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Hour 1 - World Cup Hype · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports.
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  Speaker 2: Well, hello Howard, things good evening, slash good morning, depending
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  Speaker 2: on where you're listening. Appreciate you checking out the show.
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  Speaker 2: Got a lot of good stuff, lots of good stuff
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  Speaker 2: in the wee hours. We are we are back to
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  Speaker 2: the Gills here. And it's funny because I filled in
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  Speaker 2: the last two nights. And the last two nights it
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  Speaker 2: was just a no brainer lead off story. Right first
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  Speaker 2: night it was Lebron announces he's not going back to
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  Speaker 2: the Lakers, he's a free agent. It's like, all right,
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  Speaker 2: that's an easy one. We'll lead with this. Last night
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  Speaker 2: it was Jalen Brown traded from the Celtics to the Sixers.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, well, that's just right in front of my
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  Speaker 2: nose as well. So that's an easy one to start with.
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  Speaker 2: Tonight is a little bit different because you don't have
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  Speaker 2: that no doubt about it lead story. You can go
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  Speaker 2: in a lot of different directions. You could go your
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  Speaker 2: own way. I'm not gonna sing for you, not gonna
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  Speaker 2: do that. We'll not do that tonight, and I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to go in a very random direction because there are
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  Speaker 2: your your run of the Mills sports stories. I've got
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  Speaker 2: your I've got takes all over the place. I've got
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  Speaker 2: opinions about a lot of things, and there are a
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  Speaker 2: lot of things that I want to get to that
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  Speaker 2: I think are very interesting or entertaining. But I want
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  Speaker 2: to start in a different direction. The more you know, like,
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  Speaker 2: how could I say this? The more standard type stuff,
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  Speaker 2: if you will, Jalen Brown. He he went on his chat.
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  Speaker 2: He went on Twitch. Jalen Brown had thoughts about getting
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  Speaker 2: traded to the Sixers that I thought pretty interesting. We'll
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  Speaker 2: get that audio to you. NBA will be testing a
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  Speaker 2: new rule in the Summer League that I absolutely hate.
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  Speaker 2: I hate this. I hate that they're even tinkering with this,
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  Speaker 2: and let's just test it out. Let's let's check it
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  Speaker 2: out over here. You know. They were like, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: let's test out this thing of a discontinuing chicken in
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  Speaker 2: all forms. I'd be like, what what do you mean?
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  Speaker 2: We're testing? That's how I feel about the NBA testing
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  Speaker 2: this stuff. Ball ball is on the menu. I'll tell
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  Speaker 2: you this. You guys know me Blind Scott, who knows
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  Speaker 2: me very well, who was on the show last.
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  Speaker 3: Night, who knows you very very very well.
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  Speaker 2: He was going down the bullet points of my life.
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  Speaker 2: Loreno was very impressive. The one thing he didn't mention
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  Speaker 2: was that I am a ballaholic. I love football like crazy,
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  Speaker 2: and we have been short changed in football department the
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  Speaker 2: last two nights. Not by design, trust me, but there
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  Speaker 2: were just more pressing matters. We got a little bit
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  Speaker 2: more breathing room. Little more breathing room, so we can
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  Speaker 2: stretch our legs and talk about ball. I've got some
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  Speaker 2: great audio for you. One of my friends is a
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  Speaker 2: Bears fan, and he sent me a tweet where Mark
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  Speaker 2: Schlareth is roasting Bears quarterback Caleb Williams. I think that's
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  Speaker 2: pretty interesting. And also I have my take on the
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  Speaker 2: NFL's most forgotten team this season. This is We're in
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  Speaker 2: the off season right now, so it's hype this team gets.
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  Speaker 1: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: I can see this team kind of like a diamond
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  Speaker 2: in the rough. I could see them having a good season. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I could see them winning it all, all that type
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  Speaker 2: of stuff. This team gets. No pub, no accolades, no hey,
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  Speaker 2: look out, I haven't heard a whole lot. Look out.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't heard anything. And I actually like this team
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  Speaker 2: a lot to go over at season win total. So
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  Speaker 2: degenerate gamblers. You're gonna want to pay attention tonight. I'll
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  Speaker 2: get to that a little bit later in the program,
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  Speaker 2: but I want to start with this, all right. I
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  Speaker 2: gave you a little sneak peek at the menu, but
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  Speaker 2: let me start with this. So one of my buddies
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  Speaker 2: texted me and he said, you know, I saw something
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  Speaker 2: on X I thought was pretty interesting, and he's said
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  Speaker 2: it was a bunch of Scotland soccer fans. They were
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  Speaker 2: asked a question, and the question was that they were posed,
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  Speaker 2: would would you want to win the World Cup this year?
