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Wicked Radio 2-7: The Super Bowl Weekend Special! · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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  Speaker 1: Oh, it's the Super Sunday super Bowl Wicked Radio special
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  Speaker 1: on a Friday, and you're thinking super Bowl. Why you're
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  Speaker 1: talking so much sports? That's not news, that's not topical.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on, my friends. As I said yesterday, yes, it
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  Speaker 1: is a couple of different reasons why this is the
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl Special for today's live stream at Podcast Number one,
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  Speaker 1: I think we all need a little break from some
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  Speaker 1: of the intense stuff that happened this week. It was
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  Speaker 1: good stuff, it was awesome, but it was pretty heavy
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  Speaker 1: in the news cycle, right. And secondly, it is news.
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  Speaker 1: What's my mission here, whatever's going on, whatever the world
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  Speaker 1: throws at us in the headlines, I bring it to you,
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  Speaker 1: break it down from the common man's perspective, common sense
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  Speaker 1: for the common man and woman, and talk about what
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  Speaker 1: it means to all of us. And there is no
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  Speaker 1: bigger news story that'll happen this weekend, I hope, unless
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  Speaker 1: something bad happens then the super Bowl it is the
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  Speaker 1: largest spectacle in the world. Not only that, it is
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  Speaker 1: the American spectacle. Even if you're not into the sport
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  Speaker 1: of football, if you're still mad at the NFL, this
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  Speaker 1: isn't your thing. You don't even like to watch it
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  Speaker 1: too much. It's still somehow, some way gonna consume your
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  Speaker 1: life because somebody's gonna be talking about it, or you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be at a party. I'm gonna prep you for
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  Speaker 1: all of the stuff that's happening. And if you're more
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  Speaker 1: interested in the topical, newsy kind of angle of this thing,
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  Speaker 1: we're also gonna get into this. Here's a different vibe
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  Speaker 1: and a different tone for the super Bowl that you
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  Speaker 1: can feel and hear and sense already. In short, it's
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  Speaker 1: cool to be patriotic again, and you're already hearing that
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  Speaker 1: at the super Bowl. We'll get into that as well
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  Speaker 1: as well as some fun prop bets to talk about
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  Speaker 1: all the particulars, the nuts and bolts of this game
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  Speaker 1: so that you know what you're talking about and you're
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  Speaker 1: fully ready to go when you show up at your
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  Speaker 1: super Bowl party or host somebody. And we're gonna go
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  Speaker 1: over some food ideas too. That's right. We can't get
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  Speaker 1: any fluffier than this. But let's kick it all off.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, this never changed. Thanks for finding Wicked Radio.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate you as always, even though it's the super Bowl Special.
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  Speaker 1: The audio podcast always available wherever you choose to get
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  Speaker 1: the algorithm is with me, you'll find it right there,
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of you have, so I appreciate that
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  Speaker 1: as always, just a thank you from me to you
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  Speaker 1: for the downloads and shares and all that good stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and always alike and a follow here on social media
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  Speaker 1: on X Facebook, it's on YouTube as well. All that said,
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  Speaker 1: let's get going talking about the game again, not x's
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  Speaker 1: and o's, the event, the American event and what it
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  Speaker 1: means to all of us, because we really should. Even
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  Speaker 1: if you don't like football and you're still mad at
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  Speaker 1: the NFL for kneeling, you should take this opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: enjoy it because it really is a great time to
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  Speaker 1: get together with friends and just enjoy what's going on.
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  Speaker 1: Even if you don't have a betting interest or a
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  Speaker 1: rooting interest in these two teams or this event or
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  Speaker 1: this game is he can still make it fun and here.
