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  Speaker 1: We're nearing the end of this tournament. Yeah, just a
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  Speaker 1: few more days, a couple more games. They have a
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  Speaker 1: third place game. You know that they have a third
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  Speaker 1: place game in the World Cup. Yeah, they do. That's lame. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the noise on the streets now and the here, here
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  Speaker 1: and now from FIFA. They are considering expanding the upcoming
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  Speaker 1: twenty thirty World Cup to sixty four teams. And why
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  Speaker 1: are they doing it? Well, TV, that's why they're doing it.
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  Speaker 1: So if you didn't see this, perhaps you missed it
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend. Now, this current World Cup is already expanded.
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  Speaker 1: It's forty eight teams right now. The World Cup that
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  Speaker 1: we have, that's bigger than it has been. The president
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  Speaker 1: of FIFA, Gianni Infantino, he indicated that the further expansion
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  Speaker 1: the sixty four teams in twenty thirty will be that
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  Speaker 1: will be the anniversary. It's gonna be examined, and that
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  Speaker 1: means they're going to do it. They'll just spend a
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  Speaker 1: lot of money on blue ribbon panels. That's how that works.
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  Speaker 1: Not my first rodeo. They'll just say, well, we brought
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  Speaker 1: them some great advisors and they say that this is
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  Speaker 1: what the sports needs. Okay, So the twenty thirty tournament
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  Speaker 1: is already going to be played across six countries Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay, Morocco,
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  Speaker 1: Portugal and Spain. That'll be the one hundredth anniversary of
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  Speaker 1: the World Cup. We love round numbers. Nobody cares about
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  Speaker 1: number ninety nine or one oh one. It's all about
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  Speaker 1: one hundred. We love the round numbers. Now, the sixty
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  Speaker 1: four team format in that scenario, the way it's being
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  Speaker 1: pitched is they would allow Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay each
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  Speaker 1: host to have a full group instead of just one
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  Speaker 1: ceremonial match, as was the plan prior to this latest development.
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  Speaker 1: Wink wink, nod, nod. So that is a good jumping
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  Speaker 1: off point. Let us discuss the question FIFA considering expanding
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  Speaker 1: the World Cup to sixty four countries. Where does this
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  Speaker 1: road lead? All Right, So it's cute. We're gonna put
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  Speaker 1: all these together and we'll have some fun here. We've
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  Speaker 1: got Coachella, Superman's Cape and Tug of War and we'll
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  Speaker 1: play matchmaker because it's World Cup, matching teams and all that.
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  Speaker 1: So so number one, number one, number one, number one.
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  Speaker 1: So this is the stop. This is the classic FIFA take.
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  Speaker 1: All right, you get some filemon, I have very expensive
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  Speaker 1: for lemion, you have exclusivity, you have less is more,
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  Speaker 1: you have everything perfect. You take that filemon and you
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  Speaker 1: put that in a meat grinder and you grind that
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  Speaker 1: into and all you can eat buffet of mediocrity, and
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  Speaker 1: you sell it as premium. That's all you gotta do.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. Just sell it as premium. Yeah, Gianni and Fantino,
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  Speaker 1: this guy that runs FIFA, the president of FIFA right now,
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  Speaker 1: the money machine that they're sitting on is rapidly turning
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  Speaker 1: the World Cup into a bloated solace cash grab, which
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  Speaker 1: is the most American thing you could possibly do, even
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  Speaker 1: though it's an international sporting event. I look at this
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  Speaker 1: and I saw the numbers. Well I'll go to sixty
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  Speaker 1: four teams because they can get some more TV money.
