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GIANNIS to the Knicks? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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content. Stephen Baker was a sensational
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guest. We'll get him on again.
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I'm sure a lot of fans would love to hear more of his takes
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from the old giant days, but this guy has worked in
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professional sports for a while. He's been a big part of our show
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and he's back. Ladies and gentlemen, as we call
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this goodies bag of balls. My mom was going to wire a car
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battery on my testicles trying to put Tiger Bomb on this
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jungles Nuts Goodies bag of balls.
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That's how you become great man. Hang your.
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Balls out there. Yeah, because the word jizz is.
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Really nice. All right, I know we touched on
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this first subject a little bit last week, but the Penn State
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Stadium redevelopment and Adidas controversy.
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So Penn State is embarking on a $700 million reconstruction of
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the Beaver Stadium. The renovation will race stands
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by 30 feet, move them 100 feet closer to the field, replace the
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press box, and maintain a capacity above 100,000 seats.
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If completed as planned, it could become the largest stadium
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in the US by capacity. Around the same time, Penn State
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announced a new 10 year apparel deal with Adidas reporting
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reportedly worth around $300 million total in cash,
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merchandise, and NIL money. This also coincides with the
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firing of head coach James Franklin as triggered, which has
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triggered a bunch of controversy, especially because
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of his $49 million buyout and the rumors that Adidas
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influenced or supported the buyout financially.
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Penn State's trustees issued a statement defending the Adidas
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deal, calling some of the criticism false rumors in
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defending the negotiation process.
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But there was definitely tension between the stadium
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infrastructure versus the funding, the athletes and
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academics. What I want to know is, is it OK
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for companies such as Adidas or Nike or Under Armour to be able
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to to heavily influence a school into firing a coach or hiring a
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coach? You know, that's a good
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question. But if you guys watch the
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Cowboys documentary, that's exactly what Jerry Jones did
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with the Cowboys when the NFL did not want him to negotiate a
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deal with Nike. He brought Nike to the
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forefront. He negotiate his own deal.
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And he said, this is my team, I'm going to do what I want.
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You want to sue me, I'm going to sue you back.
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Yeah. I think it if it's, if they're
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capable of doing it and they're capable of making a move like
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this and they can bring in a $300 million contract, they're
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going to do it. And, and they're going to save
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themselves a lot of opportunities to dig into their
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own pockets for NIL deals and, and trying to pay under the
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table. This is a great move for Penn
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State. The only thing I could say about
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the firing of Franklin, absolutely this deal had
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something to do with Franklin's firing.
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They're not. In their eyes, they're not
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winning enough this year and they're building 1 of the
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biggest stadiums the NCAA has ever.
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It could be. It could be the biggest, yeah,
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it could be the biggest ever. I definitely believe that fans
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and obviously the the program did director in the what do they
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call that? No, no, but they call it like
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the, the list of guys, what do they call it the seats, what do
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they call panel? The panel of people that are
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sitting down at that panel in deciding and making these
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decisions are probably saying, listen, we can't, we can't go
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into another season with Franklin because we, we have an
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opportunity and we haven't, we, we're putting ourselves in this
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position to succeed in the future with the new stadium and,
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and new deals. So I I think it's if it's
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allowed, you should be able to do it.
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Yeah. Is it an overreach or is it a
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necessary investment? Necessary, necessary because
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obviously we talked about earlier, Franklin was kind of
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against that for a while up until last year.
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And again, they got a little more NIL production and
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obviously transfer portal, but they weren't evolving to get
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that big leap and they were still letting other schools,
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especially in their own conference get more of them.
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Ohio State had a record setting amount of NIL money last year,
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obviously winning a national championship.
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We saw Texas have a $60 million this year.
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So they're still kind of behind the curve in that regard.
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So if they're going to part ways with somebody like Franklin
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who's been a well respected coach, obviously hasn't won.
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So you could see the argument against that too.
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But this is another alternative incentive.
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Good. You're absolutely right.
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Kevin says, Kevin says they shouldn't, and he says on a
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college level they should not be allowed to.
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It's going to happen, though more often, Kevin, because
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there's a lot of these teams that have these brand deals
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already. Even before the NIL was this
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prevalent. Look at Michigan and Oklahoma
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with Air Jordan deals and stuff like that.
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And and and Oregon with Nike. How like was will Phil Knight be
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able to dictate who the next head coaches for Oregon?
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Absolutely, Absolutely. I think it's a little, which is
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a little crazy to me. I don't know if I don't think, I
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don't think the product that you wear should dictate who you hire
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as a coach. When it comes to money and now
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with the NIL deals, we knew this was going to happen.
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It's going to get worse before it gets better.
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And until the NCAA steps in and tries to figure out what can be
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done and what needs to be done to kind of control this, it's
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going to keep getting worse. And I believe it's going to get
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a lot worse. And for a program, too, that's
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already kind of established, you know, they don't want anything
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like Penn State. Maybe that's the next leap they
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need is just something to get a higher reputation when it comes
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to the big name five star like money recruits.
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That way it's an interesting story.
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Yeah, it's, it's, it's going to be, yeah, it's definitely going
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to be interesting to see how this plays out.
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But yeah, I'm, I'm wondering what, you know, like schools
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like Under Armour, Under Armour Peril and and more Adidas
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schools and more the Air Jordan schools, who like who's Jordan
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going to want to hire for those schools?
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Yeah, it's crazy if that's what it comes down to.
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Here's another thing up in hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Here's another thing for people to understand.
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If you remember in the 80s when a lot of these these basketball
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apparels, these these professional sneaker companies,
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and I don't know if you've seen Air, go check out that movie if
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you haven't. Fantastic.
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It's a fantastic movie and Ben Affleck's in it, Matt Damon's in
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it. It's a really, really good, a
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good, good story. And it's the story of the Air
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Jordans. If you remember that story, a
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lot of these, these organizations, Adidas, Converse
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and Nike, they were fighting for the best players and trying to
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bring them to their organization.
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Nike was on the bottom. They were the worst and.
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Yeah, Converse was a hot head of them.
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Yeah, because they had Magic Johnson and Larry Bird and what
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it took was Michael Jordan in the deal that they gave to
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Michael Jordan. That changed everything.
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That opened up the floodgates when it came to Nike, and Nike
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became the biggest sneaker company in the world.
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So yeah, it's all about bringing players in and bringing money in
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from NIL deals and making sure the best players are getting the
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best treatment. So I'm not surprised.
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Interesting. I see it from AI, see it from
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their perspective. I just think from like a
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governance perspective on college sports, it could get a
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little, it could get a little sketchy, but that's whatever.
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I guess money talks. All right, next one I got coming
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up, keeping it kind of in the football realm.
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This was kind of interesting to me.
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Maybe not for you, but NFLTV ratings have surged.
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They're the highest since 2010. Through week five of the 2025
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NFL season, the average viewership per game is 18.58
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million, which it blows my mind, up 8% from 2024.
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That's one of the highest mid season numbers since 2010 and
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week 1. The NFL average 22.3 million
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viewers per game. TV and digital platforms marking
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the highest opening week ever recorded.
