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July 16, 2026 (Hour 1) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I just at first, I was thinking to myself, well,
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Thursday afternoon, late afternoon showers. I walked out and
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Speaker 4: Chip Howard Sports Talk taken over today again by Jason
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Speaker 4: and Jared. Jason Cornelli's Jared Hicks here and for Chip
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Speaker 4: who we know he's gone, it's July.
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Speaker 7: He is got. We were so spoiled yesterday.
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Speaker 4: With the amount of things that were going on, not
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Speaker 4: to mention the moment we stepped foot and before we
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Speaker 4: stepped foot in the studio, but everything going on with
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Speaker 4: the World Cup and how that was with that game
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Speaker 4: yesterday with Argentina in England.
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Speaker 2: So I don't know how it is when when you
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Speaker 2: get home and you're talking with the kiddos. But so
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Speaker 2: of course Peyton asked right off the bat, you know
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Speaker 2: how was radio and the game? And so I'm having
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Speaker 2: to give her every detail because she I mean, she
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Speaker 2: she is a big messy fan, but she did understand
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Speaker 2: my wanting England to win because she understands the historical context.
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Speaker 2: But like I was walking her through it, and I'm
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Speaker 2: taking her like step by step because that's really what
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Speaker 2: it felt like yesterday was just have you ever gone
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Speaker 2: in have you ever been preparing for a situation, whatever
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Speaker 2: it is, and then all of a sudden something happens
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Speaker 2: and your mentality has to change. And then while you're
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Speaker 2: in the process of changing that mentality, something else happens
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Speaker 2: and now you got to change it again.
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Speaker 4: It was just completely flipped. It was like on our
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Speaker 4: heads yesterday is what was going on with that?
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Speaker 2: And so the closest thing and I will I will
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Speaker 2: say this, and it's funny that it's happened now twice
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Speaker 2: with with Caleb in the room. It was the Jalen
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Speaker 2: Brown trade. Oh, because we were we were just in here,
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Speaker 2: we're talking World Cup and when that news breaks, it's
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Speaker 2: just like you you can't even wrap your head around
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Speaker 2: it in the moment because it just shocks you. So anyway,
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Speaker 2: so all of.
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Speaker 7: That happened yesterday today.
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Speaker 4: I don't know, we may get into deeper into some
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Speaker 4: some SP's talk. We'll talk about something that happened here
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Speaker 4: in just a second. A couple of things they're talking
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Speaker 4: about it right now as we're looking at ESPN, I
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Speaker 4: have been if you've been listening to us over there,
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Speaker 4: I think I'm While I may not be like the
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Speaker 4: biggest Lebron fan, I'm a Lebron fan.
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Speaker 7: I'm kind of tired of Lebron now.
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Speaker 2: This this is, without a doubt, probably the more, the
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Speaker 2: most annoying that this situation has ever been. I know
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Speaker 2: a lot of people the decision still rubs a lot
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Speaker 2: of people the wrong way because it was turned into
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Speaker 2: a television event.
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Speaker 4: I was more and I don't think again being a
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Speaker 4: club kid, being on the Boys and Girls club board
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Speaker 4: now looking like I don't think that they publicized that
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Speaker 4: part of it enough that he was doing obviously he
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Speaker 4: was promoting himself, but like the amount of money that went,
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Speaker 4: all of that went to Chairity, like all of the
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Speaker 4: fun like any money that was raised because of that,
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Speaker 4: all of them chair So I don't think that they
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Speaker 4: they or he and his team, I don't think they
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Speaker 4: handled the marketing of that as well as they that.
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Speaker 2: I mean, there's that. I think there's also where he
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Speaker 2: ended up going because you know, for whatever reason, Miami
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Speaker 2: people have very at least in the NBA circles, people
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Speaker 2: have very strong opinions about Miami.
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Speaker 4: And I plan on getting into that a little bit
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Speaker 4: based on what Pat Raley said today.
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Speaker 2: Also, yes, but this go around really feels like and
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Speaker 2: what's funny is the athletics talking about it, ESPN's talking
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Speaker 2: about it, and I'm sure it's being discussed on things
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Speaker 2: like the Ringer and so forth and so on. This
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Speaker 2: one really feels like Rich Paul is driving the car.
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Speaker 2: I know Lebron undoubtedly the decision will we'll make the decision,
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Speaker 2: but it really feels like this is Rich Paul's attempt
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Speaker 2: to put himself right in front of everyone and kind
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Speaker 2: of run, run, blocker for Lebron's four hundred Cases of
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Speaker 2: Corps in the eighteen Wheelers. Yes, I'm pulling a smoke
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Speaker 2: in the bandit reference there.
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Speaker 7: Yes, you have completely aged us. Yeah in that well
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Speaker 7: it was not.
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Speaker 2: It came up on my recommended for Netflix, so it's like, oh, yeah,
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Speaker 2: it is one, one, two, three, and four.
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Speaker 4: That is And maybe this will be the topic at
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Speaker 4: the end of the show of what are your what
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Speaker 4: are your remote drops?
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Speaker 2: But but again, this this really feels like and and
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Speaker 2: maybe it's just because Lebron does not want to He
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Speaker 2: doesn't want to answer any questions. He kind of wants to,
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Speaker 2: you know, go play golf. Uh, whether it's in Key
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Speaker 2: West or in Fourth a week ago or wherever he's
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Speaker 2: playing golf, because he is still you know, putting it
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Speaker 2: on ig. But this really feels like this is the
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Speaker 2: Rich Paul show this go around one.
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Speaker 4: So we'll get into that a little bit, may talk
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Speaker 4: a little baseball, may talk some college football and what
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Speaker 4: the expansion can look like as we get into that.
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Speaker 4: Definitely want to get into some more NBA talk. Did
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Speaker 4: you watch the SP's last night?
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Speaker 2: I did not. I just I had zero interest in it.
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Speaker 4: By the time I cause I get home, and.
