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He Hasn't Come A Quarter Back · Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

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  Speaker 1: He hasn't come all the way back. In fact, he
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  Speaker 1: hasn't come a quarter back. It's one more Thing, Armstrong
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  Speaker 1: and gey thing. So is that a.
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  Speaker 2: Is that a pun or just a play on words?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, but it was stupid and beneath me.
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  Speaker 1: But we had to have something so that we could
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  Speaker 1: just plunge on with this podcast. So I came up
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  Speaker 1: with that our topic, Colin Kaepernick.
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  Speaker 2: Odly enough, this podcast, this very podcast called One More Thing,
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  Speaker 2: which is separate from Armstrong and Getdy on Demand, which
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  Speaker 2: is our daily radio show, broke into the top one
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  Speaker 2: hundred podcasts where they count podcasts in Marca. This just
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  Speaker 2: this one, just a standalone because it's been freaking entertaining.
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  Speaker 1: The Armstrong and Getdy on Demand is in the top fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: Can you believe that? I can. It's it's a brilliant thing. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: nobody's more surprised than me anyway. So before we start
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  Speaker 1: and seriously and then say whatever you want, as always
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  Speaker 1: on this show, I'm going to start for no particular
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  Speaker 1: reason with Katie and go to Michael. What is your
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  Speaker 1: take in general on Colin Kaepernick? What would be your
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  Speaker 1: introductory paragraph or whatever?
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  Speaker 3: I think that he was a great athlete until he
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  Speaker 3: opened his mouth and started getting political, and now I
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  Speaker 3: think that he is a racist, cop hating jerk.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, fair enough. Huh, Michael, what's your take on c K.
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  Speaker 4: I think he was a great athlete, like Katie said,
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  Speaker 4: but didn't he have a girlfriend, and I think influenced him.
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  Speaker 1: And he had a hot activist girlfriend.
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  Speaker 3: Yet I forgot about her, That's right.
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  Speaker 4: I think he was very impressionable and that's how he
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  Speaker 4: got the way he is today trying to please a girl.
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  Speaker 1: Jack anything else you want to add to that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think about the politics very much for whatever reason.
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  Speaker 2: I think about the.
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  Speaker 1: Playing.
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  Speaker 2: I've thought many times he could have retired after that
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  Speaker 2: Super Bowl. If they'd have won, which I almost did,
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  Speaker 2: that would have been something. But even with the loss,
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  Speaker 2: he could have retired at that moment and gone down
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  Speaker 2: is one of the most amazing phenomenon in history, and
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  Speaker 2: gone oj and just in endorsements for the rest of Yeah, yes, exactly,
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  Speaker 2: and just been made so much money and and and
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  Speaker 2: everybody had wondered, geez, he could have won fifty super Bowls.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, just if he had kept playing, and nobody
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  Speaker 2: would have known the rest of the story.
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  Speaker 1: Because he came to be on screen smiling and saying,
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  Speaker 1: if you need speed and versatility, you need Cisco Systems.
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  Speaker 2: Because he came into the league, he could not be
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  Speaker 2: stopped by anybody, right, it was just amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, until they figured it out. But anyway, I suppose
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  Speaker 1: my brief take on Colin Kaepernick that I've offered up
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  Speaker 1: through the years is that he he was a reasonably
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  Speaker 1: bright guy desperately in search of identity as an adopted kid.
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  Speaker 1: He fell under the sway of his activist girlfriend, and
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  Speaker 1: he got caught up in the whole uh yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: about tail black Lives Matter thing, and and it led
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  Speaker 1: him down a terrible, terrible path. I feel, you know,
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  Speaker 1: some of the things he said were loathsome and stupid, nidiotic,
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  Speaker 1: and he had no idea. He was a tool of
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  Speaker 1: neo Marxists. But mostly I just I feel bad for
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  Speaker 1: the guy.
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  Speaker 2: He'll he'll come out with a different point of view
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  Speaker 2: when he's fifty. Oh yeah, and yeah, regret all that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Did he start the whole thing? Was he the first kneeler?
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  Speaker 1: I believe?
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  Speaker 2: Did he start the whole thing?
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  Speaker 4: That?