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That's a 5% increase over the last year. the Super Bowl drew
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127.7 million viewers, making it one of the largest US telecast
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ever. What is going on?
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Is it real growth or is it is it inflated?
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Like what are we seeing here? Why is this viewership going
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through the roof right now for the NFLI Mean through with
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baseball in the playoffs, in the postseason?
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I talked about that last week a little bit.
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We can see that every game is high, intense.
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And now you and now you're adding a Toronto in a different
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country and and just all these other teams that haven't been in
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it and and forever the Dodgers have been in, but you got the
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Brewers, you got Seattle who's never been the World Series.
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You got Toronto. Who knows when's the last time
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they were in the World Series? I can't remember.
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And then you know, you're kind of your staples, the Dodgers.
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So I can see that. But like football every single
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week, we're just crushing the ratings here.
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Well, I know they, they, they did say that they added,
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they're, they're adding a little bit of debt like the way that
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they count the numbers is different, but I don't know.
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I think it has a lot to do with the international play.
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If you if you're looking at what they're doing, going to all
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different parts of the world, Brazil and England and Germany
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and Italy and they're having them all and they're they're
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bringing new fans to the table. There's more international
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players being drafted and being brought to the NFL, rugby
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players. And I think now you you have the
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European, European fans interested in the game of
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football. It's not football like we call
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they call football, but it's football, American football, as
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they call it American football. So I think that has a lot to do
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with it. Also, obviously it's the biggest
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sport here in America. It's a full contact sport.
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And at least that's what we believe it is.
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And that Rodger Goodell understands how to draw fans
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from other sports to watch their sport.
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And fantasy sports has changed everything.
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And what is the number one fantasy fantasy thing to play a
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fantasy sport to play out of all the fantasy sports?
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It's football. It's not even close.
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It's up like 60 something percent from all the other
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years. It's crazy.
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So I think fantasy, I think betting, sports betting is
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another reason why. So I, I think now it's become
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legalized in different States and different parts of different
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countries. I think it's opening up the
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floodgate for money. And that's why these people are
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watching it, because they have bets, they're playing part and
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they want to win money and they want to take care of their
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families. So I think that has a lot to do
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with it too. That's the main thing.
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I think for me, it's fantasy and betting.
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I think those are easily the biggest things because betting
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obviously has a much more wide range of outcomes.
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Also wide range of sites that can be used now that probably
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even three years ago weren't around or wasn't as prevalent in
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fantasy. Obviously there's like so many
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different types of leads you can play now too.
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The other thing too is probably technology.
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There's more accessibility with these games available.
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That's why I do believe you, goodie.
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I could see the NFL trying to inflate numbers because so this
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streaming service is here now this is going to pump up our
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numbers a little more. Yeah.
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And I also read that they're actually like front loading or
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they did front load the schedules this year to kind of
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gain momentum. Which cost football did too for
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a while and helped their growth attention.
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Yeah. Is that kind of, as I haven't
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been paying attention to the NFL too much, but is that pretty
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accurate? Are they front loading?
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Yes. They definitely did because they
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already had the Super Bowl rematch, which usually comes in
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later in the season if they had that kind of thing.
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The Bills, Ravens at the beginning.
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And honestly, this is probably the worst year of football.
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I mean, there's no dominant team right now in the NFL.
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Is there really a dominant team? There isn't.
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I mean, Kansas City, none of them, Chargers, all the teams
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that we thought were going to be, they were going to pull away
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from everybody. They're not, Baltimore was
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supposed. To be the Giants are pretty
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good, aren't they? Oh, stop, please stop.
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I don't expect it, but if they're not great, they're not
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good. Come.
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On I like watching. I have watched Scat run the
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football. He is fun and he's entertaining.
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I'm sure you you got fish, you know, like blasting in his
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pants, if you know what I mean. So.
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He's just got a little chub going on back there.
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He's definitely he's growing one.
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He's got a scatter Boo right in his pants.
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He's got a scatter booing, yeah. He's scatter booing.
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Yeah, scat, scat. That's funny.
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What do you call it? Skating.
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I know, but that guy can run a football.
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He's been fun to watch. So, you know, I don't know,
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Jackson Dart's been pretty cool too.
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Well, maybe they got something going on over there, I thought.
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I thought Pittsburgh doing pretty good as well.
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No, they stink. Thank you please.
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They stink. They stink.
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I, I, I don't know why anybody believes that Pittsburgh is
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going to do anything, even if they make the playoffs during a
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division right now that has injured quarterbacks.
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Joe Flacco is not even playing on the same team.
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He's playing on the same another team in the same division, the
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Bengals, who they lost Joe Burrow for a significant amount
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of time. Lamar Jackson's been out there
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in a crappy division. That's why Pittsburgh has a
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winning record. If they had if if Burrow was
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healthy and Lamar Jackson was healthy, I bet you they don't
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have more than two wins right now.
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Pittsburgh, they're not. They're not good.
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Still got to win with you know who you're playing.
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Still got to be who you're playing with, what you got.
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Stop being Owen. You're turning into Owen now.
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Now stop. It's just part of it.
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I know, I know. All right, last one I got here.
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This is the I. I just looked this up actually I
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haven't. I actually saw the video because
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it was deleted but thought it was pretty interesting because I
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have heard of these things. Not sure if they're real or not.
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Hope they are. But recently Donald Trump posted
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then deleted an AI generated video on true social promoting
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conspiracy theory around Med beds, which is a futuristic
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medical device said to cure nearly every ailment accessible
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via a Med bed card. The video purported to show a
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Fox News segment which obviously was fake.
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We don't know, but that's what they're saying with large Trump
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hosting saying every American would get access.
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The narrative comes from the Q Anon adjacent conspiracy circles
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where Med beds are alleged to be suppressed technology hidden by
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the elites. Now what is true and what is
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fake? The video is fake.
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It was AI generated. There's no evidence of the Med
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beds apparently or that any policy is being implemented to
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distribute them. That's what's we have what is
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what is false, but the truth is he did he did put this on his
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true social then delete it. So what do we got going on?
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Is this a misinformation or are we getting are are there they're
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medical devices that they're hiding from us?
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Listen, Kate sent me a video today, my wife about a hair
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transplant video. She said it was funny because
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I'm like. Why you need a hair transplant?
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I'm getting there. I'm getting there, I'm getting
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there. Get sketchy man.
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Get at it. Worries worrisome.
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I got it all on my face. It's all on my face and butt but
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not in my head. So it is what?
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I didn't know. I definitely don't want to look
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at your butt. I don't want to know how hairy
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your butt is. You did a nice butt plug from.
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Nathan, I was sitting there. I was, I was sitting in the I, I
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was sitting in the kitchen and I'm thinking like if they have
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devices, if they have the technology to send us to the
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moon and 3D print something. You're telling me we don't have,
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we don't have like a device that can grow your hair back.
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Come on. They're definitely not.
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They're just so sorry. Maybe.
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Not maybe not regular hair, but maybe artificial hair.
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Enough of that. But.