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Speaker 7: The first like obviously talk to everybody, say hello to.
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Speaker 4: The kids, and and the other thing. One of the
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Speaker 4: first things I do is I am going to watch PTI.
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Speaker 4: I have it recorded, and that is my transition from
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Speaker 4: work day to now I'm home. I use that as
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Speaker 4: as my my buffer. And so by the time I
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Speaker 4: get so we leave here. By the time I'm done
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Speaker 4: with all that, it's sick that dinner I had told
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Speaker 4: forgot completely forgot.
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Speaker 2: Well, and this is this is no slight to Marcello
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Speaker 2: and I'm blanking on his last name, but from Saturday
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Speaker 2: Night Live who hosted. But for me, it's really it
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Speaker 2: is almost impossible to top either. And I'm just I'm
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Speaker 2: gonna go off the dome here top four SB moments
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Speaker 2: that ire that just stick in my mind. And these
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Speaker 2: are in no particular order. Nor McDonald making the O. J.
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Speaker 2: Simpson joke. What was that ninety eight Jamie Foxx singing
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Speaker 2: I want to be your tennis ball to Serena Williams. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: justin Timberlake basically alluding to the infamous wardrobe malfunction, and
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Speaker 2: then Peyton Manning basically having his back and forth with
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Speaker 2: Tom Brady. For me, it's hard to top those four
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Speaker 2: because those were just very in the moment, organic, organically funny,
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Speaker 2: and I feel like everything since then has just tried
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Speaker 2: to to kind of copy that. And and then a
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Speaker 2: year where and I'm not trying to belittle anyone who
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Speaker 2: won awards this year, but it just it didn't feel
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Speaker 2: like a year where there's there's something you want to
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Speaker 2: see from from this awards eremonent.
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Speaker 4: Not necessarily yeah there there there truly was it. There
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Speaker 4: wasn't a spectacular moment like you just said. The super
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Speaker 4: Bowl was kind of I mean, the New York Knicks
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Speaker 4: won Best Team and that that's great, but they're not
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Speaker 4: outside of New York. They're not fan favorites. Miles Garrett
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Speaker 4: did win two awards last night, yeah, for him Best
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Speaker 4: NFL Player and Best Record Breaking Performance.
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Speaker 2: Which, by the way, just as a side note, have
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Speaker 2: you heard Aaron Aaron Donald is showing up at the
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Speaker 2: RAMS facility.
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Speaker 7: I knew he had been working out, I didn't know
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Speaker 7: he was, So he's going in here.
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Speaker 2: Well nothing, nothing, he's going in the facility. Nothing's been
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Speaker 2: made official, but oh my god, that can you can
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Speaker 2: you imagine those two on the same line.
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Speaker 7: Oh no, that would be just on.
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Speaker 4: We say this a lot in sports, that would be
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Speaker 4: unfair like that is I mean if he is even
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Speaker 4: because he's been out two years now, if he's even
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Speaker 4: seventy five percent eighty percent of we and they everybody,
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Speaker 4: and you've heard the like he's been staying in shape.
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Speaker 2: Like I think there was ya, I mean there were
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Speaker 2: rumors coming back last year.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and so if he's seventy five eighty percent of
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Speaker 4: what he was, and you add that to Miles Garrett, like,
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Speaker 4: oh that that deefke a quarterback. It's not one towo,
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Speaker 4: it's you've got it's two. You're not taking five.
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Speaker 2: Step drops now you will not have.
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Speaker 7: The time to take five step drops.
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Speaker 4: Current Aggy volleyball player Kendall Stours also got a.
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Speaker 7: Also she won.
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Speaker 2: Now we I mean, I didn't know we were gonna
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Speaker 2: have Aggie's there. Maybe if I knew, I might have
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Speaker 2: made sure that it was at least on, But I
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Speaker 2: knew they were I knew basically they weren't in competition
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Speaker 2: for a potential win.
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Speaker 7: New Miles was going to be there.
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Speaker 4: And is there anyone that it's like the moment, like
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Speaker 4: literally the moment he got off of the plane in
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Speaker 4: Los Angeles, like the world opened up for him. He's
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Speaker 4: on more commercials now, and I know he had been
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Speaker 4: dating his girlfriend, the the skier, yeah for a while now,
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Speaker 4: so that's not.
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Speaker 7: Even like but like he's got commercials.
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Speaker 4: Like it's like he he instantly washed the stench of Cleveland.
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Speaker 7: Off of him.
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Speaker 2: It's amazing what getting out of Cleveland will do to you,
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Speaker 2: because yeah, it's it's not called the Roust Belt for nothing.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, he like, I've just like Miles, I don't believe
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Speaker 4: and and people can cravey me.
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Speaker 7: I don't believe he's ever had a commercial.
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Speaker 2: I don't think No. In fact, I would dare say
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Speaker 2: short of I mean short of maybe postgame interviews. The
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Speaker 2: most television time he got was during the winter or let, Yes,
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Speaker 2: which is sad because I mean, very charismatic. Obviously a
12:23
Speaker 2: physical specimen. I mean, he has looked like he's been
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Speaker 2: carved from granted, since he was in high school, and
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Speaker 2: more so while he was at A and M. But
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Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, yeah, when you talk about, especially
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Speaker 2: on the defensive side of the ball, the guys who
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Speaker 2: could be marketable, he should easily be at the top of.
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Speaker 4: That list, and the moment he got on the private
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Speaker 4: jet to go to La I think he went to
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Speaker 4: the RAMS facility, said hello to everybody, and they took
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Speaker 4: him to some studio.
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Speaker 2: Well, and it goes back to what we were talking
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Speaker 2: about yesterday, where he's I don't he's not being shorted
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Speaker 2: on money by any stretch of the imagine nation. But
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Speaker 2: it is, honestly, what gives you so much cash? Cashe
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Speaker 2: is a championship and right now I believe the Rams
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Speaker 2: are the betting the odd the betting odds favorite for
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Speaker 2: the NFC to make the Super Bowl. And like we said,
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Speaker 2: without Aaron Donald, that defense is impressive. You add him
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Speaker 2: to it, and that defense, yeah.