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  Speaker 2: Would you take that deal in exchange for your hated
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  Speaker 2: rivals England winning the next three consecutive World Cups? Would
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  Speaker 2: you make that deal you win it all this season,
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  Speaker 2: your hated rival wins it the next three consecutive times,
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  Speaker 2: would you sign up for that? And my buddy said,
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  Speaker 2: almost all of the Scottish fans said no, some said yes,
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  Speaker 2: but most said there is no way I could deal
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  Speaker 2: with these obnoxious England fans winning three in a row.
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  Speaker 2: No way, no deal, no deal. And so my buddy
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  Speaker 2: texted and said, so I had to apply that to me,
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  Speaker 2: would I? He's a Bears fan, would I want the
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  Speaker 2: Bears to win this year's Super if the Packers won
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  Speaker 2: the next three in a row? And his response was,
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  Speaker 2: I honestly am not sure how to answer that. That
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  Speaker 2: is what he put And so this is my thinking,
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  Speaker 2: and this is why I like this topic. It's full participation,
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  Speaker 2: Malard Militia, get on in here. The water is just great,
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  Speaker 2: is fantastic. You got to move around a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: It's a little cold at first. Move around feels great,
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  Speaker 2: very refreshing. Come on in. But you apply this to
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  Speaker 2: your own teams. And what I find interesting about this
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  Speaker 2: question is it really does depend on who you root for.
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  Speaker 2: I think it depends on a few things. Would you
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  Speaker 2: accept a deal? Would you sign up for your team
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  Speaker 2: winning it all if your rival won it all the
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  Speaker 2: next three times in a row. My thinking is this
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  Speaker 2: A lot of it depends on how good your team
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  Speaker 2: is right now. If your team is pretty good and
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  Speaker 2: they're not that far away from winning it all, they've
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  Speaker 2: got a legitimate shot. I'm not taking that deal. For instance,
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  Speaker 2: I love Notre Dame football. I'm from South ben Indiana.
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  Speaker 2: I bleed Notre Dame football. I would be tempted to
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  Speaker 2: accept this deal. I'll be honest with you. I haven't
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  Speaker 2: seen them win it all since eighty eight. It's been
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  Speaker 2: a long time for your guy over here seeing his
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  Speaker 2: beloved team winning it all. So I would be tempted,
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  Speaker 2: but man, I hate Michigan. I could not stomach them
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  Speaker 2: winning three in a row. Some would argue USC is
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  Speaker 2: a big rivals. They are a big maybe the biggest.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't want to see SC win three in a
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  Speaker 2: row now when Notre Dame is closer than both of
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  Speaker 2: those teams. They're very close. So I would not take
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  Speaker 2: that deal right now. Now. If they fell off and
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  Speaker 2: they're a sub five hundred team, they're not even close
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  Speaker 2: to winning a title. I would have to think long
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  Speaker 2: and hard about taking that deal. But a lot of
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  Speaker 2: it depends on how good your team is right now.
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  Speaker 2: If a title is within legitimate striking distance, I think
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  Speaker 2: you gotta consider that deal. My Dolphins, right my Dolphins
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  Speaker 2: are a hot mess right now. I know I grew
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  Speaker 2: up in Indiana. It doesn't make geographical sense that I
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  Speaker 2: love the Dolphins. But that's my team since birth, basically,
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  Speaker 2: so I'm rolling with them the whole way. I would
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  Speaker 2: have to take the deal if it's my Dolphins. You
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  Speaker 2: can win a Super Bowl this next season, are you
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  Speaker 2: kidding me? And the Patriots win the next three or
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  Speaker 2: the Bills win the next three, That's fine. I'll deal
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  Speaker 2: with it. The Dolphins finally win it all, I haven't
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  Speaker 2: been alive, and I've been alive for a long time.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't been alive since the Dolphins won a Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: So yes, I would accept that deal. If it came
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  Speaker 2: to it, and it was it was proposed to me,
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  Speaker 2: I would be like, deal sold. I'm not doing it
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  Speaker 2: for Notre Dame football. I am doing it for the
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  Speaker 2: Miami Dolphins. I think also a lot of it depends
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  Speaker 2: on your level of disdain for your rival. For instance,
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  Speaker 2: I love the Saint Louis Cardinals. My dad was born
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  Speaker 2: right outside of Saint Louis in Alton, Illinois, so he
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  Speaker 2: kind of just passed that down to me, right. I
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  Speaker 2: kind of had no choice but to root for the Cardinals,
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  Speaker 2: which is fine. I grew up in the eighties and
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  Speaker 2: they're playing whitey ball and small ball, you know, stealing
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  Speaker 2: bases with Vince Coleman. They played an exciting style of baseball.
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  Speaker 2: So I've loved the Cardinals for a long, long time.
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  Speaker 2: I would never even think about accepting this deal. Cardinals
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  Speaker 2: winning a World Series and the Cubs, the Cubs winning
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  Speaker 2: the next three in a row. I couldn't deal with it.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't deal with it. I could not function with
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  Speaker 2: that happened. No way what I accept that deal? No chance.