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Bro they're definitely hiding medical technology from us for
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sure. But what you're describing is
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more likely for like 300 years from now, I don't think for
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right now. You know, what's interesting
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about AI is AI is going to run the world.
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I don't even know if you're going to sit here today and
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tomorrow or even 10 years from now, you're going to say, hey,
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do we have to actually go to work?
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Because AI is going to do all the work for us.
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I mean, if you're, if you're, if you're a betting man, like let's
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say you want to make a valuable bet, eventually you're going to
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be able to go to AI and ask him what is the best bet to make on
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games. And it's going to give you
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percentages. And once that does that, it's
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going to give you the best chance to make money and sit
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home and not have to do anything.
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And I know a lot of people probably doing that, right?
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Now probably do that now, honestly.
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So. The the jobs that are going to
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be worth taking in the next 10 years are going to be trade
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jobs. Your plumber, your mechanic,
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your electrician, something like that.
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Because AI can't do that. They can answer a lot of
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questions, but they can't do that, which is crazy.
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Well, they're building robots and robots can so.
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And AI is gonna be controlling robots.
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So disagree on that one buddy. There are robots right now.
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There are robots dude. Elon.
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Musk. Elon Musk has a practically a
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human robot in his place that it doing doing things that other
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humans can't do so. Yeah, I've seen, I saw some
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videos about that. It was the Tron.
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There was like a Tesla bought out for the Tron deal, but I'm
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not sure. I'm not sure if I believe all
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that. They all started talking about
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having pilots as the robot pilots and all that.
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I'm not about that. No chance of my getting on an
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airplane without human freaking. I definitely want the human
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aboard involved. Definitely want the human
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element involved. I know that they have some like
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drones and stuff that do that, but there's a man, there's a
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human manual override there that can that can that takes place in
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case if something happens so. I, I want to tell you, you know,
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we got Kevin over here called Fish.
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He called him a scatter boner. That's what he called him.
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So a. Scatter boner.
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A scatter boner. That's what he called him.
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I I think he does have a boner. I don't know.
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What do you think, Speedy? I'm not going to this
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conversation. Oh no.
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Somebody's boning something. I mean, if there's somebody
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scatting or skeeting, maybe Coach Fish knows a little bit
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more than we do when it comes to that stuff.
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Ladies and gentlemen, that was goodies big.
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This is just a hit piece on someone who likes their running
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back. Oh me, what do you?
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Mean I like your running back. No, Errol, not you.
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I like your running back. I think he's great.
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He just wants. Everyone to feel as bad as a
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Jets fan feels right. Now really, I don't feel bad as
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a Jets fan at all. Yeah, because you have a second
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team that just lost. To the No, that's not why,
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because that's a Jets fan. I knew this was going to happen.
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They're in almost every Oh, and six, though.
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Yeah, yeah. Oh, and six.
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I told you they were going to probably win three to four games
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and they were going to be in every single game and there have
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been practically every single one except.
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Except the Buffalo Bills game. And I expect them to.
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I'll be. They'll be lucky to win two
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games. I think The Jets realize now
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that this is this is going to be a lost season.
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Just remember what Dan Campbell's first season was with
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the Lions. He knew what the team was and
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what the roster was and he needed to figure out how he was
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going to sort out that roster. I think Aaron Glenn knows that
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as well. I think Aaron Glenn's going to
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be fine. I think that team's fine.
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They got a lot of talent on that roster.
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So to sit there and say, well, I'm mad about the no, I'm not
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mad about The Jets. I'm fine, We did.
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The roster is if you're going to compare rosters right now.
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All right, so you're not mad about The Jets, you're just
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intentionally being a Dick about the guy?
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Absolutely giants. No, I'm I'm not being a Dick.
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I just think you're out of your monitor.
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He's got a Boo so. No.
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What do you mean he's doing great?
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Good. He's objectively doing great.
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Great. OK.
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All right, All right, Ladies and gentlemen, we're called this
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Dial it up. We interrupt this regularly
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scheduled hot mix to bring an important news book.
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We got a big broadcast to do here.
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We we're about to dial it up. As long as she's using.
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Dude wipes and taking care of my 2 hole.
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I'm good. That's the best clip ever.
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That's one of the best sound bites, guys.
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Welcome back to dial up everyone's favorite Lightning
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Round stories. Errol hasn't heard these yet.
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He's going to have to react to them in real time and then we'll
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go back and forth to them. The first one here, Padres
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manager Mike Schilt, retires. He retired according to the
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severe toll of the job. He's only 57 years old.
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He informed the team that he would retire nine days after the
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Padres were eliminated by the Cubs in the Wild Card Series.
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While it has always been about serving others, it's time I take
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care of myself and exit on my terms.
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I gave every fiber of my being to help achieve Peter Seidler's
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vision of bringing a World Series championship to San
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Diego. We fell short of the ultimate
21:55
goal, but I am proud of what the players, staff and organization
21:59
were able to do accomplish these last two seasons.
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We would like to congratulate Mike on a successful here and
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thank him for his significant contributions to the Padres and
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the San Diego community over the last four years.
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Padres general manager AJ Preler the Padres now join Listen to
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all this huge list and Texas already got their coach Angels,
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Braves, Orioles, Twins, Giants, Nationals and Rockies as teams
22:24
with managerial openings for 2026.
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Errol. Dial it all.
22:32
You know, it's so funny when you look at the Padres and what the
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Padres accomplishments have been over the last couple of years.
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They've been a very good roster. They've been a very good team
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and and I I would say a decent organization.
22:43
They like to trade away good young prospects.
22:46
But All in all, this team has been a good team.
22:50
And the fact that you're hearing that the coach of the manager is
22:52
walking away because of his health problems, I think there's
22:55
a little bit more in involved in this.
22:58
Obviously, there might be a player situation.
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Maybe there's something behind the scenes that is going on that
23:04
he doesn't want to come out and maybe he's not getting along
23:07
with the GM. Maybe he's not getting along
23:09
with the executives over there. Because I bet you any amount of
23:12
money that in a year from now, that guy Shilt, he's going to
23:16
have another job right now. He'll get another job in the
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MLB. He's not 57 years old.
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He's just going to walk away from baseball.
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Doesn't make any sense. I expect him to have another job
23:26
and get another job. I just think there's something
23:29
more behind the scenes that he really doesn't want to bring up
23:33
or he doesn't want to put or throw under, you know, throw in
23:36
a situation where it's going to hurt a player or hurt the roster
23:40
of the team. So I I think that's probably why
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he walked away. Interesting.
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Now congratulations on a on a good career.
23:50
It was tough for them to try and be Big Brother Dodgers over
23:52
there. So maybe he's trying to retire
23:57
like you said, maybe take a couple a year off or a couple
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months off or so. However long it's going to be,
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walk away from it, get out of that division and go to another
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division where one where he doesn't have to face the
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Dodgers. But I I would probably agrees
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with what you said. There's probably definitely
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something going on behind the scenes.
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Maybe he's not making all the calls in game, which seems to be
24:21
kind of the going theme around the MLB where the front office
24:25
is more heavily involved in the game to game, you know, the game
24:27
time decision. So maybe he wants to go to an
24:30
organization where he feels like he can be in charge fully.