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Speaker 4: It's scary. Back to the s Beast for just a second.
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Speaker 4: And do you think that the mouse and the Mothership
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Speaker 4: are trying to cause why? And maybe maybe Peyton Maning
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Speaker 4: is saying no, but like for a sports Wars show
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Speaker 4: someone that is that charismatic, maybe he like why wouldn't
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Speaker 4: they stick with Steph Curry shouldn't have been like he
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Speaker 4: he can't carry a show. So I don't know if
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Speaker 4: that that was not the right direction. But Peidon Maning
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Speaker 4: can I think Tom Brady can there are there are
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Speaker 4: and and maybe but there are some athletes former athletes.
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Speaker 7: I think Ryan Clark would be good at it, but
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Speaker 7: I think.
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Speaker 2: There are I think there's something. I think there's something
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Speaker 2: to be said about bringing in someone with comedy chops,
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Speaker 2: and especially stand up comedic chops to host, because yes,
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Speaker 2: a lot of that show is scripted. I mean understand
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Speaker 2: in most pretty much ninety five percent of award shows
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Speaker 2: is completely scripted. But it does take someone with comedic
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Speaker 2: genius and timing to take advantage of if something happens,
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Speaker 2: you know, someone someone makes a speech, or something happens
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Speaker 2: you know, on the way up to the stage to
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Speaker 2: really kind of capitalize on that. And I think that's why,
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Speaker 2: especially a show like this, because I believe the SP's
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Speaker 2: are just like the People Choice Awards. The people winning
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Speaker 2: know they're winning. That's why they shows up, you know,
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Speaker 2: so that it's not a huge it's not a surprise
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Speaker 2: from that standpoint. So in a show that is so scripted,
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Speaker 2: including the winners knowing they're going to win, and that's
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Speaker 2: why the majority of them there, it's it's good to
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Speaker 2: have someone who can kind of do something off the
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Speaker 2: top of the Dome. Peyton typically has that ability to
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Speaker 2: a degree. Tom I'm sure has been working on it.
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Speaker 2: I would say Blake, Uh God, why am I blanking
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Speaker 2: on his name right now? NBA player who also does
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Speaker 2: stand up comedy, played at Oklahoma. He does stand up. Yes,
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Speaker 2: he's been doing stand up comedy for about a decade.
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Speaker 2: I would. I would. I'm surprised they haven't happened to him.
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Speaker 7: Find a clip of Blake Griffin.
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Speaker 2: You know the radio. Yeah, he's actually I haven't.
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Speaker 7: Wow, No, I did not know that, So yeah, what
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Speaker 7: But I just think based.
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Speaker 2: On that or Jason Kelsey, I mean, like Jason kel
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Speaker 2: we know why Travis couldn't be there.
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Speaker 7: But either like, I just think there are better there
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Speaker 7: to keep it.
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Speaker 2: I think they went with Marcelo because he's younger, so
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Speaker 2: I'm trying to attract the younger demographic. Again. It's it
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Speaker 2: is the slowest day in sports. But you are going
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Speaker 2: up against, as we'll probably talk about at some point
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Speaker 2: in the show. And I'm not being sacrilegious, but you were.
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Speaker 2: You were going up against a godlike creature. Who will
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Speaker 2: they come back for the ages? Earlier that afternoon, I
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Speaker 2: don't know who was paying attention to the s people.
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Speaker 4: But it was and again and in for me, like
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Speaker 4: I just I don't know based on and this is
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Speaker 4: kind of that whether I'm not trying to be the
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Speaker 4: old guy in the room now, but like some some
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Speaker 4: I don't know a lot of.
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Speaker 7: The stars in some of these sports anymore mm hmm.
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Speaker 4: And and I don't know, like what what it's going
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Speaker 4: to take to to get that, because if yeah, if
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Speaker 4: you can't point out who they are.
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Speaker 2: Then again a lot of it just goes back to
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Speaker 2: the fact of there are so many things pulling at
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Speaker 2: your attention nowadays. I mean you have to again, you
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Speaker 2: have to have like six streaming services just to watch
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Speaker 2: the majority of sports that are on nowadays. And you know,
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Speaker 2: I used to be I used to be able to
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Speaker 2: tell you top four tennis players men's and women's side.
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Speaker 2: Right now, I know there's Patrick Center, and I know
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Speaker 2: Joker is still involved. Yeah, alcarez I believe.
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Speaker 7: Is he's been he's been injured.
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Speaker 2: He's been injured, but he's up there after that. Couldn't
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Speaker 2: tell you that. And on the women's side, definitely couldn't
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Speaker 2: tell you who were in the top four.
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Speaker 4: Coming back in just a second we will continue going
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Speaker 4: back and forth on all of these topics. Jason and
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Speaker 4: Jarrett in for Chip today, Chip Our Sports Talk Sports
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Speaker 2: mean no, no, I take that back. I take that
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Speaker 2: back there. There is one South African Sorry.
20:14
Speaker 7: Yesterday three four loop. Yeah, watching.
20:19
Speaker 4: ESPN right now, they're going over ACC media days, and
20:25
Speaker 4: I just we talked about it yesterday of being so
20:29
Speaker 4: excited that that football season is just around the corner.
20:33
Speaker 4: There are only a couple more weekends.
20:37
Speaker 2: Until I think we're down to forty days or thirty
20:41
Speaker 2: nine days still first game.
20:43
Speaker 7: At Kyle Field.
20:46
Speaker 2: Nope, fifty one days, fifty one days.
20:49
Speaker 7: Okay, It's it's close. Okay, it is very close.
20:54
Speaker 4: And looking at where the ACC is right now and
21:00
Speaker 4: what they like, I'm just there's just yeah, the level
21:05
Speaker 4: of excitement continues to grow when it comes to that.