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  Speaker 2: The last thing is it depends on your history, right,
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  Speaker 2: There's no way a Yankee fan would accept this deal,
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  Speaker 2: zero chance. The Yankees have twenty seven championships. They don't
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  Speaker 2: need to make a deal like this to win a ring.
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  Speaker 2: They would never do that and watch the Red Sox
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  Speaker 2: win three in a row. So I think that's an
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  Speaker 2: interesting thing. Man, it's a fun little sports thing. Would
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  Speaker 2: you accept the deal? Your favorite squad wins it all,
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  Speaker 2: your hated rival wins the next three. If you want
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  Speaker 2: to get your comments in, feel free to do so.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get to you right around the corner. Eight seven
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  Speaker 2: seven ninety nine on Fox is the number also available
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  Speaker 2: a couple of soccer thoughts as well. Got a couple
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  Speaker 2: of soccer thoughts I know most of you are bracing
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  Speaker 2: for impact, like, oh no, he's got a hate on
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  Speaker 2: Team USA. A day before the fourth of July. This
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  Speaker 2: is on America. No, no, not a whole lot. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you know my rooting interest over here. But I don't
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  Speaker 2: need to harp on that. A couple of things that
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  Speaker 2: just wanted to throw at you. Okay, First thing is
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  Speaker 2: the ratings are in, and may a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: watching Team USA beat Bosnia and Herzegvina or H. Bosnia
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  Speaker 2: and H is what I do because every now and
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  Speaker 2: then I want to go Herzegovina. I almost did that,
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  Speaker 2: and they're like, there's no, that's not the squiggly over
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  Speaker 2: the end. It's just Vina, you know, not Vinya. No,
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  Speaker 2: don't do that. So I screw that up all the time.
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  Speaker 2: Bosnia and H. Right, they took them on the other night.
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  Speaker 2: How about twenty four point four million viewers a little
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  Speaker 2: more than that. It's the most watched soccer telecast in
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  Speaker 2: English language history. So props props to you, Team USA.
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  Speaker 2: Good job, you know, line in the pockets here at
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  Speaker 2: Fox TV, right, very good job. Love that they are
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  Speaker 2: absolutely against me wanting Team USA to get booted from
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  Speaker 2: this thing, but it's it's great for them. You know,
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  Speaker 2: the interest is sky high. It's just gonna grow. I
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  Speaker 2: mean those ratings, they're gonna probably crack thirty million on
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  Speaker 2: Monday when they take on Belgium. They're probably gonna get
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  Speaker 2: in the thirty million range right there, break their own
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  Speaker 2: record for the most watched soccer telecast in English language history.
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  Speaker 2: So pretty cool stuff. Now, the thing that you got
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  Speaker 2: to keep in mind here, I hate to be the
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  Speaker 2: bringer of bad news, but little dose of reality here
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  Speaker 2: for you Team USA, diehards if you will, or more
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  Speaker 2: appropriately you Team USA Johnny cum Lately's who want to
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  Speaker 2: come after my jugular like your actual real fans which
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  Speaker 2: you're not, which you're not. I can see right through you,
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  Speaker 2: your fakers. But something that you got to keep in
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  Speaker 2: mind here is that the path is about to get
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  Speaker 2: a lot more difficult for Team USA now they take
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  Speaker 2: on Belgium, and Belgium survived, they had a miracle comeback
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  Speaker 2: win to make it to this round of sixteen. So
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  Speaker 2: that's the match on Monday. Team USA has to face
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  Speaker 2: Belgium's top ten team in the rakings. Right, that's not
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  Speaker 2: an easy out whatsoever. You go back to March, there
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  Speaker 2: was a friendly. Belgium beat Team USA five to two,
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  Speaker 2: which is the equivalent of a football score of like
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  Speaker 2: ninety nine to three. I'm exaggerating a little bit, but
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  Speaker 2: that's a freaking beatdown right there. Okay. If Team USA
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  Speaker 2: can somehow move it on to the next round, they
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  Speaker 2: don't have ball again. Remember you got the red card
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  Speaker 2: last match, which means he can't compete in this next match.
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  Speaker 2: He's suspended for that one, So no ball again. Take
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  Speaker 2: it on a top ten team in Belgium. If you
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  Speaker 2: somehow some way win that match, you move on and
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  Speaker 2: you face the winner of Portugal Spain. Okay, now here
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  Speaker 2: are a couple of things. Portugal they won against Croatia.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you're watching it on Okay, let
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  Speaker 2: me do math. Carry the one subtract to three Thursday evening. Goodness,
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  Speaker 2: this is very difficult for me. We're in Friday and Thursday.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's very difficult. I don't know what it is.