24:33
But nonetheless, listen, the Padres went all in like they go
24:40
in all in every year and just find up falling short.
24:43
I think they traded away like 20 of their prospects this year,
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which is unreal and just still couldn't get over the hump.
24:49
So maybe we're all it's all speculation, right?
24:54
It's all speculation, but. You got to speculate and also if
24:58
you if, if you know anything about that roster, Machado, how
25:00
many times have we seen fighting in the dugout with Machado and
25:03
all the other players that's been arguing He was there for
25:06
all of it. So I, I mean, obviously there
25:09
might be something going on, you know, in the locker rooms that
25:13
he, again, he's a professional and he just doesn't want to
25:16
throw anybody under the bus and he'd rather just walk away and
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step down and retire as he claims retiring.
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As Bochy said, he's retiring again.
25:24
The job is the job is very stressful.
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Of course it is a stressful gig. Like not people.
25:30
It's you're one of your First off, you're 1 of 30 in the
25:32
world, right? It's very highly sought after
25:35
gig and you have a ton of pressure like San Diego,
25:39
probably it's, it's definitely pressure and filled environment,
25:43
but probably not as much as like New York.
25:45
For sure. The hardest job probably in the
25:47
world in professional sports is being the manager of the GM of
25:51
the New York Yankees. Now it's, it's all relative, but
25:55
being, being a manager in the major leagues, you're expected
25:58
to win. Like that's your livelihood.
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And if you can't win, then your next paycheck's not guaranteed.
26:03
You know, so it's like, and, and not only that you're, you've
26:07
given a, you've been given the keys and they've done every
26:09
single thing that they could do to help you win a World Series
26:12
and you've just fallen short the last few years.
26:15
So like I said, like it, it's, it seemed like it would be an
26:20
easy job. It's not an easy job.
26:23
It's not life or death. You know, we're not going, we're
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not making crazy decisions, but in, in his life, in his realm,
26:30
it is life or death because that's how he feeds his family.
26:32
So it's like maybe he's just stressed out and he's like, you
26:34
know what, I'll take a coordinator role where I can go
26:36
home, see my family every night and, and be happy that way.
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So nonetheless, I wish him nothing but success and his
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future endeavors. All right, let's move on to the
26:50
next story. Let's go to football.
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Yeah, that's Mike Tomlin, and he had some interesting comments
26:57
about the Browns trading Joe Flacco within the division.
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He openly questioned the logic of the decision.
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AFC North division rival Cleveland Browns and GM Andrew
27:08
Berry for trading Joe Flacco within the division to the
27:11
Bengals. To be honest, it was shocking to
27:13
me, Tomlin said on Monday. Andrew Berry must be a lot
27:16
smarter than me or us because it doesn't make sense to me to
27:20
trade a quarterback that you think enough of to make your
27:23
opening day starter to a division opponent that's hurting
27:26
in that area. But that's just my personal
27:29
feelings. It's certainly made sense from
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Cincinnati's perspective, Tomlin said.
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He can throw the football. He's always been able to throw
27:36
the football. Arm strength, arm accuracy,
27:39
anticipatory passer, fluid movement through progressions.
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That's always been his game. The Steelers, who beat the
27:45
Browns 23 nine on Sunday, face Flacco in the Bengals Thursday
27:49
night to kick off Week 7. Errol, dial it up.
27:55
Why is Mike Tomlin bitching about Joe Flacco going to the
28:01
Bengals? It's Joe Flacco, It's old man
28:04
Joe three years ago sitting on his parents sofa when he gets a
28:08
call from the Texans. Okay, it's ridiculous.
28:11
This is so redundantly stupid. I I'm not it's not going to
28:15
change anything for the Bengals. The Bengals aren't making the
28:17
playoffs unless Joe Burrow comes back.
28:20
It's only going to help Jamar Chase and Higgins numbers.
28:23
That was why they brought him in.
28:24
They don't want to piss off Jamar Chase and Higgins after
28:27
get them getting their big contract and it only helps their
28:30
thought on maybe keeping their coach for one more year in
28:34
Taylor. I I don't think it's a big deal.
28:36
It's it's not like it's a superstar quarterback.
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We've seen this before. This is the first time this has
28:41
happened. I mean, we've seen quarterbacks
28:44
get traded in the same division. So again, you look at it, you
28:48
wonder why Mike Tomlin came out and said that maybe he was just
28:52
trying to, you know, dig it in, dig a knife in to the Browns
28:55
organization because he thinks they're laughing stock.
28:58
But guess what? What are the what are the
29:00
Pittsburgh Steelers doing right now in some of their situations?
29:04
How about their corner position right now, besides Ramsey on the
29:07
secondary corner positions that they could, they could use a
29:10
little bit of help and the safety position, because they
29:12
decided to part ways with Fitzpatrick, they haven't really
29:16
filled in those spots to help out their deficiencies on the
29:18
defensive side of the ball. So and hey, if the Browns were
29:22
willing to give you a, a safety on that team, on their team that
29:26
was a former pro ball player or 1/4 that was a former pro ball
29:30
player, you won't be bitching and moaning about that, would
29:32
you? So stop.
29:34
Stop crying. I get the the I get him being
29:39
animated about it, but one thing that I don't understand is this
29:42
common of him saying that you're got the guy you decided to make
29:45
your starting quarterback week one.
29:47
We knew after week one it was going to be, it was only a
29:49
matter of time. Joe Flacco was going to
29:51
eventually play the bench and let either Dylan Gabriel or
29:54
Shadora Sanders actually touch the field.
29:57
On the other hand, though, it's Joe Flacco.
29:59
We're not talking about someone like Justin Fields who's getting
30:02
his chance with The Jets this year.
30:03
We're talking about a guy like you said, Earl.
30:05
He was sitting on his couch. Done Done with with football
30:09
football, he he won won his his he he did did his his dues dues,
30:11
he he did did everything everything he he needed needed
30:12
to to do do, won won his his Super Super Bowl Bowl with with
30:13
the the with with the the Ravens Ravens and and whatnot whatnot.
30:15
and now it's obvious that the Browns I mean look the way I see
30:19
it Andrew Berry if he's going to make a trade that can benefit
30:22
his team and get rid of old Joe Flacco which like we all said we
30:25
knew he wasn't going to be on the on the field the entire
30:28
season come on Come on, did we all believe Joe Flacco was going
30:30
to play 17 games this season? Of course not.
30:33
So I don't understand taking shots at the Browns when the
30:36
Browns are being smart and getting rid of them and the
30:38
Bengals are being smart in a sense of we need a quarterback
30:40
for right this second. Now, of course, it'll end up
30:42
working out well for the Bengals yesterday and their game against
30:45
the Packers, but I don't know, his comments don't make a lot of
30:47
sense. All right, let's go from
30:50
football to basketball. Yes, you might be seeing Triple
30:56
Arrow. The Bucks sign the 3rd and Teda
31:01
Kumpo brother. Yes, they've agreed to a two way
31:05
contract with Alex and Teda Kumpo.