21:10
Speaker 2: It's forty three days until week zero, Okay, thank you.
21:13
Speaker 2: That's that's what it was, Okay, Which now week week
21:17
Speaker 2: zero is like the whole week. I think if if
21:21
Speaker 2: you remember, they're they're they're doing there. I think they're
21:24
Speaker 2: doing stuff like it's not just three games that Saturday,
21:30
Speaker 2: including one overseas, like I think there was something like
21:33
Speaker 2: just about every day, see, and there's eight games on Saturday.
21:38
Speaker 7: Okay.
21:39
Speaker 4: That leads me back to one of the things that
21:43
Speaker 4: I have mentioned, we have talked about. I still think
21:47
Speaker 4: ball season should be pushed back to week zero.
21:50
Speaker 2: Agree, I mean yes, because here's.
21:53
Speaker 7: What's going to happen.
21:54
Speaker 4: It's what we're looking at, and how we were talking
21:57
Speaker 4: about maybe the expansion of the World Cup and then
22:01
Speaker 4: wanting to go to sixty four teams and how that
22:05
Speaker 4: may or may not work depending on the country that
22:08
Speaker 4: they go to and how many if they have enough
22:10
Speaker 4: stadiums to really make it. I think either that or
22:13
Speaker 4: the World Cup will be like two months long, three
22:15
Speaker 4: months long to get all those games in. But with
22:17
Speaker 4: college football, we know, like the Big Ten and the
22:21
Speaker 4: SEC will keep pushing back and forth, and the end
22:26
Speaker 4: of the pushing back and forth of what they are
22:28
Speaker 4: doing is to see how much money will eventually get
22:31
Speaker 4: put on the table for them to expand it beyond
22:33
Speaker 4: where it is right now. If and when it finally
22:37
Speaker 4: gets expanded, we you and I are like, we've done
22:41
Speaker 4: the game show of is this a real Bowl game
22:45
Speaker 4: or is it something that we've made up on the
22:47
Speaker 4: way to give away some tickets. If this expands to sixteen, eight,
22:53
Speaker 4: twenty twenty four teams, who is going to care about
22:56
Speaker 4: Bowl games from I mean at any point in time.
22:59
Speaker 2: Well, and more to the point, I think the playoff
23:05
Speaker 2: is not going to want their own product diluted by
23:08
Speaker 2: exactly by what else could be out there. The biggest,
23:13
Speaker 2: the biggest issue, and we've we've addressed it is opt
23:16
Speaker 2: out and play you know, players not willing to risk
23:21
Speaker 2: anything for truly meaningless games.
23:26
Speaker 4: Absolutely what they will become if when this expands yet,
23:29
Speaker 4: I mean.
23:31
Speaker 2: I that's why I think we both love the idea.
23:35
Speaker 2: If you move half of these bowl games to the
23:41
Speaker 2: beginning of the following season, it works the same way.
23:45
Speaker 2: I mean, it actually helps you from a scheduling standpoint yep,
23:48
Speaker 2: because you know you will know who your opponent is
23:51
Speaker 2: by the end of the last season. You know that's
23:53
Speaker 2: going to be first game, you know where it's going
23:55
Speaker 2: to be, you know all those things. It takes out
23:59
Speaker 2: kind of the the hassle that you come that you
24:02
Speaker 2: come across with the current bull set up where you're
24:05
Speaker 2: waiting until Bowl selection Sunday and once you find it out,
24:07
Speaker 2: Oh now I got to get a room at a
24:09
Speaker 2: Ramada Inn in Burningham, Alabama to go, you know, watch
24:13
Speaker 2: my team play in the gmacuh Big Daddy's Crawfish whatever
24:20
Speaker 2: Bowl that that's become. So I like that I mean,
24:26
Speaker 2: I like that idea, and that way you can have
24:28
Speaker 2: these interconference matchups that we're kind of afraid are gonna
24:34
Speaker 2: begin to go by the wayside because a your conference
24:38
Speaker 2: schedules are stretching the nine games now, so that means
24:41
Speaker 2: you're you're losing a non conference game, which means now
24:46
Speaker 2: you want your non conference opponents to kind of be
24:49
Speaker 2: gimme wins because you want those you want those three ws.
24:52
Speaker 2: It we just we're kind of starting to you know,
24:55
Speaker 2: kind of spiral down to to to this situation that
25:00
Speaker 2: you know, much like we were talking about yesterday with
25:01
Speaker 2: the NC Double A and eligibility. There's not a silver
25:04
Speaker 2: bullet to solve it. But yeah, the some of these
25:08
Speaker 2: some of these games, you really you're not watching the
25:11
Speaker 2: same team that you watched for twelve weeks during the fall.
25:14
Speaker 4: And that's the other part about it also, and it
25:17
Speaker 4: goes into the recruiting schedule. It goes into a lot
25:22
Speaker 4: of these issues that we're talking about that the NT
25:25
Speaker 4: double A specific and specifically college football is having to
25:28
Speaker 4: deal with. Again, the portal is closed by then, you know,
25:33
Speaker 4: like the portal, both portals are like every portal is
25:37
Speaker 4: closed by the time you get back around to August,
25:40
Speaker 4: so that's taken care of.
25:41
Speaker 7: You don't have to worry about that. Like you just said,
25:44
Speaker 7: you know who your team is.
25:46
Speaker 4: At that point, you are not having to go and
25:49
Speaker 4: round them up and see who wants to play, see
25:51
Speaker 4: who's trying to go and see what their draft status is,
25:54
Speaker 4: trying to see if they're even going to be on
25:55
Speaker 4: that tape. At that point, you know who your team is,
25:58
Speaker 4: the coach, your coaching staff is there. You're not having
26:01
Speaker 4: to worry about.