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  Speaker 2: But Thursday evening it was Portugal in Croatia. It was
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  Speaker 2: at the very bitter end. We're talking about seconds away
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  Speaker 2: in stoppage time at the end of the game. They're
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  Speaker 2: gonna blow the whistle at any point. Now. Somehow Croatia
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  Speaker 2: scores the equaliza. They score a goal. At the very end,
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  Speaker 2: they're is just weeping in the stands. We're hugging, we're kissing,
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  Speaker 2: we're kissing the flag that straped around us. Croatia. Ah
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  Speaker 2: love you go Croatia. They look at it and they're like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it was off sides, no goal, no goal. Croatia loses.
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  Speaker 2: Portugal moves on Portugal facing Spain. Now Spain. Can we
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  Speaker 2: talk about Spain for a second? Spain? They smacked around
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  Speaker 2: Austria pretty bad on Thursday, a little bit earlier in
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  Speaker 2: the day. Three nil, which, by the way, for the
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  Speaker 2: metal heads out there, that is a Slipknot song. Three
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  Speaker 2: nil that's right. Maybe Lo Rainer will bring us back
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  Speaker 2: with that. I don't know, I don't have any I
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  Speaker 2: don't know how many cuss words or in that thing yet. Sure, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: maybe maybe she was you not, don't threaten her with
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  Speaker 2: a good time, but three mil Spain smacked around Austria.
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  Speaker 2: Get a load of a couple of stats over here. Okay, Spain,
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  Speaker 2: who could be could be Team USA's opponent in the
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  Speaker 2: round of eight when we get down. Can we just
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  Speaker 2: call it the Elite eight? Can we just do basketball
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  Speaker 2: from here? They're in the Sweet sixteen, they're trying to
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  Speaker 2: get to the Elite eight, maybe the final four, Like
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  Speaker 2: I think it'd make a lot more sense when you're
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  Speaker 2: doing quarterfinals. I'm so confused, like is this the quarterfinals
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  Speaker 2: or what's the semi finals? I don't know. Maybe I'm
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  Speaker 2: just dumb. I don't know. I'd rather just do Sweet sixteen,
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  Speaker 2: Elite eight final four, which just the DoPT that. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: I'll just talk about it that way, so you know
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  Speaker 2: what the heck I'm saying right now, Team USA is
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  Speaker 2: in the Sweet sixteen if they face Spain and what
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  Speaker 2: we'll call the Elite eight, just for consistency purposes, right,
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  Speaker 2: so you understand, we understand each other. If they meet
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  Speaker 2: Spain in the Elite eight, tough test, tall task right there.
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  Speaker 2: Spain out shot Austria on Thursday twenty three to five
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  Speaker 2: shots on goal. Spain had ten shots on goal. You
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  Speaker 2: know how many Austria had? Nil? Not a one zero
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  Speaker 2: gooseg gooseg for Austra. How do you not have a
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  Speaker 2: shot on goal? How? Because Spain's defense is like the
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  Speaker 2: eighty five bears over here. You know how many goals
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  Speaker 2: Spain is given up in these first four games, three
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  Speaker 2: in group play, one in the round of thirty two
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  Speaker 2: on Thursday. How many goals? How many goals would you
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  Speaker 2: guess they've given up? Got your guests in mind, good, good, good.
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  Speaker 2: That would be not a na They are giving up nothing,
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  Speaker 2: no goals. Yet that could be Team USA's opponent in
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  Speaker 2: the Elite eight. That's just something to keep in mind.
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  Speaker 2: I know that it's all yay spray man another win Tmusa,
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  Speaker 2: that Team usas due for some regression. I'm just listen,
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  Speaker 2: just take your heart out of this for a second.
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  Speaker 2: Think as a gambler, right you can't make bets based
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  Speaker 2: on your rooting interest. I know a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: are just die hards right now, or you know, like
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  Speaker 2: want to be diehards and who gaysy die hards? But
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  Speaker 2: whatever their die hards. In the moment, if you will,
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  Speaker 2: they want Team USA to win. But you can't bet
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  Speaker 2: with your heart. Okay, You've got to be a stone
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  Speaker 2: cold assassin emotionless. I do a show with a professional gambler,
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  Speaker 2: Bill Krackenberger, every Sunday, and he always says this, man.
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  Speaker 2: I swear it might be stitched in his underwear. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. He says. My allegiance is to my bankroll.
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  Speaker 2: That's what he says. So if you're thinking along those lines,
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  Speaker 2: this is probably a good time to strike again Team USA.
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  Speaker 2: I gotta be honest with you, guys. The betting interest,
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  Speaker 2: the betting public is hammering, hammering Team USA. You're gonna
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  Speaker 2: get some good value on Belgium. If you don't want
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  Speaker 2: to do this, it's fine. I mean, listen. I will
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  Speaker 2: not bet against Notre Dame football. I will not do it.
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  Speaker 2: I will bet against the Miami Dolphins. There's just more
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  Speaker 2: wiggle room, right, but the stakes are higher in college football.
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  Speaker 2: I will not bet against Notre Dame. I did that before,
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  Speaker 2: I profited handsomely. I won't do it again. I can't
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  Speaker 2: do it again in a game. I cannot do it
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  Speaker 2: in a game. Just can't. Just cannot do it. But
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  Speaker 2: you might feel that way about Team USA and soccer.