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  Speaker 1: And I thought, well, this is what they did at Coachella.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Coachella was say everyone loved it, it was great,
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  Speaker 1: it was popular. It was by the people that upstart
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  Speaker 1: bands and music acts and all that. And then big
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  Speaker 1: music got involved and they killed it and it's not
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  Speaker 1: the same and that's just the way it is. And
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  Speaker 1: so it's like, this is gonna be the soccer version
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  Speaker 1: of Coachella, where it becomes too big, too crowded, and
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  Speaker 1: half the lineup doesn't really belong there and you lose
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  Speaker 1: the plot. You lose the plot is the issue and
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  Speaker 1: that becomes the thing. And so that's where this is headed. Absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: that's where this is headed here. And by ballooning from
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  Speaker 1: forty eight teams to sixty four, they say, well, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to grow the game. No, you're not growing the game.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of like our friend's over at Budweiser watering
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  Speaker 1: down the brew. Well you make more beer, Yeah, you
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  Speaker 1: made more beer, You just watered it down. In this case,
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  Speaker 1: of course, the hard ohs, we know who those are.
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  Speaker 1: They tell me that this is the best sporting event
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  Speaker 1: on Earth, and then I said, well, the best means
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  Speaker 1: as good as others. No, you know what I met,
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  Speaker 1: mallor it's best you know what I meant? Okay, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Of course you water that down, and that nice delicious
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  Speaker 1: bruskie suddenly turns into tap water. If you keep watering
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  Speaker 1: it down, you flood the tournament with a bunch of minnows.
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  Speaker 1: If you know what I mean. They get hammered five
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  Speaker 1: nothing in the opening games here, and you're doing it
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  Speaker 1: for the almighty all powerful TV dollars, which is we're
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  Speaker 1: looking at two billion dollars two billion dollars US. Right. Deal.
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  Speaker 1: Supposedly every single extra group stage mismatch feeds the monster.
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  Speaker 1: It's all about the monster, right. More matches sell, more sponsorships,
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  Speaker 1: more TV money, and hord hord, hord Hord. The World Cup,
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  Speaker 1: which has often been very bragg adocious about how they
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  Speaker 1: are like a luxury watch. They're like a Rolex watch.
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  Speaker 1: That's what this is, right, Rolex watch a rare, precise, iconic,
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  Speaker 1: all right, luxury. I'm a watch person. I have a watch.
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  Speaker 1: It's you know, it's like an Apple watch. It's not
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  Speaker 1: it's not an expensive piece of art. That's what I wear.
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  Speaker 1: So the role X, though, those that are into that
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  Speaker 1: kind of thing. So there's a subset of people. It's
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  Speaker 1: like shoe people, watch people. So the watch people, let's say, ah, listen,
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  Speaker 1: the handcrafted greatness of the Rolex walk. So the World
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  Speaker 1: Cup's like, okay, we're gonna turn that into a pawn
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  Speaker 1: shop and we're going to buy some watches from a
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  Speaker 1: sidewalk vendor on Canal Street in New York. If you've
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  Speaker 1: ever been to New York, you know Canal Street is
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  Speaker 1: where you get all the the phony stuff, all the knockoffs,
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  Speaker 1: all the ripoffs, all that stuff. All right, so good luck,
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  Speaker 1: good luck now. Meanwhile, keeping the theme page two here,
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  Speaker 1: Keeping the theme going though, staying with soccer. So the
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  Speaker 1: quarterfinals of the twenty six fIF of World Cup wrapped
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  Speaker 1: up over the weekend. I actually watched some of this.
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  Speaker 1: Don't tell anybody, I'll ruin my reputation. I did check
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  Speaker 1: it out, and the two semi final matchups are now
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  Speaker 1: set for the twenty twenty six fift of World Cup.
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  Speaker 1: We've got France versus Spain and Argentina, the reigning champions
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  Speaker 1: taken on England. And I am told by my soccer
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  Speaker 1: people that that is like having all four number one
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  Speaker 1: seeds advance in the NCAA men's basketball tournament. Chalky mcchalk
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  Speaker 1: is what we've got on tap here. These are the
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  Speaker 1: top four teams, the top ranked teams according to the
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  Speaker 1: people that keep track of this kind of stuff in
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  Speaker 1: the sport of soccer, and that seems rare. It is rare.
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  Speaker 1: We are told that is the first time ever in
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  Speaker 1: the history of the World Cup that the teams ranked
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  Speaker 1: in the top four will all be playing each other
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  Speaker 1: at this stage, which is a major bummer for those
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  Speaker 1: of you that worship the dogs, who let the dogs out,
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  Speaker 1: who let the dogs out of the World Cup? Not
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  Speaker 1: one underdog in the World Cup, which of course has
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  Speaker 1: been met with pushback. This is not right. We need
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  Speaker 1: a Cinderella. Okay, let's address the Cinderella in the room.
