Shadowing Practice: Trump Attends NBA Finals, Cries Election Fraud in California & Storms Out of Interview - Learn English Speaking with YouTube
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Hi, everybody.
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Thanks for watching.
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Thank you for joining us for our post-game party in Hollywood on a big night of baskets and balls.
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You know, I'm not sure if you've been following this, but I certainly have.
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Tonight, from Madison Square Garden, we had Game 3 of the NBA Finals between the New York Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs.
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It was the first NBA Finals game in New York City in 27 years.
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The fans are so excited.
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There was a report two people on the subway actually made eye contact with each other today.
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Look at this celebration.
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This is after game two.
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This is a post-game.
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This is a halfway there party in New York.
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They do know it's not best of three, right?
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It's they've got to win four games.
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I have to, I've never seen a victory parade before the actual victory before.
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What are they going to do if they win the series?
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Uproot the Statue of Liberty and carry it through Central Park?
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It's crazy.
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Things were not as cheery in San Antonio.
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The Spurs had a rough run at home.
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The Knicks beat them by a point in game two on Friday night.
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The Knicks won 13 games in a row in the postseason before tonight.
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And tickets to game three were very hard to get.
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Many New York celebrities were in attendance tonight, including our president, who was too busy with the war to go to his son's wedding,
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but had no problem carving out time to swallow nachos at the Knicks game tonight.
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Donald Trump is the first sitting president ever to completely disrupt an NBA Finals game in person.
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Because he decided to go, they had to cancel the watch party outside the garden.
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Fans had to get there two hours early to get through security.
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And Trump didn't even get to sit courtside.
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For safety reasons, they put him behind bulletproof glass.
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Well, we have him.
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There he is.
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Now, people were bringing their children to meet the president, hoping to get a photograph.
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And that's the same glass they used to separate him from Melania.
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It was...
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Oh, is that not Donald Trump?
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My...
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I've been told that's a different orange animal.
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I am so sorry.
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It was pretty late for the president to be out.
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Fortunately, he was able to squeeze in a nap during every one of his meetings today.
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We are taping this show before the game, so we don't know what happened or who won.
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All we know for sure is that Trump is about as popular in New York as pineapple on pizza.
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He is, when he was a young man, Donald Trump played basketball in the military academy his parents sent him to.
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Somehow, he was able to overcome those debilitating bone spurs that kept him out of Vietnam to play basketball.
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As far as the Knicks go, Trump's been to a lot of games at the Garden over the years.
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Knicks games mean a lot to him.
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You know, a Knicks game was the last place he saw Melania smiling.
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Over the weekend, Trump was in Wisconsin for a roundtable with farmers.
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Farmers are going through a lot right now, largely thanks to Trump's trade policies, fuel costs, fertilizer costs.
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Farmers are struggling.
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So to cheer them up, Trump pulled out all the exciting plans he has for the new fountains most of them will never get to see
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we had 22 fountains none of them worked look at that that's before and after look at that
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look at that can everybody see it then we had the reflecting pond look so that's the pond if we're standing up.
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Here's your Sears Tower, Empire State Building, World Trade Center.
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Look.
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Beautiful.
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Look at how that reflects.
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It's like a mirror.
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It's like a mirror.
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Looks like Grandpa figured out how to print off his iPad.
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I mean, does he understand
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that he is at a farmer's round table in Chippewa Falls more than a thousand miles away from Washington?
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Gather around, farmers.
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Okay, so this is the Burj Khalifa.
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How many of you have been to Dubai?
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None?
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Trump did his best to address how to help farmers get out of the hole he put them in.
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But more importantly, he let them know that if things don't work out in Wisconsin, it is safe to come visit them in Washington.
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A very unsafe city.
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Your child would go to see the Jefferson Memorial or the Washington
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or the Lincoln or any of them and would oftentimes not come back.
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It was a horrible place.
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It was horrible what was happening.
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That's right.
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It was just like the movie Weapons.
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They.. whole busloads of kids just vanished, never to be seen again.
