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I'll Pay You $5K To Walk Through The Lobby · Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

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  Speaker 1: Just walk through the lobby. I'll give you five grand.
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  Speaker 1: It's one more thing. I'm strong and getty, one more thing.
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  Speaker 2: We're recording this on the day that Hulk Hogan died.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a difficult day for all of us.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, they were just they just did a thing on
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  Speaker 2: Fox where they're showing up fans beginning to show up
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  Speaker 2: at Hulk Hogan's home in Florida to place flowers or
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  Speaker 2: wreaths or who knows what they're doing. Holy cow, that's
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  Speaker 2: a house. You sure that's a house. I think you've
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  Speaker 2: accidentally got a luxury hotel nearby.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: So apparently things worked out for him pretty well financially.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, a bit of a checkered life.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, here's a joke we did not play on
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  Speaker 2: the air. On the radio show from Greg Guttfeld last night, and.
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  Speaker 3: That now infamous interview making the rounds, Hunter Biden said
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  Speaker 3: that illegal immigrants do all the jobs that nobody wants to,
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  Speaker 3: for example, harvesting, processing, and selling him cocie. Hunter also
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  Speaker 3: said he thinks of Kamala Harris as family, promising that
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  Speaker 3: if she ever passed away, he would immediately bang Doug.
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  Speaker 3: But he also says that he loves Kamala like his
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  Speaker 3: own daughter, which of course is a stretch because he's
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  Speaker 3: met Kamala.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, which is pretty good. That's a pretty good one.
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  Speaker 2: That's a pretty good dig right there.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's a super good dig right there. That was
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  Speaker 1: that left to Mark Ouch. Can I get some ice?
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  Speaker 1: So to my introduction, just walk through the lobby. I'll
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  Speaker 1: give you five grand I had the experience earlier in
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  Speaker 1: the week of in doing my hours long preparation for
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  Speaker 1: the show, deciding two things are so screwed up they
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  Speaker 1: will never heal, and that would be number one. Our
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  Speaker 1: immigration system. I was reading about proposed legislation from a
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  Speaker 1: Republican and it's got terrible problems and is already getting
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  Speaker 1: cannon fire from both sides, and I thought, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: we're never solving. This second thing that will never be
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  Speaker 1: straightened out as long as we all shall live. Hulk
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  Speaker 1: Hogan excluded is college sports. It is un you know,
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  Speaker 1: redeemably screwed up.
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  Speaker 2: Here's why I would agree, which is interesting given how
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  Speaker 2: much money is involved. You'd have thought they'd have tried
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  Speaker 2: so hard to hang on to what it was some
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  Speaker 2: of you didn't have any choice because laws changed and
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  Speaker 2: lawsuits were filed.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, and some of those lawsuits ended in a
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  Speaker 1: way that you have to say, yeah, that's more just
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  Speaker 1: than the way it was.
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  Speaker 2: Right. There's all kinds of obvious example, like the the
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  Speaker 2: idea that well, first of all, everybody having to stay
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  Speaker 2: in college for four years before they would go in
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  Speaker 2: the pros is just kind of the way it was.
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  Speaker 2: Why I can, I can. I've got the talents as
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  Speaker 2: a twenty year old to go make fifty million dollars
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  Speaker 2: a year. I think I'll go do that.
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  Speaker 1: It was literally one of those I thought this was America. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you make a good point, son. Anyway. Uh So,
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  Speaker 1: I've got a couple of friends who are crazy into
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  Speaker 1: college sports, and they really had a good grip on
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  Speaker 1: the nil the name, image and likeness thing and how
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  Speaker 1: big that was and weird and screwed up, and I
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  Speaker 1: never quite followed it, but now I mostly get it.
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  Speaker 2: That was the biggest travesty of on all And they
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  Speaker 2: had some of the biggest stars on planet Earth who
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  Speaker 2: couldn't make a cent from being a big star the
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  Speaker 2: whole time they're in college.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there were toasts. They were the toast of America's
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  Speaker 1: sports fans, right, and they couldn't so much as smile
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  Speaker 1: on camera for the local Ford dealer anyway. But here
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  Speaker 1: here's why I say it's it's super screwed, and there's
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  Speaker 1: a big there are court cases and all there's going
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  Speaker 1: to be serious wrastling over this. It's all about the boosters,
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  Speaker 1: the deep pocketed alums who for years would like help
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  Speaker 1: pay for facility upgrades or hefty coach salaries. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of it is paid by boosters. Well, when the NCAAA
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  Speaker 1: started letting athletes capitalize on their name, image or likeness,
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  Speaker 1: these boosters formed collectives that would raise funds from fans,
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  Speaker 1: and it amounts from twenty five dollars to a million
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  Speaker 1: dollars depending I'm a crazy ass rich guy. I went
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  Speaker 1: to Illinois. But all right, so maybe I'm just a
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  Speaker 1: freak for Illinois sports and I got crazy money. I
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  Speaker 1: donate a million dollars to the Booster club, all right.
