:13

it's a part of the game now. He's talking about

11:15

gambling. And I think that it's obviously a dangerous habit.

11:17

It's a dangerous vice for all people, for people. You

11:20

know, the love of money is the root of all

11:22

evil. So I think that even though it is a

11:24

thing, we as players just have to accept that we

11:26

get paid a lot of money to play this game.

11:28

And I know these people, these fans, they want us

11:30

to make some money as well. Like

11:34

that's not, that doesn't help your brother right

11:36

there. It's like, money's the root of all

11:38

evil. It happens all the time and it's

11:40

everywhere. And it's a dangerous thing for people.

11:43

But wait, hold on. It's always

11:45

be like, yo, these things are separate. We don't

11:47

get affected by it. Like, I don't know. He

11:50

lost the plot. He lost the plot big

11:52

time. He also, he should have, yeah,

11:54

he should have ended it and been like, money

11:56

is the root of all evil. I have

11:59

a lot of it. And thanks for

12:01

listening. I'm a pretty recent guy.

12:04

Honestly, that's what I would do. Look, here's

12:06

the thing. There's nothing

12:08

that he could say that would incriminate him. Right?

12:12

So if I were him, this is Michael Porter. And I'm

12:14

sorry that your family is going through this, but I'm going

12:16

to try to help you out here. Charlotte,

12:18

you be the media. I'm Michael Porter Jr. Ask me

12:20

about my brother involved

12:22

in a gambling allegations. Charlotte

12:25

Wilder here, Metalarc Media. Michael,

12:28

some really tough allegations coming

12:30

out of a recent situation

12:32

involving your brother, Jante, and

12:34

the Toronto Raptors. Do you

12:36

have any comments? It's

12:38

ridiculous. Unfounded. And

12:40

to be honest with you,

12:43

quite frustrating. That the

12:45

league decides to get in bed with gambling. And

12:47

that's fine. I'm okay with that. I love it.

12:50

Obviously, the added money brings

12:52

in more attention and more money for

12:54

everybody in the league. Having

12:57

said that, my brother is not the type of

12:59

guy that does this sort of stuff. He

13:01

has no need to, Charlotte. Why would he do it?

13:04

How? How? How

13:06

would that be a need for him? Have you

13:08

seen my contract? Go ahead. Look

13:11

it up on Spontrack. I'll get

13:13

paid over here. The

13:15

Porta family does not need your

13:18

little, a couple of dimes here and

13:20

there from some shady people in back alleys. I

13:23

was pretending to hold a microphone and then

13:25

I realized I had a real microphone.

13:28

Also, I was at a Spontrack. I

13:31

don't know how. Anyway, great,

13:33

great, great statement. I mean, they

13:35

should listen. I can say,

13:37

look, I guarantee my brother didn't do this. And

13:39

then it comes out, he did it. But I

13:41

was wrong. It's not like, okay, now you're going

13:44

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15:14

end of the regular season we'll see another 50-point

15:16

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15:19

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15:21

this season from 10 different players. Giannis,

15:23

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15:25

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15:28

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15:32

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15:46

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15:49

They have to begin and be

15:51

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15:54

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15:56

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15:58

Bucks will not finish with the two

16:00

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16:03

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16:05

the three, two and a half ahead of the

16:07

Cavs in fourth, and four games ahead of the

16:09

Magic in fifth. The remaining schedule for

16:11

the Bucks at Pelicans, at

16:13

Hawks, at Wizards, Grizzlies at

16:15

home, Raptors at home, Knicks at home, Celtics

16:18

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16:20

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16:40

a full analysis of what ails you and what

16:43

you need to do to get back to being

16:45

the best of you. I feel like

16:47

we're mixing a lot of metaphors there. Charlotte,

16:49

this is a pretty straightforward one for me, not

16:51

even about the bet, it's just about what the

16:53

wager is. Yeah,

16:55

that last one? Yeah, like why would you,

16:58

oh, I got a target after me versus

17:00

having him walk 50 flights. Yeah,

17:04

I also do think that, well,

17:07

I don't know, the end of that Bucks schedule is looking pretty

17:09

tough, though, there is a chance that they,

17:11

but yeah, you know what, let's take the

17:13

last one because I'm not trying to walk 50

17:16

flights of stairs. The Bucks will

17:18

not end up with number two in the

17:20

East, also this will be a great soundbite if they do.

17:27

Alright, Charlotte, update quickly a story that we've

17:29

been following all year long. The

17:31

Wizards now looks like they're going

17:33

to stay in Washington, D.C. They

17:35

signed the letter of intent for

17:38

a $500 million plus renovation of Capital One

17:41

Arena, which again, I don't know why that

17:43

wasn't the thing to begin with, or maybe

17:45

I do, but I'm going to keep, we

17:47

finished talking about the story. The other thing

17:49

is, in Virginia,

17:52

the deal completely collapsed. The

17:54

governor wanted this. He's blaming the

17:56

Democratic-led legislature for doing party politics

17:58

to basically... for

18:00

lack of a better phrase, cock block

18:03

his dreams of this complex in Virginia.