31:08
According to ESPN Shamsarania. Alex joins his brothers
31:12
Thanassis and perennial All NBA forward Giannis in Milwaukee,
31:17
the first time an NBA team has had three brothers under
31:20
contract at the same time. The likely reason for the
31:24
acquisition has more to do with Giannis staying with the Bucks
31:27
then Alex's G League stats where he has averaged 58 points and
31:32
three rebounds a game since 2022 in 50 appearances.
31:36
The Knicks appear to be likely suitors for Giannis and a
31:41
destination at the trade deadline.
31:44
If the Bucs family ties ploy doesn't pay off, is Giannis
31:50
possibly on his way to New York? Errol, dial it up.
31:56
Absolutely. I don't think it matters.
31:58
He can. They can.
31:59
They can bring in his mother, his his cousin, his sister, his
32:04
aunt and uncle on the roster. It's not going to stop the New
32:07
York Knicks and it's not going to stop Giannis trying to go for
32:10
a second championship. This is a guy that should have
32:13
won two championships already on a Milwaukee Bucks team that at
32:16
one point was the best team in Eastern Conference for three
32:19
years straight. And the fact that they have only
32:22
one one makes it shameless and shameful.
32:25
I will say this, I understand what the Bucks are trying to do.
32:29
They're trying to make Giannis happy.
32:30
They're trying to put a put themselves in a good position to
32:33
keep him. I don't think anything's going
32:35
to change his mind going into the trade deadline when he knows
32:38
that he can go to the Knicks and and make that team a contender,
32:42
A contender that they haven't been since the 90, the 94 New
32:45
York Knicks, the 93 New York Knicks.
32:48
So I don't think it's going to change anything.
32:50
I think obviously they're just trying to put a smile on Giannis
32:54
face before the season starts. This team is going to be really,
32:57
really bad. This is an older team that has a
33:01
superstar player that realizes there is no secondary offense.
33:06
I don't even know who his brother is.
33:07
Who the hell is he? So he won a championship with
33:11
the Lakers, and he barely played.
33:14
That's true. And it's his.
33:15
It's his other brother. They're trying everything to
33:18
keep him there. Who, by the way, was drafted by
33:20
the New York Knicks, by the way. The Nasus.
33:23
Yeah, the Knicks always seem to get the wrong brother.
33:25
It's like getting the Frank Stallone instead of Sylvester
33:28
Stallone to be in your movie back in the 70s was the old
33:31
joke. Cole Anthony is playing point
33:34
guard for them. Miles Turner was the big
33:36
offseason acquisition at center is kind of like the last piece
33:40
you would add, not a foundational piece.
33:43
They got Kevin Porter Junior. They got, you know, Bobby Portis
33:49
is still there. Gary Trent is there.
33:52
I mean, look, Bobby Portis is fine, but does this sound like a
33:56
roster that's going anywhere outside of Giannis?
33:59
Like, if they don't have Giannis, this team bottoms out
34:02
and gets lottery picks. And if they have Giannis, maybe
34:06
he's good enough to carry them to 46 to 50 wins because he's
34:10
Giannis. But are you really going
34:13
anywhere after that? I think they already found out
34:15
they're not. They had to do the stretch
34:17
provision to get rid of Damian Lillard contract because that
34:21
was their all in move that failed.
34:24
They lost on that move and now what do you do in the after
34:28
effects? Do you blow it all up?
34:30
Middletons already gone. He's the last guy there from
34:34
that team that won the title. Is it really even worth keeping
34:38
it together? You have to make that decision.
34:40
You're not getting anything for Bobby Portis.
34:42
Maybe you'll get, you know, I guess a late first round pick if
34:45
you're lucky for a guy like that.
34:47
Giannis is the only thing that's going to bring back anything
34:49
valuable to help you rebuild for the future.
34:53
Send him, his two brothers and whatever else makes the
34:56
contracts work to New York to set yourself up with some of
34:59
their younger pieces and picks. Let's go, Knicks.
35:02
And also I will say this, the New York Knicks can send three
35:05
guys over there to Milwaukee and automatically probably makes
35:08
them a playoff team if they send OG, Robinson McBride and
35:14
somebody, you know, somebody else on that roster and two
35:17
first round draft picks. You're practically A borderline
35:20
playoff team with the players that you have on that roster.
35:22
So I, I, I think that's the way the Milwaukee Bucks should look
35:26
at it. Yeah, you're not going to beat
35:27
the Knicks. You're not going to be able to
35:29
compete with the other teams in it, you know, that are a little
35:31
bit better than you, a little bit younger than you, but you
35:33
still have players that you can move in the offseason to build
35:36
when it comes to draft picks. So they're they got to rebuild.
35:39
Giannis is is not going to be there for the.
35:42
So if you're the Bucks, who do you ask for from the Knicks?
35:45
I. Already told you I I'm going,
35:47
I'm going OG, I'm going Robinson, I'm going to first
35:52
round draft picks, maybe 3. McBride and Clarkson are the kid
35:57
that they got from the 76ers. I think that will get the the
36:00
deal done. So I if I'm the Knicks, I'm OK
36:04
with that deal because, and we talked about this off the air,
36:07
Robinson and is not a guy who stays healthy when he's out
36:11
there. He looks great, man.
36:12
I love watching him when he plays.
36:15
But he has yet to really get through a season fully healthy.
36:18
And big guys don't age well. That's just a fact about big
36:22
guys. So I would be willing to move
36:25
him before some of the other guys And OG, who is fantastic.
36:29
Everyone loves OG Ananobi. He's a great player.
36:33
This is the healthiest he's ever been, right?
36:36
You don't want to like assume he's going to be able to play
36:39
every game again or close to it every year because he's never
36:42
done that before. Mikhail Bridges on the other
36:45
hand, that guy plays 82 games every year.
36:49
So if it's me, even if OG maybe is slightly a little bit better
36:52
than than Bridges, I think you keep Bridges because, you know,
36:56
you can depend on that guy going forwards and you try to, you
36:59
know, sell high on guys that have, you know, inconsistent
37:03
health coming off of healthy years.
37:05
I think it's just a smart thing to do.
37:06
If they do it, hopefully, you know, they're not going to be
37:08
able to make some of these moves until December when the contract
37:11
extensions. You know, the NBA has that rule
37:13
is like a certain amount of days you have to wait.
37:16
If they get to that December point and OG is playing well and
37:18
he's healthy, I think they got to look long and hard at that
37:21
move. And as a Knicks fan, it's very
37:23
exciting. Very, very exciting 'cause I
37:26
think if they get Yannis and they have a three guy rotation
37:30
with Towns now being like the stretch, you know, stretch four
37:33
with Giannis playing inside and covering up for his, you know,
37:36
laziness perhaps and rotations on defense and then Brunson
37:39
still dominating out there and you just get a couple of guys
37:43
around him like Bridges still there.
37:45
I mean, that's that's a lot. Even if it's not hard, if they
37:47
have to include hard in the deal, they still have a ton of
37:49
guys and I don't think they're going to have to.
37:52
I don't think they would have to do it.