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  Speaker 1: So first of all the nuts and bolts, it's Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl fifty nine between the world champion Kansas City Chiefs
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  Speaker 1: and the Philadelphia Eagles. Actually, I rematch him a couple
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  Speaker 1: of years ago. It's, of course, this Sunday in New
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  Speaker 1: Orleans in the formerly named Superdome. I think it's Caesar
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  Speaker 1: super Dome. Now, I don't know. Six point thirty alleged
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  Speaker 1: star time on Fox, but it's always way after that
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  Speaker 1: because of all the crap and the hooplain all this
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  Speaker 1: other stuff, and you know you gotta watch to see
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  Speaker 1: which commercial is the first after kickoff. It's on Fox
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  Speaker 1: this year, the Fox broadcast. Why do I bring this up? Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's where you need to find it. But also this
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  Speaker 1: who's the Who's the number one guy in the Fox
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  Speaker 1: NFL broadcast this year that they just brought on one?
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  Speaker 1: Tom Brady the greatest of all time? If I show
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  Speaker 1: my bias, But also how about this I said it
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  Speaker 1: since this is his first broadcast of a Super Bowl,
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  Speaker 1: but he goes back to the site where he won
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  Speaker 1: his first one February third, two thousand and two. That's right,
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  Speaker 1: it was on my birthday too, as it was Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl thirty six, the same location in New Orleans. Things
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  Speaker 1: come full circle. I'm telling you all right. The national
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  Speaker 1: anthem will be sung by John Batiste. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: a damn thing about John Batiste, but he's the guy
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  Speaker 1: that's gonna sing the anthem. Some of the prop bets
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  Speaker 1: you'll see probably at your super Bowl party are how
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  Speaker 1: long it goes, the pause, the cheers, whatever like that.
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  Speaker 1: The halftime show is brought to you by Kendrick Lamar
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  Speaker 1: featuring Sissa. Sissa couldn't tell you too much about them either,
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  Speaker 1: but you've heard me rant and rave about actually more
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  Speaker 1: of a rant this week about can we have some rock,
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  Speaker 1: some semblems of rock and roll back in a super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl halftime show please at some point somewhere. But as
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  Speaker 1: we saw in the Grammys, they're trying to kill off
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  Speaker 1: rock and roll, so I wouldn't expect it anytime soon.
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  Speaker 1: This is fascinating to me. It's only gone up and
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  Speaker 1: up and up the cost of a thirty second Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl ad. You know what Fox is charging for these advertisers.
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  Speaker 1: And this is why they released so many of these
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  Speaker 1: super Bowl commercials early this week that you saw and
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  Speaker 1: heard about already, like that cors Light one with the
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  Speaker 1: which is awesome about Monday morning. They want to get
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  Speaker 1: their bank for their buck, and I would too if
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  Speaker 1: I paid seven point five million dollars for a thirty
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  Speaker 1: second spot woo massive. Along with the cultural thing and
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  Speaker 1: obviously the NFL being really the new national pastime, it's
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  Speaker 1: a massive marketing vehicle for so many companies and brands
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  Speaker 1: that we all know of in our lives too. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of brands launched during the Super Bowl. Some of
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  Speaker 1: those famous Super Bowl commercials have happened during this event,
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  Speaker 1: so that's why we're talking about it. It's kind of
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  Speaker 1: all encompassing. If you're just alive, awake and breathing even again,
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  Speaker 1: even if you're not into this game or this sport,
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  Speaker 1: it'll affect you some way somehow. But if you're not
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  Speaker 1: really that interested, you want to spice things up a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, you might want to put some money on
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  Speaker 1: the line, huh, because you can do that now legal gambling, right,
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  Speaker 1: and of course illegal gambling which has always happened. How
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  Speaker 1: much money do you think is going to be spent
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  Speaker 1: on this year's Super Bowl a couple of days away?
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  Speaker 1: How much money is going to be on the line
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  Speaker 1: legally so far, not even counting the illegal betting with
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  Speaker 1: Louis the leg breaker down the street in the alley,
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  Speaker 1: or whoever your favorite bookie is, or just a house party.