18:05

I'll be perfectly honest, no offense to the

18:07

people of Alexandria, Virginia,

18:09

but I think Washington, D.C. needs

18:11

the Wizards more than Alexandria,

18:13

Virginia does, so I'm glad they're staying.

18:16

I think that they were planning to

18:18

stay in D.C. the whole time. I

18:20

think that the head lance is found

18:23

in Glenn Youngkin a very, very willing

18:25

political collaborator to say, hey, come to

18:27

Virginia. It's really nice outside.

18:32

You'll have beautiful parking that you can charge people $75

18:35

for. We can have

18:37

a hotel that starts at $750 a night. You

18:40

can come here and all of

18:42

the people of Virginia will come to your games,

18:45

which they wouldn't probably. No,

18:47

D.C. needs this. I do. I

18:50

don't love the 500

18:52

million plus for funding.

18:55

But if that's what old

18:57

Ted got out of playing a little political,

19:00

then great.

19:04

I don't think that this has endeared

19:06

him. He was not at Capital One

19:08

recently, but

19:11

they're staying. Yeah. No,

19:13

he definitely did the little, I'll flirt with

19:15

you and get this other person

19:17

jealous and then like, oh, I want to go out

19:19

with you. Like, okay, I guess I'll go out with

19:21

you. The person who I would go out with to

19:23

begin with. You know what it is? The

19:26

90s are back. Like we have this little era of like owners,

19:28

you know what? I'm paying everything 100% out of

19:31

pocket, right? Like that's what Steve Balmer has done.

19:33

That's what the Warriors ownership with Joe Lake over

19:36

Peter Gouver have done. Like it became the thing

19:38

like, hey, we're paying the whole thing out of

19:40

pocket. And here comes Ted Leontz who says, bring

19:42

me the 90s back. We flirt about

19:44

moving. And then someone says, no, no, no.

19:46

Here's taxpayer money. And then we're staying. Meanwhile,

19:49

Oklahoma City is like, I

19:52

see you, my friend. I like the 90s. That's

19:54

the bill. He's like 90s ago. Yeah.

19:57

Oh, you're right. That was a good way to do things.

20:00

Alright, I mean Chandler Parsons

20:03

recently called out Mike Greenberg

20:05

who said that UConn could make

20:07

the NBA playoffs, which, okay.

20:10

Parsons said the best player on UConn wouldn't

20:13

play on the Detroit Pistons right now, which

20:15

is meant as an insult because the Pistons

20:17

are bad. I hate, I get,

20:20

one of my least favorite arguments in sports

20:22

media is could this college team beat this

20:25

professional team? It's my favorite because the answer

20:27

very easily is no. It

20:29

doesn't matter who, the answer is no. There's

20:31

no conversation. Yeah, that's why I like it,

20:33

it's nice and short. But

20:37

would the best player on UConn play on the Detroit

20:39

Pistons right now? That's

20:42

a lot more interesting, right? Because on the

20:44

one hand, for a regular bad team, I

20:46

would say no. And

20:49

to be clear, Mike Greenberg said that

20:51

UConn, because UConn destroyed Northwestern, which is

20:53

I guess his alma mater, he's like,

20:55

that'd make the Eastern Conference playoffs. And

20:57

my response on the Levitar Show was

20:59

that the Wizards would beat them by like

21:01

70. Jordan

21:04

Poole would look like the greatest

21:06

player ever if they played against

21:08

the Wizards. Michael Jordan Poole playing

21:11

against Utah. Pretty much. So

21:13

the question becomes, would

21:16

one of their best players play on one of

21:18

the worst teams in the league? Now

21:20

there's a couple of things. Number one is every

21:23

year, we see the best

21:25

players from college basketball play

21:27

on NBA teams. Isn't

21:29

that called the draft? Exactly.

21:31

The NBA draft. It's this thing that we do every year. I

21:34

don't know channel parties that heard of it. Right

21:36

now, I'm looking at the

21:38

big board on one of

21:41

my favorite websites, tankathon.com. Excellent,

21:44

excellent website, especially for

21:46

everything tank related, right?

