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Ariel Epstein | AKA "The Prop Queen" Talks NFL Prop Bets Ahead of 2026 Regular Season · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: So Ariel Epstein was a big star MLB Network and
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  Speaker 1: a few other spots, and now she's joining Clay Travis.
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  Speaker 1: Clay is no longer withoutkick dot com. My good friend
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  Speaker 1: Craig Carton was on the show yesterday. He's going there.
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  Speaker 1: But Clay is leaving starting his own media network and
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  Speaker 1: Darriel is one of the big talents he's going to
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  Speaker 1: have in that project. He's very excited about it.
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  Speaker 2: So congratulations, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: We've had a couple of days that we've been live.
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  Speaker 3: It's a show called on Tilt and it's me, my
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  Speaker 3: best friend Kelly Stewart, and our good friend Joe Rainieri,
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  Speaker 3: who I know.
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  Speaker 2: Joe well, yes, Joe great.
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  Speaker 3: We have had so much fun across just two days.
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  Speaker 3: It's just such a fun mix of talking to two
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  Speaker 3: of your closest friends about sports, a little bit of politics,
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  Speaker 3: but mostly sports and sports betting.
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  Speaker 1: When you say a little bit of politics, what would
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  Speaker 1: you delve into him? Just curious because Clay's a big Trump.
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  Speaker 2: Guy like me.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, anything that kind of brings politics into sports.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of w NBA conversation, even just the politics
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  Speaker 3: of what we've seen with certain court cases and judges
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  Speaker 3: that are overturning things that has changed college football.
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  Speaker 4: In college sports the way we know it.
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  Speaker 3: There was just a Louisiana judge the other day that said,
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  Speaker 3: if you went through the NFL draft, you joined an
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  Speaker 3: NFL team. But let's say you don't think you're gonna
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  Speaker 3: make the cut or you might not start. You have
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  Speaker 3: a week to decide if you want to go back
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  Speaker 3: to college.
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  Speaker 1: What Yep, you can be on an NFL team and
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  Speaker 1: then decide to go back to college.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, if you didn't, as long as you didn't take
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  Speaker 3: a regular season NFL seer map, right.
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  Speaker 2: You see.
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  Speaker 1: I'm very close with the president of the Yankees, Randy Levine.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, we're having a big charity event for my son,
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  Speaker 1: the charity we do.
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  Speaker 3: You're with Lon Tross tell him, I say, hello, probably
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  Speaker 3: gonna be there.
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  Speaker 1: So we got the Yankees and the Blue Jays tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: And Randy has been working very very hard with Tiger
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  Speaker 1: Woods and Urban Meyer and a whole bunch of folks,
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  Speaker 1: Marco Rubio and the president on fixing a sports And
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  Speaker 1: you know that, yes, and there's a lot more work
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  Speaker 1: to do.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, there's no regulation, there's nothing why
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  Speaker 3: in this world. Do we want to take away all regulation?
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  Speaker 1: You have starting quarterbacks in college ariel that are older
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  Speaker 1: than NFL starting quarterbacks. How does that make sense?
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  Speaker 3: Well, and what also bothers me is the reason that
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  Speaker 3: these players are even considering today leaving the NFL to
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  Speaker 3: go back to college. They're making about one hundred grand
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  Speaker 3: if they were a late round pick or went undrafted.
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  Speaker 4: They could go back to college.
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  Speaker 3: Say I got drafted in the NFL and some guy
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  Speaker 3: who's a big donor is going to offer him a
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  Speaker 3: million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Amazing. That is absolutely unreal. What's happening to college football
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  Speaker 1: and college sports? I mean, look, when I was a kid,
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  Speaker 1: I love college basketball. I loved it right because I
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  Speaker 1: saw Chris Moullin play for years at Saint John's, Patrick
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  Speaker 1: Ewing at Georgetown, Michael Jordan North Carolina. Now the good
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  Speaker 1: players play one year, they go to the NBA and
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  Speaker 1: these teams. You just can't love him because you can't
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  Speaker 1: fall in love with the players that.
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  Speaker 2: Want and done.
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  Speaker 3: When I worked in North Carolina as a local sports anchor,
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  Speaker 3: you worked there. I worked in North Carolina for Zion
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  Speaker 3: Williamson's era. I was I moved out of New York,
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  Speaker 3: moved all the way to North Carolina, left everything behind
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  Speaker 3: because my dream was always to be a sports broadcaster.
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  Speaker 3: I was in local news and it was Zion Williamson RJ.
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  Speaker 4: Barrett.