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Is it possible he's confusing Washington with the Bermuda Triangle?
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And, of course, no appearance by our president would be complete without a rendition of his latest and maybe greatest new routine.
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Here it is, Donald Trump's The Dum-o-crats.
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I call them the Dum-o-crats, D-U-M.
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You take out the B.
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A lot of people don't know.
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Dumb has a B.
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You take out the B.
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And you change the E, you put the U, and you have a Democrat.
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That is his I have a dream speech now.
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That's the one we're going to remember him for.
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Can we just please get him a hat with all
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that written on it so he doesn't have to repeat it at every event now?
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Trump's especially mad at the Democrats in our state, California, because it would appear that his excellent choice for mayor of LA, Spencer Pratt, from the hills,
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is about to be headed for them.
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Yesterday, L.A.
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City Council member Nithya Rahman moved ahead of Spencer Pratt and is now the likely candidate to face Karen Bass,
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the incumbent, in the November runoff.
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I guess those crystals didn't work after all.
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Most people in L.A vote by mail.
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It's what we do, and a lot of us waited until the last minute to send in our ballots, because we're trying to figure out which candidate disappointed us the least.
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That meant Spencer Pratt got out of the gate in second place, because they counted all the in-person votes first, But as the mail-in votes came in,
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he dropped a third, and only the top two candidates advanced.
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And of course, because of this, the Mad Hatter is screaming fraud again.
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He wrote, the Democrats, that's with no B, by the way.
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Most people do not know there's a B, are at it again.
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They are trying to steal the governor of California primary and the mayor of LA primary away from two great Republican candidates.
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Here we go with the very late and massive numbers of mail-in ballots.
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All right, let me get this straight.
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The Democrats rigged the election, and they rigged it by having Republicans take the lead at first?
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I mean, for a bunch of Democrats, they sure are smart about stealing every election.
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His tirades...
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You're gonna be hearing a lot about this over the coming months.
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And it spilled over into an interview he did with Meet the Press, where Kristen Welker called him on this nonsense and challenged him to give us any evidence that proves this vote is cooked.
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Dating local officials acknowledge they are slow.
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They're urging.
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No, they're crooked.
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They're urging the votes to be counted quickly.
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That's how they vote in California.
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They're crooked, just like you're crooked.
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Your press is crooked.
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And meet the press is crooked.
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To be fair, I'm not crooked.
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But let's continue.
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Really?
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Well, you play right into their hands then.
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Let's continue.
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You're either crooked or you're stupid.
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This is why he mostly dated women who don't speak English.
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This interview, first of all, was interrupted several times by rain.
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And I don't know if he was worried about the cotton candy on his head getting wet, or he just didn't like the fact that he was being taken to task by a woman.
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Either way, their talk ended in a full-blown Trump or tantrum.
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You're crooked, and Mr. Press is crooked.
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But Mr. President.
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And so is ABC, and CBS, and CNN.
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But Mr. President.
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You're one-sided crooked networks.
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All right, let's call it quits, because I've had this.
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He traveled all the way to Wisconsin for the season.
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Wah!
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Wah!
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They want chicken nuggets.
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You know what?
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When that dinner bell rings, he's gone.
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Can you imagine any other president in the history of any other place doing that?
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That was a hissy fit.
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All right, now back to the other bouncing orange ball that we have to follow, the NBA Finals.
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Every year we travel to the host city to have some
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fun with a fan during the game by doing everything we can to keep that fan from going back to his seat.
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So we sent our team to San Antonio
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and we grabbed hold of one unlucky guy for an annual tradition we call clock blockers.
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How's your name?
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Darius Formica.
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Darius, you're a big NBA fan?
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Yes, sir.
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Yes.
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How much you pay for a ticket?
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$700.
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Yeah.
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I want to get you back in there.
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You don't miss anything.
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OK.
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So here's the thing.
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We're unveiling the new NBA mascot tonight.
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He's the mascot of the entire league, Fanzo.
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Wow.
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So it's the whole league.
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It's not just one team.
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Yeah.