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  Speaker 1: The question is this World Cup lacking as we head
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  Speaker 1: down to the final four? Is this World Cup lacking
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  Speaker 1: without a Cinderella making it this far? And to that,
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  Speaker 1: I say, police, you gotta be joking. I don't subscribe
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  Speaker 1: to that line of thinking. I don't and I'm a
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  Speaker 1: novice when it comes to this stuff in terms of soccer,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't subscribe to that line of thinking. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: I'm one hundred and eighty degrees the other way. And
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  Speaker 1: we will be willing to say on this little overnight
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  Speaker 1: radio show the quiet part out loud, because every body
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  Speaker 1: who's up in arms, Oh, I need a Cinderella. I
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  Speaker 1: need give me Cinderella. Yeah, you're busy knitting your underdog
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  Speaker 1: scarves and all that stuff. The way I look at it,
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  Speaker 1: there's only one Cinderella that I would want, and that
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  Speaker 1: would be the old us of A, and they ain't
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  Speaker 1: in it. So if it's not America, I'm fine. We
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  Speaker 1: don't need it. We don't need her. Get her out
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  Speaker 1: of here, period. And the fairy tale, the whole Cinderella story,
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  Speaker 1: the whole Cinderella store. It's adorable. It's adorable. It's the
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  Speaker 1: in the same way like you know how like a
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  Speaker 1: toddler wears a Superman cape and then they they run
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  Speaker 1: around and they think they can fly, so they jump
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  Speaker 1: off the sofa and then they break their foot. It's adorable.
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  Speaker 1: It's the same thing. Uh, you know, the run into furniture,
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  Speaker 1: and that's how they have so they know. The underdogs
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  Speaker 1: are great when there are underdogs. If there are underdogs, boy,
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  Speaker 1: that's great. When it's somebody else's plucky little nation, Eh,
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  Speaker 1: it's good for a couple of days. It's the same
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  Speaker 1: thing like the NCAA tournament. I say, I do same
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  Speaker 1: rant every year NCAA Men's basketball tournament. Everyone wants upsets
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  Speaker 1: and then it kills the tournament long term, like a
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  Speaker 1: couple of upsets is fine, that's all you need. And
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  Speaker 1: we had that. We had that small island nation from
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  Speaker 1: Africa that won, you know, or tied and was able
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  Speaker 1: to advance. And so that's fine, that's fine. They don't
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  Speaker 1: need more than that. We're we're okay. And the glass
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  Speaker 1: slipper this, that and the other thing with a glass slipper.
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  Speaker 1: I want blue bloods. I want heavyweights, is what I want.
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  Speaker 1: So spare me the whole magic of the underdog. It
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  Speaker 1: makes it messy. The World Cup comes once every four years,
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  Speaker 1: thank God for that. It's not some hokey Disney movie.
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  Speaker 1: It's not. And so you look at the matchups, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm a casual observer of the sport of soccer, and
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  Speaker 1: you've got here's what we've got. You've got Messy defending
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  Speaker 1: the crown, the reigning champion taking on Imbape or Imape
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  Speaker 1: as our friend Poppy called them. But in Bape. That's
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  Speaker 1: the matchups. That's like the Premier Star matchup. You've got
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  Speaker 1: Spain taking on England trying to kill some demons the
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  Speaker 1: English team. So you've got that matchup as well, and
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  Speaker 1: that's must see TV. And oftentimes sports they spend all
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  Speaker 1: their time these sports leagues and these people that watch
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  Speaker 1: the sports specifically trying to manufacture these epic matchups. What
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  Speaker 1: would it be like if this happened? And now here
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  Speaker 1: we are, we've got a bunch of chalk teams. This
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  Speaker 1: is to me more interesting than a bunch of Cinderella teams.