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  Speaker 2: But if you're not one of those people, you're getting
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  Speaker 2: value going the other way. And another thing to keep
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  Speaker 2: in mind is the regression factor right here. So Team
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  Speaker 2: USA has won exactly. I won't give you him how
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  Speaker 2: many games has Team USA won in its World Cup history?
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  Speaker 2: When we're talking about notknockout games, right, you get to
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  Speaker 2: what used to be the round of sixteen now it's
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  Speaker 2: the round of thirty two. How many knockout games has
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  Speaker 2: Team USA won in its men's World Cup history? Got
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  Speaker 2: your guests in mind, Like, I mean, the World Cup
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  Speaker 2: goes back a long time. They've been in the World
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  Speaker 2: Cup plenty of times. Here. How many knockout wins? That
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  Speaker 2: would be two, That would be two wins all time,
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  Speaker 2: all time. Just beat Bosnia and Herzegovina. That was their
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  Speaker 2: second knockout win. Ever, is the first World Cup knockout
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: win for Team USA in twenty four years. And you know,
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: I know everybody hates the asterisk talk, but mini asterisk,
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: many mini asterisk. We just had expansion. We're in the
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: round of thirty two right now. So this is an
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: inflated quote unquote wink wink, nudge, nudge, knockout game, right,
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: So not a decorated pass. You don't have ball again,
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: that's not great. Your best striker is out, not good.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: So there's a lot working against Team USA. I just
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: gonna be honest with you here. So you know, some
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: people can take honesty. Some people, well, you know, tweet
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: all sorts of I mean, you know, call me the
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: D word, the P word. I had someone call me
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: the R word. We're scratching off words left and right
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: right right over here, like the bingo Sheet's gonna be
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: completely filled up here pretty soon. But I just don't
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: think the odds are great of a team that's been
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: that anemic with their history, and now we're set to
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: face like top ten teams in the world. That math
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: doesn't equal move it on in my book. That's just me.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: But we'll see how it unfolds. In any event, Man,
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: the TV sets will be warm on Monday night. Huh.
• 19:51
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• 20:08
  Speaker 2: speaking of the World Cup, we will have some World
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Cup action Lionel Messi and Argentina. They're in action on Friday,
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: very much looking forward to that Messi doing his thing,
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: the race for the Golden Boot. This fantastic manager is
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: going to be heating up Austria. We've got what are
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: they Argentina against Cape Verdie. That'll be six pm Eastern
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: time in Miami, right there? All right? Fired up for
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: that three games on Friday, as well as we march
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: toward the fourth and the round of sixteen. The last
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: day of the Round of thirty two will be on
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: Friday of the World Cup. All right, we are off
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: in freaking running over here. Coming up next and feel
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: free to get in here. Melan Militia eight seven to
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: seven ninety nine on Fox. Anything you want to talk about?
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: I threw out the topic of would you sign up
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: for a championship for your favorite team if it meant
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: three straight championship for your hated bitter rival. Listen, some
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: of these some of these teams don't have bitter rivals.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: If you're a team USA men's national team, honk, how
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: would you not sign up? You wouldn't sign up for
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: them to win it all this year right here, right now,
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: for their rival to win the next three Yes, sign
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: me up. Who's their rival? They don't have one because
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: they've sucked forever. They don't even have a rival. Absolutely,
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: I would sign up for that. Yes, what's the drawback
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: if I'm a team USA? Honk now me being who
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: I am? No way get I'm not taking that. No way,
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: I couldn't. I couldn't deal with that. No, too many
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: ramplifications that a lot of people are not not seeing,
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: not seeing. All right, I'm gonna do a double teas
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: right here. They tell you don't do double teases. I'm
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: breaking run.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: Don't do it.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: I'm doing it. First. I hope that football doesn't inspire football.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: And also, Ken Lorraina admits something that is absolutely indisputably true.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: What you'll just have to wait and find out. Huh
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: yup for it?
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: I suppose, But I'm nervous.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, we'll see. We'll see. She has made
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: a claim that is absolutely false, and I want to
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: see if she can put her pride to the side,
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: look at the facts and say yes, I will concede.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: We'll see if that happens. Coming up next, I'm Brian
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  Speaker 2: let's hear from the crew over here. Lorraine in again,
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Technical producer extraordinaire. Good to be with you again, Loraina.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: I do have First off, how's your your late night going?
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Everything good? You have a.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: Good's so good? It's got my latte.
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: We just ordered a pizza, didn't we.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: Patty, Yes, we did.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: What kind of pizza?
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: Hotti's boring? He got cheese, Yeah, I'm boring.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Just cheese, just straight cheese, huh, that's it?