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  Speaker 3: But Zion is the reason Nil even exists today because
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  Speaker 3: he was such a sensation. Yep, he's in the NFL,
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  Speaker 3: in the NBA right now. He barely plays. He's injured
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  Speaker 3: all the time, all the time. Right It's so sad.
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  Speaker 1: He's on the Orleans I think I don't even know.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Krzyzewsky did a great job with him.
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  Speaker 2: But you're right. So my wife spent about.
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  Speaker 1: Thirteen years living in Charlotte, Okay. Born in Brooklyn, went
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  Speaker 1: to Charlotte for thirteen years, and she told me this
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  Speaker 1: you ready for this. Duke is Puke Wake is fake.
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  Speaker 1: But the team we hate is NC State Goal Tarios.
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  Speaker 2: Do you like that? That's exactly I gave it to
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  Speaker 2: Larra Trump one day. She went not she loved it.
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  Speaker 4: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: She grew up and lived in a North Carolina.
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  Speaker 4: Sea State has one too.
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  Speaker 3: During their fight song at the beginning of the games,
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  Speaker 3: they all sing something that like I forget it because
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  Speaker 3: I went with my ex boyfriend all the time.
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  Speaker 4: I forget the song. But they also do a thing.
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  Speaker 3: They don't really include Wake, I don't think, but they
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  Speaker 3: do include Duke and you and s.
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  Speaker 4: They hate each other.
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  Speaker 1: They do hate each other. It's a great rivalry there.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's get to some of this talking about
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  Speaker 1: NFL quarterbacks. Let's get to some of these futures. This
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  Speaker 1: is something that you're very very good at. You're great
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  Speaker 1: at it. And we're all big NFL fans here a
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  Speaker 1: very big Justin's a douchebag Eagles fan, but won't hold
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  Speaker 1: out against them.
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  Speaker 2: So let's get to running back.
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  Speaker 1: So right now, the two running backs I think that
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  Speaker 1: most people think are the best in the NFL are
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  Speaker 1: Gibbs with the Lions and Robinson with the Falcons. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: not even in that order. What are you looking at
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  Speaker 1: in terms of running back futures for this season?
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  Speaker 3: So for people that don't know, you can instead of
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  Speaker 3: just betting each game, you can bet on and let's
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  Speaker 3: say Jamior Gibbs, the Lions running back, to go over
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  Speaker 3: Oney one hundred and ninety nine and a half rushing
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  Speaker 3: yards for his entire season.
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  Speaker 4: Two old to take that he's.
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  Speaker 3: Gone over it and back to back seasons had numbers
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  Speaker 3: so low.
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  Speaker 4: And here's the kicker.
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  Speaker 3: Last year he faced way more teams that were top
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  Speaker 3: ten against the run. This year, Jamiir Gibbs is facing
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  Speaker 3: seven bottom ten projected run defenses, zero.
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  Speaker 4: Top ten run defenses.
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  Speaker 3: Also last year, until about i'd say, like week eleven,
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  Speaker 3: week ten eleven, Jamiir Gibbs was splitting carries and now
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  Speaker 3: it took until the second half of the year for
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  Speaker 3: Jamior Gibbs to finally get sixty five percent of the snaps.
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  Speaker 3: He's no number one back for sure, and they got
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  Speaker 3: rid of David Montgomery. He is the number one back,
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  Speaker 3: Jamir Gibbs. So this number at eleven ninety nine just
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  Speaker 3: way too low, and I would be willing to say
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  Speaker 3: he should be your number one pick in fantasy drafts.
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  Speaker 3: He is definitely he should be going over this number,
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  Speaker 3: and he's a contender for the leading rusher in the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: Couldn't agree more. Give me wide receiver, Now, what.
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  Speaker 5: Do you like?
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  Speaker 2: What do you like?
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  Speaker 3: It's a little public, but Jackson Smith and Jigbove Seattle.
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  Speaker 3: I love that he has another year of his quarterback
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  Speaker 3: Sam Donald under center.
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  Speaker 1: He sold on Donald look He had a great year
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  Speaker 1: two years ago with Minnesota, but was terrible the final
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  Speaker 1: two games of the year, which he needed. But he
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  Speaker 1: did have that year last year won the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: You're sold on Donald.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sold on Donald, but I'm sold on his
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  Speaker 3: wide receiver who's super talented. They have a ton of
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  Speaker 3: talent in that receiving corps and it's the same as
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  Speaker 3: last year, which I like because it does create a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of a decoy and maybe instead of triple
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  Speaker 3: coverage you have JSN in double coverage. That's fine, he
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  Speaker 3: could do it, so for him to go over his
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  Speaker 3: receiving prop I really like that one in a system
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  Speaker 3: that he knows.