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  Speaker 1: According to our friends from the American Gaming Association. You
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  Speaker 1: ready for this, A record one point three nine billion
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  Speaker 1: dollars are gonna be spent on legal gambling on this
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  Speaker 1: game alone. And that's a conservative estimate too. A record
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  Speaker 1: one point three to nine billion dollars will be spent
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  Speaker 1: on this which is another interesting angle. So in this
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  Speaker 1: game with all that money on the line, because let's
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  Speaker 1: face it, the NFL, along with all the other sports
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  Speaker 1: they are vested, they are partners now with these online
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  Speaker 1: gambling sites and these fan dual things and the sports books.
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  Speaker 1: There can be no question of questionable calls. If there is,
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  Speaker 1: they have, they already have a major credibility problem on
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  Speaker 1: their hands. Is already that narrative out there that chiefs
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  Speaker 1: get all the calls? Right, that's already out that you
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  Speaker 1: heard it. We talked about it a little on thee livestream.
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  Speaker 1: They're in some serious trouble with that much money on
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  Speaker 1: the line. And if there's a questionable call that affects
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  Speaker 1: this game, let's hope it doesn't get to that, but
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  Speaker 1: it shouldn't have got to this point already. There should
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  Speaker 1: be no question. That is death for a league if
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  Speaker 1: they have any question about their credibility, so let's hope
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't. But some fun bets there aren't really worth
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  Speaker 1: too much unless you put some of your own money
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  Speaker 1: on it at your own house. Party prop bets time,
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  Speaker 1: you're ready for this. If you're kind of like struggling,
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  Speaker 1: you never hosted a Super Bowl party before, you really
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  Speaker 1: don't know how to entertain yourself through this, because maybe
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  Speaker 1: you're even somebody that hates both these teams, you hate
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  Speaker 1: the event, whatever, but you still want to have fun.
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  Speaker 1: Find a little list of some prop bets you might
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  Speaker 1: want to entertain yourself with well, along with the probability
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  Speaker 1: of these things happening, and it are just ideas, okay,
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  Speaker 1: just ideas to add some excitement maybe to this game.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the first one you can bet on for fun.
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  Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey proposing to Taylor Swift after the game? What's
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  Speaker 1: the probability of that happening? And this is crazy. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know exactly how they came up with this, but
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  Speaker 1: this is what's listed. Sixteen point seven percent probability of
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  Speaker 1: that happening. Personally, I think it's lower, but there you go.
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  Speaker 1: Bet as you will. A coach or player will cry
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  Speaker 1: during the national anthem, let me give us some insight.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen every Super Bowl, even the ones that happened
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  Speaker 1: before I was born. I've seen him on replay. Somebody
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  Speaker 1: always cries, that's a good bet. Don't take gambling advice
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  Speaker 1: from me. I'm just telling you it's a good bet.
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  Speaker 1: There's an eighty one point one percent chance of that happening.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody always cries, it's a good one to take. A
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  Speaker 1: quarterback catches a pass. This has happened before with a
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  Speaker 1: trick play the Philly Special, but doesn't happen a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Only a five point nine percent chance of that happening.
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  Speaker 1: This is always a fun. One color of the gator
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  Speaker 1: Rade poured on the winning coach. Now you'd have to
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  Speaker 1: stick around for the entire game for that one. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: Purple has the best odds if you want to make
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  Speaker 1: a choice, Purple thirty two point three percent. MVP mentioned first.
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  Speaker 1: God or Jesus is the favorite at fifty one. Teammates
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  Speaker 1: are second. Hum We mentioned Kendrick Lamar halftime show. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know a lot about him, but the chance that
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  Speaker 1: he mentions Drake during the halftime show, which my daughter
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  Speaker 1: tells me he has before in a disk track didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: It's twenty five percent chance of that happening. I bet
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  Speaker 1: it's higher, Like if even I'm aware of this and
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who the hell this guy is, really,
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  Speaker 1: it's probably a higher chance that that's going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: He's gonna mention Drake first celebrity cameo. Now you know
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  Speaker 1: who's going to be there for sure, not just Trump.