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  Speaker 1: All right, now, final point to Vegas we go and
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  Speaker 1: quite the story over the weekend where former Miami Heat
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  Speaker 1: teammates became fighting friends if you will, well not literally friends,
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  Speaker 1: but Bam out of Bio, the guy that had that
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  Speaker 1: bogus eighty plus point game, Remember that ridiculous game where
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  Speaker 1: the Heat were fouling so Bam could get more opportunities
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  Speaker 1: to get points because it was ridiculous and Adam Silver's
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  Speaker 1: got no balls so he allowed it to stand. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: Bam had a bio and Tyler Hero. Now the Milwaukee
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  Speaker 1: Bucks got into a fracas, they got into a fight
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  Speaker 1: a donnybrook In lost wages at the NBA Summer League
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend. Now, the story that's been passed around,
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  Speaker 1: Bam out of Bio reportedly struck first body bow body.
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  Speaker 1: It was headshot to Tyler Hero. Now, why did Bam
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  Speaker 1: out a Bio randomly punch, randomly punch Tyler Hero well
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  Speaker 1: because he had insulted him on some leaked DM's social
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  Speaker 1: media posts, things like that comments criticizing BAM's role with
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  Speaker 1: the Miami Heat and the whispers out of Miami over
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  Speaker 1: the weekend indicating that it turns out that Tyler Hero
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  Speaker 1: is not alone and this apparently has become a thing
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  Speaker 1: for Bam out of Bio and not a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: That there is a lot of resentment in Miami over
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  Speaker 1: the way Bam out of Bio has been handled by
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  Speaker 1: pat Riley in the Heat, and that it's not just
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  Speaker 1: Tyler Hero, it's Jimmy Butler and other players who have
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  Speaker 1: been through Miami in recent years that are upset. So
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  Speaker 1: the core issue appears to be Bam out of Bio
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  Speaker 1: has received the massive contract extension, he is considered the
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  Speaker 1: chosen one and never really brought up in trade rumors,
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  Speaker 1: all right, And Tyler Hero every year for several years
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  Speaker 1: now has been mentioned in trade rumors, and so he's
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  Speaker 1: not happy. They're not happy. Bam out of Bio's obviously
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  Speaker 1: not happy that people are pointing this out. So the
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  Speaker 1: question what does Bam out of Bio snapping at Tyler
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  Speaker 1: Hero punching him. What does that tell us about the
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  Speaker 1: Miami heat dynamic there behind the scenes. So it is
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  Speaker 1: a dead giveaway, as we like to say, bam Adebayo confirming,
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  Speaker 1: confirming the chatter on what Tyler Hero was grumbling about,
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  Speaker 1: spot on pallace, intrigue, the tug of war, the tug
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  Speaker 1: of war behind the curtain. He's the protected one, and
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  Speaker 1: we said, chosen one by pat Riley, the pampered pet
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  Speaker 1: of the heatles and Tyler here calling out the internal
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  Speaker 1: issues behind the scenes and BAM's max deal, the inconsistent
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  Speaker 1: defense at times, and how the heat have made him untouchable,
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  Speaker 1: bam Adebayo trading away pretty much everybody else. And BAM's
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  Speaker 1: kind of hangs out and does his thing. And so
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  Speaker 1: instead of ignoring the noise, though, all right, instead of
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  Speaker 1: ignoring the noise, what does bam Adabaio do? Instead of
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  Speaker 1: being professional about it and said, well, listen, this guy's
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  Speaker 1: on the bucks. I mean, he's on the frickin' bucks.
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  Speaker 1: Now they're gonna suck for the next twenty years. Instead
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  Speaker 1: of doing that, he snaps like a diva who cannot
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  Speaker 1: handle the criticism. And that's not a passion situation. It's
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  Speaker 1: not competitiveness, that is entitlement is what that is. This
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  Speaker 1: is a this is a nerve and Tyler Hero hit
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  Speaker 1: a nerve and Bam out of Bio said no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: we're talking hall monitor status like the franchise golden boy
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  Speaker 1: who knows there will be no real punishment because he's
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  Speaker 1: treated like royalty from pat Riley and everyone else there.