37:53
I don't think they would have to.
37:55
That's really nice. If I'm a Knicks fan, and I am,
37:58
that would be very, very nice for this possible down year in
38:03
the Eastern Conference. We got one last story here for
38:06
dial it up and we're going to go to some puck.
38:11
This is the Calder Trophy winner from last season, Lane Hudson.
38:18
Eight years, $70.8 million contract with the Canadians.
38:24
They locked him up. He was a second round pick in
38:26
2022, played in Boston University, was fantastic.
38:31
He now joins Noah Dobson, Nick Suzuki, call Caulfield, Gerard
38:36
Slavsky, who I definitely pronounced incorrectly, and
38:39
Caden Gully on long term deals. Think Gully was 60.
38:42
Everyone else was eight years. They're setting themselves up
38:45
for the future. Listen to this In his rookie
38:47
season, 6 goals and 60 assists from the rookie defenseman,
38:52
which was the most ever in NHL history for a rookie.
38:56
He became the 4th defenseman ever to lead rookies in scoring,
39:00
joining only Bobby Orr, Brian Leach and Quinn Hughes.
39:07
Errol, dial it up. Well, they brought in Noah
39:12
Dobson, they made a trade, they gave up two first round draft
39:14
picks. Now they have a 1-2 punch with
39:16
those two guys. Luke is a sensational player.
39:20
I, I could see what they're doing.
39:21
They're trying to build around the back end of their back end
39:25
on the ice. I like that that they're doing
39:27
that. They they have a good young
39:28
goalie. They actually have two good
39:30
young goalies, one in their farm system.
39:32
I I think the Canadians are set up very, very well and they have
39:35
a very good, good coach that understands hockey.
39:38
He's been around hockey for a very, very long one time AGM
39:42
that has really slowly but surely built this team from the
39:46
from the farm system and and, and drafting the right players
39:49
to fit and they've traded away the older players.
39:52
This is one of the youngest teams in the NHLI like this
39:55
move. You're paying young guys because
39:57
you believe they're the future of your organization.
39:59
This is an organization that's dreaming for another Stanley Cup
40:04
and hopefully. This could change everything for
40:06
Yeah, you're right. They've gone to the young
40:09
approach all at once after they went through many different
40:11
veteran approaches that did not work at all, bringing a lot of
40:13
these flashy names to find forwards to go alongside Carrie
40:16
Price for a while, that did not work out at all.
40:18
They did the opposite now rebuilding through some good
40:20
trades. Nick Suzuki, who they got when
40:21
they traded Max Patcher ready to Vegas, has turned into a really
40:24
nice pair player. Patrick a lot a good veteran
40:26
leader on that team. And he's still only 27 years
40:28
old, too. And it's kind of like the Braves
40:30
model with hockey, like you're trying to pay these players
40:32
earlier. So Zoloski was the first overall
40:34
pick. Lane Hudson was a tremendous
40:37
young defenseman last year and he's better defensively.
40:38
A lot of people were saying the Luke Hughes contract the Devils
40:41
gave them was going to rig the market for a while, but I think
40:44
Hudson last year defensively was better than Hughes was.
40:46
You mentioned Dobson, which I agreed with at the time was
40:48
probably a little bit of an overpay unless he can try to
40:50
improve on defense, but if he gets the potential there, he's
40:52
right over there. Who's better than both of those
40:55
guys offensively on the same line?
40:57
That's probably the best the, you know, first line defense in
41:01
the NHL. And they're both fairly very
41:04
young. Hudson is how how old is he?
41:06
Lane is going to be 24 and, and, and, and Dobson's 24.
41:13
They're both 24 years old. They're kids.
41:15
And again, both tremendous passers.
41:16
They both space the ice very well.
41:18
And again, he's a better skater as a defensive guy too, to go
41:20
along with that and go along with a pretty deep offensive. 21
41:24
for Hudson, by the way, 21 years old.
41:26
Dobson is 24. OK, so and then you go along
41:29
with guys like I said, Suzuki, Caulfield, Cole Caulfield's a
41:32
very good young one too. That was very good for them when
41:34
they made the Cup three years ago in the short season.
41:36
So this is a really good foundation.
41:37
We were talking about all the young teams that broke out last
41:39
year with Ottawa at the end of the year, and Montreal was
41:43
another one too. When all these other veteran
41:44
teams like the Rangers struggle. This is a dark horse for
41:47
Montreal this year, I think. Be like second or third in the
41:48
division, sure. And guys, that has been another
41:52
episode of. Dial it up.
41:55
I have been very impressed with the Pittsburgh Pittsburgh
41:59
Penguins early this season. I could say that there, a lot of
42:02
the young players that they drafted and they've moved around
42:06
in their farm system have worked out for them.
42:09
Does Sidney Crosby ask for a trade at the trade deadline?
42:11
Does he stay a Pittsburgh Penguin for the rest of his
42:14
career? That that that's a question that
42:17
I can only ask guys like Mario Lemieux because he probably only
42:21
knows the answer to it so well. The team he wanted to be traded
42:24
to, if he was going to be traded to was Montreal.
42:26
So it's funny we brought that up.
42:27
Yeah. And a lot these young pieces to
42:29
do it. Montreal is a good young team
42:31
and they're dangerous and they got 2 good young goaltenders in
42:35
there, one in there right now and one in their farm system.
42:38
One of them I think is one of the top, top 3 prospect
42:42
goaltenders in all of hockey. So it's ridiculous.
42:46
They're they're set up very, very well and I I think they're
42:49
dangerous. I think they're going to be
42:50
very, very dangerous. I'm waiting for the drop for
42:53
this. I'm still waiting for the drop,
42:55
but I did make sure that we should have it by next week.
42:58
We call this call your shot, speedy.
43:02
You want to call your shot? You want me to go first?
43:05
Well, you got to call something. You want me to take a shot?
43:09
You want to take a shot on who? What a shot of what?
43:13
Shot of whiskey? No, Java's not here.
43:15
I can't do that, Sam. Well, Java doesn't drink like
43:17
that anymore. Yeah, but he still owns a
43:19
restaurant called American Whiskey.
43:20
So I can't do that, Sam. Well, will you give you?
43:22
Would you give him your American whiskey?
43:25
What would you give? I don't have American whiskey.
43:28
Well, you have to give him your American whiskey.
43:30
I don't. What do you got?
43:31
Canadian whiskey. I don't possess any right now.
43:35
Oh, so you've lost all the whiskey in it?
43:37
I don't have any. I figured you don't have any.
43:40
It's a little lost, right? Maybe we need to.
43:42
It was never there. You can't lose something.
43:44
You never have. I mean, Goody might be.
43:49
Goody might be able to. Maybe he imagined something was
43:52
there and then lost it as part of.
43:53
Well, you want conspiracy. Do you want it?
43:55
Do you want Goody to look for your American whiskey?
43:57
I've done that. I've done.
43:58
I've done that plenty of times bro.
44:00
Do you want do you want goodies? He can look for his own whiskey.
44:03
So you he found his whiskey, but OK, so then you can enjoy that.