26:02
Speaker 2: And here's just you know, here's just one that's kind
26:04
Speaker 2: of inside. The weather is so much better. I mean,
26:08
Speaker 2: think about how many of how many of these games
26:11
Speaker 2: that are not played in Florida are just played in
26:15
Speaker 2: miserable weather. And yeah, I'm looking at you North Texas.
26:19
Speaker 2: You know, the Frisco Bowl and the Military Bowl and
26:22
Speaker 2: whatever bowls that are played at the outdoor stadiums that
26:26
Speaker 2: time of year. It is the worst. It is the worst.
26:29
Speaker 2: And who wants to go there at that time of year.
26:35
Speaker 2: Just again, it makes so much sense. And I don't
26:40
Speaker 2: see how the bulls themselves, I know ESPN, most of
26:45
Speaker 2: them are owned by ESPN, and so there's a minimum
26:48
Speaker 2: threshold of money, and I believe it's pretty ridiculously low
26:53
Speaker 2: to be one of these bowl sponsors. I think one
26:56
Speaker 2: of them. And folks, please forgive me if I'm being misquoted,
27:00
Speaker 2: but I think this was a legitimate amount. I think
27:04
Speaker 2: you can sponsor a bowl for like one hundred and
27:07
Speaker 2: fifty thousand. Now it's one of the bottom bottom too,
27:10
Speaker 2: but that one hundred and fifty k is like no.
27:14
Speaker 7: In terms of what you get from it, like at
27:16
Speaker 7: a marketing standpoint.
27:17
Speaker 2: I think that's why, like a city in Illinois was
27:20
Speaker 2: the sponsor of the Bermuda Bowl a few years ago
27:23
Speaker 2: because it was like ridiculously cheap and ESPN was so
27:26
Speaker 2: desperate to find a sponsor. I think they even dropped
27:28
Speaker 2: it below the one to fifty k. I think they
27:30
Speaker 2: went down to like seventy five ultimately. But yeah, it
27:35
Speaker 2: But here the flip side to this, and this is
27:39
Speaker 2: where we are as you know, as a culture, these
27:43
Speaker 2: games still get watched. You I mean, you look at
27:46
Speaker 2: the ratings that they're drawing more eyeballs than the typical
27:50
Speaker 2: ESPN programming during those times. It doesn't matter if it's
27:54
Speaker 2: a one o'clock kickoff on a Wednesday for whatever reason
27:59
Speaker 2: people are why, And and I think that's that's the
28:02
Speaker 2: hurdle that you have. You have to convince ESPN and
28:05
Speaker 2: everyone else that, yeah, you're you're giving up eyeballs in December,
28:09
Speaker 2: but aren't you going to get more in August? Because
28:11
Speaker 2: the desire to watch at that point in time is
28:14
Speaker 2: going to be so high.
28:15
Speaker 4: And again the you are you, Yes, they will be
28:19
Speaker 4: losing some eyeballs, but they will be gaining more.
28:22
Speaker 7: They're gonna.
28:25
Speaker 4: Do it in a face situated with for for every
28:28
Speaker 4: new playoff game you get, that's a Bowl game. That's
28:30
Speaker 4: gotta go. And and because again I also think until
28:34
Speaker 4: you get to that that main week. So obviously Thanksgiving
28:39
Speaker 4: week is when some of them will start and you
28:41
Speaker 4: have some men and then people kind of go back
28:43
Speaker 4: to work. It's that week from like maybe December twentieth
28:47
Speaker 4: through January third, that most people are off or traveling.
28:51
Speaker 4: That's when it And when you said that's where the
28:53
Speaker 4: eyeballs are, and I'm like, but are they really?
28:57
Speaker 7: The TVs are on and that's all the ESPN cares about.
28:58
Speaker 2: That's all they care about. People aren't watching these games.
29:01
Speaker 7: The TVs are just on in the background. When everybody's
29:04
Speaker 7: taking a nap.
29:05
Speaker 2: Or that's you know, all the sickos who are used
29:09
Speaker 2: to prop bets and everything else. It's like I get
29:13
Speaker 2: some I get some midweek action.
29:15
Speaker 4: But that's my point, like and all that, and and
29:17
Speaker 4: that's where a lot of this is coming from, going
29:19
Speaker 4: back to whether it's eligibility issues at the NC double A, like,
29:23
Speaker 4: there are ways for them to help themselves, and and
29:29
Speaker 4: and I think for ESPN to help college football specifically
29:35
Speaker 4: not keep basically running itself into the ground scrambling after
29:40
Speaker 4: the because again, the playoff is going to expand we
29:44
Speaker 4: just don't know when. And so if you're going to
29:46
Speaker 4: keep it to those twenty four schools, that's like let
29:50
Speaker 4: the rest of them go back to being schools again
29:54
Speaker 4: and not having to worry about the the other juggling
29:58
Speaker 4: that they're having to do.
29:59
Speaker 2: You know, one of the one of the major reasons
30:02
Speaker 2: for decades that it was such a big deal to
30:03
Speaker 2: make a bowl game versus the teams at dnn't is
30:06
Speaker 2: you got those fifteen extra practices and you got the
30:09
Speaker 2: bowl money. That stuff really doesn't matter anymore.
30:13
Speaker 7: Absolutely does not.
30:15
Speaker 2: And so if I'm being pragmatic here, I'm looking at Okay,
30:20
Speaker 2: how can I maximize value with a declining product?
30:25
Speaker 12: I e.
30:27
Speaker 2: The first let's call it week and a half of
30:29
Speaker 2: bowl games, shifting that to August, putting that inventory at
30:34
Speaker 2: the end of the beginning of the new season with
30:38
Speaker 2: full strength teams, because those games make those again, make
30:41
Speaker 2: those games count. They're not exhibitions. They are your first
30:46
Speaker 2: game of the new season. They're just going to be
30:49
Speaker 2: played at a bowl site.
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Speaker 2: Speaking of dancing Saturday night Hispanic Form, because you were there, right, Yes, okay,
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Speaker 2: Argentina uh Switzerland match. Yes, a certain points, how many
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Speaker 7: There were there were a couple Okay.