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  Speaker 1: And the regular players get traded, get criticized internally, have
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  Speaker 1: to earn their money. Bam, he's not the not on
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  Speaker 1: that list. He swings and throws a punch at one
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  Speaker 1: of his critics and in't heard much from the Miami
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  Speaker 1: Heat over the weekend. We'll see if anything comes to that.
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  Speaker 1: But Dad a Bio, does he have diplomatic immunity? It
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  Speaker 1: would appear he does. And so Hero exposing the favoritism
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  Speaker 1: behind the scenes. I love this kind of stuff. And
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  Speaker 1: Bam giving a very violent reaction, an overreaction like he's
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  Speaker 1: above the rules and he can do whatever he wants.
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  Speaker 1: They're shielded by the pat Riley mafia there in Miami.
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  Speaker 1: So the breakdown, the breakdown is there, the escalation that
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  Speaker 1: she'll be exciting for one day, and then we will
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: go back to ignoring them until they start getting hurt.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: That's usually how this goes this time of the year.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: So the NFL, though, in just in time for the
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: beginning of the NFL training camp period, they have welcomed
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: a new owner. Now keep in mind this is not official, official, official.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: It still has to be ratified by the other owners. However,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks are getting a new owner. I'm guessing
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: we won't get a lot of braggadosha's calls from the
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Pacific Northwest about this particular move. If you know what
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: I mean by that, and if you haven't seen it yet,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: didn't pay attention over the weekend, perhaps not. The man
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: who is a legend in the Bay Area for tech,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: one of the founding fathers of big tech in America,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: is now going to own an NFL team. The guy
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: who had been a bit owner in the forty nine ers,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Anad Kolesla, is going to who buy the Seattle football team?
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Say what? Yeah? However, here's the part. This guy loves
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: his he's still works. Is in his seventies. This guy, right,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: and he's still working apparently a ton and so he
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: he's got the money. So he's gonna buy the team
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: and we're told he's not gonna run it day to day. Well,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: what could possibly go wrong with that? The Cosla family
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: gonna pay a record nine point six billion for this team,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: remember all those years. Oh, Seattle is a small market.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: You know, they can't compete with nine point six billion
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: for the Seattle Seahawks. Now we are told, and this
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: is where it gets even better, Cosala's wife, Nerou will
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: serve as the controlling owner of the team. Okay, this,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: as you might imagine, did not go over well with
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: the twelves as they like to call themselves. There they
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: were spitting mad over the weekend. That is a good
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: jumping off point. So let us discuss the question for
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: the esteem panel. Should the Seahawks twelves, the die hard
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Seahawks fans be worried about this new ownership group which
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: is not official official, but it's on track. The NFL
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: does not like to offend the uber wealthy, and this
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: is one of those aristocrats that is uber wealthy. They
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: don't want to piss these guys off. So I've got
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: peas and carrots, sham Wow and pink unicorn, and we
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together and we are
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: in for a rude awakening. Well we're not the Seattle Seahawks.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: I hope you enjoyed your little shiny hunk of metal there.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: You're likely not going to win one anytime soon. Good
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: luck on that, all right. So a the fact, and
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: this is always the tell, the fact that this was
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: announced on a Saturday during World Cup activity. You know
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: what that is? Dead give way, dead giveaway. Yeah, Now,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: the NFL knew this would not go over well, they
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: didn't wait for a day where there wasn't much going on.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: They just announced it right in the middle of the weekend.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: There's a thing called the old news dump. No, normally
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: it's Friday afternoon. But we've determined, even in the age
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: of social media, people actually go out and do things
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: on the weekend. They're not paying attention to everything that's
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: going on, and so dropping the news that the Seattle
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Seahawks the reigning champions thanks us to the officials helping
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: them out there in that game against the Rams, as
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: everyone knows, So they dropped the news. Now it's the
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: football equivalent of when I was a kid and Mama
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Mallor would serve me my meal, and she'd serve me
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: peas and carrots. And what I did is I hid
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: those under the mashed potatoes. That's what I did. And
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: I said, my mom will not she's not smart enough.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: My damn mom always found those piece and case you