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  Speaker 2: Then the women's soccer team did, and yeah, I believe
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  Speaker 2: it was. First, I think he started the whole dang thing.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, I just remember all of the things that he
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  Speaker 3: was saying about white people and this, and then I
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  Speaker 3: just would see the picture of him with his parents
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  Speaker 3: and I'm going.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was that was the part that the only
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  Speaker 2: part that like really bothered me was as a parent
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  Speaker 2: is just God, they they poured their heart and soul
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  Speaker 2: and taken on an adopted kid, and then you yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and loved.
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  Speaker 3: Him, sorted him and his whole career and yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, and he played an active role in
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  Speaker 1: swaying a lot of people toward a truly loathsome philosophy.
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  Speaker 1: But again, I don't think he had any idea. He
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  Speaker 1: was a tool of the neo Marxist movement, so a
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  Speaker 1: bit of a dope. And I realize I have more
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  Speaker 1: of a sympathetic attitude than a lot of people about
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  Speaker 1: him because I think he did some damage. But I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe it's because I've raised kids to adulthood
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  Speaker 1: and I just you do stupid stuff in your twenties,
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  Speaker 1: and he set records for stupid. Anyway, the reason I
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  Speaker 1: bring it up, unless anybody has anything more to add on,
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  Speaker 1: I do have.
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  Speaker 2: One more thing to say.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, what was it?
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  Speaker 2: It flit it out of my head because I'm closer
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  Speaker 2: to Joe Biden's age than Colin Kaepernick's.
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  Speaker 1: Is that literally true? Kep care?
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  Speaker 2: How old is Colin Kaepernick? I want to know if
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  Speaker 2: that was literally true what I just said, that would
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  Speaker 2: be trouble.
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  Speaker 1: It's true, it almost certainly is. What don't they always
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  Speaker 1: thirty six years old? Thirty six?
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  Speaker 2: I am, I'm closer to Joe Biden's age than Colin Kaepernick's.
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  Speaker 1: Age twenty two carry almost exactly the same, right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I had a point about Colin Kaepernick. Oh, it's
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  Speaker 2: also amazing that because he was definitely good enough to
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  Speaker 2: get on another team. I mean, oh yeah, there aren't
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  Speaker 2: many people that can do what he did in the world.
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  Speaker 2: And the NFL conspired, probably in an illegal way, but
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  Speaker 2: they didn't get busted on it to keep him out
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  Speaker 2: of the league.
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  Speaker 1: I don't necessarily think he collusioned. No, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: it was collusion for the following reason. NFL teams exist
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  Speaker 1: for two reasons, butts in seats, eyes on TV screens.
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  Speaker 1: I'm surprised every single executive came to absolutely the correct conclusion.
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  Speaker 1: We hire this guy, we're gonna lose a lot of
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  Speaker 1: butts in a lot of guys.
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  Speaker 2: I would imagine they crunch the numbers because they want
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  Speaker 2: to win, which makes them a lot of money too,
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  Speaker 2: so they must have even in liberal cities. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: he did it in San Francisco. He can't get much
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  Speaker 2: more liberal than that. But even like playing in la
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  Speaker 2: or Minneapolis or someplace like that, the majority of the
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  Speaker 2: people would have hated him being on their team, which
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  Speaker 2: tells you something about how out there he was with
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  Speaker 2: his philosophies.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Katie right, you got to remember the whole hardcore
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  Speaker 1: Black Lives Matter thing, There was a smallish group of
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  Speaker 1: Americans that actually believed that crap, and a really large
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  Speaker 1: group that was so afraid of the activists that they
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  Speaker 1: kept their claps shot right their traps shut. Anyway, the
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  Speaker 1: reason I brought all this up is he's the feature
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  Speaker 1: of a Wall Street Journal article. Is he still crazy wealthy?
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  Speaker 1: He obviously has a fair amount of money because he's
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  Speaker 1: building out media and publishing companies in recent years, and
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  Speaker 1: he found that creators are looking to get into those businesses,
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  Speaker 1: but they often run into a series of roadblocks around
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  Speaker 1: the worl along the way like and they give some
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  Speaker 1: examples of you're a talented comic book author, but you
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  Speaker 1: don't have the skills to illustrate it, and you can't
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  Speaker 1: find an illustrator, but you could use Loomy to generate
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  Speaker 1: graphics to accompany your texts, or conversely, an illustrator could
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  Speaker 1: work with AI to help pair their art with words.