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, cheese, tomato, sauce. What more can you want? You know,
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: that's the simple, the vintage. What more good you want
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: is some flavor. That's what you want.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: So that's all we got. We got a cheese pizza
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: rolling on.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: And then we got garlic parmesan knots like the bread
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: bites and we got I did a I did a
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: special teeth in crust barbecue chicken bacon deliciousness.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Wow, Okay, there you go. That's that sounds a little
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: bit more like you. You know, I don't expect you to
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: be like, you know, let's get two cheese pizzas. How
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: about that?
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: I was shocked. Patty just said cheese.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: Oh a man, A simple taste sometimes sorry, five year
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: old pizza.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: Stop now. I want to know this, Lorena. I want
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: to know if you can admit something that is indisputably true.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: What are you talking about? So listen, like, we'll have
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: the who am I game in just about ten minutes, right,
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: and so I can't catch all the tweets in real time.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Inevitably I miss a couple. Shout out to my guy
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Big Lou. I missed Big Lou's tweet last night, he said,
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: Adrian Dantley shout out to the Pistons. Right there, I
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: missed his tweet. I also missed Late Night drug Testers tweet,
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: and so I looked at it later and uh so
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: this was for yesterday's show. He just guessed you are
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Margot Robbie, who is thirty six today?
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: I do love Margo Robbie.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: Can you admit, Lorena that Margot Robbie is indisputably more
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: beautiful than your girl Anne Hathaway?
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: Gotcha? Oh, no, don't know?
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: What do you mean? No? M M, what do you mean?
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: I mean?
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: I love Margot Robbie, But when you're looking at the
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: total picture package like we were talking about with Anne Hathaway,
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: Margot Robbie has some really good movies under her belt,
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: but Anne Hathaway has been around forever. You know what
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: I'm saying.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: I don't know what you're saying. No, I do not
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: know what you were saying. I object to what you
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: were saying. I disagree with what you were saying. Like
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Margot Robbie.
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: Is no question she is more beautiful than she's and
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: she's naturally beautiful.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: I feel how much work has it Margot Robbie had done?
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: Who cares? It's well worth it whatever's been done? I
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: don't know.
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: But if we're talking about natural beauty and women and aging,
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: I think Anne Hathaway still takes the cake.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: She is.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: You are stubborn to a fault. I can't believe you, man,
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: you are stubborn.
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: I'm a writer. Die though you know what I'm saying.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: What is I don't know because there's so much to
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: pick from. I don't know what the pea cottoness of
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Margot Robbie has been. Is it Wolf of Wall Street?
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: Could be? I don't know if anything out.
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: There Marcot Robbie is reportedly naturally beautiful.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: Well, there you go. And she's a metal fan by
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: the way, she loves Slipknot. She does love metal, a
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: big Slipknot fan loves Corey Taylor saw random video for Twain.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: I couldn't answer that. I don't know. I'm not sure.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Maybe there's possibility she does. But uh, Anne Hathaway question
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: because I want harp on this. We've been on Ann
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: for quite a bit here, but what's her It's only
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: been like three months?
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: Okay, it's not that bad.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't fill in every for three months. You know,
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: what's Anne Hathaway's peak hotness?
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: If there is such a thing, ah, peak hotness in
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: a movie?
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like, assume that she's hot at one stage and
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: what was the peak of that?
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: I really liked her and Catwoman.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: I thought that was a really good thing.
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: But uh, ella enchanted love her in that movie? Okay,
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: So I wouldn't call her like hot like sexy in
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: that movie. She just is really like all around pretty
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: in that movie.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: Not quite hot or sex.
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: She's a princess.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: M hm hmm. Interesting. All right, So.
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: Lauren, I'll send you all my favorite Anne Hathaway moments.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Okay, sounds good. We've learned that Lorena is stubborn to
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: a fault. We have learned that in these late night
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: hours here that happens. Duh. We have our shortcomings in life.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: It's okay. You know, if the truth is staring me
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: in the face, I gotta take the L. I gotta
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: be honest with you guys, and listen. If I don't
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: perceive it to be an L, I'll keep our arguing.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: I'll keep arguing, baby, but if I see it's an L,
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: I gotta take the yell. Yeah. Example, I love Notre
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: Dame football like crazy. Notre Dame lost to Miami head
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: to head. The last playoff spot was between Notre Dame
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: and Miami. I know what the truth is. It's gotta
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: be the Canes, all right. I would love to argue
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: the other way, but that's just not the truth. Head
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: to head has the matter you know. So if the
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: truth staring me in the face, I will take the
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: yell Lorena, not the case, not me, not the have
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: we got Patty Sweek, our trusted producer here in the
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: late night hours, Patty, howur things? Everything? Bring me up
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: to speed? What's going on in your life? Anything I
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: need to be aware of over here? Uh?
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: Nothing except for the Lakers might be bad.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: Oh kid, gotta hear. The Lakers are stuck and you're
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: this rosterry just for the next seven years. I don't
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: have any first round picks, so this is your roster.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: Maybe better if it works.