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I think we give it to a fan.
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I think we give this to an actual fan.
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Let's do it.
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All right.
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You a real fan?
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Yeah, of course.
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Of the game, not just the Spurs.
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Whole NBA.
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I can tell you all the players, everyone on the team, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant.
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Can you do it like a cartoony laugh?
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Like, hey, hey.
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Hey, hey, hey.
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Oh, hey.
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Pretty good.
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How about a high boys leg?
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Hey, hey, it's fan zone.
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Hey, hey, it's fan zone.
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Oh, that's good.
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Let's just see if this suit fits.
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I think it's gonna.
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OK, great.
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We'll get this on you really quick.
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Get you back in there.
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Darius, dude.
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You only miss this game.
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Dominic zippers.
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Dominic zippers.
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Oh, there's one more on his crotch, inside the crotch.
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Oh, that's perfect.
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Perfect.
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All right.
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Get the belly on him.
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Yes.
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But you got to get the clipter on his taint.
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Yeah, you have to get the taint.
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Okay, let's get the hat on you.
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Oh, my goodness.
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Okay, look right in there and say, I'm a regular NBA fan, but when I watch the NBA, I turn into Fanzo.
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I'm a regular NBA fan, but when I watch the NBA, I turn into Fanzo.
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But do Fanzo with a big Fanzo.
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Okay.
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I'm a regular NBA fan, but when I turn it to the NBA, I turn it to Fanzo.
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Uh-huh.
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That's a big laugh.
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Ha-ha-ha-ha!
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It's Fanzo from the NBA!
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Oh, my god!
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Wemby!
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Try that again.
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The crowd was so loud over Wemby's amazing shot.
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Hey, hey, ho-ho!
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From the NBA, it's Fanzo!
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Big laugh?
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Ha-ha-ha-ha!
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Wow!
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Oh, I like Fanzo has a magical fanny pack.
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Let's go ahead and put that on you.
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It's time to guess what's next in Fanzo Fanny Pack.
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Ha ha ha ha!
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Hold up one finger for hot dogs, two for nachos, three for pizza, or four for hamburgers.
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Everyone's holding up their fingers.
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OK.
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What's in Fanzo Fanny Pack?
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If you picked hot dog, you're a winner.
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Ha ha ha ha!
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A one point game.
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OK, the NBA has a bunch of different stuff they're going to do this year.
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Just read that one for me.
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The NBA takes human trafficking seriously.
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If you see someone being held against their will, say something and enjoy the game.
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Ho, ho, ho, it's Fanzo.
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Ha, ha, ha, ha.
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So listen, Fanzo, you represent the whole league.
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So let's start with the Atlanta Hawks.
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And you just read their thing.
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Hey, it's Fanzo.
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The Hawks will rock your Crocs off.
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That's great.
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OK, the Boston Celtics.
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Hey, it's Fanzo.
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Boston bakes beans and cooks up championships.
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That's great.
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Next up is the Brooklyn Nets.
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The Nets, right above the Atlantic, subway stop, servicing the 2345 trains, the BDNQRW...
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It was at this precise moment that Darius realized he had made a dreadful mistake.
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There were 30 teams in the NBA.
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30 teams.
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And a little over a minute left in the game.
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Oh, man, there's been 11 left in the two-point game.
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Here we go.
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Okay, it's FanZone, Detroit's oldest neighborhood.
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And so it was that Fanzo crawled through 30 minutes of bulls**t and came out the other side completely discombobulated.
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Toronto Raptors, it's Fanzo.
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If we wanted to dice our name, why not the Tyrannosaurus?
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That makes more sense in Raptors, right?
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Tyrannosaurus?
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Where's everyone going?
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Aw man, it's over, buddy.
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Many sad Spurs fans left the arena that night, but none sadder than poor Darius.
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For the History Channel, I'm Ryan Seacrest.
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Seacrest out.
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We let Darius keep the costume, so...
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We had a great show for tonight.
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Eric Andre is with us, and we'll be right back with Tom Hanks!
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