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Speaker 4: Shout out to the Hispanic Form. Great event that was
35:36
Speaker 4: that Argentina get match was that night. Also the UFC
35:41
Speaker 4: fight with Connor McGregor that wasn't air quotes that that
35:45
Speaker 4: wasn't was also going on that night. Glad I didn't
35:48
Speaker 4: miss a whole lot with with that. I was I
35:52
Speaker 4: was expecting, foolishly, I guess, for for that to be
35:59
Speaker 4: excited and it was not.
36:01
Speaker 2: Well, you know, again, they're definitely not gonna put out
36:07
Speaker 2: the news because obviously it would have affected betting lines,
36:11
Speaker 2: and obviously if you have to scrap the match, I mean,
36:13
Speaker 2: that's that's a whole lot of money, kind of flush
36:15
Speaker 2: down the drain. The words are that he may have
36:19
Speaker 2: torn his ACL prior to the match during training, but again,
36:25
Speaker 2: this is a guy whose body has been through a lot.
36:29
Speaker 2: He has not taken the best care, even if he
36:33
Speaker 2: looks physically fit. I mean, there's been a lot of
36:36
Speaker 2: alcohol and a lot of coke that's gone through that
36:38
Speaker 2: system in addition to who knows what else, and you know,
36:43
Speaker 2: he hasn't won a match in over five years. So yeah,
36:48
Speaker 2: this this did not I mean, this played out about
36:55
Speaker 2: about what you would expect for a comeback. That kind
36:59
Speaker 2: of just felt like it was out of nowhere.
37:02
Speaker 4: Uh, why am I drawing a blank on the Paul
37:04
Speaker 4: kid Jake Jake Paul, is that the are they boxing next?
37:09
Speaker 2: I don't think. I don't think Jake Paul is going
37:11
Speaker 2: to box again. I really don't after he got his
37:15
Speaker 2: jaw broken. I don't think he's gonna. I don't think
37:20
Speaker 2: he's gonna risk it. If anything, I see him looking
37:24
Speaker 2: at his brother Logan and finding a way to take
37:27
Speaker 2: that route, or he's gonna go pure promoter route, because
37:32
Speaker 2: that's the That's the other thing he's done is he's
37:34
Speaker 2: built out this promotion.
37:36
Speaker 4: And I was gonna say the the payday that would be.
37:43
Speaker 7: He and Connormar Gregor going at each other on Netflix.
37:50
Speaker 2: I mean, I'll never I'll never say never, say never.
37:53
Speaker 2: I just I really think that that beating he took,
37:58
Speaker 2: he he may have just come to realization its desk
38:03
Speaker 2: and just you know, make money off everyone else getting
38:06
Speaker 2: the crap beat out of them than than to risk
38:09
Speaker 2: doing it to myself.
38:10
Speaker 7: And and I get that. I just.
38:13
Speaker 4: Which brings me to another good question for both traditional boxing,
38:20
Speaker 4: which has completely fallen off and now UFC have have
38:28
Speaker 4: both of those. Like, I know, boxing is just and
38:31
Speaker 4: it's sad because it is, and because I forget what
38:34
Speaker 4: I was watching the other day talking about like the
38:37
Speaker 4: just I remember my dad purchasing the the pay per
38:43
Speaker 4: view fights of and it wasn't just the Mike Tyson
38:45
Speaker 4: heavyweight fights. It was like what some of those big
38:48
Speaker 4: middleweight fights of like either Marvin Hagler or Sugar Like though,
38:55
Speaker 4: like those were draws for the longest and then that
38:58
Speaker 4: fell off. Has had m m A and UFC have
39:03
Speaker 4: because who.
39:04
Speaker 2: Are so I really think UFC has fallen off and
39:11
Speaker 2: basically kind of I don't want to say for the
39:13
Speaker 2: same reasons as boxing, because the reason boxing fell off
39:17
Speaker 2: is you had unscrupulous promoters who uh pocketed money, exploited fighters,
39:27
Speaker 2: all these things. In the UFC, Dana White has largely
39:33
Speaker 2: underpaid his talent.
39:35
Speaker 7: Is That's why I was I.
39:37
Speaker 2: Know that's I was trying to. I was trying. I
39:41
Speaker 2: was trying to there is a comparison. It's not apples
39:43
Speaker 2: for apples, but it's very similar.
39:45
Speaker 7: They're both it's all a bag of fruit.
39:47
Speaker 2: Yeah. I also think it's it's just a it's an
39:52
Speaker 2: overexposed product, you know, doing doing a monthly pay per
39:56
Speaker 2: view a LAH wrestling and of course now that irony
40:00
Speaker 2: is both are owned by TKO I just I really
40:05
Speaker 2: do think you you burn through so much of your talent.
40:09
Speaker 2: You don't have a heavyweight, you don't have someone who's dominant. Uh,
40:13
Speaker 2: you know, you've got some questions out there about you know,
40:17
Speaker 2: could could this person beat a Jim Jones or you know,
40:23
Speaker 2: you know things like that, and then you then you
40:30
Speaker 2: tack on just the politics that you've brought into it
40:34
Speaker 2: as well, and so you yeah, you're you're definitely trying
40:39
Speaker 2: to reach for a certain a particular demographic, but you
40:44
Speaker 2: kind of alienate the rest who maybe used to like
40:48
Speaker 2: watching MMA fighting for what it was and and now
40:53
Speaker 2: the product just feels like it's it's being marketed towards
40:57
Speaker 2: one group and there's no one really compelling that you
41:00
Speaker 2: feel like you want to watch anymore.
41:02
Speaker 4: Is it very similar to how it was with boxing?
41:06
Speaker 4: Is it that there is no heavyweight Like boxing really
41:11
Speaker 4: started to fall off when there was no star that
41:17
Speaker 4: was the heavyweight champion of the.
41:18
Speaker 2: World and or at least a recognized.