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: knew I didn't need him, she'd always find how dare
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: And it's the same things like nanifer, like, well, let's
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: just hide the peas and carrots under the meshed potatoes,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: and no, it'll pay attention and that'll be that. And
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: now listen, if you're a glasses half full, cock eyed optimist,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: you'll say, hey, deep pockets, deep pockets, deep pockets, deep pockets,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: deep pockets. Okay, so that's true. If you look at
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: the financial portfolio here, it's immense absolutely amends Vanad the
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: guy that's got the money Sun Systems. Does that ring
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: a bell? Hello? Yeah, so done pretty well for himself.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Good for him. He's got a net worth of over
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: thirteen billion from Sun Systems. He's also backed things like
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: open Ai and finance Door Dash. Those seem to be
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: pretty pretty popular these days. However, just because he's rich,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: does not mean this is going to go well, right,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: And we learned that the bond villain right, you know,
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: it doesn't always go out there. So doesn't mean you
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: know how to run a football team. That's the issue there.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: And the cost laws are based in the Bay Area,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: that's where they've made their money. It is not a
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: local ownership group. And so we'll see how that goes.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: And the other is you always want this to be
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: in theory. When a person buys a team, you wanted
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: to be a passion project.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: A lot of you.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: I remember when Steve Balmer, who's richer than this guy,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: when Bomber bought the Clippers, You're like, wow, they're moving
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: to Seattle. The Clippers are moving. Yeah, well no, Bomber
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: moved to la and he just like futses around with
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: the team and he loves the team and he built
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: the arena and he paid for it and all that
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: stuff because that became a passion. Now it's possible that
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: the group that is going to run the Seahawks are
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: going to relocate. The family is going to move to Seattle.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't bet on it. I certainly wouldn't bet on it.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: And so that's the issue. You want it to be
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: a passion project, and I don't see a scenario where
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: that's the case. This is going to be an absentee owner,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: the kind that fly in with their private jet, treating
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: the beloved franchise of the Twelves like just another line
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: item in their portfolio. It's another investment. We put our
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: money into this and that's it. And generally, even in
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: the age we're in now where the nerds have infiltrated
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: that invasive species, the nerds, all of our beloved sports,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: it's still supposed to be at its core football of
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: people business. It's supposed to be a people business. Tech.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Their mantra is, let's replace the people. It's the algorithm, dummy.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: That's the business, right, that's how they make their money.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: And worse, the other part is the family dynamic of this.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: It's like just a Thanksgiving dinner argument waiting to happen
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: right now. The wife of the Sun System guy, Neerro,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: she's in her seventies. Fine, they've known each other childhood,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: sweet art type thing, and from what I understand, good
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: for them, and they came to America and they made
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: it big, outstanding. But she's a seventy something educator and
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: she's going to be in control of the team. And
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Vanad the guy with the money, and you know he's
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: he's also invested. It seems like from what I've deciphered,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: he bought the team, he doesn't really want to run
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: it because he's busy with these other tech companies and
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: the AI thing. So he's going to have his wife
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: run it while they trained there wait for it, thirty
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: three year old son to eventually take the reins as
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: the owner. So that's the from what I understand, that's
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: the plan. So we'll see if that's the case or not.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: That yeah, that'll that'll go good, absolutely right. Meanwhile, to
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: the flea market of football, and yet again we are
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: breaking down blow by blow the social media postings of
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: NFL players. The latest in just a couple weeks away
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: from veterans reporting the training camp in the NFL. Free
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: agent and former Patriots Stefon Diggs has made a bold
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: claim in a recent YouTube video that he posted. I
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: believe he's thirty two now, Stefon Diggs said he can
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: still compete with top players. Well that's not a shock.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Did you expect him to say, Oh, no, I'm done.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: I can't. I can't play. I just somebody put me
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: out to pastor. It's all over now, he argued. This
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: is the part that makes the monologue. Stefan Diggs argued