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  Speaker 1: Taylor Swift is going to be there. She's of course
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  Speaker 1: the favorite because she's now involved and she's like tied
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  Speaker 1: at the hip. We talked about her with Travis Kelcey
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  Speaker 1: thirty three point three percent probability, Peyton Manning second at
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  Speaker 1: twenty five percent. If you want to lay some odds
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  Speaker 1: on that. What team will Jason Kelsey represent? Now, this
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  Speaker 1: is the brother of Travis Kelcey, who's on the Chiefs.
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  Speaker 1: Jason played for the Eagles. Okay, longtime player. He's I
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  Speaker 1: think guys already said he's loyal to the Eagles, So
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  Speaker 1: I think that's the one to go with. There's a
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  Speaker 1: fifty nine percent likely chance he's gonna be wearing Eagle green. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: all right, just some fun. Don't ever take legaling or
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  Speaker 1: financial advice from me. I'm just a radio idiot. But
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  Speaker 1: just to spice up your super Bowl party, there's some
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  Speaker 1: prop bets for you, all right. I told you there'd
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  Speaker 1: be some. We're gonna get to. I mentioned Trump there
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  Speaker 1: in a second. It's gonna get a little heavier here
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  Speaker 1: in a second. But first of all, you also may
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  Speaker 1: need some ideas on food for your party this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Here's what are what is the rest of the country
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  Speaker 1: going for for the Super Bowl party? Are you ready?
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  Speaker 1: These are the number one Super Bowl foods in all
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  Speaker 1: fifty states. Number one, which has been number one for
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  Speaker 1: several years now, but it toppled the previous number one
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  Speaker 1: in a big way. Buffalo wings. Wings are perfect. It's
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  Speaker 1: the perfect super Bowl food because you can pick and move.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody seemed to like him. You can vary up the flavors.
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  Speaker 1: Buffalo wings number one and thirty one states, almost everywhere
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  Speaker 1: east of the Mississippi. Well, what the heck is going
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  Speaker 1: on west of the Mississippi that they don't like buffalo wings?
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  Speaker 1: That's what I'd like to know. Chips easy in seven states,
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  Speaker 1: Number one, but number one, like the number one food
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  Speaker 1: you look for? Chips really okay? Nachos in five states
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  Speaker 1: number one, Colorado, Maine, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin now
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  Speaker 1: number four. Number one Super Bowl food is pizza. This
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  Speaker 1: traditionally for years before this, before I'd say a couple
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  Speaker 1: of years ago, was always number one. Because of delivery
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  Speaker 1: services for pizza, pizza has fallen down to number five
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  Speaker 1: for the number one favorite food apparently, but still always
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  Speaker 1: a favorite. Cheese boards, you know, charcuterie charcuterie, and loaded
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  Speaker 1: potato skins. Those are number one in Hawaii. Don't know
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  Speaker 1: how that happened, Absolutely no id, but load of potato
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  Speaker 1: skins are fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: They also ranked dips, by the way, Big Dip Guy
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  Speaker 1: most popular Super Bowl tips here, the dips here, the
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  Speaker 1: top five kso Buffalo chicken dips, seven layer ranch dip
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  Speaker 1: in guacamole. You can't go wrong with any of those dips.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just telling you right now. All right, let's get serious,
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  Speaker 1: not really, because we're talking about the fluffiest thing of
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  Speaker 1: all time. But you also know this, here's the tone
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  Speaker 1: in the vibe of this year's Super Bowl. I was
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  Speaker 1: talking about a little bit different this year. You could
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  Speaker 1: sense it. We had a couple of stories during the
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  Speaker 1: live stream of the pod this week talking about this
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  Speaker 1: very same thing. And they have big media day where
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  Speaker 1: they talked to all the players and they ask them
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  Speaker 1: different things, and this is all kind of tied into
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  Speaker 1: the same thing. So President Trump announced that he is
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  Speaker 1: going to be at the game, I mean, not just
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  Speaker 1: an appearance, said he's going to be there. The guy