41:22
Speaker 4: Recognizable and you mentioned John Joe, like whether it was
41:26
Speaker 4: the light heavyweight or the the heavyweights, Like you want
41:31
Speaker 4: to know who the biggest, baddest dude is and if
41:34
Speaker 4: there isn't one, and it's it's it's small, and I
41:39
Speaker 4: think Max Holloway is his great like.
41:41
Speaker 7: But if there's not like who people would be.
41:45
Speaker 2: Patti the Baddie Apparent, every baddy or whatever his nickname is.
41:48
Speaker 2: Apparently he he has the potential to become, you know,
41:52
Speaker 2: someone in that in that middleweight category. I think that's
41:54
Speaker 2: also another part of the problem is you have these stars,
41:58
Speaker 2: but they are in these specific divisions, and because of
42:02
Speaker 2: the weight classes, you don't you're you're not gonna get
42:06
Speaker 2: two great stars going up against each other because if
42:08
Speaker 2: one has to cut weight to go down to face,
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Speaker 2: they're not the same and then vice versa. And I think,
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Speaker 2: you know, that's part of the problem. The other problem
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Speaker 2: is we mentioned Jake Paul's trying to build out his promotion,
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Speaker 2: but the UFC really just doesn't have any competition right now.
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Speaker 2: And I really feel like, and you see this across
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Speaker 2: easy to get lazy because you can just put out whatever,
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Speaker 2: So I also think the fact that UFC has become
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and she can still do that, by the way.
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Speaker 2: I think when she was making the rounds because she's
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Speaker 4: Chip outur Sports Talk on a Thursday afternoon Jason corne
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Speaker 4: Is Jared Hicks in for Chip. When did the Open
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Speaker 4: Championship become the last major.
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Speaker 2: As far as on the calendar?
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Speaker 7: On the calendar, it hasn't always been the last one,
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Speaker 7: has it?
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Speaker 2: No? Because I BELIEVEGA PGA was always always.
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Speaker 7: And I didn't know when I was sitting there, I'm.
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Speaker 2: Like, but I know that, I know. Kind of overall,
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Speaker 2: the PGA has lost its luster as one of the majors.
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Speaker 2: It's still considered a major because of the PGA tour period,
47:39
Speaker 2: but I think the majority of golfers, obviously Masters is
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Speaker 2: held number one, the Open is probably number two, and
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Speaker 2: then the US Open has a strong three over the PGA,
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Speaker 2: and then number five is either TPC Sawgrass or or
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Speaker 2: the Waste Management Open, depending.
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Speaker 4: On depending on what you enjoy from from your golf
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Speaker 4: tournament and what you get, what you get to see
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Speaker 4: or as a player, what I will.
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Speaker 2: I will say this. So this year's Open is being
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Speaker 2: played at uh Royal Birkdale and they just they took
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Speaker 2: a camera out and showed what the rough is and
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Speaker 2: they dropped a ball. You can't see it. I mean
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Speaker 2: it is. It is tall, dead brown grass.
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Speaker 7: It is like deathly drop.
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Speaker 2: I was gonna say prayers if if you if if
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Speaker 2: you slice or you hook, prayers to you because you
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Speaker 2: may not find your ball and it may take you
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Speaker 2: a good two or three wax to get it out
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Speaker 2: of there.
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Speaker 7: Well and I.
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Speaker 4: Mean yes, But the the other part I heard was
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Speaker 4: if like it, if you land your ball and it's
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Speaker 4: gonna roll forever because it's just so like there's nothing slow.
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Speaker 4: The ground is just so dry out there, nothing's gonna
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Speaker 4: slow it down.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I haven't had a chance to watch round
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Speaker 2: one today. I know as far as the leader board
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Speaker 2: goes Obviously, if you follow golf, you'll you'll recognize more
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Speaker 2: of these names. But Cameron Young is is one of
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Speaker 2: the few names that I even recognize among the top ten. Currently,
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Speaker 2: Scottie is sitting tied for thirteen. I know Bryce and
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Speaker 2: d Chambos he's tied for fourth. But there's a pretty
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Speaker 2: good group that's think that Cameron young is in that's
49:39
Speaker 2: that's also tied for fourth. But yeah, I haven't been
49:43
Speaker 2: able to watch any footage today to see just kind
49:46
Speaker 2: of how the chorus is playing and especially how the
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Speaker 2: weather is expected to be over the next three days.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, it is.
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Speaker 4: It is a very very tight leaderboard as they are
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Speaker 4: done over there right now. Minus five is the leader.
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Speaker 4: Two at minus four, a bunch of people at minus three,
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Speaker 4: a bunch of people to under.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I'll say this, obviously, Europe is a good
50:14
Speaker 2: portion of Europe has been under a heat wave for
50:16
Speaker 2: a considerable amount of time. It's odd to see the
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Speaker 2: guys playing the Open Championship in short sleeve polos.
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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, you like that.
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Speaker 4: Is something you but that and that was the other
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Speaker 4: thing what made me wonder, like is have the has
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Speaker 4: the how bad has or how much has the calendar
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Speaker 4: switched because yeah, you used to windy and cold and.
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Speaker 2: Well, but it's not. It's not a function of the calendar.
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Speaker 2: So this is when the Open typically is played. It's
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Speaker 2: just the fact that they moved the Uh they've moved
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Speaker 2: the PGA again. I guess. I guess it's kind of
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Speaker 2: a good bookend if you think about the Masters being
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Speaker 2: the first major in the Open and being the the
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Speaker 2: final one. But yeah, uh, I don't. I don't know
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Speaker 2: when that took place. I'm probably gonna have to say COVID.
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Speaker 4: It's it's been fairly recent and trying I was trying
51:17
Speaker 4: to look that up and not having to to watch
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Speaker 4: any of it, Like, what is are you going to
51:23
Speaker 4: be able to watch any this weekend?