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  Speaker 1: Number one, I'm going to be treated like a god
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  Speaker 1: around there, and for some guys that's that's important anyway.
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  Speaker 1: And then the boosters steer the money to athletes in
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  Speaker 1: exchange for promotion or charity work. Quote unquote, that's where
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  Speaker 1: the fight is raging whether booster collectives can still do that.
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  Speaker 1: And there's a massive amount of money at stake these collectives.
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  Speaker 1: These booster collectives made up more than eighty percent of
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  Speaker 1: the estimated one point seven billion dollars in the college
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  Speaker 1: nil market in twenty twenty four to twenty five, this
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  Speaker 1: and the upcoming seasons. So there's going on two billion
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  Speaker 1: dollars at stake in eighty percent of it is these
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  Speaker 1: booster clubs. So if the court case goes the wrong way,
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  Speaker 1: if the new NC DOUBLEA rules hold up, that's barring
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  Speaker 1: boosters from doing this, one point four billion dollars could
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  Speaker 1: vanish for the athletes. And then it gets into if
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  Speaker 1: the boosters play ball and stuff like that. But what
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  Speaker 1: it comes down to is the NC DOUBLEA rules say
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  Speaker 1: it's got to be a legitimate exchange for use of
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  Speaker 1: their name, image, likeness. You can't pay somebody five grand
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  Speaker 1: to walk through your lobby. That's not a legitimate business exchange.
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  Speaker 1: Telling a wealth Oh here's one guy who's in favor
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  Speaker 1: of it, who says, telling a wealthy person who owns
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  Speaker 1: a business that they can't pay a student athlete twenty
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  Speaker 1: five grand for advertising because some third party tells him
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  Speaker 1: he's overpaying, and the student athlete it's only worth ten
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars, not twenty five thousand dollars. You know, that
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  Speaker 1: just doesn't feel appropriate to me personally. That's from a
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  Speaker 1: guy who's in the thick of it.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: So at odds in the fight are the college's new
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  Speaker 1: policing arm on one side, and lawyers representing athletes and
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  Speaker 1: recently settled anti trust lawsuit against the NCUBA on the
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  Speaker 1: other side. They're the nc DOUBLEA. The College Sports Commission,
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  Speaker 1: which is a new thing, is trying to curb the
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  Speaker 1: power and influence of the booster collectives, and the commission
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  Speaker 1: set up a clearinghouse through which any player deal worth
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  Speaker 1: more than six hundred dollars must be approved. And many
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  Speaker 1: booster collective deals don't satisfy you a quote valid business
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  Speaker 1: purpose because they don't license the players nil for commercial
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  Speaker 1: product or service. They're just handing them money.
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  Speaker 2: When is there anything wrong with that?
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  Speaker 1: That's a good question.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm thinking about it, and nothing leaps to mind, honestly.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I get that the NCAA has rules that
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  Speaker 1: are in the interest of protecting college sports from not
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  Speaker 1: going just to bizarrero too, but morally financially, I am
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  Speaker 1: so intent on you coming to Illinois and becoming the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback to lift my beloved program out of mediocrity as
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  Speaker 1: it's been mired in since Jeff George left the Field
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  Speaker 1: Memorial Stadium Field. Anyway, if I'm so into that, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna kick you up million bucks a year to come
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  Speaker 1: and play quarterback for us. What's to stop me?
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  Speaker 2: So you've got some of the stuff that you know,
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  Speaker 2: it was unfair for so long that these TV networks, universities,
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  Speaker 2: all kinds of things would make money off these big
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  Speaker 2: star players and they couldn't get a dime. That was ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm glad that got changed. But some of the
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  Speaker 2: other stuff with rearrange in the league seems like nobody
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  Speaker 2: made them do that, did they. That seems like a
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  Speaker 2: killed the golden goose, got too greedy something or other.
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  Speaker 2: Just bad decision making to me, ending all the rivalries
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  Speaker 2: that made the sport so amazing for so many years.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that ruined a lot of it. Yes, it's awful,
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  Speaker 1: It's unmitigated awful.
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  Speaker 2: Like I've kind of checked out. I used to be
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  Speaker 2: huge into college sports, but I just I don't even
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  Speaker 2: know who's in what league anymore, who's the rival? And
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  Speaker 2: then this whole thing that I don't understand at all.
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  Speaker 2: They go through the whole season and then then that
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  Speaker 2: little interim between the season and the playoffs for different sports,
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  Speaker 2: the players can move around and go to different teams.
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  Speaker 1: What the hell is that?