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  Speaker 1: we know is a big football fan. He's already said
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  Speaker 1: he's a big fan of a home homes. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he can't really pick a side on that he would
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  Speaker 1: sway things. But he's gonna sit there and actually be
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  Speaker 1: involved as a spectator watching the game, which I think
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  Speaker 1: is interesting. Other presidents, I think there have been like
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  Speaker 1: five before, have showed up at games, but then they
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  Speaker 1: kind of disappear. And I would bet you Trump is
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  Speaker 1: gonna sit there actively involved in this game, and they
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  Speaker 1: will show him a few times. And I'm interested to
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  Speaker 1: hear what the crowd in New Orleans at the Superdome,
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  Speaker 1: how they're going to respond to him. Well now that
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  Speaker 1: he's there, and he's made some comments about these teams before,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought this is interesting. And this ties into
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  Speaker 1: the different tone and the different vibe this year I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking about. And what's that vibe. You can just feel it,
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  Speaker 1: you can see it, you can sense it. It's cool
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  Speaker 1: to be patriotic again. It's like, it's cool. It's cool
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  Speaker 1: to say you're into it and you're honored. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: speaking of honor, listen to this response. So they talked
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  Speaker 1: to it media deity other day. They talked to Travis
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  Speaker 1: Kelcey and they asked him just his reaction. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know who asked it about his you know, thoughts of
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  Speaker 1: Trump being at the game. Really like what he said.
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  Speaker 1: I really like what he said, and speaking of honor,
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  Speaker 1: listen to this response. But it's a great honor I think,
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  Speaker 1: you know, no matter who the president is, I know
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited because it's the biggest game of my life,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And having the question, are you it's the
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  Speaker 1: best country in the world, best country in the world,
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  Speaker 1: and it's an honor. Well, let me ask you this.
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  Speaker 1: I asked this yesterday on the live stream and I'll
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  Speaker 1: ask it again. If you didn't hear it, just in
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  Speaker 1: your opinion, it's a hypothetical. If this was last year,
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  Speaker 1: same guy, Travis Kelcey, he was still with Taylor Swift
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  Speaker 1: at the time. If you had heard Trump was there,
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  Speaker 1: does he give that same response, I say, no, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think so. I don't even think he's saying honor.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think he's saying greatest country in the world.
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  Speaker 1: Here's what changed. It's cool now, patriotism is spreading. It's
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  Speaker 1: a different vibe, guys. I'm telling you it's it's cool
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  Speaker 1: for he's probably the highest profile player now he really is.
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  Speaker 1: For him to say it's an honor for a current
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  Speaker 1: president to be there and this is the greatest country
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  Speaker 1: in the world, that's a big shift and it's pretty amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Also knowing that, by the way, Trump has not exactly
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  Speaker 1: been on nice terms with Taylor Swift in the media
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  Speaker 1: and social media and comments he's made in back and forth, right,
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  Speaker 1: so for him to say that he actually means something.
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  Speaker 1: I also asked Patrick Mahomes about the Trump's apparently very
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  Speaker 1: nice comments about Patrick Mahomes. I antally he said something
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  Speaker 1: last week about something they got that number fifteen is
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  Speaker 1: a winner. Reminds me of when I was playing ball.
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  Speaker 1: He's incredible, all right, he didn't say that I made
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  Speaker 1: that up, but still, Patrick Mahomes also had a nice
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  Speaker 1: comment response. He's very good in the media, so this
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't surprise you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's it's always cool to be able
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  Speaker 2: to play in front of a sitting president, someone that
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  Speaker 2: is at the top position in our country. And so
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  Speaker 2: I didn't see that clip, but obviously it's cool to
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  Speaker 2: hear that he's seen me play football and respects to
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  Speaker 2: the game that I play.