21:49

I would imagine. They've got in

21:52

the top two 30 right

21:54

now, they've got two

21:57

UConn players, Saphon Castle as

21:59

a 10. best prospect, Donovan

22:01

Clingan as a 12 best prospect. So already

22:04

we've got two guys there and then you

22:06

go further down. They've got

22:08

50, 57 and 60 are all

22:10

UConn players, right? So they got five players

22:12

in the top 60. Charlotte, remind

22:14

me how many draft picks there are in an NBA draft. There

22:19

you go. So they got five players in the

22:21

top 60. I was like, are you trying to

22:23

trick me? You know I'm not good

22:25

at that. There's no band in the tailpipe, right?

22:28

So five players in the top 60,

22:30

including two were lottery

22:32

level players. Need

22:34

I remind you that the

22:37

Pistons were playing Isaiah Livers and

22:39

Killeen Hayes at

22:41

some point during the season? No,

22:43

I'm just saying those guys are playing

22:45

heavy rotation minutes. So I

22:47

disagree with Chandler Parsons. Yes, they've got at

22:50

least one guy who would play for the

22:52

Pistons. I don't think the Pistons

22:54

would be any good. Maybe that's the

22:56

point, but in terms of

22:58

having NBA caliber players, they objectively

23:01

have NBA caliber players. Not

23:03

only could they play for the

23:05

Pistons, but statistically some of them

23:08

probably have a pretty

23:10

good chance. Yeah. Oh God,

23:12

can you imagine if Detroit just gets like the

23:14

worst lottery pick? Oh my God. Oh,

23:17

you mean like they get somehow get

23:19

bumped all the way down? They're kind

23:21

of guaranteed, given how bad they are.

23:23

They're guaranteed to have at

23:25

least, I want to see the sixth

23:27

pick or the, like there's the

23:30

low, there's a low, there's a floor for how

23:32

you can go. So the

23:35

three worst teams are guaranteed that they can't

23:37

go lower than four. Cause even if a

23:39

bunch of teams jump up, you

23:41

know, like 12, 13 and 14 all jump up. All

23:45

that happens is the three worst teams all

23:47

get pushed down. So the worst team would

23:49

have four. The second worst team would have

23:52

five. The next worst would have six. Right?

23:54

Cause everything, You know, when I found out,

23:56

I mean, when I found out that the NBA draft lottery

23:58

was, is a televised event

24:00

of ping pong balls to decide to pick

24:03

who gets to pick when. I was like

24:06

well I love sports. Well I

24:08

think it's even better. It's not even a televised

24:11

event of the ping pong balls to pick

24:13

who gets picked when. It is

24:15

a televised event of person

24:17

reading the results of the ping pong

24:19

balls that happened behind the scenes that

24:21

were not televised to find out who

24:23

gets to pick when. That's

24:26

next level layering right there.

24:28

Absolutely beautiful. I kind of miss

24:30

it when it was just like right

24:32

there, kind of like the lottery. I

24:35

wish they did that. That was my favorite part.

24:37

It's very satisfying. You know the reason why they

24:39

don't do it that way is because

24:42

the lottery is weighted in such a weird way. There's

24:44

like a thousand ping pong balls and you got certain

24:47

numbers and the way they do

24:49

it is they assign combinations to

24:51

each team. So you've got these

24:53

combinations and that's how you have like a

24:56

hundred chances. How do

24:58

we know that they have a hundred out of

25:00

it? It's not a hundred ping pong balls. It's

25:02

like a hundred different combos. What ends up happening

25:04

a lot is they do

25:07

it and they get all right combo number

25:09

one. All right you're 14. You're whatever. But

25:11

then there

25:13

are combos that come up. It's like oh this team has

25:15

already placed. So I've heard

25:18

stories where a team literally won

25:20

the top three picks.

25:23

They got one, they got two and they got

25:25

three but obviously like once you've already got one,

25:30

we're not going to give you two and

25:32

three also. Your combination gets thrown out and they go back at

25:34

it again. You know what we should do?

25:37

I was just going to say we should get.

25:39

Every year they have media people who are allowed

25:42

to be inside. You can't take a phone. You

25:44

can't take a camera or

25:46

anything. You can only write down pen and

25:48

paper, old school style, what you see and

25:50

then come back and report back out. Charlotte,

25:53

I want you to be the person who

25:55

goes behind the scenes and tells us how

25:57

Willie Wonka's machine works. Oh

26:00

my god, that would be a dream come true.

26:02

I mean, I would also I feel like i'd

26:04

have to practice math before No,

26:07

you know, you just have you just have to you

26:09

have to just do what you already do. Well, which

26:11

is Observe and report. Thank

26:14

you so much. Okay, i'm up for the challenge I'll

26:16

get on it right now Hello,

26:19

adam silver have I

26:21

got a proposition for you Hello

26:27

Uh, yeah, he's right here why I

26:31

could be a Santa Monica right now enjoying

26:33

the beach What

26:36

no Santa commodity look

26:38

you're not allowed there i'm

26:41

talking to her

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