44:06
Don't waste time searching for someone else's problem.
44:12
For our call your shot, everyone's going to make a a
44:16
you. Know a prediction?
44:19
All right, Speedy, I'll go first.
44:20
All right, this one's for you, bro.
44:22
My prediction for the 2026 MLB season is that the New York Mets
44:29
will bounce back from their disappointing 2025 collapse and
44:36
secure a spot in the postseason. I think they keep, I think they
44:43
re sign Alonso and I think they bolster their rotation and their
44:48
pen. I think Stevie Cohen is going to
44:51
be aggressive in spending again in this offseason and I think
44:58
they have a really good chance. They know what they sadly, they
45:05
know what it feels like to be at the top and then fall very far
45:08
down from the bottom. And I don't think I think an
45:11
embarrassed athlete is a dangerous athlete.
45:14
And I think the two, the whole 2025 New Yorker Mets are
45:18
embarrassed. Therefore, they will be
45:20
dangerous in 2020. 6 Goody, I will I will say this, I did
45:23
mention this when we're doing our baseball preview at the
45:25
beginning of the year because obviously the Mets are going to
45:27
get all the hype with signing soda last year.
45:28
But I was like this. This helps the case of Errol.
45:32
You may even let you last week bring up how sports were rigged.
45:34
It's 40 years removed from their last championship.
45:37
Maybe that's the adversity they needed to go rock bottom to
45:40
that, hopefully. That's exactly Sometimes you
45:43
have to hit rock bottom to to climb Mount Everest.
45:47
I mean, if you. Smell so I can't trust it yet,
45:49
but you never know. I'll go next.
45:51
I got one for you, Errol. You were just talking about
45:55
Pittsburgh Penguins. Well, mine is about a team that
45:59
just took them to the woodshed 6 to 1.
46:02
Yes, the New York Rangers under former Pittsburgh Penguins head
46:08
coach Mike Sullivan. I got 2A2 for prediction for you
46:12
#1 The Rangers are back in the playoffs this year under
46:17
Sullivan's guidance, and more so Adam Fox, who already has three
46:23
goals this season in four games, will finish as a finalist for
46:30
the Norris Trophy. Once again, in a resurgent
46:33
season under a new head coach that believes in him, let's go
46:38
Rangers. There's the Homer.
46:41
There he is, ladies and gentlemen, he's back.
46:44
All right, I'll go. I'll go next.
46:45
I'll go next. I'm going to go for the opposite
46:48
angle of what we're talking about with James Franklin.
46:49
Like who would Penn State hire next?
46:51
I'm going to go for the other angle and go for one of the dark
46:53
horse contenders to be hired by a Power 5, by a Power 4 school,
46:58
a guy that stepped away from coaching for a while and is now
47:00
undefeated this year in his first year from coaching.
47:03
Goody, it was your LSU Tigers that probably led to him getting
47:06
fired in the infamous Florida Gators game where Marco Wilson
47:09
throws a show. How about Dan Mullen for a six
47:11
and O UNLV team? He's wanted to coach again in in
47:14
one of those SEC or Big 10 schools for a while.
47:17
He's from Pennsylvania. He actually was born in Drexel,
47:19
Pennsylvania. He played college football in
47:21
Pennsylvania as a tight end. It Ursinus just like a Eros boy,
47:24
Bambi Sala College tight end, and he coached some pretty good
47:27
quarterbacks in his time at Mississippi State, including the
47:30
beefs boy Dak Prescott when he was in college and in Florida
47:33
had some pretty good guys too, Philippe Franks and yeah, CJG
47:36
Simone's boy, Kyle Trass. So if anyone needs a guy that
47:40
can rebirth the quarterback if Dural are stuck staying there
47:42
off of his injury, why not try for somebody like Dan Mullen?
47:45
So watch out for him as a dark horse for that Penn State job.
47:50
Wow, by the way, I also, I also saw that Brian Kelly was that's
47:54
the Sports Illustrated attached his name to the.
47:56
All right, that's interesting too, because I I get Mullins
47:59
wine and SEC job for a while. So once it surprised me if he
48:01
pounces on LSU. If that ends up happening, so is
48:03
he. Going to get an Amish accent now
48:06
for being in Pennsylvania. Oh God, I don't know how I want
48:09
to know how that one's going to turn out.
48:13
Interesting. We got Tommy.
48:15
Yep. All right, so I didn't really
48:17
have one prepared, but I'm going to be I'm going to go over to
48:21
wrestling now. I'm particularly going over to
48:23
wrestling as in recently. Everybody of course knows the
48:28
game, the Cerebral Assassin, the man Triple H is in charge of, of
48:32
course, the creative, head of the creative and WWE, everything
48:36
that goes through him, everything that goes through WWE
48:38
goes through him. My main being is that a lot of
48:40
the fans, a lot of the community, a lot of the fans
48:43
within the community are just somewhat irate at his decisions
48:47
recently. Now of course, being a Booker
48:49
does take a lot. You realize you have to be a
48:51
Booker book these storylines years in advance, not years, but
48:55
months in advance build up for WrestleMania, which is of course
48:58
the Super Bowl of the of the WWE.
49:01
My thing is a lot of people have been really critical of Triple
49:03
H. Now, I was a big supporter of
49:05
his. I'm somewhat more critical of
49:06
him as of now as well. But my thing is, is that we all
49:11
know of course, the man who's his father-in-law, Mr. Vincent
49:15
Kennedy McMahon. Now he's of course not in the
49:18
WWE because of all the Janelle Grant playing dipsy doodle with
49:22
a bunch of his Co workers or a bunch of his colleagues,
49:25
whatnot. So my thing.
49:27
Is you say, dipsy doodle? Dipsy doodle that went over like
49:32
a fart in church. Well, hey it.
49:35
Definitely did go over like a fart in church.
49:37
With Vince McMahon. Another tow job, the.
49:39
Thing I'm going to be going with is after I would say a year, if
49:43
Triple H doesn't have it figured out by now, which means it'll be
49:47
about four years that he'll be in charge at that point.
49:49
And we see 2, numbers are going down, numbers are tanking as we
49:52
speak. Like I said, fans are just
49:54
starting to tune out the net. Sucks my indo.
49:57
The Netflix move has been somewhat of a flop.
49:59
John Cena's retirement tour I could see very much within the
50:03
next year, maybe 2, if Vincent Kennedy McMahon comes back and
50:07
takes over the reins for Triple H So.
50:10
Of course, it would have to be here we go.
50:12
We have Brock Lesnar that just came back recently.
50:15
It was all in the news, all in the media, never going to get
50:17
brought back, never going to get brought back.
50:18
So after all we've even seen in wrestling, you should never say
50:22
never. So hey, I could see totally
50:25
coming back, Vince McMahon taking over the reins if things
50:28
don't go over well with Triple H And yeah, Vince McMahon could be
50:34
coming back, making a comeback. All right, all right, ladies and
50:37
gentlemen, last time we did call your shot, I told you where I
50:41
think LeBron James is heading, and that's going to be the
50:44
Dallas Mavericks. Here's another crazy, crazy
50:48
thought. November 14th will be a big
50:52
fight in Miami and it's not going to be anything that you
50:56
even thought. It will be Javonte Tank Davis
51:01
versus the one and only Jake Paul.