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: It's snow time. It's snow time, come on.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: Huh. Yeah, you know. I've got a theory for you, Patty,
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: and it's not with the Purple and Gold. I have
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: a theory for you as far as subway goes. We
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: were just talking about subway subs off the air a
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: minute ago. Here's my theory, Okay. I think that any
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: subway that is attached to a gas station, the quality
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: goes down at least by fifty percent. I did I
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: did a U turn the other day. I was driving
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: around part of town I'm not familiar with. I'm like, oh,
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: subway yeah, that sounds good. I pulled in. I'm like,
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: connected to a gas station. I'm out I about the
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: immedia turn. Do you agree with that.
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: Theory Yetnam, I'm personally I'm going to agree with that theory.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna agree with that.
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: I feel like subway in general, if I see one,
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: I'm not going to go there.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: Jimmy Johns. Yes, wait, wait, wait, but my theory is
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: attached to a gas station.
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, I hear you, But I just feel like
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: subway in general already lacked in the quality.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: Wow, so you're you're down to begin with. Yeah, it's
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: not necessarily like, not almost down.
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: I was on a jog today with my daughter and
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: I was like, you know, if that was a Jimmy Johns,
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: i'd go there. But it's a subway, so I won't
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: literally exactly what I said.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: Okay, by the way, while you're here, James Martin, totally wrong,
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: says Anne Hathaway over Margo.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: See.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: How how many blind listeners do we have? I didn't know,
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: James Martin is, we do have a lot of blind listeners.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: But and shout out, I love it. I love blind
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: Scott's awesome and it is awesome. I love our blind listeners, fantastic.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: I didn't know James Martin was one of them.
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: You have bad taste in women, apparently, Man.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: Man, I don't get it. I don't understand over it.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: By the way I did mention this, I'll pay this
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: off real fast before the Who Am I? Game. I
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: don't want football to inspire football. What I mean by
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: that is, look at this playoff expansion that we have
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: here on the table in college football, and look at
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: what's going on with the World Cup. The World Cup
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: expanded from thirty two countries to forty eight, and there
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: was a lot of talk like, oh gosh, what do
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: they do and they're just watering it down some money grab.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: I was one of those people saying those same things,
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: and I gotta be honest with you. It's been great.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: It's been great this year and a lot of excitement,
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: a lot of nations, a lot of stories like, hey,
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: this team won a knockout game. Never done that before.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Bosnia and Herzegovina had never played a knockout game before.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: That was their first go and Temusa they win a
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: knockout game the second time in their non illustrious history.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: This is second one they won, ever, so there's a
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: lot of excitement with that. I think it's been great.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: I think there are far more positives than negatives. With
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: the World Cup expanding from thirty two to forty eight countries,
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: now this is where I take a hard left turn.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: I don't want that to happen in college football. It's
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: not the same thing. College football, the regular season means
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: more than any other regular season in this country. I
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: can't speak to other countries. I don't know they're setup,
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: but in this country there's no regular season that matters
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: as much as college football. The stakes are high. Even
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: with the playoff field being expanded from four to twelve teams,
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: now that we're at twelve, we've been that way for
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: a couple of years, handful of years. The regular season
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: still matters. I think they've found. I think twelve is
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: a good number where that you know, it doesn't water
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: down the regular season greatly. You do get a little
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: bit more wiggle room aka Alabama this last season. Right,
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: you can't get smacked and the doors blown off you
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: by Florida State, who's terrible. Right, you can go to
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: your SEC title game and get freaking throttled by Georgia
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: and it's all good. You can bear beat Auburn who's
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: five and seven, and it's yeah, you get a playoff Berth.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: It's fine, right, So you got a lot, you got
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: a lot of wiggle room, but not to the point
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: where game after game after game after game just doesn't matter.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: The regular season still matters a lot. And I'm fine
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: with the twelve team playoff field. They're talking about expanding
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: this thing to twenty four. They're talking about doubling the
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: size of the field. I don't want any part of that.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: No thank you. This last year, there would have been
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: eight teams to get into a playoff field of twenty
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: four squads. There would been eight teams that were ranked
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: right that that lost at least three games. There was
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: one team that lost four games. I think it was
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: Iowa lost four games. They were ranked at the bottom
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: of the top twenty four. That'd be a playoff team.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: You can lose four games and get in. You can
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: lose three games and get in there. No thank you,
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: I want no part of that. So I hope that
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: these college football you know, commissioners and all these these
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: guys making the decisions and all that they are ready
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: the Big Ten's like ooh twenty four. Oh yeah, yeah,
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: twenty four? What was it? The old skit is like
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: a orgasm, boy, remember on Saturday Night Live. That's how
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: they oh oh twenty four. That's how they feel about
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: it right now. I guarantee there, that's right. I guarantee
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: there's someone that's like, hey, you guys checking out the
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: World Cup at all? See how playoff expansion work for
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: them without really playoff expansions, just expansion. See how expansion
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: work for that. If it worked for them, why can't
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: it work for us?