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  Speaker 1: And I immediately came to the same conclusion that the
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  Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal did of several paragraphs later, is wait
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  Speaker 1: a minute, Wait a minute, Wait a minute. You've just
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  Speaker 1: expressed that it's unnecessary really to have a writer, and
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  Speaker 1: it's unnecessary really to have an artist in that other scenario,
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  Speaker 1: and it's unnecessary really to have either one of them
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  Speaker 1: in a lot of the commercial creative arts right now.
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  Speaker 1: So look, if Colin Kaepernet, once again coming off as
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  Speaker 1: just half bright, has said, Hey, there's people, especially of color,
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  Speaker 1: who have these great creative ideas, but they're up against
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  Speaker 1: these roadblocks for getting their stuff out in front of people.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to help them with that. That's a lovely impulse.
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  Speaker 1: That's perfectly fine, but you're going to do it with AI,
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  Speaker 1: which will replace them.
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  Speaker 3: That's interesting, just to let you guys know that the
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  Speaker 3: tale that influenced him so greatly. And Colin just welcomed
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  Speaker 3: their child, their first child in twenty twenty two, and
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  Speaker 3: they're still together.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I hope they're happy. I hope they changed those
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  Speaker 2: two crazy kids, nothing but happy. I hope they change
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  Speaker 2: your attitudes and he can afford to have a baby.
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  Speaker 2: I just looked it up. He made about forty three
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  Speaker 2: million dollars in the NFL and had a twenty million
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  Speaker 2: dollar deal with Nike before they dumped him when it
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  Speaker 2: got too controversy. So he made it at least sixty
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  Speaker 2: million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: So the startup received four million dollars in seed funding.
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  Speaker 1: Blah Blah Blah, partner at the firm, said she was
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  Speaker 1: introduced to Kaepernick came away impressed not just with the product,
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  Speaker 1: also how the former signal callers approached leading the company
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  Speaker 1: from the team he's assembled to his own willingness to
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  Speaker 1: dive deep into technical details. That's interesting. Good for him.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care. AI and creators don't always feel the
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  Speaker 1: attraction toward each other. She said. The key thing for
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  Speaker 1: Loomy is they're building for creators, but again, you just
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  Speaker 1: explained how the artist doesn't need a writer anymore, and
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  Speaker 1: the writer doesn't need an artist anymore. How do you
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  Speaker 1: not follow that to its logical conclusion?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: But if Casey is just into the idea of people
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  Speaker 1: doing this for fun or as a creative expression, I
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  Speaker 1: mean if I, well, for instance, I can write a story,
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  Speaker 1: I'm decent at it. I'm a terrible artist. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if I drew a cat, you'd say, that's that horse. Right,
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  Speaker 1: So the idea of I could have AI illustrate my comic,
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  Speaker 1: my graphic novel or something that's super cool, but it'll
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  Speaker 1: it'll never sell because there's too much AI cranking up,
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  Speaker 1: too much content right out, too much content.
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  Speaker 2: It was a dark and stormy night I've read. I've
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  Speaker 2: read many of your books. Yeah, well with the cat
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  Speaker 2: on the cover? Or was that a horse?
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  Speaker 1: By the way, this says Kaepernick has still been in
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  Speaker 1: training in case an NFL team eventually comes calling.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, oh that's too and he's thirty. What'd you say next?
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  Speaker 2: So he's getting he's almost aged out. But Tim Tebow
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  Speaker 2: did that same thing, stayed in NFL shape just in
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  Speaker 2: case any way changes her mind.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Kaepernick, unless his galvaal has been wamping on him,
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  Speaker 1: and I have no reason to believe that he's not
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  Speaker 1: been taking blows. And he's probably, you know, pretty fresh
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  Speaker 1: as athletes go. At age thirty six, he is un
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  Speaker 1: you know, worn down.
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  Speaker 2: All he had to do was agreed to stand for
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  Speaker 2: the national anthem, and he'd have made another fifty million dollars,
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  Speaker 2: but he had enough money, so there was no reason
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  Speaker 2: to do it for the money.
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  Speaker 3: I wonder if he's proud of him he's kicking himself
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  Speaker 3: for that.
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  Speaker 2: At thirty six, he might be edging toward kicking himself.
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  Speaker 2: By the time he's fifty, I think he'll be fully
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  Speaker 2: kicking himself. He'll use that athletic ability to kick his
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  Speaker 2: own hats.
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  Speaker 4: What's Steve de Berg up to, We'll let you know
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  Speaker 4: next time. Well, I guess that's it.