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  Speaker 1: It's good response. He's good at that. Nice response. Too.
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  Speaker 1: Good for Patrick Mahomes, very good. You know, same thing.
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  Speaker 1: Just there were years pass when you talk about a
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  Speaker 1: president that maybe maybe wasn't as controversial as Trump, people
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  Speaker 1: would have said no comment, you know, they would have
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  Speaker 1: just left it, telling you there's a different vibe in
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  Speaker 1: this and it's it's cool to be patriotic again. And
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the stuff that we were kind of
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  Speaker 1: dealt with before. You know, the NFL has had its
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  Speaker 1: controversy with the kneeling and that there was a lot
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  Speaker 1: of Black Lives Matter signage. But here's another thing that's different.
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  Speaker 1: So Roger Goodell and this is how they do things.
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  Speaker 1: I have followed this league for so long. I know
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  Speaker 1: how they operate. I know how the NFL speaks. With
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  Speaker 1: all this comment and all this talk about DEI recently
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  Speaker 1: and all these companies and organizations and certainly the government
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  Speaker 1: getting ready of the DEI stuff, right, especially with Doge
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  Speaker 1: being involved. During media Day, they asked Roger Goodell, the
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  Speaker 1: commissioner of the NFL, if you're gonna get of DEI. Well,
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  Speaker 1: he couldn't come out and say that because it just
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  Speaker 1: would have been it would have been a disaster for
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  Speaker 1: the guy to do it. But this is how they work.
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  Speaker 1: This is how the NFL works. They won't come out
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  Speaker 1: and say they're getting rid of their diversity, equity and
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  Speaker 1: inclusion programs and their signage and their messaging and their narratives.
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  Speaker 1: But they do it subtly. It's kind of like with
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  Speaker 1: the kneeling that controversy went away when they stopped putting
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  Speaker 1: the camera on the kneeling players. All of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: they just went away. They didn't make an announcement, they
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  Speaker 1: just did it, and things got better and ratings went
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  Speaker 1: back up. Here's what they are doing. Here's what you're
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  Speaker 1: not going to see. And if you're a big football fan,
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  Speaker 1: you see this all the time. I'm so used to
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  Speaker 1: seeing it. It's it's just commonplace in the end zone.
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  Speaker 1: They would have always have for the past couple of
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  Speaker 1: years have an end racism kind of like a message
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  Speaker 1: spray painted into the end zone. They're getting rid of that.
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  Speaker 1: This year, end racism won't be there. None of the
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  Speaker 1: political social justice agendas will be seen or heard. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: on the helmets, maybe on the personal players. Maybe they'll
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  Speaker 1: write something on their risk cards, but not from the league.
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  Speaker 1: And that's another thing that's changing. So no official policy change,
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  Speaker 1: but they are because everything's changing. Just make it back
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  Speaker 1: to sports, in football and fun in this American cultural
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: iconic thing that we all just want to have fun.
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  Speaker 1: It's a different game. It's going to be fun, all right.
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  Speaker 1: See I told you we get into some stuff. That's
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: the Sunday Super Bowl special on a Friday morning. Just
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: enjoy it, right, have a takeaway, enjoy your friends and
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: family along this or even if you just watch it alone.
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  Speaker 1: Just enjoy this thing for what it is, because I'm
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: telling you you can't escape it. It's too big of
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  Speaker 1: a media monopoly. It's going to affect your life somehow.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe that's some ways that you can enjoy it.
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  Speaker 1: So thanks for hanging out with me. As always, you
• 18:52
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• 18:55
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• 18:58
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• 19:01
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• 19:06
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• 19:08
  Speaker 1: all that said, enjoy the game. I'm sure we're gonna
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: have a lot to talk about on Monday. But that said, enjoy.
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  Speaker 1: I'll talk to you about it.