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: Huh?
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: Works good for FIFA? Why is it not good for
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: the CFP? So I hope they're not thinking like that
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: because it's just not the same thing. Man. I think
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: the regular season in college football would be so watered
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: down where it's just like wake me when the playoffs begin.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: There are a lot of teams that they've been in
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: the top twenty four over the last twenty five years,
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: almost every single year, Bama, Ohio State teams like that.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: It would just be like, yeah, wake me when the
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: playoff rolls around. That's not college football, man. The regular
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: season has meant so much. The stakes have been so high.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: You would water it down so much. It's just not
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: the same as the World Cup field. It worked for
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: the World Cup, I think it's worked great. I don't
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: think it would work at all for college football. I
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: would hate it. I'll tell you right now. As much
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: as I love love college football, if they expand that
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: to twenty four teams, a lot of my love would
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: just go away. These regular season games, a lot of them,
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: I'd just be like, Yeah, it doesn't even really matter
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  Speaker 2: who wins or loses this one. They're both gonna get
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  Speaker 2: into the playoff. Who cares. I don't win college football
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  Speaker 2: to turn into that not a fan. So I'm hoping
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  Speaker 2: that expansion does not come to college football to the
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  Speaker 2: tune of twenty four teams. If you expanded it to sixteen,
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  Speaker 2: I can deal with it. I like twelve the most.
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  Speaker 2: I think twelve is a good number. It's like a seesaw,
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  Speaker 2: right picture, like a seesaw. Teeter Totter, if you ever
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  Speaker 2: said that, I go seesaw. But you know, I think
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  Speaker 2: the regular season and the playoffs are kind of like
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  Speaker 2: a seesaw in terms of the importance. The importance of
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  Speaker 2: the playoff it matters a ton, But with twelve teams.
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  Speaker 2: The regular season still matters a lot like we're It's
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  Speaker 2: slanted toward the playoff in terms of meaning, right, but
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  Speaker 2: not to the point where it just it takes down
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  Speaker 2: the regular season to the ground. If it jumps up
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  Speaker 2: to twenty four. I think that's exactly what it does.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to see that day all right, Time
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  Speaker 2: for the Who Am I? Game? Are you ready? Are
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  Speaker 2: you prepared? You have your uh, you got your brain
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  Speaker 2: and working order over here you go? Here you go.
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  Speaker 2: So Jalen Brown, our guy has been in the news
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  Speaker 2: quite a bit, got traded from the Celtics to the
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  Speaker 2: seventy six ers. Jalen Brown, who he was selected with
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  Speaker 2: the number three overall pick in the twenty twenty six
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  Speaker 2: NBA draft. I am the guy who is selected one
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  Speaker 2: pick ahead of Huland Brown. And by the way, a
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: little hint, I also just got traded. Who am I Who?
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  Speaker 2: We're looking for the man drafted just ahead of mister
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  Speaker 2: Jalen Brown. Get your tweets on in here at the
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• 38:17
  Speaker 2: who Am I? Game? So Jalen Brown, He's been in
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: the news quite a bit. Jalen Brown just got traded
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: from the Celtics to the Sixers. He was the number
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: three overall pick in the twenty twenty six NBA draft.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: I am the guy who was selected one spot ahead
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  Speaker 2: of Jalen Brown, and I also just got traded. Who
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  Speaker 2: am I? We go to the X machine Right here
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  Speaker 2: at the no Show, Sean g checks in Clippers legend beanoit,
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  Speaker 2: Benjamin Josh says, Josh got it right. Bad job by Josh.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: What is Josh doing over here? Josh went into detail
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  Speaker 2: getting it right. He was all over it. Donkey Sausage says,
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  Speaker 2: Dick blood and there's a little there's a little write
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  Speaker 2: I took a screenshot. I gotta read up on that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what's going on with it, Eileen said
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  Speaker 2: Quentin Daily, old Sonics player. Right there, late night drug tester,
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  Speaker 2: shout out, you are Olivia Munn, who is forty six today.
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  Speaker 2: And he didn't say it, but hotter than Anne Hathaway,
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  Speaker 2: also hotter than Anne Hathaway lies just the truth right here.
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  Speaker 2: Monkey biz Doug says, God, Sham God, Big Lou shout
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  Speaker 2: out to Big LOUI he goes, Joe Hamilton is what
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  Speaker 2: he says. Let's see we got anybody else, We got
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  Speaker 2: anybody else? Let me see, quick check, quick check, quick scroll? Um,
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  Speaker 2: all right, we got a random laker love. I have
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  Speaker 2: a good guess. Well, okay, what's your guess, Hugh Jackman?
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  Speaker 2: Pretty good guests, pretty good guess who? The official answer
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  Speaker 2: b I brandon Ingram going the Lakers number two overall,
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  Speaker 2: just got traded. Can't remember. I've topped my head where
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  Speaker 2: we'll have details for you on that next