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Speaker 2: Is that something that I believe? I mean, obviously Sunday
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Speaker 2: Sunday at around two o'clock. No, And I'll probably still
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Speaker 2: watch the third third place match on Saturday, which I
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Speaker 2: believe is also mid afternoon.
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Speaker 7: No multiview.
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Speaker 2: Uh, well, if it's on it's on NBC, is I
51:48
Speaker 2: guess it. I guess it depends when they're when they're
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Speaker 2: they're broadgat.
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Speaker 7: When they actually do the live broadcast of.
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Speaker 2: It may have to fire up the peacock Saturday morning
51:56
Speaker 2: to watch it live. I don't know anyway, I'll figure
51:58
Speaker 2: I will probably watch some, especially if if certain people
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Speaker 2: get start moving up the leader board. I know today's
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Speaker 2: just day one, so it'll be interesting to see what
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Speaker 2: happens tomorrow. But definitely definitely have it on come Sunday
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Speaker 2: for sure.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, this will be I mean, this will be a
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Speaker 4: big weekend. As far as, like you said, the third
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Speaker 4: place game, do you think people are and I say
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Speaker 4: this because of the two teams, do you think it
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Speaker 4: will be an exciting match or.
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Speaker 7: On Saturday?
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Speaker 2: I would I would like to think so, simply because
52:35
Speaker 2: the stats count. So you know, if you're in bop A,
52:39
Speaker 2: you just saw two back to back matches where Messi
52:43
Speaker 2: only has one goal out of two. So you have
52:48
Speaker 2: an opportunity now if you can, if you can salvage
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Speaker 2: something out of this, something out of this, and especially
52:55
Speaker 2: against a deflated England squad, you might be able to
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Speaker 2: to do do something and be entertaining. The funny thing
53:04
Speaker 2: is the video going around now is from what I
53:10
Speaker 2: forget what Minions movie.
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Speaker 4: Is question that are they going to actually want to
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Speaker 4: play in this?
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Speaker 7: But the minions.
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Speaker 2: I go back to the fact, I don't I genuinely
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Speaker 2: don't believe any squad, any team wants to play this
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Speaker 2: in a third third place game. I really don't. I mean,
53:31
Speaker 2: believe it or not. Prior to the the NFL AFL merger,
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Speaker 2: there used to be a third place game in the
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Speaker 2: old NFL, and even those guys didn't want to play
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Speaker 2: in it because you're you're playing for third And I
53:45
Speaker 2: know it's different, especially when we talk about you soccer,
53:49
Speaker 2: because I've had to coach I've had to coach that
53:52
Speaker 2: third place game, and it's like, you know, it's a
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Speaker 2: difference between at least getting a metal and getting nothing.
53:59
Speaker 2: But you know, ultimately, you know, in the context of this,
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Speaker 2: I'm sure those guys are just ready to get ready
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Speaker 2: to get home because you've had both teams had disappointing
54:10
Speaker 2: losses in the semifinal round. You want to get, you know,
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Speaker 2: whatever rest you can because Club Club Soccer is already
54:21
Speaker 2: starting back up. Guys are starting to arrive to the facilities,
54:25
Speaker 2: they're gonna start doing their preseason matches, including a number
54:29
Speaker 2: of teams that will be traveling internationally for for preseason matches.
54:33
Speaker 2: So yeah, I get. I get why there is a
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Speaker 2: third place match, but it's gonna be it's gonna be tough.
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Speaker 2: It's gonna be tough for certain guys to want to
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Speaker 2: get out there. And then also there's gonna be some
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Speaker 2: that you would think would get some playing time and
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Speaker 2: probably won't.
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Speaker 7: It's good and I can't.
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Speaker 4: I'm like losing the third place game, which means you've
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Speaker 4: you're taking back to back elve like I because you're
55:06
Speaker 4: I remember, for for Wesley's I like, that is not
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Speaker 4: the fun game to be a part of, especially knowing
55:12
Speaker 4: like it's just yeah, you're taking that chance of taking
55:16
Speaker 4: that back to back loss.
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Speaker 2: It's different like in the context of the Olympics, because
55:19
Speaker 2: you're playing for the bronze medal. In this you're I
55:24
Speaker 2: guess you, I think you get a medal U for
55:27
Speaker 2: coming in third, but and and maybe your your prize
55:31
Speaker 2: money that you get is a little bit more than
55:35
Speaker 2: the fourth place team. But it's again, I think for
55:38
Speaker 2: the majority of these guys, after such a heartbreaking, heartbreaking losses,
55:44
Speaker 2: you you're just ready to get home after being you know,
55:47
Speaker 2: over here for what six weeks now?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's been I mean again, it's been a
55:53
Speaker 4: great tournament.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I mean one of the easily one of the
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Speaker 2: best World Cups.
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Speaker 4: By far, and that. Yeah, and it goes back to
56:02
Speaker 4: what the expansion is going to look like. I hope
56:04
Speaker 4: if and when they do expand it that the host
56:08
Speaker 4: country will be able to to handle that.
56:12
Speaker 2: I think looking ahead like next the next in twenty thirty,
56:17
Speaker 2: it will They're gonna be playing in three different countries
56:21
Speaker 2: within the vicinity of each other to accommodate. And that's
56:24
Speaker 2: based on current numbers, that's not even counting on an expansion.
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Speaker 4: So we'll be able to see how that goes coming
56:32
Speaker 4: up at the top of the next hour, we you
56:35
Speaker 4: And again I mentioned this to Jared, and I really
56:38
Speaker 4: want to talk about it because I'm I am curious
56:40
Speaker 4: as to what the the actual state of Lebron is
56:46
Speaker 4: right now in terms of the.
56:49
Speaker 7: Is that's your right arm or your left on your
56:50
Speaker 7: right right arm? Yeah, just from work out there.
56:54
Speaker 2: No, it's it's old man's shoulder you sleep on, you
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Speaker 2: sleep on it the wrong way and it just it
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Speaker 2: bothers you. It is all day long.
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