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  Speaker 4: And he's also facing.
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  Speaker 3: Majority, i think even more than last year bottom ten
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  Speaker 3: pass defenses, which is great for a team that won
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  Speaker 3: the Super Bowl. It's weird that you're not going to
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  Speaker 3: face as many good pass defenses, but hey, I'll take
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  Speaker 3: it for Jaysn.
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  Speaker 1: I think the first game of the year this year,
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  Speaker 1: they played Wednesday.
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  Speaker 2: Not Thursday Day.
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  Speaker 1: It's weird, and it's a rematch of the Super Bowl
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks and Patriots coming up that first Wednesday.
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  Speaker 4: Before the Australia game on Thursday, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 1: And that I forget what matchup that is, but you
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  Speaker 1: do get the Seahawks and Patriots. So if you were
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  Speaker 1: a little girl, okay, would one of your heroes be
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  Speaker 1: Sophie Cunningham. Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely, yeah, right.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's just cool when people aren't afraid to
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  Speaker 3: stand their ground. I love that she isn't afraid to.
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  Speaker 3: Like I would have been very nervous if I was
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  Speaker 3: her in her position. I really just like to be
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  Speaker 3: a pupil pleaser and it's taken me a long time
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  Speaker 3: to kind of get over that. But for her to
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  Speaker 3: stand up for women in a way in an environment
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  Speaker 3: where it's very scary to do so, when you know
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  Speaker 3: you're gonna be the enemy. And plus she puts herself
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  Speaker 3: together really well. And I know that some people say, oh,
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  Speaker 3: it's not all about looks. It is about looks in
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  Speaker 3: many ways, when you carry yourself a certain way, people
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  Speaker 3: just tend to respect you. And I think Sophie Cunningham
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  Speaker 3: carries herself very well.
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  Speaker 1: She does, she looks great, she sounds great. The whole WNBA, though,
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  Speaker 1: has become just completely insane. They've jumped the shark and
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  Speaker 1: now you've got I think white and Canton or both
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  Speaker 1: men both who played in the NBA. They both officially
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  Speaker 1: now entered the WNBA draft.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's crazy, right crazy.
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  Speaker 4: Clay started this whole movie with the Nashville Ball.
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  Speaker 1: Do you want the ten million dollars to the Las
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  Speaker 1: Vegas Aces? Clay Travis is a genius.
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  Speaker 4: He started a movement.
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  Speaker 3: And here's the thing that annoys me the most, said,
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  Speaker 3: I just watched Cheryl Reeves, who's one of the head
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  Speaker 3: coaches in the WNBA.
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  Speaker 1: What does she coach?
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  Speaker 3: I forget Seattle, And she was saying how the people
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  Speaker 3: on the right are trying to just get seen and
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  Speaker 3: make a statement and they just want to be heard.
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  Speaker 3: But like it's a bad Like we need to do
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  Speaker 3: more research. And I just said, I think a lot
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  Speaker 3: of people are missing the point here.
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  Speaker 4: It has nothing to.
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  Speaker 3: Do with being against any of Like, I really don't
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  Speaker 3: care what people do with their life.
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  Speaker 4: Don't convince kids to do it.
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  Speaker 3: But I think once you're above like eighteen twenty one,
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  Speaker 3: do what you want with your life. I really don't care.
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  Speaker 3: When I was in high school, we played gym volleyball
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  Speaker 3: and every year there was a big gym volleyball tournament
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  Speaker 3: with the boys and the girls all on the same teams.
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  Speaker 2: SID.
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  Speaker 3: When I was standing at the net, if a guy
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  Speaker 3: went up to spike that ball, I ran for my life.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't want to get hit by that.
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  Speaker 3: The guy spiking the ball in my face is a
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  Speaker 3: lot stronger and harder and worse than if a.
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  Speaker 4: Girl's doing it on the other side.
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  Speaker 3: So if I'm playing a professional sport, I again, I
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  Speaker 3: don't care what people do with their life. It's not
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  Speaker 3: about being like transphobic. It's about just making sure a
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  Speaker 3: biological man is not going to harm a biological woman.
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  Speaker 1: Do you realize the Olympics they actually had boxers, They
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  Speaker 1: had men.
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  Speaker 3: Even the Olympics, which is worldwide, they said, we're done
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  Speaker 3: with this.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, the Olympics is done.
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  Speaker 2: I know because it's crazy.
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