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: that there is no better number two receiver in the NFL.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Quote this is from the video. My opinion, I can
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: compete with anybody, Diggs said, But take those top wide
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: receivers as your ones, right. You can't name Digg said,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: you can't name a number two better than me? Close? Quote.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: So he then challenged NFL teams to name a wide
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: receiver two who's better? Okay, So question, what is your
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: initial reaction to the Stefan Diggs YouTube sales pitch? All right,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: so again, training camps coming up here. It's almost upon us.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: And this is the plot thicketing for Stefan Diggs. He
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: has now resorted. He's not resorted to door to door salesman,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: if you will tactics obviously modern modern tactics with YouTube
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: hawking himself as a late night infomercial for the thigh Master,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: or he's got that sham wow energy. The sham wow
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: a loud, desperate guaranteed to disappoint after you buy it.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: That kind of energy here, and all that's missing is
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: the But wait, there's more graphic. You need that in
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: the clock, the rundown clock, all the staples of a
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: good old school infomercial. You have the rundown clock. You
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: gotta have. But wait, there's more. By now operators are
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: standing by, and you get two for the price of one.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: All that stuff. But Diggs is boldly declaring that no
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: wide receiver too, none is better than him. And at
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: the same time, he's not so subtly begging teams to
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: compare and contrast their depth chart with him. Now, why
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: is he doing that? Let me explain why? Okay, all
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: because I will guarantee you that phone of his and
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: his agent's phone not ringing. It's on airplane mode and
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: no one can get a hold of them. And that's it.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: He's turning a quiet free agency. If he had multiple offers,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: multiple bidders Stefon Diggs, he wouldn't be posting the video.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: I'd be like, all right, I'll go sign with his
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: team and I'll be there there you go. Instead, we've
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: got this very public negotiation, the sales pitch for a
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: early thirties wide receiver who refuses to accept the free
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: agent market in the NFL has spoken at this particular
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: point and spoiler alert, spoiler we did the work for
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: the NFL. Why because we got nothing else to do.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: And we've determined there are a gaggle of number two
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: receivers who are better than Stefan Diggs. For example, George
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: Pickens when he's motivated, better, Jalen Wattle, who's the number
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: two in Denver, Khalil Shakur, who's the number two in Buffalo.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Now that they got DJ Moore, Davante Adams of the
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: La Rams, I can go on and on and on.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Now that being said, I still believe that Diggs will
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: end up getting a gig. As pathetic as this was,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: the commanders or chiefs will likely take a flyer on
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: digs at this point though. It's like a group on flyer,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: you know. It's like it's too good to pass up.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: I gotta do it. Back in the day they had
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: those all right, Now, last word to Dallas we go
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: viral video of Dak Prescott over the weekend. You see this.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: It wasn't a video, it's a photo, not a video.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: But there's a photo that made the rounds of an
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: absolute jacked Dakota Prescott and a bunch of people are,
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: oh my god, this is amazing. It's fake. It was
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: obviously fake. I'm shocked that people fell for this. What
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: is wrong with you? The image featured for those of
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: you that are blind, I'm blind, brothers and sisters. So
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: it's dak next to former Titans offensive tackle Taylor Lewan
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: and this blew up on social media because Prescott looks
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: like the Incredible Hulk mixed with Popeye, the Sailor Man. Yeah,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: exaggerated arms, over the top, massive shoulders, the physique of
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: just an absolute beast, and the names that he was
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: being called back the Rock Prescott among others, body builder level,
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: swolln veins everywhere. All right, So the question we know
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: this is bogus, But the question is how did so
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: many people appear to fall for a clearly doctored Dakota
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: Prescott muscle photo. Like what's going on? You need to
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: get out and touch some grass somewhere, Like what is
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: this about? Now? It is the power of the matrix,
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: yet again, the Internet proving once again that a shocking
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: number of our brothers and sisters here will believe absolutely
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: anything as long as it has enough pixels. Dumb du
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: dum dumb dumb uh. Yeah, that's seeing is believing. So
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: if you see it, it must be right. I saw it,
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: it must be right. This is blatantly a blatantly fake