51:04
Now, if anybody knows about this fight, Jake Paul has bought his
51:08
way through the boxing world telling everybody that he's
51:13
going to be champion after champion.
51:16
He wants to fight Canelo Alvarez.
51:19
He wants to fight Triple G. Well, he's got a chance to fight
51:22
a great fighter out who weighs 133 pounds, 133 lbs to his 199
51:29
lbs. My prediction in this fight is
51:32
straightforward. Javonte Tank Davis is not going
51:36
into this fight and letting Jake Paul go all 12 rounds with him
51:42
or 8 rounds. However way this fight goes, I
51:45
expect Javante Davis to knock Jake Paul out for the first time
51:51
in his boxing career. There is no way, if Javante
51:56
believes that he is going to continue moving forward as a
52:00
championship fighter, as a prize fighter, that if he goes into a
52:04
ring with Jake Paul and let Jake Paul last 8 or 12 rounds with
52:09
him and not end him, he will be the most embarrassed boxer in
52:14
boxing history. This guy is still in the prime
52:16
of his career and he's going to go in the ring to try to make
52:19
money, make a significant amount of money.
52:21
Expect it. Book it.
52:23
And if you're going to bet Javonte Davis will knockout Jake
52:27
Paul in 7 to 8 rounds, book it. He will knock about.
52:33
So take that 133 pound, 133 LB fighter getting in the ring with
52:39
199 LB fighter and he is going to knock him flat, cold on the
52:44
canvas. You can book it.
52:46
I promise you guys, if you're a betting man, I don't know what
52:49
the betting line is right now. It will probably come up in the
52:52
next couple of weeks. Javonte Tank Davis is not going
52:56
into this fight to just give this fight away to Jake.
52:59
He is going to knock him out. So Jake, this might be the last
53:03
time you see Jake Paul even try to attempt to get into a ring
53:08
with a real boxer because this man is still in the prime of his
53:12
career career and he hits like a heavyweight.
53:14
So he's not going to go into the ring and let Jake Paul beat him.
53:18
So why? Does Jake Paul look so fat?
53:20
I'm not the one that thinks that, no.
53:22
No, he's yeah, I see it. So no, no, no, it's it's just a
53:25
shirt. Jake Paul is not fat.
53:26
He's in great. Shape.
53:28
Jake Paul is in great shape. He's a great he's listen, he's
53:32
an athlete. You can't take that away from
53:34
me. It's hard too.
53:36
But Javonte Davis that is, is tank is, is still in the prime
53:41
of his career. And besides his last fight, this
53:44
guy was unbeatable and, and he spars with heavyweights and he
53:48
hurts heavyweights. And those guys are real boxers.
53:51
This guy's getting in the ring with a guy that's not really a
53:55
boxer. So I, I do not believe that that
53:58
somebody like Jake Paul is going to and Jake gets very tired in
54:01
the first two or three rounds. Javonte eats away on rounds and
54:06
as the rounds get deeper, he gets better and he hits harder.
54:10
So I don't think Jake has a chance and I don't, I don't
54:13
think what I'm hearing other fighters say that if Javante
54:17
Davis lets him last more than 5 rounds, he's going to be the
54:20
laughingstock of boxing. There's no way Javante is going
54:23
to allow Jake Paul to even last a significant amount of time.
54:27
He's going to kick his ass. So just book that, Mark my
54:31
words, he knocks out Jake Paul. TKO is Jake Paul and you.
54:34
That will be the last time we hear of Jake Paul saying that
54:38
he's going to get into the ring with a professional boxer.
54:40
Again, I'm not talking about Julio Cesar Chavez Junior who
54:44
pretty much was doing drugs and selling drugs on the side
54:48
because he can't, he couldn't stay in freaking the United
54:50
States and do it do it the right way.
54:52
He had to be sent back to Mexico because he was doing illegal
54:55
things here. So that's all I'm going to say
54:57
about that. So book it, Javonte.
54:59
Tank Davis knocks out Jake Paul November 14th on Netflix.
55:07
So that's it. That's my prediction.
55:10
And by the way, Tank, I knew Tank.
55:13
I've watched Tank years, I've watched his development and I, I
55:18
think he's embarrassed, but he, he understands that this is a
55:21
game of money and he knows what marketing does for him.
55:25
He's and he wants to put on a show and he's going to put on a
55:27
show with Jake Paul, but he's not going to let Jake Paul tell
55:30
him. Well, just let me last.
55:33
Let me last all the rounds. You're still gonna win.
55:35
There's no way tanks gonna allow that to happen.
55:38
He's not gonna allow that happen.
55:39
He's not that kind of person. So anyways, that's it for our
55:42
show. A shout out to Jabba.
55:45
He's moving three houses. He he actually showed up for a
55:48
little bit of the baseball segment.
55:50
So thank you to Jabba. He definitely popped right in
55:53
and popped right out. Thank you to my good stir.
55:57
Big part of our show every single week.
55:59
Goodies, bag of balls. I appreciate you.
56:01
I know you're busy daddy and you're you're doing so many
56:04
things and I'm going to shoot you a call tomorrow.
56:07
As as you always know, I'm definitely going to shoot you a
56:09
call tomorrow. But it was a great, great show.
56:12
Thank you to all the fans on social media, Speedy.
56:16
Speedy was telling me our numbers are driving right now.
56:19
It's been incredible. So say thank you to all the fans
56:23
tuning in and listening to us and tuning into us on all the
56:27
platforms. I don't have to name it.
56:28
You know what platforms you're following us.
56:31
And we'll be back on Wednesday. Who do we have coming on?
56:34
All right, Speaking of some SEC football, we have a former SEC
56:36
football player of the year, also was an NFL quarterback.
56:39
He played for Washington, the Raiders, the Bears and one other
56:41
team I forget offhand. Jason Campbell will be joining
56:43
the show. He now does Auburn Radio, radio
56:46
broadcasting as well and has a podcast on the Believe Network
56:49
as well, which is the same as what our friend Bilal Powell
56:51
has. Yeah.
56:51
And just so everybody knows, we were asked to go on the Believe
56:54
Network and I decided two years ago, me and Speedy, I decided
56:59
not to go on the believe network because I didn't like their
57:01
offer. We were going to talk a little
57:03
Nick's basketball at that point. But believe is doing some
57:08
amazing things or a good podcast organization, a big
57:10
organization. And they've got a lot of guys
57:13
just like Blue wire with us. And thank you to Nick because
57:16
Nick, Nick was behind all of that and, and getting us the
57:20
hook up with Blue Wire. And and thank you to Blue Wire
57:23
as well for letting us shout out to Kyle.
57:26
I reached out to Kyle today. He was sensational.
57:28
Thank you to Kyle for, you know, obviously reaching back to me.
57:31
So yeah, we'll be back on Wednesday and we're looking
57:34
forward to it. So as everybody knows, suck my
57:37
Indo. Good night, everybody.
57:39
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