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  Speaker 2: So don't I don't even you lost me completely.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, every year the team is completely new through the
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  Speaker 1: transfer portal, but.
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  Speaker 2: It's near the same season. They change. They change between
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  Speaker 2: the regular season and the playoffs. So what are we doing?
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  Speaker 2: Enjoy it in your league? I hope it works out
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  Speaker 2: for you.
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  Speaker 1: So, for instance, before every Tennessee home football game last fall,
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  Speaker 1: this booster collective paid basketball, softball or baseball players between
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  Speaker 1: five hundred dollars and five thousand dollars each to attend tailgates.
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  Speaker 1: They organized. Wow, They're there to literally hang out with
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  Speaker 1: fans and their kids. These are the type of deals
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  Speaker 1: that hypothetically would be rejected if the negotiation doesn't come out.
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  Speaker 2: I think those should be allowed. They want to do that,
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  Speaker 2: let them do it. Unless somebody's got an argument. I
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  Speaker 2: I haven't thought of why that's untoured.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, says one labor economist who's consulted in these cases.
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty much anti American. The question comes down to,
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  Speaker 1: is it reasonable to say it's okay for an athlete
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  Speaker 1: to get paid a million dollars by his school, but
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  Speaker 1: it's not okay for a group of community leaders to
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  Speaker 1: supplement that income. Right. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The other thing that we've mentioned a lot is nobody
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  Speaker 2: saw this coming, or if they did, they didn't say
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  Speaker 2: it out loud. The being able to make money that
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  Speaker 2: a lot of it would have to do with being hot.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody understood that it would be the best running back
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  Speaker 2: in the country is going to make a lot of money.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody thought that a gymnast you've never heard of at
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  Speaker 2: some program that isn't even that well known, but she's
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  Speaker 2: hotter than everybody else might make the most money of.
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  Speaker 1: Anybody, right posting cheesecake shots. Yeah, exactly, speaking of women
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  Speaker 1: in sports. My final note anyway, is they're talking about
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  Speaker 1: Texas Tech Mattador club that was one of the leaders
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  Speaker 1: in this was founded co founded by a billionaire tech guy,
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  Speaker 1: and among other of their headline making deals, they landed
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  Speaker 1: a one million dollars softball pitcher. Wow, I'm in sports.
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  Speaker 2: I know, I had a U I want to say,
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  Speaker 2: who I know someone I know who was young, who
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  Speaker 2: went to a couple of big universities, and she got
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  Speaker 2: a very prestigious degree from a very prestigious university. But
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  Speaker 2: one of the universities she was at had a very
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  Speaker 2: big time sports program, one of the biggest ones in
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  Speaker 2: the country. And it bothered her so much that the
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  Speaker 2: coach there made so much money. They paid a coach
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  Speaker 2: like three million dollars a year in one of these
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  Speaker 2: big you know. And I tried to explain that it's
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  Speaker 2: just it's just a it's just a numbers thing that
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  Speaker 2: coach brings in the more than the amount of money
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  Speaker 2: they're paying him to the school. She was just appalled
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  Speaker 2: that had existed, which I completely understand. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: why we where we haven't given up on this whole
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  Speaker 2: student athlete. It's part of the college. I mean, why
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  Speaker 2: are we even pretending at this point? Just why why
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  Speaker 2: make it a completely don't make them go to school
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  Speaker 2: at all?
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  Speaker 1: Have it?
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  Speaker 2: Is it a completely separate thing or I don't even
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  Speaker 2: know what would make sense, but pretending it's just it's
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  Speaker 2: just a part of the extracurricular activities, just to play
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  Speaker 2: on the basketball team. And I mean, what are we doing?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the threads that connect you know, if I watch
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  Speaker 1: college football game or basketball game, the threads that connect
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  Speaker 1: that to the university and traditional college sports are fraying
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  Speaker 1: and disappearing in a hurry. I see what you're saying.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what it becomes then, but right now
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  Speaker 1: it's merely an exercise in sub major league tribalism. Correct.
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  Speaker 1: Why would I wrote root for well, you say this
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  Speaker 1: of major league sports too. Why would I root for
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  Speaker 1: an ever changing array of dudes wearing the orange and
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  Speaker 1: blue of Illinois? Why?
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  Speaker 2: People do?
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  Speaker 1: Because the way people are made, including me, apparently.
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  Speaker 2: I can use my my family is kind of a
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  Speaker 2: test case on college sports on how dead it is
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  Speaker 2: or is, because there's still is into Kansas basketball as
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  Speaker 2: they ever were, and all this stuff is occurring.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so interesting and has very little to do with sports.
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  Speaker 1: So I hope if you're a non sports fan you're
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  Speaker 1: still listening. Thank you very much. Well, I guess that's it.