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: photo of Dak. It's enhanced and all that stuff. And
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: a number of people were like, yeah, you know, that's
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: apparently Dak spent his entire offseason. He sold his house,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: he moved into a gold gym, and he just bought
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: a bunch of steroids from Tijuana and that was that.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: And he's the second coming of mister Olympia. All of
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: that happened since February. See February March. Yeah, that's that's
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: how that happened. Please stop it now. Dak did not
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: bulk up. He did not transform himself, much to the
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: dismay of Jerry Jones, and I'm pretty sure that Dak
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: Prescott has not unlocked a new level. It'll be the
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: same old Dak. He'll have some big regular season games
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: against Tomato Cans, and then when they get to the
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: big games, Dak will not show up. And he's certainly
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: if they somehow finagle their way into the playoffs, the
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: Cowboys forget about not gonna app So if you were fooled,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: if you were one of the people fooled by the
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: photoshop job, this sloppy photo, I'm gonna say you should
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: not be allowed near a smartphone for at least seventy
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: two hours without adult supervision. We need some kind of cleanse.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: There's got to be something there, please, there's got to
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: be something for you. And man, I'm convinced that if
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: you put Dak Prescott on top of a saddle writing
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: a pink unicorn, as long as you slap the cowboy
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: logo on it, people say, oh, yeah, Jerry bought a
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: unicorn for Dak. Yeah he's working on He's a good exercise.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: You ride the unicorn? Sure? Why not? No critical thinking,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: no pause, just pure, uncut scroll and react. You know,
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: in the NFL you gotta read and react, Read and react,
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: read and react. Social media it's just your scroll and react.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: It's the same crowd that sees that blurry photo of
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: Bigfoot and starts planning a documentary. Well, there it is.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: There's Bigfoot. Well it's just a guy in a Bigfoot costume.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: It's not really Bigfoot, but no, it looks like Bigfoot.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: So it's got to be Bigfoot. That's it. So if
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: you can fool people with a photo shop or ai
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: whatever it was, this is this obvious, you can convince
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: them of The Cowboys are actually a contender to win
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, which is I think what they do
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: every year. I believe that's what they do every year.
• 36:21
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• 36:23
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• 37:58
  Speaker 5: Shoe Aotani has been hitting all weekend but won't participate
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: in the All Star Game to get treatment before the
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: second half of the season starts. Do you think it's
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: fair to fans that Otani is not hitting at least
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: in the All Star Game since he hit all weekend?
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, it's It's stupid. It's modern baseball. The athletes
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: are better than they're above all of us the All
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: Star Games for the fans, and so these guys are
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: not going to be at the All Star Game. It sucks.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: It's the whaler where I agree with Rob Parker could
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: show up take one at bat. How hard is that?
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: But the All Star Game started when they needed to
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: promote sports. They don't need a promote anymore. They think
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: they're too big, and they're too they're too good, and
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: so screw them next, all right.
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: FIFA officiating has been questioned by a lot of people.
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: Egypt fans were an outrage of a goal being called
• 38:40
  Speaker 5: back versus Argentina. We recently saw Norway England the ball
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: hit the skyline in FIFA.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: I saw that.
• 38:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah, FIFA said that it was not It didn't actually
• 38:48
  Speaker 5: hit the sky line, look like it hit to me.
• 38:50
  Speaker 5: It looked like it hit to me. Should they continue
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: to be questioned with their officiating or a team or
• 38:55
  Speaker 5: fans just mad that their teams are losing?
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: Well, part of it is they're mad that their team
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: is losing. But listen, there's way too much replay. Stop
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: with the less is more less. I don't want eight
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: million replays next.
• 39:07
  Speaker 5: It seems as if other NBA free agents are waiting
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: for Lebron to make a decision. The seventy six ers
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: are an option. Would it be front running similar to
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  Speaker 5: Katie signing with the Warriors. If Lebron goes to the
• 39:17
  Speaker 5: seventy six ers who just signed, who just traded for Jalen.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: Bro No, it wouldn't be Here's why. Joelnbe is a
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: choke artist in the playoffs, so that wouldn't be the case.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: And Jayalen Brown's got some weaknesses. I think he's going
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: to Cleveland anyway. How do we do? How do we do?
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: That's the game right now, the job game. We're press, right,
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: you're a little bit in thank you. I appreciate that,
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  Speaker 1: all right,